The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1629 - What Is An American？

00:00:00.000 Then that will show the left is outraged at me because I dare to suggest that a pro amnesty Republican politician is not a real American, which raises what will be the new central question for our culture.

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00:02:24.760 As a general rule, it's worth paying attention whenever the big Soros-backed mouthpieces for the Democrat Party go out of their way to defend Republicans.

00:02:32.600 It doesn't happen very often, and it never happens by accident.

00:02:35.320 If nothing else, Democrats are extremely precise and coordinated with their messaging.

00:02:40.840 So I couldn't help but notice when earlier this week the left-wing outfit Media Matters, which is somehow still operational, I also discovered,

00:02:48.540 decided to go all in on defending Florida Republican Congresswoman Maria Salazar.

00:02:52.960 In case you missed it earlier this week, we discussed Salazar's new plan to award amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens living in the United States.

00:03:01.900 Salazar doesn't call the bill amnesty, but that's exactly what it is.

00:03:05.200 The point is to grant legal status to foreigners who have no right to be in this country in the first place, all of whom are therefore criminals.

00:03:10.760 They broke the law coming here.

00:03:12.280 And by her own admission, Salazar intends legislation to enable a future path to citizenship for these foreign nationals and their families.

00:03:20.160 The idea is that she's going to have a bill that keeps them all here, and then someone else will come in and grant them citizenship.

00:03:27.860 Foreigners from places like Cuba, that is, where Salazar's parents were born, are understandably thrilled by this legislation.

00:03:36.480 But Americans understand that, like so many other similar amnesty proposals from Washington in the past few decades,

00:03:43.380 this is yet another attempt to undermine American sovereignty and to facilitate the invasion of our country.

00:03:48.700 When Salazar stands up at the podium, speaking a foreign language as she lectures Americans about how shameful we are,

00:03:56.180 the appropriate response is exactly what I said the other day.

00:03:58.740 Maria Salazar should leave the country.

00:04:00.540 She doesn't believe the United States has borders, which means she doesn't believe we're a real country.

00:04:05.160 She's trying to undermine our sovereignty.

00:04:07.160 She has open content for American citizens as she works on overtime on behalf of foreigners.

00:04:12.640 So the most logical outcome would be for Maria Salazar to book a one-way ticket to Cuba and leave the rest of us alone.

00:04:19.220 Now, when I made this argument, the Soros lapdogs at Media Matters immediately leapt into action.

00:04:24.120 Yes, they defended a Republican because their allegiance is to the open borders agenda, not to any particular political party.

00:04:30.760 And here's what they said, quote,

00:04:32.020 Daily Wire's Matt Walsh says, Representative Maria Elvira Salazar is not American and should go back to Cuba.

00:04:38.560 She was born in Miami.

00:04:40.200 Representative Salazar's website notes that she was born in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, the daughter of Cuban exiles.

00:04:46.780 Therefore, Representative Salazar is an American, close quote.

00:04:51.220 It's always the most unassuming matter-of-fact statements from the left that end up being the most revealing.

00:04:56.300 Just this one paragraph of Media Matters is a remarkable window into how they see the world.

00:05:01.320 Salazar's website says she was born in Miami.

00:05:03.780 Therefore, she's an American.

00:05:04.700 Salazar is a legal citizen of the United States of America under the Constitution of the United States if you subscribe to the idea of birthright citizenship.

00:05:30.140 That's a legal classification, fairly well-defined at this point.

00:05:35.080 But I wasn't talking about citizenship precisely, so that's a moot point.

00:05:39.300 I didn't say that Salazar isn't a citizen legally.

00:05:42.340 I didn't say she's an illegal immigrant.

00:05:45.420 I said she's not an American.

00:05:46.760 But you can't do that.

00:06:16.760 The suggestion, you know, is that a guy from Guatemala who hopped off the boat last Tuesday, can't speak a lick of English, doesn't care about this country, doesn't know anything about it, isn't loyal to it, but is handed citizenship anyway, is somehow still as American as apple pie.

00:06:34.300 And that's absurd.

00:06:37.240 I mean, it's just wrong.

00:06:39.160 And we all know it.

00:06:41.300 In 1782, the French diplomat, Jean de Crevecourt, published his letters from an American farmer, and there were 12 letters in all.

00:06:50.580 He wrote them as he sought to understand the meaning of the new American identity after he married an American woman and settled down on a farm in New York.

00:06:58.680 In fact, he explicitly asked the question, what then is the American, this new man?

00:07:03.800 In the letters, he described Americans as, quote, descendants of Europeans who could prosper if they were honest, sober, and industrious.

00:07:11.540 He wrote that Americans were a people characterized by their rejection of European hierarchies and a strong belief in individual advancement.

00:07:18.880 And what he didn't write, because it would have been absurd, is that an American was merely nothing more than someone who managed to get a piece of paper announcing that he's a citizen of the United States.

00:07:28.360 Even less did he say that an American is anyone who happens to be living within the borders of the United States.

00:07:34.080 Which is the definition that Salazar and her anti-American compatriots in Congress and all across the left seem to be going with.

00:07:41.400 More than a century later, after he served as president, Teddy Roosevelt declared that so-called hyphenated Americans, meaning Americans with dual loyalties, were not actual Americans at all.

00:07:52.680 Here's the New York Times article documenting Roosevelt's remarks at the time.

00:07:56.840 Headline, quote, Roosevelt bars the hyphenated.

00:07:59.820 No room in this country for dual nationality, he tells Knights of Columbus.

00:08:03.480 Treason to vote is such.

00:08:05.580 The article begins, quote, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt speaking at the Columbus Day celebration at Carnegie Hall last night.

00:08:11.400 Gave full vent to his feeling about hyphenated Americanism and preparedness for war.

00:08:16.020 The colonel told of his convictions, scored as traitors those who were not wholeheartedly for their country first, last, and all the time.

00:08:24.160 And offered his suggestions for the Americanization of those who come to the United States as immigrants.

00:08:29.900 The foreign population, Roosevelt said, must be an American population and Americanism was a matter of the spirit and the soul.

00:08:36.500 There is no place here for the hyphenated American, he said.

00:08:39.600 The sooner he returns to the country of his allegiance, the better.

00:08:43.580 And Roosevelt went on to state that it was important to secure, quote, three elemental things.

00:08:47.740 One, a common language.

00:08:48.960 Two, the increase in our social loyalty.

00:08:51.720 Citizenship absolutely undivided.

00:08:53.380 A citizenship which acknowledges no flag except the flag of the United States.

00:08:57.120 And which emphatically repudiates all duality of intention or national loyalty.

00:09:01.880 And third, an intelligent and resolute effort for the removal of industrial and social unrest.

00:09:06.900 An effort which shall aim equally at securing every man his rights and to make every man understand that unless he in good faith performs his duties, he is not entitled to any rights at all.

00:09:15.760 Now, it's worth revisiting all this language from the founding of this country and, again, from Teddy Roosevelt more than a century later, because it underscores a very fundamental and longstanding point.

00:09:25.780 The American identity is not simply about a piece of paper or what geographic place you were born in or where you happen to be standing at this present moment.

00:09:36.100 It's about your loyalty to this country, your ability to speak our language and to relate to us and our way of life.

00:09:45.860 It's about your compatibility with our culture and our history and our society and our founding principles.

00:09:53.120 If you lack compatibility and if you're disloyal, if you prioritize other nations above our own, then you're not an American at all.

00:10:02.180 That's why we had the House Un-American Activities Committee.

00:10:04.880 If you're not on our side, then you're a traitor.

00:10:07.780 And in the words of Roosevelt, you deserve no rights at all.

00:10:10.220 And you certainly don't deserve the courtesy of being called an American.

00:10:14.440 It shouldn't really be a controversial point as much as Media Matters would like to pretend otherwise.

00:10:18.140 Ironically, Salazar herself made this argument for me.

00:10:24.380 Watch this clip carefully. Listen.

00:10:25.880 President Trump, sir, the same God who saved you from death in Pennsylvania one year ago and who put you back in the Oval Office against all odds is the same God almighty who millions and millions are begging to for some type of dignity, not amnesty.

00:10:46.400 Sir, I believe that you could be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism.

00:10:53.820 You are a businessman who understands our economy needs a reliable working force in areas where other Americans don't participate.

00:11:01.540 Now, did you catch that?

00:11:03.820 She said what open borders advocates say all the time.

00:11:06.100 She said, quote, our economy is a reliable working force in areas where other Americans don't participate.

00:11:14.440 In other words, according to Maria Salazar, illegal aliens who don't even have the documentation, right, are Americans.

00:11:22.520 They are, they are, in fact, they're Americans and the rest of us are other Americans.

00:11:29.240 Now, they aren't citizens, as she admits, right?

00:11:33.700 These people are not citizens.

00:11:34.600 Talking about illegal aliens, they're not citizens.

00:11:37.320 But according to Maria Salazar, they still count as Americans.

