Ep. 1601 - The WNBA Season Just Started, And There Was Already An Insane Race Hoax
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The WNBA made it precisely one day into the season before its first major and majorly fake racism controversy. Also, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace makes a splash by promising to release her nudes during a congressional hearing. And Starbucks employees are protesting and walking out all across the country because of an oppressive new company policy that requires them to wear a black t-shirt. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the WNBA made it precisely one day into the season before its
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first major and majorly fake racism controversy. Also, Republican Representative Nancy Mace makes
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a splash by promising to release her nudes during a congressional hearing. Yes, that's real. And
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Starbucks employees are protesting and walking out all across the country because of an oppressive
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new company policy that requires them to wear a black t-shirt. We'll talk about all that and
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Every so often you hear about so-called uncontacted tribes. These are people who have never had any
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interactions with the outside world. They're out in the middle of nowhere in places like the
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Nicobar Islands and the Amazon rainforest. And they're obviously interesting to talk about as
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evidenced by the millions of people who love watching documentaries and YouTube videos about
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them. Of course, the reason that these tribes capture people's imagination is not because
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there's anything especially desirable or admirable about their culture or their way of life. Instead,
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they capture people's imagination because they offer a glimpse into a world that thankfully we
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transcend it. They're fascinating because every now and then it's encouraging to look at
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primitive people and think to ourselves, well, as bad as things are, at least we aren't
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still living like that. We can use these tribes as an opportunity to reflect on all the human
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progress that's occurred out here in civilization. Maybe no one wants to admit that that's the appeal
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out loud, but that's true. And it's not just uncontacted tribes who fill this role in modern
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society. They're maybe the most prominent example, but they're certainly not the only one.
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In particular, in recent years, it's become pretty apparent that the organization known as
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the WNBA serves a kind of a similar function. The WNBA very clearly is not a viable product from an
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entertainment perspective. It loses tens of millions of dollars every year. There's never
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really been a genuine business case for keeping the WNBA alive. Even with the historic level of
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interest the public now has in the league over the last year, historic by WNBA standards, it's still
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not a viable product because literally all of that interest is now focused on just one player,
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Caitlin Clark. And yet with all that said, it's time to admit that the WNBA, despite all appearances,
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isn't actually useless, at least not completely. Like the tribesmen who've never heard of things
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like the telephone or electricity, the WNBA serves a purpose, albeit a very twisted one. In a sense,
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it exists outside of time and space. It's a window into an alternate dimension where humans don't
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respond to economic incentives or social pressure or value things like talent or competitiveness or
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anything like that. The WNBA, because it's propped up by left-wing executives at the NBA who
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inexplicably have no problem losing large amounts of money every year, is immune from the normal
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demands of civilization as we know them. And in practice, that means that if we take a look at
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how things are going at the WNBA, we can get a pretty good sense of how exactly the country would
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be doing if we had gotten stuck back in 2020 and never moved on, for the most part, from the BLM
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race hysteria. And thanks to the WNBA, we don't have to wonder anymore what that would be like.
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Instead, all we have to do is tune into opening day of the 2025 WNBA season, which took place on
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Saturday, in case you missed it, which most people did. And in just one day, the very first day of the
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season, the WNBA, for all intents and purposes, completely fell apart. I mean, to the extent that
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it can even fall apart because it's already fallen apart. The entire league, which serves as the
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platonic ideal of a progressive enterprise, devolved instantly into a race hoax and inevitable racial
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outrage. On the first day, no one's even pretending to talk about the different teams in the WNBA or the
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power rankings or whatever. Instead, once again, they're talking about white supremacy and racism.
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Now, the drama officially began in the third quarter of a game between the Indiana Fever and
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the Chicago Sky. The Indiana Fever is the team that Caitlin Clark plays for. The Chicago Sky is the name
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of the team that Caitlin Clark's arch nemesis, Angel Reese, plays for. Now, if you're cynical, you might
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conclude that the WNBA intentionally created this matchup for opening day in order to generate exactly
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the kind of racial controversy that would inevitably follow. But for all I know, maybe these are the
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only two teams that exist in the WNBA. So maybe they had to schedule it that way. I don't know.
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Regardless, I'll play the dramatic moment that started all this. This is in the third quarter.
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And for many of you, this will be the first slice of WNBA basketball that you'll ever watch.
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And look out, Caitlin Clark pushes Angel Reese and Angel Reese gets right up into Caitlin Clark.
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Afterwards, there's something to say as Clark walks away.
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Okay, now, in case you missed it, we'll play the relevant part back in slow motion. As you can see,
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Angel Reese, number five, pushes another player with two hands as she's trying to get the rebound.
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Apparently, the player that Angel Reese pushed is named Natasha Howard or something like that.
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In any event, it's a clear foul, but it's not called. And then you can see that Caitlin Clark is
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stunned the foul wasn't called. She sticks out both arms in protest. And then once Reese gets the
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rebound, Clark fouls her on purpose. And this is called a take foul in basketball. And in context,
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the take foul makes sense. She wants to prevent Reese from getting the easy layup and force her
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to go to the free throw line in order to get the points. And so she has to foul quickly before she
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begins the shot, because if she waits too long, then it's a shooting foul and a potential three-point
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play. Now, if you watch this moment and you're not an alien who's completely unfamiliar with
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basketball or human interaction, it's one of the least remarkable sequences that you can imagine.
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The ref blew a call, and then Clark attempted to end the play as quickly as possible,
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which every basketball player in her position is taught to do. It's all very normal. Everything
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about it is normal. Nothing, nothing, not a big deal. None of it. Everything makes sense so far,
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but sense, common sense, is suspended in organizations like the WNBA. And that's why
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moments after this incident took place, a reporter asked Caitlin Clark, perhaps the single most loaded
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question that's ever been asked in professional sports. Watch.
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Walk me through your perspective on the flagrant foul. What was the point you were trying to make
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to her? It's just a good take foul. Either Angel gets wide open two points, or we send him to the
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free throw line. Nothing malicious about it. It's just a good take foul. Every basketball player knows that.
