Ep. 1425 - The DNC Just Started And It's Already INSANE
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Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention begins in a boarded up Chicago. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood is on the scene in an RV giving out free abortions and vasectomies. Also, Kamala starts going off script for the first time since she stole the nomination, and it does not go well.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the DNC begins in a boarded-up Chicago because whenever Democrats get together, local businesses have to treat the occasion like a Category 5 hurricane.
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Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood will be on the scene in an RV giving out free abortions and vasectomies.
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Also, Kamala starts going off script for the first time since she stole the nomination, and it does not go well.
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Several media outlets were leaked hacked emails from the Trump campaign.
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Are they showing restraint because they're responsible, honest journalists?
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And a group of anti-racist leftists called the police on me while we were filming my new movie, Am I Racist?
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We now have the police reports, and they are even funnier than you'd expect them to be.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Businesses in the city have boarded up their windows as if a Category 5 hurricane is about to make landfall.
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Massive fences have gone up in residents' front yards on the west side as the police brace for riots.
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Today is day one of the Democratic National Convention.
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Now, under normal circumstances, the start of a nominating convention creates a political tailwind for a presidential candidate.
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There's supposed to be some enthusiasm about the party's platform going into the convention because they control the messaging.
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And in the case of the Kamala Harris campaign, the messaging is about as tightly controlled as it could possibly be.
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She hasn't given an unscripted interview since she became her party's presumptive nominee nearly a month ago.
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She's communicating to the public almost exclusively through rehearsed soundbites.
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But Harris is not experiencing any political tailwinds at the moment.
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In fact, the honeymoon period for her candidacy appears to be pretty much over, just in time for the beginning of the DNC.
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All it took was for Kamala Harris to describe one piece of information about what she plans to do if she's elected.
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Just a single policy proposal has tanked her momentum so dramatically that even the corporate press, which has done everything it can to boost her candidacy up to this point, of course, has started to turn on her.
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I'm talking about Kamala Harris's proposal to end what she calls price gouging, which she unveiled in her speech in North Carolina on Friday.
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Except the rollout didn't go quite as planned. Watch.
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And I will work to pass the first ever federal ban on price gauging on food.
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She wants to fight price gouging, but she can't even pronounce the word gouging.
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She wants to assume enormous, unprecedented, and unilateral control over some of the most important sectors of the economy, including the grocery industry.
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And she can't tell the difference between the words gouging and gauging.
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In her speech, Harris didn't offer any specifics about what constitutes an acceptable price and what is unacceptable.
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She didn't explain how her administration can override the laws of supply and demand without destroying the economy.
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Nor did she explain why this new proposal is even necessary in the first place.
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I mean, didn't Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to secure the passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act,
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which authorized nearly a trillion dollars in government spending?
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Now, did that law perhaps increase inflation after all, as conservatives said that it would?
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Kamala Harris didn't answer any of those questions on Friday.
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Instead, she complained about inflation as if her administration hasn't been running the country for the past four years.
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As president, I will take on the high costs that matter most to most Americans, like the cost of food.
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We all know that prices went up during the pandemic when the supply chains shut down and failed.
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A loaf of bread costs 50 percent more today than it did before the pandemic.
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Imagine going to your employer and asking for a promotion.
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And in order to explain why you should get a promotion, you list all of the problems that you have created in your workplace.
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To then say that you need to be promoted so you can fix it.
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Is that like the, I mean, that's one argument, I guess.
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So all the Trump campaign has to do is air that clip that you just saw in every battleground state.
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Kamala Harris is admitting that her administration was a failure.
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And now she wants even more power to control the economy.
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She knows she can't call for more legislation because that already failed.
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She can't call for reducing government spending and money printing because her constituents demand free stuff, free student loans, free health care, subsidized rent, subsidized home purchases, and so on.
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So she's reduced to demanding price controls, which have failed in every country that they've been attempted, including this one.
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Even by the standards of the left-wing corporate media, this is all like a bit too much.
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They can tolerate a candidate who doesn't give interviews, who bails out violent rioters, who wants to abolish ICE and get rid of private health care.
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But Soviet-style price controls are so obviously destructive that even the most partisan Democrat-aligned outlets can't tolerate it.
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It's also pretty on the nose since Harris's running mate, Tim Walls, is an open admirer of Mao's, who's taken dozens of trips to China, which is, by the way, speaking of weird, like, do you know any normal person who's gone to China dozens of times?
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Also, allegedly, this is a guy that doesn't even own anything, yet he has no property that he owns, he has no net worth, he's, like, basically broke, and yet he's taking dozens of trips to China, whatever.
