Ep. 1562 - This May Be The Dumbest Hate Crime Hoax Yet
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Summary
A government employee in Pennsylvania claimed that she was the victim of a racist incident involving a noose. It turns out it was a hoax, like literally every other racist noose incident this century. Also, we ll discuss a shocking story in Colorado of a teacher who essentially claimed custody over one of her gender-confused students, even as her actual parents desperately try to get the child back. Plus, the war on Teslas continues as the Tesla vandals get dumber and dumber by the day. We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a government employee in Pennsylvania claimed that she was
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the victim of a racist incident involving a noose, surprising no one. It turns out it was
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a hoax like literally every other racist noose incident this century. Also, we'll discuss a
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shocking story in Colorado of a teacher who essentially claimed custody over one of her
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gender-confused students, even as her actual parents desperately try to get the child back.
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Plus, the war on Teslas continue as the Tesla vandals get dumber and dumber by the day.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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happened without a lot of ingenuity from some of the smartest people on the planet. But
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there is one recent high-profile example of miniaturization that, it has to be said,
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is not evidence of progress or cleverness or anything like that. In fact, it's quite the
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opposite. This particular example of miniaturization is yet another, yet more evidence that there is an
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epidemic, a pandemic of stupidity across certain sectors of the United States. Put another way,
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in this case, shrinkage most definitely does not signal the advancement of human civilization.
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Instead, it signals, quite possibly, the death knell of a political movement, and not a moment too
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soon. I'm talking in particular about the size of a noose that was just used in a hate crime hoax
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in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Now, as you probably know, hate crime hoaxes involving nooses used to be
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a cottage industry on the left. They jumped the shark with Jussie Smollett. But up until that point,
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you couldn't go a month without hearing about one of these noose stories. And in every case,
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there was a life-size noose that was allegedly involved. Smollett said the MAGA subway assassins
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threw a noose around his neck, and it fit around his neck perfectly. Bubba Wallace said he had the
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full-size noose that was hanging in his garage. Turns out it was a garage door pole. Many, many more
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examples, which I'll get to some of them in a second. But as of this moment, as we sit here in
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the year 2025, it's my solemn duty to inform you that hate crime hoaxers are no longer using normal-sized
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nooses. The nooses that they use in these hoaxes have, in fact, shrunk. And they've shrunk dramatically
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to a comical degree. So take a look at this image here. You can see it up on the screen.
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This is a noose that back in January was reported to the police by a city employee in Allentown.
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And she says that she went to her desk and saw this miniature noose, this kind of like
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Barbie-sized noose on her laptop at work. And then she ran upstairs and told the cops about it.
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In a moment, I'll play some news footage about this incident to give you more context. But for now,
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you just look at this noose. I mean, you can see the size of it. In case you're listening to the audio
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podcast, it's an image of a laptop computer apparently manufactured by Microsoft. And
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there's a noose on top of the laptop. And this noose is just a little bit bigger than the Microsoft
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logo on the laptop. It's barely the size of the stickers on the laptop. So we're talking about,
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this is like a noose for ants. If this noose is going to lynch anyone, it would have to be a
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character from Bugs Life or something. That's the extent of the damage that this thing could do.
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And yet, this is the noose that back in January and February caused a crisis
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of historic proportions in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Watch.
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Well, as we know, dozens of folks voiced outrage in front of Allentown City Hall today. This is an
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investigation that is continuing into an item resembling a noose that was reportedly found
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on a city employee's desk. And our Nikki Dementry has got the latest on. She's in Lehigh
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County with reaction from the city and community leaders about this investigation.
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When black lives are under attack, what do we do?
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A call for action and fight for change. We will not be silenced. Community members and leaders
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made their voices heard in front of Allentown City Hall Monday afternoon. Just to think that
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people have to go to work in fear for their lives. Since Friday, Allentown police continue to
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investigate an item resembling a noose found on a city employee's desk. This egregious act
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is not just an affront to one individual, but it is an attack on the entire community.
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Josie Lopez is a close friend of the victim. They're always a community leader, always pushing
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for equality. They might be bruised right now, but they are not broken. The victim is not being
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named due to safety concerns. Our colleague was threatened. This was an act of terror. This was
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a hate crime. It's an act of terror, hate crime, an egregious act. Somebody was trying to lynch
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a flea or a mosquito or something. And one of the first things that you notice when you pull up
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these videos on YouTube is that immediately, everybody knew it was fake. Two months ago,
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every single comment was some variation of, it's a hoax. It's only on television and the corporate
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press that you're told to take this kind of nonsense seriously. You're supposed to feel sorry for
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the victim who's so traumatized by this microscopic news that she can't even be named. It's just too
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dangerous to identify the person who reported this news. After all, as you heard, it's an act of
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terrorism. And therefore, the protesters demanded a full FBI investigation, which couldn't possibly
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Speakers presented a list of demands to city officials, including that the incident should
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be investigated as a federal hate crime. Councilwoman Cece Gerlach tells Action News that a member of
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Allentown's Department of Community and Economic Development made the disturbing discovery after the
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employee requested mediation for complaints about workplace discrimination. That hearing was set
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the day before this discovery. So you got to call in the, um, honey, I shrunk the kids, uh, division
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of the FBI to, you know, they're, they're the ones who, who, uh, specialize in microscopic miniature
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sized hate crimes. Now, if anyone involved in this reporting had any interest in actually doing their
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jobs, they'd immediately notice that the timing here is very suspicious. So here are the facts. A city
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employee has complained about bigotry in the workplace. And then within 24 hours of a hearing on that
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topic, a noose ends up on that person's desk. And that's pretty convenient to say the least. I mean,
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it means one of two things is possible. Either we're dealing with an extremely committed racist
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or we're seeing the exact same pattern that we saw with Jesse Smollett and a million other examples.
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I remember that Smollett was complaining about racism before he paid his two friends to stage an
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attack. He didn't think he was being taken seriously, probably because he was fabricating the whole thing.
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So he decided to take things a step further. But again, the local media, along with, uh,
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Allentown's mayor and the rest of the Democrat party told everyone to ignore their common sense
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and take this woman very seriously. And that continued right up until the investigation
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revealed what everyone already knew, which is that the city employee had planted the noose there
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herself. Uh, the employee, a woman named Latarsha Brown, not even Latarsha, Latarsha was the only
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person with DNA on the noose. So watch as the local CBS news station pretends to be shocked and horrified
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by this development as if no one could have possibly seen it coming other than every single
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person living in the state of Pennsylvania or anywhere else on the globe.
