Ep. 1343 - Another Outrageous Assault On The Right To Self-Defense
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The right to self-defense has been under attack for a long time in this country. One ongoing case in Wisconsin shows just how far the powers that be will go to punish you for defending yourself. Also, Donald Trump ignites controversy on the right with his new statement on abortion rights, and one of the harpies on The View says that the eclipse happened because of climate change. Plus, a feminist writer for Salon knows who is to blame for the random assaults on women in New York.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the right to self-defense has been under attack for a long time in this country.
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One ongoing case in Wisconsin shows just how far the powers that be will go to punish you for defending yourself.
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Also, Donald Trump ignites controversy on the right with his new statement on quote-unquote abortion rights.
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And one of the harpies on The View says that the eclipse happened because of climate change.
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Plus, a feminist writer for Salon knows who is to blame for the random assaults on women in New York.
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Obviously, it's Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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So there aren't a lot of guarantees in the criminal justice system, but for a long time now, there's been at least one thing you could be pretty sure of,
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which is that if you kill somebody in self-defense, there's a very good chance in this country you're going to be charged with murder.
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Trayvon Martin called George Zimmerman a cracker right before pounding his head into the pavement.
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And famously, the entire country, including the President of the United States at the time, determined immediately that George Zimmerman was the bad guy.
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And of course, Kyle Rittenhouse very nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison for the crime of defending himself against several people who were clearly trying to kill him,
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including a pedophile who just got out of a mental hospital and an Antifa foot soldier who drew a handgun on him.
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Now, everyone's heard of these cases because in both instances, there was a very clear racial angle to push.
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Even though he didn't kill any black people, the Kyle Rittenhouse incident happened, of course, in the context of BLM mobs torching cities.
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So they had that angle, and that's why he became an instant target.
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George Zimmerman, for his part, gave Barack Obama a chance to talk about how systemically racist America is.
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But there are many self-defense cases that don't make the mainstream news, at least not nearly to the same extent.
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And all of them, to one degree or another, contradict the prevailing media narrative.
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But they're important to talk about, in part because they show how prosecutors and witnesses are willing to lie to imprison people who exercise one of the most fundamental rights.
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You might say the most fundamental, which is the right of self-defense.
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How casually they will destroy people's lives for the crime of trying to preserve their own lives.
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So I'm going to go in-depth into one of these cases, which is still ongoing, hasn't gotten nearly as much attention as it deserves.
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And plus, it's the premiere day for judge, so I figure a deep dive on a court case seems sort of fitting.
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In the summer of 2022, a man in his early 50s named Nikolai Mu was out tubing with a group of people, including his wife.
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Now, apparently, a member of his party dropped their phones somewhere in the river, and Nikolai Mu left his group and went looking for the phone.
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And that's when, around 3.40 p.m., Mu encountered a couple of additional tubing groups, one consisting of a bunch of teenagers and the other, including some adults.
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And most of the involved parties are very clearly under the influence of alcohol and perhaps other drugs to varying degrees.
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Now, it's clear from this footage that throughout the entire incident, right up until their friend got stabbed,
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the crowd of teenagers doesn't seem to be afraid of anything or feel fearful for their lives in any way,
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And, you know, that makes sense because Mu is much older than they are,
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and though they wouldn't have known this, he just had quadruple bypass surgery,
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so he wasn't out looking for, you know, a fight with a bunch of teenagers.
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Meanwhile, these teenagers are mostly football players in prime physical conditions,
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so they appear to be very much the aggressors as they jeer and taunt the older man
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and accuse him of, quote, looking for a little girl.
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An adult woman, who came over from another tubing group, gets in the man's face.
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He apparently makes some kind of contact with her, and the mob pounces.
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They push the man and begin hitting him repeatedly after he goes down in the water.
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Only after the man fatally stabs one of his attackers, a teenager named Isaac Schumann,
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And the man also stabbed several others who were attacking him.
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And you can tell from watching the video that he was not chasing them down and slicing away,
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that they were coming at him, attacking him, and that's when he used the knife.
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Now, based on these facts, within 48 hours, the DA charged Nikolai Mu with first-degree murder.
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And what's followed nearly two years later is, for the prosecutors anyway, nothing short of a train wreck.
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You know, there are airtight cases, and there are close cases, and then there's this.
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Pretty much every prosecution witness has demonstrated very clearly that they're either lying or they're completely unsure of what happened two years ago.
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And this is such a debacle that very real questions need to be asked about why this case was brought and why these prosecutors still have jobs.
