Ep. 1441 - Diversity Killed His Son, But He Wishes A White Man Did It？
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The father of a child killed by an illegal immigrant is now speaking up to denounce conservative politicians and activists who are outraged over his son s death. Also, Trump says that he might not do another debate with Kamala D. in 2020, and Joe Biden dons a Trump hat. Will Ferrell is the latest comedian to apologize for some old jokes.
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What do you feel in your body when you hear the term white people?
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White, straight, cisgender, man, it's the top of the pile.
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Try not to be racist, but also don't realize that you're...
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Until we're willing to talk about these things,
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She's still watching Disney movies and choosing a white princess.
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What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
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the father of a child killed by an illegal immigrant
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is now speaking up to denounce the conservative politicians
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and activists who are outraged over his son's death.
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Also, Trump says that he might not do another debate with Kamala.
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Also, Will Ferrell is the latest comedian to apologize
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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It's racial division just a plant by the matrix.
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They brought down our cities, then they get called courageous.
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Instead of condemning the media, give them praises.
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If you a white male, you get called a white supremacist.
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One of the many lies you'll often hear about multiculturalism is that it's an ideology
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Now, nobody really believes any of that, least of all the proponents of multiculturalism.
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In reality, as Thomas Saul pointed out, multiculturalism is an ideology that tolerates every culture
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When it comes to Western culture, no level of hatred or self-loathing is beyond the pale.
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Anyone who belongs to this disfavored culture must apologize repeatedly for his own existence.
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We must grovel at every opportunity on account of our skin color and ethnicity.
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And ultimately, a person from this culture must turn on his own family and sacrifice them
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And that's exactly what happened on Tuesday at a city commission meeting in the town of
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Now, in the past few days, as you're probably aware, Springfield has found itself in the
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center of a national political firestorm after several residents reported that animals are
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being sacrificed and, in some cases, eaten by the tens of thousands of Haitian nationals
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that have flooded into town in the past four years.
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And despite what ABC News says, there is clear merit to these claims.
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The Daily Wire is on the ground in Springfield, where we found evidence that the heads and
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carcasses of slaughtered pigs are being left out in public.
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As disturbing as this is, all of the talk about animals obscures a more important point, which
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One of them, as I mentioned earlier this week, was an 11-year-old boy named Aiden Clark.
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He was killed, and more than a dozen other students were seriously injured, last year
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by a Haitian national who crossed the center line and crashed into a school bus on the first
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This Haitian national was on the roads illegally.
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Now, on Tuesday, the father of Aiden Clark addressed the national coverage of his son's
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We felt it would be in our best interest to be here after recent comments.
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You know, I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man.
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I bet you never thought anyone would ever say something so blunt.
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But if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would
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The last thing that we need is to have the worst day of our lives violently and constantly
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They make it seem as though our wonderful Aiden appreciates your hate, that we should follow
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Using Aiden as a political tool is, to say the least, reprehensible for any political purpose.
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And speaking of morally bankrupt, politicians, Bernie Moreno, Chip Roy, J.D. Vance, and Donald
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Trump, they have spoken my son's name and used his death for political gain.
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They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis, and
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even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members.
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However, they are not allowed, nor have they ever been allowed to mention Aiden Clark from
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I will listen to them one more time to hear their apologies.
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To clear the air, my son, Aiden Clark, was not murdered.
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He was accidentally killed by an immigrant from Haiti.
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In order to live like Aiden, you need to accept everyone.
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Losing a child is the single worst thing that can happen to a person.
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It's the greatest pain a human being can experience.
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That's why, as a father, I almost never criticize people who've gone through something like that.
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I don't criticize them for what they say in the aftermath, usually.
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It's a horror so unthinkable that there's just no way to know how a person will react.
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There's no way for you to know how you would react in that situation.
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But after that, after the remarks we just heard, unfortunately, I feel compelled to say something.
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Because, for one thing, this man is slandering people.
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Mentioning by name, you know, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and other high-profile politicians.
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Slandering people who have spoken up for his son.
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He's also claiming that no one, including politicians, has the right to even mention his son's name.
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That we somehow need permission to talk about it.
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And we have a right to correct the record, especially since this man is now using his son's death to make a political statement.
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It's a statement that if people listen to him, more kids are going to die.
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If he has his way, more parents are going to be grieving.
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So, we need to speak up because this is a matter of national importance.
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And also, it's just the morally right thing to do, to correct the record when somebody is lying, lying like this guy is.
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So, I'm going to repeat what the father of Aidan Clark just said.
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I wish that my son, Aidan Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man.
