Ep. 1598 - Race-Baiting Politicians Are Trying To Push For Reparations AGAIN
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats in Congress have introduced a trillion-dollar slavery reparations bill, Mike Lee is pushing a bill that could lead to almost all pornography being banned, and thousands of people on social media have been mad at me this week for tweeting a swastika.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats in Congress have introduced a trillion-dollar
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slavery reparations bill. Also, Mike Lee is pushing a bill that could lead to almost all
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pornography being banned. Budget airlines are now so bad that they have roach infestations on their
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planes. And thousands of people on social media have been very mad at me this week, claiming that
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I tweeted a swastika and announced my allegiance to the Nazi party. Is that true? And what is my
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message to the outrage mob? Well, we'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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There are many ways in which the House of Representatives is feeling the effects of the
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absence of former Congresswoman Cori Bush. Now, you might remember that Cori Bush was the only
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member of Congress in the history of this country who claimed to have performed a bona fide miracle
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while in office. Specifically, in a televised interview, Bush said that she once cured a woman's
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cancer simply by placing her hand on the woman's body. As she put it, this homeless lady came up to us
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and she had these tumors and she wanted us to, like, feel them. I laid hands on her and prayed
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and then I felt that my hand was no longer touching a tumor. It shrank along with the others on her
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body and the lumps that were there were no longer there. She was so happy and she went on about her
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day. Close quote. It's too bad that this homeless woman disappeared because this kind of interaction
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seems like the thing that cancer researchers might have been interested in following up on. But
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in any event, Bush did not stop there because, as we all know, you need two miracles in order to
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qualify for sainthood. Normally, these miraculous events occur after the saint has died, but Bush
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doesn't have time for that. And therefore, she claimed that she also once helped a toddler take
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her first steps in St. Louis, even though the child was gravely ill. Quote, I carry the child from the
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prayer room in the back of the church out onto the sanctuary. Walk, I said gently to the three-year-old
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girl. You will walk. And this girl took her first step, Bush wrote. Because Bush was voted out of
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office in the last election. Unfortunately, we don't hear stories like this anymore. Therefore,
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until Jesus himself returns, we can assume that countless hobos in St. Louis will continue to
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suffer needlessly from all kinds of horrible afflictions. But despite that sad reality, it's
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not all bad news. Consider the fact that without Cori Bush's voice to amplify them, a lot of fraudulent
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BLM narratives will die before they get started. We won't have to listen to her tributes to Michael
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Brown and George Floyd every year. So that's something at least. Yet we've lost a miracle
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worker. But we have gained some peace and quiet. So that's the trade-off. Or at least we thought
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we gained some peace and quiet. At the moment, there is a concerted effort underway among House
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Democrats to revive the legacy of Cori Bush, such as it is. But they're not revising the whole bid for
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sainthood routine. Instead, they are doubling down on Cori Bush's true passion of life, which is whipping
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up a race war. And to that end, Democrats are revitalizing one of Bush's dumbest ideas, which is
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her plan to enact trillions of dollars in reparations. Quoting from The Hill, a coalition of
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Democratic lawmakers and advocates on Thursday reintroduced a resolution to offer reparations
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to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent. Representative Summer Lee led the
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reintroduction of the Reparations Now resolution, which was first introduced in 2023 by former
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Representative Cori Bush. The resolution calls for the federal government to allocate trillions of
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dollars in reparations to black Americans. Now, keep in mind the entire federal budget for the last
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fiscal year was around $7 trillion. So we're talking about spending a very significant chunk of the
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overall federal budget on handouts to black people, essentially. And on top of these trillions of
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dollars in reparations, Cori Booker and Jasmine Crockett are also planning to introduce the Truth,
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Racial Healing and Transformation Commission Act, which would supposedly, quote, acknowledge and
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memorialize the arrival of the first slave ship in the United States and the injustices suffered by
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people of color throughout history. Now, here is Ayanna Pressley and Summer Lee to explain. And
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before I play this, these clips are not sped up in any way, at least as far as I know. I mean, this is
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how I found them. They're like this. It just seems like they're talking really, really fast for some
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reason. But anyway, here it is. We are in a moment of anti-blackness on steroids and we refuse to be
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silent. We will not back down in our pursuit of racial justice. The antidote to anti-blackness is
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to be pro-black and we will do it unapologetically. The United States government owes us a debt and we
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need reparations. Let's make it clear. There is a debt that does exist. This country has taken so much
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from black folks and has a debt it owes because for over 400 years into this very day, this country has
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stolen black labor, black lives, black futures. Industries were built and maintained through the
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subjugation of black people in this country. And wealth was built and maintained through the
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discriminatory policies that still plague us to this day. And to be clear, some people directly
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benefited from it or are direct beneficiaries of it. We have systems that create and perpetuate
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imbalances, imbalances in our society. And you either benefit from it or you are disenfranchised by it.
