Ep. 1345 - The Media Nominates Their New George Floyd
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Summary
The left desperately wants to find their new George Floyd before the election. They think they have a good candidate named Dexter Reed, who was killed by police during a traffic stop. But the basic facts of this case make it extremely clear that this man is no victim. Also, after a Supreme Court decision that bans abortion, Arizona s ban on abortion will go into effect over the protests of both Democrats and Republicans. Why are Republicans objecting to a pro-life law? And board games are going woke now as Scrabble unveils a new inclusive version of the classic game. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left desperately wants to find their new George Floyd before the election.
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They think they have a good candidate, a man named Dexter Reed, who was killed by police during a traffic stop.
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But the basic facts of this case make it extremely clear that this man is no victim.
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Also, after a Supreme Court decision, Arizona's ban on abortion will go into effect over the protests of both Democrats and Republicans.
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Why are Republicans objecting to a pro-life law?
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And board games are going woke now as Scrabble unveils a new inclusive version of the classic game.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Last year, a man in his mid-20s named Dexter Reed was charged with three counts of aggravated,
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unlawful use of a weapon and one count of possession of a firearm with a revoked firearms
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owner's identification card, which is required in the state of Illinois before you can possess a
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And because nobody really spends time in jail in Illinois anymore, Reed was free on pre-trial
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release for these felony charges as recently as this past March.
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Now, it goes without saying that at that point, any functioning member of society who somehow
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found himself charged with these crimes would try to lay low for a little bit.
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Maybe they'd keep their illegal guns at home, for example.
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But Dexter Reed did not choose that approach because he's not a functioning member of society.
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Instead, in March, Reed went for a drive in an SUV wearing a ski mask and carrying a firearm.
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That's when police say that they noticed that Reed was breaking yet another law.
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Instead of cooperating with the traffic stop, this is what happened.
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And I'm going to show you two angles of this incident from police body cams.
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The second body cam is from an officer who was shot as this unfolded.
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So it's clear from the footage that Dexter Reed is wearing a ski mask and he's not cooperating
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with the officers. They tell him to unlock the door, stop rolling up the windows, and he refuses
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for quite some time. They have their guns drawn at one point and they're telling him, stop rolling
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the windows up, unlock the door. He refuses. Then the officers see something that clearly puts them
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in fear of their life and they back up and shots begin to ring out. One officer is hit in the wrist
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and he survives. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, quote, Alderman Brian Hopkins, chairman of the city
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council's public safety committee, said he's been told that 26-year-old Reed fired 11 shots through
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his car window in what Hopkins called an attempt to kill police officers. An empty gun was recovered
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at the scene, Hopkins said. He fired 11 rounds at these police officers before he was eventually
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killed. As of now, police are still investigating the shooting, but Chicago's Civilian Office of
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Police Accountability has determined that the evidence appears to confirm, quote, unquote,
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that Reed fired the first shot. And the video by itself shows that pretty clearly. One social media
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user on Twitter, the account exposed them. Synced up footage from two of the body cams that Chicago
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police have released. The top body cam is the one that I just showed of the police officer who got
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hit. The other body cam is from a third officer on the scene. And you can see that the first officer
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gets hit before the other officers return fire. Watch.
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The doors now. Unlock the doors now. Unlock the doors now. Open the doors now.
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Okay, so the footage is, on its own, pretty clear evidence that the officers defended
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themselves. I mean, you could see the one officer get shot, and that should end the discussion
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entirely. Like, that's it. He's shot at the cops, and he got killed. The end of discussion.
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But it's not the end of the discussion, because even before these body cams were released,
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professional agitators engaged in a concerted effort to turn Dexter Reed into a martyr,
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of course. A former Chicago mayoral candidate and BLM activist named Jamal Green began posting
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on social media this weekend that the footage would show a, quote, execution. He also warned
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about possible riots, which, of course, is exactly what Jamal Green wants to happen. And Green's
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strategy appears to be working, at least so far. This week, crowds turned up outside a police station
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to heckle officers and make some of the most strained arguments imaginable. Watch.
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complete chaos outside CPD's 11th district. Demonstrators blocking streets and clashing
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with police. Close to 100 activists and concerned Chicago residents standing in solidarity,
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demanding justice following the death of Dexter Reed. We don't need armed police officers to tell
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somebody to put their seatbelt on. Dexter's vehicle had tinted windows, so the argument that they were
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looking for a seatbelt issue doesn't make sense. So they're saying the cops couldn't have possibly
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known whether he was breaking the seatbelt because he was driving with heavily tinted windows,
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which is also against the law, by the way. Apparently, in BLM circles, this is seen as some
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sort of checkmate, even though they've just provided an additional reason why police would have wanted to
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pull this guy over. And on top of that, if you're wondering, well, why can't you have tinted windows?
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This is why. Because the guy's like this. Because this is why they have tinted windows.
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And then they argue that there's no need for armed officers to enforce seatbelt laws. Well,
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apparently there is. Because if they were not armed, they'd be dead. Especially in a city like Chicago,
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because you never know when someone who's not wearing a seatbelt might be out of jail on a felony gun
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charge, still packing heat and wearing a ski mask and ready to shoot at you for no reason.
