Ep. 1449 - How The FBI Is Willing To Risk Your Safety To Get Kamala Elected
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The FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country, but Vice President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are celebrating an alleged drop in crime. But the actual statistics tell a very different story. Also, Donald Trump promises to kill the Department of Education, and the Washington Post shocks the world by publishing an oped, a mostly positive piece about my new film, Am I Racist? We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats are celebrating an alleged drop in the crime rate.
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This is supposed to be proof that the Biden-Harris strategy of not fighting or prosecuting crime
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But the actual statistics, of course, tell a very different story.
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Also, Donald Trump promises to kill the Department of Education.
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And the Washington Post shocks the world by publishing an op-ed, a mostly positive op-ed,
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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in conservative media, live breaking news, and hard-hitting investigative journalism.
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Shortly after the two ABC moderators entered the presidential debate on the side of Kamala
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Harris, there was a brief moment when Donald Trump pushed back.
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And it happened when David Muir finished one of his drive-by fact checks concerning the
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The moderator intended to immediately ask Kamala Harris a question so that Trump couldn't
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But Trump did respond, and the moderator had no answer to what he said.
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And it's happening at levels that nobody thought possible.
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President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down
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They didn't include the cities with the worst crime.
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Just like their number of 818,000 jobs that they said they created turned out to be a fraud.
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Well, I think this is so rich, coming from someone who has been prosecuted.
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Now, if you're going to debate a candidate when you're really supposed to be the moderator,
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But Muir had no answer when Trump refuted his canned talking point about FBI data.
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He sheepishly had to pivot to Kamala, who started laughing awkwardly.
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This summer, when the FBI released its quarterly uniform crime report showing that crime was down,
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they didn't include data from New York or Los Angeles.
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The NYPD and LAPD are the two biggest police forces in the entire country,
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apparently because they couldn't comply with the FBI's new data tracking requirements in time, supposedly.
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Back in 2022, roughly one-third of the country's 6,000 police agencies didn't report crime data to the FBI.
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This isn't some partisan talking point that I'm making here.
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Now, yesterday, though, the FBI released its latest updated annual report.
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the report comprehensively documents violent crimes that occurred in 2023
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because the data comes from law enforcement agencies that cover more than 95% of the country's population,
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And according to the new data, car thefts went up by about 20% from 2022 to 2023.
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But violent crime was supposedly down overall by 3%.
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While murder and non-negligent homicide were down more than 10%.
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Now, as you'd expect, left-wing media outlets celebrated the news.
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They portrayed it as vindication for Kamala Harris and her debating partner, David Mueller.
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Just moments ago, the FBI released a new report showing the national crime rate decreased in 2023.
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It's the FBI's best estimate of what happened last year in terms of crime.
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Violent crime decreased an estimated 3% last year, according to the FBI.
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Murder and manslaughter came down an estimated 11.6%.
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And here's what's also important to know about this, Jose, because there's been a lot of criticism
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And while it's true that not all crimes are reported, all murders are counted.
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And what this shows big picture, because this is the second year in a row that the FBI has
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documented the decline in violent crime, it shows that after a big spike during the pandemic,
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violent crime is back down to around 2019 levels.
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First of all, several large police departments, including the NOPD and the LAPD,
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did not report demographic data about those crimes to the FBI.
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If you pull up these police departments on the FBI's website, you won't be able to see
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the race and gender of assailants or their victims, for example.
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On social media yesterday, a lot of people interpreted this as proof that NOPD and LAPD
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didn't report violent crimes at all, but that's not true.
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They did report violent crimes, but they left out information about who's committing them
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and who the victims are, which is still a notable omission, especially when the Biden
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administration and Kamala Harris are claiming that we live in a white supremacist hellscape
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where it's not safe for black people to go about their lives.
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My producers reached out to the FBI, LAPD, and NOPD to ask why this data was missing.
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But in general, the FBI's numbers are being accurately reported by MSNBC and other mainstream
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If you think the FBI's data captures all the crime that's occurring, then yes, the data
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is a sign that this country is safer than it was a year ago.
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The problem is that this data doesn't, in fact, capture all the crime that's occurring
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As even that MSNBC report conceded, the only way for the FBI to hear about crimes is if someone
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reports them to a police department in the first place.
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The victim needs to report it, and then the police department needs to then report that
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At least that's the only way it shows up in these statistics.