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It looks a lot like Democrats now want to import Chinese-style communism, which crossed a line even for CNN.
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You know, it's very hard to pin down what this would actually mean.
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If you look at the legislation that, as I mentioned, is already in the Senate, led by Senator Senate Warren and Senator Bob Casey and a slew of others,
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the particular way that this is written, which is likely to be the template for any proposal that Harris would eventually embrace,
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is especially bad in that it just bans excessive prices, grossly excessive profit margins, and says that the Federal Trade Commission can use any metric it deems appropriate to decide what that would mean,
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which basically says, like, it's not going to be markets, it's not going to be supply and demand that's determining how much your grocery store charges you for milk or for eggs.
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Sometimes it's going to be some bureaucrat in D.C., but it also would be very bad for markets.
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We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before, Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union, etc.
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And beyond that, the specific way this bill is written might actually increase prices.
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Yeah, we can't have the grossly excessive profit margins.
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Like, what counts as a grossly excessive profit margin?
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If it's a profit margin that makes you go, ew, gross, then that's a grossly excessive one.
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That's the measure the government's going to use for this.
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Now, the CNN analyst in that clip, Catherine Rample, also wrote a column for The Washington Post with this headline.
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When your opponent calls you communist, maybe don't propose price controls.
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It's hard to exaggerate how bad Kamala Harris's price-gouging proposal is.
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It is, and all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food.
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Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels.
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At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets, and hoarding.
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It's bad enough for Kamala Harris that an op-ed like this would be published in The Washington Post.
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Because the paper's editorial board came out the next day and endorsed the same op-ed.
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And they went on to point out that the grocery industry is a notoriously low-margin business,
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with profit margins typically hovering around 2%.
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Whether the Harris proposal wins over voters remains to be seen.
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But if sound economic analysis still matters, it won't.
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you might point out that Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, also owns Whole Foods.
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So, of course, he wouldn't want price controls on groceries.
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But pretty much everywhere you looked in left-wing media, you saw basically the same headline.
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Newsweek, for example, ran this article, quote,
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Kamala Harris's grocery price-gouging plan is riddled with problems, experts say.
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CNN, meanwhile, push-alerted this story to the millions of people who read its website, quote,
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Harris's plan to stop price-gouging could create more problems than it solves.
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Various CNN guests also criticized Harris's plan to give new homebinders $25,000,
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because the plan will obviously just cause the prices of homes to increase for everybody.
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you just added $25,000 into every price, into every home price in the country.
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Because if you're giving that away essentially for free, people will add it into the price.
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Now, one way to read all of this coverage is that the corporate press is trying to help the Kamala
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Harris campaign. They know the campaign is making a huge, a potentially fatal, unforced error,
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and they're trying to push them into moderating the message. On the Sunday shows, there were some
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signs that the message maybe was received. Andy Beshear, a Harris campaign surrogate,
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suggested that Kamala Harris just wants to break up monopolies,
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even though we already have laws against that. But on the other hand, there are many more signs
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that Democrats genuinely aren't concerned with appearing moderate anymore. They simply can't
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help themselves. Like, normally the plan for Democrats has been to appear normal during the
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election year and then enact their actual agenda once they're in office. But we're kind of skipping
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that step this year and heading directly into complete unhinged insanity. The Venezuelan-style
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price controls are just one component of that. Here's another one. Planned Parenthood has announced
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that it'll be posted just blocks outside the convention center in Chicago in an RV giving out
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free abortions and free vasectomies. And there was so much demand for the vasectomies that a waiting
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list began almost immediately. The abortions are available Monday and Tuesday, and the vasectomies
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are only available on Monday. That's the way that they're breaking this down. And just to underscore the
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communist theme of the new Democratic Party, Planned Parenthood says that the services will be
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provided, quote, on a sliding fee scale, pay what you can and get the health care you need.
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They say that people from all over the country have signed up to travel to Chicago in order to
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kill their children in this child-killing bus or get a vasectomy. And that's not hard to believe
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based on what's happening outside the convention site. Last night, activists dressed as abortion pills
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began to demonstrate. They showed up in costumes to look like abortion pills. And here's what
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Okay. And I don't even know if we can get the screenshot out of the
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I'm pretty sure that right in front of these women dressed as abortion pills, there's a big sign
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that says Trump and J.D. Vance are weird. So just the irony is, I mean, irony is dead, basically.
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You've got a march, rainbow flags, people dressed as abortion pills, and Trump and J.D. Vance are weird.
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They're also saying, F the courts, F the state, you can't make us procreate, is what they're chanting.
