The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1465 - Kamala’s Pathetic Plan to Bribe Black Voters with Reparations and Marijuana

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Kamala Harris unveils her plan to win the black male vote.

00:00:04.080 It involves free money, weed, and maybe reparations.

00:00:06.600 She also reportedly has a plan to win the white male vote.

00:00:08.900 It involves an interview on Joe Rogan's show.

00:00:11.100 That would be a disaster for her campaign. 0.99

00:00:12.760 I hope it happens.

00:00:13.440 Plus, a major cultural appropriation controversy has broken out a Hollywood actress taking a company to task for selling tea.

00:00:20.320 Everyone knows you can't sell tea unless you're Asian. 0.98

00:00:22.680 We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:08.380 There have been a lot of moments in American politics where candidates realize they're trailing badly in the polls,

00:02:13.840 so they do something extreme in an effort to win some support.

00:02:17.320 Usually doesn't go too well for them.

00:02:19.280 But think of the Dean scream back in 2004, which was supposed to rally the base after a tough loss in the Iowa caucuses.

00:02:25.140 Ended up being played about 600 times on cable news until Dean dropped out of the race.

00:02:29.200 Or if you want to go back further, think of McGovern's plan to shake up the race by picking a totally unvetted running mate.

00:02:35.820 That was exciting right up until it emerged that his running mate had received electroshock therapy several times to treat his chronic mental illness.

00:02:43.100 And McGovern, of course, ended up losing 49 states.

00:02:45.280 As we enter the homestretch of the 2024 presidential election, it's clear that the Kamala Harris campaign now finds itself in a similar desperation mode.

00:02:54.920 They're trailing badly in pretty much every important poll and prediction market that matters.

00:02:59.560 Kamala and Tim Walz admit that they're now the underdogs in the race.

00:03:02.940 And so, inevitably, they're feeling the pressure to do something unthinkable in a desperate attempt to win back the voters.

00:03:10.820 They have to throw out the playbook and try a new strategy.

00:03:13.700 In recent days, we've learned what this last-minute Hail Mary looks like.

00:03:18.320 It means that Kamala will actually go out in public and speak without a script. 0.93

00:03:23.600 Now, this clearly was not the plan when she first entered the race.

00:03:27.900 For the first month of her candidacy, Kamala was completely shut off from the media.

00:03:31.940 It's one of the most surreal periods in modern presidential politics.

00:03:35.320 We had a presidential nominee who would not talk to anyone.

00:03:38.280 It wouldn't talk to any journalists at all, even journalists who are friendly to her campaign, which are most of them.

00:03:43.580 But that didn't last because now Kamala feels she has no choice.

00:03:47.620 She's facing a blowout loss, historic humiliation.

00:03:51.980 So now, she has an interview with Fox News planned for tonight.

00:03:55.940 She's also participating in radio town halls with hosts like Charlemagne the God.

00:04:01.860 Now, unfortunately for Kamala Harris, this strategy is not going well for her, predictably. 1.00

00:04:08.760 Like so many other Hail Marys in presidential politics, it's backfiring.

00:04:12.960 And it's backfiring because every single time Kamala Harris opens her mouth, 0.99

00:04:16.020 it becomes very clear why her campaign was hiding her away for so long to begin with.

00:04:20.740 But before I play what Kamala says, I'm going to start with one of the questions that Charlemagne the God asked,

00:04:28.620 because the question raises a bunch of its own issues.

00:04:31.420 When it concerns taxpayer-funded reparations for black people, let's, again, listen first to the question.

00:04:37.480 Here it is.

00:04:38.700 My question to you is, what's your stance on reparations?

00:04:42.200 We all know that America became great, you know, off the backs of free black labor. 1.00

00:04:49.920 How progressive are you on making it a priority and righting America's wrongs?

00:04:56.200 It's understood that you are running for president for all people of America, asking for specifics for black communities.

00:05:04.340 Doesn't mean, no, don't do for others, but black Americans are heavily asked to vote Democrat in every election for over half a century with very little in return.

00:05:14.800 What are your plans to address these very important issues and change that narrative?

00:05:21.940 I'm actually not sure if that was the God himself asking that question or somebody else.

00:05:25.740 It doesn't really matter.

00:05:26.600 The first thing he says, whoever that was, is, quote,

00:05:28.820 We all know that America became great on the backs of free black labor, which is interesting because we're pretending, I guess, that slavery didn't cost anything, for starters. 0.96

00:05:40.040 That's being conflated here with the idea that black people weren't paid, which, of course, they weren't because that's slavery.

00:05:46.320 And that might seem like an irrelevant distinction, but actually, it matters quite a bit to the argument that he's making.

00:05:53.600 It's an argument we hear all the time.

00:05:55.800 As a factual matter, slavery involved massive investments that ultimately slowed the progress of this country dramatically.

00:06:01.980 It turned out to be a much worse investment than the alternative, leaving aside the fact that it's also a great moral evil.

00:06:08.240 A professor at Brown University named David Meyer has said that in the South prior to the Civil War, quote,

00:06:13.680 Investments were heavily concentrated in slaves relative to the North, and that led to the South's failure to, quote,

00:06:18.960 Build a deep and broad industrial infrastructure that includes services like railroads and schools.

00:06:25.180 So once slavery was abolished, that infrastructure is what led to this country's success in the generations following the Civil War.

00:06:31.540 We became the top economy in the entire world once we jettisoned slavery.

00:06:36.560 What didn't lead to this country's success before or during the Civil War was slavery itself.

00:06:43.680 The majority of slaves were involved in growing or picking cotton.

00:06:46.360 But as the Foundation for Economic Education has found and reported, cotton didn't account for a large portion of the overall U.S. economy.

00:06:55.060 Economic historians, quote, have observed that although cotton exports comprised a tremendous share of total exports prior to the Civil War,

00:07:01.760 they accounted for only around 5% of the nation's overall gross domestic product, an important contribution, but not the backbone of American economic development.

00:07:10.640 So if you're saying that slavery was instrumental to this country's success, it's just not true.

00:07:17.820 And by the way, we should be happy that it's not true. That's a good thing.

00:07:21.720 There's no reason to vastly overstate the case and try to sort of puff up the contributions of slavery to America's economic success.

00:07:32.340 And it's an argument that applies to many other countries, by the way, far more credibly than it applies to ours.

00:07:40.180 Africa was the last continent to officially abolish slavery, and that didn't happen until the 1980s.

00:07:45.440 So why exactly is this America's burden to bear?

00:07:49.180 Why are we uniquely responsible for slavery?