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And all of that is irrelevant anyway. Because even if they had no reason to pull him over,
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which they did have a reason, it still obviously doesn't justify him shooting at the cops. He shot
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at them. You don't get to shoot at the cops if you disagree with their reason for stopping you.
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I've been pulled over for seatbelt violations before. It's annoying. I find it annoying. I don't
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think seatbelt laws should exist. I don't think cops should be in the business of enforcing that.
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If I don't want to wear a seatbelt, then I shouldn't have to wear one. That's my personal opinion.
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But obviously, when I've been pulled over for a seatbelt violation,
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it never occurred to me that maybe I should murder the cops because of it.
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But the push to portray Dexter Reed as a victim continues anyway, because none of this is really
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about the facts. Alleged academics are getting involved too. An English professor at Amherst named
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Frank Leon Roberts wrote on social media, quote, his name was Dexter Reed. Murdered in broad daylight
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by the Chicago Police Department. 96 shots in 41 seconds. 26 years old. His crime not having his
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seatbelt on. This is America. Defund and abolish the police. No, his crime was shooting at the cops,
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you moron. This is another thing that's BLM people always do. They fixate on some little detail that has
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nothing to do with anything. So in this case, it's going to be 96 shots were fired. So? Yeah,
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they're trying to put him down because he's shooting at them. So they're going to fire as
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many shots as they need. If it takes 500 shots, then that's what it takes. There was 96 shots.
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What? So what? If there was 30 shots, you'd be okay with it? How many shots is too many? When someone's
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shooting 11 shots at you as a police officer, how many shots are you allowed to return? Is it like 11
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for 11? Are they supposed to be counting their bullets? One, two, three, four. That's it. That's
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as many as he were. Everyone, stop, stop, stop. Wait for him to fire again. We can shoot one more.
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A few hours after the professor wrote that tweet, he deleted it and erased his entire Twitter account,
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maybe because it was a little too ridiculous, even by the standards of Amherst. But it wasn't
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too absurd for the corporate press. They have also done everything they can to portray the police
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as the aggressors here. Here's how the Washington Post covered Dexter Reed's traffic stop,
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for example. The headline is, quote, police fired 96 shots in 41 seconds, killing a black
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man during a traffic stop. So there's nothing in there about what Dexter Reed did during the
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traffic stop. There's no mention of the fact that he opened fire on the cops. In fact, if
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you read the story, you don't find any mention of Dexter Reed shooting his handgun until the
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eighth paragraph of the story. That's not an exaggeration. They ignore it until eight paragraphs
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in. Instead, here's what the Washington Post talks about. This is what they talk about first.
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This is from the beginning of their article. It's as emotional and over the top as they possibly
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can make it. Quote, Dexter Reed's mother remembers the last time she saw her son alive. He was just
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riding around in his car, Dexter's mother, Nicole Banks, said as she broke down in tears. They killed him.
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By the way, this is the footage they're referencing. Here it is.
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He had just bought his new car three days before that. And he was just riding around in his car.
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He said, Mom, I'm going for a ride. And they killed him. They killed him.
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Just riding around in his car with a ski mask and an illegal handgun shooting at the cops. That's all.
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Hey, Mom, I'm gonna go shoot at some cops. Okay, be back by dinner.
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What? My son is dead now after that? I never would have seen that coming.
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So Reed's mother is out at the press conference crying and fainting on camera. Now, I'm sure she
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is legitimately distraught given that her child was killed. But as always, there's no self-analysis.
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There's no moment of honest reflection where she wonders how she raised a child who would throw his
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life away for no reason during a traffic stop. If that was my child, I wouldn't be out in front of
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cameras in that way. I'd be ashamed. I would be distraught, ashamed of myself. I would say I raised
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this suicidal son who just threw his life away in an attempt to kill police officers.
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I would be reflecting on that as a parent. Instead, she blames the cops. And the lawsuit,
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I'm sure, will be close behind. And the Washington Post decides to lead with that instead of an
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accurate description of what happened during the traffic stop. It's hard to think of a more
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deliberately dishonest way to frame the actions of an attempted cop killer. And just for good measure,
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the Post puts a giant photo of Dexter Reed at some graduation ceremony from five years ago at the
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top of the article. They leave his mugshot from his felony of firearms arrest off of it. They don't
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go with that. This is the way it always goes with BLM martyrs. Maybe you've noticed, you never see
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graduation photos of anyone who makes the news for any reason, unless it's a black guy who killed by
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the cops. It's the only time you ever see, think about literally anyone else who makes the news for
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any good, bad, doesn't. You don't see their graduation photos used in news articles.