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Now, as I'm constantly needing to remind these people, you should understand that nobody is trying
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to force you to procreate. No one would want to force that. Even if we could force you to procreate,
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we wouldn't. The issue is that once you have conceived a child, procreation has already occurred.
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So it's too late at that point to not procreate. You already have. The question is whether it's okay
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to murder your own offspring because you're sad about the fact that you procreated.
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And the answer is no, it's not okay. That's our point. But these activists, like so many activists
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on the left, refuse to be told no. They can't accept it. They want you to know that nothing is
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more important to them than the ability to kill their own children, not the judicial system or even
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the country itself, hence the chant. Now, 20 years ago, Democratic Party leaders would have disavowed
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this kind of language. They tell you that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare is what they used
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to say. Because that's the slogan that tested well in focus groups at the time. They balk at the idea
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of an abortion bus at their convention. But this year, Democrats are going to nominate Kamala Harris
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and Tim Walls, who bragged that he's to the left of Nancy Pelosi on abortion. Watch.
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And my record is so pro-choice, Nancy Pelosi asked me if I should tone it down. I stand with Planned
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Parenthood, and we won't. So Tim Walls stands with Planned Parenthood so much that Nancy Pelosi
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told him to tone it down. Now, what does that look like in practice? Well, we're seeing it right now
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in D.C. or at the DNC and in D.C. We've also seen it from how Walls has governed Minnesota. Quoting
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from the National Review, quote, data from the Minnesota Department of Health indicated that since
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Governor Walls was inaugurated in 2019, eight babies survived abortion attempts in Minnesota. On five
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occasions, no measures were taken to preserve life. On three occasions, only comfort care was provided.
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Tragically, all of these babies died. Instead of strengthening protections for these children,
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SF-2995, a Bill Walls signed last year, repealed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which was
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intended to provide legal protection for infants who survived abortion. So just to reiterate,
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these are infant children delivered, born outside the womb, who are either killed or left to die,
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and leaving them to die is the same thing as killing them. Now, these kinds of positions used
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to be disqualifying, even for Democrats. So they're not disqualifying anymore, which is why you're seeing
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abortion buses showing up at the DNC. It's why you're seeing activists call for the destruction of the
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United States because they want to kill their children. It's also why a group called Americans
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for Contraception will erect an 18-foot inflatable IUD called Frida Womb outside the convention, which
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you can see right here. And this will be the unofficial mascot of the DNC. I mean, they're literally making
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an idol out of birth control. It is the modern Democrat version of the golden calf right outside the
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convention hall. It's possible these activist groups are sending abortion-slash-sterilization buses
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and IUD monuments to the convention because they think most voters are on their side.
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You know, we're always told that abortion and reproductive rights, quote-unquote euphemism there,
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are a liability for Republicans. Supposedly, these issues are an electoral slam dunk for Democrats,
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especially after the Dobbs decision. But the reality is that most Americans still think that it's
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freakish and bizarre to worship birth control, like some kind of pagan deity.
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And very few Americans think that abortion should be given away like popsicles out of an ice cream
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truck. Most people also don't think that every single meeting needs to be segregated by race, but
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the DNC will begin with the following events at 9 a.m. You can see the list there. The Black Caucus
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meeting, the Hispanic Caucus meeting, the AAPI Caucus meeting, the Date of American Caucus meeting,
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and the Ethnic Council meeting. There's no white meeting there, needless to say. Democrats are
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radically deranged on all of these issues. They can barely hide it most of the time. When a bunch of
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them gather together, there's no hiding it. Somebody's bound to show up with a baby-killing van and a giant
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IUD monument, or dressed up as an abortion pill, or something similar. For several years now,
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Democrats have cultivated a party of activists who are both unhinged and entitled, who expect to be
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coddled even as their demands become more detached from reality. And this week, as the Democrat National
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Convention begins in a boarded-up Chicago, the entire country will be able to see that.
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And if it wasn't dead in the water already, the honeymoon for Kamala Harris's candidacy
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will officially be over. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Okay, well, one other clip from the DNC that I wanted to play very quickly.
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I'd be remiss if I didn't play this for you. In fact, I think I should do you the favor of playing it for you.
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So, things got a little bit intense there at the beginning of the show.
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And so, I think this is a nice opportunity for a little musical interlude.
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And the protest at the DNC last night apparently ended with a great musical number.
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Beautiful, except for the fact that that guy clearly doesn't know how to play the banjo.
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What kind of person pretends to play the banjo when they can't?
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What kind of person pretends they know how to play the banjo when really they don't know how to play it?
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What kind of person makes a big show of knowing how to play the banjo when really they have no idea at all?
