Ep. 1544 - Criminals Are Taking Control Over Our Prisons And Nothing Is Being Done
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Prison guards in New York have gone on strike. The situation is so bad that the National Guard has been sent in. And yet, the national media is mostly ignoring the story. Why is that? We ll find out. Also, while the media fearmongers about Doge having access to our personal information, someone in the IRS just leaked the tax records of half a million people, and an enraged leftist on TikTok threatens to kill Elon Musk and admits to tax evasion. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, prison guards in New York have gone on strike. The situation is
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so bad that the National Guard has been sent in, and yet the national media is mostly ignoring
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the story. Why is that? We'll find out. Also, while the media fearmongers about Doge having
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access to our personal information, someone in the IRS just leaked the tax records of half a
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million people. And an enraged leftist on TikTok threatens to kill Elon Musk and admits to tax
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evasion, all in the same video. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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media, whose job is supposedly to keep us informed, fails to even mention one of the most important stories
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that's unfolding in the country right now. As we've seen, the press will devote days of coverage
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to the plight of federal bureaucrats who can't respond to a simple email. The idea appears to be
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that these bureaucrats as government employees are entitled to special protection simply by virtue of
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working for the government. But for reasons that nobody has explained, these same mainstream media
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outlets have demonstrated no sympathy or even the slightest interest in the ongoing shutdown that's
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unfolding in New York's state prison system. Corrections officers in virtually every single
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one of New York's prisons are now on a so-called wildcat strike, meaning a strike that is not
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approved by the union or allowed by the law. This is a strike that is now in its second week.
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Nine out of 10 corrections officers in the state have walked off the job because they're saying that
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the working conditions have become extremely unsafe. Prison guards are now constantly being
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assaulted and they've just had enough. And as a result, the National Guard has been called in
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as part of a desperate bid to prevent a deadly prison takeover like the one that led to mass
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casualties in Attica back in the 1970s. Now, some of these National Guard units are currently staying
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in the cells at these prisons in New York. And as of now, it seems likely that they'll probably be
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there for a while. Even though New York has offered to double the overtime pay of any correctional
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officer who goes back to work, it doesn't look like many of them are taking the government up on
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that offer. So how did we arrive at a situation where government employees are encouraged to
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complain on CNN about an email from Elon Musk, while government employees who say their lives are
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in danger every time they go to work are being ignored? You know, it doesn't quite make any sense.
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And it's especially confusing when you consider the fact that ordinarily, the fact that corrections
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officers are refusing to report to duty at roughly 38 of New York's 42 prisons would be exactly the
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kind of story that the news media would be interested in. It's clearly the setup for a
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potentially significant disaster. And normally the media loves a story like that. And they especially
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love stories of government workers who are on strike because they say that they have unfair
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working conditions. And in this case, it's actually true that the working conditions are unsafe and
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unfair and hazardous. And yet the media isn't really jumping all over it. Why might that be?
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If you look into what these correctional officers are demanding, the media blackout starts to make
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a little more sense. But before I get into the specifics, I want to provide some context first,
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and I'll do that by asking a simple question. If you had to guess the average life expectancy of a
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correctional officer in this country, and I remind you a first world country, what would you estimate
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it to be? Now, for reference, the life expectancy for the general population is around 77 years,
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which is already relatively low, and it's still dropping. Law enforcement officers as a category
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have a life expectancy of around 66 years, which is pretty horrifying and very bad. But for correctional
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officers, life expectancy is even lower than that. In fact, it's much lower. The average life
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expectancy for a correctional officer in this country is 59 years old. Okay? 59 years old. And a
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major reason for that is the stress that the job entails, which leads to a very high rate of suicide
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among correctional officers. So already the baseline is not good. The work conditions in general are
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certainly not ideal. But instead of addressing those work conditions in any meaningful way, in 2022,
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New York passed something called the Human Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act,
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or HALT Act. And this is a law that has its origins in the George Floyd era, and it makes it far more
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difficult for prison guards to confine dangerous inmates to solitary confinement. In particular, the law
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completely prevents prison guards from putting anyone age 21 or younger into solitary confinement for any
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reason. Yes, they consider 21-year-olds to be a special population, as if they're children, even
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though these are legal adults who are in, you know, adult prison. But they can't be locked away by
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themselves, no matter what they do. It would be unthinkable, apparently, to put them in solitary
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confinement. Additionally, no matter how old an inmate is, the law states that the maximum amount of time an
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inmate can be placed in solitary confinement is just 15 days. So in other words, even if you're a 25-year-old
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gangbanger in peak physical condition, and you've decided to constantly assault prison guards and
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shank other inmates, then you still cannot be put in solitary confinement for more than two weeks.
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After that, you can go back into general population. Now, New York Democrats passed this law on the theory
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that solitary confinement is a form of legalized torture. Now, of course, if you're a sane person,
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then the idea of being forced to interact with other inmates in a New York state prison outside of
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solitary confinement probably sounds a lot like torture. And also keep in mind, we're talking about
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an extremely dysfunctional group of people here. I mean, the only people going into solitary confinement
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are criminals who ended up in prison, right, because they're in prison to begin with, and then commit
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additional offenses after they're already in prison. Okay, so these are criminals who the message isn't
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getting through to them at all. Nobody is torturing these people. We've simply run out of places to put
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them. But New York's political leaders disagreed. They decided that it's more important to have
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compassion, quote unquote, for criminals than compassion for prison guards or for anyone else.
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And the results have been clear. In the three years since the Halt Act was passed,
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inmate-on-inmate assaults have increased by nearly 170 percent. There's also been a 75 percent increase
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in attacks by inmates against prison staff. And that's why during the strike, the correctional
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workers have said that their top priority, their main demand, is repealing this awful Halt Act.
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For the first time, we're getting our hands on a letter from the State Corrections Department
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that really shows the state making an effort here to try to meet some of these correctional
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officers' demands. If we go to some video now, we can show you that letter. And the number one thing
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that they're addressing here is the Halt Act, which has been the biggest concern for these officers
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throughout this. The letter says that the Halt Act has been temporarily suspended until staffing levels
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are improved. And for those of you who don't know what the Halt Act is, it's a prison reform that limits
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this solitary confinement. It's only a few weeks at most, when in the past, it could have been
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months at a time. And in many ways, takes a lot of leverage away from these officers when they try
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to punish inmates for misbehaving. We asked a few folks today if this temporary pause changes
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anything, and we'll listen to what they had to say here.
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No, we don't want to temporary because you're going to come back in two weeks and reinstitute it.
