Ep. 1321 - Distraught Leftists Pee On Their Own Faces In Protest Against Supreme Court Ruling
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Summary
The left has a glorious meltdown as the Supreme Court unanimously declares that Colorado cannot kick Donald Trump off the ballot. Keith Olbermann was so upset about the ruling that he even peed on his own face. We ll investigate. Also, the leftist hordes turn on AOC. The Executive Director of LGBT Affairs in Philadelphia gets arrested during a traffic stop, a viral video shows a young mother being confronted for bringing her child to a bar, and San Francisco will not be giving $5 million in reparations to its black residents. Will that be enough to satisfy the race hustlers? We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Welch Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left has a glorious meltdown as the Supreme Court
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unanimously declares that Colorado cannot kick Trump off the ballot. Keith Olbermann was so
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upset about the ruling that he even peed on his own face. We'll investigate. Also,
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the leftist hordes turn on AOC. The executive director of LGBT affairs in Philadelphia
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gets arrested during a traffic stop. A viral video shows a young mother being confronted
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for bringing her child to a bar. Who's in the wrong on that one? And San Francisco will not
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be giving $5 million reparations checks to its black residents, but it did issue a heartfelt
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apology for slavery. Will that be enough to satisfy the race hustlers? The answer will
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not remotely surprise you. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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From the moment the Colorado Supreme Court disqualified Donald Trump from the ballot a few
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months ago, it was obvious that their decision would be overturned. As I discussed on this show
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at the time, there were so many flaws with the opinion, it was difficult to know exactly where to
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begin. The decision ignored Donald Trump's calls for peaceful demonstration on January 6th. It accused
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him of speaking in violent coded language because he was mean to some random protesters at his rallies.
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And then it concluded that a single Colorado bureaucrat had the power to effectively delete
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his entire candidacy. Now, it's not worth rehashing all the details. This was a decision that
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any reasonably informed person knew was going to be overturned. Now, unfortunately, what's become
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very clear in the past 24 hours is that a very large number of people in this country are not
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reasonably informed. Instead, they're told to pay attention when Rachel Maddow beams into MSNBC to
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tell viewers that Donald Trump might soon be barred from the ballot in multiple states. They're
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bombarded with junk analysis, like CNN's assessment that the legal case for kicking Trump off the ballot
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was strong, they claimed. And they're fed think pieces from buffoons like Harvard law professor
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Lawrence Tribe, who calls the Colorado Supreme Court's decision unassailable. Unassailable.
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And just think about that for a second, that last part, because you can get a more accurate
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assessment of constitutional law issues from a conservative podcast than you can from an
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allegedly esteemed Harvard law professor who supposedly specializes in constitutional law.
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With as far as Harvard has fallen in the past decade or so, that may not be very surprising,
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but it's worth pointing out because of the implications for the rest of the country. Millions of people
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listen to con artists with very fancy titles who lie to them as a matter of course. And even when
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these con artists are exposed as they were yesterday, they make it very clear that they're
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not backing down. And we saw that again and again in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's unanimous
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decision yesterday, striking down the decision by the Colorado Supreme Court. I'll begin with Keith
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Olbermann, who was so worked up in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision that he apparently
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admitted to having urine all over his face, which is not an exaggeration. Although I and everyone
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else who happened to be using Twitter yesterday very much wishes it were. I mean, this really
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happened. So here's how Keith's day began. He tweeted, quote, the Supreme Court has betrayed democracy.
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Its members, including Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor, have proved themselves inept at reading
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comprehension. And collectively, the court has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate.
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It must be dissolved. So we're not packing the court anymore. We're just going to get rid of the
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whole thing, according to Keith Olbermann. How does that work? Like, what are the implications of
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that? What are the repercussions? How does that, I mean, this is part of, this is like a pillar of
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our whole system of government. But we're just going to get rid of it. Now, in response, someone
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helpfully pointed out that the Supreme Court's decision was unanimous. Here was the reply, quote,
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cry more, nine to zero. And Olbermann reading this announced, quote, those aren't tears, fascist,
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they're urine. I'm sure you enjoy being bathed in it. Now, at best, this is, I mean, honestly,
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it's the worst comeback that I've ever heard in my life. I don't think I've ever heard of a worse
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comeback than that. And at worst, it's an admission of exactly the kind of deviant behavior you'd expect
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Keith Olbermann would engage in all the time. Now, you know, we can't be sure, to be fair,
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so Olbermann seems to have admitted that he has pee on his face. But we don't know the source of
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the pee, so let's just be clear about that. Did he pee on his own face? Is this someone else's pee
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on his face? There are many details that are left obscured here, probably for the best. But we do know
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one way or another that Keith Olbermann has pee all over his face. And as distressing as that thought
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may be, the truth is that Keith Olbermann is not alone on the left. In response to yesterday's
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decision, Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold, the woman who unilaterally tried to
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have Trump thrown off the ballot, also began attacking the Supreme Court. Of course, watch.