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And black people continue to be disenfranchised and harmed by these systems. Others receive
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advantages from it. I mean, that has to be sped up, right? That's like, are they really just
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talking that way? I don't know. It's either sped up or they're on cocaine. I don't know. You know,
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it's, I mean, either one of those possibilities is very valid. But, and now before we go any further
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with the specifics of this legislation, I have to provide something of a disclosure at this point.
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You know, we've talked about the issue of reparations plenty of times on the show. And
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the difference is that now I have a very personal stake in the issue. And that's because recently
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and somewhat unexpectedly, and I say this with nothing but modesty in my heart, I have become,
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as you know, something of a pioneer when it comes to the issue of reparations in the United States.
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In fact, according to all available information, I am the only person in America,
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along with Robin DiAngelo, who has actually paid reparations. Now, you might point out that I was
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undercover doing a movie when I paid my reparations. Am I racist? Which you can watch on Daily Wire
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right now. You might point out that I took my reparations back immediately after the cameras
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were turned off. And you might point out that the reparations were only like 20 bucks or whatever
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I had in my wallet. All of that is true. But that's not the important thing to keep in mind.
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The important thing is that I am an expert on this issue. I've been personally involved in a way that
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very few people are. And so I have no choice but to chime in and provide my analysis. And with that
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in mind, the first thing that needs to be said is that if we really want reparations for the
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descendants of slaves, then, you know, we're going to need to spend a lot more than a trillion dollars.
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And that's because, of course, every single person who's alive right now on the planet,
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if you go back far enough, has ancestors who were slaves, period. No exceptions. I mean,
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the Romans alone enslaved millions of people from all over the world. So did Egypt, Greece, China,
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the Persians, the Russians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, Ottomans, and so on. And that's not even
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getting into indentured servitude. You know, you take a look at what happened to Irish Catholics in
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the 17th century in places like Barbados, for example. Technically, many of these Irishmen became
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indentured servants, not slaves. But in many cases, that meant that they were treated even worse than
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slaves since they weren't expected to work for their entire lives. Roughly half of them died within
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four years, by some estimates. As the researcher Michael Mahoney pointed out, quote, John Scott,
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an English adventurer who traveled in the West Indies during the Commonwealth, saw Irish servants
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working in field gangs with slaves without stockings under the scorching sun. The Irish,
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he wrote, were derided by the Negroes and branded with the epitaph of white slaves. Once in the
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Caribbean, many plantation owners considered servants and freemen from Ireland as a potentially
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subversive lot who had to be controlled and kept in a laboring status. Punishments for attempted
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escapes included branding the letters FT, Fugitive Traitor, on the servant's forehead. One assembly
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member in Barbados is quoted in 1667 as stating, we have more than a good many Irish amongst us.
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Therefore, I am for the downright Scott, who I am certain will fight without a crucifix about his
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neck. Close quote. In other words, a lot of obvious anti-Catholic, anti-white bigotry at work
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here. And in many cases, these Irish servants were treated far worse than slaves as they worked
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alongside them. And this is just one of many, many examples. Here's another. Did you know that
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in 1797, 20% of the U.S. federal budget, a total of $1 million at the time, went to paying tribute to
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Muslim nations in North Africa so that they would stop enslaving white people? This was a big business
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for them. In total, they enslaved more than a million whites from both Europe and the United States.