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And then we did all this for nothing. We're not punching bags and we're not stabbing
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dummies, right? If we can walk in there and not have to worry about feces thrown at us,
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getting stabbed, getting sexually assaulted. If we can go in there and just a little bit is lessened,
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I mean, you know, we're used to seeing these videos of striking workers, striking government
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employees in particular. And quite often the complaints are absurd and the demands are
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egregious and sometimes obscene. In this case, though, what they're demanding is that they don't
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get stabbed or sexually assaulted or have crap thrown on them. Like, that's a pretty reasonable
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demand, I think. I mean, that's, that's, you should, you should be able to expect that at least in your,
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in your work environment. Or at the very least you should, if you're working in a prison,
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you should know that the law, you know, the, the law has your back and that everything is being
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done legally to protect you as much as possible from that sort of thing happening to you.
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Um, so, you know, we give government employees a hard time, rightfully so, I certainly do,
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but these are government workers, uh, these prison guards, correction officers who actually perform
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a necessary job. In fact, it's not just necessary. Civilized society cannot exist without these
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people. These correctional officers are, you know, they're not putting together DEI training sessions
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at the Pentagon. They're not auditing people over $600, uh, because, you know, who received over
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$600 on, on Venmo. They're nothing like the government workers we talked about yesterday. These people
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are our last line of defense that's keeping extremely dangerous criminals locked up far away from the
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rest of us. They are doing a very difficult, necessary job that I personally, I don't know
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about you, would never want to do in a million years. Somebody needs to do it. I'm really glad
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they're doing it because I don't want to do it. Um, and when you have people like that doing a job like
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that, well, those are people who, if, if they're coming to you and telling you that the work
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environment is terrible and, uh, the, there are some things they need, you just give them whatever
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they need. I mean, the, you know, this, this is one of very few cases where I would say, okay,
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just triple their pay. First of all, whatever they're getting paid, triple it. Let's start with
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that. And, uh, and then work, just work down the list. Just give them everything they want.
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Uh, I would rather give prison guards everything they want so they can get back to work
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and, you know, have as, as good of morale as you can expect people to have when they're working in
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a prison. And yet they've been ignored and it seems completely abandoned by the leadership in
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their state. If anything, the state has been actively sabotaging their ability to do their
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jobs. And they've, they've had some help along the way. In fact, local news stations in New York
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are still producing sob stories for these criminals. Uh, and just the other day, a local news station
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in Buffalo aired this segment about a convicted murderer who says that the prison guards are wrong
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and that we really need the whole act to remain in place. And, uh, here's his reasoning. This is
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one of the most deranged segments you'll see on a news station. Uh, watch. It is torture. It is
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torture in every way, shape, and form. I probably would have rather than pull out my fingernails and
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get it over with than I spent a year, two years in solitary confinement. But that pain would end then.
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Co-director of the Halt Solitary Campaign, Jerome Wright, was incarcerated for 32 years,
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serving time for second-degree murder and manslaughter. He says he spent seven of those
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Just think about this. Think about your bathroom, living in your bathroom for 23 hours out of the day
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every day for a year. Uh, think about, do it for a week. Think about for a week. How do you think
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So notice how the reporter just kind of casually slips in the whole second-degree murder thing in
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the middle of the segment. They introduce Jerome as this reasonable guy who's upset with solitary
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confinement. He says it's comparable to getting your fingernails pulled out. Uh, he calls it torture.
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And then they just kind of drop in the fact that he killed another person and, you know, just sort of
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get it out of the way. They also didn't mention anything that he did while he was incarcerated,
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which might explain why he was placed in solitary confinement. Instead, they just move right along to the
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analogy that he makes where he says that normal people wouldn't want to live in their bathrooms for any
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amount of time. Uh, and the logic is pretty solid right up until you realize that Jerome Wright has
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committed murder, manslaughter, robbery, and burglary. Once you kill another human being, along with a slew of
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other very serious violent crimes, then you don't get to complain about your accommodations in prison. On the
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other hand, if you don't murder another human being, then you don't have to live in your bathroom. You
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can live anywhere you want. See, that's one of the perks of being not a murderer. That's how the system
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works. We don't want to encourage people to commit murder. We want to discourage it. And one of the ways
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that we do that is by placing murderers in places they don't want to be. Okay, so when Jerome says,
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well, can you imagine being in the, I don't have to imagine it, Jerome. I didn't kill anybody. You did.
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Okay, you're a scumbag criminal. Hopefully you're reformed now. I don't know. But that's what you were.
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And so you were punished for it. I don't have to do that because I'm not a, uh, someone who's
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killing and robbing people. It's pretty easy to not end up, you know, it's like not ending up in
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solitary confinement in prison is like the easiest thing in the world. Okay. That's the lowest bar
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you could ever expect somebody to clear. It is the easiest thing. You know how easy it is for me
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every day to not end up in solitary confinement in prison. It's so easy. I don't even have to try.
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That's how easy it is. You just have to not kill people. And even then, even if you kill someone,
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that probably is not enough to get you in solitary confinement. So to not get in solitary confinement,
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you have to not kill anybody. And then also, even if you do kill someone, don't continue trying to
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kill people. If you can't clear that bar, then you deserve to be in solitary confinement forever.
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Like I don't care at that point. Throw them in solitary confinement for 50 years. If you can't
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get over that bar, you're, you're just not welcome in society. And if you're the kind of person who we
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can't even trust you in prison, putting you in a cage in prison, even that's not enough to get
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through your skull, then at that point, why should we care about your plight? And by the way,
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when Jerome Wright was paroled, he tested positive for cocaine during a drug test and then signed a
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confession admitting he had used cocaine. But we're supposed to believe that that was all a big
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misunderstanding as well. The Washington Post wrote up a whole sob story about it. So this guy's never
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responsible for anything that happens to him, essentially. While he's busy killing people and
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failing drug tests, it's our job to not disappoint him. And we just keep failing.
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Now on the bright side, I can think of one solution that would solve Jerome Wright's problem
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and the problems created by many other murderers like him. It turns out that no one, not a single
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person has been executed in the state of New York since 1963. The state has essentially abolished the
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death penalty. And that means that all of the worst, most violent people in the state
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just stay in the system forever until they die of old age. If we actually had a sensible system of
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capital punishment that we used on the worst kinds of criminals, then the chaos in our prisons would
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be greatly reduced at the very least. And you also wouldn't need solitary confinement. At least you
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wouldn't need it as much. Certainly people like Jerome Wright wouldn't complain about their bathroom
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size cells anymore. And prison guards wouldn't get assaulted every day. Seems like a win-win.