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So I'll start with the incredible testimony of a witness named Larion Davis, who recorded some of the footage of the incident.
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Under cross-examination from one of the, actually one of Kyle Rittenhouse's old lawyers, incidentally,
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Davis admits that he lied to the police about why the group was upset with Nikolai Mu.
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You also said to the police, he came out of the bushes, and he was taking pictures of the girls.
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So you saw Mr. Mu with his camera that afternoon taking pictures of little girls.
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No, like I said, I understand you said it. Is it true?
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Why would you say it if you don't know if it's true?
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Now, it's hard to believe that this is a real interaction between two humans in a courtroom.
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So the lawyer says, you said you saw him taking pictures of little girls.
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Now, to be clear, we're talking about falsely accusing a man of pedophilia two years after the fact.
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And then, and the only excuse he can come up with for lying is there was a lot going on.
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So I just accused someone of being a pedophile.
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So this should be the end of the case right there.
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I mean, this is, this is the, the clearest possible evidence that the people Mu confronted decided long after the fact to come up with a story to justify their aggression towards him.
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You'll remember in the video, somebody shouted that Mu was looking for a girl.
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But on cross-examination, another witness, Jawan Cockfield, admitted that the claim was not based on any evidence whatsoever.
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You tell the police that he told you he's looking for a circle.
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And you then say, grown man can't have sex with little girls.
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You have no information as to what this older man is doing, do you?
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What about a raper and saying he can't have sex with little girls?
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You're doing that to humiliate him, aren't you?
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Well, what other reason would you be calling him names when you don't know anything about what's happening?
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So the way that you're trying to figure out what's happening is by calling a grown man names, yes?
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I mean, part of the problem here for the prosecution is you have witnesses whose IQs are not much higher than, like, the chairs they're sitting on.
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So, you know, they just called this man a raper who's interested in little girls as a way of scoping out the situation.
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That was their way of gathering intel, apparently.
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So, you know, when you're trying to figure out what's going on, the best way to do that is just to accuse everyone of being rapists.
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That's, you know, you start with that and then you kind of whittle things down from there.
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And then elsewhere in the testimony, Cockfield claims to be shocked that the man in response turned around and became upset.
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And as the trial went on, it continued to make no sense.
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For example, on cross-examination, it was revealed that the dead teenager's best friend, Owen Pelequin, told police on the day of the incident that Moo was looking for a lost phone, not underage girls.
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Listen to the defense attorney read Owen's prior statement and then watch as Owen tries to weasel out of this admission.
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We were floating and then we look at him and he was just standing completely by himself with some goggles on.
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Do you remember providing that answer to that question?
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You don't remember what happened that day in the river?
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So did he or did he not tell you that he was looking for a phone?
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Is your memory better today or is it better on the day of the incident?
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Well, in between the time of the incident and today, do you ever reach back out to law enforcement to make any corrections that you might have had?
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I mean, you know, if there wasn't a dead person here and someone else's life hanging in the balance, you'd almost have to laugh at some of this.
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It seems almost like a courtroom, like a very dark courtroom comedy.
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He remembers more about what happened two years later than he did when it actually happened.
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And by that, he means his memory is worse because he can't, he can't, he doesn't remember if his memory is good or not.
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And now he doesn't recall the guy ever saying anything about missing a phone.
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And he had no way of figuring out how to tell the police any of this because he's just 19 years old.
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And 19 year olds are apparently completely unable to use Google or cell phones or dial 911 or communicate basic ideas at all, evidently.
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These are strange lapses in the prosecution's case, to say the least.
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Owen also testifies that he simply can't remember the fact that one of his friends was shouting for the culture to egg on a fight.
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I wouldn't say we ever did it just for like a camera, like a video.
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Well, do you remember him yelling for the culture?
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Do you remember somebody in your group yelling or saying to somebody, you got 10 seconds.
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You agree there's a path to go through, but you want to see this through, right?
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I had to look this one up because, you know, I don't know.
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So, I went to Urban Dictionary, and you'll find that for the culture is, quote,
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when you do something you know you usually wouldn't have done and are doing it purely
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for the hype factor of going against your usual judgment to instead try something new
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This is what one of the witnesses was shouting, and we heard that in the video.
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They were shouting as the mob descended on this 52-year-old man.
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Now, this is the kind of fact that if you're trying to make Nikolai Mew out to be the aggressor,
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if you're trying to make him out to be this dangerous man that these poor teenagers
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were so frightened by him, well, this kind of fact is pretty inconvenient.