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This was during the Barbary Wars. And for context today, we don't spend anywhere near 20% of the
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U.S. budget on defense spending. But in 1797, we spent 20% of the budget on ransom payments to Algiers.
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And as we did so, the Africans made sure to mock Americans at every opportunity. The tribute was
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ultimately ferried to Constantinople by the frigate USS George Washington. And along the way,
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the Africans forced the American warship to fly an Ottoman flag. There was sadistic brutality going
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on at every level. And they only stopped enslaving white people because they were forced to do so.
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Now, these are chapters from American history that you don't hear much about. Certainly smooth-brained
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race hustlers like Ayanna Pressley won't mention any of this, probably don't even know about any of it.
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And that's because, as always, their goal isn't to actually have a serious discussion about reparations
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to the extent that it's even possible to do so. They know that this resolution has no chance of
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passing in either chamber of Congress, much less being signed into law. They know this is purely
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performative. It's a purely performative piece of legislation that's intended to stoke racial conflict
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and enrage as many people as possible so that they'll feel entitled and envious.
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And then they might finally start rioting, as Democrats desperately want them to do.
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And it's no coincidence that, as we talked about yesterday, we are seeing this pivot on the left
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back to race hustling, not that they ever left it, but pivoting back to it in a very serious way,
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heading into the summer under the first year of Trump's new term in office. Pretty clear what
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they want to see happen. Now, of course, it should also be said that indirect, inexplicit reparations
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have already been paid in the form of DEI policies, in the form of affirmative action,
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the welfare state, every other policy put in place in the name of white guilt. Most of the federal
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government is a kind of make-work program for certain demographics to funnel them taxpayer money
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without any accountability. And we see what good all that has done for the black community.
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But explicit reparations, the kind where black Americans get money because they're black Americans
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for slavery, that will certainly never happen. From a political perspective, it's not feasible.
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It's just not going to happen. It will not be tolerated by the American public. This is yet
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another failed idea from the Cori Bush playbook, one among many. At the same time, it's interesting
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to note that this legislation comes at the very moment that white South Africans are fleeing their
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homeland, seeking refuge in the United States. They're being forcibly evicted from their own homes
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solely because of their skin color, as we've discussed several times this week.
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And you know what that means. There's about to be a lot more room in Africa for any supposedly
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oppressed group in the United States, including Congresswomen like Ayanna Pressley. So maybe
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there's an opportunity here for a kind of reparation through repatriation thing. Maybe we could offer
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some of these Democrats a taxpayer-funded, all-expenses-paid trip to whatever lands their
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ancestors are from, if they're so oppressed here. And since we're judging everybody by their
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ancestors, it seems more than appropriate. Plus, they'll gain access to plenty of fertile
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farmland in South Africa, as Don Lemon often reminds us. The opportunity for untold riches
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in a land totally devoid of white people is right there for the taking. Will Ayanna Pressley and
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Summer Lee and all these other Democrats seize that opportunity? Well, of course not.
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That's because they know that when given the opportunity, they cannot govern. They can't
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improve anyone's lives. They certainly can't manage a farm. All they're capable of doing is playing
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the Victim Act, demonizing white people, looting the Treasury. And without white people to demonize,
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there won't be any money to loot. That's why reparations is a losing issue for Democrats.
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It's also why South Africa is about to collapse entirely. And it's why, as many more Americans
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wake up to the reality of what's happening, politicians like Ayanna Pressley and Summer
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Lee and Ilhan Omar will go the way of Cori Bush. They'll be removed from Congress by the voters.
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That's the outcome these anti-white politicians are apparently clamoring for. And now that they've
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introduced this reparations bill once again and made it clear they have no interest in representing
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a very dumb bill that was introduced this week. Here is a bill that was introduced that is a very good
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bill. This is from the Post Millennial. Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, has introduced a bill
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that is targeted at banning online pornography in the United States, as well as defining what
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obscenity is in legal terms. Lee, as well as Representative Mary Miller, introduced the bill
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called the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, which, if passed, would make it illegal to transmit
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obscene material across state lines, making large swaths of pornographic material illegal online.