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Then again, no one's floating that as a possible solution here, just like no one in the
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mainstream press is talking about this prison strike at all. They're not talking about the
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strike because it's yet another example of how so-called criminal justice reform is in fact a
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disaster waiting to unfold. And once again, we're seeing how compassion for criminals in the end
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causes suffering for innocent people. Compassion to criminals is cruelty to innocent people.
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Every single time, that's how it works. That is the lesson of the Halt Act and the ongoing
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crisis unfolding in New York. And before criminals completely seize control of the prison system in
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one of our largest states, it's a lesson that more people in power need to learn and quickly.
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Here's another big story, the Post Millennial reports. On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee
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revealed that over 400,000 taxpayers were affected by the leaking of tax records by a former IRS
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contractor, including the records of President Donald Trump. Relying on data analysis by the
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Treasury's Spectre General for Tax Administration and the IRS, the IRS mailed notifications to 405,427
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taxpayers whose taxpayer information was inappropriately disclosed by Mr. Littlejohn. Approximately 89%
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of the taxpayers are business entities. Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor, was sentenced in
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January 2024 to five years in prison after leaking the tax records of Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos,
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and Elon Musk. And he pled guilty in October. And the other part of this is that we were initially
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told, so we knew about this leak. This guy went to prison for it. But we were originally told that
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the leak affected, you know, 50 or 60 or 70,000 people or whatever it was. It was a relatively small
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number. And now it turns out that, oh, well, actually it was 400 plus thousand. And then maybe,
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you know, next week we'll find out that, oh, sorry, we meant 4 million. That's kind of how it seems to be
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working. So, you know, this is great. We were told that we should be deeply afraid of Doge and Elon Musk
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having access to our information. And then it's an IRS employee who turns around and leaks our tax
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records. Okay. This was not a Doge employee who did this. This was not Big Balls. Big Balls didn't
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do this. Don't try to put this on Big Balls. Everybody wants to blame Big Balls for everything,
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but Big Balls is a man of honor and integrity. Your tax records are safe with Big Balls.
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And I'll tell you another thing, Big Balls won't leak anything. Big Balls never leaks.
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But it's the IRS and they're decidedly small balls. That's where the leaks are coming from.
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And that was always going to be the case. That's why it's absurd when the media fear mongers about
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Doge having access to our stuff. Because our stuff, our records, are already fully accessible
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to countless federal employees. Right? I mean, how many? Well, there's no way to know exactly.
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How many federal employees have access to your tax records? How many federal employees have access to
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everything about you? You know, no way to know. I mean, hundreds? Thousands?
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Thousands? Essentially, you know, it's an unquantifiable number. And these are people that
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we don't know anything about, just anonymous bureaucrats. And that's always been the case.
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Why should we trust a random person at the IRS or any other agency more than we trust Big Balls
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and Doge? Makes no sense to me. All right. Daily Wire reports, Bill Maher,
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the host of HBO's Real Time, said during an interview last week that Democrats need to drop
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their support for the transgender movement if they want to start winning again.
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Maher made their remarks on the leftist podcast Pod Save America with the former Obama speech
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writer John Lovett. We have some of that conversation. So here's a clip of it.
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Do I think in most of America they did that in schools? I don't. But I think in enough of them,
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in enough far left places, they did constantly have this idea in the minds of children that maybe
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you're not in the right body. I mean, the New England Journal of Medicine advocated for taking
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sex off of a birth certificate, I believe. It was like, you're assigned sex.
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Well, I was assigned it by my dad, okay, when I was born. Yes. And again, to tell kids,
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it doesn't always have to be and isn't always the default setting. But that's a different mentality
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than they put in the minds of kids. And that's why this debate goes on. And the fact that you think,
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or a lot of people on the left, think that even if you just have this debate, it makes you a bigot,
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you just have to roll over. That was, you asked about the Biden administration. That was their
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position. For a long time, people said, oh, older gay people are recruiting kids to be gay.
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And they wouldn't really be gay. It was, they were being recruited. They were being groomed.
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That they were being drawn. That was their conservative position. The Christian right position
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for a long time was the reason you didn't want to have gay teachers is they're going to recruit.
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That the gay lifestyle is going to look so enticing and so exciting that it's going to bring these,
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these poor defenseless boys, they mostly boys into the gay lifestyle and destroy their lives. But of
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course that wasn't true. Really all gay teachers were, were an example. Right. Right. Yeah.
00:24:03.260
Look, there are a few examples of people getting older and realizing that they shouldn't have
00:24:08.980
transitioned. That happens. It's real. That's real. Yeah. More than a few.
00:24:12.140
But there are also really important surgeries that people get for their heart and they go wrong and
00:24:17.520
somebody dies. And nobody says we must stop the cardiologist. And what you say is, let's make
00:24:21.820
sure that this version of it is being practiced. Well, we don't just, we don't get rid of the
00:24:26.620
specific surgery. We don't throw out a whole field of medicine. We say, let's make sure we're doing it in
00:24:30.520
a way that's healthy. And that gender affirming care saves a lot of lives. And the, and the truth is,
00:24:35.640
we talk about these edge cases, talk about athletes, talk about locker rooms. But for the most part,
00:24:39.460
what we're talking about is a very small group of people that just want the opportunity to live
00:24:44.220
and express themselves. Okay. So a bunch of things to go over here. First of all, Bill Maher,
00:24:49.120
as usual, is defending basically the weakest version of the right side of this argument.
00:24:54.780
The fact that me and Bill Maher are ostensibly on the same side of the trans debate is just a
00:24:59.820
reflection of how insane the left has gotten, of course, because in actuality, Maher still has a
00:25:04.720
leftist view of the trans issue. You know, that's the crazy thing is that he's seen as this
00:25:09.780
kind of voice of reason on the trans stuff. But, and he is in comparison to like the guy that he was
00:25:15.780
just talking to, he is, but he still has a liberal view of the issue, which by the way, I don't think
00:25:23.740
he, I don't think he would object to that characterization. He doesn't object, he doesn't object to,
00:25:29.200
he is a liberal. I don't think he would deny that. So now he objects for the most part to castrating
00:25:35.400
kids, which is good that he objects to that, but he doesn't really deny the validity of transgenderism
00:25:42.920
in principle, right? That's the point. Because that is, if there's a quote unquote conservative
00:25:49.920
position on this, it's not just that, oh, we shouldn't be harming kids. It's that transgenderism
00:25:58.940
itself is a category error. It's the, the category itself is made up. Um, that's the conservative
00:26:09.760
position. That's not Bill Maher's position. In fact, I believe he said recently in the last couple of
00:26:13.580
weeks that the right goes too far when they say that sex is only male and female. He kind of alluded to
00:26:18.780
it there where he said that, um, you know, uh, his position is basically like most of the time you can
00:26:26.580
tell if a baby is male or female, uh, from birth, but that's not always the case. It's not always the
00:26:34.000
default setting. Um, so he thinks there are exceptions, which means that Mars position on
00:26:38.560
transgenderism is the left wing position of 15 or 20 years ago. Uh, the difference is that he did not
00:26:45.940
keep sliding insanely to the left. He just stayed in his spot while the rest of the left drifted,
00:26:52.440
you know, that way. And, and that's what makes Mar the reasonable one in all these conversations.