00:11:41.620 And therefore, by Maria Salazar's own logic, the concept of being an American is indeed distinguishable from being a legal citizen.

00:11:49.560 Listen, they're not the same thing.

00:11:52.260 In fact, everybody on the left believes this.

00:11:56.060 That being, that you could be an American without the documentation.

00:12:00.640 Which means that the documentation does not confer on you the status of being an American.

00:12:06.180 That's what they believe.

00:12:09.140 So, what exactly does it mean to be an American?

00:12:15.400 Maria Salazar has never answered this question.

00:12:18.020 And you can see why.

00:12:19.560 I mean, by any reasonable definition, very few of the foreign nationals that Salazar is speaking up for would qualify as American.

00:12:27.900 I mean, think about it this way.

00:12:29.260 Imagine a scenario, very common scenario, where someone comes here from, let's say, an African country, joins an African conclave, where they speak an African language, and maintain their African culture while fighting for African interests.

00:12:45.640 In this scenario, even if they happen to be in Ohio while they're doing it, are they American?

00:12:53.360 Are they?

00:12:53.860 I mean, would you really say with a straight face that a hypothetical refugee named Omar Mohamed Abdullah, who can't speak a word of English, who steals hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by scamming federal programs with his father's fraudulent shell company, and who sends most of his money back to family members in Somalia, and who celebrates Somali Independence Day instead of July 4th, is really an American?

00:13:12.620 American, just like you and me?

00:13:16.340 No, it just doesn't work.

00:13:17.640 Intuitively, we know that that's a fraud.

00:13:19.660 And, of course, this isn't really a hypothetical.

00:13:22.800 You could just take a look at Minnesota, as we've done a few times this week.

00:13:25.980 Well over 100,000 Somalis live in Minnesota.

00:13:28.320 They have not enriched the state in any way.

00:13:31.500 They haven't brought newfound prosperity or major technological innovation or anything like that.

00:13:36.980 Instead, they've innovated in only one area, which is finding new ways to defraud the U.S. taxpayer.

00:13:41.060 In fact, it's not just the Somalis in Minnesota who are doing this.

00:13:43.160 It's a nationwide problem.

00:13:44.060 And the other day, I received an email from someone identifying himself as a police officer near Columbus, Ohio, and here's what he wrote.

00:13:49.940 Quote, Somalis have taken over most of the gangs in this area.

00:13:53.260 It's very hard to track them because they all have the same names and dates of birth.

00:13:57.620 Muhammad, Muhammad, birthday, January 1st, 1995, or whatever year.

00:14:01.800 I know of one case where a four-year-old girl was shot in a drive-by shooting into a house,

00:14:06.040 and their Somali parents said it was Allah's will and refused to cooperate with police.

00:14:10.560 It's absolutely insane.

00:14:11.920 Yes, they need to be deported.

00:14:13.100 It needs to end.

00:14:14.060 Meanwhile, in Maine, yes, in Maine, a legislator named Deka Dalak just gave a televised interview

00:14:23.680 in which she declared that this is a, quote-unquote, American lawmaker who declared that her goal

00:14:30.100 was to help, quote, our country of Somalia, before she quickly corrected herself.

00:14:34.600 Watch.

00:14:35.940 Policies, how can the politics in Somalia can be, you know, resonate what we have here in the United States,

00:14:42.080 the democracy that we have?

00:14:43.640 How can you help us, you know, be a better country and build back what we used to have back in a long time ago?

00:14:51.440 So, hopefully, we will be able to help our country, our former country, Somalia.

00:14:57.700 Now, as Aron McIntyre has pointed out, it feels almost intentionally degrading.

00:15:03.540 These foreign scam artists can barely even speak our language to the point that they accidentally admit

00:15:07.580 they're working on behalf of foreign interests.

00:15:09.420 It's all very overt.

00:15:12.300 By the way, is that an American?

00:15:14.320 Doesn't speak our language.

00:15:16.300 Dressed in the typical Muslim, you know, traditional Muslim attire.

00:15:21.700 Announcing that her country is Somalia.

00:15:25.480 Working on behalf of the interests of Somalis.

00:15:29.620 Do I have to accept that she's just as American as me?

00:15:32.200 Really?

00:15:33.100 I have to just accept that?

00:15:36.520 Is it racist to point out what we all recognize as true?

00:15:40.420 That there's like, there's a very clear distinction?

00:15:45.160 And by the way, this is typically how scam artists work.

00:15:47.600 They very often brag about their heists right out in the open because they're not very smart

00:15:51.100 and they can't believe they're getting away with it.

00:15:52.780 And more importantly, they know that no one's going to investigate them.

00:15:56.540 Here's another apparent scam that Somalis are running.

00:15:58.860 This is from a recent post from a Somali in Minnesota, reportedly.

00:16:03.780 Watch.

00:16:05.460 Another crazy statistics.

00:16:08.520 Just in Minnesota, not anywhere in the world.

00:16:11.320 I can just imagine a statistic in the world.

00:16:14.120 Just within the metro area of Minnesota,

00:16:18.420 there's about 30,000 single Somali mothers, single mothers,

00:16:24.060 which is a ridiculous number.

00:16:25.860 number, but at the same...

00:16:28.000 Oh, cute.

00:16:29.360 A lot of you men will think this is a true statistic,

00:16:32.380 but it's not a real statistic

00:16:34.440 because the single mothers that's registered in government,

00:16:39.740 they're not actually single mothers.

00:16:40.840 You know?

00:16:41.300 Several residents in Minnesota have replied to this video

00:16:59.020 to confirm that, indeed, this kind of thing is happening all the time.

00:17:02.180 Thousands of Somalis are claiming to be single mothers

00:17:04.520 so that they can fraudulently obtain government benefits.

00:17:06.980 And it's not just limited to Somalis.

00:17:08.680 Here's one representative post, for example, quote,

00:17:12.060 this is all foreigners.

00:17:13.180 I used to work at a hospital.

00:17:14.340 Arabic women would come in, claim to be single,

00:17:16.540 get free health care and anything else they could get

00:17:18.620 because they put single on the paperwork.

00:17:21.080 Then we would watch them walk out to their expensive cars

00:17:24.160 because their husband owned three corner stores and a gas station.

00:17:27.040 These same stores are stocked using food stamps.

00:17:29.960 They go into stores that are having deals like

00:17:32.380 one, two liter Pepsi for $1.50.

00:17:35.100 They bring 10 family members to buy as much products as possible

00:17:38.200 because stores have limits per person.

00:17:40.100 They pay with food stamps and then take the items to their stores and sell it.

00:17:44.980 Here's another reply.

00:17:45.960 This is one from Jason Robertson, the co-founder of the American Tribune.

00:17:49.620 Quote,

00:17:50.120 I'm from Minnesota.

00:17:50.900 It confirmed the system is set up so that single moms get more money

00:17:53.820 than married families, so they stay single.

00:17:55.620 In some cases, they even do a religious ceremony

00:17:58.660 without filing the paperwork to make themselves illegally married.

00:18:01.800 To be fair, this isn't only the Somali community, close quote.

00:18:06.100 Democrats understand that importing all these foreign scam artists

00:18:08.460 is destroying the United States, but they're fine with it

00:18:10.300 because all the foreign nationals living in this country,

00:18:12.760 even the illegal ones, count for redistricting,

00:18:16.340 meaning they give Democrats more seats in Congress.

00:18:19.300 And one New York lawmaker, a very dumb woman named Yvette Clark,

00:18:23.540 was careless enough to admit this publicly the other day.

00:18:27.140 Listen.

00:18:27.360 I'm from Brooklyn, New York.

00:18:29.920 We have a diaspora that can absorb a significant number of these migrants.

00:18:36.300 And, you know, when I hear colleagues talk about, you know,

00:18:40.680 the doors of the inn being closed, no room in the inn,

00:18:45.760 I'm saying, you know, I need more people in my district

00:18:49.060 just for redistricting purposes.

00:18:51.020 And those members could clearly fit here.

00:18:54.940 Well, talk about saying the quiet part out loud.

00:18:58.200 If there's any redeeming quality that these people have,

00:19:00.560 it's that they're so stupid they can't help themselves.

00:19:02.760 They're compelled to admit everything that they're planning.

00:19:06.740 When leftists like Yvette Clark and Maria Salazar

00:19:09.560 tell you that illegal aliens are really Americans,

00:19:12.300 this clip tells you why they're saying that.

00:19:14.860 They want to build a coalition of voters

00:19:16.280 that will benefit them politically.

00:19:18.120 They understand very well that none of them are really Americans,

00:19:21.260 just like I wouldn't be Japanese

00:19:22.620 if I somehow parachuted into Tokyo tomorrow,

00:19:25.400 filled out some documentation and gained legal status.

00:19:29.120 Okay, that would make me a legal resident of the country.

00:19:33.600 But it would be a grave error on behalf of Tokyo's government

00:19:36.280 to allow that, one which would never actually happen in real life.