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And that may not be happening as much as it should be because people don't have any confidence
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that police or prosecutors will do anything about the crime that is reported.
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Unless we're talking about homicides, which are usually reported because it's hard to conceal
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a body, this is a significant problem with the data.
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And the Biden administration itself acknowledges that.
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Earlier this month, the DOJ released a report entitled Criminal Victimization 2023.
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The report is unique in that it doesn't rely on police department data.
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Instead, it captures non-fatal crimes that weren't reported to law enforcement using something
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called the National Crime Victimization Survey, or NCVS, which is administered by the Bureau
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And as the DOJ put it, the NCVS collects information on whether crimes were reported or not reported
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to police and on the reasons why the crime was reported or not reported.
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Victims may not report a crime for a variety of reasons, including fear of reprisal or getting
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the offender in trouble, believing that police would not or could not help, and believing
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the crime to be too personal or too trivial to report.
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So the reason the DOJ collects the data is that, as it turns out, there are a lot of crimes
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that aren't reported, far more than you might think.
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Approximately 45% of violent victimizations were reported to police in 2023, which was
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The percentage of rape or sexual assault victimizations reported to police increased
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A lower percentage of robbery victimizations were reported to police in 2023, 42%, than in
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During this period, the percentage of overall property crime victimization reported to police
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decreased from 32% to 30%, due in part to a decline in the reporting of motor vehicle
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So when you hear that the FBI reports that property crimes were down 2% in 2023, you have
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to keep in mind that, according to the DOJ's crime survey, only around a third of property
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crimes are reported to police in the first place.
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And the majority of other non-fatal violent crimes aren't reported either.
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The exception appears to be motor vehicle thefts, which are reported at a rate of more
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than 70%, which is still down from the year before that, down significantly, actually.
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And that just so happens to be the same category that, according to the FBI data, increased from
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Although 70% of reports, even that, you know, seems remarkably low.
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Because that means that 30% of car theft victims didn't even report it to the cops.
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Well, you know, I actually have some personal experience here.
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I had my car stolen out of a parking lot downtown a couple of years ago here in Nashville.
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And I did report it to the police, you know, because that's what you think you should do.
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A detective followed up a few days later, but that was it.
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In fact, I was told that they had eyewitnesses and, I believe, video of the perpetrators.
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But they were, as I was told, a bunch of kids, and there wasn't much that could be done or
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It's a very common experience for people that report crimes to the police.
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So if my car's ever stolen again, my incentive to report it is much lower because I know now
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Now, I still will report it in this case because I need to report it in order for insurance
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The only reason I'm doing it is just file the paperwork so I can, you know, so I can
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And that's also probably why car theft reports are so much higher relative to other types
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But in any case, the point is that a lack of enforcement has a very demoralizing effect
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The takeaway from the DOJ survey is that under the Biden administration, crime has increased
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Here's how the Wall Street Journal summarized the survey data, quote, the NCVS report for
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2023 finds no statistically significant evidence that violent crime or property crime is dropping
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Excluding simple assault, the type of violent crime least likely to be charged as a felony,
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the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19% higher than in 2019, the last year before the defund
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The problem is especially severe in major cities.
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This is something that's also not captured by the reporting we're hearing about the FBI's data,
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Major cities are completely unrecognizable from what they were just a few years ago,
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and there's no sign that this trend is going to change.
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Quoting again from the journal, according to the NCVS, the urban violent crime rate increased
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Including simple assault, the urban violent crime rate rose 54% over that span.
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From 2022 to 2023, the urban violent crime rate didn't change to a statistically significant
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degree, so these higher crime rates appear to be the new norm in America's cities.
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Now, of course, there are reasons to be skeptical of survey data in general.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics just admitted they overestimated job growth in this country
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by something like 800,000 jobs, and that was because the surveys they used evidently
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But in this case, the DOJ survey has a few advantages over the FBI's data.
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As I mentioned, it captures crimes that aren't reported to the police.
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And if you want to know the real crime rate, you have to take that into account, because
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otherwise all you're getting is the crime reporting rates, which is not the same as the crime rates.
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And additionally, the DOJ has been running this survey since the Nixon administration.
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But the FBI recently overhauled its data collection method in 2022, which makes it very hard to
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And that's a major problem, because it's essentially impossible to establish a baseline for comparison
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By contrast, with the survey data, we can get a broader look at the overall increase in crime
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under the Biden-Harris administration, not just looking at 2022 and 2023.