00:26:57.080
It's not that he's conservative at all. It's that he he's just, he's, he's the exact same liberal that
00:27:04.300
he was 15 years ago. He has the exact same liberal positions that he did 15 years ago. His progressivism
00:27:09.740
did not progress. Uh, it didn't go into remission either. It just kind of stayed in one spot.
00:27:16.640
And that's important to emphasize because whenever you see Mar debating transgenderism with a leftist,
00:27:20.700
you have to remember that the position he's defending is actually a very liberal position,
00:27:25.080
but it's still too much. It's too conservative. It's too sane for the more left wing person he's
00:27:30.920
arguing with. That's always the dynamic in these conversations we've seen. And that's the dynamic
00:27:34.980
here. And then we hear from the other guy, John Lovett. And his answer as expected is a total
00:27:40.500
mess. First of all, he says, uh, Hey, remember when conservatives claimed, claimed that LGBT
00:27:45.880
activists were recruiting kids. That was crazy. That turned out to be false, right? So clearly what
00:27:51.800
they're saying now about the trans stuff is also false. Um, and his point is that the conservatives
00:27:57.380
were obviously wrong about LGBT activists recruiting kids, which means that they're also wrong about the
00:28:03.180
trans stuff, except that we weren't wrong about kids being recruited. That's exactly what happened.
00:28:10.160
Yeah, you're right. We did claim that. And we have been proven correct. That's why you see an
00:28:17.100
explosion in LGBT identification over the past 10 years. The last number I saw, this was in a poll,
00:28:22.740
Gallup poll in April or March or April of 2024. I think maybe there's been a more recent one,
00:28:28.000
but the number was about 20% of Gen Z identifies as LGBT. And you hear these kinds of numbers. Maybe
00:28:35.420
you hear them so much, you get, you get numb to them, but really think about that 20%, 20%
00:28:39.540
of the entire generation identifies as LGBT. That is double the, uh, LGBT identification rate among
00:28:48.720
millennials and like 20 times the number of, uh, among boomers, which would be their grandparents.
00:28:57.240
So how did that happen? How, how does that happen? Well, it happens because there was a concerted effort
00:29:04.800
to use the public school system and the media and Hollywood and so on and social media to indoctrinate
00:29:11.720
children into this lifestyle. Again, think about this in term, in the, in, in, in the terms of
00:29:17.720
theories. Okay. A good theory should have predictive power. If a theory is true, then I should be able
00:29:25.840
to, based on this theory, predict what will happen in the future if my theory is true. Um, so take,
00:29:35.360
take the idea that children are being indoctrinated into the LGBT lifestyle, that there's an actual
00:29:41.240
recruitment effort underway to indoctrinate and brainwash kids into this. Uh, somebody like myself
00:29:48.980
who has made this claim for years is putting forward a theory. And that theory predicts, if it's true,
00:29:59.000
it predicts that we should see a massive disproportionate jump in LGBT identification in a generation that is
00:30:07.020
being indoctrinated. So if we're going around claiming that, Hey, they're indoctrinating kids into the LGBT
00:30:12.700
lifestyle. And then you look at the numbers and you see, yeah, well, yeah, but kids, this, this youngest
00:30:18.440
generation, they identify as LGBT at about the same rate as, you know, the last 10 generations before them.
00:30:25.300
And if that was the case, then that would be a fact that really disproves the theory that kids are being
00:30:32.860
indoctrinated. Then there's just, there's no evidence of it. Except that we do see, uh, these,
00:30:42.160
this massive jump, uh, the, the thing that our theory predicts came true, which is, uh, is, is very good
00:30:52.960
evidence that the theory itself is true. So John's argument, if you can call it that falls apart already.
00:30:59.400
And then he starts droning on about studies. He says that gender affirming care, quote unquote,
00:31:03.860
uh, save lot saves lives and studies prove it again, simply false. We've, we've gone over these
00:31:09.000
studies many times and all of the studies. And I mean, all of them, literally all of them
00:31:12.840
that allegedly prove the efficacy of quote unquote, gender affirming care. All of these studies are
00:31:18.540
bunk. The methodology is insane in all of them. Often these are studies funded by people who have a
00:31:24.340
vested financial interest in a certain outcome. And, uh, the studies are, are, as I always point
00:31:30.780
out, are, are impossible anyway. I mean, it's, it's actually impossible to have, even at this point,
00:31:35.880
even at this point, it is impossible to have a reliable study that proves the efficacy of this
00:31:41.820
quote unquote treatment. And that's because the question has always been, it's not really a question,
00:31:46.920
you know, to, to, to, to normal people, to sane people, it's not a question, but just using the term
00:31:51.720
loosely. The question has always been about the long-term effects of sterilizing and castrating
00:31:58.760
somebody and trying to change their gender. The question is the long-term effect, how they feel
00:32:06.260
about it a month later is irrelevant. It doesn't matter how they feel about it a year later is
00:32:13.760
irrelevant. Um, five years later, even that is not really the question. Although a lot of them a year
00:32:21.580
later or five years later will regret it, the regret sets in very, very quickly for many of these
00:32:27.840
people. But even that's not the question. The question is what is their life going to be like
00:32:32.500
20 years from now? Especially if this is being done at 13 years old. Uh, if you've got a 13 year
00:32:41.740
year old kid who was quote unquote transitioned, well, checking in with that 13 year old when he's
00:32:50.400
15, isn't going to tell us much. He's still a kid. So no, what I want to know is that 13 year old kid,
00:33:00.640
how is he doing when he's 35? When he's a full grown man, how was the 35 year old version of that 13
00:33:08.660
year old kid feeling about the fact that he can't have kids ever? And he's stuck in this body that
00:33:16.720
is still male and will never be female, but it's sort of in this state of like permanent prepubescence.
00:33:24.240
Um, how does he feel about that as a 35 year old man? How does a 13 year old girl feel when she's 35?