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In a new release from Lee, he said, obscenity isn't protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and
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unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society
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and reach countless children. Our bill updates the legal definition of obscenity for the internet age
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so that this content can be taken down and its peddlers prosecuted. Miller also commented on the
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bill, saying the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act equips law enforcement with the tools they need to
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target and remove obscene material from the internet, which is alarmingly destructive and far
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outside the bounds of protected free speech under the Constitution. This bill will clarify what obscenity
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means in the modern age, remove ambiguity around the term, and provide a standardized definition of
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what obscenity is. A Supreme Court case that was ruled on in 1973 made the term subjective as well as
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vague. And so that's what they're looking to fix. And this is great stuff. I'm obviously not at all
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optimistic that it will actually happen, but it should happen. It's time to end this charade about
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pornography being free speech. It's not. It's totally ridiculous pretense that the First Amendment
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covers hardcore porn, that the First Amendment requires us to allow millions of hours of hardcore
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porn to be readily and freely accessible to anyone at any moment and at any age. Like, it's insane.
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It's just insane. Does anyone think, does anyone actually think that our founding fathers,
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the guys who codified free speech into law, does anyone think that they would think that it covers
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internet porn? Now, obviously, internet porn didn't exist at the time, but if you could go back and
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show them, you know, in a crystal ball, a world where everybody is carrying around a device in their
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pocket that gives them instantaneous access to videos of the most depraved sexual acts ever conceived by
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human beings, if you could show them that, does anyone think that any of them would say that,
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oh, yeah, well, that's free speech? Yeah, oh, yeah, that's what we meant. We meant that too.
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Does anyone think that? No, nobody thinks that. You know, this is, pornography is obscenity,
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the most extreme kind of obscenity. Obscenity laws exist in this country already. That's what this
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bill is all about. They exist in this country. They've always existed. This has been the precedent
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since always, basically, in this country that free speech is one thing, obscenity is another thing,
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and free speech does not cover obscenity. The only question is, like, how do you define obscenity?
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And there's been an effort underway over the last 40 or 50 years to make that term as vague as possible
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so that you can have obscenity laws like we do in this country, but they're impossible to enforce
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because you can't apply it to anything. Well, again, this whole conversation is ridiculous because,
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yes, when you're trying to define something like obscenity, there are going to be edge cases.
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There are going to be, it's like anything else, you know, it's kind of an overarching concept,
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and it's a rather big umbrella, and you're going to have edge cases, and you're going to have things
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where it can kind of go either way. You're going to have things that you're debating, like, does that
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count as obscenity or not? Yeah, you're going to have that. But if obscenity means anything,
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it must obviously cover hardcore pornography on the internet. So there are plenty of, there are things
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where, you know, you could have a debate about, is that obscenity? There's no debate about porn.
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Obviously, that's obscenity. So even if we applied obscenity laws only to pornography and nothing
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else, okay, well, that's progress. And there's just no rational argument that obscenity, that porn
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does not count as obscenity. I can't take you seriously because if you go, well, what is obscenity?
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Is pornography obscene? It's literally the definition of obscene. So we can argue about
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what does it apply to? There are things where it's a little bit vague. Pornography is not vague.
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And, you know, the other thing about obscenity laws is that they've been in this country since
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forever. They're not enforced anymore, but they used to be. Back when they were enforced,
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we were not living in a, in some sort of oppressive dystopia.
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We're in much more of an oppressive dystopia now than we were back when things like obscenity laws
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were real and were actually enforced. So all of the slippery slope scenarios people dream up,
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oh, well, we can't ban porn because then next thing you know, we won't be able to express our
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political beliefs. Those scenarios are nonsense. It is very easy. Okay, again, people just like this
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gaslighting, this, this kind of pretending to be a lot more obtuse than you really are.
