Ep. 1347 - Leftist Activist Threatens To Murder Government Officials, Immediately Regrets It
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As Iran launched an attack on Israel over the weekend, anti-American left-wing activists in our own country have become more and more emboldened. One activist even threatened to murder her entire city council if they didn t call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Also, a proposed change in California will make it a felony for pedophiles to purchase children to abuse. Isn t that already a felony? Well, not in California, apparently. And Bill Maher makes an argument for abortion that shocks and horrifies his audience.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, as Iran launched an attack on Israel over the weekend,
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anti-American left-wing activists in our own country have become more and more emboldened.
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One activist even threatened to murder her entire city council if they didn't call for a ceasefire
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in Gaza, though she became a lot less bold when they put her in handcuffs. Also,
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a proposed change in California will make it a felony for pedophiles to purchase children to
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abuse. Isn't that already a felony? Well, not in California, apparently. And Bill Maher makes an
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argument for abortion that shocks and horrifies his audience. It's a deranged argument, but it's
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It's difficult to predict exactly what World War III might look like, but this weekend we got a
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preview of how a lot of people will react if and when it does break out, and what we saw wasn't
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exactly encouraging. It was sort of like a scene out of Dr. Strangelove crossed with some parts of
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Dumb and Dumber with grainy videos of drone swarms added in, playing out all over the country.
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This was a spectacle that, unless you were glued to cable news or social media over the weekend,
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you might have missed, and if so, consider yourself lucky. As you've probably seen by now,
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Iran launched a swarm of drones and missiles towards Israel on Saturday, and for several hours,
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as the attack unfolded, there was pandemonium online. There were reports of huge explosions in Tehran,
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suggesting Israel had already launched a massive counterattack. That wasn't true.
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There were Austin Powers steamroller memes mocking the extraordinarily slow travel time
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of the Iranian drones, which apparently take several hours to make the trip to Israel.
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And there were even dramatic photos of flight tracking radar data of a so-called doomsday plane
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leaving Israel, supposedly carrying Israel's cabinet away from a potentially catastrophic attack,
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which also wasn't true. It was all a very strange mixture of false information and hysteria.
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Now, not to be outdone, there was also evidently pandemonium in the White House. First,
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reporters said that Joe Biden would interrupt his vacation, imagine that, on the beach to address
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the nation. And it's a big deal when Joe Biden does something like that, because normally it takes
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the release of a special counsel report proving that he's completely demented. But in this case,
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they said he was going to address the nation. And then the White House announced that actually,
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Joe Biden's not going to address the nation after all. He's not going to say anything.
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And they called a lid for the day. And that was it. So we really had no guidance whatsoever from our
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supposed commander in chief as any of this was going on. And that was a deliberate choice.
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Turns out that as this attack on Israel was unfolding, the White House had a pretty good idea
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of what was coming and how it was going to play out. And that's because for about two weeks,
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Iran had been promising to retaliate against Israel for its military strike in Damascus on April 1st,
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which killed several Iranian military commanders. And Iran says that the commanders were
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inside an embassy, but they also concede, according to New York Times, that they were
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talking about military strategy for the war in Gaza. Quote, a member of the Revolutionary Guards,
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which oversees the Quds Force, told the Times that the strike had targeted a meeting in which
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Iranian intelligence officials and Palestinian militants were discussing the war in Gaza.
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Among them were leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a group armed and funded by Iran.
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Well, embassies aren't generally the place for strategic conversations like that. You kind of
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forfeit diplomatic protections when you use the building for military purposes. But in any event,
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Iran maintained that the Israeli strike was unlawful and they vowed a response.
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But here's the thing. They apparently cleared that military response with Western powers. As the
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Jerusalem Post reports, quote, Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel,
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a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that the U.S. conveyed to Iran via
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Ankara that its operation must be, quote, within certain limits. That means that the White House,
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I guess, greenlit some sort of Iranian military response. And it seems like a pretty big story.
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But as of now, we don't know what exactly those limits might have been or whether Iran complied
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with them. But let's assume the story is accurate. The upshot is that for now, Iran's response,
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rubber stamped by the White House, reportedly, doesn't appear to have done a significant amount
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of damage. Right now, Israel says that with the help from the United States, Britain, and apparently
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several Middle Eastern countries, including Jordan, it intercepted 99 percent of the drone and missile
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launches from Iran, which is not entirely surprising since the drones were traveling at slow speeds.
