Ep. 1327 - Police Departments Are Obliterating Their Fitness Requirements In Order To Recruit More Women
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Summary
Four years ago, the city of Memphis, Tennessee decided to double down on a strategy of affirmative action policing that they had been practicing for decades. As expected, more black people signed up to become police officers, and the police department became more diverse. But the result of this grand experiment, as you might remember, was exactly what was advertised: racial harmony and a utopia where civil liberties were sacrosanct. Instead, the residents of Memphis were treated to one of the most brutal police beatings ever recorded on camera.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, there's a national effort underway to triple the number of female
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police officers. This effort has necessitated lowering fitness requirements to an absurd
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degree. It's even worse than you imagine. I'll show you the video to prove it. Also,
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the media's latest Trump hoax is perhaps its most blatantly dishonest yet. Democrats in Tennessee
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are threatening riots because of a bill reversing so-called police reform in the state. A group of
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eighth grade kids face criminal charges for edgy Snapchat posts. And our daily cancellation,
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exprssvpn.com slash Walsh. Go to expressvpn.com slash Walsh to learn more. Four years ago, the city of
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Memphis decided to double down on a strategy of affirmative action policing that they had been
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practicing for decades. Officially, the city's theory was that black police officers are less
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likely to mistreat suspects and more likely to do a better job as compared to white officers.
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Now, there was never any data to support that theory, obviously. If anything, there was a lot
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of data to suggest the exact opposite. Indeed, Memphis had long been one of the most dangerous
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cities in the country, despite all the diverse hiring they were doing. But in 2020, Memphis went for
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it anyway, and they reduced their hiring standards even further to attract more black police
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recruits, and it worked. As expected, more black people did sign up to become Memphis police
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officers, and the police department became more, quote unquote, diverse. But the result of this
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grand experiment, as you might remember, wasn't exactly what was advertised. Instead of racial
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harmony and a utopia where civil liberties were sacrosanct, the residents of Memphis were treated to
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one of the most brutal police beatings ever recorded on camera. Several black police officers,
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including officers hired after Memphis implemented its new affirmative action program, took turns
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pummeling a black man by the name of Tyree Nichols. He died, and the officers were charged with
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murder. Their specialized policing unit, quote unquote, called Scorpion, was disbanded immediately.
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Now, after this debacle, the idea of diversifying the police force by lowering standards should have
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ended forever. It was always a terrible idea, but now everybody can see in brutal, violent detail how
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terrible it is. Getting rid of merit in police academies is a lot like introducing DEI to medicine
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or to the aviation industry. It doesn't just lead to inefficiency, it leads to death and very
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preventable ones at that. But somehow this lesson has not been learned. Even in the state of Tennessee,
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just a few hundred miles from where Tyree Nichols was beaten to death, efforts to diversify policing
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by reducing standards are underway. And this time around, the stated goal is not to have more black
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men join the police force. Instead, the objective is to get more women recruits. So watch what's
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It's a male dominated profession. So women are scared to take that step, maybe thinking that
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they're not able to do it, but you can do it if you have that right mindset. It's a mindset the
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Metro Police Department hopes more women will have. Their goal, a 30 percent female police force.
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Last year, it was 11 percent. This year, it's 13 percent. And is it even attainable? I think we're
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definitely growing. So if we can just keep that momentum going, I believe that it is definitely
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attainable. Commander Tiffany Gibson is Metro's first female director of training. She says among
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the biggest changes they've made to help attract recruits, especially women, no more physical
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ability tests. Now trainees must pass a physical agility test designed to mirror tasks in the field.
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They've also added lactation rooms for nursing moms to all eight precincts,
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more flexible schedules. That's in addition to their already paid maternity leave and sick time.
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What's something the Metro Police Department does not currently offer to female recruits that you
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think could really be a game changer? We're trying to get going, possibly help sponsor our own child
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care facility. And I think that would be really helpful for females.
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Now, before I even get into the elimination of the testing standards, there's at least two levels
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of crazy here. A lot more than two, but we'll just talk about two. The first is that they want the
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police force to be 30 percent female by the year 2030. These are two completely arbitrary numbers that no
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one ever attempts to explain or justify. Nashville is a majority female city, so why don't they shoot for
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a majority female police force if they're doing this? I mean, why stop at 30 percent? And by the way,
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Nashville isn't an outlier in terms of the number of female cops on the force. Nationally,
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roughly 12 percent of police officers are women. Nashville is at 13 percent. So what's being
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proposed here is not an effort to correct some sort of statistical abnormality. In fact, it's an
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effort to create one. And the timeline makes no sense either. Why is the deadline 2030? Why not sooner
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if this is so urgent? Why not later if none of this really matters? Who knows? But the bigger issue,
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of course, is that they're dropping the physical ability requirements in order to get more women
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on the force. And in their place are new agility requirements. And the news report doesn't really
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explain what precisely is the distinction between ability and agility. I would have thought that
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physical agility falls under the umbrella of physical ability, but apparently not. In that clip,
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they suggest that the new agility standards will help attract women because they mirror tasks that
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these women cops will have to do in the field and read between the lines. And what they're saying is
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that the agility test is a lot easier than the old test. They don't go into too much detail about how
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much easier this new test is. So I looked into it. The old test required recruits to complete sit-ups,
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a 300-meter sprint, and a 1.5-mile run. Now, even those standards were not all that demanding. If
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anything, in a sane world, we'd be talking about raising those standards. But instead,
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we're going the opposite direction. The new test only requires recruits to run for 500 yards rather
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than a mile and a half, plus 99 yards around some cones. There's also a couple of wall climbing tests,
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including a chain link fence climb and a solid wall climb. Now, when you hear some of that,
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to be fair, it might sound somewhat challenging. You know, a wall climb, a fence climb. And if you're not
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in very good shape anyway, maybe some of that could be, there could be a challenge to that. After all,
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climbing fences and walls, you know, it's not something most people do on a given day.