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I think this court has had obviously some pretty big issues, whether it has been, you know, Clarence
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Thomas's wife's role, gifts that have gone unreported. And there are some pretty big decisions
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that have come out of the court that I highly disagree with and I think strip Americans of
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our basic human rights and fundamental freedoms. Sorry, I was just distracted because I was just
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thinking that now that we know that the leftist tears are urine, it does, you know, make me a little
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bit less excited about the leftist tears tumbler. I think we'll just put that to the side. Anyway,
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I wasn't paying attention to what you just said there, but just to restate how absurd all this is,
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the Supreme Court's decision was unanimous. It was a nine to zero vote overturning what the Secretary
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of State did. And instead of grappling with the implications of that, both the interviewer and
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the woman with the crazy eyes, Griswold, pretend as though this was a partisan decision. That's how
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the question was framed. It's how Griswold responds. She goes off into some bizarre discussion about
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Clarence Thomas. From there, these are the exact same talking points they used back when Dobbs,
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the Dobbs decision came out. And there's a reason they're doing this that I'll get to in a moment,
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but for now, it's important to highlight some of the more unhinged responses to the Supreme Court's
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ruling, because you have to understand how truly profoundly that Donald Trump has broken these
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people. So elsewhere at MSNBC, for example, a Slate columnist disclosed that he went rooting
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around the metadata of the Supreme Court's decision. In case you're not familiar with this process,
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because you're a normal person, here's what this columnist wrote on Twitter. Quote,
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if you double click where it says JJ at the top, then copy and paste it, that line reads Sotomayor
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J, concurring in part and dissenting in part. And if you do a control F search for Sotomayor J,
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concurring in part and dissenting in part, it highlights that same line. In other words,
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if you highlight some arbitrary portion of the opinion, you'll find some evidence in the metadata
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that previously, before this opinion was published, Sonia Sotomayor may have written a dissenting opinion
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instead of joining the nine to zero final majority opinion. And this is a discovery that could mean a
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clerk made a minor mistake somewhere and then corrected it before publishing, which would not
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be a remotely interesting development. It could also mean that Sotomayor changed her mind at some
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point in the deliberations, which also would not really be an interesting development. But in any
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event, Slate and MSNBC found this to be a highly interesting development. So I want you to watch as
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the Slate columnist breathlessly informs viewers of his findings that he found deep in the metadata
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of the court's opinion. Watch. Why did it read like a dissent? Because it seems it originally was
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a dissent. After this opinion came down, I checked the metadata and that separate opinion that was
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presented as a concurrence by Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson, that was originally styled as a
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partial dissent by Justice Sotomayor alone. At some point very late in the process, the court switched the
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words on the page to say that it was a concurrence in the judgment, no longer a partial dissent, and added
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Justices Kagan and Jackson. But that is not how it read in the metadata and probably not how it read
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until the last minute. Now, if you listen carefully to what the Slate guy is saying, you'll notice that
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he has no proof whatsoever for any of it. He doesn't actually know that this change in the opinion was
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made late in the process. He doesn't really know why the metadata says that Sotomayor was dissenting.
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It's just speculation. And the point of it is to avoid informing the viewers that actually all of
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the experts you've heard on MSNBC for the past three months have been lying to you. Not even Sonia
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Sotomayor or Kentonji Brown-Jackson or Amy Coney Barrett agree with them. And that's the last thing
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they want you to think about. New York Times also went into histrionics for the same reason. They
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published an op-ed claiming the Supreme Court had just erased part of the Constitution. They find it easier to
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make embarrassing emotional claims than to address in any way all of the BS they've been peddling about
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this case. For people who pretend to care so much about misinformation, it's pretty striking.
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The fact none of these media organizations is reflecting on this failure tells us a lot about
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what they're planning. Just like we saw during Russiagate, they're not going to acknowledge their
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mistakes. They're not going to give up on their goal of removing the leading presidential candidate from
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the ballot, all in the name of defending democracy, supposedly. Instead, their plan is to simply
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adapt and find new ways to undermine the will of tens of millions of American voters.
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And it's important to emphasize here that four justices, Sotomayor Kagan, Kentonji Brown-Jackson,
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and the supposedly conservative Amy Coney Barrett, tried their hardest to preserve this possibility in
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yesterday's ruling. They all suggested that while states can't bar Trump from the ballot,
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there might be a way for the federal government to do it without an act of Congress. Now, what does
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that mean exactly? That's not clear. Amy Coney Barrett won't tell us. Maybe soon enough, we'll find
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out. Until then, Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland has made it very clear that Democrats will press
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forward with an effort to disqualify Trump using an act of Congress. In response to the Supreme Court's
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ruling, which held that only Congress rather than states can disqualify federal officeholders
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for insurrection, Raskin went on television to announce that Democrats in Congress
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will indeed do everything they can to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot. Watch.
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I am working with a number of my colleagues, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell,
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to revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could determine that someone
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who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
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And the House of Representatives already impeached Donald Trump for participating in
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insurrection by inciting it. So the House has already pronounced upon that.
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And by the way, this is obviously, this is, you know, an obvious conclusion, but you can tell
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just how uncertain they are in Joe Biden and his ability to get elected. Because the thing is,
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if they actually thought that Joe Biden could win the election on his own, they wouldn't be doing any of
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this. There'd be no reason to do any of it. In fact, they would much prefer, now they know that
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it would be better for them in every way if Donald Trump just, if Joe Biden just beat Donald Trump.
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They didn't disqualify him, they just got beat. But they are not confident at all in Biden's ability
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to do that, which is why they're going to these increasingly extreme lengths. And this is the same
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threat that Democrats made after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The thought of giving up
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never crosses their minds. The thought of allowing voters in each of the 50 states to make their own
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decisions, whether it's about abortion or presidential candidates, never crosses their
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minds. If you page through the Washington Post comment section, you'll see that very clearly.
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Millions of left-wing voters want Jamie Raskin to pass his bill and forcibly remove Donald Trump
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from the ballot. And they have some very high-level support. As the podcaster Comfortably Smug pointed out
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the other day, left-wing dark money groups like Fix the Court are focused on packing the court,
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and their former director now works for the Biden campaign. So you see how high up this goes. And
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what this means is that as deranged as Keith Olbermann is, he's actually not an outlier on the left.
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He's popular among them because he's willing to say what they're thinking. He's the face of all their
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worst impulses and ideas. And they are so committed to winning, so committed to preventing you from voting,
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they truly don't care whether that face is drenched in urine or not. Now let's get to our five
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being chased out of a movie theater by a group of left-wing
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activists who apparently are upset that she won't say that Israel is perpetrating a genocide.
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And I feel like I've heard AOC say that or, you know, words to that effect already, but protesters
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haven't heard it or they haven't heard it often enough. And they're not happy about that. So let's watch.
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It's not okay that there's a genocide happening. You're not actively against it.
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You can't say it's a genocide or what you're attacking the political race.
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You can't say it's a genocide. Just say it. Over 35,000 people are dead AOC. You can't just say it for once. Just say a word. That's it. That's all we want you to say it.
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Over 35,000 people are dead AOC. You can't just say it for once. Just say the words. That's it. That's all we want you to say it.