00:19:39.660 But regardless, it wouldn't make me as Japanese,

00:19:42.640 as someone who's lived in the country their entire life,

00:19:45.040 who speaks the language, respects the culture,

00:19:47.340 has ancestral ties to the country and its history.

00:19:51.060 And we all know that.

00:19:52.620 We know that for every other country outside of the Western world, that is.

00:19:58.560 And for most of this country's history,

00:20:00.220 this wouldn't be a controversial point.

00:20:02.980 But suddenly we're expected to believe that only a bigot,

00:20:05.540 only a far-right white supremacist,

00:20:08.040 would dare to say that being an American actually means something.

00:20:12.580 Only the most racist person imaginable would believe

00:20:14.860 that Americans have a shared culture,

00:20:17.040 a shared language,

00:20:18.600 a shared loyalty.

00:20:19.620 That's the message they're trying to send.

00:20:25.160 They're trying to tell us that we're racist for wanting America,

00:20:28.000 wanting this country to have any identity at all.

00:20:32.200 That every other country on earth is allowed to have an identity,

00:20:34.620 allowed to have a shared culture,

00:20:35.740 a shared language,

00:20:36.380 a shared identity.

00:20:37.300 But we're not.

00:20:38.380 We're not allowed to have that.

00:20:39.560 It's a basic desire and need for all civilized people

00:20:43.740 who form countries.

00:20:45.760 This is why you do it.

00:20:47.740 And everyone else is allowed to have it.

00:20:49.460 We're not.

00:20:50.160 How dare you even suggest such a thing?

00:20:53.940 Well, at the risk of angering all these very low IQ

00:20:56.240 and emotionally incontinent subversives,

00:20:58.500 I'm not going to go along with it.

00:21:00.280 No one should.

00:21:00.780 What is a woman was once the big question of the day.

00:21:05.740 It's a question that always had an obvious answer,

00:21:07.980 even if the left pretended otherwise.

00:21:10.080 So perhaps we have a new question,

00:21:12.400 one that's also pretty simple,

00:21:14.500 even if the left claims to be totally vexed by it.

00:21:17.620 And that question is simply,

00:21:20.220 what is an American?

00:21:22.360 Really?

00:21:23.040 What is it?

00:21:24.920 What does it mean to be an American?

00:21:27.900 Ask your local representative that question.

00:21:30.680 Ask every politician that question.

00:21:32.980 Think about it yourself.

00:21:35.220 In the next few years,

00:21:36.520 that question,

00:21:37.280 as it was when Teddy Roosevelt delivered

00:21:39.040 that speech to the Knights of Columbus,

00:21:41.580 will prove to be very important.

00:21:43.840 It'll be the question that defines this country

00:21:45.800 and whether it survives.

00:21:47.780 We should all be able to answer it.

00:21:50.060 And to banish anyone who can answer it,

00:21:52.180 especially any politician,

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00:23:11.520 Fox News reports

00:23:12.440 Director of National Intelligence

00:23:13.640 Tulsi Gabbard

00:23:14.440 doubled down

00:23:15.080 at a White House press briefing Wednesday

00:23:16.640 alleging the Obama administration

00:23:18.060 promoted a contrived narrative

00:23:19.520 that Russia interfered

00:23:20.480 in the 2016 election.

00:23:21.740 There's irrefutable evidence

00:23:22.640 that details

00:23:23.100 how President Obama

00:23:23.880 and his national security team

00:23:24.760 directed the creation

00:23:26.060 of intelligence community assessment

00:23:27.180 that they knew was false.

00:23:28.460 Gabbard said they knew

00:23:29.240 it would promote

00:23:30.000 this contrived narrative

00:23:30.760 that Russia interfered

00:23:31.520 in the 2016 election

00:23:32.280 to help President Trump win,

00:23:35.060 selling it to the American people

00:23:36.520 as though it were true.

00:23:37.340 It wasn't.

00:23:40.240 Gabbard also said

00:23:40.960 the declassified documents

00:23:42.140 have been shared

00:23:42.600 with the Department of Justice

00:23:43.440 and the FBI

00:23:44.020 so those agencies

00:23:44.700 can evaluate

00:23:45.280 if any criminal implications

00:23:46.400 stemming from the materials

00:23:48.460 are warranted.

00:23:49.940 She said we've referred

00:23:50.900 and will continue

00:23:51.900 to refer all of these documents

00:23:53.220 to the DOJ and the FBI

00:23:54.560 to investigate

00:23:55.560 the criminal implications

00:23:56.600 of this for the evidence.

00:24:00.900 The evidence that we have found

00:24:02.480 and that we have released

00:24:03.740 directly point to President Obama

00:24:05.500 leading the manufacturing

00:24:06.880 of this intelligence assessment

00:24:08.300 there are multiple pieces

00:24:09.740 of evidence and intelligence

00:24:10.820 to confirm that fact.

00:24:11.640 So the Trump administration

00:24:12.280 is not backing away from this.

00:24:15.720 They're leaning into it.

00:24:16.820 They're doubling,

00:24:18.180 tripling down

00:24:18.800 and that's good.

00:24:23.440 And you know,

00:24:23.740 I was thinking about this

00:24:24.520 because the one bit

00:24:25.460 of skepticism

00:24:26.200 that I would have

00:24:27.180 and that I think

00:24:28.120 a lot of people would have

00:24:29.060 is just this

00:24:31.380 that would Barack Obama

00:24:33.320 really be dumb enough

00:24:35.500 to involve himself

00:24:36.600 in a conspiracy

00:24:37.540 this explicitly.

00:24:41.040 Enough to make himself

00:24:42.040 criminally liable.

00:24:45.440 Which isn't to say,

00:24:46.380 oh, Obama would

00:24:47.940 never do something like this.

00:24:50.220 Obama's too honest.

00:24:51.460 No, it's not that.

00:24:52.140 It's just wouldn't Obama,

00:24:53.420 who's a smart guy,

00:24:54.820 wouldn't he be smart enough

00:24:55.780 to give himself a buffer

00:24:56.880 to keep his hands clean?

00:24:58.000 Which, again,

00:25:00.280 isn't to say

00:25:00.700 he's actually innocent.

00:25:01.740 Just that you'd think

00:25:02.760 he's clever enough

00:25:03.340 to preserve some amount

00:25:04.620 of plausible deniability.

00:25:07.240 That's the way

00:25:07.880 these things normally work,

00:25:09.540 I would imagine.

00:25:11.740 And that reasoning

00:25:12.640 makes sense

00:25:13.360 if you don't remember

00:25:14.680 the level of sheer panic

00:25:16.100 that the establishment

00:25:17.220 was experiencing

00:25:18.080 back in 2016.

00:25:19.300 And they're still panicked

00:25:20.180 about Trump, of course,

00:25:21.380 but not like they were

00:25:22.940 when all this first started.

00:25:24.480 They saw him

00:25:25.300 as an existential threat

00:25:26.680 in a way that

00:25:28.780 nothing else

00:25:30.000 in their lives

00:25:30.660 ever had been.

00:25:31.560 And he was.

00:25:32.300 They were right.

00:25:34.540 So they felt justified.

00:25:35.960 They felt morally justified

00:25:37.100 in doing whatever

00:25:37.960 was necessary

00:25:38.600 to stop him.

00:25:41.140 And they also got sloppy.

00:25:43.500 They were emotional

00:25:44.820 and sloppy.

00:25:46.720 So,

00:25:47.520 all that together

00:25:48.660 makes some sense

00:25:49.820 of the fact

00:25:50.260 that Obama,

00:25:51.120 usually a smart,

00:25:52.160 scheming guy,

00:25:53.340 would be brazen enough

00:25:54.440 to involve himself

00:25:55.280 so directly

00:25:55.980 in this kind of conspiracy

00:25:57.140 to the point where

00:25:58.160 he makes himself

00:26:00.020 criminally liable.

00:26:02.500 So I think that's

00:26:03.320 what happened there.

00:26:05.980 So then,

00:26:06.660 now you have to

00:26:07.420 follow through.

00:26:08.700 And I'm not going to

00:26:09.700 jump up on the

00:26:10.440 soapbox again.

00:26:12.220 I've made my point.

00:26:13.460 We started the week

00:26:14.480 talking about this.

00:26:17.060 We need to put

00:26:17.800 Barack Obama

00:26:18.400 in handcuffs.

00:26:19.040 That was the title

00:26:19.600 of the show on Monday.

00:26:21.700 So I made my point

00:26:22.760 on that.

00:26:24.060 But the more

00:26:25.840 the Trump administration

00:26:26.620 doubles down,

00:26:27.720 the farther

00:26:28.380 that they take

00:26:29.340 this rhetorically,

00:26:30.200 the more they

00:26:30.820 box themselves

00:26:31.920 into a corner

00:26:32.720 where the only

00:26:34.920 acceptable outcome

00:26:35.840 is to actually

00:26:36.620 arrest and prosecute

00:26:37.580 some extremely

00:26:38.340 powerful people.