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On Twitter, a writer named Daniel Friedman pointed out the history of this tactic. It began after
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Michael Brown was shot 10 years ago after fighting with a cop and trying to take his gun. Media outlets
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went on Brown's Facebook, and then they used unflattering photos of Brown flashing gang signs
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in their coverage. As Friedman writes, quote, black Twitter reacted angrily. They said that the media was
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using images of Brown that stereotyped him. There was a trending hashtag, a hashtag if they gunned me down
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of college students or professionals posting pictures of themselves looking like thugs in
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solidarity with Brown. So the media relented, and they swapped out the thug photos for graduation
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photos, and that's what they've been doing ever since. Now, in this case, the Washington Post
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wasn't alone in whitewashing Reed's actions. CNN ran a similar headline that made no mention of Reed's
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shooting at officers, quote, 96 shots fired in a fatal traffic stop. Here's what the body cam footage
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shows. The AP reported, quote, deadly Chicago traffic stop where police fired 96 shots raises
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serious questions about use of force. Now, it's almost comical when you picture the editor carefully
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trying to construct these headlines so that they don't mention the elephant in the room. It's like
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imagining someone trying to describe the maiden voyage of the Titanic without saying anything about,
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you know, the whole iceberg incident. But I'd be remiss if I mocked the media's coverage of this
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episode without mentioning the Daily Mail, because they chose to portray Dexter Reed as a, quote,
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aspiring broadcaster. So he's not a felon or an attempted cop killer. He was the next Tom Brokaw,
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apparently. Quote, on Tuesday, Chicago police released footage of the March 21st encounter,
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which showed them firing 96 shots at Reed, even as he lay motionless on the ground outside his vehicle.
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The aspiring broadcaster's death has reignited conversations around excessive police force
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against black people, though officers maintain Reed open fire first. And that's another thing, again,
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only if it's a black guy killed by the cops do they add in those kinds. Even if he was an aspiring
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broadcaster, that has nothing to do with anything. And to just drop that into the middle of the
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description of the crime is so bizarre. And, but this is, this is, this is what they do now. This
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is the routine. At least they get around to suggesting that the officers were defending
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themselves. So there's that. And it's easy to laugh at how absurd this is, but there's a point
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to it. BLM and their allies in the media are desperate to find a new George Floyd before the
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election. You know, we knew they would look for it. They're looking for it. They know Democrats
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stand a very real chance of losing power in November. So they're using the same tactic
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they did four years ago. George Floyd, we were told, wasn't a home invader or a thief or a drug
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addict. They told us that he was a gentle giant trying to get his life back on track. And now we're
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expected to believe that Dexter Reed is also some misunderstood pillar of the local community
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instead of the degenerate that he clearly was. And the plan is to cause riots, to terrify everybody
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into voting the way they want and force a national reckoning on race to promote more of their
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mediocre allies into positions of power. And they plan to accomplish all this by lying about a dead
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thug who shot at the cops. This is a strategy that we're seeing more and more as we head into the
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election. Last October, for example, the media tried to incite riots over the shooting death of
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Leonard Cure. This is a man who tried to kill a police officer on camera during a traffic stop.
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And there's no dispute about that. I mean, it's on tape. Watch.
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Put your hands behind your back because you're getting tased. I'm telling you that right now.
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Because you are under arrest for speeding and reckless driving.
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I'm not driving. Nobody was hurt. How was I speeding?
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Sir, tickets in the state of Georgia are criminal offenses.
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Okay, so the guy went out of his way to get himself killed.
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The officer went out of his way to avoid killing him until he tried to use everything in his arsenal before he finally pulled the gun.
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The cops are in the position now where as someone is trying to kill them, they are consciously aware that if there's a line they have to walk, and if they end up on the wrong side of that line, they'll end up in prison forever.
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And, you know, the other excuse that we often hear for the guys, the quote-unquote victims in these videos, is, well, here, well, you know, black men are...
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And that's why they react the way they do in those videos.
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And so you're doing everything you possibly can to provoke a violent response from the cops?
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This is a total indifference to your own life, to the cop's life, to the laws, to, like, the basic structure of civilized society.
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After seeing that footage, here was the Washington Post headline, quote,
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Deputy fatally shoots man who served 16 years for wrongful conviction.
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The article begins, Leonard Cure, who was exonerated in 2020, was killed by a Georgia sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop.
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The deputy used a taser and a baton before shooting Cure.
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The Post didn't get around to mentioning that Cure tried to murder the deputy until 14 paragraphs into the story.
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And even then, they described it as carefully as they possibly could.
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They say that Cure was forcefully grappling with the deputy and pushing the deputy's head back with his hand.
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Forcefully grappling, that's their way of describing, you know, a guy trying to choke the officer to death.
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And, of course, Ben Crump came out and declared that Cure had been shot simply for being black.
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Because, you know, if Cure was white, then the officer would have said,
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All right, if you want to choke me to death, go ahead.
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Maybe other cops show up and, you know, they run in for backup and he would wave them off.
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He'd say, No, no, he's white. It's okay. No, he's white. It's fine.
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He can go ahead and kill me. Just go ahead. Get it over with.
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If you're white, that effort didn't catch on in quite the same way the media and BLM activists had hoped.
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And they'll continue to try until one of two things happen.
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Either they get the riots they want and they terrorize millions of people into voting for Democrats out of fear.
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Or, for once, normal, sane people stand up and say what's obvious.
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And that's the fact that Dexter Reed and Leonard Cure and all these BLM heroes are the dregs of society.
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They are, in fact, the cause of many serious problems that cities like Chicago are experiencing right now.
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That's the only message that can put an end to these riots before they start and avert a repeat of the pillaging we saw in 2020.
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It happens to also be a message that most Americans believe, even if they're afraid to say it.
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But as unpleasant as it may be, it's time we start saying it.
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The article from the AP says the Arizona legislature devolved into shouts of shame, shame on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers quickly shut down discussions on a proposed repeal of the state's newly revived 1864 law
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that criminalizes abortion throughout pregnancy unless a woman's life is at risk.
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The state Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for enforcement of the pre-statehood law.