00:07:51.780 And why would we want to stoke the kind of generational race hatred that's led to the murders of white farmers in places like South Africa?

00:08:00.480 These are rhetorical questions. I know the answer to them.

00:08:03.760 But continuing with the rhetorical questions, when is Kamala Harris going to pay her reparations? 1.00

00:08:09.420 The Washington Free Beacon has reported that Harris was the descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica.

00:08:15.980 So why hasn't she pulled a Robin DiAngelo from Am I Racist and opened her purse to offer black Americans some of her own money? 0.97

00:08:23.200 She hasn't even handed over a single dollar, as far as I can tell, much less $20 or $30 like Robin did.

00:08:28.840 It's an outrage.

00:08:30.600 But it's not one that Kamala Harris has ever addressed.

00:08:34.580 Maybe she'll explain her reasoning in my next movie. I don't know.

00:08:37.260 But instead, in this radio town hall, Kamala predictably chose to focus on the systemic ideal of reparations.

00:08:45.540 And here is her plan in that regard.

00:08:49.320 Thank you. And thank you for your work.

00:08:52.240 So to your point, yes, I am running to be a president for all Americans.

00:08:57.640 That being said, I do have clear eyes about the disparities that exist and the context in which they exist, meaning history, to your point.

00:09:11.040 So my agenda, well, first of all, on the point of reparations, it has to be studied.

00:09:15.800 There's no question about that.

00:09:17.180 And I've been very clear about that position.

00:09:20.100 In terms of my immediate plan, I will tell you a few of the following.

00:09:24.220 One, as it relates to the economy, which is a lot of what you have addressed.

00:09:30.020 Look, I grew up in the middle class.

00:09:32.880 My mother, you know, worked hard, raised me and my sister.

00:09:35.760 And by the time I was in high school, she was able to afford our first home.

00:09:41.200 We'll cut it off there because she starts rambling again about growing up in a middle class family or whatever,

00:09:46.480 even though she didn't actually grow up in a middle class family.

00:09:49.000 And even though, as always, it's completely irrelevant to what she's talking about.

00:09:52.100 It's actually amazing that she keeps starting sentences with, I grew up in a middle class family.

00:09:57.900 I mean, it's a punchline at this point.

00:10:00.640 And she keeps saying it.

00:10:02.000 She can't stop herself from saying it.

00:10:04.320 But already, just from this short 30-second answer, it's clear that Kamala herself doesn't even know what she's saying.

00:10:10.200 In response to that question about reparations, she said, it has to be studied.

00:10:14.780 I've been very clear about that position.

00:10:17.620 But she hasn't been very clear about that position.

00:10:20.140 In fact, you can find multiple clips of Kamala stating that she supports reparations.

00:10:24.840 She doesn't support a study of reparations.

00:10:27.600 She actually thinks they should be paid out in some form.

00:10:31.000 Watch.

00:10:31.940 Pay on some form of reparations for black people. 1.00

00:10:34.020 Well, look, I think that we have got to address that, again, it's back to the inequities.

00:10:39.680 America has a history of 200 years of slavery.

00:10:43.260 We had Jim Crow. 0.89

00:10:45.540 We had legal segregation in America.

00:10:50.020 The Voting Rights Act was only strong for 50 years.

00:10:53.800 And then they wiped it out with this United States Supreme Court and the Shelby decision to the point that 22 states immediately thereafter put in place laws that one court found were crafted with surgical precision to have black people not be able to vote.

00:11:10.100 So we've got to recognize back to that earlier point.

00:11:14.040 People aren't starting out on the same base.

00:11:17.900 In terms of their ability to succeed.

00:11:20.340 And so we have got to recognize that and give people a lift up.

00:11:26.100 And there are a number of ways to do it.

00:11:28.380 Part of my initiative, again, around the Lift Act is that same point.

00:11:32.180 Lifting people up who are making less than $100,000 a year.

00:11:34.780 What I want to do about rent is the same thing.

00:11:36.980 What we need to do around education and understanding disparities.

00:11:39.960 What we need to do around HBCUs. 1.00

00:11:42.140 But we have a history of racism in America.

00:11:46.400 So you are for some type of reparation.

00:11:48.700 Yes, I am. 0.94

00:11:49.500 Should black people get reparations? 1.00

00:11:51.560 I think there has to be some form of reparations. 0.86

00:11:53.500 And we can discuss what that is.

00:11:56.040 By the way, she says that slavery, America has a history of 200 years of slavery, I believe is what she said.

00:12:03.100 That is nonsense.

00:12:05.420 America has a history of about 90 years of slavery.

00:12:08.840 Before it was officially abolished anyway.

00:12:12.840 Which means that of all the countries in the world, America had slavery for the, like, you know, is among the least amount of time in terms of the amount of time that they had slavery.

00:12:23.700 Now, slavery existed on this continent for hundreds.

00:12:28.060 In fact, slavery existed on this continent for thousands of years, if you go back and include all the native tribes that were here that practiced slavery.

00:12:34.520 But from the time when America, when the United States of America was formed, when it actually existed as a country, to when it was officially abolished, you're talking about, you know, about 90 years.

00:12:48.560 So this is, but all that aside, this is once again a complete retreat from what Kamala previously claimed to believe.

00:12:57.140 We can add it to the list of policies that she supported back in California, but disavows now or pretends that she never held.

00:13:03.360 That's a list that includes decriminalizing illegal immigration, providing free health care to illegals, abolishing private health insurance, banning gas-powered cars, banning fracking, confiscating guns, and so on.

00:13:14.180 So now taxpayer-funded reparations are on the chopping block, at least temporarily.

00:13:19.940 Now Kamala Harris says that reparations must be studied.

00:13:24.340 And that's already happened, too, by the way.

00:13:26.440 And it happened in Kamala Harris' home state of California, as I discussed earlier this year, all the way back in February.

00:13:31.880 California established a reparations task force, and that task force suggested that it would be a good idea to pay more than a million dollars to every descendant of a slave,

00:13:41.580 which altogether would cost something like a trillion dollars.

00:13:45.160 Then a bunch of lawmakers decided to reel that back in because it's, of course, insane.

00:13:51.200 They suggested that reparations shouldn't consist of cash payments, after all, after Gavin Newsom pointed out that the state is broke and doesn't have the ability to pay anything, much less a trillion dollars.

00:14:01.100 This was a whole conversation that lasted for years in Kamala Harris' home state.

00:14:07.560 But apparently she's not aware of this conversation.

00:14:10.800 She wants to keep having it again and again for the rest of time.

00:14:16.160 This is a dodge that's meant to hide the fact that the Biden-Harris administration has already announced massive race-based reparations plans and continues to do so.