00:26:40.920 And they're

00:26:41.700 in that corner

00:26:42.140 right now.

00:26:44.860 They're officially

00:26:45.780 in that corner.

00:26:47.960 When you lean

00:26:48.720 into it this heavily,

00:26:49.840 you're doing

00:26:50.200 press conferences,

00:26:50.980 you've got

00:26:52.940 Tulsi Gabbard,

00:26:53.600 you've got

00:26:53.800 the president

00:26:54.220 himself coming

00:26:54.960 out and making

00:26:56.500 these accusations.

00:26:58.100 Accusations that

00:26:58.760 I believe,

00:26:59.280 once again,

00:27:01.000 but when you

00:27:01.960 do all of this,

00:27:03.360 now you have

00:27:04.440 to follow through.

00:27:05.340 You have to.

00:27:06.540 Anything less

00:27:07.540 than very high

00:27:08.800 profile arrests

00:27:10.020 and prosecution

00:27:10.740 will be a

00:27:11.680 humiliation

00:27:12.260 and a failure.

00:27:14.560 Anything less

00:27:15.480 will be,

00:27:16.360 will,

00:27:17.120 runs the risk

00:27:19.540 of destroying

00:27:20.120 his presidency.

00:27:24.540 Because you

00:27:25.180 just,

00:27:25.400 you can't do

00:27:26.040 this.

00:27:26.280 You can't

00:27:27.220 make these

00:27:28.120 kinds of

00:27:28.600 claims,

00:27:29.120 make them

00:27:29.480 so explicitly

00:27:30.780 and relentlessly

00:27:33.660 and then do

00:27:35.220 nothing.

00:27:38.340 Because as I

00:27:39.140 said on Monday,

00:27:39.620 all that will

00:27:40.040 mean is that

00:27:41.080 you make all

00:27:41.860 these claims

00:27:42.200 and then you

00:27:42.460 do nothing,

00:27:43.040 that either

00:27:43.540 means that

00:27:45.400 you were lying

00:27:46.080 about the

00:27:46.520 claims and

00:27:47.840 you were

00:27:48.280 fraudulently

00:27:48.840 accusing,

00:27:49.580 fraudulently

00:27:50.080 accusing Obama

00:27:50.980 of a criminal

00:27:52.200 conspiracy.

00:27:53.500 Or it means

00:27:54.260 that you were

00:27:55.220 telling the truth

00:27:55.900 but now you're

00:27:57.160 complicit after

00:27:57.780 the fact because

00:27:58.560 you refuse to

00:27:59.120 do anything

00:27:59.400 about it.

00:28:02.600 And I don't

00:28:03.200 think they're

00:28:03.480 lying,

00:28:04.020 so that would

00:28:04.780 leave the

00:28:05.240 latter option,

00:28:06.220 which is if

00:28:06.780 you don't do

00:28:07.100 something about

00:28:07.600 it, then

00:28:08.000 you're complicit

00:28:08.520 after the fact.

00:28:11.020 So,

00:28:11.640 that's it.

00:28:13.960 You know,

00:28:14.240 every time

00:28:14.720 there's another

00:28:15.520 press conference

00:28:16.080 about this,

00:28:17.220 that's going to

00:28:17.620 be my only

00:28:18.100 response.

00:28:20.720 And it looks

00:28:21.220 like Tulsi

00:28:21.600 Gabbard's

00:28:21.980 doing everything,

00:28:22.700 she's doing

00:28:23.000 everything she

00:28:23.420 can, she's

00:28:23.800 doing everything

00:28:24.180 the right way.

00:28:26.160 She's laying

00:28:26.760 out what she

00:28:27.160 discovered, she

00:28:27.760 referred it to

00:28:28.300 the DOJ,

00:28:29.300 right?

00:28:29.760 She can't go

00:28:30.180 make arrests

00:28:30.640 herself, she

00:28:31.080 can't go put

00:28:31.480 handcuffs on

00:28:31.900 Barack Obama

00:28:32.300 herself, so

00:28:32.740 she's doing

00:28:33.240 what she can.

00:28:37.520 But still,

00:28:39.560 this is going

00:28:40.600 to be my

00:28:40.940 only response

00:28:41.700 to this is

00:28:42.100 like, okay,

00:28:42.640 okay, let's

00:28:45.600 see it.

00:28:47.340 Everything is

00:28:48.060 lining up

00:28:48.560 right, the

00:28:49.380 right way

00:28:49.740 right now,

00:28:50.280 you're doing

00:28:50.580 everything the

00:28:50.980 right way

00:28:51.360 right now,

00:28:51.820 let's keep

00:28:52.200 that going.

00:28:55.360 I wanted to

00:28:56.000 mention this,

00:28:56.540 Fox 2 in

00:28:57.620 Detroit has

00:28:59.320 this report,

00:29:00.940 a new app

00:29:01.740 called T,

00:29:03.160 where women

00:29:03.660 can only post

00:29:04.440 photos of men

00:29:05.520 they're dating

00:29:06.100 to get input

00:29:06.720 from other

00:29:07.040 women is

00:29:07.480 causing

00:29:07.760 controversy.

00:29:08.420 The app

00:29:08.680 was born

00:29:09.580 out of some

00:29:10.040 women's rough

00:29:11.040 dating experiences,

00:29:12.060 and it's

00:29:13.780 called tea

00:29:14.240 as in

00:29:14.600 spill the

00:29:15.000 tea or

00:29:15.300 gossip.

00:29:16.020 It's getting

00:29:16.320 popularity on

00:29:17.040 TikTok,

00:29:17.420 especially among

00:29:17.840 Gen Z.

00:29:18.740 There's a

00:29:19.240 waiting list

00:29:19.680 to join

00:29:20.080 due to its

00:29:20.540 popularity.

00:29:22.760 One user,

00:29:23.540 Emily, is

00:29:23.900 anonymous on

00:29:24.420 the app and

00:29:24.800 admits she's

00:29:25.220 embarrassed saying

00:29:25.820 she's a

00:29:26.120 frequent user.

00:29:27.260 Users can

00:29:27.640 post photos

00:29:28.200 of who

00:29:28.860 they're dating

00:29:29.320 to gauge

00:29:29.800 other women's

00:29:30.300 experiences with

00:29:31.200 them,

00:29:31.740 identifying so-called

00:29:32.560 red and

00:29:33.080 green flags.

00:29:34.560 The reviews

00:29:35.260 are rarely

00:29:36.080 positive.

00:29:38.140 She said,

00:29:38.880 quote,

00:29:39.020 if you get

00:29:39.300 past the

00:29:39.720 waiting list,

00:29:40.180 you have to

00:29:40.480 submit a pic

00:29:41.040 of your face

00:29:41.600 with an ID

00:29:42.040 to prove

00:29:42.460 you're a

00:29:42.760 girl because

00:29:43.340 no guys

00:29:43.920 are allowed

00:29:44.240 on the

00:29:44.460 app.

00:29:44.840 The guys

00:29:45.360 that are

00:29:45.600 green flags,

00:29:46.260 I was trying

00:29:46.660 to look

00:29:46.940 them up on

00:29:47.360 social media

00:29:47.980 and like,

00:29:49.180 oh, this

00:29:49.560 is a good

00:29:49.940 guy, so

00:29:50.920 both ends

00:29:51.360 of the

00:29:51.560 spectrum are

00:29:52.020 dictating my

00:29:52.640 dating life

00:29:53.120 right now.

00:29:55.260 Emily says

00:29:55.860 the tea

00:29:56.100 app seems

00:29:56.420 to be

00:29:56.540 particularly

00:29:56.780 popular in

00:29:57.360 Middle

00:29:57.520 Eastern

00:29:57.720 communities,

00:29:58.220 especially in

00:29:58.600 Dearborn.

00:30:00.420 All these

00:30:00.960 guys are

00:30:01.300 talking, too.

00:30:02.040 They're getting

00:30:02.360 nervous.

00:30:02.840 They're making

00:30:03.120 TikToks about

00:30:03.820 it, she

00:30:04.040 said.

00:30:06.260 Okay, so

00:30:08.120 there's a lot

00:30:08.800 of discussion

00:30:09.120 about this on

00:30:09.520 social media,

00:30:09.920 especially on

00:30:10.240 TikTok, as

00:30:10.820 the article

00:30:11.320 mentions.

00:30:13.000 That's the

00:30:13.500 app.

00:30:13.820 It's got a

00:30:14.440 lot of

00:30:14.780 attention, a

00:30:15.340 lot of

00:30:15.540 videos on

00:30:16.560 TikTok, many

00:30:17.060 of them from

00:30:17.660 men complaining

00:30:18.480 about the

00:30:18.780 fact that

00:30:19.120 they've ended

00:30:19.800 up on the

00:30:20.260 app.

00:30:21.280 Often they're

00:30:21.820 being lied

00:30:22.520 about, they

00:30:23.020 say, and

00:30:23.660 defamed.

