Ep. 1592 - American Cities Are Making The Pride Flag Their OFFICIAL Flag!？
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A woman named Talisha St. Mark became the first Black woman in New Hampshire to serve as a federal magistrate judge. And it s worth talking about because it underscores a much larger effort to undermine the identity of this country at a very fundamental level. Today on the Matt Walsh Show, cities across the country are adopting the LGBT pride flags as their official flags.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, cities across the country are adopting the LGBT pride flags as
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their official flags. Wokeness is not as dead as we might like to believe. Also,
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the Attorney General says the FBI is still going through Epstein material. What is taking so long
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exactly? And the media mourns as an entire family of illegal immigrants face deportation.
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They committed no crime except the crime of coming here illegally, which is more than enough
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reasons to deport them. And Times Square has a new statue. It's a 12-foot tall, overweight black
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woman. Why exactly? Well, we'll try to figure that out. All of that and much more today on
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You may have missed it, but a couple of years ago, history was made in the state of New Hampshire.
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We're not talking about the invention of some miraculous drug or a breakthrough in rocket
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technology or anything like that. We're talking about something much, much more significant.
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A woman named Talisha St. Mark became the first black woman in New Hampshire to serve as a federal
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magistrate judge. As one lawyer said during her swearing in, quote, I don't think anyone in this
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room is surprised that you're making history. The New Hampshire Bar Association wrote a lengthy
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article about how Talisha was breaking barriers. And as you can see, the new judge was all smiles in the
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court. There she is. By all accounts, thanks to Talisha, great things were coming for the state
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of New Hampshire. But a couple of questions remained unanswered. What exactly would Talisha
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accomplish once she got on the bench? And what ways would she shock the world with her legal acumen?
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Well, we don't have to guess about the answers to those questions anymore. And that's because
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recently Judge Talisha issued the first major ruling of her career. And it's a ruling that it's worth
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talking about because it underscores a much larger effort that's underway to undermine the identity of
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this country at a very fundamental level. Specifically, Judge Talisha, in her infinite
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wisdom, determined that it was completely legal for Nashua City Hall to ban the appeal to heaven
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pine tree flag, while at the same time flying the so-called pride flag outside of City Hall.
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Never mind the fact that the pine tree flag was flown at the Battle of Bunker Hill, which is a battle
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that many New Hampshire residents participated in. Never mind the fact that it was used by ship's
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commission by George Washington. None of that matters, according to the city,
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because the pine tree flag, quote, was not in harmony with city policies or was contrary to
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the city's best interest. Now, on the other hand, the pride flag, which is just a horizontal rainbow
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that some gay guy drew in San Francisco in the 70s, is apparently completely compatible with the
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policies of the city of Nashua. And therefore, the judge ruled that the city can fly the gay pride flag
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while prohibiting people from flying the Revolutionary War flag. Now, to be clear, the city hall
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at Nashua has a citizen's flagpole, which normally flies flags that citizens want to be flown.
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And over the years, those flags have commemorated everything from Greek Independence Day to
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International Francophone Day. And in fact, here's a picture of the Greek national flag flying outside
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Nashua's City Hall. You can see it there. So it's usually a pretty open forum for people to fly the
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flags they want. But it's not an open forum anymore. In order to protect their ability to fly the pride
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flag, which is profoundly sacred to them, the city government has effectively shut down the ability
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of citizens to fly flags commemorating what they want to commemorate, including major battles of
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the American Revolution like Bunker Hill. And pathbreaking judges like Talisha St. Mark are
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signing off on it. This is an extraordinary development, especially since it's taking place
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not far from the birthplace of the American Revolution. But it's not just happening in very liberal
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states like New Hampshire. We're seeing similar efforts to canonize the pride flag in liberal
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cities that are located within conservative states, particularly in Utah and Idaho. This is the
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big act of resistance that several liberal enclaves have decided on. And we'll start with Boise, which
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is the capital of Idaho. And recently, the state passed a law requiring that only official government
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flags could fly at government buildings, which makes a lot of sense.
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And in response, Boise just passed a resolution declaring that the pride flag is indeed an
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official flag of the city. Yes, they have named the pride flag as an official flag of the capital
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city of Idaho. Now, before we break this down and all the perverse implications, I have to admit that,
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you know, a random female protester at the Boise City Council said pretty much everything that needs
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to be said about this decision. I don't know if she's interested in a political commentary career,
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but if not, she should be because she really sums up the situation pretty well. Watch.
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You're a bunch of frickin' commies. You think gay people are the only people who are entitled to
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anything? The American flag covers everybody in the country. No, it doesn't.
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Yep, pretty much. In case you couldn't make it out, she calls all the pride flag supporters
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frickin' commies, which they are. And then she explains that every single demographic group does
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not need to have its own flag. And that's, you know, because we already have the American flag,
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which covers everybody. And, you know, says that all these people are incredibly narcissistic. And
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she does all this in about 10 seconds, so it's really quite poetic. It's also a much better argument
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than anything the pro-pride flag people could come up with. Here, for example, is the statement from
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someone named Colin Nash, who was apparently the president of the Boise City Council. And here was his
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argument in support of making the pride flag an official government flag in Boise. Now, I'm not
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going to spoil anything, but this has to be one of the greatest rug pulls in the history of political
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speeches in any context. Because this guy really leads you into believing that things are going a
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certain way. And then right when you think you know where it's going, he completely subverts your
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expectations. None of it really makes sense, but it's incredible to behold all the same.
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And again, this is his argument in favor of making the pride flag an official flag of the city at City
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Hall. And here's what he says. Watch. I want to take a chance, get a little personal, and hope I can
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trust you all. About 15 years ago, I was recently married, and I had a secret. And
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in retrospect, the secret was very small and dumb. And but when you're young and 20, and
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it felt very big, and it felt very weighty. And sometimes I would drive home, I had a long commute
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along the highway. And I would just wonder, like, what if another car just hit me? And I wouldn't have
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to talk about this. I wouldn't have to bring this up with my family. And I wouldn't have to deal with
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the consequences of what I felt were a pretty big deal. And it was a really hard time in my life.