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Unfortunately, the Metro Nashville Police Department has uploaded footage of what these
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tests look like in practice. So here they are. Here is the chain link fence test, followed by the
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solid wall test, which are part of these new agility standards. And I want you to see how much
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agility is really on display in this example that the police department provides. Watch.
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This is the chain link fence climb. For this test, you're to run up to the fence,
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scale the fence, and continue running to the finish line. The test may be administered twice
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with at least a two-minute rest period between administrations. Your fastest time will be used
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as your score. Solid wall climb. For this test, you'll run up to the wall, scale the wall, and
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continue running to the finish line. This test may be administered twice with at least two-minute
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rest period between administrations. Your fastest time will be used as your score.
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Okay. Good thing you get the two-minute rest in between those two extremely physically demanding
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tasks. So when you hear chain link fence climb and wall climb, your mind immediately conjures
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images of a tall fence and like a large wall, at least one taller than a human being that you have
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to climb. Because when you think of climbing, you think like it's bigger than me, I have to get over
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it. What they don't tell you is that the wall and fence are like three and a half feet high.
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You don't have to climb them so much as sort of skip over them. It's effectively a test to make sure
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you're not in a wheelchair. And then there's no big chase after you've jumped over the fence. There's
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no secondary fence you have to scale. That would just be ridiculous. As you saw, the female crew
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just has to trot ahead. It's like a light jog for a few feet and the test is over. And just in case
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she somehow slipped and fell over and knocked herself unconscious while scaling this miniature
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fence, there's good news. She can take the test twice with a two-minute breather in between
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attempts. Now, I'm not exaggerating when I say this is a physical fitness test that my four-year-old
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daughter could easily pass. It's like a parody of a physical fitness test. There's more to it also.
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There's also a section where the recruits have to jog 99 yards around some cones in a parking lot.
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Pretty grueling stuff. Watch this. 99-yard agility run.
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This test simulates a short-distance foot pursuit that could occur in a parking lot.
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This test requires you to make frequent changes of directions while running as fast as possible.
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You will have to step over several obstacles and clear a small obstacle while continue running.
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This test may be administered twice, if desired, with a two-minute rest period between tests.
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What? What criminals are these people catching? We better hope that the only people committing
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crimes in Nashville are 600 pounds and have no legs. But even then, they could probably roll away
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fast enough to escape. I mean, did you see how far apart the cones were? It honestly looks like they
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set up the course for a driving test, but didn't move the cones back together before the running test
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started. What you just saw there, it honestly looks like, and I'm watching this and I'm trying to
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think, what does that remind me of? It looks like an obstacle course you set up for third graders at
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recess. The kind of obstacle course that, like, if you set that up for my 10-year-olds, they'd look
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at that and say, that's too boring. I don't want to do that. Pathetic doesn't even begin to describe
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this. You have just witnessed the maximum level of difficulty that recruits will now encounter
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in police academies in Nashville. Now, as recently as 2005, things were very different.
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As WPLN in Nashville reports, applicants in 2005 had to run up and down a flight of stairs.
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They had to crawl under obstacles. They had to fire a revolver six times after they were exhausted.
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They also had to climb a six-foot wall. So, like, at least twice as tall as what they have to climb
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now. As one sergeant put it, quote, people couldn't get over the wall. So, there are people going home
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and crying. I'll never forget that. Crying and distraught over they couldn't get over the wall.
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Now, they don't have their chance. Well, there won't be any more crying with the new wall. Or
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maybe there will be. I don't know. I also thought that when I'm watching that test. Can you imagine
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the people who don't pass the current test? Because I guarantee that's still not 100%
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graduation rate. There are people who can't even do that. But there's not going to be nearly as much
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crying. I think we can be sure of that. As WPLN reports, quote, the extreme stunts that police would
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rarely encounter in real life are gone, especially the ones that often weeded people out.
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Yeah, you wouldn't want to weed people out in a physical fitness test. I mean, silly me. I thought
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that was, like, the whole point of a physical fitness test. Apparently not. These days, the
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exercises are meant to ensure everyone has a fair chance at getting into the academy. Again,
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a broken record. But that is the exact opposite of what a physical fitness test is supposed to do.
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It's not supposed to give everybody a chance. It's supposed to ensure that only the most fit
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are the ones who get through. And specifically, the outlet notes, the goal is to maximize the
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number of women and people of color who can pass the training. Now, before I go into what an absurd
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and dangerous idea this is, it's important to point out that it's not limited to Nashville,
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of course. All over the country, police departments are understaffed, and they're turning to women
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recruits and lowering their standards to fix the problem. This is something called the 30 by 30
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initiative. The objective is to increase the number of women in recruitment classes by 30 percent
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by 2030. Again, it's all completely arbitrary. But more than 200 law enforcement agencies have
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signed on to this pledge, including the U.S. Marshals Service and the New York City Police
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Department. Supposedly, according to the 30 by 30 initiative, women are better cops because they,
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quote, use less force and less excessive force, and they're named in fewer complaints and lawsuits,
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and they're perceived by communities as being more honest and compassionate.