00:33:31.460
How does the 35 year old version of that 13 year old girl feel about not having breasts and not
00:33:38.920
being able to ever bear children? Um, what that means is that we are still like 10 years away from
00:33:47.260
being able to do any kind of reliable follow-up with the, you know, for lack of a better term,
00:33:52.820
the first batch of kids who this stuff was done to in mass. We're a decade away from me being able
00:34:01.320
to even follow up in any kind of meaningful way. Um, which is why all along there were two options.
00:34:10.120
One of them is, well, let's just do this to a whole bunch of kids and hope it works out and
00:34:16.220
use them as lab rats and check back in two decades and see how their lives are working out. That's one
00:34:21.620
option. That's the insane, uh, you know, mad scientist option where you are using human beings
00:34:30.680
as lab rats and performing human experiments. That's one option. The other option is to use
00:34:38.060
your common sense and say, well, no, I don't need to check back. Like I already know that
00:34:45.060
it's not going to improve their lives or their wellbeing in the long run or even the short run,
00:34:50.920
um, to mutilate their bodies, um, to mutilate their bodies and interfere with its natural processes.
00:35:00.100
So you can just use common sense. Your basic common sense will tell you that your basic human,
00:35:07.640
you know, basic, basic human decency tells you that or should anyway. Uh, let's see.
00:35:15.040
Daily Mail headline, airlines could soon charge overweight passengers more for plane tickets.
00:35:23.220
Do you agree? A debate is brewing over whether airlines should adopt weight-based pricing,
00:35:28.660
charging passengers based on their weight to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. This
00:35:32.180
discussion follows a broader trend of U.S. airlines implementing fees for checked baggage.
00:35:35.740
Um, while Samoa Air's 2013 fat tax failed to gain traction, Finnair recently conducted a three-month
00:35:43.940
voluntary data collection initiative, gathering passengers' weight along with their carry-on
00:35:47.720
luggage. Uh, this synonymized data, including age, gender, and travel class will be used to refine
00:35:53.580
aircraft balance and loading calculations from 2025 to 2030. A separate study of, uh, about a thousand
00:35:59.580
U.S. adults examined the public's reaction to three pricing models, the current system, a weight
00:36:04.480
threshold model, and a body weight model. Um, okay, so there's no actual story here. The headline
00:36:11.940
makes it sound like there's an airline actually adopting a policy of charging fat passengers extra.
00:36:17.120
Doesn't sound like that's actually going to happen anytime soon, but, um, but should it happen? Yeah,
00:36:22.840
absolutely it should, obviously. Obviously it should happen. Uh, and the policy should be pretty simple.
00:36:28.580
You know, if you're over a certain weight, you should have to buy two seats and then, and then you'll
00:36:33.760
actually get two seats, right? And, uh, you'll, you'll get the middle seat of your row and either
00:36:40.900
the aisle or window. That's the most fair thing. It'll also be the more comfortable thing for
00:36:46.680
everybody involved, but requiring another passenger to be squeezed into a seat and pressed against the
00:36:53.840
body of a morbidly obese person. I mean, it's just, it's inhumane. It really is. And I don't use that
00:37:00.600
word lightly, but it is inhumane. If I'm paying for a ticket on an airplane and this is bare minimum,
00:37:08.100
bare minimum stuff. If I'm paying for a ticket on an airplane, I should not have to make bodily
00:37:13.380
contact with another person for the whole flight. My, no part of my body should have to be in constant
00:37:22.680
contact with a stranger. Um, and, uh, and, but that's what ends up happening. If you get seated
00:37:29.260
right next to a morbidly obese person, cause their, their body is spilling over into your space.
00:37:35.300
Now there are some nuances to work out. Uh, what is the weight limit? You know, is a question. How do
00:37:39.800
you adjust it according to height? Do you adjust it? We can figure that out. I mean, I'm inclined to say
00:37:44.040
that it should be something pretty simple. Um, like if you're over pretty simple. And I also think
00:37:51.220
it could be generous. You know, I'm not saying that there should be, you have to be under 200
00:37:55.740
pounds or you got to pay extra, uh, because there are also plenty of people that could be over 200
00:38:00.780
pounds and not actually overweight. Um, so let's just say 350 pounds. I think is a pretty, that's a
00:38:08.260
pretty, pretty generous bar. I think, uh, 350 pounds. If you're over that, you have to pay for
00:38:15.220
an extra seat. And that would include a small number of very tall people who are 350 pounds and
00:38:22.540
not overweight or not that overweight. I would say even they should have to pay extra, even though
00:38:27.840
it's not their fault, you know, that's not their fault. But, um, these are people who are so big that
00:38:33.800
again, requiring someone to sit right next to them means that you, you're not even
00:38:37.660
I, I paid for a seat. I don't even get my whole seat because this huge person is sitting right next
00:38:43.920
to me and spilling over into it, which is just not right. Um, so to me, that's an, that's a pretty,
00:38:51.140
pretty simple solution. Could it create awkward situations? Yeah. Uh, and it would mean that there
00:38:58.200
would have to be some kind of scale, uh, in the airport. Like they have, you know, they have those
00:39:05.560
kind of bins to, so you can measure your carry on to make sure it's the right size.
00:39:10.700
There would need to be something like that, but for people. And it would mean that if you are a fat
00:39:18.700
person and you go to the airport, you know, and it's not, it's, it's not clear just by looking at
00:39:24.940
you if you're over 350 or under it. Yeah. You'd have to get on a scale at the airport. It'd be very
00:39:30.560
humiliating, but, uh, hopefully it's a wake-up call. That's, that's, that's the other advantage
00:39:37.260
to something like this. It's a, it's more, it's, it's a fairer system. It makes more sense.
00:39:44.400
And you're not setting out to humiliate people, but if that happens, then it becomes also an incentive.
00:39:52.860
That's a pretty good incentive to lose weight, isn't it? If you knew that, you know, you're going
00:40:00.260
to be traveling in six months because you're going to a wedding or something and that you might get
00:40:06.820
weighed at the airport, uh, I can't think of a better incentive to lose weight. So I think it's
00:40:15.460
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I too had to rewind to make sure that was a smoke detector beeping. How do people live with that
00:41:47.420
constant beeping noise? Yeah, that 95% of the comments for the show yesterday were about the
00:41:54.700
smoke detector beeping in the video of the IRS employee crying about losing his job. So that's
00:42:02.740
about 95% of the comments were about the smoke detector. And I have no idea. I don't know how people
00:42:07.820
can live with the beeping noise. It drives me insane. I can't deal with it. And usually it's
00:42:15.540
a pretty simple fix. You can just change the batteries. Look, why is this such an accurate
00:42:21.660
stereotype? I have no idea. I mean, the funny thing about the video yesterday, of course, is that
00:42:25.940
there's this long-running internet meme that if you're a very online person, as I sadly am,
00:42:31.340
you're quite aware of it, this sort of running joke about videos of black people in their homes.