00:30:24.660 And I'm not

00:30:25.220 going to play

00:30:25.480 any of those

00:30:25.740 videos here, but

00:30:26.440 I watched a

00:30:27.000 few of them.

00:30:28.380 You can go to

00:30:28.960 TikTok and

00:30:29.400 find the men

00:30:30.140 who have

00:30:30.320 had experiences

00:30:31.040 being, who

00:30:32.620 have found

00:30:33.160 themselves on

00:30:33.880 this app.

00:30:35.580 And the only

00:30:36.100 way they can

00:30:36.560 know that

00:30:36.860 they're on it,

00:30:37.280 I guess, is for

00:30:37.840 a woman to

00:30:38.400 tell them, because

00:30:38.920 they can't

00:30:41.340 access it, they

00:30:42.520 can't defend

00:30:43.000 themselves, they're

00:30:43.520 not allowed on

00:30:44.120 it to defend

00:30:44.620 themselves or

00:30:45.120 kind of give

00:30:45.440 their side of

00:30:45.860 the story or

00:30:46.220 anything like

00:30:46.620 that.

00:30:49.620 So that's

00:30:50.720 what the

00:30:50.900 app is.

00:30:51.240 The app is

00:30:51.500 basically just

00:30:51.980 women gossiping

00:30:52.880 about men and

00:30:53.680 usually tearing

00:30:54.400 them apart and

00:30:55.180 mocking them,

00:30:55.860 insulting their

00:30:56.360 appearance.

00:30:58.120 I looked at

00:30:58.640 some of these

00:30:58.900 TikTok videos,

00:30:59.640 that's what a

00:31:00.000 lot of the

00:31:00.280 comments, just

00:31:00.920 women, a

00:31:02.840 woman's dating a

00:31:03.600 guy, posts his

00:31:04.640 picture, says,

00:31:05.360 hey, anyone

00:31:05.760 know anything

00:31:07.000 about this guy?

00:31:07.680 And then you

00:31:09.020 get a whole

00:31:09.260 bunch of

00:31:09.480 comments from

00:31:10.060 women making

00:31:11.080 fun of him,

00:31:11.620 saying he

00:31:11.900 looks like a

00:31:12.280 creep, calling

00:31:13.260 him ugly.

00:31:14.320 It's really

00:31:15.100 ugly stuff

00:31:17.800 itself.

00:31:19.460 And that's

00:31:21.060 the whole

00:31:21.260 thing.

00:31:23.160 And this

00:31:23.720 app exists

00:31:24.380 supposedly to

00:31:25.220 fill a need,

00:31:25.820 and the need

00:31:26.400 is that women

00:31:27.220 have to warn

00:31:28.080 each other about

00:31:29.340 the quote-unquote

00:31:30.000 bad men who

00:31:31.200 are out there.

00:31:32.520 So let me say

00:31:33.560 a few things

00:31:33.980 about this.

00:31:34.380 And first of

00:31:34.780 all, this

00:31:37.100 whole thing

00:31:37.480 is terrible,

00:31:38.760 obviously.

00:31:40.060 It shouldn't

00:31:41.420 be legal.

00:31:44.480 Providing a

00:31:45.220 forum specifically

00:31:46.500 for people to

00:31:47.240 just post whatever

00:31:48.100 defamatory claims

00:31:49.200 they want about

00:31:49.820 other private

00:31:50.440 individuals who

00:31:51.820 themselves have no

00:31:52.580 opportunity to

00:31:53.200 speak up for

00:31:53.600 themselves, complete

00:31:54.980 with their names

00:31:55.580 and their pictures

00:31:56.140 and identifying

00:31:56.800 information, that

00:31:58.180 should not be

00:31:58.660 legal.

00:31:59.580 Now, sure, on

00:32:00.120 any social media

00:32:00.840 site, people can

00:32:01.500 post defamatory

00:32:02.240 stuff.

00:32:02.560 It happens all the

00:32:03.000 time, but the

00:32:04.300 difference here is

00:32:04.780 that this is an

00:32:05.240 app specifically

00:32:05.940 designed for

00:32:07.080 that.

00:32:08.220 It's designed to

00:32:09.500 talk about other

00:32:11.400 private individuals

00:32:12.540 who, again, are

00:32:14.640 barred from being

00:32:16.580 able to say

00:32:17.380 anything in their

00:32:17.900 defense.

00:32:20.000 So this should

00:32:20.840 not be legal.

00:32:21.580 I don't know.

00:32:21.900 I don't think it

00:32:22.760 is even by the

00:32:23.720 current laws.

00:32:24.720 And hopefully the

00:32:25.580 men targeted by

00:32:26.260 the app file

00:32:26.840 lawsuits and sue

00:32:28.120 everybody involved

00:32:29.000 into bankruptcy.

00:32:30.860 Sue the makers

00:32:31.620 of the app and

00:32:32.520 all these women

00:32:33.000 participating.

00:32:33.680 Just sue them

00:32:34.380 all so that

00:32:34.920 they're all

00:32:35.180 bankrupt for

00:32:35.680 life.

00:32:36.060 That's what

00:32:36.600 should happen.

00:32:38.640 Because if

00:32:39.200 you're a woman,

00:32:39.940 I mean, it

00:32:43.100 shouldn't need to

00:32:43.480 be said, but

00:32:45.580 apparently it does

00:32:46.340 for these women

00:32:46.800 who are using it.

00:32:47.720 You shouldn't be

00:32:48.540 doing this.

00:32:49.080 This is bad.

00:32:52.160 If you're on

00:32:52.640 some app and

00:32:53.220 you're just

00:32:53.540 tearing apart

00:32:54.340 men for your

00:32:57.740 own pleasure,

00:32:59.500 then you're a

00:33:00.460 bad person.

00:33:00.900 like you're a

00:33:01.780 bad, awful

00:33:02.200 person.

00:33:04.320 Gossiping is

00:33:04.960 wrong.

00:33:05.820 It is vile.

00:33:07.060 It's disgusting.

00:33:09.220 And women are

00:33:10.060 the ones who do

00:33:10.760 most of the

00:33:11.380 gossiping.

00:33:12.160 There's a reason

00:33:12.960 this kind of app

00:33:13.900 exists for women

00:33:14.740 and not for men.

00:33:16.160 A male gossip

00:33:17.640 app like this

00:33:19.960 couldn't exist.

00:33:22.280 It'd be condemned

00:33:23.240 by everybody,

00:33:23.960 first of all.

00:33:24.660 You wouldn't be

00:33:25.480 able to,

00:33:26.460 it literally

00:33:27.940 couldn't exist.

00:33:28.560 They wouldn't

00:33:29.080 allow it in the

00:33:29.640 app store.

00:33:30.900 If there was

00:33:31.880 some,

00:33:32.820 if someone

00:33:33.960 comes along

00:33:34.560 with the

00:33:35.160 T for men,

00:33:37.660 you won't even

00:33:38.400 be able to put

00:33:38.840 it in the

00:33:39.060 app store.

00:33:39.500 They won't

00:33:39.740 allow it.

00:33:42.320 It'd be

00:33:42.920 condemned

00:33:43.360 even by the

00:33:45.080 women who

00:33:45.480 use this

00:33:46.080 app,

00:33:46.700 especially by

00:33:47.520 them,

00:33:47.940 actually.

00:33:50.040 But also,

00:33:50.880 men aren't

00:33:51.240 interested in

00:33:51.940 gossiping enough

00:33:52.940 to keep an

00:33:53.460 app like that

00:33:54.020 going.

00:33:54.920 This can only

00:33:55.900 happen with

00:33:56.360 women.

00:33:56.780 Now,

00:33:56.940 men can gossip

00:33:57.880 also,

00:33:58.260 but this

00:33:58.740 is a sin

00:33:59.360 that women

00:33:59.840 are more

00:34:00.440 inclined towards.

00:34:01.680 It's kind

00:34:02.300 of like

00:34:02.540 porn,

00:34:03.080 actually.

00:34:04.840 Porn is a

00:34:05.720 sin that men

00:34:06.480 and women

00:34:07.120 can commit.

00:34:08.280 Some women

00:34:08.660 do watch

00:34:09.080 porn,

00:34:09.340 but it's

00:34:09.560 definitely

00:34:09.740 something that

00:34:10.100 appeals to

00:34:10.740 men much

00:34:11.200 more.

00:34:12.140 It's a

00:34:12.520 weakness that

00:34:13.180 men are

00:34:13.660 more likely

00:34:14.140 to have.

00:34:15.580 Men are

00:34:16.000 much more

00:34:16.440 visual,

00:34:16.980 all these

00:34:17.220 things.

00:34:17.440 So,

00:34:17.960 that's why

00:34:19.600 men will tend

00:34:20.800 to struggle

00:34:21.220 with that

00:34:21.860 more than

00:34:22.500 women will.

00:34:24.140 And gossip

00:34:24.660 is the same

00:34:25.560 thing the other

00:34:26.140 way.