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Apparently, perception is what's important here. You know, no word on whether these women cops are
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actually more honest or compassionate. Of course, those other two statistics are very likely to be
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true, if only because there are far fewer female police officers than there are male police officers.
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It's easy to be named in fewer lawsuits and use force less when you make up just 10 percent of the
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police department. Even if those numbers are adjusted on a per capita basis, which they don't
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appear to be, it really doesn't tell us much, other than that women police officers simply don't get
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involved as much in making arrests. You're not going to have a use of force complaint if you're
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biologically incapable of using a significant amount of force in the first place. Now, everybody knows
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that's true, obviously, even though they get extremely angry when it's pointed out. Female police
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officers, almost without exception, are much less capable of doing their jobs effectively.
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That's why they have to lower the standards. There's any number of clips I could use to
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demonstrate this point, but here are three. And in the first one, the woman police officer leaves her
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car in gear and it nearly runs her over as she barks orders at some suspects. In the second clip,
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a female police officer is overpowered one-on-one by a male suspect. And in a third clip,
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the woman police officer sits by and does nothing as a suspect charges her partner. Let's watch.
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Girl, I thought you had a partner. Get on your knees. Stay on your knees. Stay on your knees. Stay on me,
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me to get up and get on your knees. Damn, I wish you would've hit my car.
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Yeah, there's another person chasing another person. Run away to the air. There's two people there.
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She's a Brody, Peter. A Brody, Peter. Something happened. She lost the control, Brody.
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Drop the knife, miss. Casey, taser. Stop it. Stop it. You're going to get...
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Okay, so those are just three. And like I said, we could sit here for hours watching
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videos of female cops who are, you know, in water way above their heads. And you could accuse me of
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cherry picking if you want, but it really, it's just basic biology and human evolution. And by the way,
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you know, we could, we could, again, stand here for hours with videos like this. Have you ever seen
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a video of a, of a singular female cop taking down a male suspect and detaining him as he resists?
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I'm not saying it's never happened. I mean, just, it would stand to reason statistically that it has
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happened before. I've never seen that. Have you? I mean, it's, it's, it's like almost absurd that you
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can't even imagine it. You can't even imagine seeing that. It's an absurd thought because women
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are not as physically capable in general of handling requirements of police work as well
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as men can handle them. That doesn't mean that all female police officers are terrible. It doesn't mean
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every male cop is better than every female cop, but in aggregate, it means women aren't as good at the
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job because of all the physical demands that the job, the job entails. But police departments are
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having to pretend otherwise because they've demonized all the male cops. And in fact, they're
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still demonizing these cops, even after they're mostly gone. Here's how the Washington Post puts
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it, quote, amid new standards of accountability and awakened mistrust in the communities, especially
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after the reckoning that followed George Floyd's 2020 death under the knee of a Minneapolis policeman,
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there has been an exodus of seasoned police officers. In other words, all these cops aren't
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leaving because left-wing governments slashed their budgets or allowed mobs to torch their police
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stations or called them racists every day for four years. No, these cops are fleeing because
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they don't want to be held accountable, apparently. That's why recruiting numbers are down by 90% in
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some major cities. Unless that messaging changes until a major political party and all the corporate
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media stop attacking police officers, the problem will continue to get worse. I mean, even if somehow
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magically a bunch of women appear out of nowhere, eager to become cops, the problem still won't be solved.
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Sure, there won't be manpower issues anymore, but law enforcement agencies that go out of their way
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to recruit women don't tend to be terribly successful. Take the FBI, for example. They've
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had reduced physical fitness standards for women for years. A decade ago, a male special agent failed
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the fitness test by one push-up, and he sued because women applicants only have to complete half that
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number of push-ups. The result? Well, a federal appeals court upheld the lax standards for women,
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even though they make no sense whatsoever. And what's been the result, practically speaking?
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Has the FBI transformed into a highly functional law enforcement agency over the past decade? Of
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course not. They send SWAT teams after protesters at abortion clinics and elderly Trump supporters who
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write mean things on the internet. Remember the elderly man in Utah who threatened Joe Biden on
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Facebook? This is the guy the FBI could have arrested at the supermarket, but instead they shot him in
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front of his home at the crack of dawn. The head of the field office that handled that arrest is a
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woman specializing in counterterrorism. And she has all sorts of news articles written about what a
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path-breaking success story she is. The fact that her office deliberately chose to provoke and gun down
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an elderly man is beside the point. She's a woman. Now, the point of this is not to demonize women,
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of course. The point is that it's always been a bad idea to deliberately and artificially feminize
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any institution. With policing, it's particularly suicidal. If anything, a sane society would be
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having a conversation about how to decrease the number of women cops, which is to say we'd be having
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a conversation about how to get more physically fit men involved in policing. We wouldn't be lowering
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standards and then throwing women into dangerous situations they're not prepared for.