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That was the line that he wrote down, prepared, and then delivered.
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I mean, even just writing, just the first part.
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No, there's no conceivable valid reason to ever write that line down or say it.
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There's no context where that isn't incredibly demented and twisted.
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He didn't say that he wished his son was never killed.
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Instead, he said that he wished his son was killed by somebody else.
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So that other people wouldn't draw any unapproved conclusions.
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His comments only go to show that white guilt is a sickness.
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This is an infection that has burrowed deep into his mind and soul.
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He's going to have to live with what he just said there for the rest of his life.
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And he doesn't realize how disgusting and repugnant it is.
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And it's so deep in his soul that even the death of a child did not shake him free of this.
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I can't comprehend how a thought like this even enters your head.
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A man kills your child and your wish is that a man of a different race had killed him?
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Now, I would certainly expect that you would wish that a Haitian immigrant hadn't killed your son.
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But to wish that someone else had killed him is incomprehensibly deranged.
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Now, his implication, if you want to be as charitable as possible, is that the tens of thousands of Haitians that have moved into Springfield are safe drivers.
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They're just as safe as the American citizens who have been living there for generations, supposedly.
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But everyone living in Springfield knows that's not true.
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The journalist Taylor Hanson is in Springfield.
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Hanson also put together a compilation of some of the car crashes he's seen involving Haitians in Springfield.
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This is the third time this has happened today.
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Oh, this is the, uh, this is the fourth, this is the fourth wreck involving the new Americans.
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When you increase the size of a town by one third and all of the new arrivals are from a dysfunctional hellhole like Haiti.
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And, and you got a lot of people that don't even have a license to be on the road in the first place.
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Like they never even took a driver's test in this country.
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Well, you're going to get a lot of bad drivers who don't obey the rules of the road.
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And some of those bad drivers are going to kill children on the way to school.
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And, you know, one thing that could come out of the horrible tragedy of, uh, Aiden's death is if awareness is raised about this problem in Springfield.
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But Aiden Clark's father doesn't want fewer people to die.
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Because of his own ideology, he doesn't want that awareness to be spread.
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Now, it's understandable that Aiden Clark's father is angry.
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I would be unfathomably angry if I was in his shoes.
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But his anger is directed at the only people who have expressed any concern over his son's death.
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He attacks the only people who actually care that his son is dead.
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Hey, you know, Kamala Harris doesn't care at all that your son's dead.
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She wants to put more people in the country, more of the kinds of people who killed your son.
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You know, it seems to me that after suffering such a tragedy, most of your anger would be reserved for the man who actually killed your son.
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You're less angry at the guy who killed your son than you are at politicians who you don't like.
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I mean that, like, with all concern for your well-being.
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And the rest of the anger that you have should be directed at the politicians who let that guy into the country.
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If he hadn't been allowed in, if our immigration system was functional, if our borders were enforced, your son would be alive.
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You know, the terrible racist right-wingers that you hate so much, guess what?
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If Donald Trump was in charge and he had his way, your son would be living today.
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It's not just this father who thinks like this.
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I watched some more of this Springfield City Commission meeting.
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The whole thing resembled a struggle session where no one felt that they could speak their minds.
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They all had to affirm virtues of multiculturalism.
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For example, you might remember this woman who spoke a few days ago about her experiences in Springfield.
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This clip went viral at the time for obvious reasons.
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I have the homeless that were trying to camp out, and I have made concessions with them,
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and I try to help them the best I can to keep them from trying to squat on my property.
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I have men that cannot speak English in my front yard screaming at me,
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throwing mattresses in my front yard, throwing trash in my front yard, and I can't.
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My husband is elderly, and last night after living in this home for 45 years, he said,
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She's clearly telling the truth about her firsthand experiences.
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With all compassion for this woman and what she's going through.
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I did not mean to bring any ill will to my city.
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Everybody knows at this point who I am, and I'm not really comfortable with that.
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I try to keep to myself, and that's not what I wanted, was for this to happen.
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I did not mean to bring any ill will to the city.
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I'm just saying that I did not mean to bring any ill will.
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And about the ducks and the cats, I'm the crazy cat lady in my town.
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And if they were coming up out of our park with geese or ducks, I would be one of the
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And thank you, Ms. Tackett, because you spoke to me like I had some sense last Wednesday.
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I've got the courage to stand back up here again today.
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I mean, really, with an attitude like you deserve to lose your community with an attitude like this.
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I still don't think you should, because I believe in controlling the border and national sovereignty.