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Eventually got out of it with great support from my lovely wife. And I'm not gay.
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Now, you can watch that clip 15 times. And even when you know that's coming, it's still a surprise.
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There's all that buildup. He's giving you the stock story about how he was contemplating hurting
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himself back when he was young because he was in the closet. That's what you think it's leading to
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based on the context. We're talking about the pride flag. And then he drops the hammer and informs
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you that he's not gay. But if you watch the whole speech, he never tells you actually what his secret
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was. You can listen to the whole speech. He never says it. So no one has any idea what he's talking
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about or how it's relevant to anything. All we know is that the Boise City Council president has
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some kind of secret. And it's a secret so bad that he thought about causing a fatal car accident.
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But we don't know what it is or how the hell any of that is related to the pride flag.
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Now, as best I can tell, the idea is that some people are suicidal because they have secrets of
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some kind. And therefore, the government of Boise needs to endorse the pride flag to make people
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with secrets feel better. Even if your secret has nothing to do with being a closeted homosexual,
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still the pride flag will cheer you up, I guess. And I'm not cherry picking an argument here. I
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didn't find some random activists ranting about this particular issue. This is, as I said, the
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president of the Boise City Council delivering remarks that he prepared in advance in support of
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a proposal to officially endorse the pride flag as an official city flag. And that's the best he could
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come up with. The rest of the city council, which, by the way, voted to endorse the pride flag
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by a margin of five to one, was pretty much the same way. Some of them mentioned that gay people
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don't have enough rights, even though they didn't explain what they were talking about.
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Even the lone dissenting voice was embarrassing. The woman who voted against the pride flag just said
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that, well, essentially, she was worried that the city would be sued if it endorsed the pride flag.
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So she had no backbone at all. The bottom line is that no one on the Boise City Council delivered a
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rational explanation for why the city should fly this flag. Because there is no rational explanation
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for it. But in Boise, a lot of people support it. A local news station interviewed a few random
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people on the street. And here's what they had to say. When you're walking past Boise City Hall,
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you'll see three flagpoles flying five flags, one of those being a pride flag. But a new law makes
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flying it illegal. At the end of the day, it doesn't hurt me. If the mayor decides that she wants
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to fly it, great. The city of Boise simply tells Idaho News 6, quote, the city will continue to fly
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existing flags on city property. They declined to expand on that statement in any way. You're not
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taking the American flag down to fly it, right? So I don't know why it matters. You know, I'm just
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like, let's let people be who they are. What would be the harm in it? And it makes a positive
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statement about our community and its values. I think it's very important to show representation
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for people in this city. We have gay and LGBTQ plus members in our community.
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who I think at this time need our support. Live your life. Let them live their life.
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Now you can see the reporter who presumably, like the president of city council, is definitely not
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gay. Nodding along at the end of that footage, and this is the kind of dispassionate coverage you
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get on issues like this. But of course, nothing these people are saying makes any sense. Live your
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life. Let them live their life. That's what he says. But that has nothing to do with shoving a
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partisan, radical ideology down the throats of everybody who doesn't agree with it,
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which in particular includes all real Christians in Boise. The LGBTQI plus pride cult is effectively
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a secular religion, or at least a sect of a secular religion. And giving these people,
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and only these people, the endorsement of the government is the exact opposite of live and let
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live. It's an attack on both Christianity and the national identity of this country. Live your life and let
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them live their life is precisely what you aren't doing when you make a homosexual flag into an
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official flag of the city. And again, the reason this is worth talking about is that it's happening
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all over the place. It's not just New Hampshire and Idaho. It's also happening in Utah, of all places.
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So take a look at this image. There you see the mayor of Salt Lake, Erin Mendenhall, and she's unveiling
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a set of new flags that are officially sanctioned by the city, including an LGBTQ plus pride flag,
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the Juneteenth flag, and the transgender pride flag. Just like in Boise, Salt Lake's government
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is introducing these flags in response to a state law that prohibits government buildings from flying
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flags that don't represent a city or a county country. So their solution is to declare that
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the Juneteenth flag and the trans flag and the LGBT flag do in fact represent the city of Salt Lake
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officially. Because, you know, nothing says Mormon values like BLM holidays and child castration,
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apparently. So these cities are doing the opposite of what they should be doing. And I don't just mean
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that, you know, they shouldn't be recognizing the LGBT flag. Obviously, they shouldn't do that.
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I mean that the government shouldn't recognize the quote unquote LGBT community at all. LGBT people are
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not a nation, so it makes no sense for them to have a flag, much less one that flies on a government
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building. They also aren't really a community. The fact that a bunch of people share the same
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sexual proclivity does not make them a real community or a coherent group that the government
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should give any special recognition to at all. Right? As the woman said in the first video we played,
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well, you're just an American. You're already covered. We don't need to like, we don't need to give you
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special recognition because you're an American who also happens to have these sexual proclivities.
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That should just, there should be no context where the government recognizes that. It has nothing to
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do with public policy, or at least it shouldn't. Now, it seems that the current administration
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realizes that. Reading now from the postmillennial quote, the Trump administration has slashed more
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than $800 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for studies
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related to LGBT health. One example of cut funding included research being done at Harvard
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University's medical school regarding the mental health of LGBTQ youth. The funding was terminated
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by the NIH on March 12th. The NIH informed Harvard that research programs based on gender identity
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are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment and do nothing to enhance
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the health of many Americans. Many such studies ignore rather than seriously examine biological
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realities. It is the policy of NIH to not prioritize these research programs, close quote.