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Only a horrible person. Only the worst kind of person would ever do that. Ever.
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Other than that, I thought it was just a tremendous performance.
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And they have the masks on and everything, which gives the vocals that kind of muffled sound, which is nice.
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You've got the guy with the flute there, the guy with the, I don't know what that is, like a baby's rattler.
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And I think we can expect many more scenes like this from the DNC convention as it continues.
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And remember that if you're a conservative, you're the weird one.
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The Kamala campaign has been experimenting the last couple of days ever so gingerly, ever so cautiously with letting Kamala speak off script.
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So here she is in Pennsylvania, no prompter, no, doesn't appear to be any written speech.
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And so she's kind of on her own trying to explain something.
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Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy.
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As a democracy, we know there's a duality to the nature of democracy.
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On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact.
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What it does for its people to protect and defend their rights, their liberty, and their freedom.
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Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy.
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As a democracy, we know there's a duality to the nature of democracy.
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On the one hand, incredible strength when it's intact.
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What it does for its people to protect and defend their rights.
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Now before we get to the substance such as it is.
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We have to say that Kamala, she could improve her public speaking skills by like 65.5% approximately.
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If she simply cut out five words from every sentence.
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Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy.
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Actually, there are a lot more than five words to lose there.
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Because what you're trying to say, to the extent that you're trying to say anything at all,
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what you're trying to say is that this election is about the importance of democracy.
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And then also, this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe.
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And you're left with, this election is about the importance of democracy.
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Well, one of the reasons she doesn't do that is because she has no idea what she's going to say next when she starts.
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While she's saying a sentence, she doesn't know what the next sentence is going to be.
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And, you know, a goldfish is a memory that lasts about two seconds.
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And so how would they be able to string together a coherent paragraph?
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So she doesn't have to go to the next sentence.
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But this election is about the importance of democracy.
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Now, don't get me wrong, that is barely a coherent thought in and of itself.
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I mean, saying this election is about the importance of democracy, it's like saying that
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if you go to the doctor and someone says, well, what are you going to the doctor for?
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And you say, well, you know, going to the doctor, it's about the importance of medicine.
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But it's so broad that it doesn't need to be said.
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What matters are the specifics of the treatments that you need for whatever your specific ailment is that you're suffering from?
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The election is about, like, the election is, that's what democracy is.
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Also, she says that democracy is strong, but also fragile, which makes no sense.
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I mean, you could have a debate about which one of those is the correct answer.
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The thing cannot be strong and fragile at the same time.
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And Democrats in general think that democracy is very fragile, which is why they think that, you know,
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a bunch of people trespassing in the Capitol on January 6th were just inches away from destroying democracy completely.
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It's why they think that Trump, electing Trump will be the end of democracy.
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I mean, they see democracy as this incredibly fragile thing that is not able to withstand anything.
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And if you make a wrong move, it'll be destroyed.
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So that raises the question of, well, if democracy is really that fragile and that brittle and easily broken,
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then, like, what's so great about it to begin with?
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But having Kamala speak off script is just one way of attempting to humanize her.
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The campaign has rolled out another strategy to help humanize her in the last few days.
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So over the weekend, during a campaign stop, they staged this very odd performance where Kamala went to a gas station looking for Doritos.
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And they had both her husband and Tim Walls find Doritos for her.
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I think I'll vote for her because she eats Doritos.
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That's what pushes me over the edge, personally.
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Except that who the hell actually eats Doritos?
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Like, I thought this whole time that Doritos were on sale as some kind of long-running gag.
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They taste like you scraped vomit off of the floor of the bathroom.
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And yet, they're so desperate to make Kamala seem human that they're putting her love for Doritos front and center.
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Make sure the camera's around while she goes looking for Doritos.
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And if you think I'm being too cynical by assuming that the Doritos thing was like staged and scripted, well, it's not just this.
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Like, they're really leaning into Doritos as a thing for Kamala.
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On Friday, a Harris campaign social media intern posted an awkward fundraising email that sprinkled Doritos throughout.
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Then I went home and I sat on the couch with a family-sized bag of nacho Doritos.
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I just watched the TV with utter shock and dismay.
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I still love Doritos and we still have not stopped fighting.
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So they're incorporating the Doritos thing into fundraising emails now.
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Some, like they did some kind of internal polling and have been led to believe that Doritos, like that really, that really humanizes her.
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Trying to explain how a Kamala presidency will not only, you know, fix the country, fix all the things that the Biden administration and Kamala Harris have already broken.
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But it will also heal the rifts in your own family.
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Some of us who have less hair and are old enough can remember when you could go to Thanksgiving, watch a Steelers game with your relatives and not complain about politics the whole time.
