Ep. 1361 - Residents Secede From Crumbling, Crime-Infested City. Leftists Cry Racism.
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A community in Louisiana is accused of racism after seceding from a crumbling, crime-infested city and forming their own. Is this a solution that could be adopted nationwide? Also, the fratboy uprising continues in response to the leftist protests on college campuses across the country. The Biden administration seems intent on promoting marijuana usage as much as possible. There s been yet another rash of pit bull attacks around the nation. You may think that you know my opinion about it, but I might surprise you.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a community in Louisiana is accused of racism after seceding
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from a crumbling, crime-infested city and forming their own. Is this a solution that
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could be adopted nationwide? Also, the frat boy uprising continues in response to the
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leftist protests on college campuses across the country. The Biden administration seems
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intent on promoting marijuana usage as much as possible. Why is that? There's been yet
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another rash of pit bull attacks around the nation. You may think that you know my opinion
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about it, but I might surprise you. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Norman Browning took a job as a volunteer coach at Woodlawn High School in East Baton Rouge,
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Louisiana. Now, Browning had been educated by Baton Rouge's public schools, and he wanted to
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give back to the community. But very quickly, he realized that Woodlawn was very different from
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the school that it used to be. For one thing, there wasn't very much discipline. Teachers didn't
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have close relationships with parents. They didn't seem particularly interested in doing
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their jobs. Test scores were abysmal. And additionally, demographics had shifted
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dramatically. Students were poorer than they used to be, and there wasn't much of the fabled diversity
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that we're told is so important. More than half of the student body was black. Meanwhile, Baton Rouge
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and its schools were becoming increasingly violent. Currently, it's one of the 10 most dangerous cities
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in the entire country. Here's just one recent example of a common sight in Baton Rouge schools. Watch.
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This was the scene before class began on Wednesday morning at an EBR readiness high school. Fists
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flew, and students fought with law enforcement. If you can be enroute to a fight, it's going to be
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deputies rushed to the school where things quickly spiraled out of control, leaving some students scared
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and confused. I'm just waiting on my mama to come. They pepper sprayed me. Everybody's just trying
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to get out. Everybody's just trying to go home at that point. At least 10 teenagers were arrested.
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There were also moments where students in law enforcement got into it with each other.
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I seen the police. He slammed some dude's head to the wall, and he had sent them on the floor and
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put them in handcuffs. It was just brutal. The police was just hitting on the kids up and up.
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Outside, a gun was found in the grass. We had to use other people's phones to call
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our people. They had people's mamas pulling up. They fighting.
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Parents quickly showed up to pick up their children, and some even got involved in the fight.
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So just a normal day at school, learning the ABCs and the 1-2-3s.
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So there's a big fight in the school, and then the parents show up, and they get involved in the
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brawl too. And then a gun turns up, and the cops are not remotely surprised by any of this.
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This kind of thing has been happening consistently in Baton Rouge for the past decade or more.
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As the Daily Mail reports, on a single day in 2013, Browning observed as many as six
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separate fights between unruly students in one day. Now, instead of shaking his head and moving
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on, which he very easily could have done, Browning decided on a different course of action.
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As the Daily Mail reports, Browning decided to help lead a breakaway movement to effectively secede
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from East Baton Rouge Parish and incorporate a new city called St. George. And this new city would have
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schools that admit students who actually want to learn, and teachers who want to teach,
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and hopefully the students will have parents who want to parent. That's the idea.
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And the idea was a bit of a long shot. Other movements to incorporate new cities and secede,
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most notably the effort by Buckhead to secede in Georgia, have fallen short. And that's mainly
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because local politicians, including conservatives, have stood in the way, have prevented these people
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from, you know, protecting their families and making their lives better. But after a campaign
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that took the better part of a decade, in 2019, voters finally approved the ballot initiative to
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create St. George. What followed were years of legal battles that ended finally last week when
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the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in a four to three decision that St. George can indeed incorporate.
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St. George will be a 60 square mile area with a population of more than 85,000 residents.
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For comparison, Baton Rouge is 76 square miles with a population of more than 200,000. And so that will
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make St. George one of the largest cities in the state. They'll have their own mayor,
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their own public services, their own city council. Watch.
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...as highest court has sent its ruling down, paving the way for St. George to officially become its own
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city. Fox 44's Deshaun Johnson has more on this decision.
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It's been an ongoing debate for years in the capital area whether or not St. George should
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be incorporated into its own city. And today, that final decision was given the green light.
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They had hoped that we would get this process done. They voted in this election.
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I will proceed to have conversations to determine the best course of action.
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The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in favor for the new city with a four to three vote. Andrew Murrell,
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who was a lawyer for the St. George Incorporators,
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says that this ruling made today was something efficient for the area.
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We are open for everyone. If you want more opportunity, you want a better life,
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Now, a key part of the Louisiana Supreme Court's ruling is that contrary to what Baton Rouge claims,
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St. George has the financial means to be self-sustaining. And that's not surprising.
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Taxpayers in that area that's now known as St. George pay roughly two-thirds of the total tax
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revenue of the government of East Baton Rouge. But they receive only about one-third of the
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government's expenses in return. And despite paying all those taxes, St. George residents
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haven't been represented in the mayor's office in Baton Rouge in modern history. So in other words,
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St. George is vital for East Baton Rouge's economy. And in return for all the tax revenue
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St. George has generated, Baton Rouge has done basically nothing for St. George. They
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made their neighborhood more dangerous and their schools even worse. And on top of that,
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the people of St. George have no real representation in local government. So now,
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East Baton Rouge isn't going to get that tax revenue anymore, at least not anywhere near the
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same amount. In fact, St. George residents are currently seeking tens of millions of dollars
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in back taxes that they've paid to the East Baton Rouge parish government since 2019.