00:14:24.580 They started with billions of dollars in race-based aid to black farmers.

00:14:29.280 They continued with various affirmative action programs in the government, which, as I outlined last week,

00:14:34.160 now involve filing a lawsuit against any fire department or police department that declines to hire black people, regardless of how unqualified they may be.

00:14:42.840 And just the other day, Kamala Harris herself personally announced an openly racist policy to send money directly to black people solely because of their race. 0.69

00:14:52.460 Here's an image of the plan that Kamala Harris' account posted on social media.

00:14:57.200 Maybe she's not even aware of this plan.

00:14:58.540 Who knows?

00:14:59.420 But here are the key bullet points.

00:15:01.780 Quote, provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable, up to $20,000 for black entrepreneurs and others to start a business.

00:15:10.540 Protect cryptocurrency investments so black men who make them know that their money is safe. 0.99

00:15:16.840 Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for black Americans to succeed in this new industry.

00:15:24.200 So first of all, a loan that is fully forgivable is not a loan.

00:15:29.660 That's just a cash payout.

00:15:32.520 The government's never going to see any of that money back.

00:15:35.080 But even if this were just a loan, it'd still be a completely unconstitutional, overtly anti-white, racist policy to the point that it's insane that any presidential candidate would ever put this in writing.

00:15:48.200 This is a stage of desperation that has no parallel in American politics.

00:15:53.680 Kamala's campaign is now so underwater among black voters that they're straight up offering to hand them cash and, I guess, give them some weed, too.

00:16:01.300 Oh, and they're going to protect cryptocurrency investments so black men know their money is safe. 0.53

00:16:07.020 You can read that 20 times and still have no idea what they're even talking about.

00:16:10.500 Does Bitcoin work differently for black people?

00:16:14.100 And why wouldn't we want to make sure that everyone, not just black people, feel that their crypto is safe?

00:16:20.560 No one knows. Kamala Harris doesn't know.

00:16:23.320 Imagine asking her to explain any of this, explain what that line means or any of those lines.

00:16:28.120 She probably has no idea that somebody wrote that and posted it to her account.

00:16:33.740 What's underlying all of these proposals isn't just anti-white racism, although that's a big part of it.

00:16:38.700 This is also about Kamala Harris's deep and abiding disdain for America and its history.

00:16:44.360 I mean, this alone makes her unqualified for the position that she's seeking. 0.89

00:16:47.420 It's the same reason she posted on social media the other day about Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day.

00:16:52.600 She's previously gone on the record saying Columbus Day should no longer exist.

00:16:56.800 We played this clip a few days ago, but it's worth playing again.

00:16:59.840 Here it is.

00:17:01.640 So I'm wondering, would you support efforts on a federal level to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day?

00:17:07.980 And why does that matter so much?

00:17:10.640 Sure. Sure. Yeah.

00:17:12.940 And why it matters is, to your very point, we have to remember history.

00:17:22.800 And this question, I think, really is connected to the last question about our morals and our compass and our goals and our aspirations.

00:17:35.720 We have to remember our history.

00:17:40.780 Uncomfortable, to your point about truths, though it may make us.

00:17:45.800 Actually, we didn't play that clip the other day.

00:17:47.440 We played a different clip of her talking about the evils of Columbus Day.

00:17:50.840 So this is something that she's talked about quite a bit.

00:17:53.760 And we're at a point in this country where the political left and right celebrate different national holidays.

00:17:59.540 And we're in this position because of politicians like Kamala Harris, who have nothing to offer. 1.00

00:18:04.100 So in the absence of any substance, she's trying to destroy anything Americans have in common. 0.99

00:18:09.560 She's trying to revise America's history, which is the go-to move for communist dictators throughout the ages.

00:18:15.980 And for good measure, she's looting the Treasury for the benefit of her preferred racial groups. 1.00

00:18:21.860 Now, fortunately for the Trump campaign, Kamala Harris isn't capable of hiding any of this.

00:18:25.280 Every time she sits down for an interview, Kamala makes it very clear that she doesn't know anything. 0.97

00:18:30.700 She also doesn't have any idea what she's saying.

00:18:33.400 She wants to simultaneously signal that she's backing off reparations,

00:18:36.560 even as she proposes explicit payments to Americans on the basis of their skin color. 0.66

00:18:42.060 This is the kind of incoherence that defines the last days of a desperate and dying campaign.

00:18:48.640 And it's a sign that Kamala Harris' campaign, like so many other transparent train wrecks in modern politics,

00:18:53.820 is on a path to a very public implosion in just a couple of weeks.

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00:20:08.200 So staying on the subject of desperation moves by the Kamala campaign, this would be, I mean, this would be the ultimate, this would maybe be the most desperate thing we've ever seen a political campaign do in, you know, in modern American history.

00:20:25.940 Here's Reuters with the news.

00:20:30.900 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris could sit down for an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan, whose audience leans heavily towards young men as she works to shore up support with male voters.

00:20:42.220 Harris campaign officials in the final stretch of the presidential campaign met with Rogan's team this week, but an appearance has not been confirmed yet, according to two sources who have knowledge of the matter.

00:20:52.120 So, and we know that Trump hasn't announced that he's apparently going to be on Rogan's show.

00:21:01.980 I don't think we know when that's going to happen, but supposedly, supposedly, Kamala is considering this as well.

00:21:11.400 So a few things here.

00:21:12.500 First of all, there's no way this actually happens.

00:21:14.660 I mean, I just can't.

00:21:16.660 I mean, granted, several things have happened during this campaign that seemed pretty unimaginable, so who knows?

00:21:23.680 But I'd put the likelihood at, like, less than 1%.

00:21:26.680 But the fact that they're even considering it, the fact that it's in the realm of possibility at all, just goes to show, again, how desperate the campaign is.

00:21:35.440 I mean, they're losing.

00:21:36.960 They're in trouble.

00:21:37.860 They know it.

00:21:38.420 And I hope they're desperate enough to actually do this, because it would be a catastrophic mistake for Kamala.

00:21:48.960 I mean, an absolute disaster.

00:21:50.520 It may be, honestly, it would be maybe one of the greatest political miscalculations in modern history.

00:21:58.600 It would be that bad.

00:21:59.940 So I really hope that it happens.

00:22:01.240 Now, I have seen some conservatives suggesting that maybe other conservatives are overstating what a bad idea this would be for Kamala.

00:22:11.120 There have been some.

00:22:11.820 I've seen some people saying, well, it might actually help Kamala, that it's a bad idea for Joe Rogan to do this, because it would help Kamala.