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But if you don't even have the gumption to stand by your own words, when you're justifiably angry that your community is being destroyed and you feel the need to come back around and rationalize it, then, like, how is it that some of us who don't even live there care more about your community than you do?
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You don't have to apologize for caring about your own well-being and the well-being of your community.
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So now, after her comments generate outrage, appropriate, justified outrage, she's backtracking.
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Now that they make Democrats, you know, in the ideology of multiculturalism look bad, she's apologetic.
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She just recognized now that what she said was inconvenient for the ideology she's required to hold.
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And she wants to stay in the good graces of, you know, the people who run her community, I guess.
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And again, the whole city council, the whole council meeting went like this.
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One speaker after another affirming the values of diversity.
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The parents of the little boy that died, they broke me down.
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So, um, this city's going backwards, not forward.
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I mean, when have you ever told immigrants to get away, leave?
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So we've got to move forward and stop the negativity.
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Everything you've built, everything you've built, everything people before you in your
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Uh, and yet the most important message for you is that we love diversity and let's stop
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It's like, it's, you know, it's like watching somebody with Stockholm syndrome.
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That's, that's, that's, that's just like a mental sickness.
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Um, and it's a very similar kind of mental sickness.
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She knows that the huge influx of Haitians has caused problems for Springfield.
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She heard all the residents saying so just a few days ago, but then she implies that,
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you know, there's no use complaining about it because no one's ever going to remove all
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No one in power is going to send these foreign nationals back where they came from.
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So she might as well smile and hold back tears and pretend that diversity is strengthening
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This is the essence of multiculturalism as it's being applied in the United States.
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It's an ideology of, uh, it's not an ideology of tolerance or empowerment.
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It's an ideology with one goal, which is the destruction of Western culture and the destruction,
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which means the destruction of the communities that you live in.
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And if you live in Springfield, you know that this stuff has made your life actively worse.
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And if this city council meeting in Springfield on Tuesdays, any occasion, a lot of American
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ABC News reports that, reading now, former President Donald Trump has begun to shut down
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the possibility of a second debate against Vice President Kamala Harris after debating
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her Tuesday night, claiming he doesn't need to debate her again because he won the debate.
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Trump told ABC News late Tuesday, well, she wants a second debate because she lost tonight
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And then later on, he was talking to Hannity and he said the same kind of thing.
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Okay, we're looking at it, but when you win, you don't really necessarily have to do it
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But we had, I thought we had a great debate last night.
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I may be in the minority among conservatives, or maybe I'm not.
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But I think that Trump should not do a second debate.
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And I think he should just say that he's not doing it.
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I don't think that we should do this thing of being coy about it and, hey, we'll think
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I know that Trump is a showman, so he likes to drag these kinds of things out.
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But I think in this case, it makes you look like you're waffling and it could make you
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Whatever your answer is, just give it and say, look, obviously, here's my answer to this.
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But I agree that you can't walk into another three-on-one cage match situation.
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It would be totally ridiculous, politically suicidal, really, to volunteer to be ganged
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Kamala Harris, of course, her campaign would never, she would never want to, and her campaign
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would never in a million years allow her to walk into a situation where they know that
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there's going to be two moderators who are against her actively and trying to embarrass
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It's like signing up for a boxing match where the ref is being paid by the other guy.
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And yet you go, no, it's not, it's, you're not going to, you're not going to do that.
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And not because you're scared of the guy, but because it's just, why would I, it's completely
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I'm not going to, I'm not going to take part in my own, you know, I'm not going to allow
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So if you, if, if you were to agree to a bit, if Trump was to agree to a debate, it would
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have to be somewhere other than mainstream corporate media.
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Better yet, you could do it somewhere totally outside of the cable news box.
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You know, I would push for a, you know, an unmoderated debate would be great.
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I'm not the only one, but I'd love to see a debate where, okay, it's two hours and we've
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got four topics and we're going to do 30 minutes on each topic.
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So if there's a moderator, that's the only thing the moderator is doing is just, okay,
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And once we get to about 30 minutes, I'll throw the next topic at you.
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And that's all that I'm doing as the moderator.
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I think that'd be interesting doing a, doing a debate on Joe Rogan or, or, you know, if
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you want to bring this into the 21st century and go on one of these podcasts and it doesn't
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have to be an official kind of traditionally formatted debate, but just have both candidates
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sit there and talk to Joe for two and a half hours, that would be very revealing.
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It would tell us way more than any of these kind of stuffy formatted, scripted debates on
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a news channel, but Kamala is never going to agree to that.
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Obviously she's only going to agree to a traditional moderated debate.
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And, um, and I don't think Trump should willingly walk into that again.