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We're not doing anything. We're just processing and left of governmentization. That's all we're doing. That's it.
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And you're going to cut this and you're going to clip this so that it's completely out of context.
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And y'all are just going to pretend that it wasn't over and over again.
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Spoken with all the eloquence and class we've come to expect from AOC and from our politicians in general.
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And what makes this so great, of course, is that AOC has been a huge proponent of protesters harassing her political opponents.
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She was fully on board, obviously, when they were outside of the homes of Supreme Court justices.
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So if it's f***ed up, man, to accost somebody at a movie theater, you would think it'd be all the more f***ed up to do it at their home, where their families are and where their children are.
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In fact, she said in the past that protests should make powerful people uncomfortable.
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She said that's what it's all about, is making people uncomfortable.
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She's one of the most prominent members of Congress.
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So, you know, they've done exactly what she wants.
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She meant to say, make powerful people uncomfortable except for me.
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You know, eventually the radicals, the left-wing radicals are not radical enough.
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I mean, AOC is, you would think, as far to the left on every issue that you can possibly get.
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She finds the most left-wing extreme on every position.
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So, I can't think of an issue where she has publicly taken a position that leaves room to her left.
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And not only that, but for the most part, this is probably sincere on her part.
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I mean, in the sense that she's not pretending to be radically left-wing.
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I mean, there's a lot of pretending and a lot of performance that she does in general.
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Which is what you would expect from a, you know, 34-year-old woman from Brooklyn or wherever she's from.
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So, she's fully on the same side as, and the same page as, the people who are going after her now.
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Because the truth is, you can never really be left-wing enough.
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And there's something else, too, that I think is happening.
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And they're demanding that she say the word genocide.
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Like, why do you need to hear her say that word?
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And you hector them and harass them until they say a word that you want them to say.
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If she says it on command, because you told her to bark like a dog, and she did.
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There are always words, there are always slogans, mantras that they demand you repeat.
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And it's just like, you know, with your email, you know, for security, you're supposed to change your password every so...
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Because, and it's the same on the left, they just, they, every so often, there's another mantra, another slogan that they need, that you need to say.
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You have to stay up to date on the new passwords and say them constantly.
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And if they notice that you're not saying them, then they become suspicious.
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They become suspicious that you have defected, that you're insufficiently loyal.
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And genocide is just, it's one of the new mantras.
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Well, because she's supposed to be in the club.
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And it's one of the passwords now to reaffirm your membership in the club.
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And, you know, of course, even if she did, like the fact that this is happening to her clearly shows that she has been perceived now to be, to be part of the problem.
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Which is also, you know, anyone who's on the left and gets to a position of power, eventually, just because they're there, will become, in the minds of these people, an enemy, you know, an enemy, you know, part of the problem.
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A video circulating on social media on Saturday shows a Pennsylvania state trooper working to arrest a person who's on the ground on the shoulder of a highway.
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That person, NBC 10 has learned, was Darius McLean, the husband of Selena Morrison, the city's executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs.
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Both Morrison and McLean were arrested in the incident.
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And, according to the incident, the police, the incident was caught on camera and happened a little after 9 a.m. on Saturday morning.
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In fact, I think we have the news report with the video of this arrest and some of the reaction from the community, especially the LGBT community, who are very, very troubled by this.
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Yeah, I can tell you the tense traffic stop and the arrest is now under investigation.
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And the officer involved in that arrest, he's been placed on administrative duty while that investigation continues.
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Meanwhile, leaders of LGBTQ groups here in Philadelphia, they're asking for transparency during that investigation.
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This viral video showing a tense traffic stop along the Vine Street Expressway Saturday morning has LGBTQ community leaders alarmed and looking for answers.
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We're marshalling all our resources to be supportive of Selena and Darius, but also to make sure that through investigation, we make sure that accountability resolves from this situation.
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In the video, we see a state trooper standing over Morrison's husband, who's handcuffed on the ground.
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We also hear the voice of Selena Morrison, Philadelphia's director of LGBT Affairs.
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She pleads with the officer to stop and identifies herself as working for the mayor.
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Shocked to see that when someone's pleading and naming themselves and announcing themselves and announcing the scenario, that it would have continued to escalate at that moment.
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While we don't see what led up to the altercation, according to state police, a trooper pulled a driver believed to be Morrison over just after 9 a.m.
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After observing her infinity had expired and suspended registration, headlights that weren't illuminated and was following too closely.
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But before the trooper had a chance to approach her, a man in a green Dodge parked behind the patrol car.
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State police say the trooper went to him and he didn't cooperate with multiple orders, so the trooper tried to arrest him, and Morrison interfered.
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The pair was arrested for resisting arrest and obstruction of justice, but the DA's office says they're reviewing the situation and they're not facing any charges at this time.
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As the investigation continues, many are asking for changes.
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We have the executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs getting arrested in a traffic stop.
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We don't know what led up to it exactly, as we heard.
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Police say that they were being uncooperative and obstructionist and belligerent.
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And having not seen that part of the interaction, and maybe eventually we will see it.
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But having not seen that at this point, I'm going to go ahead and say that I believe the cops' version of events 100%.
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And I believe them because, for the simple fact, that in nearly every single video of this type that we have seen for the past 15 years or longer,
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it has almost always turned out that the supposed victim was going out of his way or her way or both of their ways in this case
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to be as difficult and aggressive and uncooperative as possible.
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We've seen this movie a thousand times, and it always goes the same way.
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There are exceptions to every rule, but almost always.
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First, we see the video of the person on the ground, and they're getting arrested, and we're told,
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Next thing you know, they're getting ripped out of the car and thrown on the ground, and they didn't do anything.
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And then you see the whole video, and you're like, okay, you're just being, you're like, at best,
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you're being as obnoxious as you could possibly be.
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You know, I can tell you I have been pulled over because a taillight.
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I think for them it was a taillight or brake light or something.
00:26:07.340
Not recently, but, you know, I've been pulled over.
00:26:09.940
I've had to expire registration, you know, years ago because I was too lazy to go to DMV.