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The fact that they're all laughing and having a great time and shouting for the culture,
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not exactly what you would expect if they were terrified for their very lives.
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So, Owen just pretends that he doesn't remember it happening.
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These kinds of inconsistencies are continuing to pile up as the trial goes along,
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but a few facts were definitively established, and one is that,
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Mew never knocked a woman down at any point during his altercation.
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She was captured on the recording, standing upright, holding her phone.
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Additionally, Mew never stabbed anyone until he was in the water,
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surrounded by a mob that was punching him in the face.
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So, Mew waited until his life was in danger before he used deadly force.
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And once he began stabbing people, he didn't indiscriminately start swinging.
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Instead, he only targeted the people who were targeting him,
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including Isaac Schumann, who put his hands on Mew's neck.
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So now you're aware that Isaac has his hands around Mr. Mew's throat?
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I didn't know that he had his hands around his throat, no.
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That was, I think Isaac was the last one stabbed on video.
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And so by that time, I was focused on the guy next to me who was,
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But I guess my point is, initially you say you didn't see Isaac make contact with him.
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You see on that video somebody with their hands around Mr. Mew's throat, right?
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On that video, nobody is stabbed until Mr. Mew is punched in the face and knocked in the water, right?
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And so you would agree that the people that are injured with the knife,
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that all happens after Mr. Mew has been knocked in the water, punched, slapped, pushed, right?
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And you don't, um, you don't attack Mr. Mew, do you?
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Now, it's not an exaggeration to say that the prosecution has not presented a single witness
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to bolster its claim that this was first degree murder.
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Instead, every single witness rebutted their argument.
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But here, for example, is another witness, A.J. Martin,
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who concedes that ganging up on a man in his 50s and beating him may, in fact,
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not exactly de-escalate an already tense situation much.
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Yeah, that's where I had said that I thought I'd push him in the front left shoulder to keep him down.
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But I was there too late, so I didn't get that shoulder.
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You could understand how somebody who'd been down in the water and hit two times,
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getting pushed from behind, may not understand that you're trying to mediate.
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As somebody who likes to mediate and was attempting to mediate,
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you can understand how a person in Mr. Mew's position who'd been hit twice in the water
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might not understand or appreciate your intent to try to de-escalate by pushing him in the behind.
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Okay, so, so far, thanks to the prosecution witnesses, we have established the following facts.
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It was completely reasonable for this 50-year-old man to fear for his life.
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One of the teenagers had his hand on this man's throat while the others were pummeling him,
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and that they all lied about him being a pedophile two years after the fact.
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And this is not exactly the kind of case that it takes Perry Mason to win,
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but somehow, once again, things got worse for the prosecution.
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Yet another witness claimed that the group was afraid of Nikolai Mew,
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but began to feel a little more secure as other adults began surrounding him as well.
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So he's presenting this image of a deranged 50-year-old man who's freaking them out.
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And then the defense attorney shows a photo of the witnesses looking extremely enthusiastic
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You see Mr. Mew walking away from your group, moving over toward the blonde person, the woman, right?
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When more people, adults, start to come, I felt a little bit more secure.
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And this is, if you remember, seconds before, moments before Madison Cohen, you say, you see her punched, right?
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I mean, again, if not for the context, you have to laugh at some of that.
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He's claiming that he was fearful for his life, and then you cut to a photo of him looking the happiest he's probably ever been in his life.
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I mean, that's the face of a man caught on one of those cameras at a Six Flags roller coaster or something.
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That's not the face of someone who's fearing for their very lives.
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That is certainly not someone who's, you know, grateful and relieved that other adults have appeared to deal with the threat.
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And everyone looking at the footage knows that.
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So this has got another prosecution witness who is lying overtly on the stand.
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And I could go on for another hour dissecting every other aspect of this case and how totally disastrous it's been for the prosecution.
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In no sane country is this a first-degree murder case.
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And by the way, there is no duty to retreat in Wisconsin.
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But even if there were, there was no real chance for this man to get away once the mob descended on him.
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This is a completely unjustifiable prosecution no matter how you look at it.
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And it was brought for the same reason that most other self-defense claims are brought,
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which is to terrorize the rest of the population into submission.
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Remember how the Rittenhouse prosecutor said, everybody takes a beating now and then?
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Well, we're pretty close to the prosecutors in this case saying the same thing.
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That's more or less their argument at this point,
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that the 52-year-old men should just accept their mob beatings rather than defend themselves.