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So you have to wonder why this isn't happening more often. Governments that don't provide basic
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services or representation for their citizens don't deserve tax money from their citizens. That's a pretty
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intuitive principle. And there's no rule that says you can't make your own city if you want to. Quite
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the opposite. The right of free association is a fundamental part of the Constitution. So why isn't
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this more commonplace? Well, one reason might be that anyone who attempts to incorporate a sane,
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high-functioning city will, of course, be immediately defamed as racist. And predictably,
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that's been the main reaction from the left to the incorporation of St. George. There has been
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no reckoning about the failures of Baton Rouge's leadership whatsoever. There's been no discussion
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about, look, why would all these people want to leave in the first place? Instead, no, they're just
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racist. So here, for example, is a former president of the NAACP in Baton Rouge reacting to the ruling
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of the Louisiana Supreme Court. Watch. Well, when you look at the basis of what they publicly said about
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their argument to separate from the city of Baton Rouge, it's been based around better schools,
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right? Which, in itself, on its face, doesn't make a ton of sense, right? Because you have some
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people that have supported this movement that have held a hold seat on our school board, right?
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And it's supposed to be their job to improve schools. So that notion in itself is kind of
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contradictory to what we see on its face. Not to mention, when you look at the makeup of the organizers
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and you don't have any people of color amongst them, it's hard not to make the assumption that
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this is something that might be racially driven. But at the same time, I have to be honest and say
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that the rhetoric of the narrative that they have pushed has been about better schools. But I don't
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see how separating our district or separating the school district can create better schools.
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You know, the other question that somebody like this will never ask is, you know, when
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the residents of St. George say, hey, we don't want to be around all the crime and all the violence.
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We don't want that for our families. We don't want that for our children.
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You know, that's what they're saying. And then his response is, his response is, oh,
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so you don't want to be around black people? Like what is, so what are you saying exactly is the
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question. The NAACP guy starts off by saying that some of the people leading the secession
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movement are on the school board. So they're responsible for the failing schools. Apparently,
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the school board members should have used their vast influence in order to prevent brawls from
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constantly breaking out. They also should have forced the students to be smarter and work harder
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and the teachers to care more about their jobs and also force the parents to actually parent their
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children. Then his argument devolves into accusing everybody in St. George of racism, of course.
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They didn't stay and try to fix East Baton Rouge's broken school system. So they must be bigots who
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just want to get away from black people. And the right thing for them to do is just keep sending
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their kids into these schools to try to fix it. Because that's what your kids are supposed to be
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doing, right? That's what you're supposed to be doing with your kids, is sending them into broken
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school systems in order to fix the school. Now, call me crazy, but I think the job of the school
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is to educate your kid, not the other way around. So if the school's not doing its job, then you take
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your kid out. This is one of the stock responses you'll hear on the left in response to the secession
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of St. George. For example, on Twitter, a black activist, quote unquote, named Samuel
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Sin Youngway wrote, they're seceding from a majority black city to create a whites-only
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enclave in Louisiana. Now, of course, just as a factual matter, not that facts matter to these
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people, but what this activist is saying about the new city isn't true. It's not a whites-only
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enclave because there are black people living in it. Specifically, 12% of the population is black,
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which is roughly the same percentage of black people you'll find in Barack Obama's preferred
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island of Martha's Vineyard, by the way. It also mirrors the overall percentage of black people in the U.S.
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at large, which stands at around 14%. So in other words, these activists are calling St. George a
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whites-only enclave, which means they're also, in effect, calling the entire country a whites-only
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enclave. Additionally, Woodlawn High School, which I mentioned earlier, is within the limits of the new
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city of St. George. This school, with a lot of black students attending, is not being abandoned by this
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new city. The point is to improve its leadership so that there's more learning going on and maybe a
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little bit less fighting. It's crazy of an idea as that is. Of course, if you let these activists
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talk a little more, it becomes very clear what they're really upset about. They're not upset about
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racism or whatever. They know that East Baton Rouge, like so many other cities in this country,
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is dysfunctional. And no sane person would want to continue funding it with their tax dollars.
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What bothers these activists is that their source of funding is about to go to zero. Their cash cow
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is abandoning them. They'll have to be productive for once and solve their own problems without
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taking other people's money and wasting it. That NAACP president in Baton Rouge eventually gets
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around to kind of admitting that. Listen. Not to mention, when you look at how they plan on
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supporting themselves, it's pulling a lot of the resources and the tax bases from Baton Rouge,
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stuff that has been used to keep our city stable, right?
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So I think Sharon Weston Broom, the mayor there, said the city of Baton Rouge could lose at least
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$46 million annually as a result of this. At least and probably more, right? So you take all that
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into account, this is going to hurt the underserved. This is going to be paid for on the backs of poor
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black folks, right? Because... So it's pulling a lot of the resources and the tax bases from Baton
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Rouge, stuff that is used to keep our city stable. This is going to be paid for on the backs of poor
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black folks, he says. There's finally some honesty there. It's true that without St. George, Baton
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Rouge will probably have a lot of financial problems to deal with. But the people responsible for those
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problems are not living in St. George. They're running Baton Rouge, which is losing population by the
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day. As the Louisiana Supreme Court said in its decision, quote, Baton Rouge has arguably experienced a
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windfall by collecting taxes in St. George without returning proportionate money in
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services. Incorporation will allow the money paid by St. George citizens to stay in St. George.
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The record establishes the population of St. George is increasing. Conversely, the population
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of Baton Rouge is declining. So as St. George creates its new school system and builds out its
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infrastructure, it's very likely that Baton Rouge's population will continue to decline. And that's
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why already there's an effort by Baton Rouge activists to get the Louisiana Supreme Court to
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reconsider its decision. But that will probably fail, as it should. For one thing, some of the economic
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success of St. George will almost certainly benefit Baton Rouge in a variety of ways. St. George will
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keep many more people in the area, and the residents there will still pay for some services provided by
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the government of East Baton Rouge. But more importantly, if St. George continues to thrive,
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it will send a very clear signal to dysfunctional governments all over the country. And that signal is,
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stop wasting our tax dollars, or we will leave. And we will take our tax dollars with us.