00:26:15.640
I did not end up face down on the pavement with handcuffs on.
00:26:23.800
You know, it's like they pulled me over, and the cop got on the radio and said, hey,
00:26:30.340
Yeah, we don't give traffic tickets to white guys.
00:26:38.580
If that did happen, I didn't hear the conversation.
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But I think more likely it's because they pulled me over, and they said, you know,
00:26:50.440
And they said, you got a brake light, it's out.
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And then they took license registration and went back to the police cruiser that came
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And that was all, like, that's all you have to do.
00:27:12.520
And if you do that way, if you respond that way, pretty much 100% of the time, it will
00:27:19.780
And you'll have to pay the ticket, but nothing else will happen.
00:27:24.540
There have been times when I've been pulled over for reasons that I thought were a little
00:27:28.780
I remember I was pulled over years ago, and I think I was going, like, 62 in a 50.
00:27:36.000
I was speeding, but it's 12 miles over the limit.
00:27:38.340
And it's like a straightaway, you know, it's like a straight, basically a straight road.
00:27:47.940
That would have been my argument to the cop, is like, come on.
00:27:53.200
Except I didn't make that argument to the cop, because when he handed me the ticket,
00:27:58.460
And I knew that if he handed me the ticket, and I looked at it and said, come on, really?
00:28:05.000
I could have said that, but it's very unlikely that he would have said, oh, oh, you're right.
00:28:15.180
So I just took the ticket, went to court, and pleaded my case there.
00:28:23.420
Like, yeah, it's 12 miles over the limit, but, you know, what's the big deal?
00:28:29.240
And actually, the cop got a little bit of a talking to from the judge, because the judge
00:28:33.260
was like in a bad mood, and just didn't want to be bothered.
00:28:35.580
He's like, it wasn't important enough for him to be bothered.
00:28:39.820
Usually, it hasn't for me, historically, in traffic court.
00:28:43.700
The point is that at no point in all of that did I say to myself, you know what the best
00:28:53.480
The best way to get what I want is to be as annoying, obnoxious, and belligerent as I can
00:29:00.720
And at any point in all of that, whether talking to the cop or the judge, if I had decided to
00:29:06.780
go that route, there's a 100% chance that it would have made the situation worse for
00:29:13.080
So there's a 0% chance, when you're dealing with a cop or a judge, a 0% chance that by
00:29:20.720
being obnoxious, you will make things better for yourself.
00:29:23.740
Now, you may get lucky, and it won't make things much worse, because maybe you're dealing
00:29:28.140
with a cop who doesn't want to become the next Derek Chauvin.
00:29:30.720
And so he's a little bit shy and decides to just put up with you being an a-hole.
00:29:36.120
For that reason alone, you may end up with a cop like that.
00:29:41.320
But even in that case, it's not going to make the situation better.
00:29:45.340
It's just the best you could hope for is that it doesn't make it much worse.
00:29:49.340
But more than likely, it will make it worse and considerably worse.
00:29:58.340
And that's why I have no sympathy for people who act like a-holes to the cops and then pay
00:30:10.560
I don't, you know, there's only so much sympathy a human being can have.
00:30:14.780
There's a lot of tragedies that happen in the world every day.
00:30:19.040
A lot of people that are suffering and, and, and, you know, we're not, we're human beings.
00:30:27.060
I don't have an eternal capacity for sympathy and compassion.
00:30:33.600
And so there are really like whole categories of people that I have to just kind of like
00:30:38.880
It's like, those people don't get any of my sympathy.
00:30:41.580
And if you're someone who, uh, who acts like an a-hole when the cops are dealing with you
00:30:47.240
and then things go wrong, I just don't have sympathy.
00:30:51.100
Like pretty much no matter what happens from there.
00:30:53.080
I don't, it, there, there, there are too many other people out here deserving of sympathy.
00:30:58.640
It's like, it's like, um, you know, it's like if you see a video of someone doing parkour
00:31:05.440
on the top of a 50 story building and they trip and fall and end up with pancakes on
00:31:14.580
I don't watch those videos and want the person to fall.
00:31:17.120
I don't want them to, but if they do, I don't spend a lot of time grieving it.
00:31:24.240
In fact, I don't spend any time at all mourning it because it's like you went out of your way
00:31:29.400
to do the stupidest thing you could possibly do.
00:31:32.580
And then one of the most obvious consequences of that stupid behavior happened to occur.
00:31:45.260
And that applies in general to these kinds of situations.
00:31:49.580
But this is even worse because apparently the executive of LGBT affairs tried to use that
00:31:57.480
And we heard from the one guy who said that it was unconscionable, you know,
00:32:02.480
that it went this way because she announced herself.
00:32:05.340
She announced herself and announced, and then that was supposed to be it, I guess.
00:32:10.140
I don't know if she pulled out her badge and said, officer, it's okay.
00:32:24.240
Someone's being misgendered, you know, across town.
00:32:30.880
But however it unfolded, the fact that she's the executive director of the office of LGBT
00:32:37.280
affairs apparently didn't help her in this case, nor should it.
00:32:40.500
Especially because the office of LGBT affairs obviously should not exist.
00:32:43.960
What does the executive director of the office of LGBT affairs do on a daily basis?
00:32:54.840
And I know that I'm being very optimistic and thinking that there even is a nine to five
00:33:01.420
And I also know that we're used to this sort of thing.
00:33:04.060
We're used to, you know, bureaucrats having positions like this that are totally meaningless.
00:33:09.280
But still, you got to stop and think about, I mean, think about this.
00:33:15.020
Think about the fact that the city of Philadelphia has an office dedicated to people who enjoy
00:33:26.960
There's an entire office dedicated to the affairs of people who like having homosexual sex or have
00:33:33.400
other sexual proclivities that are underneath the umbrella.
00:33:36.680
And this is a, this is a nine to five job for, for a government bureaucrat that, and they
00:33:44.540
spend, again, I don't know what they do on a daily basis, but they spend every day with
00:33:57.940
I mean, how does that work with representation?
00:33:59.520
Isn't that a, isn't that a, shouldn't that be the real scandal here?