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Now, one of the reasons this matters is that at Harvard and many other universities,
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they blame Republican legislation for the mental health of LGBT youth. And that's the goal of these
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studies. They try to make the argument that, you know, if you ban child castration, you're going to
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cause mass suicides. And the premise here is obviously ludicrous because we didn't have mass suicides back
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when transgenderism was not recognized as a thing at all. And we didn't have it when it was recognized,
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but it was basically treated like a punchline. I mean, there were no mass suicides in response to
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Mrs. Doubtfire, as far as I know. So this is all fake research. It's explicitly political and
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fraudulent. And now it's being shut down. The Hill adds this, quote, the HHS began laying off thousands
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of workers earlier this month, including personnel at the National Center for HIV, viral hepatitis,
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STD, and tuberculosis prevention, and the Global Health Center Division of Global HIV and TB.
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Within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of HIV Prevention,
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five branches were eliminated completely, including the research, surveillance, and
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prevention communication branches. Now, none of this is happening without a lot of complaining,
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as you might expect. NBC News interviewed the CEO of a gay nonprofit in Los Angeles who issued this
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dire warning, quote, we've seen a radical decline in new HIV cases as a result of our HIV prevention
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efforts here in Los Angeles. What I'm incredibly worried about is if the county stops funding HIV
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prevention work, that new cases will skyrocket. They also interviewed a scientist at Harvard who
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said, quote, most of my colleagues are afraid to speak out. This is what authoritarianism looks like.
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Fear keeps people silent, close quote. So the message is that by eliminating a bunch of fake research
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into gender and homosexuality, a lot of people are going to die. And specifically, the gay nonprofit
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guy in Los Angeles says that people are going to die of HIV because apparently we need to study HIV some
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more. And if you disagree, you're basically Hitler. What's being overlooked here, of course, is how
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exactly HIV is spread. And if you think about that for two seconds, you'll realize that in reality, the
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impact that LGBT health issues have are either made up in the case of, you know, claiming a lot of this
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stuff about mental health or self-imposed. You know, they're very often the product of reckless and
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dangerous sexual behavior. The AIDS crisis is the most obvious example. Monkeypox is another one.
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It's very easy to not get those diseases. We don't need to study it anymore. It's very easy to not get
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them. Every rational adult knows how to avoid it. If you're having random gay sex with strangers,
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you might get HIV and monkeypox. If you aren't, you almost certainly will not get either of those
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diseases. So really no need to spend another $100 million studying the issue. In cities where
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the pride flag is the equivalent of the American flag, you're not allowed to say any of this out
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loud. They'll give you a lot of nasty looks in Boise and Salt Lake City if you besmirch the state
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religion. But the more these activists try to force this nonsense on everybody, the more it's important
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to say what's actually happening. So let's do that. A country that recognizes multiple flags
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carved out among various narcissistic interest groups cannot survive for very long. Everyone
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knows that. As the random lady said at the Boise City Council, only a dumb commie would disagree.
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And the more these cities pass absurd laws like this and the more Harvard researchers pretend that
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they need a few more billion dollars to study gay health issues, the more everyone can tell that
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the random lady in Boise is a lot smarter and a whole lot more honest than any of the activists
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and government officials who shouted her down. The LGBT club is clearly scrambling in desperation
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at the moment. All the Trump administration has to do now is continue what they're doing
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and take every step necessary to shut them down for good. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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this, the news has just broke that there's white smoke coming out of the Sistine Chapel, which informs
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us that a new pope has been selected. At this moment, we don't know who the new pope is, so I'm not
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going to speculate about that, so tune in tomorrow and I'll get my take on, as that news comes out,
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and I'll get my take on it tomorrow. But there is, at least at this exact moment, we know that there
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is going to be an announcement today. So we'll put that on hold for tomorrow, and we'll start with
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this. Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday was asked about the Epstein files, and here's what she said.
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James Comer said yesterday that all the Epstein files are missing.
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They still haven't heard from you. No, no, the FBI, yeah, the FBI, they're reviewing. There are tens
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of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child, and there are hundreds of victims,
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and no one victim will ever get released. It's just the volume, and that's what they're going
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through right now. The FBI is diligently going through that. I haven't seen that statement,
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but I'll call him later and find out. Okay, so if you didn't hear the question,
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it was about the claim that the actual Epstein files are missing or destroyed,
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and that was the question. It was like, is that why we haven't seen them?
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And Bondi says, well, that's not true. So she says that they haven't been destroyed,
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and the reason, she says, that we haven't seen any files is that the FBI is still going through
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them, and there are lots of videos of child abuse that they have to sift through, you know.
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Now, that excuse makes sense if you, you know, just woke up from a coma yesterday,
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but if you didn't, then you know that Epstein was arrested six years ago. Are we supposed to believe
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that the FBI is still going through this material six years later? Is it that much material that it
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takes six years to go through it? We're supposed to believe that six years after the fact, they're
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still gathering the facts. Six years after he was arrested, right? Like, whatever, five years after
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he died, and they're still gathering, they're still on a fact-finding mission. I just don't buy it.
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Like, I don't, I just don't buy it. Especially because, obviously, nobody expects or wants them
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to release videos of child abuse. That's not, you know, when we talk about releasing the Epstein files,
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the actual Epstein files, not the files that were released in the binders, you know, several weeks
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ago, which had no new information at all. But when we talk about that, we're not saying, you know,
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these horrifying videos are made. Clearly not. All we want to know, all we want to know is who Epstein's
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associates were, which prominent and powerful people are documented to have engaged in sexual,
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the sexual abuse of minors. What are the names? And what is the, the, the documented evidence against
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them? And if that evidence, as we expect it does, includes horrific videos, clearly you're not
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publicizing those, but we want to know that they exist. And then the next follow-up question is
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going to be, okay, so why, when are they getting arrested? Why are they not arrested?
