Ep. 1384 - Hunter Biden Was Convicted Today, But Not For The Reasons The Media Claims
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Hunter Biden has been found guilty in federal court. This is supposed to be evidence that Joe Biden is playing it fair, but it actually shows the opposite. Also, new polls show that a majority of Americans favor mass deportations of illegal immigrants. A manager at Big Lots is fired after committing the sin of trying to stop somebody from stealing. A Hollywood actor takes out a poorly written full-page ad calling on award voters to give non-whites an award. And the desperate campaign to find some sort of scandal for Justice Samuel Alito continues.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Hunter Biden has been found guilty in federal court. This is
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supposed to be evidence that Joe Biden is playing it fair, but it actually shows the opposite. I'll
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explain. Also, new polls show that a majority of Americans favor mass deportations of illegal
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immigrants. A manager at Big Lots is fired after committing the sin of trying to stop somebody from
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stealing. A Hollywood actor takes out a poorly written full-page ad calling on award voters to
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give awards to non-whites. And the desperate campaign to find some sort of scandal for Justice
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Samuel Alito continues, and it is more desperate than ever. All of that and more today on the Matt
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Today, a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware found that the president's son, Hunter Biden,
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violated the law when he lied about his drug use on a firearms form to obtain a revolver,
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speed loader, and ammunition from a gun store in October of 2018. Now, it was not an especially close
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case. Evidence showed, among many other things, that Biden was texting his drug dealer the same day he
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bought the gun. Never a smart move. But the upshot is that Hunter Biden becomes the first son of a
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United States president to become a felon in the history of the country. So we're making a lot of
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this kind of history recently. And for much of the national news media, Hunter Biden's trial and
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conviction is proof that the justice system is fair and impartial. In fact, it makes Joe Biden look good
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that his son just got convicted of felonies. That's kind of the spin here. And therefore, we should
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conclude that Donald Trump's prosecutions are legitimate. It's fine to imprison the leading
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presidential frontrunner on a novel and untested legal theory, they say, because the current
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president's son could potentially go to jail for crimes he obviously committed. A columnist for
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the Daily Beast, for example, wrote that, quote, Hunter Biden's trial shows that Trump's principal
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assertion that he's being unfairly targeted by Joe Biden doesn't hold water. CNN, meanwhile,
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reported that, quote, Hunter Biden's trial shows America's justice system isn't so rigged after all.
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In order to come to a conclusion like this, you have to ignore the circumstances of how this trial
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came about, as well as the many crimes that Hunter Biden has not been charged with, and thanks to the
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DOJ, will never be charged with. Under Joe Biden, the federal government very simply did not want to
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bring this case. And when their hand was forced by two IRS whistleblowers, the federal government did
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everything they possibly could to protect Joe Biden and to sabotage the more serious foreign corruption
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and tax evasion charges that he could have been charged with. As New York Times reported last
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year, the lead prosecutor on the case, David Weiss, quote, appeared willing to forego any prosecution
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of Mr. Biden at all, and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring
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a guilty plea on any charges. The correspondence reveals that his position relayed to his staff
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changed in the spring around the time that a pair of IRS officials on the case accused the Justice
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Department of hamstringing the investigation. Now, one of those whistleblowers, Gary Shapley,
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alleged in an affidavit that, quote, the criminal tax investigation of Hunter Biden, led by the
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United States Attorney's Office for the District of Delaware, has been handled differently than any
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investigation I've ever been a part of for the past 14 years of my IRS service. At every stage,
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decisions were made that had the effect of benefiting the subject. Shapley also stated that, quote,
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investigators assigned to this investigation were obstructed from seeing all the available
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evidence. It is unknown if all the evidence in Hunter's laptop was reviewed by agents or by
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prosecutors. Now, the testimony of Shapley and another whistleblower caused major unexpected problems
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for Joe Biden's DOJ. Their plan to bury the Hunter Biden case entirely was no longer viable. First of
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all, the whistleblowers revealed that Merrick Garland may have lied when he told Congress that the DOJ
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wasn't interfering in the Hunter Biden investigation. That had to be resolved immediately. And secondly,
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and more importantly, the whistleblowers helped establish a direct link between Hunter Biden's
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criminal activity and Joe Biden's actions. So here's one recent interview, for example.
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Watch. The IRS agents say they began finding evidence that gave them strong reason to want to
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look into Joe Biden. We not only investigate tax crimes, we investigate financial crimes, wire fraud,
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bank fraud, money laundering, international money laundering. There's all sorts of things that we have in
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our tool belt to investigate cases. So in this case, we had leads.
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The press and many people actually in both political parties say things such as
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there's no evidence tying Joe Biden to Hunter Biden's businesses or any improper activities.
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So confronted with statements like this from whistleblowers, the DOJ had no choice but to
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bring some kind of charge against Hunter Biden. They had to do something. So they settled on a plan.
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They would bring a prosecution and then immediately seek out a plea deal. And this deal, as the DOJ envisioned,
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would grant Hunter Biden immunity for prosecution for unrelated felonies that he may have committed,
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including potential violations of FARA or the Foreign Agents Registration Act relating to his
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overseas business operations. That's the law that was essentially never prosecuted until the DOJ decided
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to use it to target Trump aides, including Paul Manafort. In exchange for accepting this plea deal,
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granting him total immunity, Hunter Biden would suffer no actual punishment whatsoever. And the deal was
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too over the top, though, which is why it collapsed late last year when a federal judge refused to sign off
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on it. The DOJ admitted in court that they couldn't think of a similar sweetheart deal ever being
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offered in the history of federal prosecutions, ever, to anybody. So the DOJ was back at square one,
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but not entirely, because their strategy to absolve Hunter Biden completely may have failed,
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but their plan to insulate Joe Biden from scrutiny appears to have succeeded. As Shapely stated in his
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affidavit, the sabotage investigative process in Hunter Biden, quote, meant no charges would ever be
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abroad in the District of Columbia, where the statute of limitations on the 2014 and 15 tax charges
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would eventually expire. The year in question included foreign income from Ukrainian oil company
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Burisma and a scheme to evade his income taxes through a partnership with a convicted felon.
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There were also potential FARA issues relating to 2014 and 2015. The purposeful exclusion of the 2014
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and 2015 years sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material facts.
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In other words, the government let the statute of limitations on the most serious potential
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charges, the ones involving Hunter Biden's time working at a high-paying, no-show job at a Ukrainian
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oil company, expire on purpose. That was the whole plan. And those potential charges aren't simply
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significant because of their impact on Hunter Biden. They're significant because, as you may remember,
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Joe Biden once publicly bragged about getting Ukraine's top prosecutor fired. This was the prosecutor
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who, coincidentally enough, was investigating Burisma at the time. Watch.
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I remember going over convincing our team, our brothers, to convincing us that we should be providing
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for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev, and I was supposed to
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announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from
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Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against a state prosecutor, and they didn't.
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So they said they had, they were walking out to the press conference, said, no, I said, I'm not going to,
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we're not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You're not the
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president. The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion
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dollars. I said, you're not getting a billion. I'm going to be leaving here, and I think it was, what,
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six hours. I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not
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getting the money. Oh, son of a, got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid.
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So that is Joe Biden admitting that when he was vice president, the U.S. threatened to withhold
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funding to Ukraine until Ukraine fired its own top prosecutor. Now, you could choose to believe that
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Joe Biden is just really passionate about ending corruption in Eastern Europe or whatever. Or it might
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be that Joe Biden wanted to take the heat off the corruption that his own family was engaging in.
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You could choose which one of those seems more likely. We'll probably never have the evidence of
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any such corruption now, though, because as Shapely said, quote, there's no mechanism available to
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collect the tax owed by Hunter Biden for 2014 other than in a voluntary fashion. And it seems that he is
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not going to voluntarily submit that, surprisingly enough. So this is the ultimate goal of the Hunter
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Biden prosecution. The DOJ is not concerned about this gun case, obviously. Their real objective
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has been to slow roll their work as much as possible so that the more serious charges expire.
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And it's very clear, as the whistleblower said, that there's a viable reason to investigate not
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only Hunter Biden for potential fare violations, but also his father as well. Congressional Republicans,
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for example, have released a July 2017 WhatsApp message in which Hunter Biden appears to threaten a
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Chinese business associate by mentioning his father. Quote, I'm sitting here with my father,
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and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. That's what Hunter
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Biden wrote, according to the documents. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now
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before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved
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in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next
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to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge, that you will regret
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not following my direction. I'm sitting here waiting for the call with my father.
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So that's a conversation that strongly suggests that Joe Biden was directly involved with his
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son's foreign business dealings with a Chinese private equity fund closely tied to the Chinese
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Communist Party, that he'd leverage his influence to secure payouts. I mean, he's doing it. You can
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see in the text message, you can see that this is what's being done. These are the kinds of
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investigative threads that the DOJ has been working to bury since they obtained Hunter Biden's laptop all
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the way back in December of 2019 as part of an investigation dating back to 2018. And these
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investigations haven't taken so long because they're especially complicated. They've gone on
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for so long because the federal government has been trying to run out the clock. That's been the
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strategy. They have not been very, you know, coy about it either. It's pretty obvious. First, they
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denied that the laptop was even real. Then they slow walked the investigation into its contents. And when
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two IRS whistleblowers disrupted their plan, they selected the pettiest charges imaginable
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so that they can obscure the real crimes that they desperately don't want to investigate.
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So Hunter Biden, yes, was convicted today, but for one reason only, so that Joe Biden won't ever be
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around 6 in 10 registered voters, including one-third of Democrats, would favor the U.S.
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government deporting all illegal immigrants. According to a new poll, the CBS News YouGov poll
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published on Sunday found that 62% of registered voters support a new national program to deport all
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illegal immigrants, similar to a plan that has been proposed by former President Donald Trump,
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who promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history if he's reelected.
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A majority of those surveyed also support giving local law enforcement the power to identify illegal
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immigrants living in the U.S. The poll surveyed 1,615 registered voters across the U.S. and oversampled
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people in battleground states, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
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Wisconsin. This is significant, obviously, politically, and you should know that this 60%
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figure is pretty consistent now. It's not just this poll. For instance, there was a poll a few
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weeks ago from Reuters that had similar results. And of course, when Reuters did the poll, that was not
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the headline of the Reuters poll. Here was the Reuters headline on their website. Half of Americans
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oppose immigrant detention camps, Reuters-Ipsos poll finds. So apparently in that poll, half of
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respondents said that they don't want to put immigrants into detention facilities while they
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await deportation. And yet, so this just kind of shows how confused some voters are and also why a lot
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of people voting should not be voting. So they don't want to put them in detention facilities. And yet that
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same poll found that 56% do think that most or all illegal immigrants should be deported. And it was
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60% on the other poll. So, you know, we're at it like 60% seems to be a pretty reliable figure. And
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broken down more specifically in the Reuters poll, 36% said they supported putting illegal immigrants in
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detention facilities, which means that the rest either weren't sure or didn't support it. But 20%
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more than 36% said that they want to have all the illegal immigrants deported. So only 36% said we
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can put them in detention facilities while they await deportation. But 56% said that we should deport
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them. How do you make sense of that? I mean, if you want mass deportation, and that's what you have a
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majority of Americans now, they want mass deportation. They want to deport all the illegal immigrants
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correctly. That's what they want to do. But if you want to do that, it kind of requires the use of
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detention facilities. Because like, what else are you going to do? Are you going to ask the illegal
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immigrants to volunteer to come and get on the bus at a certain time? Are you going to send out like
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an RSVP, make an event bright page or something? This is the event for deportation. You got to come
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to the bus. Obviously, you can't do that. You have to, the whole point, the whole reason we have these
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detention facilities that we make such a big deal about is you have to collect these people
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and keep them somewhere while we facilitate the deporting down to where they came from.
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So how do you make sense of that? I think that this shows that, well, shows, again, that a certain
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percentage of Americans, not surprisingly, don't quite understand the issue. They're confused about
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what detention facilities are. Especially when, I think this poll called them camps. So I'd be
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interested in a poll like that. Like, how many Americans support detention camps versus how many
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support detention facilities? And I'm guessing that significantly more Americans are okay with
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detention facilities but not camps. Because you use the word camp and it sounds scary. And they think,
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oh, well, that's, camps are bad. That's scary. We don't want to do that. So they may be confused. But
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the basic point here is that in both polls, a sizable majority want mass deportation. You know,
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they might be squeamish about the way that it's done, but they want it done. And they can be
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squeamish. That's fine. That's what leadership is for. That's why we're supposed to have leaders in
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this country. Because a good, strong leader comes in and says, okay, you guys want this done.
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We've got people here who don't belong here. And they are, in fact, taking your jobs. And they are,
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in fact, some of them bringing crime and all these things and drugs into your communities.
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So you don't want them here. They don't belong here. They're not here legally. We've got to get rid
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of them. Which is to say, we have to, we have to, if get rid of them is too strong a word,
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we have to, we have to, we have to facilitate their entrance back into their home countries is
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what we have to do. And, but you're, but doing that, that's like a, that's kind of an ugly thing.
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There's, there's no pretty way of doing it. There's no, there's no real nice way.
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Like there's no nice way to make some, somebody do something they don't want to do.
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And when you've got illegal immigrants in the country and you have to make them leave, like
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they don't want, that's why they're here. They don't want to leave. And so you, we're making them
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leave against their will. They don't want to, they want to stay here. That's why they're here.
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And there's just, there's no nice or especially pleasant way of making people do things they don't
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want to do. Does that mean that we should never make people do things they don't want to do?
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No, of course it doesn't mean that. Like every prisoner who's ever gone to prison did not want
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to go to prison. You had to make him go. Not a pretty thing. Prison's not a pretty place.
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Deportation, the, the bus that you load the illegal immigrants on and bring them home. Like
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that's probably not a pretty place to be. These facilities are also probably not the most wonderful
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places in the world. It's not the kind of place that you'd want to stay. Like you wouldn't choose
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that over going to a holiday inn. Maybe you'd choose it over a Motel 6 though. So this is why
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you need a leader to say, well, this is a, this is what needs to be done. We all know it's the right
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thing, but it's an ugly and kind of uncomfortable thing to do. You're all squeamish about it. That's
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fine. So I will do it. I will do the thing that is, that is hard and, and difficult and kind of ugly.
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I will do it because it's the right thing. That's what, that's what leadership is all about.
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And that's a message that resonates as we've seen. Um, and I, I, you know, I mean, of course,
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Trump has said things along these lines many times, but I think this particular phrasing it
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almost exactly like this, like acknowledging that cleaning up the problem. We have a, we have a,
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a problem of mass illegal immigration. We've got tens of millions here who are not here legally
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and therefore don't belong here legally. Cleaning that up will not be a pretty picture. Um,
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and we can even, as I've acknowledged many times, uh, on an emotional level, on a personal level,
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you can understand why they come here. If I, if I lived in Mexico and I thought that I could just
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come here without having to wait in line and do all the rigmarole with, uh, getting a legal
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citizenship, if I thought that I could just come here and bring my family here, I would do it.
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So I understand that. So it's nothing personal, nothing personal, but you come here, you broke
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the law. You're, you're not supposed to be here. So we, we deport you because we have, we have laws
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here. We have to enforce them. It's just simple as that. Um, and I think that's a, that's clearly
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even from the polling, that's a message that resonates. Okay. Uh, here's a manager at big
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lots in Rochester, New York. I believe this is who, uh, and we've seen a lot of stories like this,
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including in at big lots in particular, but this is a manager who was fired for, uh, the crime of
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not wanting people to steal from the big lot store where he was the manager. Let's watch this.
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What I saw was he took a swing, like a punch at her. That's what Pat Guider says he saw inside
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the big lot store that he used to manage at Eroticoid. And that's why he followed the shoplifter
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out of the store. I let people who shoplift leave the store every day, every day. We just put it in
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the system that they asked us to do. This was an assault. This wasn't shoplifting. This was an assault.
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Despite 20 years with the company and a positive review in March, the company did not see it the
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way Guider did. And two weeks after the incident, Guider says he was called to his district manager's
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office and fired. Do you think you did the right thing? I think I did the right and just thing.
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The right and just thing. This is not the first retail store manager fired over a shoplifting
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incident. It's not even the first big lots manager fired over shoplifting. Just Google it and you'll find
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the story of the manager at the store in California. I tried to call big lots, but there is no phone
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number to reach the CEO or the communications chief. I emailed the company on Tuesday afternoon,
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Wednesday evening, and again Friday morning. I asked why was Pat Guider fired? What is the company
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policy? Is following a shoplifter a fireable offense? And what training do managers get for
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shoplifters? The company has not replied. But this poster in the big lots lunchroom says never leave
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the store to pursue, detain or identify a customer. So I did not put myself in jeopardy. I did not put
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any shoppers in jeopardy. I went with Guider back to his old store. He said he and police found the
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shopping cart in front of the Dunkin Donuts, but lost the shoplifter. Police say the assistant manager
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declined medical care. Now Guider and his wife are trying to figure out how to get health insurance.
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They still have two boys in college and at 62, Guider's not sure how easy it will be to find
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another job. The good thing is we have a huge faith in God, huge faith in God and everything
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will work out. It's just, it's going to be difficult. It's going to be difficult. So that's good. This is a guy
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who's, he worked at the big lots for 20 years. He's working customer service and he apparently
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cares about his job and he cares about the company that he works for. So we got to make sure to get
00:23:30.480
rid of him. We got to get rid of all those types from just, just we like, that's, that's what we
00:23:34.800
need. We need, we need to have one fewer of those types working customer service who actually cares
00:23:39.740
about his job and cares about the company he works for and like cares about their bottom line and all of
00:23:45.420
that. So let's weed out all of those so that we can make sure that this trend continues and that
00:23:52.760
eventually we, we end up in a scenario, which we're, where we're headed now, where like every
00:23:57.080
single person who works in customer service is just hates their job, hates the company they work
00:24:03.260
for, hates the customers, doesn't care about anything, doesn't care about anybody. We want to
00:24:07.880
make sure that everybody that works in customer service is like that. So that's, so let's get rid of
00:24:11.820
the Pat Guiders of the world. And that's what we're headed to. He says that the thief took a swing
00:24:17.120
at, um, one of the assistant managers, presumably, I assume because that person was also trying to
00:24:23.640
stop him from stealing. He doesn't say that, but we can, um, assume. And then, and the guy flees the
00:24:28.720
store. He's followed by the manager, Pat Guider, who then is promptly fired by the company despite
00:24:34.920
having worked there for 20 years. Uh, and as you heard, Guider says that he acted, uh, it was the
00:24:41.320
right and just thing. And he emphasizes that, that it was right and just for him to, um, for him to
00:24:47.900
intervene the way he did. Is that true? Like, obviously, no question. It, uh, it, it was for him to go
00:24:56.100
after the guy who not only is stealing, like, even if he was just, just stealing, that would be enough
00:25:01.160
reason morally to try to track him down, chase him down to stop him from doing it. But the fact
00:25:07.200
that he assaulted or attempted to assault someone, uh, is all the more reason. So he acted rightly
00:25:11.780
and justly. No question about it. But the sad truth is that we now live in a world where we have
00:25:18.580
to ask whether it's right to do the right and just thing. Like, so right being used in two different
00:25:30.280
contexts here, morally right? Yes. But is that, is that, is that the correct course of action? Is
00:25:38.400
that the, uh, is that the most prudent? Maybe it's the best, is it prudent? Put it that way. Is it
00:25:43.220
prudent to do the right and just thing in these kinds of circumstances? Because before you act,
00:25:48.740
you know, before you do anything, before you make any decision, you have to ask yourself,
00:25:52.920
is there any chance that this action will have any kind of positive outcome?
00:26:02.440
And, um, if before you take an action, you, you do that inventory and you say, no, there's really
00:26:09.180
no chance that this has any positive outcome. And like most of the time, the prudent choice is to not,
00:26:15.040
is to not do it. Uh, and we've reached a stage in our cultural decay where the right action often has
00:26:21.180
just no chance of producing any kind of good result. This is not me victim blaming, by the way,
00:26:25.660
Pat Guider. Again, he's a, he's a, uh, he did a courageous and moral thing. Wish him nothing but the
00:26:30.360
best. Um, but we're at a point in society where we have to say like, does, can, can we recommend
00:26:40.620
anyone to do that? I mean, in this particular case, okay, so you chase the guy out and then what?
00:26:46.480
Um, because even if you can somehow get him to stop, uh, if you call 911, they probably aren't
00:26:54.500
going to come. And in this case, I guess they did at some point, but there's a good, there's a good
00:27:01.120
chance that they won't even come, especially depending on what jurisdiction you're in. And if
00:27:04.960
they do come, they probably aren't going to arrest the guy. Um, and he's probably not going to still be
00:27:10.720
there. He's going to have left by then. If they do arrest him, he is certainly going to be released
00:27:17.680
the same day or at, or at, at best the next day that he's, that he's, uh, arrested. Um,
00:27:26.800
and even if that happens, like he's not going to prison. He should, but he's not the guy who did that.
00:27:33.880
So he's not going to be taken off the street, which means the possibility of you doing the
00:27:41.360
right thing, the possibility of that having any sort of actual meaningfully positive outcome
00:27:46.000
is basically null. It's, it's a, it's a negligible chance at best. That's the way it is. It shouldn't
00:27:54.420
be that way. I wish it wasn't that way, but that's the way it is. Um, so then you have to ask
00:28:03.760
yourself, like, well, what about the pot? What about the possibility of a negative outcome?
00:28:09.020
You're trying to do the right thing. And it is morally the right thing to try to stop somebody
00:28:14.080
from stealing. But as we've seen the chance of that working of that having any positive outcome
00:28:21.360
is basically, it's like, it's almost impossible. So what's the possibility of a negative outcome?
00:28:26.920
Well, those possibilities are endless. I mean, you, you, you probably at least get fired.
00:28:34.800
That's what happened to this guy. And that's like best case. It's, it's so crazy now that we
00:28:40.920
actually have to say he's lucky that he only got fired. Um, because if it, and that's if, if you are
00:28:47.840
not successful in apprehending this person, then probably best case you get fired.
00:28:52.740
But if you do somehow apprehend the person, then you probably are going to have criminal charges
00:28:59.980
yourself. And if he fights you and you fight back, even though we all know that like he started it
00:29:06.640
because he committed a crime, you're trying to stop him. If he resists you or tries to take a swing
00:29:11.620
at you or something and you defend yourself, obviously that's just more criminal charges that
00:29:16.280
should be put on him, not on you in a sane world. But we don't live in a sane world.
00:29:23.740
So if he gets hurt or something in the struggle, then you're probably looking at prison time.
00:29:29.800
So this is the scenario. You follow that guy. The chance that you go to prison
00:29:37.320
is higher than the chance that he goes to prison. Much higher. Um, and so although we, although we
00:29:51.100
would say it is, uh, it is morally right for an employee in that situation to respond the way he
00:29:56.400
did, I wouldn't recommend it. You know, when my kids get a little bit older and they are old
00:30:04.220
enough to have jobs and that sort of thing and they're working retail, I would tell them now
00:30:10.940
you see someone stealing, don't, don't chase them down. Like I'm sorry. Your life is going to be
00:30:17.440
destroyed when you've got a company with these insane policies and you're going to put your life
00:30:23.660
on the line for the sake of this company that like, we'll just turn around and fire you anyway
00:30:27.780
for it, for your trouble. Uh, no, you just don't, don't do that. Um, it's not, uh, it's the morally
00:30:39.680
right thing, but it's not the prudent thing. And, uh, then you end up sort of a, a martyr in a sense,
00:30:46.440
but like what, what good does that do you in the end? Um, and this is what happens when,
00:30:54.200
as we've talked about many times, when you live in a society that goes out of its way to
00:30:59.820
disincentivize people from doing the right thing. It didn't, it wasn't always that way. It used to be
00:31:06.340
you were incentivized to do the right thing. And even when you're incentivized to do the right thing,
00:31:10.260
it still takes courage to do. Because like, if we lived in a, let's say we lived in a, let's revert,
00:31:16.560
let's go back and replay the hypothetical. Let's say we lived in a, in a sane, just a basically sane,
00:31:22.160
not a perfect society, but a sane one. Well, in that scenario, you see somebody stealing,
00:31:27.460
you chase them down. There's still risk. Like you are taking on risk. It takes, it takes guts to do
00:31:31.800
that because there's a physical risk to you. You don't know the guy could have a gun. You could,
00:31:34.800
you don't know what could happen. So you are putting yourself on the line.
00:31:39.340
But in that scenario, I would, I would say, yeah, you, you should, you should do the right thing.
00:31:42.700
Um, I would even tell my son if he was working a job and I would say, you know what,
00:31:47.760
and that you should do the right, it's a, there's a risk involved, but you should do the right thing.
00:31:52.160
But that's because in a sane society, the only risk you're taking is how this,
00:31:56.200
that bad guy responds to you. But in an insane society, there's this extra risk,
00:32:02.340
which is that this system is totally against you. And so that even if that guy, even if you
00:32:07.060
survive the altercation with the guy, the system is going to come around and punish you for it,
00:32:12.000
punish you for your bravery. Um, and it just gets to a point where they, they go out of their way
00:32:19.460
to disincentivize you from doing the right thing. And so it's like, you have no choice
00:32:23.460
as a normal person, but to say, okay, well then, all right, then I guess this guy's just going to
00:32:28.880
steal. All right. Um, Daily Wire has this story. Activist and actor John Leguizamo took out a full
00:32:35.600
page ad in the New York Times on Sunday, urging Emmy award voters to nominate non-white artists.
00:32:40.540
Revolutionary stuff from this guy. The 63-year-old explained the move in an ex post.
00:32:48.000
Um, I know everyone is exhausted about inclusion, but not who are, but not us who are not included.
00:32:53.520
So that's why I took this ad out in the New York Times. White peoples are only 58.9% of the
00:32:59.180
population, but overrepresented in top positions across the board. They are the decision makers
00:33:04.260
in tech, banking, corporations, uh, medicine and streamers and Hollywood. Um, he continued,
00:33:13.000
America is better when it is inclusive. It is more profitable. It is more creative.
00:33:18.060
Let's not give up. I'm still woke. Are you? Um, and then he goes on to that. So that's the,
00:33:26.960
the tweet. And then he goes on to the full page ad. Please let this be the year we finally embrace
00:33:33.340
change. The year we truly find equity and see artists of color represented across not just
00:33:38.480
one category, but all categories. I know you're tired of hearing words like inclusivity and
00:33:44.360
diversity, treading water while you try to understand how to put actions behind these
00:33:48.020
sentiments. Look no further. It's simple. He went on. There are hundreds of prolific non-white
00:33:54.120
artists who deserve to be considered for awards this year, not because they're simply black,
00:33:58.000
brown, indigenous, or Asian, but because they're truly great. Exceptional artists who have achieved
00:34:02.740
that greatness with a, with, with a foot on their neck for far too long. Okay. Um,
00:34:10.880
first of all, maybe this is all that really needs to be said about this because I think
00:34:13.440
responding to the point or whatever he's, you know, if we can call this a point, responding
00:34:18.420
to it is probably unnecessary. Although I, you know, I'll, I'll still respond to the point
00:34:22.400
because saying unnecessary things is kind of my bag, I guess it's my brand, but, uh, just
00:34:27.100
pulling up the screenshot of the actual ad of the New York times. So this is a full page
00:34:31.980
ad in the New York times that he took out physical, like physical newspaper. So literally
00:34:37.380
tens of people are going to read this thing. Tens and tens of people are going to read this
00:34:40.460
thing. Easily upwards of 50 people. I've heard 60 people by some estimates will read this.
00:34:45.300
And yet you have typos and grammatical errors in the full page ad. Really. It starts with the
00:34:52.340
tweet where he says white peoples, but then, uh, he says, I know you're tired of hearing words
00:35:00.220
like inclusivity and diversity dash treading water while you try to understand how to put
00:35:06.500
action behind these sentiments. Okay. That's not a sentence. What is that? That it's not a
00:35:14.460
sentence. I can tell you that. And what about this? There are hundreds of prolific non-white
00:35:18.940
artists who deserve to be considered for awards this year. Award with a capital A, by the way,
00:35:23.340
not because they're simply dot, dot, dot, black, Brown, indigenous, or Asian, but because they are
00:35:30.420
truly great dot, dot, dot, exceptional artists who achieve that greatness with a foot on their neck
00:35:35.400
for far too long. So what is that? Look, I know that boomers, uh, like to abuse the ellipsis
00:35:42.820
and I've never quite figured that out. But once you get over the age of 60, you know, the dot,
00:35:47.240
dot, dot move, you do it all the time. Uh, it's, it's a boomer thing. My dad ends like every email
00:35:52.900
with a dot, dot, dot. And I, it always has an ominous tone, even if it's not supposed to.
00:35:57.880
Um, but this is a little bit overboard. Like they are truly great dot, dot, dot, exceptional artists.
00:36:06.120
Even in your own head, what, how, how would you say that sentence out loud? I can't even say that
00:36:12.500
he's writing phonetically because I don't know phonetically, what is that supposed to sound?
00:36:17.340
And I don't mean to harp on it, but it just blows my mind that you could put a full page ad out
00:36:22.480
and you don't get anyone to do even five seconds of proofreading. And, and actually this is all
00:36:29.440
related in a way because John Leguizamo put out this flagrantly racist ad, you know, openly calling
00:36:37.680
for non-white people to get awards. He doesn't even bother with the usual, um, you know, what do they
00:36:43.320
usually say? Diverse people. You know, we don't want to make sure that diverse people get awards this
00:36:47.720
year. Doesn't even bother with that. That's usually the euphemism. He just comes out and flat out says,
00:36:52.140
non-white, black, brown, or Asian or indigenous. Hispanics are, I guess, out of luck. He is
00:37:00.420
Hispanic. Well, I got, no, I guess they're, they're brown. They count as brown. Asians don't count as
00:37:05.500
brown. Okay. Well, okay. Uh, cause we say black, brown, white, and for Asian, you can't, you're not
00:37:13.700
allowed to say the color anymore. You know, cause they used to say yellow and I'm, you can't even say
00:37:18.600
that anymore, but that's what they used to say. So that's a really interesting thing. That's so
00:37:23.300
Asians, like that's the one ethnicity where you're not allowed to use as shorthand a color. That's
00:37:27.580
not, and you can say, well, a color, you know, Asian people are not yellow. Um, and that's true,
00:37:32.920
but white people aren't really white. Like my skin is not literally white. It's close. So I'm to,
00:37:37.520
you know, I'm pretty, I can be kind of pale, but it's not actually white. So anyway, that, that's a whole
00:37:40.820
other thing. Uh, there are all these weird rules about, you know, you can say people of color,
00:37:45.080
but you can't say colored people. You can refer to black, brown, and whites, but when you go to
00:37:50.320
Asian, you have to just say Asian because you can't say the color that is approximately, you know,
00:37:55.640
close to the skin color. All that stuff makes no sense. Um, anyway, he says that, uh, uh,
00:38:03.800
he claims that non-white entertainers have had a foot on their neck and the idea that it's hard for
00:38:08.820
non-whites to succeed in entertainment, which is a claim obviously disproven by just everything we see
00:38:14.760
from Hollywood, but also John Leguizamo himself is proof that there is no pro-white bias in Hollywood.
00:38:22.660
If anybody asked me, I'll put it this way. If anybody said to me, give me one piece of evidence,
00:38:30.140
like the single most compelling piece of evidence that proves that Hollywood is not bigoted against
00:38:37.460
non-white people. If I was posed, if I, if somebody posed that challenge to me, I would say
00:38:43.880
exhibit a, I give you John Leguizamo because if there was a conspiracy against non-whites in Hollywood,
00:38:51.040
how the hell did this guy manage to have a career? The fact that John Leguizamo has had a career in
00:38:58.820
Hollywood for like four decades, if it proves anything, it proves that obviously they're not
00:39:05.220
conspiring against brown people in Hollywood. And I'm not saying, look, I'm not being a hater here.
00:39:13.220
I, I, you know, I'm not saying he's terrible. John Leguizamo, he's just kind of, you know, he's,
00:39:17.860
he's, he's, he's John Leguizamo. It's nobody's watching a movie because John Leguizamo is in it.
00:39:25.780
Right? Like if you, if someone tells you about a movie, they say it's good. You're like, oh, who's in it?
00:39:29.600
And they go, uh, well, John Leguizamo, you're not going to say, oh, I got to see that. You're
00:39:34.300
going to say, oh, yeah, okay. Yeah. But who else? Like, of course, yeah, he's in it, but who else
00:39:37.260
is it? Who, who really is in it? Give me a real person. Um, but you're also not going to not watch
00:39:43.580
a movie because he's in it. He's just, he just shows up and, and you say, oh, you know, that's John
00:39:47.900
Leguizamo. And then you don't think about it. So his career is exactly what it should be
00:39:54.640
on the theory that there is no pro-white bias in Hollywood. Like on his merits, he is exactly
00:40:03.260
where he should be. That's, that's, if there's no racial bias against non-whites and you look at a
00:40:09.320
guy like John Leguizamo and you say, okay, well, his career should be like right about here.
00:40:13.140
And he should be doing these kinds of movies. And then you look and like, okay, yeah, that's what
00:40:16.940
he's doing. Um, and yet, uh, he's one of the main ones out there these days, you know, making this
00:40:25.800
claim about racism against, uh, non-whites. And it's not hard to see why it's because he has had a,
00:40:31.600
uh, you know, by Hollywood star standards, he's had a relatively mediocre career. He's looking for
00:40:37.180
an explanation for that. And he's, uh, settled on this as the explanation.
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to some of the most trivial cases to ever grace the legal system. I've changed lives. I've entertained
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Coming up on judged, you are over the age of 11. You're big into Halloween. What does that mean?
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So on this show over the past few weeks and mostly during this segment, we've documented the desperate
00:43:03.140
effort to smear Justice Samuel Alito. Of course, the media has been doing this to Clarence Thomas
00:43:08.620
for decades since his confirmation hearing. We know what happened to Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
00:43:14.400
Gorsuch will get his turn next, we can assume. But for now, Alito is up at bat. But the media's
00:43:20.500
anti-Alito campaign has run into a significant roadblock. They want to find a scandal that they
00:43:26.900
can blow up and try to turn into a major national crisis. The problem is that apparently Samuel Alito
00:43:32.040
is the most normal, straight edge, boringly honest and upright figure maybe in the history of American
00:43:39.960
public life. That's the only conclusion that we can draw. Because the entire media apparatus has
00:43:46.240
been digging frantically through this man's life and past to find something, anything problematic.
00:43:51.840
And so far, they have come up empty. Like so empty, in fact, that they've been forced to make a scandal
00:43:57.520
out of two banal, utterly trifling incidents involving flags hanging outside of the Alito residency.
00:44:04.640
So it would seem that the edgiest, most provocative thing that Alito has ever done
00:44:10.100
is fly an upside-down flag outside of his home one time. Something that apparently he didn't even
00:44:16.180
actually do. His wife did. So the fact that they have to use the flag stuff as somehow evidence of
00:44:22.980
his corruption just goes to show how squeaky clean, and for the media, I think disappointingly
00:44:28.780
non-corrupt this guy really is. But they haven't stopped. Flaggates didn't really land with the
00:44:36.100
general public. Flaggate the sequel, they tried to do it again. Flaggate reloaded. That didn't land
00:44:42.480
either. Now they've moved on to the next fake Alito scandal, and as you'll see, it is the fakest one
00:44:48.760
yet. Yesterday, Rolling Stone first published in a lengthy and breathless article secretly recorded
00:44:54.520
by someone. They have secretly recorded comments made by Alito at a recent dinner. A left-wing
00:45:01.880
activist named Lauren Windsor attended the Supreme Court Historical Society's annual dinner on June 3rd,
00:45:08.040
posing apparently as a conservative. And she struck up a conversation with Alito,
00:45:13.480
asked him a lot of very leading questions, trying to get him to say something,
00:45:18.140
anything incriminating, or at least vaguely controversial. The secret recording of this
00:45:22.800
exchange has been, as you expect, trumpeted as definitive proof that Alito is a dangerous
00:45:29.760
right-wing radical. Headlines have called the recording shocking. There have been renewed calls
00:45:35.020
for Alito's impeachment. Now the only problem, which is not a problem as far as the media is concerned,
00:45:40.300
is that it's all once again nonsense. Justice Alito, even in what he believed to be a private
00:45:47.400
conversation with an ideological ally, still proves to be frustratingly professional, polite,
00:45:54.320
and composed. Much to the chagrin of the activist who went through all that trouble to record him,
00:45:59.740
you know, this man still absolutely refused to give so much as, like, not even one spicy take
00:46:06.000
about anything. That hasn't stopped her or the media from pretending that Alito has been somehow
00:46:11.160
exposed, but there's only so much you can do to dress this up as a scandal. And I'll show you what I
00:46:16.760
mean. The left-wing rag, the New Republic, tried its best, though. Here's their headline.
00:46:21.140
Samuel Alito caught on tape revealing his true guiding force. That sounds pretty ominous.
00:46:30.100
Caught on tape reveals his true guiding force. What could that mean? What is his guiding force?
00:46:37.940
The mind conjures all sorts of nightmarish possibilities. Well, let's read on. Quoting from
00:46:44.700
the article, a secret tape has exposed some of Justice Samuel Alito's privately held beliefs,
00:46:49.180
including endorsing a fight to return our country to a place of godliness, with the stark understanding
00:46:55.640
that one side or the other is going to win. Now, I'm going to pause there for a moment,
00:47:02.600
and I'll read a little bit more of the article, but you should know that that's it. That's all she
00:47:09.060
could get this guy to say. One side or the other is going to win, and the country should return to
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godliness. On a secret tape being surreptitiously recorded, speaking to someone that he thought was
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a friend, and those two statements are the most provocative things he could be induced to say.
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And now the poor media has to pretend that the two blandest, least controversial statements
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ever made by anyone ever in history are somehow earth-shattering. Reading on, quote,
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Alito's comments were recorded by advocacy journalist Lauren Windsor during the Supreme Court
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Historical Society's annual dinner on June 3rd, an opportunity leveraged by many right-wing
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activists to cozy up to members of the nation's highest judiciary. A copy of the tape, which
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documented the incredible candor with which Alito forwent any illusion of neutrality, was provided
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to Rolling Stone. Leading Alito on, the liberal documentarian, is heard approaching the justice
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about a disbelief that American polarization can come to an end by way of negotiating with the
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political left. Instead, Windsor posits that it's more a matter of conservatives winning.
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Quote, I think you're probably right, Alito replies. On one side or the other, one side or the other is
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going to win. I don't know. I mean, there can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully,
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but it's difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can't
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be compromised. They really can't be compromised, so it's not like you're going to split the
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difference. Alito then agreed with Windsor's assessment that the country needed to return to a,
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quote, place of godliness. That's it. That's the end. It turns out that Alito didn't even say that
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the country needed to return to godliness. The woman said it, and he agreed. So breaking news,
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Samuel Alito is not an atheist. The scandal here apparently is that Samuel Alito did not confess
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to being a secret atheist. Like, what was he supposed to say when someone says, oh, the country needs to
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return to a place of godliness? You want him to say, no, it shouldn't? You want him as a Christian
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to say, no, I don't, no, I think godlessness is better. It's evidently the position of the media
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that Supreme Court justices are required to be atheists, but Alito is not. In fact, Alito, in a
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truly horrifying turn of events, apparently has the same view as the founding fathers, because they
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also believe that America should be rooted in godliness. That was the headline of the Declaration
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of Independence, you may recall. It's written on our money. It's in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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It's our official national motto. So Samuel Alito agrees with our national motto. That's what they're
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trying to make a scandal out of. But it's not just that. We can't forget. Alito also said that the two
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ideological sides in America might be able to live and work together peacefully, but their views are
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fundamentally incompatible, and therefore they won't be able to reach a satisfying compromise.
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He didn't even take a side, which, by the way, he could have. Supreme Court justices are allowed to
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have opinions. They're not required to be mindless automotons. It wouldn't even be a scandal if he
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actually gave his political opinion in what he thought was a private conversation off the clock.
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He's allowed to do that. But he didn't even do that. Instead, he just made a very basic,
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obviously correct observation about the state of political discourse in America. It's also an
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observation often made by people on both sides of the spectrum. Breaking news. Samuel Alito says
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thing that everyone on all sides agrees with. Indeed, Alito is so scandal-free that at this point,
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like, I'm getting annoyed by it. Part of me wishes the guy would actually do or say something
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problematic just so that this whole story would be more interesting to talk about.
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But that doesn't appear likely to happen. Instead, we're doomed to this endless news cycle where the
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real headline every time is that Samuel Alito is an upright and honest guy. Which, of course,
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in the end is the whole reason the left hates him. And it's why the anti-Alito campaign is,
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once again, and more than ever, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for
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watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.