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And more to the point, there are plenty of other indicators that the DOJ survey is correct,
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and that America has become a more dangerous place to live in under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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For one thing, you can go to any major city in the country and visit a CVS or a Rite Aid
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and see how many items are hidden behind glass.
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We'll talk about that more in the five headlines.
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You can look at how police departments have shrunk all over the country, from New Orleans to York.
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You can also look at some other indicators that no one's talking about.
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For example, the homicide victimization rate in this country increased by 19% from 2019 to 2023.
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That's a nearly 20% increase in the rate of people getting killed by other people,
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It seems like a rather significant jump, to put it mildly.
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But this is data that no mainstream media outlet will report.
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It's only because of an account on X called Data Hazard, which came up with the numbers by looking at death certificates,
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We have a 20% increase in the homicide victimization rate in just four years.
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Any other country at any other time in history would call that a crisis.
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But using that kind of language wouldn't play well for Kamala Harris.
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So instead, her promoters are resorting to a familiar tactic.
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They're selectively relying on data that helps their candidate while ignoring the data that contradicts or complicates that narrative.
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It's all part of an effort, once again, to convince you to ignore what's happening right in front of you,
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what you can see with your own eyes, what you're experiencing in your own lives.
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They don't care that more people are dying since 2019 or that most violent crimes are still going unreported.
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They only care about one thing, which, of course, is winning in November and retaining their power.
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So they're disregarding all new months, all complicating factors in their reporting on this.
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But the rest of us, people who actually want to live in this country, regardless of who the president is, we can't accept that.
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A government that will lie about the deaths of its own citizens will lie about anything.
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And after the one-sided misleading response we saw to the FBI's data yesterday,
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it's clear that that's exactly the kind of government that Kamala Harris supporters want.
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So Trump had a rally in, I think it was Pennsylvania last night,
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and here was my favorite part of what he had to say.
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We spend more money per pupil than any other country by far,
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and I'm going to close the Department of Education and move education back to the states.
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We'll get, I think we'll, I think that's a job for Lee.
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It's what many conservatives like myself have been calling for since forever.
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if he closes the Department of Education, as he just promised to do,
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There's going to be hysteria, unlike anything we've seen before, truly.
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I mean, and we're used to seeing a lot of hysteria around Donald Trump,
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completely irrational hysteria, as hysteria always is, by definition.
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I mean, can you imagine if he actually shut down the Department of Education?
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The way the media will report that, the kinds of things they'll say about it.
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No one's going to learn to read or write anymore.
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It's, it's, it's just like Hitler all over again, somehow.
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So, you know, go in there like a damn wrecking ball,
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a bull in a china shop, whatever metaphor you like,
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Burn it down and dance around its ashes joyously.
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And as Trump, Trump briefly pointed out in that clip,
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if we're judging our current education system by its fruits, as we should,
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The education system is, is simply failing to educate a huge number of kids
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I'd say it's failing to properly educate basically all of them.
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The Department of Education was founded about 40 years ago or so.
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Are kids today generally better educated than kids 40 years ago?
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Let's go back to 1954, just to make it nice and, you know, round numbers.
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There's 18-year-old high school graduate in 1954.
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Who is more knowledgeable about history and literature and civics?
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Who's a more mature, well-adjusted, well-spoken, articulate person?
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I mean, would anyone put their money on the 2024 graduate in that race?
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And that's because our education system is a catastrophic failure.
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And it's such a failure that it has created a civilization-level crisis.
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It's a crisis that cannot be entirely fixed by abolishing the Department of Education
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because you're still going to have the public school system that will still exist.
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And ultimately, the public school system itself needs to be abolished.
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The whole thing, the entire system should be dismantled because it is utterly failing in its basic job to educate kids.
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There are a lot of other reasons why we should destroy the public school system, get rid of it, abolish it.
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But you don't really need to get past this, which is they're not doing the job.
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You've got a whole bunch of poorly educated or basically uneducated 17- and 18-year-olds coming out of that system after spending 12 to 13 years in it.
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They know basically nothing about the world, about history, about literature, about any of the subjects that they should be well-versed in after spending all that time in that system.
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I mean, rarely will you hear anybody step up to the plate to argue that the average American citizen is pretty well-educated, pretty knowledgeable.