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At the same time, some ballistic missiles did land in Israel, particularly around a military base,
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causing some damage. There were reports of several injuries, including a seven-year-old girl who was
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seriously hurt by missile fragments. That's where things stand now. But of course, further escalation
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is possible. It's difficult to say what will happen next. What we do know is that the response in this
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country has been pretty revealing, tells us a lot about the priorities of our leaders and the level
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of insanity that normal level-headed people are up against. For example, the Seattle Police Department
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announced yesterday afternoon on social media that, quote, SPD is closely monitoring the conflict between
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Israel and Iran. Now, this is a city where everyone's high out of their minds all the time. People are afraid
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to walk alone after dark or even in daylight. But don't worry, residents and vagrants of Seattle,
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your police department is closely monitoring a conflict 7,000 miles away from your city.
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Now, that announcement on social media came with a link to the Seattle police blotter,
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and the slightly longer explanation raises more questions than it answers. Here's what it says,
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quote, the Seattle Police Department is closely monitoring the conflict between Israel and Iran and
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are working with local and federal agencies to ensure the safety of Seattle community members.
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As a precaution, we will proactively increase patrols around infrastructures and sensitive areas.
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SPD's community liaisons are working with community leaders as a prevention measure.
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Currently, there are no specific or credible threats. As always, SPD is committed to the safety of
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Seattle community members. So what are they concerned about exactly? Are they concerned that Iran
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might attack Seattle next? Given how long it took Iran to get drones to Israel, I guess we can expect
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the attack on Seattle to happen sometime in the year 2027 or something. Or not at all, because there
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is, of course, absolutely no reason why any government official in Seattle, much less law enforcement
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officials, should be concerning themselves with a war halfway across the world. That's what's happening.
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Elsewhere on social media, immediately after this attack commenced, activists and the pundit class
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divided themselves up into teams. And it's disconcerting to watch, but it's exactly what
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you expect. On one side, you had the nothing ever happens crowd who dismissed this attack as yet
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another non-event. On another side, there were some sober, serious commentators. They were a distinct
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minority, but you have some of them sometimes. And on the much larger third side, you had people
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treating this like a sporting event, basically. And as usual, when you're dealing with a sport,
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some people inevitably take it far too personally. They turn these events into their identity. They
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lose all perspective. They become determined to make the events in the Middle East about themselves.
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And they become very confused, even threatening, when other people don't agree with them.
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And for most people in this camp, they kept their frustrations on social media. But this phenomenon
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is not remotely limited to social media. There are now an increasing number of activists who
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are willing to appear in public and act on this insanity. Of course, a few weeks ago, as we all
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recall, an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force set himself on fire outside of the Israeli embassy
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in Washington. He was screaming, free Palestine, as he killed himself. And then on Friday, there was a
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slightly less dramatic act of protest that took place at a city council meeting in Bakersfield,
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California. There's a woman named Reedy Patel, who was apparently born and raised in Bakersfield,
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according to one of her online biographies. And she stood up at this meeting to urge the city council
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to endorse a ceasefire in Gaza. Now, as you may know, geographically here, Gaza is also many thousands
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of miles away from Bakersfield. And the city council in Bakersfield has precisely no ability
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to influence the government of Israel or any other country. The Bakersfield city council has no one
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involved in the conflict in the Middle East is looking to Bakersfield for their guidance on this.
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Their authority is, you know, mostly about fixing potholes and things like that in their own town.
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But that didn't stop Patel, who has a degree in neuroscience somehow, by the way,
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didn't stop her from stepping up to the podium and saying this. Watch.
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Hi there. My name is Reedy Patel. I'm here to speak in support of the city council introducing a
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ceasefire resolution, specifically the one United Liberation Front has drafted. I don't have faith
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that you'll do this. You guys are all horrible human beings and Jesus probably would have killed
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you himself. And the thing is, though, it's very clear to me as someone who's been an organizer for
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the past couple of years that none of you care because you guys don't care about anything
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happening in Palestine or any other country where oppression occurs because you don't care about
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the oppression occurring here. And I understand that you guys are all horrible people. But the
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thing is, 2,300 people being evicted in the last year, those are votes. And you guys, those are votes to
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win here in Bakersfield. And while you guys parade Gandhi around, as a Hindu holiday called
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Chaitra Navratri starts off this week, I remind you that these holidays that we practice, that other
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people in the Global South practice believe in violent revolution against their oppressors.