00:34:26.320 Gossip is

00:34:26.800 basically

00:34:27.160 female porn.

00:34:28.520 It scratches

00:34:29.100 the same

00:34:29.580 kind of

00:34:29.920 itch.

00:34:32.720 Which is

00:34:33.280 why sometimes,

00:34:34.100 and look,

00:34:34.680 you know how

00:34:35.820 I feel about

00:34:36.280 the porn

00:34:36.660 industry,

00:34:37.140 about pornography

00:34:37.660 in general.

00:34:39.100 I think that

00:34:40.240 it should be

00:34:40.780 banned outright.

00:34:43.460 All

00:34:43.900 pornographers

00:34:44.480 should be

00:34:45.200 imprisoned for

00:34:46.060 life.

00:34:46.440 That's what

00:34:46.840 I think.

00:34:49.040 So,

00:34:49.680 anyone who

00:34:50.360 condemns

00:34:50.700 pornography,

00:34:51.420 I agree.

00:34:53.580 But,

00:34:54.360 and this is a

00:34:54.780 point that you

00:34:55.380 hear men make,

00:34:56.320 a lot,

00:34:56.840 which is

00:34:57.080 true,

00:34:58.240 that sometimes

00:35:02.100 you'll have

00:35:02.400 women who

00:35:02.800 condemn porn,

00:35:04.200 and it's sort

00:35:04.580 of easy for

00:35:05.160 them to do,

00:35:05.820 but they're not

00:35:06.200 looking at the

00:35:06.940 things.

00:35:07.820 It's like,

00:35:08.020 for most women

00:35:09.180 it's easy to,

00:35:09.940 you're not going

00:35:10.280 to fall,

00:35:10.700 for most women

00:35:11.280 they're not going

00:35:11.540 to fall into

00:35:12.060 porn and porn

00:35:12.820 addiction,

00:35:13.600 and it's easy

00:35:14.520 for a woman

00:35:15.460 to not fall

00:35:16.220 into that,

00:35:17.020 because you're

00:35:17.360 just wired

00:35:17.880 differently.

00:35:20.120 But there

00:35:20.720 are things

00:35:21.280 that are the

00:35:22.200 female version

00:35:23.060 of that.

00:35:23.760 that we

00:35:29.820 don't talk

00:35:30.200 about as

00:35:30.500 much.

00:35:32.380 And I

00:35:32.940 would say

00:35:33.240 that something

00:35:33.560 like this,

00:35:35.560 you know,

00:35:36.500 gossip,

00:35:37.440 it's this

00:35:39.400 very base

00:35:40.260 kind of

00:35:41.240 pleasure.

00:35:41.740 It's very

00:35:42.840 savage,

00:35:43.760 unseemly,

00:35:44.360 where you're

00:35:47.720 taking pleasure

00:35:48.400 and ripping

00:35:48.900 someone else

00:35:49.640 apart.

00:35:52.460 So,

00:35:53.100 you shouldn't

00:35:53.920 be doing it.

00:35:55.060 And also,

00:35:55.820 if you feel

00:35:56.380 like you need

00:35:57.040 to be on an

00:35:57.560 app like this,

00:35:58.420 then you are

00:35:59.720 the problem.

00:36:00.680 I mean,

00:36:00.920 if you find

00:36:01.460 yourself constantly

00:36:02.360 ending up with

00:36:03.060 guys who are

00:36:03.840 quote-unquote

00:36:04.520 red flags,

00:36:05.640 so much that

00:36:06.780 you need an

00:36:07.220 app to weed

00:36:07.940 them out,

00:36:08.980 then you're

00:36:10.020 the problem.

00:36:11.780 Because that

00:36:12.360 tells me,

00:36:12.900 so when you

00:36:14.260 hear from

00:36:14.460 these women

00:36:14.820 who say,

00:36:15.700 every guy

00:36:16.360 I end up

00:36:16.760 with is a

00:36:18.560 weird creep.

00:36:20.400 Every guy

00:36:21.060 I end up

00:36:21.440 with is why

00:36:22.240 I need the

00:36:22.700 T app,

00:36:23.260 so I can

00:36:23.560 finally steer

00:36:25.480 clear of those

00:36:26.080 kinds of

00:36:26.400 guys.

00:36:26.680 Well,

00:36:27.660 if that's

00:36:29.240 the case,

00:36:30.180 that every guy

00:36:31.180 you end up

00:36:31.640 with is a

00:36:32.260 weirdo creep,

00:36:32.940 and that's

00:36:33.200 why you need

00:36:33.540 an app like

00:36:34.020 this,

00:36:34.920 that tells

00:36:36.120 me that

00:36:36.680 either you

00:36:39.100 are yourself

00:36:39.940 a weirdo

00:36:40.800 creep,

00:36:41.240 and that's

00:36:41.640 why you

00:36:41.900 attract those

00:36:42.580 kinds of

00:36:42.940 people,

00:36:43.940 or the

00:36:46.560 second option

00:36:47.140 is that you

00:36:49.000 constantly

00:36:49.540 describe normal

00:36:51.080 nice guys as

00:36:52.380 weirdo creeps

00:36:53.180 because that's

00:36:53.900 how you

00:36:54.340 inevitably see

00:36:55.340 everyone the

00:36:56.580 moment they

00:36:56.980 do something

00:36:57.540 that displeases

00:36:58.320 you.

00:37:00.260 It's one of

00:37:01.080 those two

00:37:01.320 options.

00:37:02.640 If you're a

00:37:03.480 woman constantly

00:37:04.040 NNA up with

00:37:04.820 weirdo creeps

00:37:05.780 and these

00:37:06.540 kinds of

00:37:06.840 guys,

00:37:07.260 red flags,

00:37:08.500 then that's

00:37:09.160 it.

00:37:09.320 you're the

00:37:11.160 problem either

00:37:11.980 you are a

00:37:14.260 red flag

00:37:14.640 yourself,

00:37:14.980 so you

00:37:15.260 attract those

00:37:15.780 kinds of

00:37:16.100 people,

00:37:16.420 or again,

00:37:17.780 you have a

00:37:18.980 tendency of

00:37:19.460 labeling people

00:37:20.280 like that

00:37:20.820 just because

00:37:21.540 they do

00:37:21.820 something you

00:37:22.200 don't like,

00:37:22.680 or they have

00:37:23.440 an opinion

00:37:23.740 you don't

00:37:24.100 like,

00:37:24.460 or whatever.

00:37:24.860 I would

00:37:31.140 look at

00:37:31.720 yourself on

00:37:32.620 that.

00:37:34.940 I've been

00:37:35.500 meaning to

00:37:35.760 play this

00:37:36.080 clip as

00:37:36.380 well.

00:37:36.600 This is

00:37:36.960 CBS News

00:37:37.600 correspondent

00:37:38.360 Scott McFarlane

00:37:39.540 recently,

00:37:40.280 this was

00:37:40.500 maybe a

00:37:40.860 week ago

00:37:41.380 or so,

00:37:42.480 talking about

00:37:43.420 the Trump

00:37:43.820 assassination

00:37:44.420 attempt in

00:37:45.420 Butler last

00:37:46.640 year and

00:37:48.060 how devastating

00:37:48.780 it was.

00:37:49.440 He wasn't

00:37:50.120 talking about

00:37:50.380 how devastating

00:37:50.800 it was for

00:37:51.700 the country,

00:37:52.520 much less

00:37:53.060 for Donald

00:37:53.440 Trump,

00:37:53.740 but how

00:37:54.840 devastating it

00:37:55.320 was for

00:37:55.760 him personally.

00:37:57.680 Not because

00:37:58.480 he's a big

00:37:58.900 Trump fan and

00:37:59.640 he was afraid

00:38:00.040 that Trump

00:38:00.340 was going to

00:38:00.600 get hurt,

00:38:01.120 but for

00:38:02.200 other reasons,

00:38:03.420 which you'll

00:38:03.960 hear him

00:38:04.480 explain here.

00:38:05.520 Listen.

00:38:06.280 For those

00:38:06.540 of us there,

00:38:07.640 it was such

00:38:08.680 a horror

00:38:09.300 because you

00:38:10.640 saw an

00:38:12.880 emerging America

00:38:13.720 and it wasn't

00:38:15.120 the shooting,

00:38:15.940 Chuck.

00:38:16.320 I got diagnosed

00:38:17.640 with PTSD

00:38:18.380 within 48

00:38:19.500 hours.

00:38:20.340 I got put

00:38:20.720 on trauma

00:38:21.180 leave,

00:38:21.840 not because

00:38:22.580 I think of

00:38:22.940 the shooting,

00:38:23.360 but because

00:38:24.200 you saw

00:38:25.400 it in the

00:38:25.660 eyes,

00:38:26.400 the reaction

00:38:26.860 of the

00:38:27.080 people.

00:38:27.660 They were

00:38:27.980 coming for

00:38:28.540 us.