00:23:50.120
So that's all we want to know. And it's just impossible to believe that six years later,
00:23:54.520
they still don't have answers to these questions. It's absurd. You know, it's just not credible.
00:23:59.020
So why are we getting the runaround? I mean, that, that's certainly what it seems like. It seems
00:24:07.180
like this is a runaround because I just don't, I don't buy it. The fact that we can't release
00:24:15.660
anything, the claim that nothing can be released because they're still going through it. I just
00:24:20.360
don't buy it. I can't, how can anyone believe that you're like insulting our intelligence? It's
00:24:25.880
been six years. Obviously, you know, everything that's in there. Uh, so it seems to me that there
00:24:33.300
are two possible answers as to why we haven't seen the actual Epstein files, why, um, nobody's been
00:24:40.960
arrested, why there's been no, as far as we know, there's not even any plans to arrest anybody.
00:24:45.680
Like there, there are two possible answers and neither of them are good. One answer is that for
00:24:53.640
some reason, some of the people in the administration are involved in covering this information up.
00:25:00.300
Um, the other is that they don't actually have much more information than what's already been
00:25:07.920
made public. That's the other possibility. Either this is being covered up or there, or you don't have,
00:25:17.560
or you, or you got nothing, you don't have anything. Now, if it's the second option, that would mean
00:25:23.260
that these smoking guns were destroyed a long time ago. And so now they just don't have anything.
00:25:30.260
And, um, which remember is the, that was the question that was asked because there have been
00:25:36.160
claims to that effect that just have this, has this stuff been destroyed? And so now there's just
00:25:41.800
nothing. Um, no, I, I, being a, someone who tends towards cynicism, I tend to believe it's, I, I,
00:25:54.580
I think there's a good chance that it's the second option. The evidence, you know, the evidence that,
00:25:58.920
the evidence that implicates rich and powerful people was destroyed a long time ago. And, uh,
00:26:05.680
and now it's, and so they don't have it. Um, it's either that, or as I said,
00:26:13.780
they have it, but they're not telling us they're covering it up and then they're covering it up
00:26:20.920
because why would they be doing that? Well, I don't know. I mean, one of the reasons would be,
00:26:26.240
could be that they have this blackmail material and they want to still be able to use it.
00:26:31.140
And once you publicize it, you can't use it as blackmail material. I don't know. I mean,
00:26:36.880
we can only speculate. We're left to speculate because we're not being given the whole story.
00:26:42.760
Um, and the problem is that, you know, the, the answer that would let Pam Bondi off the hook
00:26:54.720
potentially is that this stuff was destroyed a long time ago. The coverup already happened before we got
00:27:00.500
here because there was a whole other administration that was, you know, there in between. Uh, and so
00:27:07.200
this, and this stuff was now, so that, if that happened, then it would let Pam Bondi off the hook.
00:27:12.760
The problem is that she's claiming that didn't happen. And we've, we were, you know, there was
00:27:18.860
that, that whole episode several weeks ago when we were told that, yeah, we've got information.
00:27:22.520
It's really shocking. Get ready. We're going to release it. And then we get it. And it's all the stuff
00:27:27.760
we already knew. So if the stuff was destroyed, then that's, you, you tell us that like right away.
00:27:37.460
That's, that's what the attorney general should tell us like a day after getting into her position
00:27:42.720
should come out and say, look, this stuff's been destroyed. There's a lot missing.
00:27:47.720
So now that it becomes, we're going to find out who did that and we're going to hold them accountable.
00:27:51.380
But I don't know that this kind of, the stringing us along and saying like, yeah, there's, we have it,
00:27:59.840
but we're still going through it. I just don't buy it. I just don't buy it. And, um,
00:28:07.400
it, it pisses me off, frankly. All right. The New York post has what I guess is supposed to be a sad
00:28:15.580
headline. The headline is Georgia college student faces deportation after running red light.
00:28:21.340
Police discover her entire family is living illegally in the U S for years.
00:28:27.480
Now there's a, I'm going to read this. There's one sentence in this article that I want you to
00:28:30.980
really focus on and we'll read it and we'll see if you pick up on it. I'm sure you will,
00:28:36.620
but here's the, here's what it says. A Georgia college student faces deportation after she ran a
00:28:42.860
red light and authorities discover her entire family has been illegally living in the U S for
00:28:45.820
nearly 15 years. Mexican national Ximena Arias Cristobal, uh, 19 was pulled over by police in
00:28:53.680
Dalton, uh, Georgia after she failed to adhere on a no turn on red sign. Ximena Arias Cristobal was
00:29:01.020
driving without a driver's license, but told officers she had an international driver's license.
00:29:06.300
She admitted she didn't have the foreign document when they, she was asked about it.
00:29:09.800
Uh, in 2010, Arias Cristobal was brought into the U S illegally by her parents, which was only
00:29:15.180
four years old. Uh, because of her non-citizen status, Arias Cristobal was paying out of state
00:29:21.700
tuition for school, despite living in the area. The officer who pulled her over attempted to speak
00:29:26.580
to the teen's mom and the owner of the car, but neither of them spoke English. According to the
00:29:30.020
report, Arias Cristobal was arrested and charged with driving without a valid license and failure to
00:29:35.140
obey, uh, traffic control devices. And now the whole family faces deportation. Okay. So
00:29:40.460
a whole family of illegal, illegal aliens, uh, she's driving without a license. She's disobeying
00:29:46.340
traffic laws. Already there's enough reason to deport everybody and it's got nothing to do with
00:29:52.060
the traffic laws. It's you're here illegally. That's all the reason we need. That's the one
00:29:57.340
single reason we need to deport you. Uh, you're not supposed to be here. And the, by the way,
00:30:03.680
the post article has a bunch of pictures of this girl and her graduation gown. I don't know why the
00:30:08.560
media is so obsessed with graduation photos. Like they always do this. Of course, anytime there's
00:30:13.740
a martyr that they want us to feel sorry for, they always beat us over the head with the graduation
00:30:18.700
photos. And it's always high school graduation too. Like we're supposed to be impressed. Okay.