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as noted in the Daily Wire report, that's not what he was saying at all. Let's watch.
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that comes across the line, and you're not going to be able to sell those cars.
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If I get elected. Now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole.
00:23:51.440
That's going to be the least of it. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country. That'll be the
00:23:55.200
least of it. But they're not going to sell those cars. They're building massive factories. A friend
00:23:59.760
of mine, all he does is build car manufacturing plants. He's the biggest in the world.
00:24:04.960
Okay. So a bloodbath for the car manufacturing industry, as is clear in the context, there's
00:24:11.820
no way to misconstrue it, honestly. And in that context, it makes a lot more sense.
00:24:18.180
Needless to say, this was not a comment that was innocently misconstrued or misunderstood.
00:24:25.300
This was a deliberate propaganda campaign by the corporate press, obviously. And it shows,
00:24:30.260
again, the nature of fake news. This is a perfect example of how fake news works.
00:24:34.460
They're not lying about what he said, specifically in that he did make the bloodbath comment.
00:24:42.480
So when they put that in quotes, like he did say that. And it's also true to say that he,
00:24:50.000
President Trump predicted a bloodbath if he's not reelected. That's true. That alone is true.
00:24:59.300
Um, but obviously when you frame it that way and you have that statement alone without the context,
00:25:07.500
then it leads people to, uh, completely false conclusions, false conclusions that you are
00:25:13.020
intentionally directing them towards. And that's what they do. That's how fake news works.
00:25:17.300
Um, so when you hear fake news, you kind of think, okay, well, they're just inventing things.
00:25:23.540
You know, a quote that he never even said. Now they do, they do that also, you know, quite frequently,
00:25:29.780
but generally, especially if they have anonymous source, anonymous sources claim,
00:25:34.200
President Trump said this and that, but most of the time, if they put it in quotes, he did say,
00:25:39.080
um, but they're isolating it. They're ripping it from its context and they are heavily implying
00:25:47.180
that, uh, it, that something sinister was said. And really just by reporting on it in the first place,
00:25:55.520
that alone makes it seem sinister because in reality, there's the comment isn't even newsworthy.
00:26:04.520
There's nothing newsworthy about the fact that he said that what he, what he's saying is that the
00:26:08.980
economy will be in worse shape if he's not elected, which like that's what every, now in this case,
00:26:16.320
it happens to be true, but that's what every single presidential candidate in the history of the
00:26:22.520
country has said, but they, uh, this is the game and it's kind of mind boggling in a certain way
00:26:28.880
that the media is doing this again. You know, if you're trying to create sympathy for Donald Trump,
00:26:35.560
if you're trying to move people to his side, I don't know. I don't know what you'd be doing
00:26:38.960
differently. This is exactly what you would do. And the media is still operating in this, uh,
00:26:45.540
fantasy land. They're operating in this bubble where it's like, they believe they have a monopoly
00:26:52.440
over the narrative, but they don't anymore because things like Twitter exist. You know, there's, there's,
00:26:59.940
there's, there's, they, they, they cannot, uh, monopolize the conversation the way that they used
00:27:04.540
to. So now, you know, they used to be able to get a false narrative going and it would, it would, uh,
00:27:10.860
kind of cycle around for a while before the truth gets out. But now they start with the false narrative
00:27:16.060
and immediately the truth is also being spread. And so they're, they're competing with that.
00:27:23.160
And, um, they're quite easily exposed as the propagandists they are, but that of course hasn't
00:27:29.140
stopped them. All right. Speaking of, uh, policing in Tennessee, here's something on the good news side
00:27:33.780
of things. A piece of legislation will soon undo police reform, quote unquote, that was passed in
00:27:39.260
certain cities in the state, namely, uh, Memphis. Here's the report from WPLN. Legislation designed to
00:27:45.320
undo police traffic stop reform in Memphis is heading to Governor Bill Lee's desk. Specifically,
00:27:49.400
the bill prevents local governments from adopting any policy that prohibits or limits law enforcement
00:27:54.340
from carrying out their duties. Memphis city council voted for the ordinance unanimously in
00:27:58.620
response to police fatally beating Tyree Nichols at a traffic stop last year. It included outlawing
00:28:04.060
so-called pretextual traffic stops for minor infractions like a broken taillight. Nichols' parents,
00:28:10.000
Rodney and Rovon Wells spoke with the house and state sponsors, both Republicans, but couldn't find a
00:28:15.920
compromise. Rovon believes it's wrong for the state to reverse something so strongly supported
00:28:20.440
by Memphians. Um, well, it's like, well, we had people work very hard to pass that ordinance just
00:28:27.060
because you don't agree with the ordinance doesn't mean that you just come to Nashville and you put a
00:28:31.300
bill together and say, oh, we're going to overturn what you did. That's not how you handle business
00:28:35.260
as far as I'm concerned. Well, that is how you handle business actually. And this is a good piece of
00:28:41.140
legislation. Uh, anytime you're reversing police reform, it's a good thing. Now it's not to say
00:28:47.460
that police reform as a concept definitionally is bad. There are aspects of policing in its current
00:28:53.600
form that should be reformed. We just talked about one. How about a police reform where we're raising
00:28:58.400
the physical standards once again, that would be a reform. It would be a good, a good thing to do.