00:34:06.680
This is a, this is a cisgendered woman with a husband, a woman with a husband, and she's
00:34:20.220
I would think at least, at least just trans, but really to be the executive director, you'd
00:34:27.540
think trans, you know, bisexual, Demi, whatever, you know, a few you would need to, you need
00:34:44.340
When she said that she was the executive director of the office of LGBT affairs, the cop should
00:34:55.580
This is, you're taking jobs away from LGBT people.
00:35:01.200
All right, now that we have that settled, here's another controversy, the likes of which we
00:35:08.640
And I don't know if it's the most important thing happening in the world today, but it's
00:35:13.940
So this is the latest iteration of this controversy.
00:35:16.320
I want to show you, this is a viral video that has sparked quite a heated debate.
00:35:21.240
Uh, it's a video of a young mother at a bar being confronted for bringing her baby into
00:35:30.060
And, um, so there's a lot here that has people talking, but let's watch this video.
00:35:44.960
We are, we are, we are, we are waiting for a bill.
00:36:16.180
She's building you and I'm actually going to call the police.
00:36:32.800
Now, my favorite thing about that video probably is all the details that she's making up about
00:36:46.660
You know, and she's, this is, this is like, she looks like she's in her 50s.
00:36:49.500
This is classic obnoxious 55-year-old woman drunk because she's angry and yelling but smiling
00:36:57.980
So you got, you got all that going on and, and yet many on the internet have sided with
00:37:08.620
And it, I saw where this video was, was, was posted and, you know, millions of views.
00:37:15.160
This is the kind of thing we talk about on the internet, but you go through the comments
00:37:18.940
and it's like at least 50, 50, if not, if not 60, 40 in favor of this woman.
00:37:25.000
And I have to say, if you're one of those people, then I, I don't know, you, you, you
00:37:30.580
have the IQ and the moral sense of like a Komodo dragon or something.
00:37:40.380
Like you are automatically a suspected serial killer.
00:37:43.200
If you watch that video and your first reaction is that you're on the side of the obnoxious
00:37:50.960
55-year-old drunk woman screaming obscenities at the young mother with a, with a child.
00:37:56.940
Uh, it's like, just as a, as from a visceral reaction standpoint, you, you, you, you, you
00:38:05.900
And first of all, whether she's right or wrong on the merits, when you talk to somebody like
00:38:11.280
that in that situation, you're automatically wrong.
00:38:18.160
We need to get back to a place in society where people realize that you just don't talk to
00:38:26.200
If you talk to somebody that way, I'm not saying I would do it.
00:38:29.580
I'm not advocating that anybody would do it just to be clear.
00:38:36.640
I'm just saying that if the younger woman had walked over to the older woman and smacked
00:38:43.880
her across the face, just one time, Will Smith style one time and said, Hey, watch your
00:38:51.980
Well, if she had done that, she would have been morally justified, not advocating it.
00:38:57.520
I'm glad it didn't happen, frankly, because I don't, I don't advocate violence, but if
00:39:01.600
she did, she would have been justified completely morally.
00:39:04.700
Uh, and I'm not talking about a beat down with 15 people.
00:39:11.360
You used to be able to do that in this country.
00:39:13.760
Back when we were a real country, when we, when this was America, you can walk up to someone,
00:39:17.380
smack them in the face because they're, they're, they're, you know, they're getting
00:39:19.780
out of hand, they're, they're talking, they're being disrespectful.
00:39:26.920
And, uh, at the very least, if she had got a beer, you know, tossed in her face, again,
00:39:35.680
When you treat people like that in public, you have no right to treat people that way.
00:39:39.460
And if you do, what it tells me is that, you know, you, you, you have never gotten
00:39:44.180
And that's why you go around treating people that way.
00:39:46.560
Um, so she's wildly in the wrong for how she's speaking to a stranger here, but she's also
00:39:51.620
wrong on the merits because even if she wasn't a vulgar, gross woman, even if she was polite
00:40:01.240
And this is where we hear from all the people who, and I got into this argument again on Twitter
00:40:06.760
yesterday, uh, and here for all the people that say, well, you think it's okay to bring
00:40:11.740
a baby to a bar, you would bring kids to a bar.
00:40:21.320
I had four of my kids at a bar like three weeks ago and you know what?
00:40:30.480
If you are a normal person who lives in the world, this is something that people do.
00:40:39.840
Obviously I'm not saying it's okay to bring your kids to any bar.
00:40:44.820
There are different, there are dive bars back where I used to live.
00:40:48.560
We had a diet, like an actual diet, not a, not a, you know, not a trendy bar in the city
00:40:52.080
that they call a dive bar, but the beers, you know, it's like, it still costs you $27
00:40:57.580
Uh, I'm talking about an actual dive bar, had one down the street, the kind of place
00:41:00.860
where, you know, you go, there's always like at least one motorcycle in the parking
00:41:05.000
You walk in and no matter what time of day you walk in, there's always at least one guy.
00:41:10.040
Who's like in his sixties and he's just sloppy drunk sitting by himself at the bar.
00:41:15.060
You go in at 2 PM and there's at least one guy who's just sitting there.
00:41:20.900
And not only that, but he's getting drunk on light beer.
00:41:23.280
So these are, this is a guy who's, you know, 4% alcohol type drinks and he's drinking gallons
00:41:31.440
He could sit there for four hours drinking 60 gallons of beer, never get up one time.
00:41:35.460
I don't know how he does it, but I'm talking about that kind of bar.
00:41:40.360
It's probably against state law, but they do it anyway.
00:41:46.100
I thought it was a great, huge, I was a huge fan of the place.
00:41:51.200
Obviously I wouldn't, uh, you wouldn't bring your kids to, uh, to like a college bar,
00:41:55.640
you know, where the building capacity is 175 people, but they've got 400 people crammed
00:42:01.660
in there and everyone's just, you have no room to even move your arms and it's 140 degrees
00:42:12.140
Um, and would you bring your kids to that place?
00:42:21.880
That's what most, they are Applebee's or places similar.