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Arizona abortion providers vowed yesterday to continue service until they're forced to stop, possibly within weeks.
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State legislators convened as pressure mounted from Democrats and some Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, for them to intervene.
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House Democrats and at least one Republican tried to open discussion on a repeal of the 1864 abortion ban, which holds no exceptions for rape or incest.
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GOP leaders who commanded the majority cut it off twice and quickly adjourned for the week.
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I move that we recess to the sun of the bill immediately.
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And these are people who, just to be clear, of course, about what they're upset about, they're upset that fewer babies are going to be killed in the state of Arizona.
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They're very distraught when they lie awake at night, tossing and turning, thinking about all of the babies who will live instead of being dismembered.
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And, you know, one of the arguments, I mean, you heard in the article I just read, the fact that this was an 1864 law was mentioned like four times.
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You know, that's supposed to be relevant, the fact that the law dates back that far.
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So the claim is that, well, yeah, but people who are alive today didn't vote on that law.
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That every law that predates our own existence has to come back up for a vote?
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Is that the way that we think a democracy is going to work now?
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That any law that existed before us doesn't count?
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But, and we have to, so with every new generation, we have to, we have to vote again on every law to make sure that every new generation is, is okay with every law that's been passed in the past.
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And unfortunately, it's an argument being made, not just by Democrats, but by Republicans.
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Um, Carrie Lake, who's running for Senate, says that she opposes the Supreme Court decision banning abortion in her state.
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And Trump told reporters yesterday that he thinks that the law, quote, went too far.
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And as you know, it's all about states' rights.
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And I'm sure that the governor and everybody else are going to bring it back into reason.
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And that'll be taken care of, I think, very quickly.
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Florida is probably maybe going to change or something.
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See, it's all of what, it's the will of the people.
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So for 52 years, people have wanted to end Roe v. Wade to get it back to the states.
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It was an incredible thing, an incredible achievement.
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And now the states have it, and the states are putting out what they want.
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He says that everybody's happy that Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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He says everybody wants the Arizona law to be changed.
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Now, look, I've already said that I understand the prudential political judgment to not call for a federal ban on abortion when you're running for national political office.
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Now, I personally would like to see a federal ban.
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But I also don't believe in committing political Harry Carey in a way that won't achieve anything except making it a lot harder for you to win an election, thereby ensuring that a radically pro-abortion lunatic in Joe Biden who imprisons pro-lifers will get elected.
00:28:22.120
So I get all that, you know, but if your argument is that it's states' rights and the states should make the choice and then you come out and oppose a state law banning abortion.
00:28:38.080
Well, now you're not making a states' rights case anymore so that Trump's response there doesn't really make any sense.
00:28:49.860
So now you're just making a case against pro-life laws.
00:28:56.800
You're in principle making a case against the pro-life law itself.
00:29:08.660
And it's wrong to throw the whole pro-life movement under the bus.
00:29:12.440
And also because politically it's not a smart tactic.
00:29:16.720
No matter what you do or say as a Republican, you are going to be painted as the anti-choice extremist, quote unquote.
00:29:28.320
There's nothing Trump can do or say that's going to make the left go, oh, you know what?
00:29:34.520
He's not against your reproductive rights, women.
00:29:37.260
He's not going to try to turn this into a handmaid's tale.
00:29:43.120
Trump could come out tomorrow and announce that he's calling for legalized abortion nationwide through every trimester of pregnancy.
00:29:54.260
They still would brand him a radical pro-life militant.
00:29:57.760
It's not very different from what they do with race.
00:30:01.860
Okay, you can come out and say, I'm for prison reform.
00:30:08.960
You could say all that, and they still are going to brand you as a Jim Crow racist.
00:30:18.640
That's still going to be the narrative, no matter what you say.
00:30:28.320
It also sort of, in a way, takes the pressure off.
00:30:32.500
There's no reason to compromise on your basic principle.
00:30:36.180
I mean, you shouldn't anyway, but there's no political reason to do it, because it doesn't matter if you do.
00:30:42.780
Their narrative about you is going to be the same no matter what you say.
00:30:51.900
So, look, there are two ways to go, given that reality, given the reality that no matter what you do, you are a, quote, unquote, anti-choice, you know.
00:31:07.220
So there are two ways to go with that tactically.
00:31:10.460
Okay, and that's what we're talking about right now, about tactics.
00:31:12.400
One is to continually insist that it isn't true, because actually your views are much more moderate than the real pro-life militants.
00:31:26.940
You could say, oh, yeah, well, there's a pro-life extremist over there.
00:31:35.860
And this is what Republicans have done historically.
00:31:38.040
Okay, this has been the historic Republican strategy for as long as I've been alive.
00:31:48.520
You know, pro-lifers have been treated as sort of the redheaded stepchildren of the conservative movement by most mainstream national Republicans forever.
00:32:01.380
I think there's little evidence that it pays off.
00:32:04.220
And, again, I'm putting aside the fact that it's just wrong.
00:32:07.320
But politically, there's little evidence that that pays off.
00:32:11.940
The other strategy, okay, the other strategy is not to, like, we'll just jump on the grenade and, you know, and take a politically unpopular position and live with it.
00:32:27.860
There's a second option, though, which is to flip the script, okay, to stop having the argument on their terms, to stop accepting their framing, to put them on defense.