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Because you shared a commitment to democracy, a commitment to personal freedom, a commitment to public education, a commitment to infrastructure.
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And we don't use the leech fortunate amongst us as punchlines for our jokes because they're our neighbors.
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And so you're getting an opportunity to see the best side of America.
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And for the young people here, they maybe haven't seen a campaign like this because of COVID, because of things that's happening.
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This is a chance to bring out that joy, turn the page and look to the future.
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So then even the last campaign that Kamala Harris was a part of also wasn't this.
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But, you know, yeah, I remember what Tim Walls was talking about.
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I remember when my family would all sit around the Thanksgiving table talking about our commitment to infrastructure.
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That's a normal thing that families discuss, isn't it?
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You know, we would just sit around gabbing about infrastructure.
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Infrastructure is really what brought us together.
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It was the, you know, there's a thing that held the family.
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It was the glue that bound us together as a family was our commitment to infrastructure, which is what Tim Walls just claimed.
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Families used to be bonded by their commitment to infrastructure.
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I think it was the Thanksgiving of 98 when I was a kid and we had a we had a six hour debate about what's the best bridge.
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The debate got a little bit intense because we take infrastructure really seriously, like all families do.
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And we we remained respectful because we all knew that what really mattered was the infrastructure.
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We wouldn't say or do anything that would bring disgrace or or or, you know, anything negative to infrastructure.
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And Tim Walls obviously understands the American family very well.
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At least that's what we're supposed to think, I guess.
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But of course, in reality, I have no idea what he's talking about.
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I'm not sure what a commitment to infrastructure even means.
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Like in your day to day life, what are you supposed to be doing to demonstrate your commitment to infrastructure?
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It says the average family is bound together by their commitment to democracy.
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What does it mean for the average person on a daily basis to be committed to democracy?
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And worst of all, Tim claims that until recently, families didn't argue about politics.
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What else is there to talk about when the family comes together?
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Okay, well, there's like three or four things to talk about when you're with your family.
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I don't think I'd ever want to go to a Thanksgiving where they don't talk about politics.
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I mean, this is the best they can do for a relatable guy.
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And he tells a story of family Thanksgiving that is just,
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bears no resemblance to what anyone's Thanksgiving is actually like.
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And all that leaving aside the fact that this is the same guy who, when he was governor of Minnesota,
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banned families from getting together for Thanksgiving and set up a snitch line
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so that if you found out that another family was getting together for Thanksgiving, you could report them to the police.
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So, you know, that's how committed this guy is to making sure that people can have their Thanksgiving dinners together as a family.
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News outlets were leaked insider material from the Trump campaign.
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At least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Donald Trump campaign,
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including its report vetting J.D. Vance as a vice presidential candidate.
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So far, each has refused to reveal any details about what they received.
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Instead, Politico, The New York Times, and The Washington Post have written about a potential hack of the campaign
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Their decision stands in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign
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when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta.
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The website WikiLeaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives,
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and mainstream news organizations covered them avidly.
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Politico wrote over the weekend about receiving emails starting July 22nd from a person identified as Robert
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that included a 271-page campaign document about Vance and a partial vetting report on Senator Marco Rubio,
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who was also considered as a potential vice president.
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Both Politico and The Post said that two people had independently confirmed the documents were authentic.
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So, let me see if I can translate here what we're actually reading.
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They sent the emails to every major media outlet.
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And none of them published it because nothing in the emails was damaging to Trump.
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And if anything, they made him look good because they aren't embarrassing.
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I don't think I have to explain or, you know, defend the idea that
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if there was anything remotely scandalous or embarrassing for Trump,
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every news outlet would publish it immediately.
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They would be fighting with each other to be the first to publish it.
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Okay, there would be a piranha-feeding frenzy over this stuff
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if there was anything remotely embarrassing in it.
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As much as we're told that J.D. Vance is weird and he's got this long, strange history.
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Well, apparently the news media got their hands on a 200-plus page vetting report about J.D. Vance.
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This is obviously an internal document, at least it was supposed to be,
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that would lay out every bad, I mean, every negative aspect of J.D. Vance's life is in that document.
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Because that's what a vetting document is meant to do.
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I mean, that's the point of it, especially if you're about to select somebody as vice president.
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It's just, all it would prove, if they were to publish that 200-plus page vetting report on J.D. Vance,
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all they would prove is that J.D. Vance is an aggressively normal guy.
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And I can guarantee you that all the rest of the emails were the same thing.
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It just kind of proves that there's nothing scandalous happening behind the scenes in the Trump campaign.