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Yeah, what point were you trying to make with that foul? What was the point? Were you trying to say
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that, you know, black people should be enslaved again? Were you saying that the 2020 election was
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stolen? What specific genocide were you endorsing when you committed that foul? This is the kind of
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ridiculous, obviously fake journalism that you see in the sports world all the time, but it's
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particularly common in the WNBA. None of these reporters posed the same questions to Angel Reese when
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she elbowed Caitlin Clark in the head last year, or when she celebrated on the sideline when Clark was
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blindsided and knocked over by another player. There's a lot of questions they don't have. None
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of them, none of the people, none of these people have ever asked whether Brittany Griner is really
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a woman. You know, it seems like a relevant question. They don't care about questions that
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are actually grounded in reality, but they're asking Caitlin Clark these very stupid questions because
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in the alternate universe of the WNBA, they honestly believe this kind of lazy race baiting is still
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persuasive. But, you know, very few people are falling for it anymore. Robert Griffin III, the
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former Redskins quarterback, was one of the most prominent voices to call out this fraudulent
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narrative. He wrote, quote, after watching Caitlin Clark's flagrant foul on Angel Reese in the aftermath,
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there's no way Angel Reese can continue to lie that she doesn't like, dislike Caitlin Clark. I know what
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hatred looks like. Angel Reese hates Caitlin Clark, not some basketball rivalry hate either. Hate.
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RG3 also posted commentary about the incident in which he pointed out all the other times that
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Reese has attacked Caitlin Clark physically and otherwise. And then he pointed to Reese's own
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words in which she described herself as one of the league's villains, which is one of the most
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pathetic things you could possibly aspire to be as a villain in the WNBA. But anyway, here's part of
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what he said. Remember last year when they were talking about who gets the credit for the expansion
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and the eyeballs and the popularity boost of women's basketball, not just the WNBA, but women's
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basketball in general, because of the spike in the women's NCAA tournament and NWNBA viewership.
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A lot of people were attributing that to Caitlin Clark, and rightfully so. This is what Angel
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Reese had to say, and I quote, people are talking about women's basketball. You never would think
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they'd be talking about women's basketball. People are pulling up to the games. We got celebrities
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coming to the game, sold out arenas, just because of one single game. Just looking at that, I'll take
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that role. I'll take the bad guy role, and I'll continue to take that on to be that for my teammates.
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I know I'll go down in history. I'll look back in 20 years and be like, the reason we're watching
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women's basketball is not just because of one person. It's because of me, too. I want y'all to
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realize that. Now, I heard a lot of people say that I or others have made Angel Reese the villain.
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Did you not just hear herself call herself the bad guy? She called herself the villain. I'm not making
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her the villain. She's making herself the villain. Now, you can agree or disagree with RG3's perspective
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or not care in the slightest, either way. Probably the smartest option of the three.
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Regardless, in the world of sports commentary, RG3's statements crossed a very clear line
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because he refused to endorse the latest narrative of racial grievance that was percolating.
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And therefore, various commentators lined up to attack him in extremely personal terms.
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And no one was more eager to attack RG3 than Ryan Clark, who's a former NFL player.
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And watch as Clark unloads on RG3, not for his opinions, but for the crime of marrying a white
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woman, which because this is what passes for sports commentary these days. Apparently, because
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his wife is white, RG3 is disqualified from commenting on any topic involving Caitlin Clark. Watch.
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And so now, if you're RG3, when is the last time within your household you've had a conversation
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about what she's dealing with? You haven't been able to do that because in both of your marriages
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you've been married to white women. You haven't had opportunities to have those conversations to
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educate you on what they're feeling, what black women deal with, what they're seeing when they think
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of a young Angel Reese. And the whole time that he's mimicking Angel Reese and bobbing his head
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and moving his neck while he's doing this whole piece, his wife is in the back amening and clapping.
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And so to me, it's just another situation that now this young lady has to deal with.
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But it also leads to what black women deal with a lot from black men who have chose to date or marry
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outside of their race. They always feel like they have to go the extra mile to prop up the woman
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that they're married or the woman that they're with over black women by denigrating black women.
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I feel like we should have an opportunity to move past that and understand that Angel Reese can be
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great in her own right as Caitlin Clark is as well. I mean, it's just, uh, it's very difficult to,
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in fact, impossible to imagine, uh, a mainstream sports commentator lecturing a famous, uh, athlete or
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another commentator for, you know, marrying a black woman. It's just like, you can't imagine
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it, but this is what this, this guy, he will openly say this and there's no problem. It's an
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incredible window into how racial politics in every case just demolishes any potential for
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civilized rational discussion. It's a race to the bottom every single time, instead of talking about,
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you know, the arguments or the thing that we're supposed to be talking about, which in this case is
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just basketball, everything boils down to your skin color or your wife's skin color in this case.
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And from what I could tell, executives at the WNBA realized how bad this whole narrative was going
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for them. And therefore, in order to distract from the fake Caitlin Clark controversy and the
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transparent anti-white rhetoric that ensued, they concocted the idea that the crowd of this game
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had actually unleashed racial slurs on Angel Reese and her teammates. This is the AP's report on
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the ongoing investigation. And again, just to remind you, all of this is coming just from the
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first game, just from day number one. Quote, the WNBA is investigating racial comments directed
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towards Angel Reese by fans during the Chicago Sky's loss to Caitlin Clark and the Fever at Indiana
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on Saturday, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person spoke to the Associated
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Press on Sunday on condition of anonymity because the league had not publicly identified the subject of
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the taunts or who made the allegations. The WNBA strongly condemns racism, hate, and discrimination
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in all its forms. They have no place in our league or in society, the league said in a statement.
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We are aware of the allegations and are looking into the matter. Quote. And the article adds that
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the WNBA Players Union has released a statement which asserted that unacceptable and hateful comments
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were uttered during the game at some point by someone in some way. Now, if this sounds familiar,
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it's exactly what happened last September when I last made the mistake of talking about the WNBA.