00:32:41.120
And that isn't very difficult to do because, fortunately, the pro-life argument is very strong.
00:32:51.700
There are many Republican politicians who've decided that being pro-life is a political loser.
00:32:56.540
Even though they have never, not once, never, not ever, actually articulated the pro-life case with any force or effectiveness.
00:33:07.920
Now, yes, every Republican pretty much has, at some point or another, called themselves pro-life.
00:33:15.400
Maybe they've, you know, maybe they've said something about we should protect the unborn, you know, that sort of thing.
00:33:20.700
So, like, in a sentence or two, they have very vaguely, very broadly articulated that they are pro-life.
00:33:27.580
But how many elected Republicans can you think of who have actually made the argument in an effective way, just explained, like, look, I'm pro-life, here's why, and then explained it.
00:33:49.200
In the form of a kind of a syllogism, this is the pro-life case.
00:33:53.580
Number one, it is always wrong to intentionally and directly kill innocent, defenseless human beings.
00:34:09.300
Because if there were something else, that would mean they were another species.
00:34:11.700
And obviously, they are not another species, so they are human.
00:34:17.400
Therefore, abortion intentionally and directly kills innocent and defenseless human beings.
00:34:51.980
But it's a, you can make that argument and actually convince people, I've done it.
00:35:00.760
Because that's the other thing you hear also all the time.
00:35:03.060
People will say that, well, you can't convince anyone to be pro-life.
00:35:06.320
But the people saying that have never even tried to convince anyone.
00:35:16.880
And I ask you, when is the last time you heard a Republican, any Republican, in any elected office or running for office spell the argument out that way?
00:35:27.740
I'm not saying it's never happened, but I can't even think of one example off the top of my head.
00:35:31.760
Maybe some people in the comments will say, well, here's someone.
00:35:35.140
I wouldn't, it wouldn't surprise me if there's been a few.
00:35:44.180
And yet you can hardly think of one example in the last 30 years of a Republican actually making what the argument is, explaining what it is.
00:35:56.280
So I keep hearing that Republicans lose if they make the pro-life argument, yet I've never heard any of them make it.
00:36:02.840
How in the hell can you say that they lose if they do something they've never actually done?
00:36:11.500
There is a way to argue against what I just said.
00:36:23.340
It might not be a good argument, but it might not be a true argument.
00:36:29.700
But the only thing you can really dispute is point one.
00:36:33.660
That's the only one you can really take issue with.
00:36:37.880
So, you know, point two, that quote-unquote fetuses are human, that's scientifically indisputable.
00:36:56.660
You could say that, well, actually, it's not always wrong to intentionally and directly kill an innocent human being.
00:37:01.860
You could say that, yeah, fetuses, quote-unquote, are human.
00:37:06.200
And yes, you're killing them through abortion, but it's not always wrong to do that.
00:37:12.420
So you could make, that's, that is the argument.
00:37:14.220
That is the only argument against the pro-life syllogism.
00:37:18.260
I think it's the wrong argument, morally, but that is the argument you're making if you support abortion.
00:37:24.840
You're saying that actually, in fact, sometimes killing innocent human life directly and intentionally is okay.
00:37:48.460
Is it okay, under some circumstances, to intentionally and directly kill innocent human beings?
00:37:57.620
And if you support abortion, your answer to that question is yes.
00:38:05.020
But you can see why nobody really wants to say that.
00:38:14.900
No politician wants to stand up on the stage and say,
00:38:17.600
all right, let me explain why sometimes killing innocent people is okay.
00:38:23.080
But that is what, that's, that's, that's what they're saying.
00:38:26.160
They're saying it, but they don't want to say it.
00:38:27.760
So they'd rather access the, the, the abortion conversation.
00:38:32.700
They, they'd rather stay in the peripheral, stay on the boundaries.
00:38:36.920
They don't want to talk about the actual issue.
00:38:38.840
They want to talk about rape and incest, life of the mother, you know, this and that.
00:38:43.340
And do we, what do we imprison women after they get abortions?
00:38:49.340
But the thing right there in the middle, the core of the issue,
00:38:54.540
And yet conservatives allow them, allow them to stay on the perimeter rather than saying,
00:39:00.320
no, no, no, no, no, we're not even talking about that.
00:39:05.120
How are we going to talk about that way before we've even talked about the,
00:39:10.980
And I, and this strategy of reframing the argument,
00:39:15.900
discipline on the message, not allowing them to change the subject,
00:39:20.700
not allowing them to get hung up on hard cases, all that.
00:39:26.780
It's what we did successfully and are doing successfully on the gender issue.
00:39:33.700
It's why we have seen, this is not some accident.
00:39:36.400
The fact that we've seen this massive change in the tide,
00:39:41.680
especially when it comes to children being castrated and mutilated,
00:39:46.220
where we are now culturally on that issue is night and day from where we were three,
00:39:57.700
Those of us in that movement said, here's how we're going to go about this.
00:40:05.600
We're not going to let you talk about anything else on this.
00:40:11.260
Do you support castrating and mutilating kids or not?
00:40:24.480
A Canadian man had two healthy fingers amputated to treat his body integrity dysphoria,
00:40:31.060
The 20-year-old ambidextrous man experienced profound distress over his left hand's fourth
00:40:35.440
and fifth fingers and decided to have them amputated, according to the case report,
00:40:40.640
Body integrity disorder is the rare phenomenon of individuals wanting to amputate parts of
00:40:45.140
their body, usually limbs, often because they feel the body part does not belong to them.