00:29:02.780
Um, but that's never what reform means these days. Reform these days always means
00:29:09.820
de-form. Police reform is police de-form. So in practice, police reform should always be resisted
00:29:17.440
or reversed where, where it's already happened. And especially in this case, there was, there was
00:29:22.080
never any need for any change to any law after the Tyree Nichols incident. He was brutally assaulted,
00:29:31.020
you know, and beaten by these thug cops. What they did was already illegal. They were already breaking
00:29:37.780
the law. They were already arrested and charged as they should be. So what do you need? What,
00:29:44.260
what does the law accomplish? They were already breaking 10 different laws and, and were charged
00:29:50.960
for it. You don't need new laws to cover the stuff that's already covered by the old laws.
00:29:57.260
Now, if, if, if there was a law that somehow explicitly permitted cops to beat people to death
00:30:03.760
for no reason, then yeah, that's a law, um, that should be changed. But the law doesn't allow that.
00:30:11.240
It doesn't now. It didn't back then. There's, there's no reason for the reform, um, obviously,
00:30:16.640
which means that the reform must be doing something other than what they claim it's doing.
00:30:22.720
Uh, now that hasn't stopped Democrats in the state from panicking over this change,
00:30:26.840
as you would expect. I'm going to play two clips for you here to give you a taste of how
00:30:30.420
our Democrat representatives in the state of Tennessee are responding to this development.
00:30:34.640
Uh, the first is from state Senator London Lamar. And here's what she has to say.
00:30:41.020
What we see here is drunk on power. I don't like that you take this position on this bill. So I'm
00:30:47.100
going to silence you. That's a form of slavery. I feel like a slave sometime in this building.
00:30:52.760
I'm over it. And all the members standing here are over it. At what point are we going to truly be a
00:31:01.480
Democratic body? Respect the fact that every single one of us are represented by the same amount of
00:31:08.200
people in their districts. And we all deserve the same voice and the same level of respect,
00:31:14.980
regardless if we agree or not. I am tired of Republican Party expecting us as minorities
00:31:20.680
to, to, to, to, to, to do what they want to do, but treat us disrespectfully. No, we're not doing
00:31:27.500
that no more. It's what part we at this time of session were gloves off. And I support any of my
00:31:33.560
members have the right to defend themselves, to not accept disrespect. And we shouldn't respect,
00:31:38.380
expect disrespect from the other side of the aisle. I just wanted to get it off my chest.
00:31:44.580
Y'all heard it. You can repeat it, but it has to be said. Senator Oliver.
00:31:49.420
Okay. A form of slavery. She feels like a slave sometimes in that building. So I guess what you're
00:31:55.960
saying then is that slavery wasn't that bad. Is that, is that what you're trying to say? I mean,
00:32:01.480
if feeling like a slave means simply not getting your way about something, then what you are saying,
00:32:06.760
what you are claiming is that slavery wasn't a big deal. It wasn't too bad. That's the claim
00:32:10.840
you're making. You're saying it was a minor inconvenience because that's what you suffered.
00:32:14.680
You suffered a minor inconvenience and you're saying that that was like slavery.
00:32:18.160
That's the consequence of comparing everything to slavery all the time. It's the, it's, it's,
00:32:22.180
it's the consequence of living in a country run by not just grifters and propagandists, but
00:32:26.760
incredibly stupid ones. People who, honest to God, could not even provide you a list
00:32:32.700
of like five historical events. And I mean that sincerely. If you, if you were to take London
00:32:38.760
Lamar, the one we just saw, and you were to ask her to just write a list of five historical events
00:32:47.000
that occurred more than 30 years ago, you don't have to say anything about them. Just, just list
00:32:51.800
them. She wouldn't be able to do it. Like you and I both know she would not be able to do it. She
00:32:56.200
would, she wouldn't be able to, she could give you slavery and probably the Holocaust. And those,
00:33:02.900
those are the two things. That's pretty much it. That's a lot of people in this country,
00:33:07.400
including a lot of people running this country, which is why every bad thing, everything we don't
00:33:11.780
like is immediately compared to one of those two things, slavery or the Holocaust, because those
00:33:16.700
are the only two things that people know happened in the world. And there's more where that came from.
00:33:21.880
Here's Democrat Senator, state Senator Charlene Oliver, I think is her name. And she had a very
00:33:27.360
similar response. Let's listen. It is a slap in the face and you might as well stomp on the grave of
00:33:35.260
Tyree Nichols for bringing this bill. Yes, we are emotionally charged. Why? Because it's personal for us.
00:33:45.260
Taylor made this personal the minute he introduced this legislation to target one family and one life.
00:33:51.880
That was lost. So yeah, we don't fight. Dr. King said the, the riots are the language of the unheard.
00:34:02.900
You ain't seen nothing yet. If you keep silencing, silencing us like this, what do you think our
00:34:08.180
district is going to do? We have had it up here gloves off. Like we're going to fight like hell. You
00:34:16.100
don't, you don't expect us to respond when you gaslight us every single day with these bills.