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How do we differentiate between pornography and a political opinion? I mean, if we ban porn,
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then we'll have no choice, but also ban political views as if those two things aren't distinctly
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different as if those aren't two obviously distinct categories. Okay. If you, if you are a porn
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consumer, which I hope you aren't, but if you are, I don't think you've ever come across porn in your
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life where you were like, is this porn or is this a political statement? I can't tell. I don't know what
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this is. That's never happened. So give me a break. Um, we have enforced obscenity laws in the
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past and at the same time, people were still able to give their political opinions. In fact, for many
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decades, pornography was heavily censored, heavily restricted, and you weren't allowed to access it
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or see it or purchase it unless you were an adult. And even then you could only find it in specific
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places. Okay. There was a long time in this country where pornography, it was, was not very
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accessible. And, um, if you wanted to get it, you had to go to some real skeevy places and you had to,
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you know, be willing to, uh, embarrass yourself in that way. And most people aren't. And so, you know,
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most people just never encountered pornography. And, and you know what, like we didn't live in a
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dystopia back then. Our country is far more dystopian now than it was back when that was the
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case. So the whole thing is ludicrous. The arguments against banning porn are gibberish. Uh, porn is not
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speech. Porn is prostitution. And I've explained this many times. Speech, protected political speech
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is the communication of an idea or an opinion. That's speech. Porn is not the communication of an
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idea or an opinion. Now, part of the problem, so we've got two terms that, um, are, so we have,
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we have two, two terms here that get applied that, that make this complicated. Uh, one of them is the
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term of obscenity, which is, which is actually not hard to define, but it has been broadened so that
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it's been deliberate. That idea has been deliberately broadened so that it's, so that it's hard to know
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where to apply it. Uh, and then we have this other idea, this other term expression, right? We don't,
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so we're not talking about free speech anymore. We're talking about free expression.
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Well, the first amendment doesn't say free expression. It says free speech. That's what
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it's protecting. This expression thing, that's a, that's a, that's a more modern invention.
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First amendment does not say free speech. It says free speech. And there is a difference
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because, you know, we can't have the government controlling what you say, the ideas or opinions
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you convey, but expression is a much, much, much broader category. It's so broad that it's meaningless.
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Which is the whole idea, right? Because expression can be anything. Anything you do can be expression.
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And so when people act like it's confusing and they say, what is, what is free speech? What is
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speech? No, speech is not confusing. We know what that is. That's definable. That's a certain thing.
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Speech is conveying, communicating an idea or an opinion. That's speech. Expression is vague.
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Expression can be anything. So let's just stop talking about expression and just talk about speech.
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Um, because any, you know, walking around naked in public, that's definitely not speech, but it is
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expression. Uh, set, setting a car on fire, right? Is expression. Throwing a Molotov cocktail into a
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Tesla dealership is expression. Um, filming a video of a depraved sex act and uploading it to the internet
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so that kids can see it. That's expression. In fact, what actually happens is that in our country,
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actual speech is shut down and penalized while stuff that isn't speech, but is expression,
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quote unquote, is allowed without limit, which is totally backwards. So you should be free to say
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whatever opinion you want. You should, you should be free to any opinion, any opinion or idea
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that you want to convey, you should be able to convey it, but you should not be free to engage
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in any kind of expression you want. Like there should be a basic level of civilized decency that
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is required of everybody in public life. But all of that's been flipped on its head for the sake of
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allowing uncontrolled smut while disallowing actual political speech. So the whole free speech
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thing is a red herring. It has nothing to do with free speech. You know, porn is not speech. And again,
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nobody thinks that porn is speech. No one thinks that. Um, which is why if you are a porn consumer,
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again, I guarantee you have never in your life watched a porn video on the internet and said,
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huh, I wonder what idea they're trying to get across. What are they, what are they trying to
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say with this? Right? Like you're not engaging intellectually with the pornography.
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It's like also the people that, Oh no, it's art. It's like, Oh, shut up. It's yeah. Oh, sure.
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Right. Yeah. That's why you're on Pornhub is because you're a fan of art. It's an, it's art.
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Yeah. You could go to an art museum or you could go on Pornhub. It's like either one.
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It's no difference between like what you see on Pornhub and, and Michelangelo. Give me a break.
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This is why this conversation is impossible because everybody is just lying about,
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well, I think it's speech. I, I, you know, I think it's really, you could argue it's artistic. Oh,
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shut up. Shut up. Um, no, you, you don't want to ban porn because you like it and you want to be
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able to watch it. That's it. That's the whole reason. It's not any, well, it's a dystopia.