00:42:37.740
And there's often a smoke detector beeping in the background. And that meme, that stereotype exists
00:42:44.400
for a reason. It's definitely a trend. I don't know why, but it's a thing. I mean, it's certainly
00:42:50.040
a thing. We all know that it's a thing. Actually, I've thought about this. And my theory up to now has
00:42:57.360
been, I mean, just to be totally frank, my theory has been that fatherlessness is endemic in the
00:43:02.920
black community. It's 70 or 80%. And dads are the ones who usually change the smoke detector
00:43:07.660
batteries. I mean, that's kind of been my theory. Now, in that video, it was a grown adult man
00:43:14.200
whose smoke detector was beeping. So that doesn't really explain that video. But generally speaking,
00:43:19.540
I kind of think that's why. I mean, someone should do a study on that.
00:43:24.500
You know, taking different demographics and then looking at their fatherlessness rate and then
00:43:32.580
comparing that to, on average, how long a smoke detector is allowed to beep in the home before
00:43:39.040
someone changes the batteries. That is a study that someone should do. And we should, USAID should fund
00:43:46.660
that study, should put $40 million into that study. Some professions like nursing and nearly every other
00:43:53.120
patient care staff have to document what the heck they're doing in critical and excruciating detail
00:43:57.040
throughout an even routine shift, hour by hour, if not by minute, with others basing later care on
00:44:03.660
what they write as well. Nobody with writer block there. Well, yeah, now you know that you're being
00:44:09.120
oppressed, that you have to, you're expected to give an account of what you've done at work. So
00:44:14.080
you didn't know that you're being oppressed, but now you know. So it's a good thing to know.
00:44:18.380
I tried doing the obligatory quarantine beard during COVID and gave up six days in because it
00:44:23.820
was freaking ridiculous looking and itchy as F. I'm sorry, you said six days? Was that a typo? Did
00:44:31.660
you, did you miss the zero? Because you must've meant 60 days, right? I mean, you're not actually
00:44:37.940
coming to me. You're not leaving a comment under my show claiming that you tried, you tried to grow
00:44:44.540
a beard for six days. You don't expect me to accept that excuse, do you? Six days is trying?
00:44:53.700
That's not trying. You didn't even, you didn't, you barely got to the point of itchiness. I mean,
00:44:58.880
you, you had one itch and you turned back. I just explained yesterday that there's, you hit the
00:45:06.280
itchiness wall, the itchiness threshold when you're growing a beard and you have to push through it.
00:45:10.860
It will take a couple of weeks, but you didn't even, you didn't make it one day into the itchiness.
00:45:20.420
It looks ridiculous. Yeah. For six, you're six days in. Yes. For the first few days,
00:45:26.260
you're going to look like you're, you're just lazy and you forgot to shave, right? For the first few
00:45:32.300
days, you're going to look just unshaven as opposed to bearded, right? You go from a shaven person
00:45:37.600
to, to unshaven looking and then bearded. So you were very much smack dab in the middle of the
00:45:45.780
unshaven period. You didn't even get to bearded. You never had a beard. You just had stubble.
00:45:53.860
You tried. Don't give me that. I don't want to hear that. How dare you?
00:45:59.440
You're banned from the show. Obviously you're not, stop listening to the show with that kind
00:46:07.100
of weak sauce. Grow, grow a beard, give it, give it three weeks and then you'll be allowed to listen
00:46:11.800
to the show again. Um, Matt, you're so wrong. Each Lord of the Rings movie is three and a half hours
00:46:19.460
long or longer. And that's more than justified, but I'll concede that no other movie has any right
00:46:24.040
to be that long. A lot of comments about this too saying, you know, I said no movie should be three
00:46:27.280
and a half hours long, like the brutalist that awful movie was. And, uh, a few attempts to, to give,
00:46:33.380
to come up with exceptions to the rule. And Lord of the Rings was, was mentioned by several people.
00:46:38.100
Uh, sorry, not only is Lord of the Rings not an exception, but it's actually, uh, a perfect example
00:46:44.180
of what I'm talking about. Okay. So let's just take Return of the King, which I think was the longest
00:46:48.480
one of all three movies. And I liked those movies by the way, but the theatrical release, uh, the
00:46:56.040
theatrical release of Return of the King was, was about three and a half hours. It was about
00:46:59.320
what the brutalist is. And then there are all these extended cuts that are four and a half hours
00:47:03.980
long, which is just obscene. That's, that's offensive. I'm offended. Well, if I pick up the
00:47:08.860
Blu-ray, not that I watch Blu-ray anymore, but, and it says four and a half hours long, I'm offended by
00:47:12.960
that. That's, that's so insanely long. How would you, how do you, that you would dare even sell that,
00:47:19.760
that you would put that on the shelf for anyone to watch four and a half hours. Um, so,
00:47:25.660
but no, let's just take three and a half hours. That was too long. That was way too long.
00:47:32.600
Okay. That you could have cut Return of the King. You could have cut at least 45 minutes
00:47:39.060
out of that movie, at least 45 minutes. And it would have been a better movie.
00:47:44.900
And if you cut 45 minutes, it's still a movie that's two, two hours and 45 minutes long. It's
00:47:49.740
still a long movie. I mean, two hours and 45 minutes is a long freaking movie. Um, so can you,
00:47:59.260
can you just cut it down from epic marathon length to very long? Can we just make that? It would be a
00:48:06.640
better movie. Um, quite infamously, the movie has three endings. Let's start with that. Just pick one.
00:48:13.220
You don't need three. Okay. Pick one ending. I mean, the movie really ends with, uh, Frodo and Sam
00:48:19.860
they're, you know, they're, they're stranded on the rock and the lava's all around. And then the,
00:48:24.680
the bird comes and picks them up. And as many people, so many people, of course, have pointed
00:48:28.480
out, and it is true. It's a major plot hole that, well, why didn't they just ride the bird to Mordor?
00:48:33.680
This movie, the it's, so we get between the three movies, we get like 12 hours of screen time.