00:34:22.240
There's a bill to get rid of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission that they're going to bring to
00:34:27.080
abolish it. Root it in the Civil Rights Act to make sure that we have protections for folks
00:34:33.820
that look like Tyree Nichols. Don't tell me this stuff ain't racist. Don't tell me it's not. It is
00:34:41.200
rooted in racism. This was a Jim Crow bill that Taylor brought and all his Confederates voted for
00:34:47.880
it today. Oh, we got to throw that in. Okay. So we get, uh, we get, we get Jim Crow and, uh, the
00:34:54.380
Confederacy. So they, they might make it to five. Slavery, Jim Crow, the Confederacy, Civil War. That's
00:35:02.580
kind of like the same thing. So I don't think you can count that as two different things.
00:35:05.040
So they give you a slavery, Jim Crow. And I'm assuming they know about the Holocaust. So that,
00:35:10.200
so those three things is all they can do. And so, which is why every, everything in history is
00:35:16.440
compared, everything that happens right now is compared to one of those three things. Uh, now,
00:35:21.080
if I were to ask, who's that Charlene, uh, Oliver, if I were to ask her about Jim Crow, like, what was
00:35:27.080
that? When did that happen? Can you tell me a little bit about it? She wouldn't be able to not,
00:35:31.920
not, not even, not even close. Um, and, uh, but this is, it's just like a Jim Crow. It's like
00:35:38.560
slavery. And as a bonus, she explicitly threatens violence. She threatens riots explicitly. This is a
00:35:46.360
state Senator elected representative explicitly threatening riots because she didn't get what
00:35:52.260
she wants. So Trump was accused of threatening a bloodbath, a physical bloodbath, even though he
00:35:58.980
obviously didn't. Um, this woman actually did. I mean, can you imagine if Trump had said exactly
00:36:07.440
that? What, what she just said? What if Trump had said, uh, uh, you know, if I'm not elected,
00:36:15.420
you know, they say it's, it's, they say riots are the language of the unheard. What do you expect us
00:36:21.720
to do? It would be, they would, they would arrest him again. They would arrest him for the 10th time
00:36:27.760
and charge him with another crime. If he said that. And, but for this woman, it's perfectly okay.
00:36:32.720
Uh, which of course is the double standard we're used to. Here's a story out of Massachusetts. Um,
00:36:39.320
eighth graders facing criminal charges for bullying on social media. Let's, let's watch the report.
00:36:48.740
This is a universal issue that we must face as one unified community. Developing news now from
00:36:57.480
Western mass, a group of eighth graders facing criminal charges for allegedly setting up a mock
00:37:02.400
slave auction on Snapchat, Boston 25 news reporter, John Monahan live, not far from the school. And John,
00:37:08.540
the DA calls this behavior vile. That's right. He did Vanessa. And he also says the fact this
00:37:14.920
happened in a middle school is very unsettling. We also spoke to the mother of one of the victims
00:37:20.520
here. And she, she tells us this alleged incident of a mock slave auction is not the only time her
00:37:26.420
daughter has faced an incident of racial bullying. Six classmates, eighth graders in Southwick
00:37:32.860
will face criminal charges for their alleged role in a mock slave auction, according to the Hampton
00:37:38.640
County DA. Several students uttered hateful and racist comments, including notions of violence
00:37:45.180
toward people of color, racial slurs, derogatory pictures and videos, and a mock slave auction directed
00:37:52.920
at two juveniles. The mother of one of the students targeted who spoke out when allegations first came
00:37:58.580
to light, applauded the DA for filing charges. In a statement, she says in part, your dedication to
00:38:05.020
upholding justice in our community is commendable and provides a glimmer of hope amidst the darkness of
00:38:10.800
this traumatic incident. The incident took place on Snapchat among several eighth grade students on
00:38:16.460
February 8th and 9th. It was reported to school officials on February 9th and an investigation began.
00:38:23.440
Which aims to hold accountable those who committed provable criminal acts.
00:38:31.740
So criminal charges for eighth graders, we're talking about 13 year old kids here.
00:38:36.080
And that's just pure madness, pure madness. Criminal charges for edgy Snapchat posts by eighth graders
00:38:43.140
is, now were the posts offensive? I haven't seen them. As far as I know, they haven't been made
00:38:51.720
public, maybe they have been. I haven't seen them. I don't need to see them. Were they offensive?
00:38:56.200
Sure. Of course, of course, very offensive. A mock slave auction, that's very offensive.
00:39:05.220
Targeting, you know, individual people, even more offensive and wrong.
00:39:13.640
Does that mean that it rises to the level of the district attorney getting involved?
00:39:17.720
and filing criminal charges against 13-year-old kids? Kids in middle school?
00:39:28.940
No, of course not. Like, we should have ways of handling
00:39:33.020
very bad behavior from kids that doesn't involve getting the district attorney, you know, on the case.
00:39:42.960
And this is how it goes now, right? We criminalize adolescent mischief while at the same time taking
00:39:51.840
actual crimes, actual violent crimes by adults and treating it like it's adolescent mischief.
00:39:59.640
So we go easy on criminals, actual criminals, violent people who are, you know, direct threats to their
00:40:05.460
communities while turning kids who are not criminals into criminals.
00:40:08.720
It's all completely backwards. It's all, it's upside down, insane.
00:40:14.320
You know, like I often say with these sorts of cases, I would find it, now, I'm against
00:40:20.360
criminalizing offensive comments and jokes made by kids under any circumstance, and we all should be.
00:40:28.480
Doesn't mean I'm against punishing kids who engage in this kind of, of course, they should be punished.