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And I hope one day somebody brings the guillotine and kills all of you.
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Okay, now, so ceasefire resolution she wants from the Bakersfield City Council, which, I mean,
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who knows? Maybe that's what the Middle East is missing. Maybe that's why there's been centuries
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of conflict is just that they're waiting for Bakersfield. Maybe the resolution for Bakersfield
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comes in and that'll solve it. Who knows? But so far in that clip, she stops short of saying that
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she's going to kill the mayor of Bakersfield or any of the city council members herself. She kind
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of stops short of that. She just says that Jesus would have killed them and that other people should
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kill them. So she's walking right up to the line, but isn't quite crossing it, at least not clearly.
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But that's not the interesting part of what she says in the clip. I mean, it's crazy,
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but it's not interesting. The interesting thing is how she ties the number of evictions in Bakersfield
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to what's happening in Gaza. This would have been a great moment for Rita Patel to go into detail
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about the homeless problem in California, what solutions she might have, what she wants the city
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council to do that they're not doing to address the problem. That's a topic that would actually have
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direct ramifications for the lives of Americans in her own community. But instead, here's what she
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says next. Watch. And so there's no need to continue. In the last five years, I've attended
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city council meetings. There's never been metal detectors. There's never been more cops. The only
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reason you're doing it is because people actually don't care if you guys don't like them and they're
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actually resisting. So you want to criminalize them. So regardless of whether you elect people
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into office, they'll backstab you, they'll let you die. And for that reason, you guys want
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to criminalize us with metal detectors. We'll see you at your house. We'll murder you.
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Ms. Patel, Ms. Patel, that was a threat, what you said at the end. And so the officers are going
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to escort you out and take care of that. Now, you can kind of tell from the total lack of reaction
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right after the death threat that nobody really pays attention in these city council meetings.
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You'd expect at least one person who's paying attention to gasp, like it should be kind of a
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shocking thing to hear. But nobody's really watching. It takes them a few seconds, a delayed
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reaction to it. Fortunately, the internet got a hold of the clip and everyone was able to see the humor
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in this moment as unsettling as it is. But still, it's kind of incredible how she threatens to murder
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the entire city council in such a casual kind of like, oh, by the way, sort of tone.
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She notices her time is running out. And so she just drops the, oh, yeah, well, I'm also going
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to murder the city council at their homes. Have a nice evening. And of course, the irony in that,
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in the second clip, is that she's speaking in protest of metal detectors at city council meetings.
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She's upset that they're setting up metal detectors because she's saying that we're not a threat to you.
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They're not necessary to have metal detectors. And she's going to prove metal detectors aren't
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necessary by murdering the people who requested them. So that's the logic here.
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Now, a couple of years ago, you'd expect someone like Reedy Patel to probably get away with all that.
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After all, leftist activists have torched small businesses and churches with impunity in the past
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few years. And the only response by Democrats has been to cheer them on. And that's probably what
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Patel expected to happen. In fact, you could tell that she was just, she was getting her stuff in
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her purse and she was just going to walk out. She didn't think there was any issue.
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But she was surprised when they stopped her and said, oh, by the way, I said, you threatened to
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kill government officials right in front of everybody. You're going to be arrested for that.
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She was surprised. She had no idea. And she wasn't. She seemed legitimately shocked to discover
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that openly threatening to commit first degree homicide against government officials is a crime.
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She was also deleted from the website of the activist group where she worked on environmental
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issues. So she's apparently lost her job as well. And Patel now faces several counts of making
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terroristic threats. And when she appeared in court shortly afterwards, suddenly her demeanor had
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A deputy public defender entered not guilty pleas on Patel's behalf to eight counts of threatening a
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public official and 10 counts of making terroristic threats. She's due back in court later this month.