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It was all a lie. That is according to police in Allentown city worker claimed that she found a
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rope tied like a noose on her desk at work. It sparked an FBI investigation as people wondered if
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this was a hate crime. Now investigators say the worker staged the whole thing. Police say it took
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intricate DNA testing to solve this case in their minds. And yes, a shocking turn in this case that
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brought protests and demand for change to Allentown. Police now saying they believe the woman that found
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that noose actually put it on her own desk. This item resembling a noose sparked outrage in
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Allentown when it was reportedly found on a city worker's desk in January. On Monday, police say they
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believe the person who found it put it there. LaTarsha Brown was charged with tampering with or fabricating
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physical evidence, a misdemeanor of the second degree and false reports to law enforcement.
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Allentown police say they reviewed surveillance video and access records, interviewed other city
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employees and asked for their DNA. Every employee agreed except for Ms. Brown. Police also say Brown was
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initially cooperative with the investigation, but later asked it be discontinued.
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So to recap, CBS Philadelphia, along with the mayor of Allentown, a bunch of Democrat activists
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presented a completely unverified claim, one that was obviously fraudulent. They presented it as fact.
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They didn't do any research into the person making the claim. In fact, they wouldn't even tell you who
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the person was. At no point do they present any context, like the vast number of fake hate crime
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hoaxes involving nooses in this country. You know, that's important context, that these things are
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always fake, but they didn't, they didn't tell you that. And this is still happening in 2025 in a post-Smollett
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world. Just to explain exactly what happened, when LaTarsha Brown didn't provide her DNA voluntarily, the cops went to
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a judge and got a warrant that compelled her to do so. And then they compared her DNA with the DNA they recovered
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from the outer surface and inner knotted portion of the news. And that was the smoking gun. Now, at this point, you might
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think that these activists, as well as the mayor, would demonstrate some degree of shame or humility
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after this total embarrassment, or at the very least, you might think that they'd stop talking about this
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case and just try to go away and pretend it never happened. But that's not true. They're actually
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Josie Lopez, a friend of Brown's who helped organize the rally, claims Brown has faced discrimination and
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retaliation in the past and is adamant she's innocent. In a statement, she said in part, quote,
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this is not just an attack on LaTarsha. This is a warning to anyone in Allentown who dares stand up
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against injustice. This is a smear campaign. This is retaliation. But Mayor Matt Turk believes the
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incident has helped bring the conversation over inclusion to the forefront at City Hall.
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That has helped lead conversations in City Hall about what it means to be inclusive,
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about what it means to respect each other's employment, and that will continue.
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Yes, it's a frame. She's being set up. It's an inside job. So the woman's friend,
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the same activist from the video we played earlier, says that LaTarsha Brown, I don't know
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why LaTarsha is so funny to me, but it is. LaTarsha Brown is being framed, essentially,
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and the mayor of Allentown says that this is a great opportunity to talk about why we need more
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inclusivity. They don't even pretend to care about the fact that they lied to millions of people for
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two months in order to push a narrative that white supremacists are emboldened by Donald Trump
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or whatever. They don't announce any real consequences for this woman who still hasn't
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been fired from her government job. As far as we know, she still has her job, almost certainly not
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going to jail. These people are willing to say anything except the truth, which is that this
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hate crime hoax, like so many others, once again demonstrates that the left's demand for racism in
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this country, as we always say, far outstrips the supply. But it's worth spending some time thinking
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about the specific kind of racism that Democrats seem intent on conjuring into existence. They're
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really, really hung up on nooses, no pun intended. They're convinced that white supremacists are lurking
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in the shadows with nooses all over the place, whether they're at NASCAR races or nondescript city
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offices in Allentown or random city blocks in Chicago. Anywhere you look, according to these people,
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there's a good chance a white supremacist is hiding in the bushes armed with a noose. So here's just a
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brief, very non-exhaustive recap of recent hate hoaxes involving nooses. Late last year in St.
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Louis, Missouri, a noose was found in the restroom of a stadium used by high school football teams.
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The NAACP immediately blamed the rope on conservatives, saying that they were responsible
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for fostering an atmosphere of bigotry. But the school district quickly found that, quote,
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after extensive conversations and investigation, we do not believe this to be a racially motivated
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incident. Turns out to be a kid in crisis who had placed the noose, the school district said,
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without elaborating any further. But that didn't stop the school district from putting out a
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statement that basically blamed racism anyway. Quote, we understand the symbolism of a noose and
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the harm has caused to our community. The Francis Howell School District will not tolerate hate or
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racially motivated violence in our schools or on our campuses. They're saying that even though
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they know that this was not hate or racially motivated. Also late last year, as reported by the
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College Fix, a staff member in Sherwood High School thought that she spotted a noose in a
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flagrant example of white supremacy. The staff member, quote, discovered a small rope tied in
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a manor resembling a noose draped over the fence surrounding the school's tennis court. In the end,
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it turned out to just be a normal rope. It was just a rope. But that didn't stop the principal of the
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school from apologizing anyway. Quote, while our investigation determined that the individuals
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involved did not intend to communicate a racist or anti-black message, the impact of such imagery is
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deeply harmful and cannot be understated. We recognize how disturbing and upsetting this symbol
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can be, particularly to our black community members. And we're treating this matter with the utmost
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seriousness. So he's apologizing for a rope. It was just a rope that you could, if you go to, if you go to
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Lowe's, you know, Lowe's or Home Depot, you're going to find whole sections of rope. But to some people,
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just seeing a rope in any configuration is very traumatizing to them. It's like watching all the
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politicians reading the same script after they tested positive for COVID back in 2021 and 2022.
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They told us that they were really grateful for the vaccine, even as they admit the vaccine didn't
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prevent them from getting sick. It's a very similar kind of thing. In 2022, at the University of
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Virginia, there was a big uproar over a noose that was placed on the statue of Homer on the campus's
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South Lawn. And according to UVA's alumni magazine, the noose, quote, caused mounting unease for black UVA
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community members. UVA officials, including the president of the university, suggested that white
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supremacy was to blame. They had no evidence for saying that, but they just went ahead and made the
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claim anyway. In the end, it turned out that some guy who lived in the neighborhood nearby was
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really upset at Homer because they thought he was a pedophile. And so they put the noose there.
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There was no racial anger angle whatsoever. He just thought pedophiles should be punished. And so he
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decided to put the noose on Homer. Nobody at UVA apologized for lying about that episode either.