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I'm really afraid that if we do, it'll be George Orwell. Um, no, you want, you really like to be
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able to, uh, access it whenever you want, because you watch, you know, five hours of porn a day and you
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have a compulsion and you don't want anyone to interfere with it. That's why that's the actual
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reason. So at least be honest about it. And, but that, you know, your, your desire to be able to
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see porn whenever you want is, does not, is not the primary concern. Okay. Um, that's, that is not
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an overriding your desire to see porn, whatever you want. It does not supersede the desire of
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American, of parents and families to, for example, protect their kids from this smut.
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Um, and really you'll, you'll be fine. I promise you like, you'll be okay. You'll be more than okay.
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If porn was ever banned and it was, it was a lot less accessible in this country, uh, you'll be fine.
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Again, and actually you'll be better than fine. It will improve your life dramatically.
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Your life will be so much better. This stuff is not making your life any better at all.
00:30:01.900
Um, all right. Speaking of things that are not making our lives better, female cops, uh, CBS News
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reports newly released body camera footage from the Fountain Valley Police Department shows the
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tense moments after a suspect managed to wrestle an officer's gun away. Police officers were initially
00:30:24.660
called to these, uh, Las Jardines West after someone tried to break into a woman's car while she was parked.
00:30:31.900
And the officer showed up and, uh, the guy fled. Sounds like there was a, it was a male police
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officer and a female partners. They, they ended up getting split up. The female chases this guy down.
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And then I think that's where this video picks up. Let's watch it.
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This guy's in the middle of some kind of psychotic episode, it seems like,
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and he takes the gun from her, and now she's begging,
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and eventually that guy was killed, which is what happens when you take a cop's gun.
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It's a sad scene, and this is why it's just absurd to have female cops.
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Are we finished with this charade of the female cops?
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Okay, you want to have female cops sitting behind the desk doing office work, that's fine.
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But a female cop out on the beat, a female cop who's out catching bad guys out on the street,
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Like, when you have a female cop, you have a law enforcement officer who can certainly be easily overpowered
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by pretty much every male suspect she will ever encounter.
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And this, by the way, is not only dangerous for her, and not only dangerous for the innocent public,
00:32:32.520
which is the most important thing, it's also dangerous for the suspects.
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Because the threshold for when she has to resort to lethal force will be much lower.
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It creates, basically, crimes of opportunity for the suspect because he knows that he can overpower the female cop.
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Now, sure, there are plenty of suspects who, as we've seen, are going to try to fight the cops no matter who is there.
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But when you've got a female cop, the temptation to behave that way is much greater
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because you're in this kind of absurd scenario where, you know, you're a violent offender
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And, like, you might feel like you've got nothing to lose because once they capture you, you're going to go to jail.
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You're going to be in jail for 20 years, depending on what you did.
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And meanwhile, you've got this little, tiny, you know, 5'6", 112-pound woman who's trying to arrest you.
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And so you're sitting there as the male suspect, as the violent psychopath who's going to jail anyway.
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And you're saying, like, I can easily overpower this person, you know.
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They have the added years to their sentence and all that kind of stuff.
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But you're already dealing with people who are not thinking straight and are not smart people.
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Now, we might be in a situation right now where we can't afford to get rid of the female cops because, maybe because of the recruiting crisis and the police force and the fact that, you know, they've tried so hard for so long to chase the men away.
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Maybe we need warm bodies to fill these positions.
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But we need to be working towards a situation where we have enough male cops and we don't have to put another female cop on the street ever again.
00:34:44.120
Okay, I also wanted to talk about this if I can find it.
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Okay, so last week we discussed budget airlines.
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And there was a controversy with a budget airline, Frontier in this case, after a video went viral last week of an awful customer service experience that somebody had.
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Okay, well, now budget airlines are back in the news.
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And we all know that Spirit Airlines is abysmal.
00:35:20.800
And the thing is, I couldn't even focus on how terrible the accommodations were or how crappy the service was because I was terrified the whole time.
00:35:31.100
I mean, when you're on a Spirit plane, you feel like you're basically in a big tube-shaped Waffle House.
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And it doesn't feel like it should even be in the sky.