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Not so confident now, is she? And I know, look, I know they enter the not guilty plea. I mean,
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it's a public defender. That's what they're going to do. That's a tough case. That's going to be a
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tough one. I mean, she's on video. She says, and I quote, we're going to come to your house and
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murder you. That's as explicit as you could possibly be with a threat. Now, it's not hard to watch that
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footage and wonder what would happen if we decided to enforce the law against all of these unhinged left
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wing activists who think they can commit crimes with impunity. Would all of them buckle as easily as
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this deranged Indian American woman did? Probably. The disturbing part, obviously, is that we're
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importing a lot of people into this country who openly despise us to the point of using violent
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threats to get what they want. Instead of discouraging conduct like Patel's, we're doing
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everything we can to get more of it. Last week, I spoke at length about the death to America chance
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that broke out at a rally in Dearborn, Michigan. And if you didn't see that as a reminder,
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Malcolm X said, and I quote, we live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on
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this earth. It's not genocide, Joe, that has to go. It's the entire system that has to go.
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Any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen and would support it,
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such a system does not deserve to exist on God's earth. And so when these fools ask us
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if Israel has the right to exist, the chant death to Israel has become the most logical chant
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So these, of course, are people who voluntarily live in the country that they say is the rottenest
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on the planet. They're agitating for the murder of Americans and Jews. To the extent any of these
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people are non-citizens, which quite likely describes many of them, they should be removed
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from this country immediately. But that won't happen because Michigan's top Democrats endorse all
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this. They've refused to condemn those chants. In fact, Rashida Tlaib just snapped at a Fox News
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reporter who dared to ask her whether she condemned those chants. Let's watch that again.
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I don't talk to Fox News. I don't talk to Fox News.
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At a rally in your district, people were chanting death to America. Do you condemn?
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Why can't you just say whether or not you condemn people chanting death to America?
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Why are you afraid to talk to Fox News is not, not, listen, using racist tropes towards
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my community is what Fox News is about. I don't talk to Fox News.
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I'm talking about your guys' racist tropes. You know, you guys are, you guys know exactly
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what you do. I know you're Islamophobic, but you guys got to go deal with it on your own
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So it's, uh, it's using a racist trope to air footage of a large crowd in Dearborn, Michigan
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saying death to America and death to Israel at the international Al-Quds Day rally.
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Uh, so if we, if we, once again, it's the crime of noticing. So if you notice that this
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is happening, then you are racist just for noticing it. That's according to Rashida Tlaib and
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apparently the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, who has refused to take questions
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about the incident, um, airing footage of what the diverse residents of Dearborn are
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doing is Islamophobia, apparently, which if you read between the lines is quite an admission
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by Rashida Tlaib. She's saying that death to Israel and death to America is what a core
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teaching of Islam is what she's claiming. Cause if you criticize the chance, then you're
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criticizing Islam. You're Islamophobic is what she's saying. That might not be what she
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meant to say, but it is of course the implication. Cause what she could have said was, uh, no,
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everyone should criticize people who say death to America. That's not Islamophobic cause that's
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not what Islam is about. Those people are not with us. They're not part of us. I condemn
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that. I condemn what they said. I mean, she could have said that, but she didn't. What's become
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clear even as Democrats like Rashida Tlaib want to pretend otherwise is that the rally in Dearborn
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is just one part of a much larger picture. So here, for example, is footage from a Teamsters
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conference in Chicago on Saturday, which was obtained by the free press. This is the largest
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private sector union in the country. Hundreds of activists attended and they were quickly told
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how to chant death to Israel and death to America in Farsi. Watch.
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So I'm going to teach you a chant in Persian that you can use if you've ever encountered those
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Zionist priests, whether they be Iranian or whatever. All right. Now I don't drink
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margaritas, but we all know what a margarita is. We all know what a bar is. So you're going
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to say Marg Barg. Marg Barg Israel! Marg Barg Israel! Marg Barg Israel! Marg Barg Israel! Marg Barg Israel!
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Oh, so, it has two meanings, depending on who you say it.
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Once again, everybody in that room should be deported.
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Or throw them in prison, you know, because that is a treasonous behavior.
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I mean, we could talk about the order of events here.
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Now, there are a lot of stock anti-union arguments you hear a lot,
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They protect incompetent employees while also siphoning money away from them.
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They result in higher prices and worse products, worse teachers, worse infrastructure.
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And these arguments are all familiar because they're true.
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What's less well-known is how many unions, including the largest one in the country,
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are now openly preaching genocidal rhetoric against the United States and Israel.