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And then, of course, in 2021 and 2022, as you may remember, this is my personal favorite example of
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these kinds of stories, where nooses were reported at construction sites all over the country.
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Suddenly, out of the blue, construction workers decided to go full KKK. And they did it anywhere they
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could, whether it was Obama's presidential temple or random Amazon construction sites.
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the media was sure that the rope that they were finding everywhere had nothing to do with
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construction. It was definitely racism. And remarkably, despite national media attention and
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large cash rewards, they never caught the culprit in any of these incidents. They were shutting down
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construction sites all over the country because they kept finding rope, and they assumed that it
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was some sort of racist spree that was happening. And then they just moved on, even though they never
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found the person who did it, because there was no culprit. Because construction sites just have
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rope sometimes. It's like a thing you have on construction sites. But again, just as no one
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ever apologized when Bubba Wallace's noose turned out to be a door pull, no one apologized for this fake
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hysteria either. Nor did they apologize in 2018 after various news outlets, including CNN, CBS, and ABC
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News reported on the discovery of several nooses in trees near the Mississippi State Capitol. CBS reported
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that, quote, state and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees
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outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused
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attention on the state's history of racist violence. In the end, it turned out that Democrats had placed
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the nooses. One of the signs in trees read as follows, quote, were hanging nooses to remind people that
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times haven't changed. And somehow CBS failed to mention that in their exhaustive reporting. But a year
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earlier at Michigan State University, a student claimed that a noose was hanging outside her dorm
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room. The university president immediately put out a statement alleging that racism was to blame.
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Quote, a noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat, but has a horrendous history in America.
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This is according to the president. But in the end, the noose turned out to be a
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packaged leather shoelace that had been dropped on accident. Someone dropped a shoelace. A similar
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incident unfolded at Kansas State University in 2017 when students protested after a noose was
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supposedly found on campus. And they demanded more security and created a social media campaign
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called Don't Leave Us Hanging. But as Michelle Malkin pointed out in her exhaustive summary of
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these hoaxes, the alleged noose was really pieces of nylon parachute cord, which police believed had
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been discarded by someone who may have simply been practicing tying different kinds of knots.
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So much for that. Malkin also identified another race hoax in 2016 at Salisbury State University
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where, quote, students, faculty, administrators were horrified when a stick figure hanging from
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a noose on a whiteboard was discovered at the school's library. And in the end, two black students
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were determined to be responsible for that. No charges were ever filed. And in 2015, over at the
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University of Delaware, BLM protested over alleged nooses hanging from trees. But those nooses ultimately
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were determined to be remnants of paper lanterns made out of metal that were used as decorations during
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some kind of celebration that weekend. There are honestly too many more examples to mention. Those
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are just a few. We can spend the next five hours going through more instances of noose hoaxes that
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were spread by Democrats. The point is that no sane person believes that anyone, no matter how racist
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that person might be, is going to place a tiny little noose on someone else's desk or an Amazon
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construction site or in some tree on a university campus in some kind of bizarre attempt to terrorize
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black people. Like, this is not something that's actually happening in this country. The left has
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invented this symbol of the noose basically out of whole cloth. Like, when's the last time a white
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supremacist, an actual white supremacist, actually used a noose to send some kind of racist message
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in real life? Has there been one real confirmed case this century of that happening? Well, that's a
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question for professional race baiters to answer before they try to push another one of these
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hoaxes. And while they're at it, they should tell us why exactly left-wing activists are so preoccupied
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with nooses in particular. It's a bit like the anti-Tesla demonstrators who keep spraying swastikas all
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over the place. Whatever the case may be, there are a few assertions we can make with certainty.
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First of all, no conservatives are, you know, out there hanging nooses everywhere or anywhere at all.
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Democrats certainly are. And they're continuing to do so long after any reasonable person will fall for
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the charade in a post-Smollett world. And that suggests that, you know, we're not talking about
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carefully planned tactics here. Instead, we're talking about some kind of compulsion, even a full-blown
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psychological disorder playing out in front of millions of people. Democrats as a party have
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elected to embrace this particular disorder as they've embraced so many others. From Allentown to
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UVA to Obama's temple to Bubba Wallace's garage, the evidence is unmistakable. You're either with team
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sanity or you're with the race hoaxers, nodding the world's tiniest noose as sane people everywhere
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play the world's tiniest violin. And if the events in Allentown demonstrate anything, it's that
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Democrats, to their detriment and quite possibly their destruction, have made their choice as clear
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Wire. Incredible in all the worst ways. I just want to read some of this, but the whole report
00:23:36.380
is going, it's worth going to read the whole thing. An LGBT activist teacher in Colorado and
00:23:40.620
her trans-identifying male husband are housing a 17-year-old girl who identifies as a boy. Police
00:23:46.420
say they are unable to intervene to bring the teen home to her mother. Joanne Smotherman, a former math
00:23:53.080
teacher at Durango High School, took the teen, Smotherman, that's actually her name, one of her
00:24:00.100
students, into her Durango home in December when the girl left home after a fight with her mother.
00:24:04.500
Joanne is married to Vivian Smotherman, a trans-identifying man who ran for Colorado State
00:24:09.860
Senate as a Democrat last year. The teen's mother, Cynthia Stein, has gone to the Smotherman's home and
00:24:15.440
attempted unsuccessfully to take back her daughter. She called in the police, but the officers who responded
00:24:20.260
to the scene said they would not force the teen to go home, according to the police report and body
00:24:24.060
cam footage that was obtained by the Daily Wire. The situation is a culmination of months of outside
00:24:29.460
influences on the vulnerable teen, her mother told the Daily Wire. The 17-year-old girl has identified
00:24:34.160
as a boy since the fall and now uses a unisex name. She's been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and eating
00:24:41.140
disorder, depression, and anxiety. At school, the teen was seeing a counselor without her mother's
00:24:45.780
knowledge who advised the girl to terminate parental notification and encouraged her to participate in
00:24:50.840
LGBT support groups, her mother said. So this is someone at the school advising the girl to stop
00:24:58.680
talking to her parents. This is the kind of advice that kids are getting at school now from other
00:25:04.060
adults. The turn to radical gender ideology came amid difficult times at home. Stein underwent
00:25:10.020
treatment for an aggressive cancer in 2023 and believes that crisis deeply affected her daughter,
00:25:14.680
who became very withdrawn from the family. Stein told the Daily Wire,
00:25:18.860
Smotherman stepped in, took advantage of my kid. She just inserted herself into my family and I still
00:25:24.000
can't get her out. And then the article goes on to talk about when Stein went to, took a couple
00:25:35.080
friends, went to the house where the Smothermans live. So that's the former teacher, the trans guy,
00:25:41.780
and now the kid who they brought the kid into their house. Stein shows up to get her child back,
00:25:49.900
knocking on the door saying, you have my child who is still a minor, give her back to me.