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Back then, there were reports that slurs had been directed at Brittany Griner while she,
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he, they was playing a game. But curiously enough, no audio or video surfaced that proved
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anybody was uttering those slurs. Even though there were television cameras and smartphones
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everywhere in the stadium, no one caught any of these naughty words on video. And once again,
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that's the case here. No one can quote these racial comments. Everyone's reporting on racial comments.
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No one's even said what they are. And even less, can they give any proof that these things,
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that these comments were made? In fact, Tyler Marsh, the head coach of the Chicago Sky said he
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didn't hear any slurs from courtside. The first time he heard about any alleged slur was when the
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media told him about it. Watch. Coach, when did you become aware that there was hate speech that happened?
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Uh, I think when everyone else did, I think that, um, you know, it's, uh, it's something that, you know,
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we heard about. And so, uh, you know, again, we're just forthcoming with anything that the,
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that the league was, is able to get investigation wise. And just a quick follow up line, just because
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you coached in Indiana, did you ever have any issues with that while you were coaching there?
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Uh, I think my focus was always on the team and on the organization and doing my job as best as I
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could. And so, um, yeah, that's kind of what it was. Were you doing this throughout the game or just
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at that moment? Oh, I was concentrated on, on our team and, uh, and what we were doing game plan wise
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against Indiana. Okay. So he's a total, I mean, he knows that it's nonsense. He's a total coward.
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He was asked when you coached in Indiana, did you have a problem with hate speech? The answer is
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obviously no. I mean, the answer is no, never, not one time. What are you talking about?
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Like we didn't, people going to watch basketball games or not. Um, but he doesn't say that and
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says, well, I was, I wasn't really focused on that. I wasn't focused on that. So nobody could
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say what these comments were. There's no evidence of them. They weren't picked up by any camera,
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by any, um, by any cell phone or anything. Uh, no one seems to have heard someone heard them,
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but no one is even saying that they specifically heard them. So, you know, it looks like the KKK
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ghosts are back again. After their first appearance in September, they've returned to
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torment the WNBA for reasons that no one can explain. On opening night, these racist ghosts
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once again, purchase tickets to see WNBA games because of course, racists love spending money
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on the WNBA. That's like the first thing a racist would love to do is go to a WNBA game.
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And then as the game progressed, the racist ghosts decided to drop N-bombs, I guess,
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that, that, that only the players could hear and, uh, coaches couldn't hear them. TV cameras
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and cell phones couldn't pick them up, but rest assured the ghosts were definitely being racist
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and, um, we should all be very troubled by their behavior. The WNBA explicitly encourages narratives
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like this develop. In fact, just this year, they launched something called no space for hate,
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which the AP describes as quote, a multidimensional platform designed to combat hate and promote
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respect across all WNBA spaces, both online and in arenas. In other words, they have a whole program
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that's designed to lend credibility to the idea that random people are buying tickets to WNBA games
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only to unleash, unleash race, racial slurs once they get there. Now, in reality, as you can tell
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from the footage of this game that was uploaded online, uh, the handful of people in attendance were
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not being racist. They were booing though, because the product that WNBA sells from the quality of the
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referees to the quality of most of the players is garbage. Uh, the booing is evident in many
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videos, but the racial slurs were not. And that's why when she was asked about these alleged racial
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slurs, Angel Reese rattled off a few meaningless statements, including a reference to the WNBA
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policy on hate speech. But at no point did she describe the allegedly racist remarks that she
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presumably would have heard since she was on the court. Watch.
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Yeah. Yeah. Obviously there's no place in this league for that. Um, I think the WNBA,
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our team and our organization has done a great job supporting me. I've had communication from
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everyone, from so many people across this league and being able to support me and going through
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this, going through this whole process, obviously it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone.
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And I think they've done a great job supporting us in this. How did it affect you Saturday,
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trying to do your job, trying to play and having this going on simultaneously? Yeah,
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obviously it's tough, but I think I have a great support system. I'm loved by so many people. Um,
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and obviously in the moment it is, it's, it's hard to hear, but my support system is great. Um,
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God has protected me in so many different ways. I've gone through so many different things in the
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past couple of years of my life, but I think just having this support and this love and being a part of
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organization that really supports me and loves me is something that just, I couldn't imagine not
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being a part of. So she, she, you notice she never, she never, she never actually even explicitly
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confirms that she heard anything. Uh, she just says there's no place in a league for it. There's
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no place in a league for this thing that didn't happen. There's no place in a league for imaginary
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things that don't happen. Um, so she never even confirms that she heard anything and she certainly
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doesn't tell us like, well, what, what did, what was said supposedly, what exactly was said that was
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racially insensitive? Um, no one can explain that. So she's not exactly talking like someone
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actually heard anything during the game. Even if you don't know anything about this particular
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incident, it doesn't sound remotely like she's telling the truth. Instead, she's making it very
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clear once again, that she's an actor and not a very convincing one. Her job is RG three pointed out
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is to play the villain of the WNBA so they can generate some drama. Um, these people believe that if
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they generate enough fake storylines about racist fans and non-existent flagrant fouls,
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then people might actually watch the games and then they can scrape together some cash instead
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of losing another $40 million this year. But it won't work for the same reason that the BLM hysteria
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of 2020 ultimately, uh, has, uh, has, has not panned out the, and the BLM is falling apart. Also the WNBA
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is the perfect encapsulation of every deranged impulse of modern leftism that the rest of society is
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rejecting. The hoaxes simply aren't effective anymore. I mean, no one outside of the media
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buys it. Manufactured narratives about phantom acts of racism without any kind of evidence whatsoever
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convince no one. And yet for all the millions of dollars they burn every year on high price
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consultants, the WNBA is one of the few remaining organizations on the planet that doesn't seem to
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realize this. The WNBA stands virtually alone as a reminder of what this country would have looked
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like if we hadn't reversed course after the George Floyd hysteria and the defund the police movement
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and so on. And in that sense, and only that, and only in that sense, it's fair to say that the WNBA
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against all odds actually does serve something of a purpose. It's a reminder of a giant bullet that
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this country dodged. And every time the league releases a dumb statement about, uh, you know,
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legitimate basketball plays or some ADIQ sports commentator accuses Caitlin Clark of racism for
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committing a foul. We should thank God that the rest of the country has nothing in common with
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the WNBA. Now let's get to our five headlines. Let me ask you something. Do you really trust
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slash Walsh to get four extra months free. All right, Nancy Mace. My dear friend, Nancy Mace is the
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most attention-starved person in Congress, hands down. As we have reviewed, especially in recent weeks and
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months, all that this woman does is talk about herself and cook up publicity stunts. I mean,
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that's all she does. And yesterday she had another one. Uh, this is what she tweeted earlier in the
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day. She tweeted this. And just to remind you before I read this, this is a member of Congress
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who is tweeting this. She says, yes, I'm going there today. I will show my naked body on one of
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the videos predator and rapist Patrick Bryant took of me and many other women without our knowledge,
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without our permission, and without our consent. He stripped his victims of their dignity,
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their privacy, and their liberty. He meticulously organized and categorized these things.