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As I've said many times before, you could make the argument, I think, very credibly at this point,
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that Trump is the least corrupt president in the history of the country.
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It's amazing how non-corrupt Trump actually is.
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You kind of think that for any politician at a certain level, there's at least some element of corruption that sneaks in.
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And the way we know that is because they have torn his life apart.
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They have looked for everything they can possibly find.
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They've spent the last almost 10 years now searching for every last morsel, anything they can find on this guy.
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Here's the proof that Donald Trump is a corrupt crook.
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Every time they claim that and they present it to us, we look at it and everyone goes, oh, that's it?
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And it would, you know, they weren't going to make the same mistake again.
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If this was four or five years ago and the media got that, got all those hacked emails, they would have published all of them.
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They would have said that they have proof that Trump is corrupt and all these things.
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And we would have all looked at it and said, that's it?
00:42:39.680
And I think they're starting to realize that now.
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So instead they just let this go and aren't going to publish it.
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So it's either that reason or they really are just, you know, they're really just trying to respect Donald Trump's privacy.
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If you're a man, it's required that you grow a bid.
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Well, we're resurrecting the comment section, bringing the segment back from the dead.
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This is the comment section 2.0, a totally revamped version, and it'll be exactly like the older version.
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It's just that we're doing it now rather than before.
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We'll start with some comments responding to the video that we posted on our YouTube channel on Saturday.
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And that was the conversation we had about the Regretful Parents subreddit.
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I'm not going to rehash that whole conversation.
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You can go back and watch that video and see it.
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This is a forum for parents who, as the name suggests, regret having kids.
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And it's very dark, often quite vile and horrifying, the things that people post in this forum.
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Many of these parents, not all of them, but many of them openly hate their own children, say so.
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I gave my advice to these parents, which again, you can go watch that video and see it.
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There was one theme that emerged in some of the comments that I wanted to respond to.
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Jane says, why is it so hard for people to admit that parenthood just isn't for everyone?
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And the earlier you see that in yourself, the better.
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Why force yourself to be a parent when the best you're capable of is mediocrity?
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Spare the world another sh** parent and another unhappy child.
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There are plenty of ways to contribute to society other than adding to its population.
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Find other ways to do good if raising another human isn't for you.
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Barinello says, this is why I don't call people who don't want children selfish,
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because we don't need those people being parents.
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They likely never wanted kids, but went with it anyway.
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If someone tells you I don't want kids, support that, full stop.
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People with that level of regret should not have children in the first place.
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Some people should stay away from procreation, and it's not a dig at them.
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The world would be nicer and safer if we stopped forcing everyone to have kids.
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If you don't feel like being a parent, you would probably suck being one.
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Number one, many of the people that I addressed in that segment are definitely not amazing people.
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If you are saying that you hate your five-year-old daughter, for example, you're not an amazing person.
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And now, you don't have to stay a bad person forever, but you are right now.
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Second, nobody is forcing anyone to be a parent.
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But, I do promote parenthood and family life as a positive good.
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And it's not as simple as saying, well, if someone says they don't want kids, then they
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shouldn't have kids and, you know, they'll be unhappy when they have kids.
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When I was in my early 20s, I didn't want kids.
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Now, I wasn't married at the time, but I didn't, you know, I hadn't ruled out the idea
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completely at that point, but I didn't, when I was 23, 24 years old, I didn't have any,
00:48:06.680
And even when I got married, I, you know, I knew we were going to be open to life and
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I knew that we would have kids, but I didn't, when I first got married, I didn't, I felt
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a lot of things about the possibility of being a father.
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And, you know, it was a lot of trepidation and fear and all that kind of stuff.
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And then I had kids and it's, it's the greatest thing I've done in my life.
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It's a source of great joy and fulfillment and purpose and all that stuff.
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So, my point is that just because someone says they don't want kids or they don't think
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that they'd make a good parent, that's like, everyone thinks that.
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I mean, everyone at some point thinks that, especially before they have kids.
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And so if we're going to say that all those people shouldn't then have kids, well then,
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I guess we're, what, embracing the extinction of the human race?
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Because that means that nobody would have them.
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And finally, I have a real problem with hearing these stories about regretful parents and concluding
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that the lesson here is that some people aren't meant to be parents.
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And my problem with it is that it's a total cop-out.
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You are giving these people an excuse to be unbelievably selfish, miserable assholes to their kids.
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You're saying, oh, well, you weren't meant to be a parent.
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It's like if you lived in a neighborhood and you were an over-the-top, obnoxious neighbor to everybody in your community,
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like making the community miserable, doing everything possible to be unpleasant and awful to everybody around you,
00:49:41.680
and then somebody called you on it and you said, hey, man, I'm just not cut out to be a neighbor.