00:25:58.620
The adults refuse to give the child back. So Stein calls the police as one would do in this
00:26:04.780
situation. Okay. This is like kidnapping. You have a child that you refuse to return. So you would think
00:26:12.320
that this is a kidnapping case and the police show up and the interaction is recorded on body cam. I don't
00:26:22.540
think we have the gut body cam footage, but the police are not responsive. They do absolutely nothing
00:26:31.320
to help the mother. And they tell the mother that there's nothing they can do, uh, that the child
00:26:36.580
is not in any kind of distress according to them. And so they're not going to do anything about it.
00:26:40.960
So they basically tell her tough luck. And, you know, when I see stories like this,
00:26:45.820
um, and this is one of the worst we've ever seen of what happens in the schools, the, you know,
00:26:54.340
the, the, the school indoctrination, this is one of the worst cases we've ever seen. I mean,
00:26:59.320
this is like every parent's worst nightmare. Um, and then you've got these, these other adults
00:27:05.360
that are taking, not only taking advantage of a confused child, but taking advantage of a child
00:27:11.180
who is clearly traumatized from a terrible medical episode involving her mother. I mean,
00:27:17.620
her mother had cancer. The girl's traumatized in part by that, understandably so. And then you've
00:27:25.520
got these two radical LGBT nutcases that come in to take advantage of the whole situation,
00:27:32.720
which is why I have to be very careful because I can't be too honest. I try to be very honest, but
00:27:38.820
I cannot be too honest about what I really think of the two evil pieces of trash who, uh,
00:27:47.260
stole this child from her mother. I cannot go into too much detail about what I think should happen
00:27:55.200
to them. Um, I, so I have to choose my words very wisely because this kind of story just, I,
00:28:05.980
the rage that boils inside of me and I cannot even imagine, I can't even imagine, like, I don't even
00:28:12.700
know this kid. I, and if, if I feel this enraged by it and as you must feel hearing about it, I can't
00:28:18.900
even imagine the, the parents of the child and how they must feel. Um, and, uh, and I feel that rage
00:28:27.180
also at the police officers who showed up and not only didn't help the mother, but were very dismissive
00:28:34.300
and even kind of mocking and belittling of her. Um, it's, it's one thing if the law prevents you
00:28:40.580
from intervening, prevents you as the police officer from removing the child from the home.
00:28:45.780
I can't understand how the law would prevent that. She is a minor and she's not 18 yet. If she was 18
00:28:51.600
years old, then yeah, they could always argue, well, she's a legal adult. We can't, if she wants to be in
00:28:56.160
this house, we can't do anything about it, but she, she is, uh, a, a minor and it, so it shouldn't
00:29:07.060
actually matter. The fact that she wants to be in the house shouldn't actually matter. I'm the parent.
00:29:12.120
I don't want her in that house with those people. Um, so it's hard for me to believe that the law
00:29:18.420
would actually prevent the police officers from removing the child, but even if they would,
00:29:21.320
even if the law is, does, at the very least, you should be very sympathetic to this mother,
00:29:27.540
a mother who just wants her child back. You should be able to sympathize with her. And there's no
00:29:33.300
sympathy from these officers at all. So the police officers and the two lunatics who took this girl
00:29:41.000
are just monsters. They're total monsters. And this is why, you know, you really shouldn't have
00:29:47.420
your kid in public school to begin with. If you can help it, not everybody can. I understand that
00:29:52.480
at the very least, if your child is struggling in any way with these kinds of issues,
00:29:57.680
if she's dealing with any kind of gender dysphoria or anything approaching that, then, you know,
00:30:06.140
you, you have to do everything you can to get in particular in that case, to get your child out of
00:30:12.660
the public school system. And I'm not saying this to blame the mother. I'm saying it for the sake of
00:30:16.900
the next potential victim. And when I say victim, I mean, both the children are victims and the
00:30:22.400
parents in these kinds of cases are both victims. So to prevent any future incidents like this,
00:30:30.400
we all have to understand that public schools prey on confused children like this.
00:30:38.140
The LGBT, there's a reason I call it a cult. It functions exactly like a cult.
00:30:41.960
They look for confused young people who are having problems at home and they prey on them.
00:30:49.160
They prey on the weak, the scared, the confused. And while your child is at school, you have no access
00:30:56.100
to your child. You don't know what your child's being told. This girl was apparently in counseling
00:31:01.420
without the mother's knowledge. And that's the other thing you have to remember is that the vast
00:31:07.200
majority of counselors and therapists cannot be trusted. It's not just that they can't be trusted.
00:31:13.860
The vast majority of therapists and counselors are a clear and present danger to your child.
00:31:22.640
Like I would never put my kids in therapy or counseling at this point. I just wouldn't do it.
00:31:30.060
And there are a few therapists and counselors out there who you could trust. There are some good
00:31:34.660
ones out there. I'm not trying to entirely throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are some
00:31:39.540
good ones out there, but how are you supposed to know? Unless someone's a close family friend or
00:31:44.820
something. I mean, if you get a really, really reliable referral, then maybe then. But so many of
00:31:53.040
these people are radical, radical leftists. And you're giving them access, not just to your child,
00:32:01.620
but to your child's mind. It's like you're giving them direct access to your child's mind to do
00:32:07.040
whatever they want to do. And so many of these people cannot. They're just bad people. The counselor
00:32:13.340
at this school is not simply a radical leftist, but a bad person, an evil person. And there are a lot
00:32:21.140
of really evil people that are working in this industry. And so you got to be very careful about
00:32:29.580
that. Okay. We have another video of some random loser vandalizing a Tesla. And first, we'll look
00:32:36.440
at the video. There's no audio for this, but I think we have the video. This guy just, we have this
00:32:41.380
video. There he is. Okay. So he walks up, pulls the key out, keys the car outside of an olive garden.