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They stored these images of all these women for years without telling them. He still walks free,
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no accountability, no jail, no restitution for his victims, nothing. He's still free to rape and film
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without consequence. Um, so that was the headline she put out there. She was going to display her
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naked body during a congressional hearing. Uh, just add this to the long list of things that are far
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more desperate and far more shameless than anything that someone like AOC has ever done.
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I mean, as much as I despise AOC, it's actually unimaginable that she would ever tweet this out.
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I, I, for as desperate for attention as she is, I, I cannot imagine her ever tweeting out that she was
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planning to show her naked body during a congressional hearing. It's, this is the kind of utterly shameless
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ploy for attention that only Nancy Mace could cook up. If I read just the first two sentences of that
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tweet to you, you had no context, you didn't know where it was coming. Um, and I asked you to guess
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which member of Congress said this, everybody would say, Oh yeah, Nancy, like it can only be Nancy Mace.
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Um, you know, so this is what she, she does. And she's doing all this ostensibly to expose
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some guy that no one has heard of. Um, and actually the guy is her ex fiance. So when you
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hear the name, like Patrick, what was it? Patrick, Patrick Bryant. Um, that was the name, right? Yeah.
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Patrick Bryant. And you hear that name again, without context, you might think, Oh, well, so is that some
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why are you like, whatever your issue is with him, even if it's, even if he did something terrible,
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why, why are you, why are you talking about that in Congress? Um, if you got an issue,
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if he did something terrible to take it to court, uh, is this something, does, is this person like
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relevant? Is this, is this person like a national security risk or something? Is this, is this a
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terrorist mastermind of some kind that, that, that all, that all Americans have to worry about?
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Well, no, this is her ex fiance. Okay. So she's got a problem with her ex fiance and Nancy Mace has
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been using her time in Congress for months now to lob accusations against her former lover. Okay.
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Now, whether the accusations are true or not, which I have no idea, you may wonder still why it has
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anything to do with Congress. If he did something terrible to you and you have evidence of it,
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take it to court. Like if you really have evidence of all this video evidence of him,
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take it to court. What are you doing in Congress? Bring it to the police.
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And if you haven't done that, or if you have, and the guy hasn't been arrested yet, well,
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then that raises a lot of questions about, uh, about the legitimacy of this supposed evidence
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that you have. But regardless, taxpayers are not, it's, we are not sending you to Congress
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to deal with your personal disputes. Um, but this is what she's doing.
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And the answer is that she's doing it because she cannot talk about anything but herself
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ever period. She cannot do it. Um, that's literally the only thing she talks about.
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So she grabbed headlines by desperately promising to expose her naked body to the world. Like, um,
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you know, she's, this is like some kind of sex pest in a trench coat, right? Threatening to flash
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the taxpayers. And then we get to the hearing and that she hyped up, you know, as one does
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when they're doing legitimate work for the taxpayers, they hype up some, uh, or you got tune into this
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hearing. You're not going to believe the videos that I show you. So, uh, we get to the hearing
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and here's what that looked like. Liberty begins with the right to close a door, a hidden camera
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kicks that door off its hinges. The constitution's fourth amendment enshrines a reasonable expectation
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of privacy. Yet today that freedom is violated by secret cameras and hidden devices to record
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women and girls with impunity. Freedom is not a theory. It is the right to breathe. It is the right
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to dress and undress, to sleep without someone's camera filming your naked body. The founders wrote
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liberty in parchment, but hidden cameras erase it in pixels. Okay. So the, um, and this, this,
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by the way, just all the Congress has been this session is just these women with their publicity
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stunts and like using, like just, just treating Congress like a reality show. I mean, you know,
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you had the, the, the female, the Congresswomen that were showing up with their babies, right? So we
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had to go, we had to go through like three weeks of them complaining that they have to come to work.
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And, you know, she's making a big show of having her baby with her on the house floor. And now we
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have Nancy Mace. It's just one thing after another. Can you people get to the actual work of Congress?