00:49:50.680
Now, I get that being a neighbor and being a parent are two very different things.
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There are billions of people on the planet who live in neighborhoods and they're not a-holes to those around them.
00:50:07.680
Billions of people have been parents and have succeeded, basically, in parenting their kids.
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And when you say that, if you say that, one of these parents who's confessing to having these feelings about their kids,
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what are they supposed to do with that information?
00:50:38.680
What you're basically telling them is that it can't be improved.
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They can never be a good parent because they just weren't meant to do this.
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It wasn't written in the stars for them to be parents?
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Look, even, I mean, some of these parents, there are like lizards and birds that are better parents than some of these people.
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We can't expect you to at least be a better parent than like a Komodo dragon would be?
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I mean, the reality is, look, the truth is most people are meant to be parents.
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Almost everyone on the planet is biologically wired to have kids.
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Almost everyone, not everyone, almost everyone.
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So when you have this weren't meant to be parents thing, what are you basing that on?
00:52:04.680
Because no matter how you look at it, from a spiritual perspective or a scientific perspective, your position still makes no sense.
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From a spiritual perspective, I think God, clearly, if God gives you a child, then you were meant to be a parent.
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And from a biological, scientific perspective, same thing.
00:52:25.680
I mean, from a purely scientific perspective, there is no meant to or meant not to.
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And nature says that most of us are, in fact, meant to be parents.
00:52:41.680
And again, but more importantly, that's an awful thing to say to these particular parents.
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You're obviously meant to be a parent because you are one.
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And you are perfectly capable of being a good parent.
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It's just that right now you don't want to because you're being a selfish asshole.
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And all you're doing is thinking about, you're being a childish, selfish asshole.
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And if you're not overcoming, it's because you don't want to.
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Being a parent can be an enormous challenge in many ways, but it's actually one of those things that almost everyone is capable of doing.
00:53:51.680
And although it's a challenge and it's very hard in many ways, it is that, but it's also very simple.
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It's actually much simpler than we make it out to be.
00:54:08.680
And if you just are not totally obsessed with yourself and your own wants and desires every second of the freaking day, okay?
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If you could just not be that and be concerned about your own child's well-being, not just that they are fed and clothed and all that, but that they become good, happy people in the world.
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If you can just have those two things, not be enormously selfish all the time and concerned about your child, if you have both of those things going for you, it'll turn out okay.
00:54:50.680
There's going to be things that your kids get mad at you for.
00:54:52.680
Your kid still might end up in therapy later in life, blaming you for this or that.
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But if you have those things going for you and you are choosing to love your child.
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Now for most people that the choice part of it is not that difficult.
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I very much I'm full of love for them all the time.
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But if you're one of these parents and you are emotionally having difficulty making that connection.
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And so if you love your child, actually, actually love your child.
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And can get outside, can pull your head out of your own ass for at least a part of the day every day.
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And if you say that you're not, you're just giving yourself an excuse.
00:56:00.680
Over the weekend, we got word from theaters nationwide that Am I Racist advanced tickets are selling fast.
00:56:05.680
But we're also hearing from people in cities across the country telling us their theater is not carrying Am I Racist yet.
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Well, if you haven't grabbed your advanced tickets yet, you need to do that by heading to amiracist.com right now.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that every single ticket sold today determines how many theaters will show this film on September 13th.
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Remember how we expose the left's gender ideology madness and what is a woman?
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What I uncovered will have you laughing and fuming at the same time.
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Go to amiracist.com and get your advanced tickets now.
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On Friday, I shared a sneak peek of my new film, Am I Racist?
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Tickets are on sale right now at amiracist.com.
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In the scene, which you can find on my YouTube channel, you see the moment when I was kicked out of a support group for white people struggling with their white grief.
00:57:07.680
Well, as someone who attended the workshop for more than an hour, I still don't know exactly.
00:57:11.680
As best I could tell, it's the kind of grief that white people feel because of their privilege.
00:57:16.680
We have white privilege, according to the doctrines of DEI anyway.
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And our recognition of our privilege might cause us grief.
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The film is all about my journey into anti-racism.
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You know, a deeply personal journey, one where I must face myself and my whiteness and ask the titular question.
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So it made sense to begin a journey like that at a group like this.
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As I shared on Friday, the session began quite well, in my opinion.
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I have to leave the room to go weep in the pre-designated cry rooms.
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White people are not allowed to cry openly, thereby burdening people of color with their white tears.
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But when I came back, the group had figured out who I was.
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That's the part that you see in the clip that I shared on Friday.