00:32:53.320
This happened in Wichita, Kansas, outside of an olive garden. And you can see this guy,
00:32:58.280
this kind of clumpy, disheveled loser with his, I think it's apparently Lilo and Stitch pajama pants
00:33:05.680
that he's wearing. And we'll, we'll get back to that in a moment, but there is an update to the
00:33:10.020
story. Local news is on the case. So we know whose car was vandalized and turns out it was a disabled
00:33:17.280
woman whose car this was. Um, watch, watch the report. Damaging a personal vehicle does not affect
00:33:25.200
Elon. If anything, it's giving him more money to fix the vehicle that you damaged. It's not damaging
00:33:30.480
who you're thinking it is. Just before 6 p.m. on Thursday, Abigail Gale and her family were seated
00:33:36.180
for dinner at Olive Garden. Over an hour later, they left and what they found waiting for them
00:33:47.020
He keyed this side as well, which as you can see this side, it even looks like it affected above the
00:33:53.520
tire. This is a lot more damage. This comes less than a week after a possible arson
00:34:00.260
at a Tesla dealership in Kansas City. Gil believes her brand new Tesla was targeted because of the
00:34:05.600
current political climate and perception of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. But it felt really disappointing that
00:34:12.780
this is happening in such a great country, a great state. So for this to be happening in Kansas of all
00:34:19.580
places is super soft, shocking. She says her family has had discussions around if it's even safe to be
00:34:26.320
driving a Tesla anymore, in part because of incidents like hers. If she could send a message
00:34:31.520
to the man who keyed her car, it's this. You have put a very big crisis on me because physically I am
00:34:38.080
in a wheelchair. I just hope that he definitely gets the correct punishment. I hope he pays
00:34:43.840
all of the damages. It is well over a thousand, possibly over $10,000 of damage. I hope that the
00:34:50.420
Wichita police continue to find him. So there's the latest on the report. And, you know, obviously
00:34:56.180
all the people vandalizing Teslas and attacking Tesla owners, they should all go to jail. I think
00:35:01.200
that this is, they should be charged with domestic terrorism. This is domestic terrorism. And normally
00:35:06.120
it wouldn't be, right, to key somebody's car, slash their tires, whatever, throw something at
00:35:10.520
someone's car. It's against the law. You should be punished for it. Would normally call it domestic
00:35:15.640
terrorism. But in this case, it is because this is politically motivated violence and property
00:35:21.960
damage. Politically motivated, and it's designed to make people afraid. So it is terrorism in,
00:35:30.460
by any definition of the term, it's, you're politically motivated and you're doing it because
00:35:36.680
you want people to stop buying Teslas. And you want them to stop buying Teslas because you want
00:35:39.980
them to be afraid. You want them to be afraid to drive a Tesla. That's the whole point. That's,
00:35:44.140
that's the, like the stated goal here, which means that it is terrorism. And that's how these
00:35:50.560
people should be charged. Think about what the left would do in this situation and do the same.
00:35:58.080
As I pointed out before, you can only imagine if there had been widespread violence and vandalism
00:36:03.360
directed at Bud Light or Bud Light customers or Bud Light trucks or Bud Light warehouses or stores
00:36:09.220
that carry Bud Light. If there had been widespread violence and vandalism directed at those people in
00:36:15.120
places, you can only imagine what the Biden administration would have done. The Biden administration would
00:36:18.700
have loved to start throwing people in federal prison. And we all know that. So let's give them a nice
00:36:28.680
taste of their own medicine on this one. And you think about how just totally brainless these people
00:36:37.080
are. And this is one of the great advantages that the left has, that their people, the average leftist,
00:36:45.620
is highly programmable. You know, you have to, all you have to do is just press a few buttons and they
00:36:52.980
will start marching to whatever your new orders are. And that's exactly how these people went from
00:37:00.260
celebrating Tesla, because it's saving the environment, to lashing out violently at any Tesla
00:37:06.260
they can, they see. And I know I've pointed this out before, but it's, it's easy to forget that it
00:37:11.580
wasn't that long ago that the left, they were huge Tesla fans and also Elon Musk fans. They celebrated
00:37:20.480
Elon Musk prior to him buying Twitter. Uh, they celebrated him for this reason that he was, um,
00:37:29.580
that he was, uh, uh, you know, had owned a company that was, um, fighting back against the fossil fuel
00:37:38.800
industry or whatever. I mean, according to them, like according to them, he was helping to save the
00:37:41.760
environment. I don't personally think that driving a Tesla is going to do anything to affect the
00:37:49.620
weather one way or another, but they think that. And so it's easy to forget that it wasn't all that
00:37:54.580
long ago. And, uh, and now just how quickly they flip on a dime and they're doing this, even though
00:38:02.620
everybody knows at this point that the Teslas all have cameras, they're still doing it, potentially
00:38:10.940
going to jail for the sake of making some asinine political point by vandalizing a Tesla. They're
00:38:16.200
just sort of following the programming. And you notice how there is, from what I've seen, there is
00:38:20.840
basically no discussion or debate on the left about this. Now we know if there was some kind of
00:38:29.900
rash of people on the right participating in this sort of vandalism, which is hard to imagine.
00:38:38.340
But if it was happening, let's say that that Bud Light scenario was actually happening.
00:38:43.200
What we know is that there would be a bunch of people on our side who object to it. It would be
00:38:50.100
a major point of contention and debate. I mean, X, right, would be, would be full of conservatives
00:38:56.560
posting about how they object to these kinds of tactics being used. I need to have other conservatives
00:39:02.660
saying that, no, we, we need to use these kinds of tactics. There would be this pretty intense
00:39:08.320
argument, debate, fight back and forth on the right about this. Um, and that is, again, if we're imagining
00:39:17.320
a greatly implausible world where conservatives become vandals, even in that world, it would be the
00:39:23.360
subject of very intense debate on the right. You would have a whole lot of people on the right
00:39:28.620
coming out and saying, I don't agree with this. We shouldn't be doing this. This is not the right
00:39:31.540
approach. It's kind of amazing that on the left, there's none of that. None. There is no debate,
00:39:40.740
no discussion. Has there been one person on the left? I mean, even one, has one of, has one
00:39:47.580
even semi high profile leftist come out and said specifically, listen guys, we should not be doing
00:39:54.040
this. Don't go and attack random cars that you see parked in an olive garden. Okay. The person who
00:40:00.920
drove, drove that car, it didn't do anything to you. They might even be on our side. They might be
00:40:05.200
Democrat voters. Remember these are eco-friendly cars. A lot of leftists bought them. A lot of people
00:40:12.040
on our side bought them. Please stop doing this. Like there's, there's nobody on the left saying
00:40:17.080
that. Nobody. Instead, what you get are a lot of high profile leftists from Tim Walls to late night
00:40:28.180
hosts. And so leftists and the political scene and entertainment industry that are directly
00:40:36.000
encouraging more of it. And then all the rest of them are conspicuously silent about it. But
00:40:41.920
there is no dissenting opinion here. Nobody, nobody speaking up and saying, let's not do this.