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You know, if you're getting descended upon by a mob and they're knocking into the river and beating you
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and they have their hands around your throat, well, you know, let's just deal with it.
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Just lie there, play dead until they walk away.
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In a sane society, if you harass and assault someone, whatever happens next,
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whatever violence erupts as a result of your choices is your fault.
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If you don't want to get shot or stabbed, if you don't want to bleed to death in a river,
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don't go around trying to bully random strangers just for fun.
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The reason this case isn't on every mainstream channel is that the mob happened to be white for the most part,
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But this is every bit as serious and coordinated an attack on the right to self-defense
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as the Rittenhouse case was and the Zimmerman trial was.
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And new prosecutors should consider looking into perjury charges for some of these witnesses who, again, have admitted that they lied.
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And if none of that happens, and if somehow the jury convicts,
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then we can say with certainty that just a couple of years after the Kyle Rittenhouse trial,
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the right to self-defense has been suspended in the state of Wisconsin.
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Everyone living there should either move or prepare accordingly.
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And the rest of us should do everything we can to preserve our fundamental rights while we still have them.
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Former President Donald Trump declared on Monday that he supports states being able to decide
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how to handle abortion policy following a Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
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After his major rivals dropped out, Trump announced his position on the contentious issue
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in a video posted to his Truth Social program, platform rather, not program.
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Let's watch about a four and a half, five minute video.
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Obviously, we can't play the whole thing, but let's watch a little bit of that.
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Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong,
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We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies, not harder.
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That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every state in America.
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Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights,
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especially since I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of something that
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all legal scholars, both sides, wanted and, in fact, demanded be ended.
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It must be remembered that the Democrats are the radical ones on this position because
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they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth month.
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The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both
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and whatever they decide must be the law of the land.
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Many will have a different number of weeks or some will have more conservative than others.
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At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people.
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You must follow your heart or, in many cases, your religion or your faith.
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Do what's right for your family and do what's right for yourself.
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First, as you know, I am unapologetically, completely, radically pro-life.
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There shouldn't be anything radical about being completely pro-life and being entirely opposed
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But these days, that is a radical position, unfortunately.
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And I'm against abortion in all cases, no matter what, no exceptions.
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And the reason that I hold that position is that it is the only morally or logically coherent
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Either unborn babies are human beings, persons, endowed with the same human rights that all
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And if the first option is correct, that they are human beings endowed by the creator with
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inalienable human rights, like all the rest of us, then it is never okay to murder them
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under any circumstance, just like it's never okay to murder anybody else.
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If you say, on the other hand, well, no, they are not people.
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Well, then you're left with the problem of what exactly are they?
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And if you think that you are a person, well, at what point did you become a person?
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And whatever that magical moment happened, what was different about you then that didn't apply
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And the only logical place to draw it is at conception.
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I have never heard anyone make a coherent argument for any other point.
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And so that's the reason why I'm against killing human beings, murdering human beings at any
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And I think that no state has the right to kill babies.
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Any more than they have the moral right or should have the legal right to declare that
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Any more than they should have the legal right to say, you know what?
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It's okay to kill people between the ages of 31 and 37.
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Any more than they could just arbitrarily take out any other stage of human development and
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say, well, as long as they're in that stage, yeah, go ahead.
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The second point is that I realize that my position is not the majority position.
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The fact is that the vast majority of Americans support child murder, at least to some extent.
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It's a horrible thing to have to admit, wish it wasn't true.
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I don't even like saying it out loud because of how it makes me feel about most Americans
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Most Americans do support some form of child murder, which is a very sad statement about
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It also presents certain unavoidable political realities.
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And the argument from conservatives who are defending Trump's statement is that, what, you
00:30:57.920
know, their argument is that, look, he probably, not probably, he almost certainly cannot get
00:31:02.480
elected if he runs on a federal abortion ban with no exceptions and we're going to ban all
00:31:11.820
And so he'll be essentially forfeiting the election to Joe Biden.
00:31:16.640
And if he isn't elected, then we're stuck with a radically pro-abortion president who favors
00:31:24.080
And not only that, but wants to put pro-lifers and is putting pro-lifers in prison.
00:31:29.380
And that's the argument from the conservatives who are defending the statement.
00:31:36.000
I mean, all of the available evidence points to the fact that my own position is not popular
00:31:42.960
enough to get somebody elected to national office.
00:31:46.240
Again, I wish that wasn't the case, but it very clearly is the case.
00:31:49.820
And I believe in facing reality for what it is.