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Um, and look, uh, I mean, this part, I know it will be in the minority, but I don't, it,
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Um, Trump is not, he had some great debate performances in 2016, but he hasn't had a great
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I mean, there was the Biden one in this cycle, uh, but you know, Biden was decaying on screen.
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And so, uh, I mean, he, he would have lost if he was debating nobody, right?
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Uh, not to take anything away from Trump, but that's just, you know, we know that.
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And, and, uh, you got to go back then to 2016 and 2016, it was so unorthodox.
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The way that Trump approaches these things, it was so bewildering for his opponents, both
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in the primaries, especially in the primaries, but even in the general election that he kind
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of knocked his opponents back on their heels and they never figured out that was the whole
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story of 2016 that they versus primary opponents, especially, you know, they got fed to
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They had no idea what, what they were getting themselves into.
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Um, and, and then Hillary too, they just never figured out how to approach this.
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Well, Trump's been in politics now for almost a decade.
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He's, he's the, the shock factor and the novelties is worn off completely as it would
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I mean, you've been doing this for 10 years, um, which means that now if you want to win
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the debates, if you want to win one of these kind of old fashioned standard, uh, political
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debates, you got to kind of win it the old fashioned way.
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Um, which means a disciplined performance, giving clean, crisp answers, staying relentlessly
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That's what it means to be good at one of those kinds of debates.
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There's a, it's a particular skill set, especially when you know you got the moderators against you,
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but even without the, even if the moderators were, were playing it relatively fairly,
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uh, it's, it, if you take out 2016 as kind of an outlier, we're sort of back into, into
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what it's always been, which is it's a particular skill set to succeed in one of those debates.
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The moderators debated Trump more than Kamala did.
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The only thing Kamala did was she went in there and she had a whole bunch of scripts.
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She had her script memorized and she did a good job of memorizing it.
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Um, and she had her talking points and she just stuck to them.
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You know, she stuck to them the whole way and she gave pretty concise for her, especially
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And she put out a whole bunch of sound bites out there that could circulate.
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Um, and, and kind of, uh, word association, um, stream of consciousness and these kinds
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of debates, it just does, that style doesn't, doesn't work for the, it's just, you end up,
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you end up with what we saw, which is kind of like you're going around in circles and you,
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you hit a couple of good points, you have a couple of good moments, but then you keep
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talking and you sort of step on your own good moments.
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Um, it's a style that works really well for, uh, say his rallies.
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That's why I say if he could sit down with Joe Rogan, if Kamala would, if it would be
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Kamala, Trump and Rogan, I'd give advantage Trump all day for that.
00:31:15.980
Now, now Kamala, it's not being, you know, it's not like, oh, you have 60 seconds go.
00:31:22.860
So now Kamala has to try to get a word in edgewise.
00:31:26.500
She has to try to keep up and follow, you know, kind of follow the leader as, as Trump
00:31:33.540
And I think she would, it would be a disaster for her.
00:31:37.840
But again, that's why she's not going to do that.
00:31:41.040
Um, so that's where we're at where we're, you have two candidates who could not be more
00:31:44.900
opposite, both ideologically, but also stylistically.
00:31:49.840
And Kamala is, is not going to walk into a scenario where it doesn't play to her strengths.
00:31:57.540
Uh, Trump, I mean, to his credit, he's been willing to walk into scenarios that don't play
00:32:06.000
Don't let's, we don't need to do that again for the same reason that she's not going to
00:32:09.640
So if she's not going to do it, why do you do it?
00:32:12.120
Um, and so I think you just leave that be and, uh, you, you, you don't need to say no
00:32:21.860
You're saying, uh, yeah, I'd be happy to talk to you again.
00:32:26.720
Here are the scenarios where I would be willing to talk to you.
00:32:29.740
And by the way, I want to talk to you in, in, in places where it's the opposite of being
00:32:35.140
It's like, I, I want to actually be able to have a conversation.
00:32:38.460
I don't want you to have all these guardrails and protections by the moderator, right?
00:32:44.020
I want to take the training wheels off and have a real discussion.
00:32:49.000
Um, and I think honestly, I, I, the more I think about it, I think, I think Trump should
00:32:59.160
Let's sit down with Joe Rogan, you and me, she's not ever going to do it, but, uh, then
00:33:17.720
Biden was visiting firefighters in Pennsylvania yesterday.
00:33:20.400
Uh, and, uh, and an image came out of that meeting that was so bizarre that I thought
00:33:27.120
Um, and the image is, is him wearing a Trump hat.