00:22:23.140 It would make her more likable. 0.81

00:22:24.460 It would give her access to millions of new potential voters and so on.

00:22:29.900 But I think that analysis is very wrong, very much off the mark for a couple of reasons.

00:22:34.500 Number one, the biggest one, the most obvious one, is that Kamala Harris is incapable of speaking both casually and coherently for any length of time, let alone two to three hours, right? 0.99

00:22:50.180 Now, even assuming that she wouldn't do a full-length Rogan interview, like assuming she wouldn't go for the marathon two-and-a-half, three-hour Rogan interview, let's say she did an hour.

00:22:59.900 I mean, I don't think she, you can't get away with less than an hour.

00:23:03.420 You can't go on Joe Rogan and talk to him for 20 minutes.

00:23:06.100 She could probably get away with an hour, but even an hour.

00:23:10.960 The same problems emerge for her.

00:23:14.140 I mean, this interview format, even aside from the interviewer, just the format is not in her wheelhouse at all.

00:23:23.840 And the second thing is, you know, yeah, Joe would not go in there looking to embarrass her because that's not really his style.

00:23:32.960 But he will ask insightful questions with good follow-ups, even about subjects that aren't necessarily political.

00:23:41.780 But the only kinds of questions that Kamala can answer intelligibly are the ones that she has scripted brief answers for.

00:23:54.760 But that's just, Joe's a good interviewer.

00:23:56.660 That's why he's so successful.

00:23:58.500 And so it's just, you can't stick to a script.

00:24:02.480 You can't go into a Joe Rogan interview and stick to a script.

00:24:05.260 It's just not possible.

00:24:06.120 Sang is someone who's been on the show twice.

00:24:11.080 It's just that it's not possible to do.

00:24:14.160 And, you know, the reason why he's such a good interviewer is because of the follow-up question.

00:24:19.660 He's very good at listening to someone and then responding to what they actually say rather than just going through questions that he has planned ahead of time.

00:24:28.240 Which should be, I mean, anyone who's an interviewer should be able to do that.

00:24:32.020 But interviewing is kind of a lost art.

00:24:35.120 I mean, there are a lot of interviewers out there.

00:24:36.900 A lot of podcasts with people interviewing and long marathon interviews is a very common format.

00:24:42.020 Most people are really bad at it, including most very successful podcasters who do this and they do these long interviews.

00:24:49.860 And they're terrible at it. 0.97

00:24:51.140 They just absolutely suck at it. 0.93

00:24:54.580 Joe's one of the best because he has this ability to, like, listen to what you say and then I'll respond to it. 0.98

00:25:01.760 And I'll have a question.

00:25:02.700 And that is just not, that's her kryptonite. 0.98

00:25:10.780 I mean, any question is her kryptonite, but a follow-up question where she says something and then you listen and go, oh, why do you say that?

00:25:21.480 Or have you thought about this?

00:25:23.760 She can't.

00:25:24.500 She would not be able to handle it.

00:25:25.420 And finally, the other thing that, and this really can't be overstated, is that the interview is kind of a, it's a lose-lose for Kamala, really, because of her base.

00:25:36.860 Her base will expect her to go in there and hold Joe Rogan accountable because he's a right-wing radical Nazi, et cetera, et cetera.

00:25:49.080 They're going to want that.

00:25:50.060 So if she goes in there and she does manage to have a friendly back and forth where she actually comes off likable and they just have a nice conversation and it goes for an hour or 90 minutes, that would be a win for her, except that it would piss off her base. 0.95

00:26:08.580 Because her base is going to see that and say, well, how could you platform this?

00:26:12.380 How could you sit there and you're talking to this person who's guilty of hate speech and misinformation?

00:26:18.060 You didn't hold him accountable.

00:26:19.360 So that becomes a real problem for her.

00:26:22.120 And then there's pressure for her to go after him and make it contentious. 0.91

00:26:27.600 And if she tries to do that, then she's really in trouble because he'll wipe the floor with her.

00:26:32.820 So again, it's really a lose-lose.

00:26:35.980 So I hope she does it.

00:26:37.160 You know, I'm not saying all this.

00:26:39.500 I don't want to dissuade her campaign from making this massive error.

00:26:43.460 But the good news is they're not listening to me.

00:26:45.040 They don't listen to me anyway, so it doesn't matter.

00:26:47.480 I don't think I'm giving anything away by revealing what a disaster this would be for her.

00:26:53.880 All right, this is a pretty remarkable clip.

00:26:56.000 A writer named Ryan Jurdusky appeared on a CNN panel discussion yesterday.

00:27:00.820 They were supposed to be talking about the election.

00:27:02.520 But things took a turn when Jurdusky mentioned, as they were discussing crime, he mentioned the Floyd effect.

00:27:14.000 That most people are aware of what the Floyd effect is, you would think.

00:27:18.560 But the people in this discussion were not aware of it.

00:27:21.240 Let's watch that.

00:27:22.140 Just yesterday, Ryan, about how, in the context of riots, he was saying, let's just bring the military into it to deal with American citizens.

00:27:31.020 I mean, that happened yesterday.

00:27:32.420 Right.

00:27:32.700 But there are the post-George Floyd riots resulted in excess of over 15,000 black male deaths in this country.

00:27:38.600 How?

00:27:38.920 The surge of violent crime, it was like Ferguson, the Ferguson effect and the Floyd effect.

00:27:44.760 Respectfully, you've got to explain to me how George Floyd's death resulted in 15,000.

00:27:49.620 Yes, because what happens is after the Ferguson riot and after the Floyd riot, policemen, in fear of their jobs many times and political coverage, pull back from their jobs, resulting in an increased level of homicide.

00:28:01.980 Listen, I've got to stop you there because you can look at the Washington Post numbers on this.

00:28:05.440 Ryan, we've got to stop you there because you're literally making a connection out of your own conjecture.

00:28:09.920 You cannot just do that.

00:28:10.360 No, it's a real thing.

00:28:11.060 Look up the Ferguson effect.

00:28:12.440 Look up the Floyd effect.

00:28:13.240 It is a real term.

00:28:13.980 You cannot just...

00:28:15.140 It's a real term.

00:28:16.080 I didn't make this up.

00:28:17.140 You cannot just invent a connection between two things just because you want that connection to be there.

00:28:21.780 I didn't...

00:28:21.980 It's a little...

00:28:22.820 Like a name.

00:28:23.440 It's a real thing.

00:28:24.180 You can look it up.

00:28:24.860 It doesn't mean it's right.

00:28:25.900 It can be a real thing, but it doesn't mean it's accurate, yeah.