00:40:49.180
The young man opted for amputation after non-invasive treatments proved unsuccessful,
00:40:57.040
The man described having intrusive thoughts about his left hand's fourth and fifth fingers
00:41:01.020
since childhood and felt they should not belong to his body.
00:41:04.360
He described often hiding his fingers, causing pain, and said he had not told his family about
00:41:10.640
The man also said he suffered from nightmares in which his fingers were burning or rotting.
00:41:20.700
Now, you may recall in a certain film, a certain person asked a sex change surgeon about this
00:41:29.020
And that would be me, of course, in What is a Woman, talking to Marcy Bowers.
00:41:33.460
And I asked about someone who comes in asking for a limb to be removed.
00:41:40.600
And Bowers said, if you recall, that that would be kooky.
00:41:44.820
And it's also totally unrelated to the gender question.
00:42:01.160
I think there is a better argument for removing a healthy arm or finger or whatever from a mentally
00:42:07.440
ill person than there is for gender transitions.
00:42:12.760
I think what they did to this guy by cutting his finger off is more justifiable than any
00:42:18.660
quote-unquote gender transition surgery that's ever been performed.
00:42:25.240
But there's a better argument for that than there is for this other thing.
00:42:29.200
And by the way, again, I don't think doctors should do this, obviously.
00:42:35.780
And the reason is simply because removing the fingers was very clearly and explicitly done
00:42:41.460
in order to stop the guy from doing it to himself.
00:42:52.620
Like, he went in and said, I don't want these fingers anymore.
00:43:01.480
The reason for wanting that procedure was insane.
00:43:07.700
Now, in the case of gender transition, the patient doesn't want to simply lose their real
00:43:14.700
Okay, they don't go in saying, I don't want my penis anymore.
00:43:19.400
No, what they want is they want to gain a new sex.
00:43:25.060
And they're told that they can become that thing, but they can't.
00:43:29.340
So the procedure is the same as what happens to the guy losing his fingers.
00:43:35.020
But it's being sold not as an amputation, but as a transformation.
00:43:40.040
So the gender transition surgery is barbaric and bizarre, like cutting the guy's fingers
00:43:49.140
At least the guy who gets his fingers cut off, like he knows that the end result is,
00:43:52.520
okay, he's going to be a guy that has two fewer fingers.
00:43:55.220
But the person who goes in for the gender transition thinks and is told that at the end
00:43:59.000
of that procedure, they are going to have become, they will have actually gained something,
00:44:09.660
And on top of that, of course, also losing your genitals is quite a bit more severe, I
00:44:13.740
think most people would agree, than losing a couple of fingers.
00:44:16.640
Like you can lose a couple of fingers and go on to live a normal, fine life.
00:44:21.160
You lose your genitals and it's just, you're not going to be, it destroys your life.
00:44:29.840
So the point is that, you know, gender transition is actually, it's actually the most extreme,
00:44:37.340
most bizarre, most barbaric form of this sort of thing.
00:44:42.060
Cutting off fingers is the less extreme version.
00:44:44.860
So once again, we say that we're on a slippery slope and a lot of people will say that, okay,
00:44:49.740
well, this is the next stop in the slippery slope is now we're cutting off fingers and
00:44:54.440
Like if we're on the slope, the slope was going down like this and, and the gender transition
00:45:01.160
Cutting fingers off is like somewhere up here on the slope.
00:45:05.780
That's, that's, you know, if we were, if we were following that process in a logical way,
00:45:09.800
we would have started with cutting fingers and arms off.
00:45:13.260
And then you get the chopping genitals off because that's the most extreme version of that.
00:45:17.600
Um, the only thing that would be more extreme is if we get to a point where somebody goes
00:45:24.160
to the doctor and says, I want to have my head removed and they decide to go along with
00:45:28.700
Like if there's anything more extreme than the genital surgeries, it's that.
00:45:33.060
Um, so as always, you know, it's not really a, if it is a slippery slope, it's more that
00:45:37.360
we like, we plunge to the bottom of the slope and then we circle back and we cover the bases
00:45:44.940
Finally, one more thing, Daily Wire has this classic board game dumbed down to be more
00:45:49.100
inclusive and less intimidating to young people.
00:45:52.060
One of the world's most popular board games is being altered to be less competitive and
00:45:57.840
Scrabble's parent company, Mattel, announced the move on Tuesday.
00:46:01.000
Uh, the first major change in 75 years, the new version will involve of Scrabble will
00:46:05.320
involve a second side to the board that is collaborative and faster paced to make gameplay
00:46:09.520
more accessible for anybody who finds word games intimidating.
00:46:12.820
The classic word game will debut a new way to play the game called Scrabble Together on
00:46:19.060
the flip side of the board and it'll be for less competitive people and, um, the new version
00:46:27.940
It will also have helper cards with prompts and clues as well as an option to play on teams.
00:46:33.960
So, they're making, uh, inclusive board games now.
00:46:37.960
You know, I have to say that, you know, I, I find this personally offensive on a very deep
00:46:44.560
Uh, I take board games very seriously, uh, way too seriously.
