00:36:53.000I mean, there's really no way to say who invented it, but it's been, as far as we know,
00:36:58.000for as long as there have been people, there have been people, there's, there's been, uh, braids.
00:37:02.000Okay. It's not, this was one of those things.
00:37:05.000They probably discovered braiding before they discovered, you know, the wheel.
00:37:10.000Um, which in fact, we know that's the case too, because in, uh, in Native American tribes,
00:37:17.000tribes, you know, they had, they had braided hair, but they didn't have the wheel.
00:37:22.000So they didn't have a written language.
00:37:24.000So this is like, this is pretty early on, right?
00:37:26.000In the, in the process of, uh, the development of human civilization.
00:37:30.000So, uh, you know, I, I don't think there's no way to determine which race invented braids.
00:37:38.000Um, but probably white people have a more credible claim to that.
00:37:45.000If you want to get into that context or that contest, rather, we, we do certainly, we certainly know that.
00:37:52.000If the cultural appropriation game was played equally, it would not work out well for most races.
00:38:03.000Because we know for a fact, I mean, we don't know who invented braids.
00:38:08.000I don't think any one person invented it.
00:38:10.000We do know for a fact though, that like, uh, a white person invented jeans, uh, sneakers, um, airplanes, cars, air conditioning, you know, phones, the internet, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:38:24.000So those were invented for sure by white people.
00:38:26.000And we're part of, we're a part of white culture basically before anyone else adopted them.
00:38:30.000So if different races get to sort of claim ownership of the stuff that they originated, well, again, I mean, that's a contest that doesn't work out well for most people.
00:38:42.000Um, and even going back to the hairstyles, as many people on the internet have, have pointed out in response to this video, Beyonce was just at the, what was it?
00:38:52.000The Grammys a few weeks ago with straight blonde hair and she clearly has whitened her skin.
00:39:00.000Okay. So she, she is in fact actually trying to look white or at least whiter.
00:39:06.000How is that not cultural appropriation?
00:39:09.000We've got Beyonce running around looking like Dolly Parton and somehow that doesn't count as appropriation.
00:41:43.000I thought this was America, but I guess not.
00:41:46.000Next thing you know, they're going to tell us that angry twerking is not allowed either.
00:41:50.000What if you're in a meeting or something and they announce some kind of new policy that you disagree with?
00:41:55.000Does this mean you can't express your frustration by standing on the chair and twerking angrily while staring at your boss right in the eyes and twerking in a very angry fashion?
00:50:21.000No, you, you, how can you, after all this time that we've all spent together, it amazes me that anyone could still underestimate my stubbornness.
00:50:31.000Okay, if I say that I'm not going to like something, I will not like it.
00:50:37.000You know, it's just, it's the same thing with like, with pets.
00:52:33.000Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:52:41.000The other day, we discussed some of the latest rhetorical exploits of Jasmine Crockett,
00:52:45.000a member of Congress from Texas who, in an attempt to demonstrate her outstanding intellectual credentials,
00:52:50.000once bragged about receiving an honorary degree from a college that no one had ever heard of.
00:52:55.000Crockett demands to be taken seriously at all times, even though she's easily one of the least serious, least literate members of Congress.
00:53:01.000And to that end, at every available opportunity, she'll go out of her way to remind you of her many achievements.
00:53:06.000For example, did you know that Jasmine Crockett technically holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in something called the Civil Air Patrol?
00:53:13.000Did you know that she regularly keeps her house plants alive for more than a month?
00:56:11.000This is the message that she wanted to send today.
00:56:14.000Now, when I saw this clip, I went looking for news stories about any unfortunate mishaps that might have befallen Jasmine Crockett since her arrival in Washington.
00:56:23.000I asked multiple AI programs whether she had been poisoned by the Russians or maybe struck by a falling piano or something like that.
00:56:32.000I tried my hardest to find some benign explanation for this footage.
00:56:35.000But in the end, I came up with nothing.
00:56:36.000This is a change that Jasmine underwent all on her own.
00:56:39.000But as impressive as this footage is, it's also a little unsettling.
00:56:43.000It really makes you doubt your preconceptions.
00:56:45.000It's the kind of thing that makes you wonder whether Jasmine Crockett is faking more than just her accent.
00:56:50.000You have to wonder if maybe she's faking the whole being extremely dumb thing as well.
00:56:55.000Maybe Jasmine is constantly embarrassing herself in public as some kind of political tactic or as part of some elaborate performance art.
00:57:01.000You know, maybe she actually has an IQ above 95.
00:57:06.000If so, it's extremely clear that she is very committed to the bit.
00:57:10.000Jasmine is a method actor on par with like Marlon Brando.
00:57:13.000But this is par for the course in the Democrat Party, as I mentioned.
00:57:17.000Here's one of my favorite examples of this kind of thing of all time.
00:57:24.000So maybe this is why I'm a bit biased, but it's a Tennessee lawmaker by the name of Justin Pearson.
00:57:29.000You might remember this guy because he was expelled briefly from the Tennessee Statehouse for staging an insurrection after the Covenant school shooting,
00:57:35.000which he tried to turn into a platform to make an anti-gun statement.
00:57:39.000And Pearson imagined that this stunt would propel him into the national spotlight, into national stardom.
00:57:45.000Unfortunately, everyone sort of forgot he existed after about two days.
00:57:48.000But for our purposes, the point is that Pearson attended a leafy liberal arts college in Maine, where tuition runs over $60,000 a year.
00:57:56.000Then after he led his interaction, he started sounding a lot, you know, very different from how he sounded in Maine.
01:01:31.000Now, as embarrassing as it is, it just it makes you pine for the real thing.
01:01:35.000It's a cheap imitation of Hillary and the black church like everything else Kamala did.
01:01:38.000It was an inauthentic, pared down retread of the greats.
01:01:43.000At least Jasmine Crockett's code switch has the element of surprise.
01:01:46.000When Kamala Harris tried to pull this, no one was shocked or stunned in any way.
01:01:50.000Instead, people, you know, just laughed.
01:01:52.000And this this is, I guess, the ranking then in the annals of Democrat Party code switchers.
01:01:57.000That is frauds, total frauds and phonies.
01:02:00.000We have Hillary Clinton, then Jasmine Crockett, then Kamala Harris.
01:02:03.000And even though this newly unearthed footage adds a bit of excitement, the fact remains that Jasmine Crockett still isn't that special or interesting, even in terms of code switching.
01:02:12.000There's just not much to celebrate here.