00:58:09.680
I'm not going to play the full clip again here, but just for context, for the rest of this,
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here's the part, at least where I was identified by the people in the room.
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I know that my physical safety and yours and everybody else's here is okay.
00:58:33.680
Can you guys catch me up to speed on what's going on here?
00:58:44.680
I would really appreciate it if you left so that the people who actually want to be here and deserve to be here can get what they need.
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Will you walk with me and I'll answer your questions?
00:59:22.680
You can also see in the clip a few moments later that the police were called.
00:59:28.680
I had already absconded and fled the state, a fugitive on the run.
00:59:32.680
But since I wasn't there, I have wondered what exactly these people told the police when the police showed up.
00:59:44.680
How would they convince the cops to come find me and arrest me?
00:59:54.680
Because on Sunday, Libs of TikTok released the police report that was filed after this incident.
00:59:59.680
And it is just as delightful as you might expect.
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The names are redacted, of course, but here's a choice passage.
01:00:08.680
The participant told me that she even considered along with the rabbi ways that they could use a chair to break a window to escape.
01:00:15.680
She said that she felt unsafe because her exit appeared to be blocked by members of the production crew and Walsh.
01:00:22.680
Now, for the record, nobody was blocked from leaving at any point.
01:00:29.680
It would have been entirely unnecessary to use a chair to break a window and escape.
01:00:38.680
And when I read this police report, I immediately thought of the final scene in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest where Chief, the big Indian guy, who you could call Chief in movies back then.
01:00:49.680
He rips a sink out of the wall and busts through a window to escape.
01:00:53.680
Except in that case, they were involuntarily committed into a mental hospital.
01:00:56.680
Now, the people in this group, the one in the clip may, you might argue, have certain similarities to the patients in an insane asylum.
01:01:05.680
But the point is that they could have left at any time.
01:01:11.680
And would be a pretty clumsy way of escaping anyway.
01:01:14.680
Like most likely you'd have to bang the window multiple times with your chair before it breaks.
01:01:19.680
And that just seems like a kind of a slow and inefficient way to get out.
01:01:29.680
But first, let's continue reading a little bit.
01:01:33.680
The participant described Walsh as extreme and that he has radical shows.
01:01:37.680
She said that when she mentioned Walsh to the Ramapo officers, one officer said that he was familiar and that he has a show.
01:01:46.680
And when I explained that there could be a number of reasons that an officer knows who Walsh may be,
01:01:51.680
She didn't believe that to be the case and said the officer is a fan and that she cannot control what the officer does in his own time.
01:02:00.680
She calls the cops and the cop is a member of the Sweet Baby Gang.
01:02:10.680
Actually, there's no indication that the cop actually is a fan.
01:02:13.680
All he apparently said is that he knows who I am.
01:02:16.680
Now, I'd like to think that I'm such a likable guy that to know who I am is to automatically be a fan, but something tells me that might not always be the case.
01:02:24.680
In fact, my experience in that room says that that probably isn't always the case.
01:02:28.680
But putting aside the issue of what podcast the police officer does or doesn't listen to, the critical point is that my mere presence in the room was enough to prompt someone to dial 911.
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This is obviously ironic because we can assume approximately 100% of the people sitting in that circle have in the past or would, if you ask them today, argue for defunding the police.
01:02:50.680
These same sort of people insist that we should stop calling the police entirely or at least that we should stop calling the police for all kinds of emergencies that we usually call them for.
01:03:00.680
They say that we should consult with social workers and mental health professionals and therapists for many of these situations.
01:03:13.680
I was just in the cry room bawling my eyes out for God's sake.
01:03:20.680
Instead, they go right to calling the cops, which really tells you something.
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Now, I suppose they'd say that they had to call the cops in this case because, as the police report indicated, I made them feel unsafe.
01:03:45.680
I asked that question when I was in the room with them and couldn't get an answer.
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That's because the answer is something they'll never actually say out loud.
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They likely don't understand their own feelings.
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My presence is a threat to them because they don't like me.
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And they don't like the way that I challenge their worldview.
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And they draw no distinction between their feelings and their physical being.
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So to harm them emotionally is to harm them actually.
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And you'll see much more of it in all of its disturbing hilarity if you watch my movie, Am I Racist?
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Which you can buy tickets for by going to amiracist.com.
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In the meantime, as unsafe as it may make them feel, I must say that the people who called the cops on me that day are today canceled.
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Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
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What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
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I want to rename the George Washington Monument
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White folks, trash, white supremacy, white woman, white boy.
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I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
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Buy your tickets now in theaters September 13th, rated PG-13.