00:35:42.560
It doesn't, it just, and the employees all seem like they should be at Waffle House.
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Do they even know how to operate a plane, you're asking yourself?
00:35:51.060
I walked on a Spirit flight, and I saw the pilot in the cockpit, and he's watching a YouTube tutorial called How to Fly a Plane.
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That actually, I don't know if that happened, but it could have happened.
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I felt like that's what might have been happening in the cockpit.
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Spirit is, Waffle House isn't even the right comparison.
00:36:15.880
You know, think about the big, like, discount retailers, and the hierarchy is Target, then Walmart, then maybe something like TJ Maxx, then Kmart, which doesn't exist anymore.
00:36:36.600
When I was a kid, we had a discount retailer when I was a kid that went out of business like 25 years ago, and I think it was only in the Northeast.
00:36:44.500
Maybe you've never heard of it, but there was a retailer called Ames.
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And we used to go to Ames all the time when I was a kid.
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Ames was the place that you would go if the Dollar Tree was too expensive.
00:36:58.140
If you were walking around Dollar Tree and looking at the price tags and going, jeez, man, that's a bit steep, then Ames.
00:37:06.100
And so we would go to Ames, and, of course, it's like it's.
00:37:08.860
Or if you were out shopping and you were dressed too casually for Walmart.
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Walmart was a formal high-end experience compared to Ames.
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So, anyway, so naturally that's where my parents took us for back-to-school clothes.
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That's where we were decked out in the Ames clothes.
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We have a woman who flew Spirit this week or maybe a week ago and captured footage of the local wildlife on the plane.
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There were mother-effing roaches on the mother-effing plane.
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So let's take a look at the video of these roaches.
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And as anyone who has unfortunate experience with roaches knows that, like, if you see one, there's probably a million more.
00:38:22.700
If you see two, then you got an infestation on your hands.
00:38:30.240
They said that Spirit Airlines responded to the video by, this is Daily Wire reporting, by issuing a statement saying the company was aware of the video and their maintenance team thoroughly inspected the aircraft involved and addressed the issue.
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We maintain high standards of cleanliness across our fleet and want all of our guests to feel comfortable when traveling with us.
00:39:00.020
They actually, they had little brooms, little tiny brooms attached to their legs.
00:39:17.900
I've never seen an insect of any kind on a plane.
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So if they have roaches in first class on Spirit Airlines, then what do they have in coach?
00:39:34.680
What kind of horrors beyond comprehension await you in coach if the first class experience involves roaches?
00:39:49.540
It's like a, yeah, it's like an Indiana Jones adventure back in coach.
00:39:54.980
And also, how does Spirit have first class in the first place?
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I honestly didn't know they had a first class thing.
00:40:08.720
That's what this article, the article says that this person was in first class.
00:40:15.840
It's like, it's like staying at a Motel 6 and asking if they offer in-room dining.
00:40:24.060
It's like going up to the counter at a Motel 6 and talking to the woman behind bulletproof glass
00:40:29.240
and saying you would like their swankiest suite and could you also get their menu for their in-room dining service.
00:40:37.320
I mean, if you want that kind of service experience, then you shouldn't be at a Motel 6.
00:40:42.060
And if you want, if you, if you want to fly first class, why are you on Spirit?
00:40:50.500
Like, what is the, does first class mean you get your own seat?
00:40:56.260
First class on Spirit means that you get a seat.
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You can actually sit in a real seat with like a cushion and you get your own oxygen mask if the plane crashes.
00:41:09.860
And this is why I say that budget airlines are just not worth it.
00:41:16.780
It is, it's, you're better off with any other travel arrangement.
00:41:28.160
If for some reason that was my, if, if, if, if, if those were the two options somehow,
00:41:32.540
I'm in some scenario, I can't imagine what, where the only options are Spirit Airlines
00:41:42.000
I would rather get in the car and hitchhike with someone who I know is a serial killer.
00:41:46.580
Like, you can assume if they're picking up a hitchhiker in the year 2025, they're probably serial killers.
00:41:53.500
If he pulled over on the highway and said, hey, I'm a serial killer, would you like a lift?
00:42:00.960
So, we got to just be, a lot of things we got to just be done with that we've, we've gone over in this show so far.