00:28:28.520 Let me put this up all the time that we use their point.

00:28:31.700 I'll send you a reading list after the show.

00:28:34.680 Before we move on, I think there's a...

00:28:36.000 Hold on.

00:28:36.860 Hold on.

00:28:37.400 I just want everyone to settle down because people cannot hear at home.

00:28:40.060 Everybody's talking at once, okay?

00:28:41.660 Go ahead.

00:28:42.180 No, I just think there has to be a level of intellectual honesty.

00:28:44.680 And one of the things we can talk about here when we talk about Donald Trump is he's actually somebody who never spoke out about George Floyd's death.

00:28:50.540 And for me, it's kind of personal because as a black man, when you have someone with a knee on their neck for nine minutes and some change,

00:28:55.860 and you're actually calling out for your mother while you're being suffocated on national TV,

00:28:59.540 and you are a parent and a son and a son...

00:29:01.540 Just cut it off.

00:29:02.000 ...and a brother that goes along.

00:29:03.300 First of all, you don't know what he's talking about, so let him explain.

00:29:11.160 He's trying...

00:29:12.020 You're saying, what are you talking...

00:29:13.340 What is that?

00:29:13.940 What are you...

00:29:14.500 Floyd effect?

00:29:15.140 What do you mean?

00:29:16.700 And he says, okay, well, I'll explain it to you.

00:29:18.200 And then they're just interrupting him. 0.97

00:29:19.480 Shut up and let him explain it. 0.94

00:29:20.800 You don't know, so let him talk for more than 10 seconds. 1.00

00:29:24.580 Shut your mouths and let him explain what he's referring to.

00:29:29.580 And then we get the whole thing from Bakari Sellers, the guy that was talking at the end there about George Floyd's death was personal. 0.94

00:29:39.520 So personal.

00:29:40.400 So personal for me.

00:29:41.440 We hear this all the time, right, from these race hustlers. 1.00

00:29:45.080 It's such a personal thing.

00:29:46.020 No, it wasn't.

00:29:47.000 It wasn't personal for you.

00:29:48.340 You didn't know him.

00:29:49.880 You're not a family member.

00:29:51.260 Like, what do you mean it was personal for you?

00:29:52.400 You had no idea who this guy was.

00:29:54.220 Never met him.

00:29:55.380 Never had any contact with him.

00:29:57.920 You don't even live in that community.

00:29:59.280 It wasn't personal for you.

00:30:03.360 And so, just leaving aside the fact that George Floyd actually died of an overdose.

00:30:07.060 He was not suffocated on national television.

00:30:10.380 He wasn't on national television at all.

00:30:12.340 It was, you know, and he brought his death on himself by first taking a lethal dose of fentanyl and then committing a crime, another crime, then resisting arrest and so on.

00:30:22.360 Now, all of that is established, but just, you know, putting that to the side, really, Floyd's death, you know, I wish somebody would, I don't blame Ryan Jerdusky for not calling him out on this.

00:30:36.680 I would have loved that if he said Floyd's death was really personal.

00:30:39.940 Oh, really?

00:30:40.300 How is it personal for you?

00:30:41.220 What do you mean?

00:30:41.640 Did you know him?

00:30:42.160 Are you his family?

00:30:43.460 No, I'm a black man in America.

00:30:45.160 So?

00:30:46.620 Because it didn't happen to you.

00:30:47.660 Like, what kind of, what kind of, so, so, uh, if someone dies, it's personal for you if they have a similar shade of skin?

00:30:57.200 What the hell kind of nonsense is that? 0.97

00:30:58.700 And if that's true, by the way, then, then why is it, uh, if that's so personal, then why don't you take it personally when hundreds of black men are killed by other black men every year? 0.99

00:31:08.560 And I know they'll say that, uh, well, it's black on black crime. 0.60

00:31:11.520 That's just an, oh, that's a cliche.

00:31:13.100 That's a, it might be a cliche because we, we, because we're forced to bring it up.

00:31:17.420 Not so often, but it's true.

00:31:19.460 You don't take that personally, do you, Bakari?

00:31:23.920 Anyway, the real point here is that Ryan brought up the Floyd effect, which is something extensively documented, um, absolutely incontrovertible.

00:31:31.920 It's, it's, it's, it has been documented by CNN.

00:31:35.200 They have reported on it.

00:31:37.140 There are articles on CNN.com about the Floyd effect.

00:31:40.860 Uh, so it is a fact grounded in evidence, lots of evidence that the race riots after Floyd led to a huge uptick in violent crime and many hundreds and even thousands of excess deaths, uh, mostly black men.

00:31:55.080 So, well-known fact, uh, and yet that panel is full of people discussing these issues on cable news who've never heard of this.

00:32:05.580 And I believe them, actually.

00:32:07.420 I believe them that they've never heard of it.

00:32:08.940 I actually believe them. 0.82

00:32:09.880 I, I, I, you know, you might think, well, they're, they are just playing dumb, uh, because they don't want to talk about it. 0.95

00:32:17.540 But, no, I don't think they're playing dumb. 0.99

00:32:19.940 I think they really are dumb. 1.00

00:32:21.440 Uh, so I believe they're, they're ignorance. 1.00

00:32:23.140 I, I, I don't think they're pretending.

00:32:25.980 Um, and that's one of the ways that the media, uh, one of the ways that they remain so consistent in their propaganda and that they kind of protect their propaganda is that, is that they, the, the propagandists live in a bubble and they don't, they're not exposed to, like,

00:32:44.440 all, all, all, all they care about is their narrative and they just automatically tune out anything that's outside of the narrative.

00:32:55.620 So they really don't even know.

00:32:59.500 They, they, they kind of, uh, retain this, this sort of plausible deniability all the time where they can always plead ignorance and, and the, the plea of ignorance will, will, will normally be,

00:33:14.340 at least partially true. 0.99

00:33:16.500 They really are that ignorant, which is pretty amazing. 0.97

00:33:21.920 You may remember that horrifying story a few months ago of the, um, the two, I mean, they're referred to as teens by most of the media, uh, reports. 0.98

00:33:34.540 And, and technically they are, we're talking 18 or 19 years old.

00:33:37.700 Teens makes it sound like they're kids.

00:33:38.960 Uh, but they're not, they're legal adults.

00:33:41.840 Anyway, the, the two teens who randomly mowed down a guy on a bicycle turned out to be a retired police chief.

00:33:50.060 Uh, they hit him on purpose just for fun and they were live streaming it.

00:33:54.400 You probably remember that we talked about it on the show.

00:33:56.340 So, well, now we have a rather unfortunate and, uh, outrageous update to that story.