00:42:24.540
In most parts of the country, when someone goes to the bar, that's where they're going.
00:42:35.660
And, uh, and not only are those places perfectly acceptable for kids, but they're great places
00:42:45.540
I look, if I'm bringing my kids out for a meal, I'm looking for a place that says sports
00:42:49.900
I'm looking, it needs to say bar on it somewhere, or I'm not bringing my kids in because
00:42:53.800
then, you know, it's, it's a little bit louder.
00:42:56.720
Uh, it's, there are larger groups there, you know, there are TVs, there's like stuff going
00:43:01.720
And, and so, you know, your kid can, can be a kid and can be like a little bit, a little
00:43:05.740
talkative, a little bit louder, and it's not going to disrupt other people.
00:43:09.140
So that's, that, that's, those are great places to bring kids.
00:43:15.240
And when I hear people that disagree with that, like, what do you, what do you think?
00:43:22.300
Do you, do you think that families should just never go out to eat?
00:43:26.040
You think when you're, when you're a family and you have young kids, you should, you just
00:43:33.100
Uh, you know, you never go to like a normal place that, that people go.
00:43:49.460
And that's, that's kind of the bigger point here is that we should be as welcoming of kids
00:43:56.400
It doesn't mean that we welcome them in every scenario, but we should be a lot more welcoming
00:44:03.640
And, um, and that's why it's also bizarre to me when I hear, uh, as I have seen from
00:44:11.840
the conversation around this video that, you know, you see these people that say, uh, I
00:44:16.180
just want to go somewhere where there aren't a bunch of kids.
00:44:18.020
I, I, everywhere I go, there's a bunch of kids.
00:44:19.780
I don't, you know, I don't need to see kids when I'm at the bar.
00:44:24.740
Like, why are you acting like we live in a country with big young families everywhere?
00:44:31.880
Why are you acting like everywhere you go, there's just kids all over the place?
00:44:36.920
Unless you happen to live, there are small pockets of the country where, uh, and usually
00:44:43.380
it's like, if you go to a place where there are a lot of very conservative Catholics or a
00:44:49.200
lot of very Orthodox Jews or a lot of very religious Mormons, um, if you go to one of
00:44:56.660
those small pockets, okay, a place like that, you're going to see a lot of big families.
00:45:01.220
You go to a place like, uh, if anyone's familiar with Front Royal of Virginia, okay, you go there.
00:45:06.140
Anywhere you go, every family has four, 14 kids at a minimum.
00:45:12.200
Um, but outside of that, I don't know what people are talking about.
00:45:18.800
And the reason is that the average family, uh, has fewer than two kids.
00:45:30.560
We are an old country and we are getting older.
00:45:35.060
And that's part of the reason why far from kids being included too much, our problem is
00:45:41.420
You know, we make most things adult oriented when they shouldn't be.
00:45:47.580
We're, we're actually, it's not that we're including kids too much.
00:45:49.420
We're, we're taking things away from kids that should be theirs.
00:45:54.040
We've got generations of adults now who are clinging onto like the things of childhood that
00:46:01.060
should belong to kids and, but they're clinging and they won't let go of them and they drag them
00:46:07.180
Uh, I'll never forget the time when I was, uh, someone was complained, not to me, but in
00:46:12.300
my presence that they were at, I don't remember what it was, some superhero movie, maybe Captain
00:46:18.140
And they complained that, um, that there were too many kids in the movie.
00:46:29.440
What do you, that's what it's for that exists for kids.
00:46:36.820
If anything, I'm just waiting for the day when I hear someone like leaving a Chuckie cheese
00:46:42.280
and going, man, fun place, but way too many kids.
00:46:45.940
I mean, can't the fella just play in the ball pit without kids all over the place?
00:46:49.880
Can't the guy slide down the, uh, the, the, the plastic slide with a juice box without
00:46:56.860
That's what you all sound like because it's just as absurd to complain about kids at a
00:47:03.400
These are classic family places and you're complaining about it because I guess you don't
00:47:12.020
I think some of you watched a children of men and thought that it was an instruction manual.
00:47:16.500
You watched children of men and didn't realize that it's supposed to be a horrifying dystopia.
00:47:23.480
That was a world where no one's having kids anymore.
00:47:25.780
And at the end, there's like one girl who's pregnant and you know, they protect her from
00:47:30.920
And you watched that movie and you thought it had a sad ending.
00:47:33.460
You thought it was like a happy movie that that's sad at the very end.
00:47:37.120
Um, but that's not the case, uh, that, you know, you should not be excited for a future
00:47:41.620
like that where there are no kids and no families and everybody is old and depressed and dying.
00:47:52.880
Although, yeah, I guess in a world like that, you can go to Applebee's and you're not going
00:48:01.620
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Thursday night, you're on the Daily Wire backstage as Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles,
00:49:07.900
Andrew Klavan, the God King himself, Jeremy Boring, and myself watched react to the 2024
00:49:16.460
I could not wait to watch and talk about the State of the Union.
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We'll be breaking down the State of the Union as it happens.
00:49:24.080
And of course, answering your questions, an experience you won't find anywhere else.
00:49:41.200
By the way, before we get into the daily cancellation, we do have a fact check.
00:49:48.120
We were talking about the director of LGBT affairs who was arrested for being, you know,
00:49:55.660
And I was wondering, this was supposedly a woman with a husband.
00:49:59.820
And I thought, well, that's, this is distressing.
00:50:04.400
This is someone who's not in the LGBT community who's the head of LGBT affairs.
00:50:13.860
The news has come across my desk that Selena Morrison, the LGBT affairs director, is trans,
00:50:23.340
Selena Morrison is a man who's pretending to be a woman.
00:50:26.580
And so, that, if you were concerned about that, as I was, that the office of LGBT affairs
00:50:35.040
in Philadelphia is not representative, you don't have to be concerned about that.
00:50:44.640
We've talked about reparations quite a few times on this show.
00:50:48.000
And very often during this particular segment of the show.
00:50:50.860
And I wish there was a subject that we could move past.