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That's how our system was always supposed to work. Our country was founded on the principle
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that governments cannot lawfully tax people without representing them or working for their
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benefit. And with the succession of St. George from the capital city of Louisiana for the first time
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what the UCLA protester encampment looks like now that it's been cleared out and the protesters are
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gone. Let's take a look at this. This is the aftermath of it. Taking a look around the encampment
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after police have gone through here and forced the pro-Palestinian demonstrators out.
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CHP tells me a hundred people were taken into custody during this operation. Took about three
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hours. What a mess. Okay, so there's garbage everywhere. There's tents left behind, trash
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strewn all over the place. So UCLA's campus now looks like the rest of California. Totally disgusting
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and unlivable, again, like so much of the rest of the state. And this kind of thing really pisses me
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off. And I'll tell you why. It's because it goes to show, of course, that these frauds are obviously
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not really environmentalists. They're not really environmentalists in the one single way that
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matters. The one single way. Because the one single form of environmentalism that really matters
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is the simplest form. Clean up after yourself. That's the only kind of environmentalism that
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anyone should give a damn about. Don't litter. Don't leave garbage all over the place.
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That's all the environmentalism we need. If everybody did that in the world, we'd be okay.
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We'd live in a, not a utopia, but at least a much cleaner place. So clean up after yourself. That's
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it. But they don't do that. And that's why liberal hotbeds like cities and college campuses are often
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so gross and grimy and cluttered and littered. And if you get a bunch of these liberals together in
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one space for a protest or anything, really, you can be guaranteed that the place is going to look
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like a garbage dump when they leave. So they want carbon taxes and they want plastic straw bands and
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they want carbon, they want a carbon cap. All these complicated measures and policies that they want
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passed down from the federal government. And they do that. And while they wait for that to happen
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and for those things to be done from on high, they continue to just throw their garbage anywhere
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they want. Instead of doing the thing that they can do right now. It's like, this is a bit of an
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odd analogy, but it's like someone who says that they want to, who's overweight and says they want to
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get in shape. And so they start talking about, well, I got to get a, here's all the fancy gym
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equipment I need to buy. Here's this. I need to get to talk to a dietician. I need to get the diet plan.
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I need to do this. Like setting up all of these things that need to be done first, rather than
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doing the simple thing, which is just like right now, like don't. So they're coming up with all
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these plans while in the process of eating French fries. Like just don't eat the French fries right
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now. You start right now with the simplest thing. And if you do that, you might even find out that
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you don't need all that other stuff. And the environmentalists kind of take the same approach.
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It's like, rather than doing the one thing that you can do,
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that we all learned. If we grew up in the nineties, we all learned this from Captain Planet.
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That's the one thing we all learned. Don't litter. Don't, don't throw your stuff on the ground.
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And that's why I'm actually, by the way, a big proponent of anti-littering laws. This is the one
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kind of environmentalist law that I wholeheartedly support. I would give jail time to people who
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litter if I could. And I don't even, that's not even a joke. I would give six months in jail
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for a first time offense of littering, for sure. Because it just shows what a total disregard for
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everyone else that you have. Like cleaning up after yourself is simple, basic thing. It requires
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almost no effort. And if you can't do that, then you deserve to be punished. It's like we went to
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the movies last week and we finally saw Dune 2, by the way, which I enjoyed. But anyway,
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there was a, you know, of course you see this kind of stuff all the time, but, but walking through
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the parking lot, there was a, a, um, a bucket of popcorn that had just, someone just thrown in
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the parking lot and it still had most of the popcorn in it. Just so someone walked out and
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just threw their bucket of popcorn on the ground in the parking lot and walked. There's a trash can
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20 feet away. And so the mentality, like think about the mentality of doing that. Just say,
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I'll just leave it here. I don't care. But you don't care about anybody. You have no concern for
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anybody. You're a total sociopath. And, uh, and I would be totally in favor of cops. See that
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happen. You get arrested on the spot. You're going to jail. Um, although I will say in this case,
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one of the problems for these people, not to make excuses for them is that they didn't have trash
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cans to throw their garbage in because they had cut up their trash cans to use as shields against the
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cops. Um, use them as shields to, I should say, very unintentionally humorous effect. Take a look at
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this footage. I have so many questions. Like, first of all, what did,
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did you mean to run into him? It's like the other guy, the other, the other, uh, dorks with
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the garbage can shields, they just kept running. They ran away. Like they weren't even being chased.
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Uh, the cops were just standing there. This is the most obvious trap in the world. They're just
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standing there. And this guy runs right into him to be arrested. Uh, you know, a few days ago, my,
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my seven-year-old was running around the house with a wooden spoon, uh, that he was using as a,
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or some sort of utensil that he was using as a sword. And he had a bed sheet, you know,
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uh, tied around him as a cape. So the classic move. And that's basically what these people are doing.
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Uh, like they, they, they might as well make a fort out of couch cushions at this point
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and put like a sign that says, uh, no parents allowed in front of it because it's all, it's total
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make-believe playing pretend. These are like, these are, it's like a Renaissance fair. These
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are dorks at a Renaissance fair. I went to a Renaissance fair once. I don't, for some reason,
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I don't know why I went, but I was there was actually just last year. I was at a Renaissance
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fair. I was talked into it and, uh, I was there and there was a jousting match and it wasn't nearly
00:22:54.160
as cool as you want it to be. It was so pathetic. Uh, and, but it was, it was kind of like this.
00:22:59.800
Even that was more exciting than what you see from these people, except that even though it's
00:23:06.760
pathetic and nerdy, and these are a bunch of weak, ridiculous losers, they are actually in real life
00:23:12.640
committing crimes. And then they're fighting the cops when the cops show up. Now they're fighting
00:23:18.120
the cops badly and in a very funny way that makes us laugh at them because they're scrawny and weak,
00:23:24.500
but they're still committing serious crimes. And yet as local news reports, the court system
00:23:29.660
is not exactly treating it seriously. Watch this. She says she's a student and, um, she's just being
00:23:37.240
released. As I said, you'll see, she has a citation. She also has her breakfast here and she certainly
00:23:42.920
will be, uh, supported by other protesters who have also been released in front of the Twin Towers
00:23:48.880
correctional facility, as well as fellow protesters who are here just to, uh, welcome them as they leave,
00:23:55.800
uh, the facility here. By the way, they're not being brought inside the facility itself.
00:24:00.260
From what I understand, they're being processed at a parking lot outside as they are bused in here,
00:24:05.120
uh, from the UCLA campus. We'll send it back to you.
00:24:09.060
Okay. So they're, they're not even being brought into the jail. They're being given citations and
00:24:13.240
then breakfast. They're getting a catered breakfast. Uh, and these are people who are guilty of
00:24:19.680
many crimes, not just one crime, many crimes. Um, and this is, this is how it's being treated.
00:24:27.340
And yet these people will still pretend to be persecuted by the system. They'll still pretend
00:24:31.000
that they're fighting the system and that they're persecuted by the system and that this is something
00:24:36.640
they're being treated unfairly in some way. But that, I mean, I've, I've heard this even from
00:24:41.920
people on the right that, um, people on the right of, well, you know, the BLM protests,
00:24:48.060
the cops didn't respond at all. And now they're, now they're really, uh, now they're putting the
00:24:51.780
hammer down. Why is that? What are you talking? No, they're not. What are you talking about? Are we
00:24:56.260
watching the same thing? First of all, none of these protesters are getting any real jail time.
00:25:01.320
So just like BLM and the cops show up like a week later after letting the protesters do whatever
00:25:07.360
they want for the week. That's exactly what they did with BLM. It's the same thing. They let them do
00:25:11.100
whatever they want for several days. And then finally they show up same exact. So it's actually
00:25:15.620
no different. It's the same thing because, uh, the, the privilege they enjoy as leftist protesters
00:25:21.340
is, is absolute. Um, now I want to stay on these protests for the next story, which is very much
00:25:29.660
related because one trend we've noticed one, one very positive and a joyous trend is that the frat
00:25:38.520
boys have risen up on campuses across the country and come out to oppose the pro-Palestine
00:25:44.640
protesters. And we've seen this on, on many campuses. Uh, most famously we saw the frat
00:25:51.080
boys holding, holding up the American flag and shielding it from the protesters that were trying
00:25:55.400
to defile it with truly inspiring image. And I say that without a hint of sarcasm or irony. It's like,
00:26:01.260
it's a great image. Here's a clip of a, that was just circulating yesterday, even though
00:26:06.120
that this happened several days ago, but here's a clip of those guys as they're holding up the flag,
00:26:11.340
um, interacting, interacting, shall we say, with one of the protesters. Listen,
00:26:16.700
lose some weight. He says, and then he had some other choice words, which, uh, we, we had to bleep
00:26:35.680
out, but that was there. You noticed there was, they weren't really debating the issue. Um, they
00:26:40.120
weren't, they weren't getting into a political debate. Uh, their answer was just like back off
00:26:45.940
and lose some weight. And then yesterday the, the frat boys again showed up this time at the
00:26:50.740
University of Mississippi. And here's what that scene looked like.
00:27:15.940
So, uh, yeah, they're just kind of there mocking and jeering at them. Uh, and you know, on the one
00:27:38.160
hand, this seems to present a pretty clear binary choice for, for all of us. Uh, and it does,
00:27:44.020
it does present a clear choice. Would you rather be on the side of the dorks with the trash can
00:27:48.980
shields or the frat boy in the star spangled overalls? Like on one hand you have, uh, a scrawny
00:27:56.700
nerd with a trash can shield wearing a, you know, wearing a COVID mask. And on the other hand, you
00:28:03.580
have the guy with the star spangled overalls. Who would you rather align yourself with? And who do you
00:28:09.420
want as allies? I think that's a pretty easy choice. Certainly easy for me. And I can tell you no matter
00:28:15.860
who's on the other side, I could never, ever, ever lock arms with anti-American green haired
00:28:21.200
communists. I could just never do it. I could never do it under any circumstance. Um, but we should
00:28:29.320
also acknowledge that most likely, you know, most of these frat boy types are not getting involved
00:28:35.620
because they care deeply about, uh, the war in Gaza. You know, most of them probably have no
00:28:41.700
opinion. Now I don't want to speak for them. Maybe some of them do feel strongly about it. I'm sure
00:28:46.000
some of them do, but I think, I think it stands to reason. I think we could probably assume that most
00:28:51.280
of them have no opinion or have only vague opinions about what's happening overseas. Um, because that's not
00:28:58.000
the point for them. The point is that they see a bunch of anti-American, anti-white leftist weirdos
00:29:04.240
freaking out and they instinctively want to antagonize them and take the opposite position
00:29:09.880
from them. And that's, that's a, that's a very good instinct. You know, you can see some of these
00:29:15.920
frat boys in some cases, at least one that I saw, uh, waving Israeli flags also. And maybe it's because
00:29:23.220
the guy waving the flag really cares about Israel. Maybe, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was doing
00:29:28.720
that just to upset the other side, just because he knew that would send them over the edge, just because
00:29:33.240
he thought the funniest thing I could do right now to these people, they start waving an Israeli flag
00:29:38.280
in their face. Um, and it wouldn't surprise me if, if that was the motivation and that would be
00:29:43.720
hilarious if, if that was the motivation. In other words, you know, these kids and we're calling them
00:29:48.680
all frat boys, but, uh, I mean, they're not necessarily, maybe some of them are, but they're
00:29:53.740
actually just normal white kids. They are what we're really saying when we say frat boys on these,
00:29:59.800
like what we're really talking about are white male college students. And, um, so these kids,
00:30:06.820
frat boys are not, they're just that they're normal. They are advocates for normalcy. They
00:30:13.200
have the most normal view of this whole thing. And their view is basically, well, I don't know
00:30:18.840
what's going on overseas that much, and I don't care that much, but these jackasses over here are
00:30:23.580
acting ridiculous and I'm going to make fun of them. Like their view is this is hilarious. Like
00:30:29.260
this is objectively funny. And so let's go make fun of them for a bit. And that's what they're
00:30:35.580
doing. And that is the right approach. It's the right approach because it's the normal approach.
00:30:42.060
And I prefer that by the way, when I say that these kids are not politically involved and don't
00:30:45.940
care that much about the issue, I don't say that as a lament. Like I'm not saying, oh, they need to,
00:30:50.740
you need to get better informed. And no, I'm not saying that. Um, I'm not, I'm not even saying,
00:30:56.520
well, they should be engaging in a, they should be going there and engaging in a civil dialogue,
00:31:00.540
a debate, you know, they should be making points. No, not really. Cause the other side doesn't care
00:31:07.240
what your points are. They're not there to debate. Like no one shows up to something like this to
00:31:10.960
debate you. They don't care. They're not listening. Um, the best thing you could do is treat it just
00:31:18.220
like this. Treat it as a joke. Don't take it seriously. Treat it as a joke. You know, the,
00:31:23.780
by the way, the left used to be very good at doing that to the right. Uh, very good at
00:31:29.340
treating everything the right did as a joke, just like as something that we shouldn't even
00:31:33.400
take seriously. It's just ridiculous. And they don't do that as much anymore. At least they don't
00:31:40.400
do it effectively because they've gone the other way. Now, everything the right does,
00:31:44.500
they take very seriously because everything the right does is like the end of the world.
00:31:49.060
And it's a fascist conspiracy and it's a plot to take over the world and it's oppression and
00:31:53.080
it's genocide. Like everything the right does, everything we say is genocide now.
00:31:57.400
So they're not really laughing at us anymore. They can't laugh at us because we are,
00:32:00.460
we are supervillains to them. And we're, we are just by having our opinions, we're killing people.
00:32:05.660
So it's not funny. So rather than pointing and laughing at us, everything that now,
00:32:11.340
everything that we do, they say, well, that's not funny. This is serious.
00:32:15.920
And, um, the left was a lot more effective with the other approach. I'm glad they've stopped using
00:32:20.920
that approach because again, it was effective, but it was much more effective when they just
00:32:25.120
made a mockery of everything that we did. That was, you know, you look back at like the tea party
00:32:30.020
movement, for example, and that was right on the edge of when the left was making this transition
00:32:34.900
to, uh, no, no more laughing is allowed and everything is very serious, but there was still,
00:32:40.980
I think the kind of the predominant reaction to the tea party from a lot of leftists was just to
00:32:48.300
make a mockery of it. Just, just treat it like a bunch of these dorks here. Now in that case,
00:32:52.740
I don't think that it was true, but that's how they responded. I think it was a more effective
00:32:56.300
response, um, than what they do now, which is to blow everything out of proportion and take it far too
00:33:04.140
seriously. And so this is what, this is what's happening back in their direction. I think it's
00:33:08.880
the right way. And, uh, and these, these guys, they're, they're, they're exhibiting
00:33:14.140
sort of the basic male instinct to ruthlessly mock something that is bizarre and strange and
00:33:22.420
dishonorable and embarrassing and unpatriotic. And I think that bodes even better for the future of
00:33:29.820
the country. Now, the problem of course, is that there there's hardly anyone in politics or media
00:33:36.160
or in the public eye at all, who's very interested in representing and defending and sticking up for
00:33:42.360
normal people who want to live normal lives. There's just not a lot of that. Instead, there's
00:33:47.400
a real hatred of normalcy on both sides. Now it's mostly on the left, but there is some of that on the
00:33:52.480
right. We talked a couple of weeks ago about, uh, the right wingers who were mocking a guy for
00:33:56.980
having a nine to five job, you know, calling him a slave and, uh, and an NPC and all of that.
00:34:03.980
The guy has a nine to five job. He has a wife, you know, he, he, he, what is he's having a baby.
00:34:09.400
He goes to work, he comes home. He does, he does, you know, he runs some errands. Just living a normal
00:34:14.580
life. And even people on the right, they were treating that like making fun of it. And that's,
00:34:21.440
that's a weird, strange attitude to have. That's not normal. Like you're not being normal
00:34:25.560
when you act that way. Can you imagine somebody responding that way in normal conversation? Like
00:34:30.320
if someone said to you, Hey, what do you do for a living? And you said, Oh, you know,
00:34:33.040
I work at the office down the street. And they said, wage slave. You're an NPC. What are you?
00:34:39.500
Some kind of automaton? Like that wouldn't even offend you. You would just stare at them like what?
00:34:44.560
You, what you dork. Like what the hell is wrong with you? It's a bizarre antisocial response.
00:34:53.560
And you do find that on the right and the left, though, again, mostly on the left.
00:34:58.400
Um, and with this conflict in Israel, you really see this dynamic brought to the forefront because
00:35:03.220
on both sides, you have factions who are deeply, deeply concerned about some war overseas between
00:35:09.540
people who've hated each other for centuries. Um, you know, and, and you have factions on both
00:35:14.440
sides that just have intense feelings about it and demand that you share those feelings. They demand
00:35:21.100
it. Meanwhile, normal Americans honestly don't care that much and, and would prefer to focus on stuff
00:35:27.020
that matters in their own country. I mean, go up to any average person in real life and ask them how
00:35:31.120
they feel about what's happening in the middle East. And you will get some version of, Oh yeah,
00:35:36.120
man, that, that sucks. Yeah. Pretty crazy. Yeah. Yep. Uh, yeah. Wow. Like that's what you need to
00:35:44.280
get from, from a, just stop someone's average person on the street that you'll get something
00:35:47.720
like that. And, um, again, I don't say that as a lament that that's, that's a normal. It's like,
00:35:54.340
cause it's not, this is something thousands of miles away. It doesn't know there's no bearing
00:35:57.620
in my everyday life. Why should I care? Why should I be deeply invested in that? Why should I spend
00:36:02.960
every waking moment of my life thinking about this and like talking about it and on social media,
00:36:10.900
obsessing over it? I mean, prior to the internet, that wouldn't even be an option. Like prior to
00:36:15.260
the internet, if things are happening thousands of miles away, yeah, you might find out about them,
00:36:18.740
but you would only ever, you could, you could read a newspaper article about them once a week,
00:36:22.360
or maybe not even that often. And that would be it. Like it wouldn't even, it wouldn't even be an
00:36:27.200
option to obsess over it on a daily basis every day. There's not enough content to do that with.
00:36:33.620
So you'd really have no choice, but, uh, there's some war thousands of miles away. You read about
00:36:37.340
a newspaper article on a Sunday and then you put, and that's it. That's the only thing you read about
00:36:41.340
it. And then you go about your life. Um, and I think that that that's a healthy and normal way to
00:36:50.040
live. And that's how a lot of people want to live, but there's just not a lot of representation of that
00:36:54.340
viewpoint. All right. So I wanted to mention this. The Biden administration moved Tuesday to
00:37:01.200
reclassify marijuana as a lower risk substance. A person familiar with the plans told CNN,
00:37:07.000
this is a historic move that acknowledges the medical benefits of the long criminalized drug
00:37:11.520
and carries broad implications for cannabis related research and the industry at large.
00:37:16.600
The U S department of justice recommended that marijuana be rescheduled as a schedule three
00:37:20.220
controlled substance. The classification shared by prescription drugs, such as ketamine and
00:37:24.980
Tylenol with codeine. Um, today, Merrick Garland circulated a proposal to reclassify marijuana from
00:37:30.780
schedule one to schedule three, according to the DOJ's director of public affairs with a name that
00:37:35.800
I won't even try to pronounce X O C H I T L. First name, last name, H I N O J O S A. Hinojosa is the
00:37:45.860
last name. That's not too hard. Zakatol. How do you pronounce that? Like you can't go around with a
00:37:51.480
name like that. You just can't. It's it. Sochi is what I'm being told. That's Sochi. That's how you
00:37:57.760
pronounce that. Sochi. Say it again. Sochi. Sochi Hinojosa. So the X sound is an S sound. And then
00:38:07.900
there's this TL hanging out at the end of the, of, of the name that just doesn't get pronounced at all.
00:38:12.860
It's just sitting there for no reason is what you're telling me. That you just can't, you can't
00:38:18.160
have a name like that. That's just, you can't have that name. If I was in charge, you're not having
00:38:21.780
that name or you're spelling it differently. Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yeah. So marijuana.
00:38:26.760
So they're rescheduling marijuana. And here's the only thing I'm going to say about this.
00:38:31.800
And I know it upsets certain portion of the audience quite a bit when we talk about,
00:38:35.280
when we talk about marijuana. And fortunately, I don't really care when people are upset.
00:38:41.000
So I'll just say again, it's worth asking yourself, why do they want you smoking this stuff so much?
00:38:50.460
Like, why are the powers that be going out of their way? I'm not asking you to get,
00:38:54.320
to get super conspiratorial about this because it's not very conspiratorial. This is, this is not some
00:38:58.740
sort of far flung, far fetched conspiracy I'm talking about, but why do they want you smoking
00:39:05.360
this stuff? They're going out of their way to make it as available as possible, as accessible as
00:39:10.860
possible, making it legal. And then also now they're, now they're rescheduling it. They're,
00:39:16.900
they're reclassifying it to say that it's less dangerous than it was before. Like,
00:39:21.420
and does that even make any sense? Like what, what changed?
00:39:25.840
What, why is it a lower risk substance now, right now in 2024, if it wasn't before?
00:39:32.120
I mean, if anything, like hasn't marijuana gotten more potent over the years?
00:39:36.120
So it's gotten more potent, but it's, it's lower risk than it was 20 years ago.
00:39:42.240
How? That doesn't make any sense. So, uh, but this is what they're doing.
00:39:46.300
And these are the most powerful people in the country who very clearly have no problem
00:39:53.160
with your, with your marijuana habit. And they very much want you to continue it. And they want
00:39:57.600
you to smoke it even more. And they're doing everything they can to remove all the hurdles
00:40:00.680
that they possibly can. And anytime you say that you see something like that, you should always ask
00:40:05.400
yourself like, Hmm, what, what, what do you, what do you get out of this? Like, what do these people
00:40:10.400
get out of this? What do they get out of you smoking a lot of pot? Cause they clearly want you
00:40:15.320
to. Hmm. It's a, you know, it's almost like, uh, these people know that marijuana makes you,
00:40:24.300
uh, sedates you, you know, makes you, um, numbs you, makes you kind of lethargic,
00:40:35.500
zoned out, not paying attention. Like it's almost like they, they know it has that effect.
00:40:39.520
And that's exactly the kind of population that they want because that's a population that doesn't
00:40:46.480
resist whatever it is that they're doing. Something to think about. Let's get to the
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Brandon says, yikes, I could be wrong, but if Matt continues talking about the anti-Semitism
00:41:57.900
question, he won't be at the Daily Wire anymore. Now, it's interesting. I keep being told that I'll
00:42:03.440
be fired from the Daily Wire for saying the things that I say all the time on the Daily Wire.
00:42:09.740
So I say these kind of things all the time, and every time I do, the comments come pouring in.
00:42:16.140
Watch out, Matt. Watch out. And the other thing that has been interesting to me is that is to see all
00:42:23.460
the commentary responding to, you know, me speaking out against these hate speech laws, as I've been
00:42:28.840
doing. And there's a lot of commentary about what I've been saying, and the commentary insists that
00:42:35.840
this is some kind of change for me, that I'm going out on some sort of new limb saying these things.
00:42:44.140
Oh, why is Matt speaking out about this now? What's going on?
00:42:47.400
No, this is what I've always said, okay? I've always had this position.
00:42:51.120
None of this is new to me. I haven't changed my views at all on this stuff.
00:42:57.560
My views on hate speech laws have not changed. My views on what constitutes anti-Semitism
00:43:03.440
or any other kind of bigotry has not changed. My views on Israel and wars overseas and the
00:43:15.080
situation in the Middle East, that hasn't changed. I have changed my views. Remarkably few of my views,
00:43:28.340
let's say, have changed. Now, some of them have, as naturally happens to anybody as they continue
00:43:35.760
living. You're not going to have the same opinion about everything. It's not like your opinions get
00:43:41.460
locked in when you're 20 years old and they don't change at all. At least it shouldn't. If it works,
00:43:45.200
if that's the case for you, then that's another problem. There's the one problem of changing your
00:43:51.160
views constantly because you're trying to triangulate and not offend people and all that,
00:43:55.860
or because you have no grounding, no principles. And then there's the opposite problem of never
00:44:01.200
changing any of your views because you're not thinking at all and you're not a critical thinker
00:44:04.900
and you're not intellectually honest. For me, I think where I am, it's pretty, you know,
00:44:10.600
going back to being normal. It's a pretty normal thing. Like I have basic principles that have
00:44:13.840
stayed mostly the same, changed my views on a few things. That's where I've been. And
00:44:21.400
so I don't know what to tell you. Just, you know, you can check me on this. You can go back.
00:44:28.280
I've been saying a lot of things for a long time. I have a, there's, I have been speaking publicly
00:44:34.480
for a long time and you can go back and you can kind of track it and you'll find that like, wow,
00:44:41.940
he's literally been saying the same thing. If anything, that should be your criticism of me.
00:44:46.840
Your criticism should be, I repeat myself way too much. But I've been saying the same thing on the
00:44:50.940
same topics for like 10 years. So if anything, I would think that that would be the criticism.
00:44:56.600
So you'd be saying, Hey man, change it up a bit. Like you're, it's a little much. We get it.
00:45:03.440
Instead, what I often get from the peanut gallery is the accusation that when I, when I say something,
00:45:10.420
that's the same thing I've been saying for 10 freaking years. Somehow it's a, it's a new,
00:45:14.740
it's a shift. This is a shift in my thinking. It's not. Okay. Another comment says awareness
00:45:22.060
should never be anything more than a civil social concept, never legal or enforceable.
00:45:26.860
I think that's exactly right. Anytime you hear about any law that has anything to do with
00:45:32.140
awareness, especially if awareness is in the title, like it is with the anti-Semitism awareness act.
00:45:37.320
Anytime you hear that, you automatically know that something is wrong because that is not what a law
00:45:41.060
is supposed to do. Laws are not designed to raise awareness about things. Another comment says,
00:45:47.240
shout out to Mark Dice for coining the term anti-whiteism years ago. Indeed. And very useful term.
00:45:52.680
And I think a, a, a term that we should start using more often. And also, you know, on, on the topic of
00:45:59.920
anti-whiteism, there's a, there's an important distinction here that I thought about yesterday
00:46:06.120
that is worth making that because on one hand, you know, I sort of, I started the show talking about
00:46:11.900
the problem of anti-white racism, anti-whiteism saying how Donald Trump wants to address it.
00:46:17.400
So it says he's going to address it. If he gets a second term, I think that's a good thing. He
00:46:20.340
should address it. And then I end the show talking about anti-Semitism and there's a law that's
00:46:24.880
supposed to address anti-Semitism and I'm opposed to that. So how could that be the case? Well,
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it's the case, a few reasons, but the main thing is this, that anti-white racism, anti-whiteism
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is, is enshrined right now in politics. It is actual, it is actually systemic. So when I talk
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about especially having a political leader fight anti-whiteism, I'm not talking about stopping
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people, private citizens from saying they hate white people. You have the right to say that.
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You can say you hate anybody. You can say you hate me. You can hate anybody for any reason.
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I'd be very clear about that. The problem is that anti-white racism is the one kind of bigotry that
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is actually systemic in that it is written into our policies. It is enforced by the government.
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And so when I want someone, when I say someone like Donald Trump or any political leader should
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be fighting it, that's what I'm talking about. Getting it out of our laws, getting it out of our
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policies so that white people are actually treated equally by our policies. And, and that is, and
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that's the difference between anti-white racism and any other kind of bigotry you can name.
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But all these other kinds of bigotries, although they certainly exist, like every kind of bigotry
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exists. You know, you take any, any type of person, there's, there are people out there who hate that
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type of person. That's always the case. But anti-white bigotry is the only kind that is
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actually explicitly, uh, systemic and systematic in our country. And that's the big difference.
00:48:05.920
The countdown's officially on Sunday, May 12th. We here at the Daily Wire are setting out
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Well, disturbing video circulated yesterday showing a man in Philadelphia being attacked
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and mauled by a pack of dogs in the middle of the street.
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The local ABC News affiliate reports that there were four dogs involved in the attack.
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The other was a Cain Corso, who apparently, I guess, fell in with the wrong crowd.
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And I think we're going to have to blur pretty much this whole video, but here is footage
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So I'm glad we got the commentary from that guy.
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Anyway, so you watch that, the first thing you think is, where is Kristi Noem when you need her?
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Fortunately, I will say the man did survive that attack.
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It was an attack that happened to occur on the same week that a nine-year-old girl in Iowa was mauled by a pit bull and sustained severe injuries.
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The owner of the dog in that case was arrested.
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And also the same week, two pit bulls had to be euthanized after attacking a 58-year-old man in Baltimore.
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All three of these incidents happened only a few weeks after a three-month-old baby was mauled and killed by the family pit bull in New Jersey.
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And a few weeks before that, a 35-year-old man in California was attacked by his pit bull, and he did not survive the attack either.
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Now, it's not especially surprising, of course, that pit bulls are responsible for all these attacks.
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After all, pit bulls and rottweilers together account for nearly 80% of fatal dog attacks, even though they comprise less than 10% of the dog population.
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And as you can see from this chart, the vast majority of those are pit bulls, with rottweilers coming in a very distant second place.
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Now, pit bulls account for 60% of all dog bite injuries, and the injuries they cause are much more likely to be severe.
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Overall, pit bulls are far more likely to attack and far more likely to cause serious death or injury when they do attack.
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They are both the most aggressive breed and the breed most capable of inflicting maximum damage.
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And that's the reason why I have been, in the past, a very vocal proponent of banning pit bulls.
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There's no disputing the fact that these dogs are uniquely dangerous.
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They are, the statistics clearly show, by far and away, the most dangerous breed of dog, a breed that is genetically predisposed to aggression.
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There's a reason why every single one of us, if we see a stray pit bull running down the street, we will be extremely worried if the dog approaches us.
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But if we see a stray golden retriever or lab or beagle or any of dozens of other breeds, we will not be nearly so concerned.
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I made this argument again on Twitter yesterday in response to that video we just played, and I got 6,000 responses, and many of them quite angry.
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Not angry about the pack of dogs mauling that guy.
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Instead, no, they were angry at me, so a rabid pack of pit bull owners descended on my comment section, accusing me of anti-pit bull bigotry.
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They said that it's not about the breed, it's about the owner.
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They said that their own pit bulls are the sweetest little darlings in the world.
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They said that banning pit bulls would be somehow just like banning guns.
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They said that there's no such thing as a bad dog, only a bad owner.
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They made all the arguments that I normally find so absurdly unpersuasive.
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But this time, I have to admit, I know I just said I don't change my mind very often, but they really got through to me.
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I read all these thousands of comments of pit bull owners crying hysterically because I had an opinion that they didn't like.
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Pit bulls might be disproportionately dangerous and far more likely to kill or maim than almost any other breed.
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But I realized that you pit bull defenders are right.
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Like, why should that stop you from bringing them into the community?
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Yes, they might try to eat your neighbor's child, but frankly, that's none of your neighbor's business.
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And sure, yes, there are plenty of other breeds that are much, much less likely to attack.
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And even if they do attack, are much, much less likely to do any significant damage.
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But why shouldn't you skip over all of those significantly safer breeds and specifically choose the one that poses the greatest statistical risk to everyone around you, including your family and yourself?
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Pit bulls are genetically predisposed to aggression and built to inflict maximum damage.
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But why should that have any impact on your decision to adopt them?
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Sure, yes, the risk you take by adopting a pit bull is also a risk that you're forcing everyone around you to take as well.
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I never understood the wisdom of this perspective before, but now I really do.
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In fact, I'm so persuaded that I've decided to take these arguments and apply them to my own life.
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After all, every pro-pit bull argument could be used to justify the ownership of literally any dangerous animal.
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And that's why I've decided to go out, and it's a little bit unique, but I've decided to go out and adopt a hippopotamus and keep it at my house with my children in my neighborhood where other people live.
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Now, look, I know what the anti-hippo bigots might say.
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They'll say that hippos are massive animals that are extremely aggressive and very dangerous and totally insane to keep at your house.
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They'll claim that it's far too risky to own an animal like that.
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They'll point out that hippos are the deadliest large land mammal on the planet responsible for killing 500 human beings a year.
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The statistics say what they say, but there's no need to worry about statistics.
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Hippos may kill 500 people a year, but there are 8 billion people on Earth.
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That means 7,999,999,500 humans aren't killed by hippos every year.
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Now, it's estimated that somewhere around 10,000 people globally are killed by lightning strikes each year.
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And that means you are far more likely to be killed by lightning than by a hippo.
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You know, you see, the statistics don't matter unless they're the weird and random statistics that I decide to use,
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where I compare animals to inanimate objects and natural phenomena.
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But the basic, straightforward statistics about how aggressive my animal is, those don't matter at all, you see.
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And when I decide to take my hippo for a walk in your neighborhood, you may feel concerned.
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You may feel like it's perhaps unfair that I should bring a highly aggressive and dangerous animal around you and your family,
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forcing you to inherit the risk that I've decided to take with my own life.
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But what you should understand is that, you know, there are no bad hippos, only bad owners.
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And you might think this is an argument for at least requiring that hippo owners obtain some sort of license
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and go through some sort of training, given that I'm admitting that a poorly raised hippo will indeed be a danger to the community.
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I am putting all of the danger of hippo ownership on the owners,
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but also not agreeing to any sort of regulation or requirement for the owners.
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You may hear all these stories about hippos mauling and attacking people,
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but I could pull out my phone right now and show you so many photos of my hippo not attacking or mauling anyone.
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How could hippos be dangerous when I have literally dozens of photos of my hippo not being dangerous?
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Yesterday, I put a silly hat on my hippopotamus.
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Are you seriously trying to tell me that an animal in a silly hat can be dangerous?
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And if you don't see that, it's because you're blinded by your anti-hippo prejudices.
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Besides, telling me that I can't own a hippo is a slippery slope.
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First, you stop me from owning the most dangerous land mammal in existence.
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Next thing I know, you're confiscating my guns.
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You're kicking me out of my house, forcing me to live in the sewer.
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However, you see, guns are things that I have a right to own, and a hippo is also a thing.
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You see, because the two things are both things.
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Now, you might claim that they're very different things, but I fail to see the difference.
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If I were to draw a Venn diagram with hippo in one bubble and a Glock 19 in the other,
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that middle intersecting bubble would be full of similarities.
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Now, for example, first of all, they're both things.
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Second, well, anyway, like I said, there are too many to count.
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You might be saying, Matt, there are so many different pets that you can safely own.
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Why do you have to go out and adopt the one kind of pet that presents such a unique and singular risk
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Why do you have to, why can't you just not own a hippo?
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Why does your desire to own a hippo outweigh everyone else's desire to not be mauled to death by a hippo?
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Look, it may hurt you to be crushed to death in the jaws of my hippo,
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but it hurts me even more to hear you say mean things about my pet hippo.
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Yes, my hippo can crush your skull, but your anti-hippo rhetoric crushes my soul.
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Anyway, thank you to the Pitbull owners who have shown me the wisdom in this line of thinking.
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I apologize, truly, for all the years I've spent criticizing you.
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I thought that you were all totally and completely insane and irresponsible.
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All of the Pitbull critics and the hippo critics are wrong.
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That'll do it for the show today and this week.