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I'm not talking about genocidal rhetoric in the abstract kind of leftist sense.
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I'm talking about they're actually saying death to America.
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This is a threat that, unlike whatever's happening in the Middle East right now, is already here.
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And instead of recognizing it, both parties seem completely uninterested in doing anything about it.
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The Teamsters just donated $45,000 to the Republican National Committee, as well as the Democrats.
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Why is the GOP courting the support of organized labor?
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Why aren't any Republicans calling out what the Teamsters just did in Chicago?
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Unless we want a lot more Reedy Patels showing up at city council meetings, it's not a rhetorical question either.
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The next Reedy Patel might actually follow through on her threats.
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In 2020, we saw just how easy it was for a mob to torch entire city blocks in the name of racial justice and BLM.
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It's not especially difficult to imagine what mobs motivated by outright genocide could be capable of.
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And as drones get shot down over Jordan, this is the threat that's barreling towards America.
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We can either get people like this out of the country, or we can allow them to destroy it from within.
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Let's start with some news out of California, because every time you think that the state can't become any more of a godforsaken wasteland, it proves you wrong.
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So, in California this week, state lawmakers are going to begin debating a proposed change to state law, and this change would make it a felony to purchase a child for sex.
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So, after this change, pedophiles who buy children to rape them will be charged with felonies.
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Now, if you're a normal person and you hear this, you'll think to yourself, well, hang on a minute.
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In California, as of right now, and until this new law is passed, it is and has been only a misdemeanor to commit this heinous act.
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And if you think that that's some kind of egregious, terrible oversight, like some kind of mistake that they just forgot to, I don't know how that mistake could happen, but if you think that's what it was, well, you should know that liberal groups in the state are actively opposing this change.
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Here's the report from KCRA in California Watch.
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A lot of the survivors or lived-experienced experts were saying, you've got to go after the buyer, it's just a misdemeanor.
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And I thought, there is no way, if you buy, I thought they were mistaken.
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Opponents of this measure include several criminal justice reform groups, including the Californians for Safety and Justice, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and the California Public Defenders Association.
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That association, in its opposition, has said that current law already addresses the issue.
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It also said, in part, this bill punishes some defendants more harshly, felony punishment and sex offender registration, even when those persons do not have the intent to have sex with a minor.
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Similar proposals have been blocked at the state capitol since 2014, according to legislative documents.
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We'll see what happens with this version of the bill when it has its first hearing next week.
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Well, that's an exceedingly weak explanation for why they oppose it, but it isn't like there could be a strong explanation.
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And by the way, if this story feels like a deja vu, it's because you may recall a similar controversy last year in California over a similar issue.
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And when I first heard this story, I had to go back and it's like, well, didn't we go through this already?
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Well, in that case, this same lawmaker, Groves, tried to change the law to have child sex trafficking classified as a serious felony.
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And that is that is so the the the sale of a of a child was to be classified as a felony.
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And up until that point, that was a misdemeanor also.
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And as you may or may not remember, Democrats in the state blocked that proposed law.
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They shut it down until the public pressure became so much that they relented.
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So, again, this is not this was not some sort of oversight.
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This was not some kind of weird glitch in the law, which would be already impossible to understand how that could happen.
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This was Democrats actively wanted it to be a misdemeanor.
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And it would still be a misdemeanor if not for public pressure and social media and everything, people outside of California becoming aware of this.
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And then they had to because it was indefensible.
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Now, the Democrats might want to shut that down, as they did to keep child sex trafficking misdemeanor.
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But none of them want to get on TV and actually explain why they want it to be misdemeanor.
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So when when that became the situation, they'd have to actually explain their decision.
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They wanted these these child sex traffickers, both the buyers and the sellers, to be given a slap on the wrist.
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And there's obviously a certain self-serving nature to this.
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You know, how many of the people speaking out against these laws to make child sex trafficking a felony are pedophiles themselves?
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How many are just trying to protect themselves from going to prison?
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We can't know for sure how many, but we can be we can be sure that there's some of that going on at least.
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And I think the rest of them, the ones opposing this, who are not themselves pedophiles.
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They really do empathize more with monstrous criminals and predators than they do with victims.
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I mean, we have to understand how deep the spiritual sickness is with these people.