00:50:53.360
But the race hustlers, of course, will not allow it.
00:50:54.980
In fact, that is, you might say, that the single objective of the race hustlers is to
00:51:02.680
And so, to that end, New York is the latest state to take up the cause of reparations.
00:51:07.080
A few days ago, the governor, Kathy Hochul, announced her appointments to the so-called
00:51:14.500
And the announcement came in a press release which said the following, quote,
00:51:17.200
The commission, formed through legislation, signed in December 2023, acknowledges the horrific
00:51:20.640
injustice of slavery and is tasked with examining the legacy of slavery, subsequent
00:51:24.380
discrimination against people of African descent, and the impact these forces continue to have
00:51:29.700
As Americans, we have a solemn responsibility to reckon with our history.
00:51:33.760
And that includes understanding the painful legacy of slavery in New York, Governor Hochul
00:51:37.880
We've assembled an extraordinary group of high-quality individuals to serve on the new commission
00:51:43.580
Today's announcement is an important step toward addressing the legacy of slavery and its
00:51:47.820
impact on present-day realities, according to Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado.
00:51:51.420
Through the work of this commission, our state can lead in what should be a national conversation
00:51:56.320
about the truth of our past and the healing work required to create a more just future.
00:52:01.600
Yes, well, that's what we need most of all, isn't it?
00:52:03.820
A national conversation about all the bad things that happened in this country hundreds of years
00:52:09.180
Now, you might think that we've already had that conversation.
00:52:12.420
You might think that we've been having that conversation for years.
00:52:14.900
You might think that we talk about our historical sins more than any country in the world or
00:52:19.480
history has ever talked about their historical sins.
00:52:22.900
You might think that our national self-esteem has sunk into subterranean levels, and there's
00:52:27.620
absolutely nothing to be gained by continuing to talk incessantly and exclusively about all
00:52:31.700
of the terrible atrocities, whether real or imagined, that our ancestors inflicted on one
00:52:37.260
You might think that our problem isn't our lack of focus on our flaws, but rather that we don't
00:52:42.340
focus on anything but our flaws, you might think of all that, but that's because you
00:52:46.840
are a normal, emotionally stable, psychologically well-adjusted person.
00:52:52.020
Unfortunately, our country is not run by people like you.
00:52:54.740
It's run by sadomasochistic lunatics, and that's how you end up with reparations commissions.
00:52:59.860
The good news, as we covered a few weeks ago, is that these commissions rarely lead to anything
00:53:06.020
For example, in San Francisco, the African-American Reparations Advisory Committee had their own powwow
00:53:11.980
a term that would no doubt offend them deeply, which is why I used it.
00:53:15.800
And as a result, they recommended, if you recall, cash payments to black residents of
00:53:21.820
But so far, those payments have not materialized.
00:53:24.840
That's probably because they demanded $5 million apiece in addition to a six-figure yearly
00:53:32.920
And the total cost of that measure would be about $100 billion, which is nearly 10 times
00:53:41.080
In order to pay for it, you assume, they would have to 10x their tax revenue, which would,
00:53:45.800
of course, bankrupt every resident who isn't already homeless and living in a tent on the
00:53:51.800
Now, personally, I would probably enjoy seeing this proposal put into practice in San Francisco.
00:53:57.340
Just let them put themselves out of their misery and embrace the final ruination of their city
00:54:03.240
and community through this crazy, you know, harebrained scheme.
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But the mayor isn't quite insane enough to go along with it, so it hasn't happened.
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And instead, in lieu of making every black person in the city an instant Powerball winner,
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the city voted last week instead to just issue an apology.
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Well, we all know how powerful an apology can be.
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Today, San Francisco supervisors may take another step towards formally apologizing to
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the city's African-American people for policies that hurt them or held them back.
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NBC Bay Area's Chris Sanchez joins us with the vote the supervisors will take up.
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Laura, this has been in the works for a while now, and the recommendation from the Reparations
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We expect that the supervisors will approve and move forward with that formal apology,
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On behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors offers
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its deepest apologies to all African-Americans and their descendants who came to San Francisco
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and were victims of systemic and structural discrimination, institutionalized racism,
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And be it further resolved that the city and county of San Francisco commit to non-repetition
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of the policies and practices which caused these harms, commit to the restoration for
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the ways that racism has caused insult to black humanity and manifested in both visible and
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invisible trauma through the means of compensation, restoration and rehabilitation, and commit to
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making substantial, ongoing, systemic, and programmatic investments in black communities
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I have to say, although this apology is pointless and stupid, I do deeply appreciate the humor of it.
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The race hustlers wanted $5 million a piece, and instead they got a two-paragraph apology.
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It's like promising your wife a trip to a tropical island for your anniversary,
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but instead you just give her a postcard with a picture of a tropical island on it.
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They say it's the thought that counts, but in practice, that rarely turns out to be the case,
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which is why, as you might expect, this apology has not been entirely well-received.
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A reparations expert says that San Francisco's apology to black residents won't mean anything
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Reparations are the redemptive act that makes the rhetoric of an apology meaningless,
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Reparations scholar Roy Brooks, a law professor at the University of San Diego, told USA Today,
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quote, you can't just sit, say you're sorry, and walk away, Brooks added,
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telling USA Today that, quote, an apology alone was not sufficient.
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San Francisco voted Tuesday to formally apologize to black residents after decades of institutional
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All 11 of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors signed on as sponsors of the resolution to
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apologize for the city's complicity in systemic and structural discrimination.
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Although the city officials voted unanimously to formalize an apology, some slammed the measure
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before it passed as insufficient due to other reparations being put on hold due to budget
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Reverend Amos C. Brown, a member of the San Francisco Reparations Advisory Committee and
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the official who proposed for the city to formally pass the apology, also said it's not enough.
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An apology is just cotton candy rhetoric, Brown said.
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Namely, one specific concrete action, and that is the action of putting cold, hard cash
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This is how you know that someone has been sincerely and genuinely harmed.
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You know, when you apologize to them and they say, no, it's not enough, nothing will ever heal
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my wounds, nothing but a briefcase with $5 million in cash.