00:34:03.200 New York Post reports, the Las Vegas teen accused of intentionally driving into a retired police chief as part of a violent, laughter-filled crime spree

00:34:09.320 was deemed incompetent to stand trial for the deadly hit and run.

00:34:14.320 Jesus Sayala, 19, was ordered to a Nevada psychiatric hospital on Wednesday for treatment to restore his competency.

00:34:21.760 The order issued by 8th Judicial District Judge, uh, uh, Christy Craig was out of an abundance of caution

00:34:30.300 and suspends criminal charges against Ayala.

00:34:33.540 Craig had previously alluded to finding the teen as competent,

00:34:36.180 but Westbrook had requested state doctors to review a report from a neuropsychologist before an official ruling was made.

00:34:43.600 Uh, and that's the public defender, David Westbrook, is the one who urged that.

00:34:46.600 So, uh, for the time being ruled incompetent, this is the second story like this that we've seen in the last couple of weeks.

00:34:54.280 And it is a travesty.

00:34:55.940 I mean, it's a joke, once again, a very unfunny, uh, joke. 0.98

00:35:00.080 The idea that this guy isn't mentally competent is absurd. 0.58

00:35:04.400 Did he run over the police chief because he was delusional and hallucinating? 0.95

00:35:08.860 Did he think the police chief was like a demon or something?

00:35:11.600 It was trying to eat his soul or whatever?

00:35:13.120 I mean, did, did he not understand what he was doing?

00:35:16.920 No, no, on all counts.

00:35:19.140 He understood what he was doing.

00:35:20.000 He did it on purpose.

00:35:21.520 And you can easily see that in the video that these punks filmed themselves. 0.94

00:35:29.220 So in what way is this person mentally incompetent?

00:35:32.980 Did he not know that it was wrong to run over a cyclist? 0.52

00:35:36.660 Did he not understand that it was illegal?

00:35:39.460 Was he shocked when the police showed up because he thought it was perfectly acceptable and legal to do what he did?

00:35:46.900 When they showed up and they asked him about it, did he say, oh, yeah, I did that.

00:35:49.820 What is that?

00:35:50.340 Oh, is that a problem?

00:35:51.340 Was I, oh, was I not supposed to do that?

00:35:53.160 Really?

00:35:55.340 Now, it's pretty clear that's not the case either.

00:35:58.120 But also, even if it was the case, who cares? 1.00

00:36:00.220 If he doesn't understand that you aren't supposed to kill people, that's all the more reason to throw his ass in prison forever. 0.99

00:36:08.200 No matter what he understands or doesn't understand, who cares? 1.00

00:36:12.040 Why does that matter?

00:36:15.180 What does that have to do with anything?

00:36:18.800 And that's why this whole mental competency thing is a sham.

00:36:22.160 I mean, it's a total sham.

00:36:23.420 Especially because if you take a broader, and we've talked about this before, if you take a broader view, you know, it's like there are two ways of looking at mental competency.

00:36:36.120 And one is the very narrow view that we just covered, where somebody's not mentally competent.

00:36:42.140 If they're literally delusional and, like, hallucinating and they have no idea what's going on, and in rare cases, you can have someone who actually falls into that category. 0.91

00:36:54.440 Like, they're crazy. 0.99

00:36:55.260 They're actually crazy. 1.00

00:36:56.480 They're totally detached from reality. 0.83

00:36:59.820 And what do you do with somebody in that case?

00:37:02.220 But first of all, those cases are pretty obvious.

00:37:05.040 It's pretty clear.

00:37:06.780 When you've got somebody like that.

00:37:08.400 There's not a lot of gray area.

00:37:10.100 There really isn't.

00:37:10.940 I mean, we all, anyone who's ever encountered a crazy person, usually you encounter them on a street somewhere.

00:37:16.020 And, yeah, there's no hiding it.

00:37:18.800 It's not, it's, it's one of those things, like, if they come off as completely crazy, if they don't come off as crazy, then they're not crazy.

00:37:26.920 A crazy person is not able to get it together to pretend that they're not crazy.

00:37:30.420 The very fact that they're pretending they're not crazy means that they recognize that they are crazy, which means that they're not crazy.

00:37:35.780 So, now you could have someone who's pretending that they are crazy because they want to, they don't want to, they're trying to avoid the criminal charges.

00:37:47.300 But even in that case, I think most of the time it's pretty clear.

00:37:50.460 So, those, that's a narrow set of circumstances.

00:37:53.400 It's pretty rare.

00:37:54.200 It does happen.

00:37:54.820 And when you've got somebody like that, that's why we should have asylums for the criminally insane, which is a thing we used to have in this country.

00:38:03.320 And that's what you have that for.

00:38:05.400 You have somebody who does something violent.

00:38:07.360 They're not fit for human society. 1.00

00:38:08.980 But they really didn't know what they're doing because they're totally crazy. 0.99

00:38:11.880 Well, then you put that person in an asylum for the mentally insane and you keep them there forever.

00:38:17.580 And by the way, those kinds of places, when they used to exist, they were not the kind of places you would want to go.

00:38:23.580 So, like, you would, if you're mentally competent, there's no incentive really to pretend you're insane.

00:38:28.900 Like, why would you want to spend the rest of your life in an asylum for the criminally insane?

00:38:32.900 That sounds like a horrifying place to live.

00:38:34.900 Maybe probably even worse than a prison.

00:38:36.480 So, that's what you have that for.

00:38:39.900 And if you're taking that narrow view, then that's all it is.

00:38:44.560 It's like we're finding the really crazy people and then you have a place for them to go and that's where you put them and they're out of society forever.

00:38:50.680 But that's not what the mental competency is.

00:38:55.420 That's not, it used to be that way, but now it's a much broader view.

00:39:00.500 They take a much broader view of what is considered mentally competent or mentally incompetent.

00:39:06.620 And the problem is that once you take a broader view, it all becomes a sham because on that view, pretty much every single violent criminal in history is mentally incompetent.

00:39:20.680 You could quite credibly make the case that, by definition, a mentally competent person would not commit a violent crime in the first place.

00:39:32.760 Certainly not random, pointless violent crimes.

00:39:35.420 The sort of violent thugs plaguing our cities all across the country who are just committing violent crime for like really almost no reason.

00:39:45.560 None of them are competent in that really broad sense.

00:39:50.340 You wouldn't call these competent people.

00:39:53.680 Nobody would describe them that way.

00:39:55.080 If you go to the inner city and see violent thugs walking around shooting each other over drugs and all that kind of, like, you wouldn't look at that and say, well, these are very competent young men.

00:40:03.720 I mean, you wouldn't say that.