00:46:48.620
Um, I take them so seriously in fact that most members of my family refuse to play board
00:46:55.640
I have been banned from board games by most members of my family.
00:46:59.720
Um, I have some members of my family that have put me on a board game moratorium that
00:47:04.220
has lasted for like a decade and I'm not even making that up.
00:47:06.880
In fact, in my family, we had one particularly intense game of, uh, Scattergories, which is
00:47:12.200
And we had a very intense game of Scattergories 10 years ago and it's still brought up, um, and
00:47:18.520
used against me anytime I recommend or I suggest playing a board game.
00:47:21.860
So that's how intense it was and I take it seriously.
00:47:27.980
Uh, as I mentioned before, the game Settlers of Catan, I love Scrabble too.
00:47:31.760
Settlers of Catan is, is the most important game to me.
00:47:34.460
I am, not to brag, uh, extremely good at that game.
00:47:38.640
Um, probably one of the top players in the world, I would assume anyway.
00:47:43.900
And there are only three people in my life willing to play me in that game.
00:47:48.060
And one is my wife and the other two are my brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
00:47:51.540
And we've basically been in a Catan tournament that lasted, you know, it's lasted about, I
00:47:55.580
don't know, it's lasted many years at this point.
00:47:57.440
And if we've played 50 times, I probably won 47 of those games.
00:48:02.660
And, uh, they would dispute that record, but they're not here right now.
00:48:06.860
And of course, there are always snitches in the audience that will like tweet at my wife
00:48:18.220
Anyway, the point is, uh, I take board games very seriously, um, as one of the top board
00:48:23.460
game competitors in the world and probably in history.
00:48:26.020
And I see stuff like this and I find it, it's deeply unsettling because it's an insult.
00:48:36.160
It is to destroy your enemies by any means necessary.
00:48:42.300
That's why even when I play board games with my kids, I don't let them win.
00:48:46.940
None of my kids have ever beat me in any game because you have to earn that.
00:48:51.480
And so I'm on a, certainly against them on a, I'm on a win streak of every single game
00:48:54.960
I've played against them because you gotta, you gotta earn it.
00:49:01.240
I was playing shoots and ladders with my kids recently.
00:49:06.160
He was about to get to the end and he landed on the space with a really big slide, you
00:49:10.040
know, that's like, it's almost, you're almost at the end and the slide takes you all the
00:49:16.280
And my other kids were like, oh, dad, can't he just skip that?
00:49:20.200
And I said, no, sorry, bud, back down the slide you go.
00:49:33.480
Um, and so that's the way I look at these things.
00:49:38.340
And, uh, so this is, uh, just a, a disgrace and an insult.
00:49:43.300
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As ESPN reported this week, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, which oversees
00:51:54.180
many of the smaller colleges in the country, has just passed a policy banning males from
00:51:59.780
Although, of course, that's not how ESPN phrased it.
00:52:02.740
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the governing body for most small
00:52:06.740
colleges, announced a policy Monday that will all but ban transgender athletes from competing
00:52:12.620
The NAIA policy of Council of Presidents approved a policy in a 20-0 vote.
00:52:18.120
The NAIA, which oversees some 83,000 athletes at schools across the country, is believed to
00:52:22.360
be the first college organization to take such a step.
00:52:25.020
According to the Transgender Participation Policy, all athletes may participate in NAIA-sponsored
00:52:29.400
male sports, but only athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth is female and who have
00:52:34.820
not begun hormone therapy will be allowed to participate in women's sports.
00:52:46.860
Of course, it's observed at birth or before birth, even.
00:52:50.620
Second, the policy does not ban transgender athletes from competing in women's sports.
00:52:54.620
In fact, a woman who identifies as trans is free to play women's sports all she wants,
00:53:02.520
The whole point is that you can self-identify however you want to, but you still have to
00:53:08.160
play with your biological category, like everybody else.
00:53:12.000
But these are the standard falsehoods that we expect from ESPN when they're pretending
00:53:17.000
And we heard more of them when non-binary, quote-unquote, ESPN writer Katie Barnes appeared
00:53:21.540
on CNN with Jake Tapper to discuss this policy this week.
00:53:26.280
Joining us now to discuss is journalist and author of Fair Play,
00:53:30.060
How Sports Shape the Gendered Debate, Katie Barnes.
00:53:34.480
What do you make of the NAIA's new transgender participation policy?
00:53:40.640
Well, I think it is reflective of the times that we are in.
00:53:45.020
In terms of, for the last three or four years, we have seen most policy updates, when it comes
00:53:51.480
to transgender athletes, be reflective of restriction and in favor of more restrictive
00:53:57.020
And this seems to fall right in line with that.
00:54:00.000
Now, I'm not going to get hung up on this like I usually do, but I just have to point
00:54:03.540
out that she used the term reflective twice, and it was not a natural word choice in either
00:54:08.600
She says, we have seen most policy updates be reflective of restriction.
00:54:12.360
Now, what she means is that they are restrictive policies.
00:54:15.740
Reflective of restriction is an incredibly awkward and wordy way of communicating that idea.
00:54:20.980
And this may seem like semantics, and mostly it is, I admit, but this is also a natural reflex
00:54:25.300
for liberal journalists in general, and in particular, the ones who are also trans activists.
00:54:32.520
Every answer must be made passive and vague and weirdly unclear and noncommittal.