00:42:15.820
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What started as a 12-minute monologue is now a members-only spectacle of unscreened guests,
00:43:04.780
We took a perfectly short, manageable, late-night bit,
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Unbedded questions from celebrities who should know better.
00:43:24.620
And more segments that probably should not exist.
00:43:28.780
This week, we ask Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee
00:43:31.120
if he knows about Bill Belichick's new girlfriend.
00:43:33.280
And everybody else is glaring at her, not Bill Belichick.
00:43:46.540
And someone let a mystery guest ask me whatever was on their mind.
00:43:50.280
So nothing about the Declaration of Independence
00:43:55.960
because it's either this or I start throwing things at my TV.
00:43:59.020
There are 330 million people, and that was the best we came up with.
00:44:01.640
It's the all-new, definitively worst, absolutely more,
00:44:29.480
I have found myself thrown into the middle of some very dumb,
00:44:35.120
But this week, I have experienced what surely is
00:44:41.740
Over the past several days, I have been attacked
00:44:43.600
by both the left and even a fair number of people on the right
00:44:46.540
for, as the story goes, posting a swastika on Twitter.
00:44:52.100
Or as it has been put, including by this ostensibly right-wing account,
00:45:00.120
This is the narrative that various factions have decided to run with,
00:45:05.120
Never mind the fact that the story is entirely made up.
00:45:11.540
I tweeted a point that you've heard me make many times,
00:45:17.140
to convince white people that they aren't native
00:45:23.580
And somebody responded to that point that I made on X.
00:45:34.620
Sounds like you need to Google what the word native means.
00:45:38.520
Now, accompanying that caption is a picture of six blonde white girls,
00:45:49.220
people who look like that have been living in Americas for five centuries.
00:45:52.880
If five centuries is not long enough to qualify as native,
00:45:56.960
If the answer is that your ancestors have to actually originate from the place,
00:46:12.340
Where did you approvingly tweet a swastika in that exchange?
00:46:16.420
Well, apparently, the picture posted by the other account,
00:46:21.680
contains a hidden swastika that you can only see if you squint
00:46:30.740
This is actually what people are mad about, okay?
00:46:35.740
People are mad at you because someone else posted a picture
00:46:39.320
with a hidden swastika that nobody can even see
00:46:47.340
That's the genesis of this latest outrage cycle.
00:46:50.000
It's why I've been attacked for two days straight.
00:47:04.300
performs whatever self-debasing act of compliance they're demanding.
00:47:07.720
And in this case, they have demanded repeatedly many, many times
00:47:15.720
and deliver some kind of assurance that I am not, in fact, a Nazi.
00:47:20.740
They're trying to force me into a struggle session.
00:47:28.020
But first, I want to show you how far this Matt Walsh posted a swastika story spread
00:47:34.540
because I think this is a good case study in how these mobs operate.
00:47:38.220
And how they corner people into engaging in the struggle session.
00:47:42.200
So it begins with tweets like this one from an account called Dreamleaf.
00:47:45.500
She posted a screenshot of the hidden swastika picture
00:47:58.960
Because it's so noticeable that she had to color it in red
00:48:03.320
And that tweet, by the way, has 10 million views and 25,000 likes.
00:48:10.140
Most of them were leftist accounts, but also some on the right as well.
00:48:13.160
Many people all claiming that I was sending out a Nazi dog whistle.
00:48:24.860
So they all agreed that after several hours of this
00:48:33.580
well, even if I didn't see the swastika at first,
00:48:44.760
Large accounts like this one with over 100,000 followers
00:48:47.380
declared that my refusal to delete is self-incriminating.
00:48:57.640
Soon other conspiracy theories started flying around,
00:49:00.860
How can people not see a Nazi logo on a picture?
00:49:24.260
Now, the only way to absolve myself of the charge
00:49:28.960
and I'm sorry about the swastika and delete it.
00:49:34.160
These people have no choice but to assume the worst.
00:49:52.060
sarcastically implies that I knowingly retweeted a swastika.
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The top comment with over 1,000 upvotes says this,
00:50:44.040
that he has visceral disgust and disdain for me