00:48:39.260
It could have been, it could have been 30 minutes total. If they just hopped on the bird, go drop
00:48:43.740
the ring off in the, in the volcano or whatever, and they'd be fine. But, but fine. Uh, so the bird
00:48:50.280
picks them up and they're flying away on the bird into the sunset. You know, last shot, you've got the,
00:48:59.500
they're flying away from, you get the, the, the lava and everything and Mordor is collapsing.
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And, but then you see them on the bird and they're going off into the distance and you see it's green
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and green pastures ahead. And it's a, it's a, it's a great closing shot. And it, it kind of,
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it tells you everything you need to know. We don't need to then see, oh, now he's laying in bed
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and he's meeting, he sees his friends again and he's happy and he's jumping on the bed and hugging
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them. Like, I know that that's going to happen. I don't need to actually see it. Uh, and then we get
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another scene where everybody is, uh, congratulating Frodo again. We get like five scenes after the end of
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people congratulating Frodo, which again, we get it. And, and it's even more grating because Frodo
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didn't even do a good job in the first place. He whined like a baby the entire time. And then he
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tried to turn back at the last moment and not even do the job. And it only happened because Gollum
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tackled him. So it's by accident, he actually completed the journey. And then we got to go through
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45 minutes of just watching people kiss this guy's ass. It was a little bit, it's a little much.
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It's a little much. Um, so you could have cut that and, uh, and you could have cut
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from Return of the King. Uh, and this, this to me is, uh, a problem with the movie that almost
00:50:16.380
ruins it for me entirely is, uh, is the, the whole subplot of the ghost soldiers or whatever it was
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where Aragorn goes and, uh, Aragorn goes and recruits these ghost soldiers, right? To go and fight the
00:50:32.760
big battle at the end. And, uh, you could have cut the whole thing with the ghost soldiers and
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that would have saved you 40 minutes or so probably. Um, and then you, you, you, you lose
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this massive plot hole, which is that the ghost soldiers show up halfway through the battle. I
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don't know why they're late. And then they just go, it's pretty lame. You know, we get this great
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battle scene and then the ghost soldiers show up and they just go through, they're like swarming
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army ants and they easily kill everybody. They kill all the bad guys and the battle's over
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and, and they're able to easily kill everyone because they're already dead. They're invincible,
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right? They're these corporeal, uh, creatures that can't be harmed, can't be killed.
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There's no stakes for them in the battle. They got literally nothing to lose. They're already dead.
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Um, so why didn't you just get the ghost soldiers from the beginning?
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You could have had the ghost soldiers fight every battle through all three movies.
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They would have easily won. Again, the movie's over in an hour.
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And then at the end of that, Aragorn is like, oh, you've proven yourself in battle. Ghost soldiers
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be free now. How do they prove themselves? It required no courage for them to fight that battle.
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They were already dead and they're hanging out in a cave somewhere for eternity.
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So you did them a fate. I mean, they're, they're, they're bored to death, literally hanging out in
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a cave, cave underground. You let them come up to the surface and fight a battle where they can't
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lose. And somehow they've proven their mettle. They've proven their courage. And now they get the
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curse lifted. And now the curse is lifted. They just disappear into nothingness. They become dust,
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which is, I don't know what, what kind of, uh, reward that is. So anyway, um, now I have, I have
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given, uh, I have complained about Lord of the Rings, uh, and it's, it has taken as long for me to
00:52:29.980
complain about it as the movie is, is also. So I've, so this has just, uh, been a total waste of
00:52:34.740
time. The question has everyone talking right now. What did you do last week? No idea why this is
00:52:39.600
causing so much drama, but, uh, well, here's what we did last week. The entire Daily Wire gang went back
00:52:45.000
to DC for Backstage Live at CPAC. Ben Shapiro and Christopher Ruffo broke huge news when they
00:52:50.180
leaked tapes exposing Department of Education contractors supporting sex tapes in schools.
00:52:54.860
Michael Knowles faced off against 25 LGBTQ plus trans activists in Jubilee's most explosive debate
00:53:01.000
yet. I released Clearing the Air, the behind the scenes look at the number one documentary of the
00:53:05.060
decade, Am I Racist? And that list is just to be compliant with Doge's asks. Uh, seems simple
00:53:10.260
enough. Don't miss a moment of the news, the shows, the entertainment, uh, that we have at
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our daily cancellation. A few years ago, you might remember the national manhunt that took place after
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a viral incident in the city of Lufkin, Texas, about 120 miles Northeast of Houston. A teenage girl
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filmed herself removing a tub of Blue Bell ice cream from a grocery store freezer. And then on camera,
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she licked the lid along with some of the ice cream before placing the whole tub back at the freezer
00:53:45.720
for someone else to find. And in response to this, Blue Bell, which is headquartered in Texas,
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dispatched an emergency response team, which, uh, they, they have on, on, uh, on hot standby at all
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times, just in case something like this were to ever happen. If there's a licking incident,
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uh, they're there. And to their credit, Blue Bell quickly identified the store in question because of,
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of course, their staff recognized the freezer from the storage. After all, they didn't become the number
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to a vanilla ice cream brand in the country without a deep understanding of their local markets.
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And then Blue Bell's people rushed inside the store like a SWAT team, removed all ice creams of the
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same flavor that the woman licked in the video. For the record, the flavor was Tin Roof, which,
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according to the New York Times, a highly detailed investigative report of the story features
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vanilla ice cream with chocolate fudge swirl and roasted peanuts dipped in dark chocolate.
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I don't know anyone who ever want to eat ice cream with peanuts in it, but that's a whole different
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story. Meanwhile, doctors spoke to various media outlets about the dangers of consuming
00:54:38.680
Blue Bell ice cream that had someone else's saliva on top of it. And surprisingly, uh, not all the
00:54:43.980
news was bad. One doctor, for instance, claimed that the risk of infection was, quote, partly diminished
00:54:47.940
because of the ice cream's low temperature and high sugar content, since freezing could cause the
00:54:52.620
water and bacteria to freeze and expand, destroying the bacteria, and sugar could leach water out of the
00:54:57.680
bacteria, close quote. Now, eventually, mercifully, the saga ended when police caught the 17-year-old
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responsible for this particular incident, although they didn't have much luck with the 10 million
00:55:07.500
copycats who sprang up. But as media attention subsided, as far as we know, the licking stopped,
00:55:13.120
at least we hope it did, and people went about their lives. Customers could buy Blue Bell ice cream
00:55:18.200
in peace without fear that somebody's saliva might be part of the ingredients. But there was one question
00:55:22.920
about that video that, uh, was never addressed, even though it's the most interesting part of the
00:55:29.120
whole thing. And that question is this, why did the teenage girl do that? Why exactly did she film
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herself committing a crime and then upload the incriminating footage on the internet for everyone
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to see? What psychological factors are involved in a decision like that? Is this something that's
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more common among women? Or is it equal among the genders? And how can we stop young women or people
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of any, uh, or young men from engaging in this kind of behavior for their good and the good of
00:55:56.080
everyone who wants to eat sanitary, unmolested ice cream? Well, unfortunately, despite the wall-to-wall
00:56:00.400
coverage, no one ever addressed that aspect of the whole situation. But this is a discussion
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worth reopening today after a woman using the name Sarah Roberts uploaded perhaps the most
00:56:10.580
incriminating footage that has been posted on TikTok. Uh, this does not involve ice cream or anything
00:56:16.400
being licked, but this is kind of the Blue Bell licking incident times about a thousand. If the Blue
00:56:22.280
Bell licking incident resulted in a long-form New York Times article and segments on every major
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television network, then this one deserves a primetime special of some kind. So behold, as
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Sarah Roberts informs the world of two relevant pieces of information, neither of which advances
00:56:38.000
her own interests in any way. First, she declares that she wants Elon Musk to be murdered. And then
00:56:43.660
for good measure, she adds that she has not paid her taxes for the better part of a decade. Watch.