00:38:29.160 If he didn't

00:38:29.600 jump up with

00:38:30.080 his fist,

00:38:30.640 they were

00:38:30.900 going to

00:38:31.240 come kill

00:38:31.860 us.

00:38:32.060 I know.

00:38:33.080 Just trying

00:38:33.660 to wrap

00:38:33.940 your mind

00:38:34.320 around the

00:38:34.700 level of

00:38:35.140 ego that's

00:38:35.860 involved

00:38:36.180 here.

00:38:37.460 The president

00:38:38.260 got shot,

00:38:39.760 somebody in

00:38:40.140 the audience

00:38:40.440 was killed,

00:38:42.800 and somehow

00:38:44.840 Scott makes

00:38:45.840 this all about

00:38:46.520 himself.

00:38:47.200 Scott finds

00:38:47.800 a way that

00:38:48.400 this is about

00:38:48.860 him.

00:38:49.220 A bullet

00:38:49.660 whizzed by

00:38:50.180 Donald Trump's

00:38:50.740 head two

00:38:51.080 inches from

00:38:51.480 his brain

00:38:51.920 and Scott

00:38:53.840 sees it as

00:38:54.580 a near-death

00:38:54.980 experience for

00:38:55.960 himself,

00:38:56.640 not for

00:38:57.080 Trump.

00:38:58.280 And not

00:38:58.520 even because

00:38:59.020 Scott thinks

00:38:59.920 he could have

00:39:01.360 been hit by

00:39:01.740 a stray bullet

00:39:02.240 or something,

00:39:03.520 but because he

00:39:04.060 imagines that if

00:39:04.820 Trump had been

00:39:05.400 killed, the

00:39:06.040 audience would

00:39:06.500 have descended

00:39:07.060 on the media

00:39:07.720 and killed

00:39:08.400 them with

00:39:09.300 their bare

00:39:09.720 hands in an

00:39:11.460 act of

00:39:11.820 vengeance.

00:39:13.960 So this is

00:39:14.820 extreme

00:39:15.300 narcissism along

00:39:16.420 with paranoid

00:39:16.980 schizophrenia.

00:39:17.820 That's basically

00:39:18.420 what this is.

00:39:19.080 And then he

00:39:20.640 tells us that

00:39:21.040 he had PTSD

00:39:21.940 and had to

00:39:24.000 be put on

00:39:24.420 trauma leave.

00:39:26.060 He says he

00:39:26.720 was diagnosed

00:39:27.180 with PTSD

00:39:27.680 within 48

00:39:28.400 hours.

00:39:28.760 Now, mind

00:39:29.080 you, according

00:39:29.480 to the DSM,

00:39:30.520 you can't be

00:39:31.840 diagnosed with

00:39:32.540 PTSD until at

00:39:33.440 least a month

00:39:34.060 after a

00:39:34.700 supposedly traumatic

00:39:35.500 event.

00:39:36.900 And there's a

00:39:37.600 reason for that

00:39:38.360 because if

00:39:39.120 something terrible

00:39:40.460 happens and

00:39:41.120 you're still

00:39:41.440 upset about it

00:39:41.960 two days later,

00:39:42.720 that's not

00:39:43.920 unusual.

00:39:44.740 That's normal.

00:39:46.680 That's why it's

00:39:47.300 supposed to be at

00:39:47.740 least a month.

00:39:48.360 And the idea

00:39:49.100 is, well, if

00:39:49.680 you're still

00:39:50.240 overcome with

00:39:51.320 grief, if

00:39:52.960 you're still

00:39:53.540 not able to

00:39:55.020 function a

00:39:55.680 month later,

00:39:56.340 well, now

00:39:56.860 it's trauma.

00:39:57.820 That's the

00:39:58.380 diagnostic criteria,

00:39:59.940 but somehow

00:40:03.240 Scott allegedly

00:40:04.500 gets the

00:40:04.920 diagnosis anyway.

00:40:05.700 And I don't

00:40:06.260 doubt that he

00:40:06.700 got a diagnosis

00:40:07.320 actually.

00:40:08.420 I don't think

00:40:09.060 he's lying about

00:40:09.580 that part.

00:40:11.280 Psychiatry is

00:40:11.860 mostly fake and

00:40:12.720 made up and

00:40:13.460 everything is

00:40:14.400 arbitrary.

00:40:15.080 I mean,

00:40:15.280 everything really

00:40:16.200 in psychiatry is

00:40:17.500 the best thing

00:40:18.080 you can say

00:40:18.380 about it is

00:40:18.740 it's arbitrary.

00:40:20.060 Even that

00:40:20.480 diagnostic criteria,

00:40:21.220 well, it's got

00:40:21.560 to be at least

00:40:21.940 a month.

00:40:22.680 Really?

00:40:23.420 Why a month?

00:40:24.480 Why not two?

00:40:25.000 Why not six?

00:40:26.100 Why not two

00:40:26.740 days?

00:40:27.440 Who says a

00:40:28.040 month?

00:40:28.480 Where do you

00:40:28.640 come up with

00:40:28.920 a month?

00:40:30.440 So it's normal

00:40:31.240 to be really

00:40:31.740 upset up until

00:40:32.760 a month and

00:40:33.500 then magically

00:40:34.120 at that moment,

00:40:35.100 it's not

00:40:35.460 normal anymore.

00:40:36.020 You have a

00:40:36.320 disease or a

00:40:38.280 disorder or

00:40:38.880 whatever.

00:40:39.740 So I don't

00:40:40.920 doubt that he

00:40:41.880 got a diagnosis

00:40:43.040 because anyone

00:40:44.180 can be diagnosed

00:40:45.140 with anything

00:40:45.960 whenever they

00:40:46.760 want to be.

00:40:47.600 That's the

00:40:48.160 thing.

00:40:48.880 Anyone who

00:40:49.480 can go to a

00:40:49.800 psychiatrist,

00:40:50.280 get diagnosed

00:40:50.660 with any mental

00:40:51.220 illness they

00:40:51.640 want to have

00:40:52.240 and you'll

00:40:52.780 get it.

00:40:53.120 That's the

00:40:53.440 way it goes.

00:40:55.440 And this is

00:40:56.040 why I'm tired

00:40:56.440 of everybody

00:40:56.740 walking around

00:40:57.440 claiming to be

00:40:57.960 traumatized all

00:40:58.680 the time.

00:40:59.740 I mean,

00:40:59.920 trauma can be a

00:41:00.580 real thing.

00:41:01.120 People can

00:41:01.440 experience truly

00:41:02.500 traumatic events.

00:41:04.360 Unspeakably awful

00:41:05.140 things can happen

00:41:05.980 to people which

00:41:07.360 can leave a scar

00:41:08.560 mentally and

00:41:09.260 emotionally.

00:41:10.440 Nobody denies

00:41:11.240 that.

00:41:11.520 But the problem

00:41:11.900 is that now

00:41:12.300 everyone's running

00:41:13.020 around claiming

00:41:13.600 to be traumatized

00:41:14.420 by everything

00:41:15.000 all the time

00:41:15.500 and it's just

00:41:15.880 total nonsense.

00:41:16.940 And not only

00:41:17.720 is it nonsense

00:41:18.200 but as a man

00:41:19.000 it's shameful.

00:41:20.600 Unless something

00:41:21.420 truly horrific

00:41:22.180 has happened

00:41:22.700 to you personally

00:41:23.620 and the shooting

00:41:25.300 in Butler

00:41:25.660 was horrific.

00:41:27.360 It was horrific

00:41:27.740 for Trump.

00:41:28.460 It was horrific

00:41:28.880 for Corey's

00:41:30.040 family.

00:41:33.080 But,

00:41:33.920 and for

00:41:35.100 Corey himself

00:41:36.300 who was killed

00:41:37.120 tragically.

00:41:38.020 But it didn't

00:41:38.880 happen to Scott.

00:41:40.240 Like this was

00:41:40.580 not a horrific

00:41:41.080 thing that happened

00:41:41.760 to Scott.

00:41:42.440 He was not

00:41:42.840 the victim

00:41:43.360 of the event.

00:41:45.580 So unless

00:41:46.240 something actually

00:41:46.980 horrific has

00:41:47.640 happened to

00:41:48.360 you,

00:41:49.720 you should be

00:41:50.740 ashamed and

00:41:51.400 embarrassed to

00:41:52.220 whine about

00:41:52.780 your trauma.

00:41:55.820 Especially when

00:41:56.420 Donald Trump

00:41:56.800 himself has

00:41:57.440 never even

00:41:57.820 called the

00:41:58.220 event traumatic.

00:41:59.580 Donald Trump

00:42:00.160 was the guy

00:42:00.520 who got shot

00:42:00.960 in the air

00:42:01.340 and he has

00:42:01.820 never used

00:42:02.200 the word

00:42:02.420 trauma to

00:42:02.960 describe it.

00:42:03.860 But it was

00:42:04.280 traumatic for

00:42:05.500 Scott McFarlane

00:42:06.680 somehow.