00:31:55.160
This goes back to a debate that we've had in the pro-life movement for years, which long
00:32:02.040
predates Trump, which is incrementalism or absolutism.
00:32:09.000
Do we go for incremental victories, taking what we can get along the way?
00:32:17.260
And I've always been a believer in incrementalism because I'm a realist and because I actually
00:32:27.040
Like, if I can have a small victory or no victory, then I'll take the small victory.
00:32:35.680
Now, I'd like to take a giant leap towards my goal.
00:32:38.200
But if I can only have a small step, I'll take that over a giant leap backwards.
00:32:45.140
So if the options are giant leap backwards or small step forward, it doesn't make any
00:32:49.080
sense to me for someone to say, well, no, I choose neither because I want to take a giant
00:32:53.720
Yeah, but if that's not an option on the table right now in reality, then that doesn't make
00:32:58.220
So by not choosing the small step forward, you are choosing the leap backwards.
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And that doesn't, it doesn't make sense strategically.
00:33:06.540
So you take the small step where you can get it.
00:33:08.820
So in this case, I'll take the most pro-life outcome that I can possibly get.
00:33:15.560
I will accept an incremental victory provided, and this is the big caveat here.
00:33:23.480
Okay, this is where things get, this is where it gets complicated.
00:33:25.660
You take the incremental victory, provided that it is an incremental victory and not the
00:33:32.840
end point, okay, as long as we are not satisfied.
00:33:36.580
So the ultimate goal, as far as I'm concerned, is to see abortion eradicated everywhere.
00:33:41.380
The ultimate goal is to live in a country where there's no abortion at all.
00:33:48.640
Is there any possible universe right now where that can happen?
00:33:54.140
There's no possible universe right now where that happens.
00:33:56.640
So I'll take the biggest step I can towards that goal.
00:34:00.040
You know, I prefer to save as many babies as we possibly can right now, but we have to
00:34:09.480
You fight incrementally, which means that you don't, you're not satisfied.
00:34:15.860
And this, by the way, this is the situation we're in with every fight.
00:34:21.220
I've said many times that the fight against the gender ideology and the gender transition
00:34:27.400
industry, as far as I'm concerned, that is also an incremental fight.
00:34:34.060
Yeah, our first goal is to protect children from this, but that's not the end of it.
00:34:37.200
Because this is still, you know, a billion dollar industry that profits off of mutilating and
00:34:46.780
destroying people and, you know, capitalizing on and profiting from mental illness.
00:35:01.040
So if you come to me and say, look, we can't destroy the whole industry, but what we can do
00:35:04.260
is prevent kids from being victimized by it, then I'm going to say, I'll take that.
00:35:19.020
But what that also means is that you have to be smart and strategic about what you say
00:35:24.520
and how you position yourself, which is why, for me, the worst thing that Trump did in that
00:35:30.300
statement is to use the phrase abortion rights.
00:35:33.960
And the follow your heart stuff was almost as bad.
00:35:38.580
You know, if you want to tell me that he can't win if he announces that he wants to push for
00:35:42.980
a federal ban on all abortions, sure, like, obviously that is correct.
00:35:47.860
That's not a winning political position right now.
00:35:51.420
But that doesn't mean that he has to use left-wing terminology when discussing the issue.
00:35:57.960
The smart strategy is to take what you can get right now, but don't say or do anything
00:36:03.200
that forecloses your ability to take more in the future.
00:36:07.580
When you adopt left-wing framing on the abortion issue by saying, you know, abortion rights,
00:36:15.760
which, by the way, that's just, that's, if you want to understand why this matters, is
00:36:19.480
like, imagine if, next thing you know, Trump is talking about fetuses rather than unborn
00:36:27.020
That's also a problem because you're adopting their framing.
00:36:31.260
Because you're adopting their framing, which says that there's something distinctly different,
00:36:35.940
inherently different about the unborn child as opposed to every other human being.
00:36:40.000
Like, they're a different species or something.
00:36:43.000
And when you adopt their framing, you undercut the pro-life case.
00:36:46.880
And, you know, this is where conservatives have struggled.
00:36:49.080
It's one thing to work incrementally towards your goal.
00:36:54.460
But you don't have to accept left-wing framing in the process.
00:37:00.640
And because when you do, that's how you end up getting stuck on the step you're on
00:37:07.640
So just to summarize, I don't blame Trump for failing to call for a federal ban on all
00:37:12.580
abortions without exceptions, which, if it was up to me, that would be the policy.
00:37:20.840
Because, again, it's just a political reality that he can't win with that position.