00:33:34.440
The first time I saw it, I thought, I thought it must be AI.
00:33:46.520
Everyone knows as a politician that you have to be very careful about the hats that you
00:33:51.300
I mean, for a long time, the rule, kind of the unspoken, unofficial rule for politicians
00:33:57.660
Now, Trump obviously is one of the, one of the many unspoken rules that he, uh, just discarded
00:34:05.720
Um, and so he brought hats back for politicians.
00:34:08.180
That's one, one of the things that he did, one of the ways that he changed things was you
00:34:12.560
Um, but you gotta be careful about the hat that you're wearing.
00:34:17.740
And, uh, one of the things that made the Make America Great Again hat so, uh, genius
00:34:24.420
is that great branding, very noticeable, it's read, and it's got that message on there,
00:34:32.040
Uh, what you don't do is put on your opponent's merchandise.
00:34:38.340
I don't even know if we can call that an unspoken rule because it's more like that it's, it's
00:34:46.780
so obvious that you wouldn't even think it'd need to be a rule unspoken or spoken, but
00:34:54.220
Here's the full context, uh, that led to Biden putting on the Trump hat.
00:34:58.800
Trump hat, I gave him my presidential hat, presidential seal on it.
00:36:15.040
If you cut your fried chicken, I hope you like the pizza.
00:36:23.800
So it's a pretty amazing clip for a number of reasons.
00:36:27.980
Really, the first thing is that you actually see glimmers of what made Biden, even though
00:36:34.520
he's been a terrible person his whole life and his whole career, he's a terrible guy,
00:36:37.660
but you see glimmers of what made him an effective politician back in the day, back before he lost
00:36:43.800
Um, this kind of retail politics thing where he's just kind of, you know, out talking to
00:36:50.720
And in this case, in an environment with people who obviously don't really like him and, uh,
00:36:55.160
he doesn't come off as nervous or scared or anything or awkward.
00:36:59.540
Um, it, it, in the same kind of way that Trump is, there was a video that was going viral.
00:37:06.220
There was, I don't know if it was going viral, but there's a video of Trump recently, not
00:37:09.860
kind of just nothing remarkable happens, but it's just him kind of working through the crowd,
00:37:16.780
I don't know, but you can kind of see just very Trump's very good at this.
00:37:22.440
He's very good at that, especially just kind of talk, walk through the crowd, having really
00:37:28.280
brief, you know, little 32nd interactions with people going on to the next person looks
00:37:35.520
Um, you can see there that Biden has that in him, used to have that.
00:37:46.180
Completely fake, stilted, awkward, uh, incapable of having a normal human interaction with anybody.
00:37:55.940
If you want to give him credit for anything, it's that, but it's also amazing because of
00:38:00.220
the way, first of all, the way that Biden is being treated by the guy that he's talking
00:38:07.420
He's talking to the president of the United States, doesn't care, uh, calls him an old
00:38:11.700
fart multiple, multiple times, you know, he's talking, calling the president an old fart.
00:38:19.060
And, you know, at a different time, in a different era, I would object to that because I would
00:38:24.320
say, Hey, even if you disagree with the president, you should show him respect.
00:38:29.680
Um, he's the president of the United States, right?
00:38:33.480
You should, you should, when it comes to introduce himself, you should stand up.
00:38:38.000
If that guy, I don't know if I put my foot in the mouth, maybe he can't stand or something.
00:38:41.160
He's assuming he's not disabled and he's able to stand, um, you should stand up and
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That's what I would have said in a different time.
00:38:52.480
Um, because, because the office of the presidency deserves respect, even if the guy himself
00:39:02.120
But the problem is that the office has been so incredibly diminished by the people who have
00:39:07.600
held it by the people in power, um, I mean, Joe Biden isn't even really the president.
00:39:15.940
He's a sad, pathetic, disgraced and disgraceful, deceitful, decrepit, broken down man, uh, who,
00:39:23.200
who's, you know, been on vacation for most of his term, doesn't know where he is, what
00:39:29.200
And the whole thing is such a joke that there's no way to respect it.
00:39:33.660
All of the respectableness has been drained out of the thing.
00:39:39.040
So, yeah, now it's like he deserves to be scoffed at and called an old fart because the
00:39:44.940
And that's, and that's not something that we did.
00:39:47.480
That's this, these firefighters, Pennsylvania, they didn't do that.
00:39:54.200
They have taken these, not just the office of the presidency, but, but the, the, you know,
00:40:02.260
the, the leadership positions that they hold and they have made a disgrace of it.
00:40:08.920
I mean, we, uh, there've been multiple incidents recently.