00:40:33.100
But criminalizing it, making it a criminal matter, I'm against that.
00:40:38.380
However, it would be somewhat less outrageous to me if we lived in a society where law and order
00:40:48.680
was emphasized, like, to the nth degree. You know, if we lived in the kind of society where there was
00:40:54.400
just no tolerance for illegal behavior, where if you're an actual criminal, we're going to throw the
00:41:00.760
book at you, and there's not going to be any mercy, and if you're a violent criminal, you're going
00:41:06.140
away probably forever, if not worse than that, depending on what your penalty, what your infraction
00:41:11.360
was. If we lived in that kind of society, and then some of that was kind of bleeding down, even to
00:41:17.760
kids who are posting offensive things on social media, again, it would still be wrong, I'd be against
00:41:21.880
it, but it would be slightly less outrageous. The problem is that this is happening in the context
00:41:28.700
of a society where there's no law and order, you know, where there's, where there's almost no
00:41:34.500
emphasis on justice, where there's almost no, especially punitive justice, almost no, not just
00:41:42.700
a no emphasis, but a, but a deliberate de-emphasis on those kinds of things. We happen to live in a
00:41:48.000
society where you can commit actual violent crimes against your fellow human beings and be out on the
00:41:56.580
street that same day, and in that context is where we are putting, passing down criminal charges on
00:42:05.020
13-year-old kids for Snapchat posts. That's what makes it all the more outrageous, and by the way,
00:42:13.740
again, without having seen these posts, anyone who is really shocked that 13-year-old boys were joking
00:42:21.140
about slavery or whatever they were doing, anyone truly shocked by that is, is sheltered in the
00:42:26.020
extreme. This is the kind of thing that 13-year-old boys, like, it's, it's, it's not okay. Again, we
00:42:32.240
should, you should correct the behavior. 13, 14-year-old boys, you know, can tend to do a lot of things
00:42:38.340
that are not okay. They need to have their behavior corrected. It's not really shocking, though.
00:42:43.280
And the reason is that for 13-year-old boys, things are funny if they're extremely offensive.
00:42:54.540
So in the mind of many 13-year-old boys, many eighth grade boys, what their thing is like,
00:42:59.800
whatever is the, whatever is the most offensive thing I can do or say is automatically funny.
00:43:04.500
In the adolescent male mind, that's the way it works. Now, as you get a little bit older,
00:43:13.620
you know, there are many contexts where something that is deemed offensive by society can still be
00:43:16.880
funny, but then you, you, as you get older, you mature, hopefully you have moral standards and,
00:43:22.140
and also you need there to be things like punch lines and that sort of, in order, in order for there
00:43:26.580
to be a joke, right? Just simply saying something offensive just for the sake of it isn't,
00:43:31.700
it isn't necessarily funny, but in the mind of a, of a adolescent kid, that's often the way that it
00:43:37.960
works. Which also means, by the way, the point there, well, there's two points. Number one,
00:43:44.500
all the more reason why you don't criminalize this stuff. You're dealing with kids whose minds are
00:43:49.500
not, their brains are not even close to fully developed. And they're not thinking through the
00:43:54.700
consequences of their actions, not thinking through the consequences, to them, it's like, oh,
00:43:57.500
it's funny, so I should do it. They're not thinking through all the consequences of it.
00:44:01.140
But also, the more we try to prohibit sort of wrong think, the more we live in this woke leftist
00:44:09.420
dystopia, the more you're going to have 13 and 14 year old boys making outrageously offensive jokes
00:44:16.780
because they're looking at society and they're looking at, okay, well, like, what are the things
00:44:20.960
that are totally off limits for me? Well, that's, what's funny.
00:44:26.200
So, in other words, the more you react this way to this kind of thing, the more of it you're going
00:44:33.400
to get. Which maybe is not a bug, but a feature for these tyrants, you know, because then it gives
00:44:41.700
them the pretext to, like, try to put more 13 year old white kids in jail, which is what they want to
00:44:47.100
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00:46:31.960
So last week while I was out, I missed what may well prove to be the most cancel-worthy event of
00:46:37.080
the year. I have no choice but to circle back around to it. As much as you might prefer that we
00:46:40.900
leave it in the past and pretend it never happened. I'm referring, of course, to the new single from our
00:46:45.880
old friend Dylan Mulvaney. And as you may or may not have heard, the trans-identified influencer has
00:46:51.160
now turned his Days of Girlhood routine into a pop song. Mulvaney has made a mockery of women on every
00:46:57.640
platform and through every medium available to him, but he hasn't yet, until this past week, done it
00:47:02.220
through a pop song. And now he's finally corrected that oversight. The song, also called Days of
00:47:07.060
Girlhood, was released along with the music video late last week. The video has exactly the sort of
00:47:11.800
grotesque, weirdly dystopian aesthetic that you have come to expect. But in terms of sheer awfulness,
00:47:18.320
nothing can match the lyrics, which are downright abysmal on about five different levels, except
00:47:23.340
maybe the performance, which is weapons-grade cringe. All in all, there's a lot for Dylan to be
00:47:28.080
embarrassed about, if only he was capable of such a self-aware emotion, which he isn't. With all that said,
00:47:34.240
We're doing hot girl s***. Get in. Monday, can't get out of bed. Tuesday,
00:48:04.120
morning, pick up meds. Wednesday, retail therapy. Cash or...