00:37:25.220
But the way we talk about this issue really matters.
00:37:28.920
And even aside from the position itself, the way he expressed it was not good.
00:37:34.900
It's important to be very precise and strategic when speaking about this issue,
00:37:38.560
which means never accepting the left-wing framing or left-wing language ever under any circumstance.
00:37:51.320
And if it sounds like I'm playing semantics, I'm not.
00:37:56.020
And I think everyone by now should understand that this stuff, that language is not semantic.
00:38:05.500
And when you use certain language, you're expressing an idea whether you mean to or not.
00:38:08.980
When you use the phrase abortion rights, you're expressing the idea that there is a right to abortion.
00:38:13.360
And even when taking a compromised or compromised political position, you cannot compromise on the language.
00:38:23.320
And of course, even with these complaints, the choices are still Biden or Trump.
00:38:32.940
Biden wants to kill all the babies he can, and he wants to throw pro-lifers in prison while he's at it.
00:38:40.160
Trump is obviously significantly better than that on this issue and every other issue.
00:38:50.380
And it's a fight that continues as long as there are babies to save.
00:38:53.000
Which means that, you know, this is a fight that we're going to be in for the rest of our lives, and probably much longer than that.
00:39:05.840
All right, it was pretty amazing to see that eclipse yesterday.
00:39:09.040
It's just that from my vantage point, it was mainly the clouds eclipsing the sun.
00:39:17.140
And this is the second eclipse in a row, I have to tell you, where I haven't been able to see it because it was overcast.
00:39:24.120
So you might think that you're suffering in your life, that you deal with difficulties, but this is what I'm dealing with right now.
00:39:34.120
And they said, oh, you'll get another one in seven years.
00:39:39.220
I did nothing but just wait for seven years for the next eclipse, and then I look out, and there's clouds again.
00:39:44.920
Which is why I think we need to ensure equitable and inclusive access to all astronomical events for everybody.
00:39:53.620
I think there's not enough discussion about that for too long.
00:39:56.240
Marginalized people like myself have not been able to see eclipses.
00:40:02.380
I don't know how many times I've heard people, oh, there's a shooting star.
00:40:06.300
In fact, recently there was a thing with Jupiter, where Jupiter was supposed to appear, you know, larger than it has in however many years.
00:40:11.740
Went outside to see it at night, clouds again, couldn't see it.
00:40:14.620
So, at this point, I'm not even sure if these celestial bodies even exist.
00:40:29.180
This is a conversation about inclusivity that we need to have.
00:40:34.360
Well, this is a DE sky, is what I'm talking about.
00:40:38.900
And if that sounds incredibly stupid and insane, you should know that it's actually not as stupid or insane as what was said unironically on The View yesterday.
00:41:01.380
And then also I learned that the cicadas are coming.
00:41:23.380
Well, that's not what I read, but maybe, you know, maybe you know better.
00:41:28.400
I will say all those things together would maybe lead one to believe that, you know, either climate change exists or something is returning.
00:41:38.360
That's quite so not at the mercy of climate change.
00:41:42.880
And the eclipse, they've known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen.
00:41:47.940
Okay, so, you know, I'm constantly saying that the left is beyond parody, but this truly is beyond parody.
00:41:57.600
Like, how do you even, how do you make fun of this?
00:42:03.280
She just listed three things that have absolutely nothing to do with the climate and lump them in as signs of climate change.
00:42:12.160
So the orbit of the moon is now a result of climate change.
00:42:17.940
Like, the problem is that there isn't a more absurd claim that you could make to compare to this as a joke, right?
00:42:26.060
Like, I can't say, well, that's like claiming that climate change on Earth causes the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
00:42:35.680
Like, it's, what she just said is not any more absurd than that.
00:42:40.920
That's the most absurd thing you can say on this topic has now been said.
00:42:45.340
Now, there are other things that are equally as absurd, but unfortunately, it can't get more absurd than that.
00:42:51.000
So, in effect, and I don't know if this was the, if this is 4D chess that she's playing or what, but in effect, she's just killed all climate change jokes.
00:43:06.120
Because now we have a prominent leftist on the record, on TV, saying that climate change causes an eclipse.
00:43:20.800
It's, there's no, the Babylon Bee, you can't, what, what are you going to, all climate change jokes are done.
00:43:30.140
Because I enjoy making fun of climate alarmists.
00:43:32.500
I enjoy it as much as the next person, probably a lot more.
00:43:39.660
It's, it's, it's important to me to be able to make fun of environmentalists and climate alarmists.