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Because for a spiritually healthy person, a normal person, when you hear about a child being preyed upon in this way, you are filled with rage at the predators.
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Because your compassion for the child and your desire for justice makes you furious.
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You have a furious, wrathful anger at the predator.
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Out of love, do you desire the suffering of these monsters?
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But these leftists who want to go easy on child rapists and murderers and all other types of scumbag criminals,
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they just don't have that compassion and that love for the victims and for the innocent.
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I think even at some fundamental level, they despise innocence.
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You know, it's not a coincidence that the same side that wants to go easy on child rapists,
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also, this is also the side that endorses the holocaust of the unborn and the womb.
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They endorse and quite passionately support things like Drag Queen Story Hour and teaching kids about all kinds of grotesque sexual things in elementary schools.
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And you see that come out in moments like this.
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This is a story from a few weeks ago, but it's worth mentioning because most people, I think, never heard about it.
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And I didn't hear about it myself until this morning.
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But it's especially relevant now in the wake of the Dexter Reed case with the BLM set trying to have the officers in that case thrown in prison
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for an obviously totally justified police shooting where the cops were being shot at by Dexter Reed.
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A New York state trooper was acquitted of manslaughter charges on Wednesday in the killing of an unarmed man in downtown Buffalo after a high-speed highway chase.
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The trooper, Anthony Nigro IV, was found not guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter charges by Judge James Bargnessi of Erie County Court following a bench trial.
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New York's Attorney General, Letitia James, charged Trooper Nigro last June in the fatal shooting of the man James Huber, 38, of Northeast Pennsylvania.
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Trooper Nigro, 40, of Eden, New York, had faced up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
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Charles W. Murphy, the president of the New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association, said in a statement that the union was pleased with the verdict.
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A spokeswoman for Ms. James, Letitia James, said in a statement that the office remains committed to conducting thorough and transparent investigations of every case following the facts of pursuing justice.
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The spokeswoman then continued, We offer our sincerest condolences to Mr. Huber's loved ones.
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Nicole Fry, Huber's sister, said my brother didn't deserve to die that way, so the family's upset, as you'd expect.
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So this state trooper, Anthony Nigro, was charged with first and second degree manslaughter, as you heard, facing 25 years in prison, just found not guilty in the shooting.
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The suspect, James Huber, was pulled over after driving erratically and going over 100 miles an hour on the highway.
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And in fact, he led the police on a high-speed chase.
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And he then got off on the local roads, and they called off the chase for some reason, I guess because for safety, they didn't want to, you know, whatever the policy is.
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But then he was pulled over anyway a short time after that, and that's when, you know, Nigro pulled him over, and the shooting occurred.
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So let's go back to the body cam footage, which was released back in 2022, and we can see how this unfolded.
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And so here's the footage, along with an explanation of what you're seeing from the YouTube channel Law & Crime Network.
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A New York State Trooper of the Year is now charged with manslaughter after he allegedly shot and killed an unarmed man who refused to get out of his vehicle.
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Law & Crime Network first brought you the story last year, when body camera video was released of the February 12, 2022 shooting.
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At the time, officials responded to a call for an erratic driver.
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Officials say the driver, 38-year-old James Huber, was speeding at more than 100 miles per hour along Interstate 90.
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When Huber crashed into a state police squad car and headed for downtown Buffalo, the search was called off.
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But Trooper Anthony Nigro IV later caught up with Huber in the city's downtown.
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Body camera video shows Nigro approach Huber's vehicle, telling him to get out.
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Get the f*** out! Get the f*** out! Get out! Get out!
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Next, Huber appears to reach for something in the center console of his vehicle.
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The vehicle then takes off and crashes on its side near a parking ramp.
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Cops tried to stop him. He fled. Eventually, he is stopped.
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Nigro approaches the vehicle. Gun's already drawn.
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His gun's already drawn, which makes sense, given that they were just involved in a high-speed chase with this guy.
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And he tells Huber to get out of the car. He tells him multiple times he refuses.
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And then we can see in the video, Huber turns and reaches for something in the center console.
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And as you can see in the video, this is not subtle.
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This is not one of those things where he just like kind of vaguely moves his arm and then the cop says he was reaching.
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This is not a gray area. Like, it's on the line. It could go either way.
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This is, he turns very deliberately, very clearly, turns away from the officer and reaches over.
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I mean, you know, we should not be calling stuff like this merely justified.
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We should be applauding and rewarding them for their courage.
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Because, you know, simply walking up and approaching a vehicle with some erratic lunatic behind the wheel,
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That's, that's, and look, I know that people these days roll their eyes when we talk about cops being heroes and being courageous.
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And whenever I see a case of a bad cop doing something bad, I'm never hesitant to call it out.
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But it's also true that it takes real bravery just to do some of the stuff that we consider normal for cops.
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And if you don't believe me, then I ask you, like, put yourself in this same situation.
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Would you want to walk up to the car in that case with that suspect inside?
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How much would I have to pay you to walk up to that car in that situation with that guy inside there just involved in a high-speed chase,
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100 miles an hour, driving erratically, some lunatic behind the wheel, you know, anything else about him?
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Like, how much would I have to pay you to approach that car and try to, not even just approach it, but try to get that guy out of the car?
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Because, I mean, you could easily die in the process.
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The guy behind the wheel, the suspect, if he has a weapon, which he very easily could, it only takes him one second to pull it out and shoot you in the face, and you're dead.
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So, how much money would I have to pay you to approach the car under that circumstance?
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I'll tell you this, for me, it would take a lot.
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In fact, I don't know if there's any amount that would be enough.
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But this is the kind of situation that cops are in.
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While getting paid a lot less than it would take for me or you, probably, to walk up to that car in that situation.
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And that's only taking into account the physical risk.
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So, put yourself in Nigro's shoes all over again.
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In fact, you have every reason to think that most likely he is.
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Because he's obviously already engaged in, he already seems to be desperate to evade justice.
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And on top of that, so there's the physical risk.
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But on top of that, you realize that if you don't walk the tightrope perfectly, right, in this life or death situation,
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if you act a little too quickly, you'll go to jail forever.
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So, there's two different ways that your life could be over after this.
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So, I ask you again, how much would I have to pay you to approach the car in that situation?
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I think for me, again, I mean, you could say $10 million.
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It's like I might easily die or maybe even more so, I could end up in prison.
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Because even if you do handle it perfectly, even if you're entirely by the book,
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if you do everything exactly as you should, you might still be charged with a crime.
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And then you're at the mercy of a judge or jury or both.
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If you cannot recognize the situation these guys are in, and also the fact that we still
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I mean, you can't have someone driving down the highway at 100 miles an hour.
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We need people who will stop someone who's driving 100 miles an hour and being erratic
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Like, we need people in that role to stop people like that.
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And I think we all, unless you're totally brain dead, you recognize that.
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You recognize that we do, like, if you want to have a civilized society, you need laws.
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And then if you want to have laws, you need law enforcement.
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So unless you're completely brain dead, you recognize at least those two.
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If you don't recognize those two things, then I'm not interested in talking to you.
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But if you recognize those two things, then it's like we need people to do this job,
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but then we've now created a scenario where it's just, it's a lose-lose every single day they're facing.
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And in fact, a cop approaching a vehicle like that, like that exact, and again, this is a relatively normal kind of situation for a cop to be in.
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This is just approaching a car where there's a guy that's been doing something erratic and dangerous.
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Happens all the time, cities all across the country.
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But a police officer approaching a vehicle like that in this environment
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is in a more difficult situation in that moment than you will ever be in your entire life.
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Like you will probably never in your entire life be in a situation where
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both your life and your freedom simultaneously are on the line to that extent.
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He's juggling more things with more at stake in that one single moment
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than you will probably ever have to in your whole entire life.
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He's getting paid what a Home Depot manager gets paid to do it.
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It's just, it's not, the disincentives are so incredibly high now
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for people to do this absolutely necessary job.
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And we hear so much about teachers and, oh, the teachers are underpaid and,
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you know, the public school teachers, well, yeah, you know,
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We could get rid of the entire public school system.
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You get rid of, get rid of police officers and society is gone.
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You no longer have a civilized society without, without law enforcement.
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Get rid of public school and you can still have a society,
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And on top of that, it's like, could you pay me a certain amount of money
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You know, that's, that's, that's not some, I mean, it's difficult.
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I mean, there's, there's difficulties with it, but with these cops,
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I'm telling you that the situations they're in every day,
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you, you could not pay me any amount to be, to put myself in that situation.