00:40:52.600
Um, which is why the only way to stop them is to start throwing them in federal prison for domestic
00:40:59.460
terrorism. It's the only way. And speaking of that, I also need to say that I think it's important to
00:41:06.200
point out maybe, maybe, maybe even this is perhaps a more important point that the guy in that video
00:41:11.900
in particular should go to federal prison for wearing pajama pants in public. Uh, and we don't
00:41:16.780
even have to get into the fact that there are Disney cartoon pajama pants. That's insult to injury,
00:41:20.940
but adult men who wear pajama pants in public should be thrown in Gitmo. Maybe we throw, maybe we,
00:41:26.980
maybe we can send them down to El Salvador. They got plenty of room apparently in their prisons down
00:41:31.100
there. Hugh Kelly is always happy to build another prison. So maybe we could do a whole new prison
00:41:35.820
just for guys like this who wear pajama pants in public. It is the laziness and lack of self-respect
00:41:41.340
that requires to wear pajama pants in public as a grown man is truly mind boggling. How much effort
00:41:47.900
does it take to just change your pants before you leave the house? Okay. You're about to leave your
00:41:54.080
house. You're wearing lilo and stitch pajama pants, which you shouldn't be wearing those to begin
00:41:59.240
with, but okay. You're going to leave the house. You're going to Olive Garden. And look, I know the
00:42:06.240
Olive Garden is not exactly upscale dining. I get that. There's a sit down restaurant. It's a decent
00:42:12.640
place. I can go to Olive Garden sometimes. Uh, it's at least formal enough that you should change out
00:42:20.240
of your pajamas before you go there. How much effort does it take to change your pants? Like 45
00:42:28.040
seconds? Just throw some jeans on? You don't need to put a suit on. No one's saying that. Put some
00:42:33.380
jeans on. 45 seconds. That's it. Now I know this guy's out of shape. He's pretty fat. Maybe it might
00:42:39.940
take him longer. He doesn't have the same dexterity that other people have to change. So maybe the change
00:42:44.300
the pants for him is a bit more of a, of a routine. Uh, but even then like two to three minutes at most,
00:42:50.140
I mean, how long could it take even for a fat out of shape guy to change his pants? I, uh, I cannot
00:42:54.460
imagine any scenario where I would wear pajama pants in public. I, I, I'm not even kidding. If my house
00:43:00.680
was burning down and I was wearing pajama pants, I would take the, well, I'd get my wife and kids out
00:43:09.300
of the house. I would do that first. And then I would run back in after all my, after all the kids
00:43:15.680
are out and my, my wife is out. Everyone's out. Everyone's safe. I'd say to my wife, hang on. I got
00:43:20.460
to run back and grab one more thing. And she would scream like, are you crazy? What the house is burning
00:43:24.720
down? I got to change. I can't stand out here. My pajama, my pajama pants, the fire department is going
00:43:29.200
to come. They're going to laugh at me wearing pajama pants out in public. Now I would run back in.
00:43:34.180
I would die. I would, I would rather die than be seen wearing pajama pants in public.
00:43:40.120
And yet you got these guys doing this. It's just, um, it's, that is the real problem here. I would
00:43:46.660
say. All right. Um, before we move on, we got to talk about, well, we don't really have to talk
00:43:51.720
about this, but we're going to, we're going to talk about this because this, this, this has to be,
00:43:57.960
I'm not sure if it claims the title yet. I don't know where the, where this is ranked, but
00:44:01.940
this has to be one of the most viral videos in the history of X. And that includes when X was
00:44:09.540
Twitter. There's a platform that's been around for, I don't know, 15 years or something.
00:44:15.500
This video I'm about to play has got to be one of the most viral videos ever in the history of
00:44:21.120
the platform. And not just on Twitter is also, this is originally a TikTok video that we're about
00:44:25.640
to see. So this, just on Twitter, this video has 700 million views only on Twitter in the last four
00:44:34.020
or five days, over 700 million. I looked last night, it was 700. So it's over 700 million,
00:44:38.900
which is insane. And even more insane when you see what the video is, if you haven't seen it yet. Now,
00:44:46.440
700 million views, it seems like every person in the country has seen it. But if you haven't,
00:44:50.520
this is a video of some influencer's morning routine, or at least it's, it's this influencer's
00:44:58.700
performance of what he wants you to think his morning routine is. Because as you'll see,
00:45:05.280
this is definitely not actually his morning routine. This is not anyone, no human being has
00:45:10.640
a morning routine like this one. But this is the video, 700 million views on one platform.
00:45:16.460
There's no audio, so I'll probably have to narrate a little bit. And so we'll just, we'll just go
00:45:21.920
ahead and play. So here, there it is. 3.52 a.m. He's standing there because now he's brushing his
00:45:27.180
teeth. 3.54 a.m. Bottled water. He's washing his mouth out with bottled water. 4 a.m. Goes out on the
00:45:33.760
porch. 4.04 a.m. Now he's doing some push-ups. 4.17 a.m. Now he's just standing there. He's got bottled
00:45:40.380
water again. Now he's sitting down at 4.30 a.m. I guess he's praying. He's writing a note at 4.54.
00:45:46.220
Now 4.25. So he's writing for about 10 minutes. 5.30 a.m. 5.46 a.m. Dunking his face into ice
00:45:54.180
water. 6 a.m. Getting dressed. I guess he's going out to do a run. Putting on a bunch of
00:46:01.460
jewelry to go run. Putting the fanny pack on. Okay, now he's going down. 6.24 a.m. The day started at
00:46:09.800
3.58. Now he's running. 7.30 a.m. Heading to the pool. Jumping in the pool. Getting out
00:46:19.940
of the pool. 7.50 a.m. 8 a.m. Now he's leaving. Okay, we're going to take a shower. We don't
00:46:27.900
need to see this, but he decided to film that. 8.30 a.m. Wiping a banana on his face at
00:46:34.180
8.34 a.m. Dunking his face into water again. 9.15 a.m. Now he's eating breakfast. Okay.
00:46:42.860
And what do we get to? We get to 9.25 a.m. He's finally eating breakfast. Oh, there's
00:46:47.700
more bottled water. Fancy bottled water. Now, so this is a morning routine that begins at
00:46:54.180
3.50 a.m. and ends at like 9.45 a.m. That's six hours. This morning routine is six hours long.