00:40:13.360
We've played on the show of some of the, the arguments that are broken out on Capitol Hill
00:40:18.440
during congressional hearings and stuff like that.
00:40:23.920
You've got these people yelling and cussing at each other and just, it's just, they are
00:40:30.300
They are not treating their own office with any dignity whatsoever.
00:40:35.340
So, and after a while, you know, if you have a person who comes through and holds the office
00:40:41.080
and sort of acts in a, in a, in a disgraceful way and you have that every once in a while,
00:40:46.440
that's one thing, but it's just now there's no dignity to the ruling class at all.
00:40:55.020
Um, they have no reverence for their own, for their own position or they've reverence
00:40:59.960
for themselves, but not for the offices that they hold and certainly not for the country
00:41:08.980
They've drained the, what was respectable and dignified out of these offices.
00:41:13.980
So now we, we have no respect for them and we really shouldn't anymore.
00:41:20.960
But the most jarring and hilarious thing, of course, is to see Biden put the Trump hat
00:41:31.620
One way is to say that Biden is of course demented and has no idea where he is or what
00:41:39.780
But it's also true that Biden hates Kamala, you know, he's bitter and angry.
00:41:52.900
I don't have any, I'm not claiming that I have some kind of insider information.
00:41:59.420
And I know that just based on how people work, it's basically impossible that he doesn't want
00:42:07.340
Just imagine, put yourself in his shoes for a minute.
00:42:10.460
If you were at your job, let's say, and you're, uh, mentoring somebody, some up and comer, right?
00:42:19.100
And then the person that you're mentoring goes to your boss and gets you fired and then takes
00:42:27.440
your job and gets the promotion that you were supposed to get.
00:42:30.860
There's no way that you'd be sitting on the sidelines rooting for that person to thrive
00:42:36.680
I don't care if you're the most humble and, and, uh, empathetic and selfless person in
00:42:40.480
the world, which Biden is none of those things.
00:42:42.940
But even then, there's no way that you, there's no way that you would want the decision to
00:42:52.720
Because if that person succeeds, then all of a sudden it's like, well, I guess they were
00:43:00.420
You don't want your successor to achieve the thing that they thought you couldn't achieve,
00:43:05.120
which is why they got rid of you for that person.
00:43:11.040
And, uh, it wouldn't surprise me if that's why he wore the hat.
00:43:17.500
It wouldn't surprise me if at some level he actually means it.
00:43:23.840
That's the one that everyone's, everyone's waiting.
00:43:29.580
This, this has been the most bizarre, uh, unexpected and surprising political season,
00:43:41.620
When you look at the things that have happened just even the last couple of months, I mean,
00:43:45.180
multiple historically unprecedented or, or, you know, virtually unprecedented events have
00:43:52.940
So I think everyone is thinking there, there's gotta be one last thing, right?
00:43:58.040
The people that are scripting this, uh, this season of the show, they must have one last
00:44:02.840
You can't, you can't stack all your big surprises, uh, early on in the season.
00:44:08.160
You gotta have something saved for, you know, episode nine or episode 10.
00:44:15.100
And I'll tell you what, if I'm scripting this thing out, that's how I end it.
00:44:21.680
I've got Biden, uh, a couple of weeks before the election coming out on stage to campaign
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It's never going to happen in a million years, but you gotta admit that that would be, that
00:44:35.040
That would be, it wouldn't get, wouldn't get better than that.
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A few days ago, I played a trailer from the upcoming Will Ferrell documentary on Netflix called Will and Harper.
00:46:25.840
It's about a road trip that Will Ferrell apparently took with Harper Steele after Harper, a former head writer at SNL, announced that he's actually a woman.
00:46:34.060
It's never explained why a road trip was necessary or appropriate under those circumstances, but that's the premise.
00:46:43.720
His friend suddenly says he's really a woman, and so they hop in a car and start driving.
00:46:48.340
And the film looks about as terrible as you'd expect.
00:46:50.460
At one point, Will Ferrell says, hey, are you a worse driver now that you're a woman?
00:46:54.020
And then they chuckle, and then the scene keeps going, and Harper Steele says, yes, actually, and then they laugh even more.
00:47:03.680
And by the way, that's as edgy as the humor will get, I guarantee you, in this thing.
00:47:15.180
Wow, these guys really taking a risk with their comedy.
00:47:20.720
So, a film like this raises a lot of questions.
00:47:23.260
They're not the questions the filmmakers were hoping to raise, but it does raise them nonetheless.