00:40:06.620 So what are we going to do?

00:40:07.420 Let them all out of prison?

00:40:09.840 Does that mean none of them could ever go to prison?

00:40:12.420 Well, I mean, that's the thing.

00:40:13.920 To me, that's like, that's why you can't take this broad view of mental competency, because if you apply it consistently, then you've just let everybody off the hook.

00:40:24.640 You might as well get rid of prisons at that point.

00:40:27.240 Prisons are full of people who are pretty incompetent.

00:40:30.360 That's why they're in prison. 0.97

00:40:33.060 That's why they're there.

00:40:34.000 If these were competent people, even if they weren't, like, morally the best people, if they were just competent human beings with a basic level of maturity and, you know, sort of well-adjusted, they wouldn't have done the things that landed them in prison.

00:40:51.800 But that's a problem.

00:40:53.700 That's a feature, not a bug.

00:40:56.120 The fact that this mental competency thing could be used to absolve literally every criminal ever, that, again, is the point.

00:41:03.340 That's why they do this.

00:41:07.380 And I don't know.

00:41:09.320 Maybe the solution here is just rename prisons. 0.96

00:41:11.680 Call them cages for the incompetent.

00:41:16.700 Just call them that, and then we're fine, because that's what we have. 0.92

00:41:20.780 Oh, he's incompetent?

00:41:22.080 Okay, well, we got a cage for him. 0.92

00:41:23.400 This is his special cage. 0.58

00:41:24.540 It's the incompetent cage right there.

00:41:26.880 Looks suspiciously like a prison cell, but we don't have to call it that if it makes you feel better.

00:41:31.140 And if you don't like cage, then call it something else.

00:41:32.560 Call it a, you know, a facility, a home, even.

00:41:37.380 Still going to be a cage, but if it makes you feel better, we could call it that.

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00:43:58.160 Now, let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:43:59.160 Our daily cancellation today begins with an actor named Simu Liu,

00:44:09.320 who has gone viral this week for his valiant fight against cultural appropriation.

00:44:13.800 NBC News has the story.

00:44:14.840 Actor Simu Liu blasted a pair of Quebec entrepreneurs last week

00:44:18.800 who went on Canada's version of Shark Tank to pitch a drink they say has transformed boba tea.

00:44:24.500 Sebastian Fizette and Jess Frenette, founders of a bottled, popping boba,

00:44:30.660 an alcoholic bubble tea brand called Boba,

00:44:33.280 were seeking $1 million in exchange for 18% of the company.

00:44:36.240 The company's product, featured on the latest episode of CBC's Dragon's Den,

00:44:40.220 raised concerns online about culturally appropriating the traditionally Taiwanese drink

00:44:44.060 known as boba or bubble tea that's become popular around the world.

00:44:47.540 The brand's presentation sparked backlash from people who pointed out

00:44:49.800 that traditional foods are often commercialized by people who overlook their cultural significance.

00:44:54.940 After he took a sip from a bottle,

00:44:56.600 Liu, who joined the show as a guest dragon on Thursday,

00:44:59.500 said he thought it tasted fine,

00:45:00.940 but that he was concerned about this idea of disrupting or disturbing bubble tea.

00:45:05.480 He mentioned the possibility of cultural appropriation,

00:45:07.820 saying he takes issue with the concept of taking something that's very distinctly Asian in its identity

00:45:11.880 and, quote unquote, making it better.

00:45:14.540 Yes, how dare you think that you can improve anything that comes from Asia? 1.00

00:45:19.240 Asian people are perfect.

00:45:21.020 They're gods among men.

00:45:22.040 Everything they do is flawless and faultless and cannot be improved in any way.

00:45:27.360 That's why everything manufactured in Asia is such high quality, right?

00:45:31.520 Famously.

00:45:32.100 When you see made in China on a product, you know that it will work perfectly well

00:45:36.280 and it will last forever.

00:45:37.940 Everybody sees that when you look at made in China. 0.82

00:45:39.900 You say, well, that, that, oh, it's made in China?

00:45:41.820 That thing must be great.

00:45:43.140 Wow.

00:45:43.460 Can't make it any better, certainly.

00:45:46.560 Can't improve on it.

00:45:47.440 It's made in China, after all.

00:45:49.960 Simu Liu expanded on this, on this brilliant point throughout the episode,

00:45:54.180 or throughout this interaction, anyway, with this, with these entrepreneurs.

00:45:57.980 Here's a clip.

00:45:58.420 I am studying your can, and I am looking for anything that tells me where Boba came from.

00:46:08.960 And where Boba came from is Taiwan.

00:46:11.180 You know, I started this venture company for a lot of reasons,

00:46:15.740 but really primarily to uplift minority entrepreneurs.

00:46:20.240 And not only do I feel like this is not happening here,

00:46:22.860 but that I would be uplifting a business that is profiting off of

00:46:29.420 something that feels so dear to my cultural heritage.

00:46:34.580 I want to be a part of bringing Boba to the masses, but not like this.

00:46:39.060 So for that reason, I'm out.

00:46:41.180 Thanks.

00:46:41.680 Respect that.

00:46:42.460 Respect that.

00:46:44.280 Makes me sad how successful this business is.

00:46:47.780 It makes me sad that people are, you know,

00:46:49.660 they're drinking Boba with a raccoon with a sun.

00:46:51.900 It doesn't mean that they don't have the opportunity to change and do that.

00:46:54.960 That's true, but there has to be a willingness,

00:46:56.560 and I have to be able to invest in these founders knowing that change is possible.

00:46:59.880 They didn't say no.

00:47:02.280 So Simu Liu is very upset. 0.96

00:47:05.200 Many of the dumbest people in the audience were also very upset, 0.92

00:47:07.940 which is why the pitchfork mob assembled to express its overwhelming outrage at this can of tea. 0.99

00:47:13.900 Each cultural appropriation controversy is dumber than the last, of course, 0.88

00:47:17.540 and this one certainly continues that trend. 0.64

00:47:20.140 Now, I don't need to explain why cultural appropriation is an incoherent concept.

00:47:24.020 Except we've covered that base many times.

00:47:26.880 To appropriate is to take without permission to steal,

00:47:30.680 and that means that a thing must first be owned in order to be appropriated.

00:47:35.420 Cultures cannot own things.

00:47:38.240 That's why you've never heard of an entire culture obtaining a patent or a copyright.

00:47:43.340 This type of tea might be traditionally Taiwanese,

00:47:46.500 but Taiwan does not claim ownership rights over it,

00:47:49.960 and it's unlikely that boba tea entirely originates in Taiwan anyway.