00:46:58.920
And it's actually a lot longer than that because in real time, he had to set up all those camera
00:47:03.420
angles. Every time he was walking out of a, if you catch him walking in a hallway or walking into an
00:47:10.320
elevator, he had to set up the tripod, get the shot, come back, collect the camera, and then go walk it
00:47:17.660
again. So the actual morning routine as it was documented was probably more like 19 hours long.
00:47:24.320
By the time he was finished it, it was time for another morning routine. So this guy is
00:47:28.860
stuck in a perpetual loop of morning routines. This guy has not slept in five years because it's
00:47:33.240
just, it's, it's a, it's like Sisyphus with the boulder, but it's just morning routines that never
00:47:37.460
end. And, um, and of course it's totally fake. This is not what anyone's morning routine looks
00:47:42.360
like. If I, if I was doing a video of my morning routine, which I would never do, but my morning
00:47:51.180
routine with that, which I think is much more realistic. It begins at 6.03 a.m. about when my alarm goes off.
00:47:58.940
And then I go back, I turn the alarm off. I go back to sleep. My morning routine starts again at
00:48:04.380
about 6.09 a.m. when the alarm goes off again, turn the alarm off again. I go back to sleep.
00:48:11.820
And then the morning routine kicks off again at about 6.17 a.m. when the alarm goes off,
00:48:16.920
turn it off again. Morning routine picks up again about 6.27 a.m. when my alarm goes off again.
00:48:22.820
And then this continues until about 6.45 a.m. or until my wife is just like beating me over the
00:48:28.540
head with a shovel to get me out of bed. Uh, and that's, that's basically the way it works.
00:48:33.480
Of course, I would never film that. And it is fascinating that this sort of content is so
00:48:40.780
popular. Now, certainly a fair amount of the traffic is from people like me just trying to
00:48:46.260
figure out why other people are watching it. When I first saw this video, it had, it was at
00:48:51.280
that point at 600 million views. And so I can't help. I mean, I see a video that's at 600 million
00:48:56.720
views. I think, what is this? Why is everyone watching this thing? And it's captioned morning
00:49:02.580
routine. So I'm thinking what is going to happen? Like something incredible is going to happen in
00:49:07.020
this video that it's got so many views, but then nothing happens. Um, I think that's part of it.
00:49:13.020
Everybody watching it and wondering why other people are watching it that explains some of the
00:49:18.940
phenomena, but it's not just that because these guys, these influencers, they do develop actual
00:49:23.380
audiences. They have real followings of people who enjoy their content, really enjoy it. Why do they
00:49:28.720
enjoy it? What value do they derive from it? Uh, partly I'm guessing it's kind of aspirational that
00:49:35.680
people watch a video like that and they, they fantasize about being so rich that they can afford to
00:49:42.160
spend six hours of each day swimming in a pool and rubbing bananas on their faces or whatever.
00:49:48.860
Um, I think that's part of it. But then there's also the fact that, and this is what jumps out at
00:49:54.420
me the most when I see videos like this. Uh, cause we've had other videos. We, you know,
00:49:59.820
there's the video, there's another guy that I've seen. He takes videos of himself. Maybe we've played
00:50:05.420
it on the show one time. He takes videos of himself going shopping. He just runs errands.
00:50:09.160
That's it. Nothing happens. He's just running an errand at like Walgreens or something. And he
00:50:13.500
films it, sets up the tripod, right? You know, when he's in the shampoo aisle, gets a shot of
00:50:19.800
himself, grabbing some shampoo, grabs the camera, goes over to the toothpaste aisle. We get the shot
00:50:26.280
of him grabbing some toothpaste. Um, this is what people do now. People watch these videos. And I think
00:50:32.500
that there, it, it, it speaks to the fact that people are just so incredibly deeply lonely,
00:50:39.920
uh, that people will sit there and watch this as some kind of substitute for actual human connection.
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Usually, we have a comment section during the show where I read and respond to comments,
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as the name of the segment would imply. Today, we're going to do things a little differently
00:52:53.280
and move the comments into the daily cancellation because this is one of those rare occurrences
00:52:57.020
where the comments, some of them anyway, were so outrageously off base that I have no choice but
00:53:04.060
to turn them into a cancellation segment. For some background, yesterday, we talked about the
00:53:10.120
efforts by the Trump administration to ban junk food from the SNAP program, otherwise known as
00:53:15.240
the food stamp program. Trump is not looking to ban junk food entirely. He's not trying to prevent
00:53:20.060
anyone from buying junk food. The point is that you shouldn't be able to use taxpayer money on soda
00:53:25.440
and candy and that sort of thing. Very common sense position and one that should have near unanimous
00:53:31.500
agreement among conservatives. It's one of the most basic conservative positions imaginable.
00:53:36.680
But as we discussed yesterday, certain conservative influencers came out against this policy change.
00:53:42.400
They suddenly felt very passionate about making sure that people can still use junk food stamps on
00:53:47.940
soda and junk food. And the pivot seemed quite bizarre until it came to light that apparently
00:53:53.360
many of these influencers were paid off by the soda industry. Or more specifically,
00:53:58.880
they were paid off by a PR firm working on behalf of the soda industry. And we covered all that on
00:54:04.860
Monday's show. But as I was scrolling through the comments, preparing for our comment section segment,
00:54:09.200
I found a very surprising number of comments from people who presumably have not been paid off by
00:54:16.500
big soda, or though maybe they have. But they still feel strongly that taxpayers should be forced to
00:54:24.800
give diabetes to the poor in the form of sugary drinks and other junk food. These comments are so
00:54:30.540
erroneous and misguided that I feel compelled to deal with them here in this segment. So let's first go
00:54:36.520
through and read a few of these and then I will respond. So let's, I'll just read about six or seven of
00:54:42.420
the comments. First one says, awful takes. The real problem is who gets to define junk food? If you were
00:54:49.420
even remotely conservative, as you claim, you'd immediately understand the implications. Next
00:54:54.580
comment says, so Matt, which is it? Do we, do you really care about the health of poor people? Or are
00:54:59.500
you just bitter about the government using your tax money for the SNAP program? Next comment says,
00:55:05.220
does Matt think that poor people's children shouldn't have treats of any kind either? If you
00:55:09.540
can't use food stamps for treats, then the children of those people would never get to any treats at all
00:55:13.680
ever. Does he begrudge people who work for the government spending his money as a taxpayer on treats as
00:55:18.100
well? After all, it's his money too. Come on, Matt, allow people to spend whatever money on stamps
00:55:23.700
they have on whatever they choose to buy, regardless of where it came from. Now the comment says, Matt,
00:55:27.780
think about what you're saying. Candy and soda are not the only junk foods in America. 2% milk,
00:55:34.220
American cheese, more chemicals than cheese, all lunch meat, jellies and peanut butter loaded with
00:55:39.160
sugar and salt, all TV dinners. And I could go on and on for several pages about America's junk food.