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There's a reason why one of the cheapest things you can do as a YouTuber is just go out to any street corner somewhere and ask basic trivia questions to random people passing by.
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And if you do that for 30 minutes, you're guaranteed to find a whole bunch of adults who can't tell you who was the first president of the United States, what century was the Civil War fought in, things like that.
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We all know that it's very, very easy to find adults who cannot answer those kinds of questions.
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Questions that, with a properly functioning education system, seven-year-olds would be able to answer.
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And yet few people, relatively few people, make the obvious connection.
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Of course, you primarily blame the education system.
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That's the system that's supposed to be doing all that stuff.
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So if we can all kind of agree that, frankly, there are a whole bunch of morons that we're surrounded by in this country, which we are, who do we blame?
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It's the education system is supposed to make sure that doesn't happen.
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So the whole system should be totally destroyed.
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The more localized you can make education, the better.
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Education is not something that can be handled by a bureaucracy.
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They make everything worse, especially education.
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And education also cannot be mass-produced like iPhones in a Chinese sweatshop somewhere.
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And you have to educate children individually, as individuals, to the extent possible.
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And obviously, you can't do that even in a homeschool environment.
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Even with our kids in homeschool, they get as individual as an education can be, they receive.
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But you want to get as close to that as you can.
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And the more you expand it and expand it and expand it to make it ultimately a federal issue,
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then you just have this assembly line, you know, wholesale kind of approach.
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Here's a report out of California about a familiar site.
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And this kind of relates back to the opening monologue.
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So then I want to read some comments about this from people on the left,
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sort of how they interpreted and who they blame for it.
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Locking up shelves to protect items is what some Rite Aid stores in Los Angeles are doing
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This is video of a store in Compton, where you can see nearly all items are under a lock and key,
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At this Rite Aid in Santa Ana, a different view.
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Items are out in full display, including makeup and other essentials.
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And in Beverly Hills, this Rite Aid has some beauty products locked in shelves.
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We did ask Rite Aid for more information on the security changes,
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if they are being made at specific stores or if they are being added to all.
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Now, this clip is being passed around Twitter with some commentators unhappy about it.
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So here's someone named Christopher Webb, who identifies himself, not surprisingly, as a lifelong dem.
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I know I'm not the only one who's had enough of these convenience stores keeping everything under lock and key.
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Who has time to wait 10 minutes for an employee to unlock a deodorant?
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Amazon's the beneficiary of this bad business strategy.
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These retailers spent millions putting everything in locked cabinets because they banned everyone claiming crime, which was debunked.
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My target now leaves all the doors open and you can't take carts down the aisle because of the doors.
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So if you think you were the victim of crime and you say, I was just a victim of a crime.
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Well, you're going to have this, this lib, you know, swoop into the scene to say, oh, excuse me.
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No, that's been actually, actually, that's been debunked.
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They are deliberately making shopping less convenient for their customers because they want to lose money.
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This is a classic get poor quick scheme by these dastardly retailers.
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They engage in dishonest schemes in order to lose money on purpose.
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At least that's the, that is the, the version that we get from the left.
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That's how much these morons understand like basic human nature and basic business principles.
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That's the kind of insight these people have into life, that that's what they think.
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They think that the stores just want to lose money.
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Like, like that's what motivates these big corporations is to lose money.
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No, of course, in reality, crime is a very real thing.
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And the reason stores do this is that there's so much shoplifting that they have no choice.
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I was just in Walmart the other day and they had like a shampoo and razors locked behind glass.
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It was the first time in this Walmart, which I go to all the time.
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And this is a recent development that they put all that stuff behind, behind glass.
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And it was, it was an, I, I actually ended up not buying the shampoo and the razors that I needed.
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Which is what I came there for because I didn't want to wait around for an employee to come and unlock the stuff.
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And to me, you know, it's time consuming and also embarrassing.
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Like the idea that I have to have an employee come and like, I have to ask their permit permission.
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And then they're going to like monitor me while I'm buying, judging, judging my shampoo purchase.
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If I go for the scented shampoo, all of a sudden I'm getting judged.
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You know, I don't think we need to, that's, this is not a communal thing.
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I don't, why are you sitting there watching the shampoo that I'm buying?
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So I ended up not, not even, I just went somewhere else.
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And, you know, I'm, I will, I can make a movie where I intentionally antagonize rooms full of people to the point where they call the cops on me.