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Can you do, can you do something for the taxpayers, not yourselves? Can you think about something other
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than yourself for five seconds, Nancy? So the naked photo that she threatened to share with the world
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is actually just a grainy, blurry screenshot from a security camera. Now did this guy, uh, it's a
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security camera from his apartment, I think, and it's in the living room. It looks like, actually, it looks
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like it's in his kitchen maybe. And it's, and it's, but it also captures the living room. So did this guy
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have a security camera because he's a rapist sex predator? Maybe. I honestly have no clue. I'm not saying
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that's not the case. I don't know. You don't know. I have no clue. I haven't the faintest idea. Now there are,
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of course, other reasons why a person might have a security camera. Also the camera is in the living
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room. I mean, this is a wide shot of the living room. If the camera, if the camera is there in
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order to capture voyeuristic images of naked women, that's a terrible thing. You should go to jail for
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that. That's my point. If you have evidence of a crime, take it to the police. But, um, if that is
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what happened, it's like, why would he have it in his own living room? I mean, if the camera was in
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the bathroom or like a place where there's no legitimate reason. Now I don't, I think it's
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crazy. People have security cameras in their, like in their own homes, pointing into their living
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spaces. I think that's nuts. I would never do that. I don't want a camera. Um, I agree with Nancy. I
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don't want a camera following me around everywhere, even in my own home. Um, so we have security cameras
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outside the home, but I'm not going to have a camera, but people do that. A lot of people do that
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these days. That's like a pretty normal thing. People have security cameras all over their own
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homes in, in the living spaces now. So that in and of itself, and you hear, oh, he's got a security
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camera in his living room. That doesn't maybe 20 years ago. If you heard that you would go,
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this guy's a total freak, but now it's like, well, he might be a freak, but also a lot of people do
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that. So that's not in and of itself. Normal. Uh, if it's like if it's in the bathroom, okay, well,
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it's like there's even in this world where people have cameras everywhere, there's no legitimate,
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there couldn't possibly be any legitimate reason for that. Um, in the bedroom, even,
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even though, again, a lot of people have security cameras in their bedrooms. I think it's crazy,
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but a lot of people do. Um, but if she, if there was, if, if there, if there was some,
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you know, more damning sort of piece of evidence like that of, oh, look, he's got a camera in his,
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in the bathroom, for example, look what he's, well, you would think that, um, that she'd be
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presenting that evidence, but she didn't. This is the image that she chose to show in Congress
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and make a big deal out of. I think it's, it's fair to assume that if there were more damning
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images or more damning evidence, she would have shared it. So this whole story is very strange to
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me. And, um, I'm definitely not going to take Nancy Mace's word for it. Sorry. I'm just not
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what she's saying could be true. I don't know, but I'm sorry. We can't just say, well, Nancy
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may said it. She would never lie. She would never lie for attention. Just recently we have her in,
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you know, in the, the cosmetic aisle at the, at the pharmacy claiming she's being viciously
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accosted by some guy. And then we get the video of it. And all he's doing is saying,
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Hey, what do you do in a town hall? And she turns that into a five-day news cycle. So
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we know that she's capable of just making things up or grossly exaggerating. Is she doing that in
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this case? I have no idea. No clue. Either way, why is this our problem as the taxpayers to deal with?
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If Nancy Mace was actually victimized in some criminal way by her former fiance, I'm very sorry
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for that. Um, that is your personal problem that you need to address in your personal life. I would
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suggest going to the police and giving them all this evidence that you claim to have that this guy's a,
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you called him a predator and a rapist. Why are you not? Now this comes back on you a little bit.
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You claim you have all this evidence. This guy's a rapist and you have not ensured that he's in
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jail. What are you doing? Why are you sending out tweets? Um, so we still have that question.
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Daily beast has more about this. Congresswoman Nancy Mace displayed a poster. She claimed was
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of her naked of her naked at a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as she accused her ex fiance and
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others of taking video of women without permission. It was the latest in a series of explosive
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allegations Mace has publicly made against her ex. The silhouette image was one of the several
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visuals the South Carolina Congresswoman used during a house oversight committee hearing on
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surveillance and private spaces. Um, her ex fiance and others have denied the accusations.
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Uh, she, uh, so that's, so, you know, they've come out and denied it. Um, one of the men she
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accused, she has accused sued the Congresswoman for defamation in March. So one of the guys she's
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accusing is suing for defamation. Um, as far as I know, so far, the other guys aren't.
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So is that, is that a potentially damning on their part? Are they not suing because what she's saying
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is true? Again, I don't know. There is a funny thing about all this, which is, did you know that
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you actually can't sue a member of Congress for things they say in Congress? Did you know that
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if a member of Congress makes a false defamatory claim about you during an official proceeding in
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Congress, you can't sue them? They have total immunity. So a member of Congress can get up at
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the, at a hearing and they can go, they can go to the floor of Congress, the floor of the house,
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and they can say whatever they want about you and you can't sue them. They can make whatever false
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claims they want with no repercussions whatsoever. Is that why Nancy Mace is hashing this out in
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Congress rather than in a criminal court? Because it's the one place that allows her to say whatever
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she wants without getting sued in a bankruptcy for defamation or is she, or are the claims true?
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Again, I don't know. Neither do you. What I do know is that this is not congressional business.
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You are there to represent your constituents, not to settle personal scores. You're there to do
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serious legislative work for the American people, not to dream up one ploy after another to grab
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headlines. Even if you have really serious problems or if you've been wronged, victimized in some
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serious way. Well, you should get restitution for that. You should handle that. You should get
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justice, but it's still not congressional business. So there are basically two groups in Congress,
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you know, and we, we, most people would say, well, the two groups, Republicans and Democrats.
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And yeah, those are, that's, that's one way of breaking it down. And, uh, there are significant
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people say, oh, there's no difference between them. I mean, there are differences. Um, the difference
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between Nancy Mace and a Democrat is, is vanishingly small. Uh, the, the only real noticeable difference,
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even politically with Nancy Mace and a Democrat is that she is now very outspoken against, um,
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against the trans agenda. But up until, as we talked about before, up until like a year ago,
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she was out there talking about how much she supports trans rights, quote unquote, using
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those, that phrase. Exactly. That was not all that long ago. Um, so anyway, but, but there,
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there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats, but I think the more, perhaps even the
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more salient, uh, way of categorizing them is that you have a group of, of members of Congress
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who became politicians, but really want to be TikTok influencers. And I know you'll, you'll often,
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this is not some kind of great new insight on my part. Cause people say all the time that it's,
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Congress is full of people who were too ugly to become actors, right? The bunch of, a bunch of
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failed theater kids. And that's true. But I, but I think it's, it's not even that they, it's now that
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might've been the case 20 years ago that they're all, all, they're all a bunch of politicians,
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but what they really wanted to do was be in Hollywood, but they're too ugly for it. Um,
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now these are people who aren't even there. Their greatest dream doesn't even aspire that high.
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They want to be, they want to be influencers is what they want to be.
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And then you have another group of people who actually want to be in Congress.