00:55:45.160
Ban it all or none. Next comment says, this ban is a bit ridiculous and I'm a clean eating fitness
00:55:51.760
freak who's not on food stamps. Junk food is still food. It has nutritional value. I could see banning
00:55:56.980
cigarettes, for example, or any inedible item, but ranch dressing is pretty bad for us. Is that going
00:56:01.860
to be banned? What about actual granulated sugar, which is used for cooking? Next on the banned list,
00:56:06.980
what about juice? Usually not made with actual fruit and loaded with sugar. Is that banned? So maybe we
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should ban everything except chicken, broccoli and rice, LOL. I'd say do a let's get healthy
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America program in a better way than singling out the poor. Next comment says, the problem about
00:56:21.660
limiting it to certain foods is it creates a bureaucratic quagmire of ensuring they only work
00:56:26.740
for which foods. Next comment, it's government overreach, full stop. Agree to disagree. And then,
00:56:33.680
yet you're not allowed to use food stamps on health supplements. Why is this totalitarianism
00:56:38.780
starts with small issues? That's about seven or eight of the comments of Representative Sample.
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I'll respond to the points made here, even though I covered most of them yesterday, but then I want
00:56:48.020
to make sort of an overarching point that I haven't raised yet about this. But first of all, defining
00:56:52.440
junk food, it's like defining pornography. You know it when you see it. Okay, there may be certain kinds
00:56:58.140
of foods that blur the line between healthy and junk, but like 80 or 90 percent of junk food is not
00:57:04.540
anywhere close to that line. Okay, we can debate whether, say, I don't know, frosted mini wheats
00:57:09.820
cereal counts as junk food. There's no debate that a Twix candy bar is junk food. And under the current
00:57:18.280
policy, you can use food stamps to buy candy bars. Go to the candy aisle of the grocery store and you
00:57:25.900
can use food stamps on all that stuff. I think everyone understands that the candy aisle is junk food.
00:57:31.520
And lots of people do use food stamps on that stuff. Talk to anyone who's ever worked a cash
00:57:38.280
register at a grocery store. Food stamp recipients come in and buy huge amounts of candy constantly.
00:57:45.500
These commenters are doing what leftists always do, which is to try and prevent us from making any
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positive changes or any sensible reforms by obsessing over the edge cases. It's a very common tactic.
00:57:59.040
The less than 10 percent of hard cases means that we can't do anything about the 90 percent of cases
00:58:06.000
that are not hard at all. Again, a very common tactic. And it has held our country hostage for
00:58:11.620
years, unable to make any substantial improvements in any areas at all. And I'm pretty tired of it.
00:58:19.460
Second, it's not government overreach to put rules in place for what kind of food can be purchased
00:58:24.860
with food stamps. Because the whole program is a government program. These rules would actually
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limit the program. They would allow the money to be spent on fewer things, which limits the reach
00:58:39.800
and scope of the program. It's the opposite of government overreach. Allowing people to spend
00:58:45.020
taxpayer money on whatever they want at the grocery store, that is government overreach.
00:58:49.200
How in the world can limitations on a government program be overreach? It's the opposite.
00:58:57.460
Third, all these comments and all the people outraged over the idea of putting these very sensible
00:59:01.820
restrictions on the food stamp program, they're all simply just ignoring the fact that giant soda
00:59:08.880
companies are paying people to advocate against the limits. Why are they doing that? Well, obviously,
00:59:16.520
because Coca-Cola and PepsiCo and all these other multi-billion dollar junk food distributors,
00:59:21.140
they make billions of dollars in profit off of food stamps. So this is corporate welfare in the
00:59:28.960
most literal possible sense. This is corporations benefiting from welfare. Do you really think that money
00:59:36.060
should be taken by force out of the pockets of taxpayers and given to PepsiCo? Do you actually think
00:59:44.380
that it's tyranny if the government doesn't give billions of dollars of tax money to soda companies
00:59:49.540
every year? Allowing Americans to choose whether they buy soda instead of forcing them to subsidize
00:59:55.020
these purchases? How is that tyranny? We're talking about more autonomy, more choice, less corporate
01:00:04.940
welfare, more accountability for how our tax money is spent, and all of that is tyranny?
01:00:11.820
Like, what the hell are you talking about? And finally, to get to a point we haven't discussed
01:00:16.900
yet, government welfare programs are not supposed to be a lifestyle. If being on these programs means
01:00:25.960
that you don't have access to some of the simple luxuries of life like candy and soda,
01:00:31.880
well, that's a good thing. It's all the more motivation to get back on your feet and off the
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program. That's what we're supposed to want. If you actually are concerned about government
01:00:42.380
overreach, well, how about the overreach of having at present about 42 million people on food stamps?
01:00:48.620
That is like 13% of the American population. Does anyone really think that 13% of the American
01:00:54.320
population is incapable of providing food for themselves? If we didn't have food stamps,
01:01:00.080
would 13% of the population starve to death? Here's a question. If you were a tyrant,
01:01:07.160
if you were actually a tyrant, who wanted to have total control over the population,
01:01:12.240
which would you prefer? To have lots of people depending on you for food,
01:01:18.160
or to have only a few people depending on you for food? Well, I think the answer is pretty obvious.
01:01:24.420
The welfare state has grown into this gargantuan size because it suits the interests of the
01:01:31.000
government. The more dependent the population is on them, the more malleable, the more pliable,
01:01:36.780
the more compliant the population is. And that's why if you're really concerned about government
01:01:42.320
overreach and tyranny and all the rest of it, you should want to get people off of these programs as
01:01:47.280
quickly as possible. Allowing people to buy whatever they want, including all the treats that they want,
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just has the effect of making them more comfortable being on the dole. It incentivizes
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dependence. And if you care about the people on food stamps, you shouldn't want that for them.
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If you care about having a free and prosperous country, you shouldn't want that either.
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And that is why the people in my comments valiantly defending the behemoth welfare state
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are all today canceled. 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.