00:54:38.380
Now, this is partly reflective of intellectual insecurity on their part, and partly it's
00:54:44.180
a strategy to make their insane ideas less coherent, and therefore less objectionable
00:54:48.800
to the average listener because they have no idea what they're saying.
00:54:54.440
There is a narrative that transgender female athletes have an advantage, that they always
00:55:01.280
win, that the reason that men and women generally compete in separate gender categories is because
00:55:08.720
it's not particularly competitive for men to compete against women.
00:55:16.460
Before we get to her answer, I have to jump in again here.
00:55:22.580
The narrative is not that transgender women, quote unquote, always win.
00:55:28.500
After all, these are always mediocre or poor male athletes who make this kind of switch.
00:55:34.080
Men who can dominate in men's competitions never seem to discover a female identity, which
00:55:40.380
And given that these are poor to mediocre athletes, it's quite possible that the most excellent
00:55:45.960
female athletes on the other side might have a chance to beat them, depending on the sport.
00:55:50.280
But even if they're beaten, they still had an unfair advantage.
00:55:53.220
Whether that advantage wins them the game or the gold medal or whatever is not the point.
00:56:01.720
Just as it would be unfair for me to show up to a foot race in rollerblades, okay?
00:56:06.840
Now, I might still lose because I haven't used rollerblades since I was like 10, but that
00:56:10.720
doesn't make it suddenly fair for me to use them in the first place.
00:56:20.520
Well, I think it depends on what you mean by support that.
00:56:38.800
Once again, the trans activists simply cannot answer any question directly.
00:56:45.300
They have to make every answer as unnecessarily vague as they possibly can.
00:56:52.380
You know, for my reporting and having really reported this out for many years, the reality
00:56:58.060
is that from a scientific perspective, we know that there are differences in sexes and
00:57:03.540
we know that the differences do tend to lead to athletic performance differences as well.
00:57:09.640
However, when we look at broad-based restriction at all levels of sport, it's very challenging
00:57:17.940
to say that scientifically that is supported in all cases, meaning that something that might
00:57:23.940
be appropriate for swimming does not necessarily apply to basketball when it comes to individual
00:57:29.680
sports versus team sports, as well as level of competition.
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And so the idea, I think, that transgender women have an advantage in all sports at all
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times, regardless of any kind of medical transition, I don't think that the scientific literature
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So once again, we have the dishonest straw man reframing of the question.
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She says that the research doesn't support the idea that, quote unquote, trans women have
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There are probably sports where trans women, i.e.
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I mean, figure skating, if you count that as a sport, I think probably women have an advantage,
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There's also a sport I discovered recently called extreme ironing, which is real, and
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that's where people iron clothes in remote locations.
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But anyway, I mean, that's one where women would excel, and I'm sure there are other examples
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But, and as for at all times, it's an interesting qualifier.
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Well, they don't have an advantage at all times.
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I assume that would mean that all men are better than all women at all sports, which again, is
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So, she's dancing around and trying to argue against positions that are not actually positions
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And let's continue on to see if she eventually gets around to making some kind of coherent
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Would there be a way to come up with a rule that was more individual specific or sports
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specific that might not be, I mean, it sounds as though you're suggesting, and if I'm putting
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It sounds like you're suggesting this policy is not necessarily fair, given how blanketed
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Is there a way to do something like this that would be more fair and more reflective of what
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is factually known about gender differences in different sports, etc.?
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You know, I don't know if it's, I don't know if it's right for me to say whether or not this
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I think that right now, where we are as a society is really grappling with what does fair and
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And in general, most athletic organizations in many states across the country are embracing
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And I think there are a lot of people raising questions about whether or not that is fair
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So we have our third time that the word reflective is used in this five-minute conversation, by the
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More importantly, what you're hearing in this conversation is defeat.
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Katie Barnes, with they, them pronouns from ESPN, isn't going to go on CNN and say, yeah,
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I mean, obviously, men and women are different.
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But if that exact conversation we just saw there had been on CNN three years ago, and
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of course, conversations like that were on CNN three years ago, the tenor would be very
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We would have heard how trans women, quote unquote, are obviously exactly the same as biological
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women, and anyone who says otherwise is a transphobe.
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And now what we hear is this kind of evasive, weak, obscure nonsense about how the jury is
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out, and studies must be done, and we can't know for sure.
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Men do have a biological advantage, but that is secondary to the simple fact that men are
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not women and therefore should not be treated as women, no matter what sort of advantage
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If there's anything that exists that's supposed to be for women, if it's a women's sport,
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if it's a women's club, if it's a women's whatever, a women's restroom, okay, men don't
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So what Katie Barnes is saying here is totally ludicrous and without factual merit, but it
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is notable that she's so noncommittal and so equivocal in her responses.
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You cannot claim that sex differences don't exist or that so-called trans women are no
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You can't make that definitive claim without being immediately dismissed by almost everybody.
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So instead, these people, they retreat behind the supposed uncertainty around the question.
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Uncertainty that they have invented entirely, but uncertainty about the differences between
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men and women is not the same as certainty that there are no differences.
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The former position represents a retreat and they are retreating.
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And now we just have to keep pushing them back until sanity fully reigns again in our culture,
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And in the meantime, Katie Barnes, they, them, is today canceled.