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Sadly, the former group of the wannabe influencers is much, much larger than the latter. I mean,
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the influencer group comprises like 95% of Congress. So out of the, whatever, 535 members of Congress
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of the house and Senate, the wannabe influencer group has 525 people in it, you know, and that
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leaves 10 or 15 serious adults. So maybe that's another way of putting it. The most relevant
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distinguishing con this distinction in Congress. Now it's, it's the, the serious adults versus the
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attention starved children. Uh, that's the group. And there are, and there are a few,
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there are a few serious adults, but most of them just aren't. These are just not serious people.
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Um, and they certainly don't care about something as boring, uh, and, and kind of technical as
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legislating. Because just legislation does not, it's, it doesn't get you a lot of attention.
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And this is what we have now. We have a lot of people that get into politics because they want
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attention. It's not even anymore that you got people that get into Congress because they have
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some deep desire to, for power. They're lusting for power. That I would prefer that. That would be
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better. At least then if you have someone, it's their real goals, they want power. At least that's
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a, could be a serious person that might accomplish something or a thing or two. Um, maybe their
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ultimate goals are not good, but at least that's someone who is capable of accomplishing something.
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But I think a lot of these people, they don't even, they're not even power hungry. It's like,
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they don't even really want power. They just want attention. That's it.
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All right. CJ online reports, a Kansas mom is suing the owner of sites providing online
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pornographic content under a new Kansas law that requires websites to use age verification
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technology to prevent minors from accessing their content. The mom suing anonymously as Jane Doe
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says that her 14 year old son identified by the initials QR opened four cases against, uh,
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tech pump solutions, uh, technology, Titan websites, and multimedia LLC on May 14th.
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Doe said her son access pornographic websites without any form of age verification more than
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150 times. And now she's suing cause this law allows her to do that. And she also says that
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her son access these, uh, inappropriate sites, um, without her knowledge on, uh, on a, on a device
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that was not, so they had a, I guess it sounds like they had, you know, they had their devices that
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were being monitored and then they had an old laptop that were stored in a closet somewhere.
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That this kid found and that they didn't realize he had. And then he was able to use that to access
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all these sites. And so that's what she's suing about. And this is an important story because it
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shows, um, and I'm not going to give my whole spiel on, on this cause I just did that two or three
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days ago, but it's important stuff because it shows why you can't just say, oh, this is the parent's
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job. Right. Apparently these parents were actively monitoring their child's internet use,
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but he found an old laptop and he was accessing this kind of content on that laptop because
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this is what kids do. You know, kids, kids find a way like Jurassic park, you know, life finds a way.
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Well, kids will find a way to do whatever it is you don't want them to do. Now that doesn't,
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that doesn't, I think we can probably assume that there was some real parenting lapses that went into
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this. And why do you have old devices in the house that, that you're not keeping track of?
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I mean, if you've got an old laptop, you're not using anymore, throw it away. Don't just keep it
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in the house. Um, but still, I mean, you can do almost everything right as a parent and have all
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the rules in place and be setting a good example and be attentive as attentive as you can be. I mean,
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if you've got a 14 year old kid, you're not following them around the house every second of the day.
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So you can do all that and they might still find a loophole. They might still find a way around it.
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That's what kids do. And, uh, this is why we can help parents by putting some very basic
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restrictions and guardrails in place. I don't know why people are so resistant to the idea of
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just helping parents. We put parents on an Island and we demand that they raise perfectly well-adjusted
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human beings, but then we're not willing to do anything as a society to facilitate that
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or make it easier. When I say help parents, I'm not talking about, you know, the welfare state.
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I don't mean that kind of help. I'm not talking financial help. I'm just saying, try to, to create
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a society where there is not, that, that, that isn't just overrun by filth and smut everywhere you
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turn. How about helping out that way? A little bit. Um, because look, you know, I'm not going to
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start talking about it takes a village to raise a child. Um, because that's, I don't quite agree with
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that sentiment. However, and, and it is, it is the job of a parent primarily to take care of your own
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kid, but also, yes, as a society, we all, we, we do have a level of responsibility to the children
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of society. We do. Um, so saying, oh, that's your kid, take care of your own kid. Yeah. Up to a point.
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I mean, you are, as the parent, the responsibility falls first and foremost, and primarily to you
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but the rest of us have some amount of responsibility as well to just like comport
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yourself with a certain level of dignity and public, you know, if you're going around screaming
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obscenities or something like that, and there are kids around, well, it's not good enough to say, well,
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those aren't my kids. Well, no, you have responsibility too, as just as a, as a civilized
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adult. And, uh, and so this is one responsibility I think we have and we should be more serious about
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it. Okay. I wanted to talk about this. Scott Adams announced a couple of days ago that he has the
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same type of cancer as Joe Biden spread to his bones. And he anticipates that he has only a few
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months to live, uh, probably won't survive the summer. So it's very sad news, of course. Uh,
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and Scott Adams is a, is a great mind. You know, I've, I've been a fan of his for a long time.
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He's an interesting person, which is, which to me is the highest compliment, uh, among the highest
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compliments I can pay someone because the market is saturated with boring click farmers who
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regurgitate the same talking points over and over again. Scott Adams is actually interesting. He's a
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real thinker. And so he will be dearly missed, but he is still with us right now. And I watched the
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whole show where he talks about his diagnosis and also Biden's. This is on Monday and it's tragic and
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sad, of course, but it's also, uh, fascinating and really inspiring to see a man confronting his
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own death with forthrightness and courage. We just don't see that, um, hardly at all in our society.
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So here's just a quick clip. I think this is from the end of this episode where he made this
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announcement and I want to play this. Watch it. Now I realized that for some of you, this is hitting
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you kind of hard because you're hearing it for the first time. Uh, weirdly, since it's, it's old
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news to me, um, I've just sort of processed it. So it just sort of is what it is. And I have to say
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that, you know, everybody has to die as far as I know. And it's kind of civilized that, you know,
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about how long you have so you can put your affairs together and make sure you've said your goodbyes
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and done all the things you need to do. So if you had to, if you had to pick a way to die,
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this one's really painful, like really, really painful. Um, but it's also kind of good that it
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gives you enough time while your brain is still working to wrap things up. You might wonder why it
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took me so long to tell you. And I think I owe you an answer to that. Number one,
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it would change my life because everybody would start treating me like the cancer guy.