00:30:26.440
Congratulations. You graduated high school. You literally have no choice but to graduate high
00:30:30.540
school. You cannot fail high school. They won't let you. Trust me. I tried when I was a kid. So
00:30:36.100
you, you can't, it's not an option. And when you try to fail high school, they say, no, you can't,
00:30:40.660
you're not allowed to do that. Okay. Well then I'm just not going to turn in any of my work for the
00:30:45.280
entire year. Okay, fine. But you're still going to graduate whether you like it or not. Um, so,
00:30:49.520
you know, it's, it's not exactly a great achievement.
00:30:52.320
And, um, but it's also irrelevant. Like it's, so I guess we're supposed to, oh, she graduated high
00:30:59.540
school. Why would we want to deport her? It's a, it's a, it's a non sequitur, but maybe you picked
00:31:07.540
up on the one very salient sentence and all of this. I'm sure you did. Uh, it was this part again.
00:31:12.760
The officer who pulled her over attempted to speak to the teen's mom and the owner of the car,
00:31:15.940
but neither of them spoke English. Of course they didn't. Now keep in mind, they've been here
00:31:24.100
for 15 years. Her family has been here for 15 years and they can't speak English.
00:31:33.600
Now learning a new, a new language, if you're fully immersed in it, right? If you're using the
00:31:39.100
immersion technique, it should take about six months and it could take, it could take three months.
00:31:45.940
Right. But it should be like three to six months. Uh, and that's, and that's six months
00:31:52.600
after living and being immersed in a language, you should be able to get by conversationally.
00:32:01.080
After another six months, you've been, you know, for a year, you should be totally fluent. Like you
00:32:05.900
can speak, you should be able to speak the language as well as any native speaker. 15 years later.
00:32:12.140
I mean, there should be no difference in your grasp of the language and anyone else who was born there.
00:32:20.280
15 years. They've been here through like four different presidential terms.
00:32:27.020
And, uh, I mean, they got to this country three years after the iPhone was invented. So, so it's like,
00:32:35.060
it's been a long time and yet they can't speak the language at all, apparently. And this of course
00:32:43.280
is very common. It's not shocking. It should be shocking, but it's not because immigrants come here
00:32:50.040
and they don't learn the language. And that's not just annoying. It is annoying. It's extremely
00:32:55.540
annoying. Uh, I shouldn't have to encounter anyone in my own country who can't, who I can't communicate
00:32:59.820
with. Um, unless it's a tourist or like a baby. Okay. Those are the two kinds of people that
00:33:07.440
I'm okay with not being able to communicate with. If you're an adult who has full capacity, you know,
00:33:14.960
use of your vocal cords and, and, you know, your hearing, uh, and you live here, you're a resident
00:33:21.000
supposedly, then I should be able to communicate with you. So, uh, it's annoying. It's also incredibly
00:33:31.160
disrespectful. I mean, how dare you come to this country and not even pay us the basic respect of
00:33:37.460
learning our language. It's presumptuous. It's lazy. It's entitled. It's selfish. It's offensive.
00:33:45.000
And it's not a small thing. Language is a basic element of human civilization. Like one of the most
00:33:51.360
fundamental requirements of a country, of a nation, of a people in order to be a country, nation, and
00:33:57.440
people is that everyone can speak to each other and understand each other. A shared language is step
00:34:05.360
one, right? So it's the most, it's the most basic requirement. And these people won't even fulfill
00:34:12.480
that basic requirement. And what that shows, of course, is that these immigrants come here without
00:34:18.380
the slightest intention to actually assimilate into our country. The problem isn't that these immigrants
00:34:23.820
are lazy and selfish and refusing to learn our language. Although that's true too. It's that it's,
00:34:29.540
it's, it shouldn't be possible to live here for 15 years and not learn our language.
00:34:37.220
That should not be possible. Even if you speak broken English, if you speak with an accent,
00:34:42.340
um, you know, if you have an accent, you can have an accent. If you're learning a new language,
00:34:47.600
fine. You should still know English though. You should be like, someone should be able to
00:34:53.440
communicate to you with you in, in the, the, the language of that country.
00:35:01.520
And, um, and like I said, that should be, it, it, there shouldn't be an option. It should just
00:35:07.140
not be possible to live here for 15 years and not at least have that basic grasp of the language.
00:35:13.760
But many of these illegal immigrants don't speak, speak the language at all because it is possible to
00:35:19.480
not learn it because they come here and they form their own little cells, their own little colonies
00:35:24.560
in the middle of our country where they speak their own language. They continue living in every way as
00:35:29.700
though they were still in their motherland. That's not assimilation. Okay. Assimilation is fake. It's a
00:35:37.080
myth. It's not happening. It's not actually happening. When you bring mass amounts of foreigners into your
00:35:43.340
country, you get disorder and disarray and dilution and confusion. Uh, you don't get assimilation.
00:35:49.600
That's, I mean, it's, it's very clear. You got people that come here. They're here for fit. They're
00:35:54.100
here for a decade and a half. They're here for longer than any of my kids have been alive and
00:35:59.780
don't speak the language. So that that's, don't tell me about a melting pot. It's a melt. What,
00:36:05.060
what melted? They haven't melted into anything. That's not a melting pot. It's not assimilation. It's not
00:36:10.160
anything. And I just hate the gaslighting over this. And I don't use that word very often because
00:36:16.460
it's overplayed, but this is gaslighting. Uh, they bring in all these foreigners and then act
00:36:22.100
like they don't understand why we have a problem with it. You know, they'll listen to someone like
00:36:27.980
me complain or someone like you, any, any, any rational American who has a problem with this and
00:36:33.660
they'll complain that the immigrants don't speak our language and they'll act like they can't possibly
00:36:39.440
understand why that's upsetting to us or why, like why speaking the same language is important.