00:47:53.600 Boba tea, or bubble tea, was made in the 1980s.

00:47:57.560 Okay, it's not like this goes back to ancient times.

00:47:59.840 It's from the 80s.

00:48:01.080 It's not any older than I am,

00:48:02.760 which means that there are almost certainly ingredients in this tea

00:48:05.660 that themselves originate in places other than Taiwan.

00:48:09.140 That's how it works.

00:48:10.160 Cultures are influenced by other cultures.

00:48:11.860 Cultures borrow from each other.

00:48:13.160 They change over time.

00:48:13.980 They evolve or devolve.

00:48:15.800 In our case, this is one of the many reasons that cultural appropriation is nonsensical.

00:48:20.740 At least Simu Liu himself better hope that cultural appropriation is nonsensical.

00:48:25.680 After all, Liu is a man of Chinese descent

00:48:29.140 who got his start in television by playing a Korean in a Canadian sitcom.

00:48:34.000 Okay, he also had a role in the Barbie movie,

00:48:36.080 but Barbie's an American brand invented by a Polish Jew from Denver.

00:48:39.260 However, if cultural appropriation is a thing,

00:48:41.800 then this man is a chronic appropriator.

00:48:46.360 He's a serial offender.

00:48:48.420 And it gets worse.

00:48:49.940 In that clip we just played, he appears to be wearing some kind of suit.

00:48:53.220 Now, suits are traditionally Western style, invented by white people. 1.00

00:48:56.940 He's also wearing a t-shirt,

00:48:58.220 but t-shirts originated with white working class people in late 19th century America.

00:49:02.240 I mean, t-shirts are, that's American culture through and through.

00:49:06.100 It's like blue jeans, also American culture.

00:49:08.540 It appears he's also wearing some kind of loafer for a shoe.

00:49:12.160 And it's not clear which culture invented loafers.

00:49:14.100 You could give the credit to Norwegian fishermen in the early 20th century

00:49:17.540 or the Brits around the same time.

00:49:19.480 Or you could argue, as some do, that the loafers are really a form of moccasin,

00:49:23.200 which means Native Americans invented them thousands of years ago.

00:49:26.560 It's not clear, which again is the problem with trying to play this game.

00:49:29.420 But we do know that the Chinese didn't come up with them.

00:49:32.300 So take those off your feet, Simu.

00:49:35.320 How dare you?

00:49:36.180 By the way, the Chinese also didn't invent aluminum cans.

00:49:40.320 Those were pioneered by William Coors, a white man from Colorado,

00:49:43.180 grandson of the guy who founded the Coors Brewing Company.

00:49:46.360 Aluminum cans are, therefore, a part of white culture.

00:49:49.000 And yet, this Chinese guy would dare to express an opinion about the design of that can. 1.00

00:49:53.600 And he would do so without first acknowledging that cans belong to white people 0.77

00:49:58.140 and that he's grateful just for the opportunity to hold the can and give his opinion about it.

00:50:03.400 Not to mention, Simu Liu is having this conversation on a TV show.

00:50:06.720 The invention of the television can be credited to multiple people, all of them white,

00:50:10.000 none of them Chinese.

00:50:11.320 And he's being filmed by video cameras, which were invented by a Scottish engineer.

00:50:14.540 Of course, all of this is made possible by electricity,

00:50:16.860 also discovered and first harnessed and used in consumer products by white people.

00:50:20.020 And that clip has been viewed millions of times on the internet.

00:50:22.760 The internet was invented by white computer scientists. 0.96

00:50:26.220 And the show that he's appearing on is part of the reality TV genre,

00:50:29.160 which was pioneered and popularized by a guy named Alan Funt,

00:50:32.340 a Jew from New York who created Candid Camera in the 1940s.

00:50:34.940 So this all means that Simu Liu culturally appropriated in like 20 different ways

00:50:39.680 while accusing someone else of culturally appropriating.

00:50:43.700 Having even mentioned the fact that he was making these accusations in English,

00:50:47.180 so make that 21 different ways.

00:50:50.020 This is the problem for the cultural appropriation crusaders.

00:50:54.300 You know, if they really want to play a game where every culture only gets to use the things

00:50:59.460 that it pioneered or invented, well, that'd be really bad news for people like Simu Liu.

00:51:07.280 And I mean, the truth is that white people would make out pretty well if those were the rules. 0.55

00:51:11.360 I mean, we'd lose the best takeout food, yeah, but we'd still get to fly in planes

00:51:14.480 and use air conditioning, electricity, modern medicine, the internet, even wear blue jeans.

00:51:17.840 Most other groups of people would have a much tougher time with those rules.

00:51:23.440 This is something that the entrepreneurs who were getting lectured in that clip

00:51:28.700 could have pointed out, but they didn't.

00:51:32.880 Instead, they walked away with their tails between their legs,

00:51:34.660 and then they issued a formal apology, of course.

00:51:36.920 NBC News again reports,

00:51:37.940 On Monday, Boba's founders issued a statement on social media apologizing for the harm we've caused

00:51:43.160 by our words and actions on the show, adding that they take full responsibility and that

00:51:47.020 Lou raised very valid points on cultural appropriation.

00:51:49.920 Quote,

00:51:50.500 We'll also commit to further learning about the impacts of cultural appropriation to ensure

00:51:54.120 that we are equipped with the skills to effectively work cross-culturally, the statement read.

00:51:58.340 In Boba's apology statement, the business owners clarified that their comments about being unsure

00:52:03.100 of its content and their claim that their drink is healthier was intended to refer to other

00:52:06.880 ready-to-drink products like theirs, not traditional Boba tea formulas.

00:52:12.260 Well, that was inevitable, of course.

00:52:15.540 And it's why, despite everything I've said here, I'm not actually defending these people.

00:52:20.660 I mean, go ahead and cancel them.

00:52:24.440 Drive them out of business.

00:52:25.440 Go ahead.

00:52:26.560 They deserve it.

00:52:28.480 If you're going to curl into a little ball and totally debase yourself this way,

00:52:33.300 you're not worth defending.

00:52:36.400 So there are no good guys in this situation at all, which is why Sumu Liu, along with the outrage mob,

00:52:42.660 along with the company that they're outraged about, are all today canceled.

00:52:48.660 That'll do it for the show today.

00:52:49.560 Thanks for watching.

00:52:50.040 Thanks for listening.

00:52:50.460 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:52:51.180 Have a great day.

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00:53:26.120 We have to love each other.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 16, 2024

Ep. 1465 - Kamala’s Pathetic Plan to Bribe Black Voters with Reparations and Marijuana

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