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And, and all of that, the only time when I could be incentivized
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to be in a situation like that is if, is if my own life
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in which case you wouldn't need to pay me anything.
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In which case I, you know, but doing all that at the same time
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in service to a community of people, most of them,
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And on top of that, the community that hates you, I mean, so it's just,
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It says, A24 is calling civil war at a $25.7 million opening,
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largely fueled by Democrat and liberal moviegoers,
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but with over-performing business in some red state regions
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Civil War opened at $25 million and pretty big hit at the box office.
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it's, it, it portrays a fictional scenario where a civil war has broken out
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in the United States, in the modern United States.
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Lots of reviews saying that it's a disturbing kind of terrifying glimpse
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It's a warning, sort of a premonition of what's to come.
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I'll probably watch it, not in theaters, but you know,
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And so I can't offer any analysis of, of the film or the quality of the film.
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The claim is that this is a movie about a fictional civil war
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It's a lot of the, the reviews are saying that.
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Supposedly the filmmaker didn't choose a side or,
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or paint one side as liberal and the other as conservative.
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I find that extremely hard to believe, but who knows?
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What I can say without having seen the film is that for all the talk about
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how this is a look into our future, it is almost certainly not that.
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especially not one where Texas and California are on the same side,
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But no matter, no matter the sides, it's just not happening.
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And I've always said this, that I think we're, we are more divided now than we've ever been.
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the 1850s and the lead up to the civil war, the actual civil war.
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But at the same time, probably a civil war has never been less likely than it is right now.
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And the reason is that there are several reasons, many, you know, myriad reasons.
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But the main reason is that fighting a civil war takes a certain commitment,
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a certain seriousness of purpose, a certain sustained focus
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that I think we're just incapable of these days.
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I mean, I do lament the fact that we're unserious and not committed
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I lament that, but I don't lament that we're not going to fight a civil war.
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And so mainly I'm just, I'm observing the reality here.
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And, you know, there's obviously been a lot of analysis,
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hundreds and hundreds of volumes of analysis about what led to the first civil war,
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But the one factor that's usually missed, or at least not mentioned very often,
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back then, men were just cut from a different mold.
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They fought and died for what they believed in.
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They willingly accepted deprivation and suffering.
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many of the soldiers were marching into battle long, long marches,
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without shoes, without coats, without much food.
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They were dying from disease and from exposure.
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Not to mention from battle, from the violence in the battle.
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And they fought on both sides out of a sense of honor.
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And that kind of mentality just doesn't exist anymore.
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We're distracted, we're overfed, we're way too comfortable.
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We can't focus on one topic for more than 45 seconds.
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and they want to binge whatever the latest show is on Netflix or HBO Max.
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And yeah, we argue about all kinds of stuff on Twitter.
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But the idea of actually putting your life on the line for any of this stuff
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So we are too lazy and uncommitted for a civil war, is what I'm saying.
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So for that reason alone, it just, it won't happen.
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We're not, we are not the kind of people who do that anymore.
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I mean, I'm not saying we're not the kind of people who do that
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I wish that was the reason, but it's no, it's out of the, again,
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inability to focus, inability to take anything all that seriously.
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Now, riots and civil unrest are a different matter.
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The BLM riots of 2020, you know, that's, that's kind of more our speed now.
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And because that's something you can run out and you can participate in it,
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and probably you'll suffer no consequence and you won't even get arrested.
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And you're not really putting yourself in a whole lot of physical danger.
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It should be a dangerous thing to be involved in rioting, but it's not.
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And then you can be back home to watch Shogun on Hulu, you know,
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and you're back in your air-conditioned house and the apartment or your mom's basement.
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So I think that's what we can look for in the future.
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Well, there's been a lot of debate about abortion
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And these debates tend to be, as you may have noticed,
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and yet most likely you've never seen a breakthrough.
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You've never or rarely witnessed anybody change their mind
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It's like we're screaming at brick walls all the time.
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Now, granted, every debate is like that these days,
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is that one side of the discussion refuses to be honest
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but they're unable to convince you with their arguments
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because they have not even convinced themselves.
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they know that the arguments are weak and irrelevant.
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They say that the unborn child isn't a human being,
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but they, of course, realize that the body at issue here
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somebody on that side breaks the vow of silence