00:36:45.480
And yet with any other country on earth, any, any non-white, non-Western country,
00:36:50.960
they would fully acknowledge the problem and they'd complain about it to themselves. I mean,
00:36:56.900
if let's say 30 million white English speaking Americans move to, um, India. Now I think right
00:37:10.040
now in India, there are thousands of Americans living there, definitely not millions. So, um,
00:37:16.240
you know, not enough for it to be like noticeable, but let's say it was, let's say it was tens of
00:37:21.260
millions of English speaking white Americans just moved en masse to India. And let's say they all
00:37:30.120
moved there. They kept speaking English. They kept all of their white American customs.
00:37:37.820
And over time, as a result, India started to become Americanized. India started to become more like
00:37:43.140
America and less like India. Let's say that all of these white Americans who moved there en masse
00:37:49.740
illegally, let's add, not, not in accordance with the laws of India, but they just did, they
00:37:55.980
ignoring the laws, they just took it upon themselves. And, um, and, and, and not too short a time,
00:38:02.740
what ends up happening is that India is pulled more too close. They pull India towards themselves
00:38:10.120
rather than them going and assimilating into India. So let's say that happens.
00:38:14.300
Um, everybody would view it as a problem. Like no one would say that. Oh yeah, that's fine.
00:38:26.000
That's fine. Nobody would say that. No one would say that. And when India came along and said, okay,
00:38:31.720
uh, Hey guys, we're not doing this. You got, you got to go now. You can't do that. This is India.
00:38:36.180
This is our country. You can't just move. You can't move here by the tens of millions
00:38:40.660
and try to turn our country into yours. You, you, you can't, we're not going to let you do that.
00:38:46.720
Um, so if, if India rounded them all up and kick them out, nobody would object.
00:38:56.040
Everybody was, I wouldn't object. I would say, yeah, I mean, that's, that's what you should do.
00:39:01.080
I would do the same thing if I was in your shoes.
00:39:02.600
Um, and so it's only with our country that it's a problem only in our country. We expected to put
00:39:11.120
up with this thing that no one else would tolerate. No one would tolerate. And only for us is an issue.
00:39:25.440
You know, because you know what people recognize that I'm just using India as an example.
00:39:31.020
Um, people recognize that India is not just a geographic spot on the map. Um, people recognize
00:39:46.220
that India is India because of Indians because, and they also recognize that, you know, um, if you
00:39:54.600
were to, uh, if the, if you ever, ever seen the show, uh, the leftovers on HBO, which is a great
00:40:03.840
show by the way, but in that show, it, the premise of the show is that one day, like I forget what it
00:40:11.160
is, but 5% of the, of the world population just disappears and it is with no explanation. They just
00:40:17.220
gone. Right. Well, if, if there was a scenario like that and tomorrow, uh, it was a leftover
00:40:26.520
situation, but it only hit India and all the Indians in India just like disappeared.
00:40:32.920
And then a bunch of white Americans moved India and took over. Well, that's not India anymore.
00:40:40.420
Like everyone would understand that's not what to call that. India doesn't make any sense anymore.
00:40:45.320
The only similarity is that they're on the same ground, but all the Indians are gone. And these
00:40:51.740
are a bunch of white Americans from Ohio and, you know, Minnesota that are living here now. And so
00:40:56.620
it's, that's not, it's just not India. It's not. And again, everybody would understand that. And no
00:41:04.160
one would object to that point in the case of India or of China or Japan or, you know, South Korea,
00:41:11.800
right. Or, or Saudi Arabia or Honduras or any other country. Um, it's only in this country where
00:41:20.600
we're told that, well, you're just as much a, a, a valid citizen of this country. As long as you
00:41:27.600
just happen to be here. The only, the only thing that's required to be, to be fully American is just to,
00:41:33.520
is just to be here, to physically stand here. You don't even have to go through any of the paperwork.
00:41:42.060
We're the only country where that's expected to see things that way. And, uh, it's gaslighting
00:41:49.460
and it's outrageous and, uh, I'm sick of it. All right. Uh, New York post has this, uh, we've got a
00:41:58.100
little customer service controversy. Those are always fun. Wild viral footage has captured
00:42:03.260
Frontier Airlines, uh, gate agents getting into a bust up with a passenger, a bust up B-U-S-T up.
00:42:12.760
I've heard of a dust up and not a bust up. Is that even a, is that a real phrase?
00:42:16.980
Anyway, getting into a bust up with a passenger who had sniped, I'm never flying this airline again
00:42:22.000
after being hit with an unexpected $25 fee just to check in. The caught on camera saga erupted when
00:42:27.740
the male passenger, 45 year old married father of three, trying to check in for his Frontier flight
00:42:32.400
from Raleigh, North Carolina to Boston. The passenger who didn't want to be identified told
00:42:36.800
the Post that he'd arrived at the airport with 50 minutes, five zero to spare, but wasn't able to
00:42:41.800
check in on the electronic kiosk because unbeknownst to him, he had missed the airline's 60 minute
00:42:46.080
pre-departure window. When he went to speak to a Frontier employee, he was told he needed to cough up a
00:42:51.600
$25 fee to check in at the desk per the airline's policy. And that's when he claims things turn
00:42:58.460
sour. Um, and they got into a back and forth and that's where I think the video that this passenger
00:43:05.420
took begins. And let's watch a little bit of that. And you think, oh, you're going to check me in. I bet
00:43:11.980
you we won't. I paid, I paid for a ticket. Yeah. I paid for a ticket. You checked in three hours later.
00:43:18.980
Hello. I just said that I, I just said that I would pay the $25. And you thought you were going
00:43:23.960
to get on your flight. And you thought you were going to get on your flight. And you thought you
00:43:28.320
was going to get on your flight. I literally paid for a ticket. I'm here 30 minutes. I'm here 30
00:43:32.720
minutes before my flight. And they're not letting me check in. And you're not getting on your flight.
00:43:37.760
Because it's a policy. We don't control that. You better get up. You are about to let me check in.
00:43:43.480
You are about to let me check in. And you decided that you ain't going to let me check in.
00:43:48.320
Make me take you literally work for a company that I bought a plane ticket for I'm here 30 minutes before the flight
00:43:58.340
I'm not in your personal space. This is not your personal space. This is not your personal space
00:44:04.880
You work for a company. This is not your personal space
00:44:11.980
You're literally not doing your job for a customer that has paid for a plane ticket to get home
00:44:21.000
Normally, I'm not a huge fan of taking your phone out and recording these kinds of interactions
00:44:25.460
You're having an annoying experience with customer service. Why does it need to be made public? Why do we need to bring the public into it?
00:44:33.940
But in a case like this, I also understand it because
00:44:41.260
And helpless and this is how customers feel when they're dealing with awful customer service from these big corporations
00:44:49.940
I mean you might think that like their corporate office is a tent made out of blankets
00:44:54.440
With one phone that's actually a can connected to a string
00:44:58.240
You might think that but actually it is a it's a corporation and as far as I know it has at least one real building
00:45:04.140
And uh, so when you're in that spot as a customer you have no other recourse a lot of times like nobody in the company
00:45:10.460
Gives the slightest crap about you or the issue that you're having
00:45:14.620
The customer service representatives actively despise you
00:45:18.460
They hate you just for being there. Nobody in the corporate office cares at all
00:45:23.140
You're getting ripped off and uh, what are you supposed to do?
00:45:32.400
And I I I so I I increasingly understand when people even though I still find it kind of annoying but
00:45:38.520
When people bring the take the phone out when they start complaining about
00:45:43.280
Customer service stuff, you know on social media
00:45:46.480
It's the only way to get any kind of response. It's the only way because otherwise
00:45:53.300
Otherwise, you can't get anyone at the company to care
00:45:56.260
And in many cases like they've already taken your money. You can't even get your money back
00:46:02.200
And so people have to resort to this. It's the only way to get any response
00:46:07.240
And we've all been in these situations so many times
00:46:15.180
You know at airlines with just any big corporation. We've all we've all been
00:46:21.980
Especially when you're on the phone you're dealing with customer service on the phone
00:46:26.420
Because you have you know, it's an issue with your cell phone bill or anything
00:46:30.320
And you're just trying to get someone on the phone who cares even a little bit
00:46:37.040
About solving your problem and you can and no one does
00:46:41.060
So, uh, if I were to blame this guy for anything, it's flying frontier in the first place
00:46:49.620
As a frequent flyer myself, I will just never fly frontier
00:46:57.120
We were flying to some location that didn't have a lot of flights and the frontier flight was cheaper
00:47:01.480
At least it seemed that way until you get hit with like 19 different additional fees
00:47:12.940
It would be too generous to say that frontier is the greyhound bus of the skies. That's too generous
00:47:19.860
It's it's it's like the school bus of the skies. It's not the magic school bus. Okay. This is not a whimsical fun school bus
00:47:28.260
This is um, this is a this is a a like a middle school
00:47:38.100
And that is frontier airlines the accommodations the service the clientele. They're all just bust here
00:47:47.040
And since then i've had a few experiences where
00:47:49.900
I had to go somewhere we looked at the flights the only flight that could get me there on time was like a frontier one of these budget airlines
00:47:58.700
Well, okay, I guess i'm not going to that place
00:48:02.340
I guess whatever that place is. I guess i'm just not going to it
00:48:15.020
In this case after this guy made a stink about it. He did get reimbursed
00:48:19.320
Frontier put out a statement claiming that these women were contractors and
00:48:31.800
So that this is with getting like the media involved and social media
00:48:37.560
The best that this guy will get is frontier saying okay, here's your money back and yeah, they didn't even work for us
00:48:44.240
No apology not even like well, we're sorry. You had this experience
00:48:47.620
Frontier's attitude is basically yeah. Well, what did you think was going to happen?
00:48:53.700
We're frontier airlines. What did you think was going to happen?
00:49:04.000
That's basically the experience like a metal shoebox
00:49:07.220
That's being thrown from one location to another
00:49:10.540
Imagine just getting into a metal shoebox getting stuffed into it
00:49:18.020
To to a city 600 miles away. That's that's the frontier airlines experience
00:49:25.100
So that was kind of I'd almost respect them if that was their say I would respect them if they said yeah
00:49:30.780
Yeah, I mean it sounds like you got the frontier experience
00:49:41.320
Well, you think actual professionals are working for frontier airlines?
00:49:47.460
We're getting the people who couldn't get a job at the dmv. That's who we're getting at frontier airlines, okay?
00:49:58.200
So I would I would respect them a lot more if they just said that
00:50:03.200
And that should be their motto that should be the motto of these airlines
00:50:17.480
That should be the frontier airlines the tickets are cheap shut up
00:50:23.280
So but it's not just frontier customer service is abysmal everywhere
00:50:28.460
I went to dunkin donuts the the the I don't know why
00:50:33.920
I went to dunkin donuts, which is like the frontier airlines of fast food breakfast establishments
00:50:56.300
A middle-aged man approach to these sort of customer service things
00:51:01.300
So usually if I order something and it's not exactly right
00:51:05.200
I'm like, all right, well, I guess i'm just eating this now
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I mean i've had times where I go to you know mcdonald's again
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You ship it you know, I go to mcdonald's and they hand me a bag
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It's like it's totally not what I ordered at all
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It's you know, you order a big mac and you get the the filet fish
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Well, I guess I could just have that I mean fine
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It's still food like it's it's all food made from the same thing. Probably this all comes from the same
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I don't know it comes from the same part of the rodent that they're getting it from so who cares
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But anyway in this is like I can't eat it. I can't it's it's cold in the middle
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It's not even it's I know it's it's frozen to begin with so I can't say it's not cooked
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It's already like pre-cooked frozen, but it's like can I at least get it heated like can you warm it up?
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Do I need can you can I get another one? Can you can I get one that's warm?
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Can I get one that's not the temperature? Can I get one that's not a popsicle? I didn't I didn't want a breakfast popsicle
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I didn't want a egg flavored breakfast popsicle. Can I get a and I like do I have to explain the rest of it?
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Heat one up can you put can you put it in the microwave for a couple of minutes
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And just hands it no apology nothing no it not even the slightest attempt to to put
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I know he doesn't care. I get it that you don't care. I understand you getting paid 13 dollars an hour
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You don't care at all. You just want me to leave. I get it
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But your your job is to pretend that you do care a little bit
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Because what what almost everything you're doing
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I could do you could just or that's another option just get the hell out of the way and let i'll do it
00:53:07.420
Okay, I can pour my own coffee. I could put my thing in the microwave
00:53:12.320
But then why do why do you have a job? Why are you even there?
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The only thing that you can add to this is just by pretending a little bit that you care
00:53:25.100
And then that's why I always find it hilarious when I hear about raising the minimum way
00:53:30.220
We got to raise the minimum way. We need to raise the minimum wage for you know, these customers serve
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Have you seen raise the wage? Have you seen customer lower it if anything?
00:53:40.980
I mean, I had that experience like that really you can raise the wage for that guy
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For hating a customer for wanting a hot breakfast sandwich
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200 let's pay him the same rate as like an orthodontist. How about that?
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And I think most people are just fed up with it people are fed up with everything
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You know, I there I used to think it was kind of a debate about
00:54:19.280
What's worse are the you know, because there are terrible customers too who are also a-holes
00:54:25.640
What's worse the customer service or the customers? No, the customer service is way worse. It's so bad
00:54:31.340
It is so terribly bad and then that also creates
00:54:36.840
Like you're getting me and I don't want my shock you to learn because of how but in customer like I said customer service
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Situations i'm very i'm very easy to get along with I tip well easy to get along with
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I'm not looking for trouble. I just want to get my food and go
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I i'm i'm i'm very easygoing in those environments
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Where i'm just sick of it where i'm like even i'm gonna start yelling and asking for for the manager
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Which so when you can get take someone like me and get me to that point
00:55:13.540
The customer service is just really really bad and uh
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Now it used to be that if you were in the mood to see some exotic contemporary sculptures that were created by an unimpressive foreign artist
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You know, it was like going to a movie theater before netflix or buying a book at barnes and noble before amazon
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We had dedicated buildings for everything including contemporary art
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And if you didn't drive to a museum with an express intent of quietly observing a groundbreaking new sculpture
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In all likelihood, you probably wouldn't see one at all
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But then as we all know museums fell out of favor at least for this particular purpose
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Found a lot of theories as to why that happened
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But in this case the simplest explanation is probably the best
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People stopped going to museums to see contemporary art because contemporary art is really really bad
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And normally when people stop consuming content because it's bad
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The creators might go back to the drawing board and come up with something else as a way to entice audiences
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But in the field of contemporary art which of course is my true passion in life
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Have come up with new ways to force people to look at their most unimpressive and pretentious creations
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Maybe no sculptor on the planet is more adept at this particular skill
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Than a man that you've never heard of named Thomas Price
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Without any sense of shame Thomas Price has compelled innocent bystanders
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To observe his garbage sculptures by placing these sculptures in their way in public places
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In fact in some cases he's placing these sculptures in the middle of walkways
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And on top of that every single one of these sculptures depicts the same thing
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Which is a nameless random black woman who looks very annoyed and unpleasant
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Yes all over the world sculptures of random black women are being thrust upon the public
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And it's all because of a British guy named Thomas Price
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Who's apparently very angry that people don't go to museums anymore
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So we'll go through some of these black woman statues here
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And as you can see the woman is positioned directly on top of the walking path
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And according to the official description of the sculpture
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Quote, Price's sculpture titled Time Unfolding 2023
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Is a nine foot tall statue of a woman looking down at her cell phone
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The work is part of a series depicting everyday fictional subjects at a monumental scale
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Combining traditional sculpting and digital technology
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To question how society projects ideas and expectations through public space
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Now to me, this looks like a customer service representative for Frontier Airlines
00:59:34.000
But I guess she's supposed to look contemplative
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And it wasn't just New Orleans that was treated to this extraordinary combination of sculpting and technology
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The good people of Florence were also treated to a blinged out gold version of the sculpture
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Reportedly, this particular statue was vandalized a few times
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But at the same time, the authorities didn't explain why in their understanding
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And after all, he's the guy who's constantly making sculptures
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About random, unimpressive looking black women looking at their phones
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And then he forces everyone to look at these sculptures
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Seems kind of like something that an obsessive compulsive Klansman would do
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Here's another one of his sculptures in London, for example
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I want this sculpture to be an opportunity for people to connect emotionally
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With an image of someone they might not have noticed before
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And then by a way of explaining his obsession with black women looking at their phones
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White artists are putting themselves forward to create replacement sculptures of slave owners
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When even the solution doesn't involve the black experience
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That's all of his statues of the black experience
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Which he just put up in Rotterdam Central Station in the Netherlands
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Apparently it's supposed to be the same black woman from London
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Except she's added a few pounds to her waistline
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And if you follow these statues from place to place
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So that tens of thousands, if not millions of people
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At least in terms of securing a captive audience
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But also reflect a rare feat in the middle of one of the busiest places in the world
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Well, technically she's whoever you want her to be
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Would have thought looking at something like that