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I promised myself I would avoid the news. But obviously I haven't. Um, here's my one thought. I
00:56:59.340
mean, I have many thoughts. Elon Musk. Like, we need to X him. And by X, I mean, formally known as
00:57:13.700
the assassination. And it's a warning from F.V.R. is going to F.V.R. is going to F.V.R. show up. I don't
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arrest me. You don't have enough people to even investigate me at this point. I haven't filed my taxes
00:57:32.340
in like eight years. And yet, no one's got for me. So I'm going to say it. Let's assassinate some
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other. Now, what's great about this clip, to the extent that anything this woman says can be
00:57:50.500
described as great, is that she starts by using coded language. She says that somebody needs to
00:57:55.240
X Elon Musk. And if you're not really paying attention, you might not get the message right
00:58:00.080
away, I guess, if that wasn't clear enough. After all, X is the name of the social media platform
00:58:05.000
Elon Musk owns. So maybe she means that everyone needs to reach out to Elon Musk on X and voice
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their disapproval of his various political positions. Keeps it kind of vague. I mean, she makes the
00:58:15.780
throat cutting gesture. So that also makes it pretty clear. But in case it wasn't clear, within about
00:58:20.680
two seconds, she comes right out and says, by X him, I mean assassinate. So, you know, so much for
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subtlety, I guess. Unfortunately for Sarah Roberts, in the end, she was probably a little too explicit
00:58:32.860
for her own good. The post went all over the internet in a matter of hours. And in response
00:58:36.640
to this video, Elon Musk posted the following message on X, quote, death threat and admission
00:58:41.100
of multiple counts of tax fraud. Then Musk tagged Ed Martin, the U.S. attorney for the District of
00:58:46.920
Columbia. And Martin, for his part, responded, quote, duly noted. Thanks for letting us know.
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We'll put you in the system. Talk soon, ma'am. Hashtag no one is above the law.
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So this is what's known as instant karma. And it's becoming a theme of the second Trump
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administration. When things happen that are obviously wrong, very quickly they're being
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corrected. That happened just the other day when Libs and TikTok posted this image on X.
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And it shows a medical form that's being given to service members at a U.S. Air Force base. And as
00:59:12.220
you can see, it demands to know their gender identity and pronouns and so on. And one of the
00:59:16.800
possible gender identities is non-binary, but there's also an other option. So service members can fill in
00:59:21.340
the blank. Now, in any other administration, this would have been completely ignored by the
00:59:24.920
government. But that didn't happen this time. It's a clear violation of Trump's executive order
00:59:28.100
on gender identity. And the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, recognized that immediately. Within
00:59:32.100
24 hours, Hegseth responded, quote, all over it. And something similar happened last night when
00:59:37.160
Tulsi Gabbard fired 100 intelligence officials for participating in lewd and disturbing conversations
00:59:42.960
on the NSA's internal communication system. That was a story that City Journal and Chris
00:59:47.420
Dufro broke. It went viral. And within 24 hours, 24 hours later, there was a decisive response.
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This kind of thing would have been unheard of just a few years ago. But now there's immediate
00:59:59.840
accountability. So in a sense, you know, the point is you can't blame Sarah Roberts for thinking that
01:00:06.740
no one would actually do anything about her video. In the federal government, this kind of
01:00:12.440
responsiveness isn't exactly the norm. That's why her video is a fantastic demonstration of the sheer
01:00:18.000
entitlement and this kind of false sense of security on the left. They've been held to basically no
01:00:23.040
standard and lived lives free of consequence or accountability for years now. Up until a couple
01:00:28.980
of months ago, she could have actually made that video and made a death threat and admitted to tax evasion
01:00:35.620
and been relatively confident there'd be no repercussion. But the world is changing now.
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For what it's worth, I went looking for Sarah Roberts' various social media accounts after all
01:00:45.140
this blew up. And it looks like she's either removed them or made them all private. So Sarah Roberts
01:00:48.700
seems to understand that this time around, maybe there will be consequences for her actions. But
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I was able to see that the biography on one of her social media accounts appears to
01:00:57.400
have she, her, hers pronouns listed along with the message, I bless lives. In other words,
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this is yet another instance of someone who repeats all the stock liberal mantras of peace and love
01:01:08.120
only to turn around and endorse the idea of murder and tax fraud. But the larger point is that these
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kinds of videos are always to me, you know, a fascinating study of human psychology. Again,
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I circle back to my original question, which is why post something like this? What's the win here?
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Okay? It's an extremely incriminating video that can achieve nothing but making your own life worse.
01:01:39.960
There's no world, even a few years ago, if you post this video, there's not any world where you
01:01:43.820
benefit from it. It can't make anything better. There's no win aside from a few likes and nods of
01:01:51.000
approval from random people on the internet. So that is, that's it. That's the win. For the sake of
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that meager amount of social media clout, she will risk going to prison. It's amazing that a grown
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adult woman would think that this is a trade worth making. But Sarah Roberts did think this
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was a trade worth making. And as a result, right now, she has about eight years of tax payments to
01:02:12.560
send into the federal government. And she has put me in a position for the first time in my career,
01:02:17.660
ever, probably, of rooting for the IRS to collect some tax money. And that is why, more than anything,
01:02:24.580
Sarah Roberts and every other leftist who broadcast their crimes on the internet,
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on the assumption that nobody will ever do anything about it, are today canceled.
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That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.