00:47:26.640
And one of the big questions is why Will Ferrell and a lot of other comedians like him
00:47:30.140
suddenly decided to stop making funny and entertaining movies.
00:47:34.320
You know, it happened around a decade ago for reasons that remain unexplained,
00:47:38.820
although, you know, there are theories that one might have.
00:47:43.220
But the fact is we went from old school and stepbrothers to melodramatic road trips
00:47:48.240
about Will Ferrell's friend deciding that he wants to wear dresses.
00:47:52.980
And is there any remaining chance that Will Ferrell will, one day in the future,
00:47:56.720
once again make a movie that qualifies as a comedy?
00:47:59.420
Well, in a recent interview, Will Ferrell himself answered that last question with a resounding no.
00:48:03.900
And he did that by disavowing some of his old comedy for being insensitive.
00:48:08.820
And he did it in a way that's both humiliating and confusing at the same time.
00:48:13.520
Will Ferrell is no longer interested in performing in drag for laughs.
00:48:16.820
During an interview on the New York Times, The Interview podcast,
00:48:20.720
alongside his longtime friend and former SNL head writer Harper Steele,
00:48:25.400
Ferrell had expressed a bit of regret over the Janet Reno's Fantasies sketch
00:48:32.320
The sketch featured Ferrell in drag as the eponymous attorney general,
00:48:37.620
with his appearance dressing up as a woman being used for laughs.
00:48:42.200
That's something I wouldn't choose to do now, Ferrell said,
00:48:44.560
when the Times noted the character hits a false note now.
00:48:53.140
It's, hey, look at this guy in a dress, and that's funny.
00:48:57.360
It's absolutely a way that we should be able to live in the world.
00:49:03.200
First of all, there is no one on the planet who, in the year 2024,
00:49:06.340
was thinking about the Janet Reno's Fantasies sketch from season 23 of the Saturday Night Live.
00:49:11.620
We're talking about a sketch from a season that aired 27 years ago.
00:49:15.060
Not even professional trans activists who are paid to get offended were talking about that.
00:49:19.540
Even the biggest fans of SNL on the planet, assuming they still exist,
00:49:24.020
If you pull up these sketches on YouTube, there's barely any views,
00:49:27.340
but just so you know which sketches we're talking about,
00:49:34.460
If I'd known being attorney general was this hard, I would have stayed in Florida.
00:49:40.060
But just think, Simba, only 41 more White House videotapes,
00:49:49.180
and he's having coffee with a bunch of Chinese people.
00:49:53.860
Will Ferrell's doing an impression of Janet Reno as attorney general at the time,
00:49:56.480
and people apparently thought the impression was amusing
00:49:58.980
because SNL had a whole series of sketches like this.
00:50:02.280
Here's one where Will Ferrell as Janet Reno was hosting awkward dance parties in her home,
00:50:06.860
and it was supposed to be funny because she takes herself extremely seriously,
00:50:09.520
so she's not the kind of person you'd expect to host a dance party in her basement.
00:50:17.740
It's a common tool of comedians, which Will Ferrell is not anymore.
00:50:22.620
And now, from the home of the Attorney General of the United States,
00:50:45.060
Welcome to Janet Reno's Dance Party, coming to you live from my basement.
00:50:51.760
So the joke in these sketches is pretty clear, even if they're not exactly topical anymore.
00:50:56.960
But in SNL, they're not even really making fun of the idea of a man dressing as a woman.
00:51:04.440
And the way they did that was by casting a man to play Janet Reno.
00:51:07.360
It's sort of like how SNL cast a woman to play Ted Cruz very recently,
00:51:11.140
which, interestingly enough, did not trigger any outrage cycle at all.
00:51:14.280
And nobody said that that was somehow offensive to trans, quote-unquote, trans men or anything.
00:51:22.100
But it's supposed to be humorous because the audience thinks that the impression is accurate, and that's it.
00:51:26.980
What's changed, of course, is that back in 1997, no one seriously thought that a man transformed into a woman
00:51:33.840
That wouldn't have even occurred to a single man or woman in the audience.
00:51:43.200
In fact, there was quite a lot of cross-dressing that went on in 90s comedies,
00:51:55.220
And the reason why this was done in comedy is that it was understood that it's inherently ridiculous
00:52:03.760
for a man to dress like a woman, so it's just a cheap way to get laughs.
00:52:08.440
So if there was any criticism, right, of the cross-dressing in film and comedies back then,
00:52:14.240
if there was any reason to criticize it, it was really just that it was just cheap.
00:52:18.640
It's like putting on a funny wig to get a laugh.
00:52:21.840
Who would ever try to get a laugh out of putting on a funny wig in a film?
00:52:28.340
But anyway, gender ideology has taken over now, and so all that changes,
00:52:33.320
and now we have to take this inherently ridiculous thing seriously.
00:52:36.720
And now that Will Ferrell's friend wants to pretend that he's a woman 30 years later,
00:52:45.840
Now they're doing the meme where they're crossing their arms and staring at their own material
00:52:57.120
Because they need to tear down anything that might remind people of a time not too long ago
00:53:01.520
when the world wasn't completely insane and used to recognize ridiculous things as ridiculous.
00:53:07.280
When this is the standard, you can't have comedy.
00:53:10.420
When you have to bow to the demands of pathological narcissists,
00:53:13.140
people who object to sketches from the 90s that no one's talking about anymore,
00:53:18.240
And Ferrell knows that, presumably, but he's made enough money,
00:53:21.720
so he's a political activist now apologizing for his previous sins back when he was a comedian.
00:53:28.220
The cast members of Friends, another show from the 90s that no one had a problem with at the time,
00:53:32.900
some of them are now disavowing their own show.
00:53:37.100
While Adam Goldberg looks back at his time on Friends with Fondness,
00:53:40.980
he also recognizes criticisms the show has received in the 30 years since it's first premiered.
00:53:45.380
In terms of diversity, looking back, it seems insane, Goldberg's stated in an interview with The Independent.
00:53:51.160
I've heard black people speak about this, and it's like, you never expected to see yourself,
00:53:55.080
so when you didn't, it was not a surprise you ended up identifying to characters irrespective of their race.
00:54:04.780
Never mind the fact that in the real world, people don't go out and recruit token diversity candidates to round out their friend group.
00:54:11.000
There's nothing unrealistic about, you know, a few white people being friends.
00:54:16.500
There's nothing wrong with that, one would think.
00:54:19.220
People don't choose the members of their social circles based on racial quotas.
00:54:23.080
That would be insane, to use Adam Goldberg's words.
00:54:25.620
Now, obviously, there are about a million reasons why a group of Friends might be racially homogenous,
00:54:31.700
and they have nothing to do whatsoever with racism,
00:54:33.840
but in Hollywood, the only explanation for the existence of a group of people who are mostly white is that racism occurred somewhere.
00:54:39.000
Therefore, we apparently need token diversity characters in every single show,
00:54:42.600
whether it's fantasy or sci-fi or sitcom like Friends.
00:54:45.660
And more than that, we need to apologize for all previous shows and films that don't align with this new racial obsession.
00:54:51.840
Goldberg's co-star Jennifer Aniston made a similar observation not too long ago, quote,
00:54:55.620
There's a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of Friends and find them offensive.
00:55:01.140
Aniston, who starred as Rachel Green, told AFP in March 2023,
00:55:04.580
There were things that were never intentional, and others, well, we should have thought it through,
00:55:09.140
but I don't think there was a sensitivity like there is now.
00:55:12.920
Without addressing specific storylines and characters, Aniston, 55, noted that it's become tricky for comedians to make certain jokes.
00:55:19.100
In the past, you could joke about a bigot and have a laugh. That was hysterical.
00:55:22.900
It was about educating people on how ridiculous people were, she said.
00:55:30.540
We can't take ourselves too seriously, especially in the United States.
00:55:35.860
Of course, the fact that people are divided is describing the symptom, not the underlying problem.
00:55:42.540
We are divided between people who understand human biology and people who think that a dress can transform a man into a woman.
00:55:47.880
We are divided between people who understand that sometimes friend groups happen to be white
00:55:53.560
and people who insist that every friend group must consist of a token minority or two.
00:55:59.040
That's really a division between sanity and insanity,
00:56:02.860
and the people in the latter group have a lot more power in Hollywood at the moment.
00:56:08.100
To restate, now we're not allowed to do that, Jennifer Aniston said.
00:56:11.900
All that's allowed, apparently, is garbage like Will and Harper,
00:56:16.180
a documentary featuring aging ex-comedians lecturing us about transgenderism
00:56:20.720
as they drive around randomly for no discernible purpose.
00:56:27.820
But, you know, in reality, it's just cowardice and narcissism.
00:56:32.140
It's the reason we don't have any mainstream comedy films on the level of old school anymore.
00:56:36.740
And that is why Will Ferrell and all the other comedians who are disavowing their old work
00:56:42.700
because they're too weak to stand up for themselves are today canceled.
00:56:49.020
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00:57:32.500
What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
00:57:39.700
I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
00:57:59.820
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.