00:48:07.720
All right, let's cut it there. I was going to do a minute. It was going to be one minute,
00:48:13.140
but it already felt like several thousand years. So I just can't, I can't continue.
00:48:19.280
And it's pure suffering watching that. And we suffer as we watch it because, first of all,
00:48:24.440
on a musical level, it is a very bad song. I mean, putting aside all the other issues that
00:48:28.740
we'll discuss in a moment, the song itself is horrifically, almost sickeningly bad.
00:48:32.520
Basically, the musical equivalent of leprosy. But at the same time, while being aggressively
00:48:37.140
obnoxious, it also manages to be bland and dull and boring, and of course, totally derivative.
00:48:42.880
It's the worst of all worlds. It's both loud and lifeless. Even as it stands out for being so
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dreadfully awful, it still feels like you've heard it a million times. So you get the same feeling of
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deja vu that you get from a recurring nightmare. Not my favorite song, in other words.
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As to the content, we notice a few things. First of all, once again, we should note the term
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girlhood here, as opposed to womanhood. It's bad enough that a man tries to become a woman.
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Mulvaney, on the other hand, is trying to be a teenage girl. He's 27 years old,
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yet his whole persona tries to capture some kind of bizarre, deluded, funhouse mirror impression of a
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16-year-old girl. It's always creepy when a man tries to wear the skin of a woman like Leatherface,
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but Mulvaney goes from creepy to full-on horror show as he tries desperately to imitate a kid
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in grade school. So if we're going with movie analogies here, it might be more accurate to say
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that Dylan Mulvaney is Buffalo Bill meets Billy Madison. And second, as always, we see that
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trans-identified males reduce women to cartoonish, degrading stereotypes. Consider the lyrics.
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We cut it off so you didn't hear all of them, but Monday can't get out of bed, Tuesday morning
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pickup meds, Wednesday retail therapy, cash or credit, I say yes. Thursday had a walk of shame,
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didn't even know his name. Weekends are for kissing friends. Friday night all overspends.
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Saturday we flirt for drinks, playing wingman to our twinks. Sunday, the Twilight soundtrack
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cues my breakdown in the bath. That is Mulvaney's idea of womanhood, or girlhood in this case,
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summarized. It's his answer to the what is a woman question. What is a woman? Well, she's someone
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who lays around in bed all day, takes copious amounts of prescription drugs, is materialistic,
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sleeps around with men whose names she doesn't know, spends more than she can afford, throws
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herself at men for the sake of getting free drinks, and then sobs uncontrollably in the bathtub while
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listening to the Twilight soundtrack. This is what Dylan Mulvaney thinks of women. And it's far more
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cynical, demeaning, and insulting than anything you'll ever hear from like a red pill guy. It's also
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totally divorced from reality. My wife is an actual woman, and not one line from that song describes
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her. It doesn't describe any self-respecting adult woman, although it may bear some resemblance to the
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ones who aren't self-respecting. That's because Dylan Mulvaney wrote the song based on his own
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experiences, not the experiences of a woman. He hasn't had the experiences of a woman because he's not a
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woman. No, Mulvaney is a gay man. And that's what the song is really about. These are the days of being a
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psychologically stunted and pathologically immature gay man. That's Mulvaney's actual experience, which he
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rips out of its proper context and tries to paste onto what he describes as girlhood. So if what he is
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describing is anything, it's not girlhood, it's gayhood. That is what Mulvaney is describing. Finally, if you can
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get past the sheer horror of the visuals in the music video, they do prove to be instructive, just not in the
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way that Mulvaney intends. Mulvaney does not look anything like a woman in any context, no matter how
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much makeup and airbrushing he does, no matter how creative he is with the camera angles. But this fact
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becomes even more strikingly obvious when you see the immediate contrast between him and actual women.
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In the music video, we see him dancing alongside actual women, and we'll pull up one random freeze
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frame here. And now imagine that someone was living alone in a cave for the past 30 years. Imagine that
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we pulled him out of the cave, which would be a very cruel thing to do, considering that he's probably
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a lot happier down there than he'll be out here. But let's say we pulled him out and we show him
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this screenshot. We give him no context. We don't tell him anything about trans or anything else.
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We just show him the screenshot, and we ask him if he notices anything unusual.
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Well, we all know that it would take the caveman less than half a second to point to Dylan Mulvaney
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and say, okay, that's a dude, right? Like, one of these things is not like the other. And we all know
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who the black sheep is in this group. Because those other women look like women. They are women.
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Their womanhood is immediately obvious. Dylan Mulvaney, on the other hand, looks like a man in
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a wig with an eating disorder, because that's what he is. He can take a lot of prescription drugs. He
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can go shopping. He can spend too much money. He can sleep with random men who are all gay men,
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by the way, that he's sleeping with. And he can even cry in the bathtub while listening to the Twilight
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soundtrack. But he'll never be a woman. He will never even have the physical shape of a woman.
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He can't fill the outline, much less can he inhabit womanhood at its deeper levels.
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That's the reality he can never escape, because none of us can escape reality.
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It is what it is, no matter how we feel about it. And that is why Dylan Mulvaney is today,
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I'm assuming not for the first time, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for
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watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.