00:43:46.740
A little piece of my heart has now been ripped out of me and destroyed because of this.
00:43:53.140
And every time the left takes it one step, they keep going.
00:43:58.660
And then they eventually, they cross that line where it's like, I, all right, can't satirize it anymore.
00:44:05.740
That's, that's the, the funniest version of this thing you have just done in an, unironically, what can we do now?
00:44:17.780
Because we're obviously fully at the point now where climates, when they talk about climate,
00:44:21.940
that just means anything that occurs anywhere in physical reality.
00:44:32.240
Any, any occurrence, when they talk about climate change, they just mean something has happened.
00:44:38.680
Some sort of event has occurred somewhere in the physical plane.
00:44:48.260
In fact, it's probably even broader than that because it doesn't even need to be a physical occurrence.
00:44:53.260
Because they'll connect climate change to like anxiety and mental health and all these other things.
00:44:57.660
So really, any concept at all is climate change, which, which is another reason why you can't make fun of it anymore.
00:45:05.080
Because it, it, it, now it means absolutely nothing at all.
00:45:09.420
And so there's really no way to make fun of it.
00:45:11.700
And I find that to be, uh, really quite sad and unsettling.
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Today we cancel Amanda Marcotte, feminist writer for Salon.
00:48:02.980
And I'll admit, I'll begin by admitting that canceling Amanda Marcotte is perhaps a little cheap.
00:48:08.160
It's like canceling stubbed toes or indigestion or head lice.
00:48:13.700
And, you know, I don't need to explain why any of those things are bad.
00:48:18.740
Of course, I'm only trying to illustrate a point here.
00:48:20.300
I don't mean to compare Amanda Marcotte to head lice.
00:48:22.380
That would be inappropriate and dehumanizing, of course, to head lice.
00:48:25.640
In any case, Marcotte has earned her spot in this segment today by publishing an article for Salon
00:48:30.080
that is so crushingly stupid, so fantastically ridiculous and dishonest that it somehow,
00:48:34.960
against all odds, manages to lower the bar for feminist writers and Salon.
00:48:39.580
A bar that was already sitting approximately 10,000 feet below sea level.
00:48:44.620
Speaking of being beyond satire, here's the headline.
00:48:50.420
A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA.
00:48:55.740
Okay, now, this is another one of those headlines that I saw circulating on social media,
00:49:04.120
It's the kind of thing that a right-wing meme account might create as a joke.
00:49:07.580
And if they had, it wouldn't have even been very funny, because it's a little bit too on-the-nose.
00:49:13.760
You know, it seems a little bit too outlandish.
00:49:16.700
It's an actual article, written and published without a hint of irony.
00:49:21.380
Quote, men are punching random women on the streets of New York City.
00:49:23.920
As usual with these kinds of diffuse and chaotic stories, there's much that is unknown,
00:49:28.180
including how often this is happening, how many people are involved,
00:49:33.520
Women report being assaulted by men of different races and ages.
00:49:36.360
Well, actually, no, there's not a lot of racial diversity in the men who are committing these assaults.
00:49:43.560
Continuing, still across the different stories, a couple of similarities pop out.
00:49:48.220
The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty,
00:49:50.740
and most of them say they were minding their own business when they were attacked.
00:49:53.520
Some were on their phones or reading on tablets.
00:49:55.420
Others were speaking to friends or daydreaming.
00:49:57.680
Whatever they were doing, they were just living their lives,
00:49:59.640
and that, it seems, is what enraged their assailants.
00:50:03.500
most women who spend much time walking around in public have experience with men
00:50:06.880
who berate them for paying attention to something other than the man
00:50:09.700
who is now, often out of nowhere, spewing invectives.
00:50:12.740
In our modern era, that often manifests with men who are infuriated at women
00:50:17.880
But I'm old enough to remember when I would get yelled at for reading books in public.
00:50:24.640
Nobody yelled at her for reading a book in public.
00:50:27.360
Much of what she said in that paragraph is exaggerated or entirely invented.
00:50:31.220
But let's get to the crux of the issue from Amanda's hallucinatory perspective.
00:50:35.680
Whatever the excuse the angry man concocts, the impetus is always the same.
00:50:40.900
The eyes of a woman are directed at someone or something that is not him,
00:50:45.960
These stories resonate as well because the nation is having a moment
00:50:48.640
of increasingly unhinged male fury at women for daring to have lives
00:50:52.660
that are centered around something other than catering to a man's every whim.