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But I can't handle calling an employee to unlock the shampoo for me.
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Yes, stores are definitely losing money because of this.
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And, and it's a basic fact of, fact of economics.
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The more convenient something is, the more likely that people are to do it, the less convenient, the less likely.
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Does Walmart need a lesson from these Twitter commenters in how to, how to get people to buy stuff?
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Are the bigwigs at Walmart checking Twitter and seeing this comment from whatever his face and saying, oh, did you see this?
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I thought more people would buy it if you lock it behind glass.
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And so now there'd be lines around the block to buy shampoo.
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Walmart made like $650 billion last year, okay?
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And so I think they know a thing or two about consumer habits.
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I'm not, I'm not much of a trust the experts guy, but, and the left usually is, but this is one area where, yeah, you kind of trust the experts.
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Like, if I go into Walmart and they're doing something, I just sort of assume that they're doing that because that's the best way to make money in this circumstance.
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And so, yeah, I mean, whatever, if I went to a Walmart and they had like a, they built a huge moat around it with crocodiles in it, I would say like, okay, well, I guess that's, this is how, this is the best way for them to make money right now.
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Because like, this is Walmart, they know they wouldn't do it if, I don't understand how that could be the case, but it must be because they wouldn't be doing it otherwise.
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And yet we do know that in, you know, in a vacuum, certainly you lose money by putting the stuff behind glass.
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It means that the shoplifting problem isn't just bad, it's really, really, really bad.
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That's the lesson that a rational person can draw, that Walmart and Rite Aid and all the rest of them, they're looking at this and they're saying, yeah, we're going to lose money if we lock all this stuff behind glass.
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Well, because, because our cultural degradation has reached a point where so many people have not been raised with a basic moral foundation.
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Don't steal is like one of the most basic, most elementary level moral lessons that you're supposed to teach your kids.
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You know, it's a scary thought, but there's a lot of people in this country where they say, oh, well, if I can take that and have it for free, why wouldn't I?
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And if you try to explain the moral, it's like, you know, you're talking to a wall.
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For them, it's, yeah, I'll take it, it's free, I'll just take it.
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If I can take it, I don't have to pay for it, that's what I'll do.
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And meanwhile, and certainly not unrelated to this, you've got these Soros DAs across the country who've stopped prosecuting these kinds of crimes.
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Rather than doubling down and getting tougher on minor, quote unquote, crimes like shoplifting, which is what they should do, they've stopped prosecuting them entirely.
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So you end up with a whole bunch of morally stunted human beings who have no compunction about stealing, along with a justice system that lacks the willpower to do anything about it.
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And, you know, you add those two factors together and now I can't buy shampoo without adult supervision at Walmart, right?
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Well, we know that the mainstream media is corrupt, dishonest, and both intellectually and morally bankrupt.
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That is the fundamental reason why, as we've been tracking on the show for the past few weeks,
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mainstream film critics have refused to review my new film Am I Racist?
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But credit where credit is due, a few journalists, even if they aren't film critics,
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from a few major publications have had the gumption to acknowledge the movie's existence.
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And yesterday, most unexpectedly, the Washington Post was added to that list.
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The film critic at the Post, whoever it is, still has not reviewed the film and probably never will.
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But the journalist Megan McArdle did bravely venture to theaters to watch the movie and wrote about it.
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Wrote about it mostly positively, it turns out, after the fact.
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Now, even before reading her piece, I'm impressed simply that she's willing to do the thing that
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people who are paid to watch and write about movies have been too afraid to do.
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But the readers of the Washington Post are not so impressed.
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In fact, their reaction demonstrates why most mainstream outlets have been too afraid to venture
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And we'll take a look at their reaction in just a moment.
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But first, let's read a little bit of McArdle's take on the film.
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As I drove to the AMC Theater in Danvers, Massachusetts, my phone kept peppering me with
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And for a second, I wanted to reassure my phone that no, consumer electronic device can't be racist.
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Rather, it was reminding me that I had tickets for the latest movie by Matt Walsh, a conservative
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podcaster and provocateur who was probably most famous for his film What is a Woman?
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That movie apparently did well enough to justify releasing the new one onto about 1,500 screens
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It was number four at the box office, albeit a distant fourth in a very slow week, which
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While you might not like this suggestion, you should do the same.
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Just, you know, FYI, actually, it wasn't a very slow week.
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Our film came out only a week after Beetlejuice set box office records for the month.
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We were like 700K behind the third place film, which isn't really distant.
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I mean, I'm counting obsessively every day, but let's not get hung up on those details.
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Continuing, I'm not promising you'll enjoy the movie.
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If you're on the liberal to progressive side, you'll think it's simplistic and unfair, which
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And people on that end of the spectrum should watch it to understand why it works and why
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the left keeps providing Walsh such a rich trove of targets.
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If you don't like the people he's lampooning, it's easy to convince yourself that he's revealing
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something deep and important, just as I've heard progressives argue that Borat movies
00:40:16.240
were laying bare the hateful underbelly of America.
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But what Walsh is actually revealing is two not very surprising realities of human nature.
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First, that every group has an awful fringe, and it's easy to make that group look bad if
00:40:27.860
only the fringe's worst moments survive the cutting room floor.
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Second, that the human instinct for avoiding confrontation is exploitable if you're sufficiently
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Both points have already been amply demonstrated by a long history of cults and dictatorships,
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Yet to give Walsh his due, it's still jaw-dropping when participants in the ersatz diversity workshop
00:40:51.980
sit silently or even participate as he berates a sick-looking elderly man in a wheelchair for
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Walsh eventually stops the workshop when it seems as though they're actually considering
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flagellating themselves with the whips that he's passed out.
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She credits the film for being effective, but also calls it simplistic and unfair.
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She also attempts to absolve the left of any blame for what we document in the movie.
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And she does that by writing off, you know, Robin DiAngelo and company as the fringe.
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Now, as one of the guys who made the film, I, of course, disagree with these assessments.
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Um, the core message of the film may be in many ways simple, but that's not the same as being
00:41:37.480
And the Robin DiAngelo's of the world are certainly not in any way the fringe of the left.
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You know, Robin DiAngelo conveys and promotes left-wing racial ideology, not a fringe version
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I mean, this is a woman who, as she confesses in the film, is hired by Fortune 500 companies
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and major government agencies to do workshops for their employees.
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And calling that fringe, I think, is rather absurd.
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Um, by analogy, and it's kind of, it's hard to come up with an analogy for the right because
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nobody on the right has access to those kinds of institutions.
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But, you know, imagine if Sean Hannity ever found himself in an embarrassing situation and
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I tried to claim that he's just a, well, he's just a fringe right-winger.
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I mean, say what you want about Sean Hannity, he's definitely not a fringe character on the
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And Robin DiAngelo is considerably less fringe than that on the left.
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After all, the most mainstream thing a conservative can do is host a show on Fox News.
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On the left, mainstream means that you're doing, you're, you're doing work for Coca-Cola
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and Google and Netflix and so on, which is what Robin DiAngelo says that she's done in
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And that's the kind of mainstream that Robin DiAngelo and her cronies are.
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And so if you're getting hired by Google, then you are mainstream, you're the mainstream
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So I think McArdle is incorrect in some of her analysis, but still, I give her credit for
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offering any analysis at all, even a wrong analysis.
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A number of the people attending his workshop walk out as the strangeness escalates.
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And earlier in the film, he gets kicked out of a workshop that someone else runs.
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But that happens only after he leaves the room, giving participants time to figure out who
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Most people sit through his provocations because, well, it would be rude to leave or point out
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That itself is telling, however, because some of his targets are also exploiting those same
00:43:59.260
conciliatory social instincts, which is what makes the movie's jokes land.
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When progressive activist Syrah Rao monologues about the awfulness of white women to a group
00:44:08.000
of white women at one of her race to dinner events, which reportedly cost up to $5,000
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to stage, the faces of the guests foreshadow those of Walsh's workshop participants, the frozen
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anxiety of someone witnessing a social offense and unwilling to return it in kind.
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That's also what you see on the face of celebrity diversity consultant Robin DiAngelo when
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a bewigged Walsh gives all his cash to a black producer as reparations and invites DiAngelo
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I dropped my head into my hands as DiAngelo went scurrying for her wallet, though I confess
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Because you can't help think of how many times DiAngelo has been paid for advice on how white
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And some of that advice is only slightly less bizarre and patronizing than suggesting we haul
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DiAngelo and Rao and a number of others gained money and fame during the Great Awoke
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opening because decent people, genuinely concerned about America's racial divides, were too polite
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Those well-intentioned Americans had their social instincts hacked, the machinery diverted
00:45:08.220
into a continuous loop of unproductive navel-gazing instead of the racial justice they were trying
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That's what left them vulnerable when Matt Walsh showed up to exploit the same bug.
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Now, that's her main takeaway, and she's right.
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What we attempted to do in the film, successfully, I think, is tap into the same exploitation and
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manipulation methods that these DEI race hustlers use and turn it against them.
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And if McArdle noticed that, then she understood the basic point of the film, even if I could
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But the basic thrust of it, she understood and is articulating, I think, very well.
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Her readers, though, are doing quite a bit more than quibbling with her analysis.
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In fact, they are offended that she's offering any kind of analysis at all.
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So I perused the comment section on the Washington Post website, and I'll give you a brief sampling,
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And as I read these, I'm going to ask our editors to put some sad piano music in the background
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in order to really capture the vibe of these distraught commenters who have been betrayed
00:46:16.220
by this, effectively, this movie review from a journalist.
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Yeah, I'm going to give my money to someone who fights everything I support.
00:46:27.580
If he was being sincere in doing the work, that would be one thing.
00:46:30.720
But to pay to see a mockumentary about racism from an alt-right Trumper?
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To go to see this to, as they say, own the libs as a liberal?
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Another says, my God, the depth of your stupidity and that of Walsh is deeply, truly staggering.
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Or is it just running a con on suckers for money?
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It's because they have a huge propaganda apparatus constantly lying to these people.
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It's because they were raised by people unconcerned with truth or facts or history or empathy with others.
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We should give a person money who has openly supported theocracy and fascism so we can understand?
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Should I donate money to Nazis so I can understand?
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So he's not sincere, therefore is a racist and thinks this is all something to laugh about.
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Why would you support and promote this project, Ms. McArdle?
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Unless you yourself are happily and openly racist too.
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I didn't know anything about Matt Walsh, the person that created the movie recommended here by Megan McArdle.
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I would have more respect for McArdle in the post if I had never read this column.
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If I had never known anything about Matt Walsh.
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If you paid to watch another movie by him for anything other than science or journalism,
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This grifter movie has nothing to do with racism.
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It's about owning the libs and getting famous and rich off the MAGA goobers who will confirm their biases.
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So pretty much like all the rest of the current Republican cult from the orange leader down.
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But why can't it be about racism and getting rich and famous?
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We could kill multiple birds with one stone here.
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The most important thing to keep in mind is that these are people who have not seen the movie.
00:49:00.220
They didn't even pay attention to McArdle's analysis.
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In their minds, she betrayed them simply by watching it.
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I mean, this is the cult mentality that you find on the left.
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And although the right has plenty of issues of its own,
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you don't find anything quite like this on our side.
00:49:18.780
You know, conservatives would not get angry at a right-wing commenter
00:49:21.520
for watching a Michael Moore movie and offering a perspective on it.
00:49:24.880
And in fact, you know, if there's a new Michael Moore movie out,
00:49:29.660
and people are talking about it and the left is celebrating it,
00:49:41.280
They want to know, like, what do you think about this thing?
00:49:43.080
And indeed, pretty much every movie Hollywood churns out,
00:50:02.300
You find this attitude on the left for two basic reasons.
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The first is that their worldview is a brittle, fragile thing.
00:50:09.300
It cannot withstand any serious or even not-so-serious challenge.
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Which means they have to steadfastly avoid anything that might challenge it.
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C.S. Lewis once wrote that a young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist
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And the same can be said about a young man or a woman,
00:50:29.380
But the other thing that comes out in these comments,
00:50:33.240
and also in the backlash that YouTube reviewer Jeremy Johns experienced
00:50:48.080
you know, you've long since grown accustomed to the fact that,
00:50:54.380
was made by people who disagree with you and probably hate you.
00:50:57.320
So, leftists have had the exact opposite experience,
00:51:00.060
and this has given them a sense of kind of artistic entitlement.
00:51:05.500
You know, conservatives who make art are treated as intruders,
00:51:09.100
kind of sneaking through the window in the middle of the night.
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The only appropriate response is to kind of shoo them away.
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And it's a delusion that I'm quite happy to break, I have to say.
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that I did find one comment on the Washington Post website
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from somebody who says they actually watched the film,
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I can only assume that's what he's trying to say,