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So there's one thing that can heal my wounds, it turns out, but it has to be exactly $5 million,
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I will accept more than $5 million, however, if you want.
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Yes, these are the words of a truly aggrieved and traumatized people.
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And speaking of which, as New York and San Francisco figure out the reparations puzzle,
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another viral video on the subject attempts to debunk objections to the reparations scheme.
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Here's how most white people respond to the idea of reparations for African Americans.
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No one alive today was ever enslaved, and no one alive today was ever a slave owner.
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We're not giving away free money just based on race.
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But every white person who is alive today is still benefiting from the transatlantic slave
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And every black person who is alive today is still being negatively impacted by the legacy
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of the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery.
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It's not giving away free money to people based on their race.
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It's an overdue debt that has been owed for hundreds of years that has yet to be paid.
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Other cultures did not have chattel slavery where people were born into slavery in perpetuity
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with no way to get out of it and by no fault of their own and then terrorized.
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It's also about the white supremacist domestic terrorism against black people that has been
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And also for the government sanctioned violence, displacement, dehumanization, criminalization
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and marginalization of black people ever since chattel slavery ended.
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She's very proud of herself, you can tell, but she shouldn't be proud of that shirt with
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It's like something a Star Trek villain would wear.
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She should ask for reparations from whoever sold her that shirt.
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I'm not equipped to give fashion advice, of course, but it looks like doorknobs on her
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Anyway, as we know, everything she says in the video is false.
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It's not true that chattel slavery was unique to the Western world.
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This form of slavery existed all over the world, was practiced by non-white cultures for
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This is just the kind of thing that if I already, if I didn't already have zero faith in the
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education system, I would find this very troubling that this, I mean, anyone could think this,
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let alone so many people think that chattel slavery was some sort of unique thing in the
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It wasn't, although arguably the category of chattel slavery as distinct from other kinds
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Chattel is property, and a slave was a person treated as property.
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Any form of slavery where the slave was not property was not slavery.
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So if it was slavery, then it was chattel slavery.
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And slavery, the use and exploitation of human beings as property, was the norm across the
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Africans certainly, without a doubt, practiced chattel slavery.
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They practiced it against whites and other outsiders.
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That's a fact that cannot be denied by any historically literate person, which is why it is so often denied
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by so many people these days, because historical literacy is at an all-time low.
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And this is a point we've covered many times, of course.
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If we're going to hand out reparations, given the ubiquity of slavery across the world for
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so many centuries, then we should, by all rights, have 30 different reparations programs to cover
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everyone whose ancestors were negatively impacted by it, which would be basically everyone.
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If it's true that people can be owed restitution for the legacy of harm that impacts them in
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unspecified and unknowable ways today, then again, reparations should come in many forms.
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But of course, you know, when you think about it, you realize that, indeed, the reparations
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The basic idea behind reparations is that a person is owed something from society because
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of the theoretical disadvantages that they experience.
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Slavery reparations is just one manifestation of that spiritual sickness.
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Indeed, our culture and our politics is driven by this mentality.
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So just yesterday, we talked about programs in cities across the country that give no-strings-attached
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Cash payments that, as we read, are often used on spa treatments and fancy vacations and
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And this was not, you know, framed as slavery reparations, but it's basically a form of reparations.
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We're giving people money that they didn't earn because, for some reason, in some way that
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You might say that so-called student loan forgiveness is a kind of reparations for college
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Money is taken from those who earned it, given to those who did not, on the logic that
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the recipients are owed restitution, that they deserve it because of how deeply they've
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suffered from, in this case, their own reckless financial decisions.
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And it's this same kind of logic that lies behind all of the special laws and special
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protections afforded to certain demographic groups and not others.
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These are all the poison fruits that grow from the same root system.
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This is a general psychosis that infects the entire country.
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People are obsessed with what they think they are owed.
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They walk around keeping tally of all the disadvantages they experience.
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Disadvantages that prove to be imaginary most of the time, and then they demand that those
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Now, if you go up to a person like this and you ask them to tell you about their goals,
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about their ambitions, about their deepest longings, and if you ask them that, they probably
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They wouldn't be able to tell you what their goals are, what they want to accomplish.
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But if you ask them to list all of the ways that their lives are unfair, well, they'll
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You know, I could tell you for six hours about that.
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That's because they are motivated almost entirely by these resentments, by these feelings of personal
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It's what drives them, drives them in circles, to be specific.
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And this is the worst thing about reparations in all of its forms.
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It's not that the schemes are always economically suicidal, though they are.
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It's rather that they feed and encourage a mentality that dooms people to lives of discontentment
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It leads to a passive life, a life spent waiting for someone else to come along and give you
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When in reality, you're not owed anything at all.
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Nobody is in debt to you simply because you exist and they exist.
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The universe doesn't owe you or care about you or know you exist.
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Your feelings of being owed are just that, their feelings.
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They have no relevance outside of your own silly little head.
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Now, all that to say, does that mean that you haven't been negatively impacted by things
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that have happened to you and even things that happened to your ancestors generations
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If you're a person, there have been bad things that have happened to you.
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And bad things happen to your ancestors, whoever you are and whoever your ancestors were.
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And some of those bad things may even reverberate today.
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I don't deny that if something terrible happened to your ancestor 150 years ago, it's quite possible
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that that set off a chain of events and that you are still in some way experiencing the
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If your great-great-grandfather was a wealthy tycoon instead of a slave, it's possible you'd
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be in a better place today than you currently are or not.
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I mean, it's impossible to know, but regardless, your history is what it is or was what it was,
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If things were different, you could be in a better place.
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As we've covered before, you could not even exist at all.
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It's just a thought exercise and it's not a very helpful or useful one.
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And when this thought exercise becomes the animating force of your entire life, when this idea that
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you could have it better if only this and that thing hadn't happened in the past, then
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it becomes incredibly harmful because it's preventing you from living actively and proactively.
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If you want to make your life better, then go make it better.
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Stop waiting for someone else to do it for you.
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And it's why reparations in all of its many diverse forms is today canceled.