00:50:56.420
Unleashed by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement,
00:50:58.300
there's an upswell of loud male entitlement shouting at us from every corner.
00:51:02.160
We see it in the male fans of Jordan Peterson who clamor to his events to hear him croak out
00:51:06.440
a just-so story about how lobsters justify their faith in male dominance.
00:51:10.760
Or the rise of trad wives online who make a living pretending they're unemployed and housebound.
00:51:15.780
Or Ben Shapiro setting fire to a Barbie doll because he can't stand that a blockbuster comedy
00:51:20.060
starring a woman is about anything but her quest for male affection.
00:51:23.840
The rise of MAGA is fueled by misogyny, but it's less a backlash than a tantrum.
00:51:28.540
A rage explosion by men who want to restore their dominance,
00:51:31.580
but fear that this time women won't buckle to their bullying.
00:51:34.600
This rash of men punching women in New York City captures this moment in a dark way.
00:51:39.260
Now before we get to the content of this screed such as it is,
00:51:42.100
the first thing we notice is just how tired and lame and dull the writing is.
00:51:46.180
Amanda Marcotte has been writing essentially the same article over and over again for 20 years.
00:51:50.260
Now of course, 20 years ago, she wasn't talking about Donald Trump or MAGA,
00:51:53.680
but the basic themes and concepts are the same.
00:51:55.680
And there really is only one theme and one concept,
00:51:58.020
which is that men are misogynists and various bad things are happening because of our misogyny.
00:52:02.740
You know, she's been reflecting on this idea for two decades,
00:52:05.560
and yet has never managed to say anything interesting or insightful about it.
00:52:09.620
And this is my biggest problem with people like Amanda Marcotte.
00:52:11.800
It's not that everything they say is wrong, and that's a given.
00:52:14.840
It's that they can't even manage to be vaguely interesting while being wrong.
00:52:20.460
obviously, violent crime in New York City has nothing to do with Trump or MAGA.
00:52:25.240
Chicago is not MAGA country, neither is New York.
00:52:28.260
The men assaulting random, you know, committing random assaults in Manhattan.
00:52:37.060
They're not listening to Ben Shapiro's podcast.
00:52:39.480
They've never heard the term trad wife, most likely.
00:52:42.500
And these are almost exclusively black men and Democrat voters, if they vote at all,
00:52:51.320
They are repeat violent offenders, career criminals who are on the street,
00:52:54.740
able to attack and victimize random women because of policies that Amanda Marcotte supports.
00:52:59.840
In fact, not only is this not a MAGA phenomenon,
00:53:02.880
but if you go somewhere that is really MAGA country,
00:53:06.160
a predominantly conservative place where you're likely to see American flags and red hats and all the rest of it,
00:53:11.200
in those places, women aren't getting brutalized as they walk down the street.
00:53:18.160
These attacks on women are supposedly the result of right-wing male rage,
00:53:25.920
Go to pretty much any neighborhood with a majority of Trump voters,
00:53:28.980
and any woman will be perfectly safe walking down the street at any time of day or night.
00:53:34.340
Amanda hates white Republican males more than anything.
00:53:36.660
She blames us for all the violence against women.
00:53:38.300
And yet, you never hear about a rash of violent attacks on women in white Republican areas,
00:53:48.000
So she's obviously wrong about who is responsible for this violence.
00:53:54.000
These attackers aren't going after these women because they feel entitled to their time,
00:53:58.180
or they're mad at the women for looking at their phones,
00:54:00.800
or because they're filled with some kind of patriarchal sense of entitlement.
00:54:03.820
They're doing it because they're predators, often mentally ill, often high on some drug or another,
00:54:14.640
And that's why they target women most of the time, because the women are the easiest targets.
00:54:19.200
They do it because they can, and they'll keep doing it for as long as they can,
00:54:25.740
And we don't do that by printing, you know, scolding lectures in Salon.
00:54:31.420
Because the other thing about these guys is they're not reading Salon.
00:54:35.040
Now, what you do is you do that by locking them in prison forever.
00:54:40.680
She's an advocate for criminal justice reform, quote unquote,
00:54:43.820
which means putting these violent predators back on the street and keeping them there.
00:54:49.400
I mean, she doesn't care if the violent attacks continue.
00:54:54.520
At least it gives her something to write about,
00:54:56.480
even if she's writing the same article over and over and over again,
00:55:00.140
and somehow still missing the point every single time.
00:55:04.540
And that is why she is today, I must say, canceled.
00:55:11.900
Talk to you tomorrow, or better yet, catch you tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern