Ep. 1597 - South Africa Doubles Down On Their Anti-White Agenda And The Left Celebrates
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The meltdown over the White South African refugees has reached a fever pitch, and today, we ll talk about it. Also, officials in Minnesota are supposedly preparing for riots in case Derek Chauvin is pardoned, but is that really going to happen? And why are they making a big show of planning for riots? We ll discuss.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the meltdown over the white South African refugees has
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reached a fever pitch. This has really been the ultimate mask-off moment. We'll talk about it.
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Also, officials in Minnesota are supposedly preparing for riots in case Derek Chauvin
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is pardoned. But is that really going to happen? And why are they actually making a big show of
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preparing for riots? We'll discuss. And environmentalists are always finding little
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ways to make everybody's lives worse. The Trump administration will be rolling back at least one
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of these policies. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Try to imagine that you run South Africa. You're in charge of the African National Congress. Not
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exactly an enviable position. Your country has the highest unemployment rate in the entire world
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since the end of apartheid, which was supposedly the greatest evil to ever befall mankind.
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A lot of bad things have been happening. The power grid has collapsed along with the export markets
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and any semblance of public safety. Headlines like this one are common. As you can see, it reads,
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Grandmother 71 dies of shock after she was forced to watch her three granddaughters being raped at
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gunpoint at her home in South Africa. And there's plenty more where that came from because you have
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turned your country into the living embodiment of DEI to disastrous results. And then, to your horror,
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the President of the United States decides to shine an international spotlight on your incompetence.
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He makes it impossible to hide what's going on in South Africa. Specifically, the President allows
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white citizens of South Africa to flee to the U.S. so they can escape all the anti-white violence and
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race-based land seizures that you've implemented in your failing country. And unsurprisingly, a lot
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of white people take the United States up on the offer. They decide that it's better to uproot their
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entire families and fly halfway across the world than to spend another second under your rule in South
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Africa. Now, if you have an ounce of shame, that would have to be extremely, monumentally embarrassing.
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I mean, there are politicians in Japan who would quit, you know, quite literally commit like
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ritualistic suicide under those circumstances. The job of any government is to look after the
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well-being of its own people. And once the most productive members of society start leaving
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at great personal cost to themselves, then you have failed as a leader and as a government. You are
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illegitimate and you have no one else to blame. And you should resign in shame at the absolute minimum.
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But the African National Congress has decided on the opposite course of action. Rather than engage
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in any kind of introspection, they decided to attack the white refugees who have just fled to
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America. They're not showing any interest in keeping any of the remaining Afrikaners from fleeing,
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even though they're responsible for maintaining the vast majority of usable farmland in the country.
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They're also not interested in contesting the notion that white people are going to be persecuted
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in their country. Instead, the African National Congress released this statement the other day.
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They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality, and accountability for historic privilege.
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The statement goes on to describe the refugees as cowardly and says that they are offended by a
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democratic society working to redress past injustices. Then there's this concluding line,
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Well, this is one of those things that's less true for having been said, as the saying goes.
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If you're running a highly functional, stable country, then you're not going to end your press
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release out of nowhere by declaring that you're not a broken or failing state. No state that isn't a
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failing state has ever had to clarify in a statement that they aren't a failing state.
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And it's like walking up to your wife unprompted and announcing that you're not having an affair.
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But none of these people are especially bright, so they're not aware of the implications of what
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they're saying, no matter how obvious those implications might be.
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It also explains why, in effect, their message is essentially an explicit threat to every white
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person in South Africa. And they're also attempting to coax the refugees back
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with a promise of giving them the opportunity to be held accountable for historical injustices.
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They're basically saying, hey, guys, can you come back so we can persecute you?
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This isn't fair. We were going to persecute you, and then you left. That's not fair.
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Now, with this statement, they are validating everything the Trump administration says about
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the country. No person of any race should be subjected to land seizures or violence as part of
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accountability for historic privilege, whatever the heck that means. But that's what the government of
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South Africa is now demanding by their own admission. And it's what the political left is
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demanding in this country, too. In the days since the first 59 white refugees arrived from South
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Africa, political commentators on the left have been melting down to a degree that's
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truly hard to comprehend, even given everything we already know about these people.
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What we're seeing is primal rage and hysteria. I mean, it's a level of anti-white race hatred
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that needs to be exposed, or else very soon, you know, we're going to start to look
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a lot like South Africa. So let's start with Don Lemon, who no longer has the need to temper
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his passion for white genocide now that he's not on cable news. Not that cable news personalities
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are tempering it very much, as we'll see later on. But anyway, here's Don Lemon.
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This South African farmer, which is the most blatantly obvious racist ever. It is blatantly obvious
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the way that we treat white South Africans, who, by the way, for the most part, and I am generalizing
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here, some of the wealthiest people are well-to-do people in the country. They speak their language.
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They're not just taking land away from white South African farmers. White South Africans,
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about 9% of the population owned 87% of the fertile land. Okay? Today, black South Africans make up more
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than 90% of the population, and they only hold about 4% of all privately owned land. So what they're
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trying to do is say, hey, we need to fix an historical injustice and figure out if you're not using that
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land to farm, then we need to have some of that land, not taking all of your entire farm. That's
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not what's happening. And we need to what? There needs to be equity. And now people are crying because
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the playing field is being leveled. And so therefore, it is now discrimination.
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Okay, so notice what is being said here. Notice he says that white people own most of the fertile land
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in South Africa. The word fertile is doing a lot of work there because, you know, if you know anything
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about farmland, even if you don't know anything about it, you should still know that it's possible
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to ruin it. I mean, it's possible to do a very bad job of maintaining it. And it's not as though you
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could just give a farm to a random person off the street and rest assured that it's going to be
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fertile in 10 years. And we know that for a few reasons. First of all, it's common sense. Second,
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Zimbabwe already tried this. Several decades ago, they made the decision to seize farms from whites,
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give them to black citizens. After all, what could go wrong? Well, you know, I mean, Zimbabwe was the
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breadbasket of Africa, supposedly. Well, as it turns out, a lot can go wrong, like a whole lot.
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And before long, Zimbabwe needed to import food because they couldn't make their own.
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And eventually, the government gave up on the idea. They gave the farmland back to the white people.
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This is a Bloomberg News article from a few years ago, quote,
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Zimbabwe gives land back to white farmers after wrecking economy. Two decades after President
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Robert Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe's economy by urging black subsistence farmers to violently force white
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commercial farmers and their workers off the land, his successor has thrown in the towel. The seizures
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that began in 2000 were ratified by the government, which said they were needed to address colonial
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imbalances. A vibrant agricultural industry that exported tobacco and roses and grew most of the
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food the nation needed collapsed. Periodic food shortages ensued. Inflation became the world's
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highest and the manufacturing industry was decimated. It was one of Africa's richest countries
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became one of its poorest, close quote. Okay, so in other words, it turns out that
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when you use the government to redistribute fertile farmland to correct some alleged injustice,
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what you get is famine. Okay, that's what equity means in practice. It's what always happens
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when you take land from people who are managing it properly and redistribute it on the basis of race.
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Competence matters, especially when you're talking about a country's food supply.
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And make no mistake, the reason those white people control the farmland in South Africa
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is because historically they're competent. They bought it, they maintained it for generations,
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nobody handed it to them or maintained it for them. The fact that it's still fertile,
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again, you can ruin farmland. It's still fertile, even by Don Lemon's own testimony. It's still
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fertile after generations. What does that mean? It means that they are properly managing the land.
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And in many cases, they were there long before black South Africans arrived and demanded their
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property. Now, in this debate, we are well past the point where the left can scream apartheid and just
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get whatever they want. Post-apartheid South Africa is simply too great of a disaster by every
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available metric. And by the way, apartheid was nothing like what's currently being enacted in
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South Africa. As we discussed the other day, there were far fewer race-based laws under apartheid than
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there are right now in South Africa. And the race-based laws under apartheid, by and large,
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were directed at enforcing racial separation, not large-scale farm seizures by the government
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without any limiting principle whatsoever. Activists on the left know they have the losing
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argument in this debate, which is why they're now resorting to some of the most pathetic tactics
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imaginable. So the New Republic, for instance, just ran a story in which they dug up the old tweets of
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one of these white refugees. And we'll get to the bombshell. And let's see if you notice the big
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problem with this line of attack. Maybe you'll pick up on it. So the headline is,
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one of Trump's Africana refugees is quite the anti-Semite.
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So yeah, they went rooting through his tweets to smear him, all because he's white and he's
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fleeing persecution in South Africa. He's allegedly an anti-Semite, so he needs to go back.
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Now, of course, if this is the new standard for refugees, then I have very bad news about 90%
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or more of the refugees that were admitted under the Biden administration. Muslims from the Middle East
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and Africa are not exactly big fans of Jewish people, generally speaking, okay? Even if a lot
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of them don't have Twitter, so you can't go look at it. It doesn't take long if you want to know
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how they feel on that subject. It wouldn't take much digging to find out. But the New Republic
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probably doesn't seem to realize how this would go, but it's pretty obvious. Meanwhile, other luminaries
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on the left are reduced to making explicit threats against these refugees. And here's one viral
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Good morning. This is for the South Africans who are going to be entering the United States. This
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is just a public service announcement. I just wanted to make you aware that the Black people
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who were students during apartheid, we're grandmas and grandpas now, and we have the era of Gen Z.
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One more thing. I also want to let you know that our president, he has secret service and you will not.
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Mm-hmm. I also want to tell you that Black people over here are empowered. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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These are just public service announcements. When you get here, sit your ass down and don't touch nothing
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because you don't have secret service. Okay. Now have the day you deserve.
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Now, this is not some random person, by the way. She has more than 100,000 followers on TikTok for some
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ungodly reason. And she's openly threatening these white refugees with murder solely on the basis of
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their skin color, which, by the way, is something you just never see. For all the talk about the
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anti-immigrant rhetoric on the right, there's nobody on the right going out and just threatening
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to kill immigrants who are coming here. We're saying round them up, deport them if they shouldn't
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be here, enforce our immigration, enforce our laws. There's nobody saying that. Nothing like this is
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happening. All it takes is for a few white people to be admitted, and this is the kind of anti-refugee,
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anti-immigrant rhetoric we get from the left. It's like immediately, all pretense is dropped,
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and they're saying, yeah, we're going to go out and kill you. There's not even any attempt to
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sugarcoat it. She thinks that white people should die. And there are a lot of videos like this on
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TikTok at the moment. Most of them adopt the same gleeful tone. We saw this with Carmelo Anthony.
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We saw it with Rodney Hinton. And now we're seeing it here. And if you listen really carefully,
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by the way, the most telling part of the video happens around the 31-second mark. Maybe go back and
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listen to it again. Turn the volume up. That's the moment where you can hear a very faint smoke
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alarm chirp in the background while this woman is threatening to murder white people. So
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the whole thing is just very on the nose. Actually, there is one exception here. Over at CNN,
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they've managed to fix the smoke detectors at least, but they definitely have not gotten rid of
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the genocidal anti-white commentators. So this again is on CNN. This is not on TikTok.
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The people who are native to that land deserve their rightful land back. That is not what the
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Afrikaners actually want to have happen, which are the white Africans. And so who are not originally
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from Africa who colonized South Africa also. And so that is what they are saying is discrimination.
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Now, if the constitution in South Africa is discriminatory, they have their checks and
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balances in that land, just like we do. And that is for them to, so if the Afrikaners don't actually
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like the land, they can leave that country. They are. They're leaving to come here. No.
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These refugees are coming here. They can actually leave and go to where their native land is,
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which is probably Germany. Are you against them coming here?
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Now, the obvious problem here is that despite being given a national television platform,
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this woman clearly has no idea what she's talking about. She thinks the Afrikaners came
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from Germany. She's a complete imbecile, like pretty much everyone else on CNN. All she's
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interested in doing is demonizing white people. And she's going to do that one way or another
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every time she gets on television. But there's actually a bigger problem with this woman's response.
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I mean, let's pretend for a second that the Afrikaners actually did come from Germany.
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Germany. She's implying that in that scenario, the white people could go back there and she'd
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be fine with that. But of course, she wouldn't be fine with that. The left would not be fine with
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that. Take a look at what the left has done to Germany in the last couple of decades. If you
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don't believe that, I mean, it's unrecognizable. And any white person who complains is immediately
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labeled far right. They're condemned as white supremacists. The National Security Service has
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opened counter-terrorist investigations in every single one of them. And the same is true,
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of course, in this country. So this is the funny thing about who is considered native or
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not, who is considered an invader or not. CNN commentators have no problem announcing that
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white people whose ancestors have been in the country for 20 generations should go back home
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if they're in South Africa. But try telling the Somalis in Minnesota to go back home. You'll
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be immediately labeled a far right bigot. Even though the Somalis have been here for at
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most a couple of decades. Some have been here for a couple of hours. But we're told that
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the Somalis have every right to be here. That we're told the Somalis, the moment they step
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foot here, they are just as American as anyone else. The moment the Somalis steps foot in this
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country, they're just as American as you, even if your family's been here for 400 years.
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And yet the white South Africans are not South African, even after 400 years.
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And Americans who can trace their lineage back several centuries,
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they just have to shut up and take it in this country.
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No matter where they are, maybe you've noticed white people, no matter where they are,
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are always the colonizers. And have no legitimate claim to whatever land they're on.
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In other words, under the left's framework, white people are the only demographic on the planet
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that can never be considered truly at home or native to any country anywhere.
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You know, we'll be told that a white person's true home is Western Europe.
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And yet if any white person in the UK claimed that it was a white country, they'd be condemned.
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They say to us in America that this isn't our land, right? It's stolen. So where is our land?
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They will not follow that to its conclusion and say that, well, Europe is the white man's land.
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They're not going to say that. So where is it? The message is that there is literally no place
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on earth that white people can claim is a legitimate homeland. A white man is native to nowhere.
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He is indigenous to nowhere. I mean, that's strange, isn't it? How does that work?
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Like, have you noticed that there's no country on the planet with white indigenous people?
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How is that possible? Where did the white people come from? Did they fall out of the sky like rain?
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Did they magically spawn out of thin air? If a white person could trace his roots back to the 17th
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century in this country, does that make him a Native American? I mean, at what point can the
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white person say, yeah, I am native to this country? How many centuries does he need to be?
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Does his family need to be in a country to be native to it? How many generations? 10? Is that enough?
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No? 15? 20? 25? 30? 40? Is that enough? At that point, can we say we're native to this country?
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And if the answer is, well, there's no amount of time. If the answer is that, well, it could be a
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thousand years from now, and a white person who's been here for more than a thousand years, their
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family's been here for a thousand years, still is not native to this country in America. If that's the
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answer, then again, where is his native homeland? And if he goes there, can he claim the title of
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Native or Indigenous? Can he say that the non-natives are invading or stealing? Well, the left has no
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answer to any of those questions. And the reason is that the terms Native and colonizer and invader
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and Indigenous are all just tools of manipulation. They don't mean anything. And of course, white people
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get this treatment, even though they actually bring innovation, advancement, and infrastructure
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everywhere they go. And then when they're kicked out, what happens? I mean, very often, that
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infrastructure is not maintained. Look at what happened after Portugal gave back Mozambique or Angola.
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Look at South Africa. Look at Zimbabwe. Total disrepair has followed when the alleged colonizers are
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kicked out. And that's just a historical fact. And why might that be? Well, that's a question you're
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definitely not supposed to ask. But recently, I saw someone who's an African who took a crack at
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addressing this point. Interesting. Let's watch.
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Maintenance? There's no direct English word for that. It doesn't translate directly to
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No, that's not maintenance. What is the one word for repair in Igbo?
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You see? I'm driving you to somewhere. What is the one word for democracy in Igbo language?
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You don't. How about you? You don't. You're trying to practice something that is not in the concept
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of the language. There is no African country, and I've done it through Kenya, through... I've done it all,
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that has an equivalent of the word maintenance.
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Well, in order to maintain something, you have to have it first.
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No, if I leave it for you, you can maintain it. The British left a lot of things in this country
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when they left. They established the hospitals, they established the fire stations,
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the post offices, the railway lines, the roads they built before they left.
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You are not able to maintain it because you don't have that concept.
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Because your environment, the tropical environment of Africa, the way you build your houses,
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the material you use, you don't require maintenance.
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Every country that is called industrialized countries, today, one of the things you know
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about them is maintenance of what they have. That's why we have buildings here that are
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about 250 years old, 300 years old in this country. There are buildings in other countries
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of Europe that are 700 years ago. The Notre Dame that burned in France was a 13th century building.
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Do you know what kept it that long till today? Maintenance is a culture.
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Now, this is one of those conversations that if you were leading South Africa at the moment,
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you'd probably want to take pretty seriously. Maybe you'd take a step back and wonder if 30 years
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of black supremacy and white hatred is really an optimal substitute for maintaining the roads
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and the farms and the power grid. Maybe you'd recognize that if you don't value,
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if you don't even value the concept of maintenance, then inevitably you're going to have a collapse.
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That's what inevitably will happen. And it's pretty clear in South Africa that they don't
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value maintenance at all, which is why they are taking the people who've maintained fertile farmland
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that everyone recognizes as fertile and expelling them from it without any real plan of like,
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how are we going to make food now? So this is what happens if you demonize a handful of productive
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people who are sticking around. But of course, no one in South Africa is asking these questions at
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the moment. Instead, they're demonizing the white people who are already out the door. And that means
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that very soon those white people will have a lot of company. I mean, South Africa is about to lose
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Rumors started circulating pretty widely on social media yesterday that Minnesota is preparing for
00:25:57.280
riots in case there is a pardon of Derek Chauvin. Here's the local ABC affiliate with the report.
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This is what Minneapolis looked like after former MPD officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd. And it's
00:26:13.340
something state and city leaders do not want to see happen again. I spoke with six total sources today.
00:26:19.420
They tell me Governor Tim Walz, the Minnesota National Guard, Attorney General Keith Ellison,
00:26:24.400
Mayor Jacob Fry, and Hennepin County Sheriff DeWanna Witt have all been briefed on a potential Chauvin
00:26:29.600
pardon and the possible end to the federal consent decree that called for extensive reform at MPD.
00:26:36.160
And tonight, law enforcement is now preparing for possible civil unrest if those two things happen.
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Mayor Fry is not talking about those plans, but his Commissioner of Community Safety, Todd Barnett,
00:26:47.780
in a statement says, quote, we've heard the same rumors as everyone else. But the bottom line is that
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Derek Chauvin would remain behind bars serving his state sentence, even if his federal charges are
00:26:59.560
pardoned. To be clear, we have no credible intelligence about any pardon or planned disruptions here in
00:27:05.140
Minneapolis. So this is kind of a strange story. I mean, pardoning Chauvin isn't strange. I think that
00:27:10.500
should happen. But it doesn't it doesn't appear there's any actual indication that a pardon is coming.
00:27:15.080
And I mean, maybe there is, but there's no indication of it. And yet, the media is talking
00:27:21.720
about all these Democrat officials in Minnesota are preparing for it very, very kind of publicly.
00:27:27.300
Which which leads me to believe this is this is all a charade by the Democrats.
00:27:31.680
Some kind of charade to try to whip up the BLM mob. This is them saying, oh, gee, you know,
00:27:36.940
I hope there aren't more riots in the summer. That would be terrible. That would be really bad.
00:27:41.460
Oh, man, I hope I hope that, you know, the first summer after Donald Trump is elected that we don't
00:27:46.080
have mass riots again. That would be right, guys. That would that would be we wouldn't want that.
00:27:51.640
We're really getting prepared for that. So it just doesn't it doesn't make sense that they have
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they say they have no intelligence about a pardon coming and yet they're preparing for riots anyway.
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In case of an event that they have no reason to believe will happen.
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That doesn't make a lot of sense. Alternatively, they do have intelligence of a pardon coming. And
00:28:12.500
this is their way of signaling to the people who organize and fund these riots that they should
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start getting ready, you know, rev up your engines and get ready. Because these riots are not organic.
00:28:23.280
Obviously, riots in response to a federal pardon would definitely not spring up organically
00:28:28.500
because the pardon wouldn't even free Derek Chauvin from jail. There's no reason why riots would break
00:28:34.500
out in response to that, except in a coordinated, non-organic way. Now, all that said, there should
00:28:42.760
definitely be a pardon. There should be a pardon because it's the right thing to do. Leaving aside all
00:28:49.660
the strategy, the political strategy, the legal strategy, it's just the right thing to do. Chauvin was
00:28:54.840
railroaded. He's an innocent man. And Trump should do whatever is in his power to rectify however much
00:29:00.200
of the situation he can. Now, he can't free Chauvin from prison at this point, unfortunately. I have
00:29:06.700
seen people, you know, on X coming up with elaborate ways that maybe he could free him. I saw someone
00:29:14.400
suggest, well, can you send Chauvin to El Salvador, to an El Salvador prison, and then have Bukele
00:29:26.460
free him, you know, so he can live out his days in El Salvador. I think it's very unlikely that
00:29:33.460
something like that will happen. So probably Trump cannot free Chauvin from prison at this point,
00:29:39.240
unfortunately. But he can pardon him from some of the charges at least, and he should.
00:29:45.660
Why should he do it? Well, because he's innocent, and those charges are bogus. And so you should get
00:29:51.100
rid of whatever, you should get rid of all the bogus charges that you can. And there's also,
00:29:59.600
I think maybe people are underestimating this factor. There's also the bully pulpit effect.
00:30:05.680
A pardon would be Trump using the bully pulpit of the presidency to both call attention to Chauvin's
00:30:12.800
plight and also give permission, right, to normal people to speak up for Chauvin and to take his
00:30:21.780
side. And when I say, when I say permission, I don't mean literal permission. Nobody needs actual
00:30:28.460
permission from Trump to say that Chauvin is innocent. I mean permission in the sense of giving
00:30:33.440
cover. This is how it always goes. There's, you know, a lot of people know that what happened to
00:30:40.340
Chauvin is wrong, but they're afraid to say it. They're afraid to speak up. And in the first couple
00:30:46.300
of years of all this, like speaking up in defense of Derek Chauvin was the ultimate taboo because
00:30:51.280
George Floyd was a martyr and a saint and had been canonized. And now that's loosened up a little
00:30:57.980
bit. People are a little bit bolder, but I think most people, most normal people still won't say
00:31:03.740
that publicly. If the president of the United States is saying it though, if the president of
00:31:07.380
the United States comes out and says, this was a, this is this, you know, this guy was railroaded.
00:31:11.840
This was a miscarriage of justice. He should be pardoned. If he says it, then it's not that
00:31:17.620
everyone's all, everyone on the right is going to just parrot whatever he says, because they can't
00:31:23.560
think for themselves. It's more that that's cover that gives people cover because now it's like a
00:31:28.440
lot of people already think that the president says it. And now it gives people to cover where
00:31:32.180
they feel like they can say it too. And, um, cause it's not, it's not this kind of like scary edgy
00:31:38.120
thing anymore when the president is saying it. And that would be a significant benefit. I think
00:31:43.580
in giving, uh, in giving this pardon to Derek Chauvin. Another point I saw somebody on X make this
00:31:49.560
point. And this is, uh, this is not my point. I'm stealing it shamelessly. I think it was the
00:31:55.180
account, uh, Fisher King on X. And he made the point that the Menendez brothers shot both of their
00:32:03.660
parents in the face with a shotgun and killed them. And as far as I, I've followed the story very
00:32:09.540
closely, but I have not followed it. I'm saying, but, uh, as far as I know, they at one point had to
00:32:16.400
go and reload the shotgun to finish the job on their mom. Okay. So this was like a, just a,
00:32:26.180
this is first degree murder. I mean, this is a, a, a planned out murder, very deliberate
00:32:33.500
reloading the shotgun, finishing the job. I mean, this is like very methodical plotted sadistic murder.
00:32:42.840
And, uh, like I said, I haven't followed the case very closely, but I know that their original
00:32:49.960
sentence of life without parole was converted to a lighter sentence recently, which would enable a
00:32:55.780
judge to parole them. And they're in California, I think, which will mean that these two guys who
00:33:03.080
executed their own parents could walk free in society. And, uh, you know, there are other
00:33:12.960
aspects of the case. I mean, they're definitely guilty of executing their parents. Nobody disputes
00:33:16.820
that. They don't dispute that. Their claim, I guess, is that the parents were abusive. As far as I'm
00:33:22.100
aware, that has never been proven. What we do know is that they brutally executed two people.
00:33:27.420
And now as, you know, as Fisher King points out, basically because of women who are obsessed with
00:33:34.540
true crime podcasts, they might get to walk free. Even as Derek Chauvin, an actually innocent man
00:33:42.380
rots behind bars. Uh, like who would you rather live next to? Two psychopaths who shot their parents in
00:33:52.940
the face or Derek Chauvin? Who would you be more worried might like break into your house in the
00:34:00.180
middle of the night and butcher you while you're sleeping? Is that, would anyone be concerned that
00:34:04.580
Derek Chauvin, like would anyone be worried? If Derek Chauvin was living next to you, would you have
00:34:07.600
any, would you be worried at all? Would you have any concern that Derek Chauvin is a threat to you?
00:34:13.340
Of course not. Um, sadistic murderers who killed their own parents. Uh, yeah, I don't want to be
00:34:21.120
anywhere, anywhere around those people. I know it's like, who would want to be around them?
00:34:26.640
And, but this is how it usually goes. You know, you got these, you look at these organizations
00:34:31.300
like the Innocence Project or whatever, and, and often taking up the case, taking up the cases of
00:34:37.760
people who very often clearly are not actually innocent, or it's, it's not clear at all that
00:34:44.040
they are innocent. Working to free the kinds of people into society who none of us would ever want
00:34:50.460
to be around. And maybe there were some procedural things that went wrong in the trial. Maybe this
00:34:55.780
or that happened, but it's like, yeah, they're still definitely guilty though. And yet we work to
00:35:02.160
set those kinds of people free. Nobody would want to be around them, right? You wouldn't want to be
00:35:06.960
like alone or an elevator with any of these kinds of people. And then you have people like Derek Chauvin
00:35:12.340
who you would feel perfectly safe with him in your community. And he's, uh, he's still rotting behind
00:35:18.360
bars. So maybe this is what we need. Maybe, maybe there needs to be, uh, I mean, I'm sure there
00:35:24.260
already have been plenty of podcasts and stuff about, of course there have been about Derek Chauvin,
00:35:30.080
but like we need a, I don't know. We need a, we need a true crime podcast specifically targeting
00:35:36.880
women, like middle-aged women, uh, about Derek Chauvin. And that would, we'll probably, that,
00:35:44.120
that's what tips it over the edge. Once the women start listening to a true crime podcast about a
00:35:49.920
trial and they get into it, then those are the people who end up getting set free. So
00:35:56.520
I don't know. What do you, what do you got to do? What do you got to do to get, what's the,
00:36:02.800
what's the secret sauce here? There, there are certain murder trials that women become very obsessed
00:36:09.160
with and then others that they have no interest in at all. And I, what exactly is the, I mean,
00:36:17.540
there's the obvious thing. Is it like, well, if the, if they think that the, uh, that the accused
00:36:22.000
is attractive, I mean, that might be part of it. I don't think that's the entire thing though.
00:36:26.480
There's something else deeply psychological going on that I haven't quite figured out, but
00:36:29.340
that will be Chauvin's salvation. I think is if, uh, if the soccer moms of America can be mobilized
00:36:40.220
to take up his cause because they saw an HBO documentary or a true crime podcast about it.
00:36:46.420
All right. I've been meaning to play this clip. This gets a little bit graphic. So
00:36:50.600
if you have kids around, you can skip this segment. It's another clip from that YouTube series
00:36:55.400
surrounded. And in this one, uh, the guy being surrounded is, I guess, some kind of LGBT
00:37:01.520
activist. And here he is trying to defend the claim that so-called anti-LGBT policies are anti-Christian.
00:37:10.780
So the specific claim that he's making is that Christianity embraces homosexuality.
00:37:16.400
He's attempting to make a religious argument and allegedly Christian argument for the homosexual
00:37:21.020
lifestyle. And here is, uh, Sarah Stock, who we've seen before on this show, making the counter
00:37:26.240
argument. Uh, let's watch a little bit of that. So I'm assuming from everything you're telling me
00:37:32.200
that you think that God is okay with you practicing sodomy with other men. I am saying that God always
00:37:37.520
acts in accordance with love and the sodomy that was written about in the Bible has nothing to do
00:37:40.980
with loving queer and trans relationships because there was no frame of reference for the phrases who
00:37:45.160
created it. Man is imperfect. God's word is perfect. God would support queer and trans existence.
00:37:49.520
Do you want to talk about why it's also anti-American? You don't think that
00:37:52.500
sodomy existed 2000 years ago? I do think it existed 2000 years ago. And the way that it was
00:37:58.220
written about in the Bible was about hateful, unconsensual, pedophilic, ritualistic acts of
00:38:03.960
sodomy. There have been healthy queer and trans relationships all throughout the history and they
00:38:07.340
were not included in the Bible the same way women's rights were not included in the Bible. God did not
00:38:11.960
intend us to treat that like a law that we never move on from. He entreated us to use it like a way to
00:38:16.520
learn love and practice it better. It is not an instruction manual. It is one tool that we can
00:38:21.160
use to live our lives. But to clarify, so you do think that God is okay with you having sex with
00:38:25.920
other men? Yes. Okay. So I think that your definition of love is basically what feels good
00:38:32.240
for you and also being nice to other people. I think love is more complicated than that. For
00:38:37.600
example, you can have a sexual relationship with someone that you might not love, whereas love is a
00:38:41.160
deeper emotion of care. Okay. But basically it's just like this like fluffy feeling of like, oh,
00:38:46.340
like I like you, I'm treating you well, whatever. I think that love is willing the good of another
00:38:50.960
person. Love is a hard action. So you can, you can have consensual sex with someone and that's not
00:38:56.260
loving them because participating in homosexual acts is inherently not loving because it's damaging.
00:39:02.240
They're not inherently damaging. It violates natural law. It doesn't violate natural law.
00:39:05.680
There are over 1000 species that are proven to have queer relationships.
00:39:11.340
Okay. So the old, uh, the old animals do it so we can do it too. Canard, which I always find
00:39:16.740
hilarious because that's the worst. I mean, animals do a lot of stuff that we shouldn't do.
00:39:24.300
And it's funny how often this comes up in these arguments. Um, and the, the gay rights,
00:39:28.840
the gay rights people like they, they think this is a great argument. They love this argument.
00:39:32.220
They say it, it, it, you have any argument with a gay rights activist and within two minutes,
00:39:38.260
I think we got in under two minutes on that one. Within two minutes, they're going to bring up
00:39:41.840
the animal kingdom. Did you know there's homosexuality in the animal kingdom?
00:39:47.360
Okay. What do you, so because animals do it, that in and of itself shows that it's okay to do it.
00:39:52.720
Animals do, animals eat their own young. Okay. Animals, uh, uh, cannibalize each other.
00:39:59.280
Black widow spider mates with the male and then eats the male.
00:40:06.420
Okay. Should we be doing that? I mean, yeah, a lot of feminists might like that plan, but, uh,
00:40:10.040
but there's a species of wasp that lays its eggs inside of a caterpillar. And then when the eggs hatch,
00:40:18.480
the bait, the little baby wasps eat the caterpillar alive from the inside. Is it, should we,
00:40:24.780
I don't know, should we somehow find a way to adopt that strategy for, you know, that's natural in the,
00:40:31.440
in the animal kingdom? So the point is that the animal kingdom is full of just savagery and
00:40:38.580
brutality. It's, it's, it's a, the animal kingdom is just a, and I love nature documentaries as much
00:40:44.180
as the next guy, but, uh, it is a brutal place. Um, and so I, I don't know that I'd be taking my cues
00:40:53.200
from that. Yeah. You know, like a, a, a human family, a human nuclear family is distinct,
00:41:06.200
uh, uh, among life forms on the planet. It is in a sense, unnatural in a sense.
00:41:16.720
And I say unnatural only in the sense that in the way that it's often used, like when, when people
00:41:23.860
say, Oh, this is natural. What they mean is like, it's, it's base. It's like a based,
00:41:28.360
based kind of bestial instinct. And, and that's what is meant by natural a lot of the time.
00:41:36.200
Uh, the nuclear family monogamy, these are unnatural, not in the sense of being lower
00:41:44.400
than nature, but in transcending our animal nature. It is unnatural in a transcendent sense.
00:41:52.680
It is unnatural in that it is higher. It is better. It is bigger than what you find in nature.
00:42:00.220
Because yes, in the animal kingdom, you're not going to find anything like now you might find it's,
00:42:05.020
it's rare, but there are some species where they have, where they, uh, where they pair up for life
00:42:10.220
where they make mating for life is a, is a thing. And that's very rare. And what you're not going to
00:42:17.560
find is like mating for life and then raising the baby animal for years and years and years. And like
00:42:27.620
they, they, they all live together for years and years and years and years, um, that you just don't
00:42:33.380
find, uh, in the, in the, uh, in the animal kingdom because this is, because we're not modeling our
00:42:40.940
society. We're not moderate modeling human society off of what alligators do. Okay. We're not looking
00:42:47.980
at alligators. We're not looking at monkeys. We're not looking at what the, a tree squirrel does and said,
00:42:54.700
and saying, well, let's model our society over that by that we are, we are modeling our society.
00:43:00.020
Our society is grounded in something that is, that transcends, that is transcendent beyond nature.
00:43:05.380
So, um, so that's all ridiculous. And, and then we get to the kind of, uh, the, the, the biblical,
00:43:15.640
uh, such as it is the biblical argument, which is that Christianity somehow condones the homosexual
00:43:22.400
lifestyle. And this is what they do. If you're wondering how anyone could possibly be a pro-gay,
00:43:29.280
pro-LGBT Christian, this is how they square that circle. I mean, there's no disputing what the Bible
00:43:36.540
says about homosexuality. Obviously there are many passages in the old Testament and, and, and there
00:43:42.980
are multiple messages, passages in the new Testament, like the first chapter of Romans, which describes the
00:43:47.480
homosexual act as shameful and dishonorable and debased. That's what the Bible says.
00:43:55.500
Right. And he's bringing up the Bible. So you can't, you can't say, oh, who cares what the Bible
00:44:01.580
says? That's the argument. That's the argument he's making. So he cares about what the Bible says
00:44:06.900
allegedly. So let's talk about what it says. So the first chapter of Romans says that homosexual
00:44:13.320
act is shameful, dishonorable, and debased. It's hard to be more explicit than that.
00:44:19.760
And perhaps even more clear, even more explicit is the fact that the Bible comes right out of the
00:44:23.900
gate in Genesis, describing what a, what a man is supposed to do. And, uh, and it's this to remind
00:44:31.780
you, a man shall leave his father's mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one,
00:44:35.760
one flesh. Again, that's, that's not really a natural setup. That is a, a supernatural setup.
00:44:45.300
I think is the framing is the best way to frame it. It's not natural. It's supernatural. That is a
00:44:50.480
supernatural. The two become one flesh. That doesn't happen in the animal kingdom. Um, so anyway,
00:44:58.240
but it's right there. So what are you going to do about this? If you're an LGBT activist? Well,
00:45:04.060
one thing you could do is just say, well, Christianity is false. It's an ignorant,
00:45:08.240
ancient, you know, bigoted religion. And I reject it totally. You could say that. I think that's
00:45:14.620
wrong. I think that's tragically terribly wrong, but that's one way of dealing with the very clear
00:45:19.840
biblical edicts, both condemning the homosexual lifestyle and prescribing monogamous heterosexual
00:45:25.400
marriage as the correct and healthy form. And, uh, and, and plenty of LGBT activists will just say
00:45:31.340
that. They'll say, well, I don't care what the Bible says. I'm not, you know, it's the Bible's
00:45:34.540
false. But then you've got guys like this who want to cling to the Christian label. They, and these
00:45:39.760
guys are much, much greater threats because they're trying to subvert Christianity from the inside.
00:45:45.040
The guys on the outside, basically the, the Reddit atheists talking about how we believe in a
00:45:50.920
magical sky daddy or whatever they say, they're not much of a threat. Uh, nobody takes them seriously.
00:45:56.680
The greater threat is this. These people who claim to be Christian while holding to a moral
00:46:01.340
framework that is completely anti-Christian. And how do they do it? Well, they do it by just simply
00:46:07.300
declaring that the words in the Bible mean something other than what the words actually mean.
00:46:13.160
So he just states as fact that anytime homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, which it is frequently,
00:46:20.100
it's really condemning rape and pedophilia, which is an interesting argument, right? Like
00:46:26.360
so you're saying that the Bible uses homosexuality as a catch-all term for rape and pedophilia.
00:46:35.080
I'm not sure that really helps your case, but this is what they do. The LGBT activists who
00:46:39.420
pretend to be Christian, this is what they do. Oh, no, no, no, it's no, it's totally fine. Because
00:46:44.120
whenever the Bible talks about gay people or homosexuality, what they really just mean,
00:46:47.520
that's just a word that means sexual violence. Oh, really? Well, have you thought about that?
00:46:58.200
That's interesting, isn't it? Um, and anyway, it's not true. Homosexuality in the Bible meant back
00:47:05.740
then what it means now. Okay. Men having relations with other men. In fact, even that is explained in
00:47:13.280
Romans, as I mentioned, St. Paul says that there are men having relations with men and this is
00:47:17.540
debased and wrong. It can't get more clear than that. So it's not even just saying, oh, homosexuality
00:47:25.120
is, and then you can go, well, what, what did he mean by homosexuality? I wonder what that means.
00:47:30.460
No, he actually says, no, there are, there are men who are having relations with men. That is wrong.
00:47:36.000
Don't do that. It's right there. I mean, it's, it's plain text. Um, but what we get from guys like
00:47:46.120
this is they say, well, yeah, well, Paul says that, but what he really meant to say, I'll tell you what
00:47:53.060
he really meant to say. And if you ask them, well, how do you, where do you, what are you basing that
00:47:58.540
on? What do you mean what he really meant to say? Well, these guys, they treat the Bible like it's
00:48:04.760
some sort of obscure hieroglyphic that they have to translate and not translate. Like we translate
00:48:10.200
a foreign language in English, obviously all of our Bibles. And if we're speak English are
00:48:14.780
translated that way. Um, but no, they translate it like, you know, if you go to some, uh, con artist
00:48:25.760
psychic and you tell her about your dreams and she starts interpreting your dreams for you,
00:48:31.680
you know, and says, Oh, well, a tiger appeared in your dream. And so that means that you're worried
00:48:37.860
that you're going to lose your job or whatever. That's how they treat it. And now there are parts
00:48:44.540
of the Bible that are, that are, that are dreamlike, you know, that are visions and dreams of the
00:48:51.300
apocalyptic literature, revelation and so on. But because the Bible, you know, the Bible is not one
00:48:58.000
book. We call the Bible, a book, but it's, it's not one book as any, anyone who's read the Bible
00:49:04.480
knows. Uh, it's a collection of books and all these different books are doing different things.
00:49:10.120
It's different styles of literature. It's different styles of writing. And they're trying to do
00:49:14.960
different things. It's not, it's not, it's not like one thing. Um, and so you have books, I mean,
00:49:21.740
you have the Psalms, you have poetry, you have all these things, but much of the Bible,
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particularly in the new Testament is written to be very plain and very clear because you have to
00:49:34.920
look again at what, okay, whatever part of the Bible you're reading, what was the author of this,
00:49:40.720
this portion that I'm reading? What was the author trying to do? What was the point of this?
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Well, the epistles of Paul are letters that he wrote to various churches
00:49:52.600
and they're, they're meant to be clear as day. He's directly addressing and dealing with, uh,
00:49:59.660
the issues that the communities were facing and some, and often like deep moral theological issues,
00:50:05.120
sometimes more practical day-to-day issues, but that's all it was. It was, he was writing letters.
00:50:09.680
It wasn't meant to be, it was meant to be clearly understood based on the language that was used
00:50:15.940
to deal with these like problems that they were experiencing in their communities.
00:50:21.660
Um, so, but these, these LGBT activists and so-called left, these, these leftists who are
00:50:29.040
so-called Christians, but not real Christians, these subversives, uh, in the church, they look at even
00:50:36.120
stuff like that. They look at the epistles, they look at the, um, the, the, the plain words of the text,
00:50:43.180
the plain words of Christ in the gospels. And they treat even that stuff like it's, well,
00:50:50.400
I know this is the word that's used, but here's what, and they, and they state it.
00:50:58.160
It's not even an argument, it's just an assertion. And you saw in that clip very confidently, he says,
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well, yeah, but it meant this. Really? How do you know that? Where'd you hear that?
00:51:11.080
Oh no, you heard it because another like subversive left-wing LGBT gay, uh, so-called theologian or
00:51:18.180
whatever told you that's, that's why you know it. You read it in a book that was, that was written
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daily cancellation. On January 3rd, 2019, something unthinkable happened at Jeff Bezos's newsletter,
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which is formerly known as the Washington Post. At the time, the paper was furiously obsessing over
00:53:01.580
every detail of the Russiagate hoax. But amid all the chaos and the P-tape stuff, one man managed to
00:53:07.420
write a worthwhile opinion piece for the Washington Post. And it was a bit like Monet somehow managing
00:53:12.460
to create a decent painting, even though he was pretty much blind. The piece I'm talking about
00:53:16.240
was written by a guy named Sonny Bunch. And here was the headline. Environmentalists make good movie
00:53:20.800
villains because they want to make your real life worse. And the op-ed goes through a number of
00:53:25.760
examples from Thanos, Thanos, Thanos, right? In Avengers Affinity War to King Orm in Aquaman to Samuel
00:53:33.140
Jackson's character in The Kingsman. All movies that I have not seen. And in all these cases,
00:53:39.160
apparently, the villain is motivated by some strain of environmentalism. The Aquaman villain guy was
00:53:45.160
angry about trash being dumped in the water, apparently. Now, admittedly, we're not talking
00:53:50.840
about groundbreaking journalism, but by the Washington Post standards, this is profoundly
00:53:55.320
insightful stuff. And I was reminded of this article recently when I saw this headline from Axios the
00:54:00.220
other day. Quote, EPA administrator targets stop-start vehicle tech. Everyone hates it. The article
00:54:06.900
explains, quote, Trump administration is targeting climate technology that automatically turns a
00:54:10.700
vehicle's engine off when it's stopped to save fuel. Stop-start technology has become a common
00:54:15.560
feature in new vehicles as a way to save a few bucks on gas and reduce emissions. Advocates like
00:54:20.320
it because it helps combat climate change, but critics find it irritating. The article quotes EPA
00:54:25.260
administrator Lee Zeldin as saying, quote, stop-start technology where your car dies at every red light
00:54:29.640
so companies get a climate participation trophy. EPA approved it and everyone hates it, so we're fixing
00:54:34.040
it. Now, currently, the EPA incentivizes automakers to implement stop-start technology by providing
00:54:39.720
them with fuel economy credits. As of 2023, more than 65% of vehicles are equipped with this system,
00:54:46.500
so there's a good chance that unless you're driving an electric car or hybrid, your car has some kind of
00:54:51.120
start-stop functionality. And if that's the case, you should disable it immediately if your car allows
00:54:58.800
you to do so. And in practice, if you don't turn it off or if you can't, the start-stop feature works by
00:55:05.700
shutting down your engine when you come to a stop for any length of time, like at a red light. And for those
00:55:10.560
of us who can't turn this feature off, this is a source of, like, constant unnecessary annoyance.
00:55:16.200
Generally, it means that your air conditioning shuts off as well or doesn't work as well. And it means you're going
00:55:20.640
to accelerate more slowly from a stop. And supposedly, this is all worth it because it cuts down on
00:55:25.580
greenhouse emissions, and therefore, it stops the weather from changing. And as an added bonus,
00:55:31.220
it'll potentially save you a couple of dollars when you fill up your tank, supposedly.
00:55:36.220
Now, in reality, of course, the start-stop feature, it turns out, does not change the weather or prevent
00:55:43.840
hurricanes. And we know that because reports indicate anyway that hurricanes still exist. And it seems that
00:55:50.040
the weather is still changing. And additionally, to the extent that it's saving you a few dollars on fuel
00:55:54.360
costs, it's dramatically increasing the wear and tear on your engine and your battery. And replacing those
00:56:00.280
components is a lot more expensive than spending a few extra dollars at the gas pump. An account called Honest
00:56:05.060
Mechanic Colorado broke down some of the issues involved in this system. Watch.
00:56:09.920
Number one, oil pressure issues. Think about this for a second. Every time your engine starts up, there's a brief
00:56:16.140
moment where oil pressure hasn't fully built up. In a normal car, this happens maybe once or twice a day.
00:56:22.260
But with start-stop, we're talking dozens of times in a single commute. That adds up, especially on turbo
00:56:28.200
engines where that hot oil is crucial for cooling. Number two, battery and starter problems. Yes, these
00:56:34.440
cars use special AGM batteries and heavy-duty starters. But guess what? Those parts cost way more to
00:56:40.140
replace. I'm talking two times more than regular parts. And trust me, they don't last three times longer.
00:56:46.520
Now, it's a worthwhile video because it goes through all the different ways that the geniuses
00:56:51.640
in the federal bureaucracy decided that technology should be made worse. And so it's worthwhile in
00:57:00.920
that sense. But you don't really need it. Common sense tells you that it can't be good for a car's
00:57:04.580
engine to increase the number of times it's turned off and on by like, what, 500% or more? That's
00:57:10.820
exactly what the start-stop system does. It introduces a huge amount of completely unnecessary
00:57:14.440
wear and tear on a system that was not designed for it. There's also a safety problem here.
00:57:18.860
The stop-start thing means that when you accelerate from a stop, there's a brief delay as the engine
00:57:24.500
revs up again. And the delay may only be one second. But if you're making a left turn onto a busy road,
00:57:29.160
for example, a second could be the difference between getting T-boned or not. And none of this
00:57:35.000
is new. The people who created the systems like this all the way back in the 1970s understood that
00:57:38.380
it would cause problems for people's cars. But they did it anyway because the country was
00:57:42.140
experiencing a massive fuel shortage at the time. The Arabs implemented an oil embargo,
00:57:46.180
which meant that gas stations saw long lines and fuel prices quadrupled. So this was pitched as a
00:57:50.280
way to conserve gas, not as a way to save the planet. The saving the planet stuff is the new branding.
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And only people who have never driven a car in their lives and who don't understand how cars work
00:58:00.060
would think that this is a good pitch. And in that sense, the start-stop debacle is the perfect
00:58:06.780
expression of environmental activism. Because it promises to save the planet, when in reality,
00:58:12.420
it serves only one purpose, which is to make your life a little bit worse. Now, granted,
00:58:17.560
it makes your life worse in a comparatively small way. But that's not the point. The point is that it's
00:58:22.740
totally unnecessary. Your car engine is being destroyed more quickly, and you're sitting at a
00:58:28.800
stoplight without AC for no reason. The old system worked fine. They changed it, increasing a daily
00:58:36.120
annoyance in your life for no reason. And this is what environmentalism has become. Just finding,
00:58:42.760
it's what it always has been. Finding little ways, one after another, to take things that worked fine
00:58:49.400
and to make them worse than they were before, totally arbitrarily. And the way they play the game is
00:58:56.360
that you can never complain about any of it because all of it individually is so small
00:59:00.260
that if you complain about it, then they can always go, what are you freaking out about? It's
00:59:03.900
this little thing. Yeah, but why? It's a little thing, but why did you do it? There was no reason
00:59:09.580
for it. And we've seen a lot of efforts like this, from the attempts to ban gas stoves, to banning
00:59:15.200
disposable plastic bags, the crusade against plastic straws. In the case of plastic straws that we
00:59:19.380
previously discussed, a nine-year-old boy came up with data basically out of his own imagination,
00:59:24.660
suggesting that these straws are somehow a major threat to civilization, and everyone just went
00:59:28.840
with it. The next thing you know, you're drinking out of a paper straw that dissolves inside the
00:59:32.860
drink. A small thing. It's like the smallest thing, but why? Why can't I just use the straws
00:59:41.460
that actually work? Those were fine, but they made the change and introduced another little annoyance
00:59:47.580
into your life for no reason. It would be like if, imagine if one day the powers that be decided
00:59:53.640
that every chair manufacturer in America has to make chairs that have one leg slightly shorter
01:00:00.740
than the others. And imagine that the reason for this policy is something totally fantastical and
01:00:05.740
just made up. Maybe they determined that sitting on a wobbly chair helps to ward off evil invisible
01:00:11.140
fairies or something. I don't know. Now imagine that as a result, every chair you sit in is a little
01:00:18.020
bit wobbly. Now it's true that a wobbly chair is not a major crisis. It's not a huge problem in the
01:00:23.660
grand scheme. If anyone asked you about the greatest struggles in your life and you said that wobbly
01:00:28.840
chairs are at the top of the list, they would conclude rightly that you are the most pampered
01:00:32.580
human who's ever existed. But even so, it would be extremely annoying and it would make your life a
01:00:38.000
little bit worse if every chair was wobbly. And the fact that this was being done on purpose
01:00:43.620
for some totally superstitious, insane reason only makes the annoyance exponentially greater.
01:00:52.540
And that's what it is with these changes made to save the climate. They are very often small
01:00:58.800
annoyances being imposed on us for insane and superstitious reasons. And that just makes it worse.
01:01:06.380
And there are dozens of examples of this. Another one is the effort to ban incandescent lights,
01:01:10.220
for example, which doesn't get a lot of attention. And here's what streets used to look like on the
01:01:15.660
left before environmentalists decided that incandescent lights are going to destroy the
01:01:19.840
planet in 12 years. And that was a lot more than 12 years ago. Planets, well, maybe that's why the
01:01:25.760
planet wasn't destroyed because they made the change. And because environmentalists stepped in and
01:01:30.260
saved all of civilization, now pretty much every city block in the country looks like the photo on
01:01:35.260
the right. We're now treated to this kind of fluorescent looking office space aesthetic
01:01:39.220
everywhere we go. City streets used to have kind of like a cool moody feel to them. Now everything
01:01:43.920
looks like a hospital hallway. And when you confront environmentalists about this, they will say that
01:01:49.140
LED lights can actually display any kind of color and that it's absurd to want light that's less bright.
01:01:53.540
And the picture on the right looks better anyway. But the left is much warmer. It has more character
01:01:58.540
and a lot of people liked it. So why do we have to change it everywhere? Walk down the street on the left
01:02:02.960
and you might be inspired to become the next Edgar Allan Poe. It's contemplative and distinct.
01:02:07.860
And walk down the street on the right and you'll feel a little like Bill Lumberg wondering where the
01:02:12.240
TPS reports are. There's really no comparison. Now, is the Trump administration going to fix
01:02:15.820
streetlights next? We can only hope. But for now, they have done the nation a great service by moving
01:02:21.040
to end the absurdity of these start-stop systems in automobiles. And we should end all of the little
01:02:28.180
revisions that environmentalists have made to our lives against our will. They are small things on
01:02:35.320
their own, but together they make our lives a little bit worse for no reason. And also, as a matter of
01:02:41.400
principle, environmentalists should just simply never get their way about anything ever. And that
01:02:46.160
is why the inventor of start-stop technology, along with every other environmentalist who wants to make
01:02:50.420
our lives worse, are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks
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for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.