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You can't really back, like there's no, there's no second way that goes.
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You know, once you go public, you're just the dying cancer guy. And I didn't want you to have to
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think about it. And I didn't want to have to think about it. Um, you should know, well, if you didn't
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already know, I am unusually mentally tough. So while this could be much worse, you know, for some people,
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I suppose I'm handling it quite well. Uh, the, the pain is tough. I mean, really tough, but the mental
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part, you know, I got that under control and I can see in the comments of some of you are having a
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tough time with it, but remember nothing lasts forever. Nothing lasts forever.
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So I think this is a really extraordinary because it's such a departure from what we're used to seeing.
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I mean, for one thing, the, the, this man is talking about his own impending death and he's
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talking about it less dramatically and with less self-pity than how most people these days talk
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about, you know, reading mean comments on the internet or whatever. We live in a culture where
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people claim they're traumatized by the slightest little speed bump in the road. Everybody complains
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about everything all the time. Nobody suffers with dignity. Nobody suffers with stoicism.
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And here's Scott Adams dying of cancer and, uh, and speaking about it calmly facing it with dignity
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and class. And I think that's a tremendous example and also a tremendous rebuke of our weak, effeminate
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culture. And also you notice what Scott is not saying. He's not saying that he's still fighting
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and that there's a chance that he'll beat this thing and so on. And well, you know, there's only
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a 1% chance, but the 1% chance isn't no chance, like that kind of thing. And the way people usually
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handle this kind of situation, which is totally understandable, of course, is that they want to
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be in denial about it. And so, you know, it's like what we're, what we're used to seeing is someone
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who's, who's on death's door, essentially talking about how they're still fighting, going to fight to
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the end. Um, and we tend to look at that as, as brave, but at a certain point it's, it's denial,
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you know, and Scott is not in denial. So to plainly say, yes, I'm going to die. I'm not, I'm,
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I'm not going to beat this thing. And, uh, that's, that's, that's not weak. That's not giving up.
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That's not surrendering the fight or whatever. It's quite the opposite. That takes immense strength.
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And, uh, what he also, what he says also about how everyone has to die, that's an important message.
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Maybe those most important one that any, that we could, that you can hear. And yeah, we all know
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it intellectually. Nobody's surprised to learn that we all have to die, but we do live in denial of
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that fact. And, uh, and there's an absurdity to that. There's an absurdity to the level of denial
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that we all, that we all are walking around with all the time. Uh, and so when we hear that someone
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is dying, we kind of think to ourselves, well, we're very sad about it, but we also think like,
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you know, we're thankful that that is not happening to us. Like, and, and there's a certain dread
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at the thought that what, what if that was me? But of course it is happening to us too. We've,
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we've all been diagnosed with a terminal illness, which is the human condition. And our life expectancy
00:50:13.160
is several decades at most before death shows up on our doorstep. Um, it may be, it really,
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it's, it's even shorter than that because we all get, or not all, but, uh, most, most, some of us
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get, hopefully a window of time in our lives where death does not come near us. You know, a window of
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time, hopefully where you're alive and all of your close family members and friends are alive.
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And so death is sort of this boogeyman out in the shadows. And it's hardly even real because it
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hasn't touched you. Uh, death is something that happens to other people, but not to you,
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not to the people who are close to you. Some people never get this window. Some people get
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this window for 20 years, 30 years, maybe a little bit longer, but then the window closes and then,
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and death moves in and it starts taking people close to you, parents, relatives, friends. And once that
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starts to happen, it will, it's not going to stop. Once it starts to happen, it won't stop until it
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takes you. Once you get into that, what we might call the death stage of your life, uh, the stage
00:51:20.740
where the people closest to you start dying and you start losing, you know, your, your light, your,
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your life gets lonelier in a way as you start losing people. The only way that that stage ends is
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with your own, with your own death. Um, and there's no stopping it. There's absolutely no
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stopping it. And that's just the reality of life. There's no escaping it. You can wear all your health
00:51:44.160
monitors and get your physicals and eat a good diet and avoid seed oils or whatever. And all that
00:51:48.420
is good, but like, you're still going to die. Um, and probably you're, if you're buying yourself
00:51:54.440
anytime with all that stuff, not much probably. So this is a fact that should be a lot more relevant
00:52:02.360
to our day-to-day lives than it is. Uh, it should bear on our lives and our, on the choices
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that we make a lot more than it does. And cause we, we, we all, we all know that we're going
00:52:16.180
to, that we're, it's like inevitably we're going to inevitably you're going to, you're going
00:52:20.900
to get the bad call about yourself one of these days if you don't just die suddenly. Uh, so
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that's inevitable. The other inevitable part is you're going to go and you're going to think
00:52:28.540
like so much of what you spent your life doing is going to look ridiculous. It's going to
00:52:35.160
be embarrassed by it. You're like, why did I care about any of that stuff? 90% of the
00:52:39.560
stuff you cared about, you, you, you won't even be able to, you won't care about it anymore.
00:52:42.640
And you won't even be able to understand how you ever did, even though, even though those,
00:52:45.280
those, those wants and desires defined your life up until that moment. So, and one of the
00:52:53.440
reasons why that's the case is that we were able to live in denial and not think about
00:52:56.880
death. Um, and that's made easier on us because we kind of, we, we keep it out. We keep death
00:53:04.720
out and that we don't really talk about it. We don't acknowledge it. And when there are
00:53:09.740
people around us, including like famous people who are now confronting their own death, the
00:53:17.440
kind of bargain we've all made unspoken is that those people will also like, they will
00:53:24.320
talk about dying as if they're not actually going to die. Um, what they'll rarely do is
00:53:32.820
what Scott Adams did there. That that's pretty rare. And it's great because it forces you to
00:53:38.640
confront it because he's confronting it. And, uh, I think that's a great service that he's,
00:53:44.220
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You know, I saw a very inspiring bumper sticker once that said, everyone you meet is fighting a
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battle you know nothing about. Be kind always. And the message is clear. Everyone has problems.
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Everyone is silently struggling against some great obstacle. And so we should be patient and kind
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to each other. It's a nice sentiment. It's also wrong. That's true that everyone's fighting a
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battle. But the problem is that in so many cases, the battle is extremely stupid. And very often it's
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not being fought silently. We do know about the battles that most people are fighting because they
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don't shut up about it. For example, many of us now know about the battle currently being fought
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by Starbucks employees against the company's dress code. Hundreds of Starbucks workers have been on
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strike for over a week now demanding that the dress code be repealed. They're very loud about
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this battle. And of all the battles ever fought, it is certainly among the dumbest, especially when
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you consider just how incredibly reasonable and normal this dress code is much. Monday marked the start
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of new rules on what baristas are allowed to wear under those famous green aprons. The company
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requiring workers to wear plain black t-shirts and khaki black or blue denim bottoms. Starbucks
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workers united, the union representing workers at 570 of Starbucks 10,000 company owned U.S. stores
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says the dress code should be subject to collective bargaining. Now, you might have thought that in
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order for a dress code to provoke mass protests and strikes, it would have to be really onerous.
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You might have thought that Starbucks was implementing a formal black tie required policy.
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Maybe you thought it would go the other way and the dress code would be something really
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morally objectionable. Maybe the dress code stipulates that they aren't allowed to wear any
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clothes at all. You have to come to work naked. If that was the case, Nancy Mace would have already
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submitted her job application. But it turns out that neither of those things are the case. It turns out
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that the dress code is the least demanding, least onerous dress code ever devised, a black t-shirt
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and jeans or khakis. It's about as reasonable as you can get. But the Starbucks employees are horrified.
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This requirement to wear jeans and a black t-shirt presents an insurmountable hurdle, they explain.
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Now we have to purchase new shirts and shoes to be compliant with the new policy.
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Why doesn't Starbucks do the right thing and provide a stipend for these newly required items?
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We have several partners who have spent lots of money on Starbucks branded shirts, merch,
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et cetera, and are no longer allowed to wear them.
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Plus, she wants a stipend to buy a black t-shirt. I mean, you can get a pack of six of them from
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Walmart for like 22 bucks. Also, not to be Captain Obvious here, but the three Starbucks employees in
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that video who were protesting having to wear black t-shirts were all wearing black t-shirts.
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They were currently wearing exactly the thing that they said they could not wear.
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So Starbucks came to them and said, hey, there's a new dress code. Please wear exactly what you're
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currently wearing right now. And these Starbucks employees said, how can I do that? How can we
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possibly wear the thing that we're wearing? That hasn't stopped them from striking, of course,
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We're out on strike today because Starbucks is trying to implement a new dress code.
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No one ever asked for a new dress code. They just, they updated a dress code recently and it made it
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looser where we can wear colors and patterns. And now they're deciding that we can only wear black.
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It's very restrictive. Most of us had to buy new clothes and we can't. We can't afford it. We barely make
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enough money to pay our bills. And also on top of that, they keep trying to make all these changes
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in union stores and it's illegal. They're not allowed to make these changes without bargaining
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with us and voting on this. So it's just incredibly alarming and upsetting that Starbucks is continuing
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to do illegal things to our union stores. Starbucks has not bargained with our union over these
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dress code changes. Therefore, we cannot accept the dress code. Workers United has also sent a letter
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to Starbucks demanding that the new dress code not be implemented at union represented stores until
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bargaining concludes. Starbucks is legally required to bargain with workers at union stores over
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changes to their working conditions. Unilateral changes are not legal. If the new dress code is
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implemented at our store or if workers are disciplined for wearing face masks, we will be forced to take
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escalating action. So to be clear about this, they are marching with picket signs because they don't
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want to wear a black t-shirt. Even though again, most of them are currently wearing black t-shirts. And
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what's even funnier is that many of the striking employees in these videos are wearing Starbucks
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union t-shirts, which also happen to be black. But that means that the union went out and bought
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uniforms for the union while objecting to wearing a uniform for the actual company itself. So the
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whole thing is ridiculous on every conceivable level. Now, given that all these people can easily
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comply with the dress code and some of them already are, um, accidentally, why are they actually
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objecting to it? Well, first, because the bumper sticker isn't actually true. It turns out not
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everyone is fighting a battle, not a real battle anyway. And lots of people have easy lives. They
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have no significant hurdle or challenge. And that's why they have to go looking for obstacles that don't
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exist in a desperate attempt to imbue their lives with some sense of meaning. Um, and second, a lot of
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people today, especially the woke crowd reflexively perceive themselves to be at the center of every
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situation they encounter in their lives. Nothing can ever be about something other than them as
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individuals. The whole point of a uniform is to make people uniform. That is to, in a very small
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way, in this case, subordinate the desires of the individual for the sake of some greater purpose.
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And in this case, the subordination is extremely minor as it involves simply wearing a black t-shirt
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and the greater purpose is not something of cosmic significance. It's simply the purpose of creating a
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slightly better, more appealing experience for the customers. But to people like this,
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the idea that they should ever have to do anything at all, the idea that they should have to make any
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effort, even in the slightest degree, for the sake of something above or beyond or other than their
01:02:17.560
own comfort and interest is anathema. I mean, they can't wrap their heads around the notion that there
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may be, sometimes could be some things that are more important than their personal desires.
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And this is why they make terrible employees and terrible citizens and terrible friends and
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terrible family members and terrible spouses. They are pathologically selfish. They cannot
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even conceive of a universe that they are not at the center of.
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Now, you might say that the dress code at Starbucks is a rather small thing to justify such a profound
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indictment. But the smallness of the thing is precisely what justifies the indictment.
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If you aren't willing to just shut up and wear a black t-shirt because your employer asks you to,
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then you almost certainly aren't going to be willing to make greater sacrifices for greater purposes.
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If this is too much to ask, then I mean, anything is too much to ask. A company cannot function if it
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reaches a critical mass of these kinds of petty narcissists, which means that Starbucks is in for a world of
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hurt. But neither can any institution. Neither can the country itself. So in conclusion,
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the Starbucks employees should just shut up and put on the t-shirt or else they are today canceled.
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That will do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.