00:42:08.500 Which is just

00:42:09.200 humiliating.

00:42:11.060 I mean you

00:42:11.580 should be

00:42:11.860 totally humiliated

00:42:12.640 as a man.

00:42:12.900 I mean in

00:42:13.140 fact even

00:42:13.800 as a man

00:42:14.540 even if

00:42:14.820 you have

00:42:15.100 something

00:42:15.320 traumatic

00:42:15.640 happen to

00:42:16.140 you,

00:42:16.960 I mean you

00:42:18.800 should get

00:42:19.100 some help

00:42:19.540 and all of

00:42:20.100 that.

00:42:21.560 But even

00:42:21.820 that you

00:42:22.040 don't want

00:42:22.380 to walk

00:42:22.720 around every

00:42:23.160 day telling

00:42:23.660 everyone that

00:42:24.140 you have

00:42:24.440 trauma.

00:42:25.540 Right?

00:42:25.940 That's not

00:42:26.480 the way to

00:42:27.060 deal with

00:42:27.320 that.

00:42:28.040 But in

00:42:29.880 particular if

00:42:30.340 you're someone

00:42:30.560 like Scott

00:42:30.980 McFarlane.

00:42:33.460 I mean if I

00:42:34.200 had to be put

00:42:34.660 on trauma

00:42:35.120 leave, I

00:42:36.820 would never

00:42:37.180 tell a single

00:42:37.800 soul.

00:42:38.160 I would live

00:42:38.420 the rest of

00:42:38.800 my life in

00:42:39.480 fear that

00:42:39.980 anyone would

00:42:40.460 ever find out

00:42:41.180 about my

00:42:41.840 trauma leave.

00:42:42.640 If anybody

00:42:43.760 brought it

00:42:44.120 up, I

00:42:44.360 would deny

00:42:44.800 it.

00:42:45.460 I would

00:42:45.740 lie to

00:42:46.020 their face

00:42:46.400 and say

00:42:46.700 it didn't

00:42:46.960 happen.

00:42:48.520 You would

00:42:49.100 never hear me

00:42:49.640 confirm that

00:42:50.320 I was on

00:42:50.780 trauma leave.

00:42:55.500 Particularly

00:42:55.980 for a

00:42:56.660 reason as

00:42:57.500 ridiculous as

00:42:59.220 this.

00:43:01.580 So, but

00:43:03.100 of course this

00:43:03.640 is the media

00:43:04.160 and they are

00:43:05.300 narcissistic,

00:43:06.640 which we see

00:43:07.200 here.

00:43:07.800 They're liars,

00:43:08.740 which we see

00:43:09.140 here.

00:43:09.460 they have no

00:43:12.760 shame, which

00:43:13.560 we also see

00:43:14.180 exhibited in

00:43:14.880 this story.

00:43:15.380 So it's all

00:43:15.820 happening there.

00:43:17.220 Let's get to

00:43:17.760 the comment

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00:45:21.020 Got pulled over

00:45:21.820 the other day for

00:45:22.560 speeding, but

00:45:23.080 didn't know it at

00:45:23.880 the time when the

00:45:24.480 officer told me why

00:45:25.400 I was being pulled

00:45:25.840 over.

00:45:26.040 I apologize and

00:45:26.840 admitted I was not

00:45:27.480 aware of the speed

00:45:28.020 limit and just going

00:45:28.800 with the speed of

00:45:29.240 the traffic.

00:45:29.760 After the cop did

00:45:30.360 his thing, he let

00:45:31.000 me go with a

00:45:31.500 warning and to

00:45:31.980 have a good day.

00:45:33.040 Good things happen

00:45:33.620 when you're polite

00:45:34.240 and compliant.

00:45:36.660 Yeah, it's amazing

00:45:37.480 what happens when

00:45:38.180 you're not

00:45:39.140 belligerent and

00:45:39.900 obnoxious.

00:45:41.540 And that's why,

00:45:42.480 as we talked

00:45:42.780 about yesterday, I

00:45:43.200 have no sympathy

00:45:43.780 for many of these

00:45:45.460 quote-unquote

00:45:45.960 victims of

00:45:46.640 quote-unquote

00:45:46.980 police brutality

00:45:47.700 that we hear

00:45:48.160 about because all

00:45:49.120 that's required to

00:45:49.780 avoid that kind

00:45:51.300 of situation is to

00:45:52.220 not be psychotically

00:45:53.620 belligerent and

00:45:54.420 obnoxious every

00:45:55.500 step of the way.

00:45:55.960 Just be a

00:45:56.380 normal, polite

00:45:56.960 person.

00:45:57.800 Be vaguely

00:45:58.620 reasonable.

00:45:59.940 I mean, your

00:46:00.240 life is so much

00:46:01.160 easier.

00:46:01.800 You'll live a

00:46:03.340 much easier,

00:46:05.340 happier life and

00:46:07.260 be a much more

00:46:07.700 successful person

00:46:08.720 if you're just

00:46:11.240 polite and

00:46:12.280 reasonable.

00:46:13.680 It's like the

00:46:14.400 bare minimum

00:46:15.000 requirement.

00:46:15.940 Let's see.

00:46:19.300 For the millionth

00:46:19.840 time, this

00:46:20.260 shouldn't be

00:46:20.540 adjudicated on

00:46:21.180 the side of

00:46:21.540 the road during

00:46:21.900 traffic stop,

00:46:22.380 but I am

00:46:22.660 opposed to

00:46:23.180 laws nitpicking

00:46:23.920 the shit out of

00:46:24.520 people.

00:46:25.120 All of this over

00:46:25.820 no headlights on a

00:46:26.560 cloudy day and

00:46:27.080 no seatbelt.

00:46:27.680 The laws are

00:46:28.100 overreaching,

00:46:28.740 excessive, and

00:46:29.300 stupid.

00:46:29.720 In New Hampshire,

00:46:30.720 if you're over

00:46:31.380 18, a seatbelt or

00:46:32.360 helmet is a choice,

00:46:33.140 as it should be.

00:46:34.100 There's zero good

00:46:34.780 reason why cops

00:46:35.400 should be smashing

00:46:35.880 windows, punching

00:46:36.460 people, dragging

00:46:36.960 them out, and

00:46:37.800 putting them under

00:46:38.140 arrest over this

00:46:38.720 nonsense.

00:46:39.140 Not defending this

00:46:39.780 idiot, but I

00:46:40.360 think we are

00:46:41.000 going to start

00:46:42.500 to see a lot

00:46:42.980 more of this

00:46:43.580 when normal

00:46:44.040 law-abiding

00:46:44.420 people are

00:46:45.060 constantly being

00:46:45.620 harassed and

00:46:46.100 hassled over

00:46:46.580 BS while

00:46:47.200 simultaneously being

00:46:47.960 told things

00:46:48.580 like illegal

00:46:49.380 farmhands get

00:46:50.980 a free pass.

00:46:51.740 This is

00:46:51.980 government

00:46:52.240 overreach and

00:46:52.700 needs to stop.

00:46:53.720 I basically

00:46:55.600 agree with you.

00:46:56.260 I don't like

00:46:56.540 the nitpicking

00:46:56.900 stuff.

00:46:57.600 I don't like

00:46:58.120 the petty

00:46:58.460 laws about

00:46:59.020 headlights during

00:46:59.580 the day and

00:47:00.040 seatbelts and

00:47:00.520 stuff like that.

00:47:01.580 I've never liked

00:47:02.340 any of that

00:47:02.660 stuff.

00:47:03.900 Although the

00:47:04.500 laws are on

00:47:05.160 the books,

00:47:07.900 like it or

00:47:08.260 not, and

00:47:08.920 cops have the

00:47:09.460 right and

00:47:09.680 responsibility to

00:47:10.400 enforce the

00:47:10.960 law.

00:47:12.580 If you don't

00:47:13.200 like the

00:47:13.560 law, then

00:47:14.540 that's definitely

00:47:15.280 not something

00:47:15.800 that you argue

00:47:16.360 with the cop

00:47:16.760 over.

00:47:17.080 Bring that to

00:47:17.660 your state.

00:47:18.460 That's not even

00:47:19.100 something you

00:47:19.420 argue in court

00:47:20.320 over.

00:47:21.440 You don't argue

00:47:22.280 against the

00:47:22.740 law itself.

00:47:25.400 You've got to

00:47:26.060 take that to

00:47:26.800 your state

00:47:28.800 government,

00:47:29.900 your legislators.

00:47:33.280 So, yeah,

00:47:34.400 but I basically

00:47:35.340 agree that the

00:47:36.380 laws themselves

00:47:36.920 are often petty.

00:47:38.100 Although I have

00:47:38.500 to say in

00:47:38.860 recent years,

00:47:39.980 I will say I've

00:47:40.760 kind of started

00:47:41.640 to see things

00:47:42.340 a little bit

00:47:42.780 differently.

00:47:44.000 And part of

00:47:44.800 me thinks that

00:47:45.580 the nitpicking

00:47:46.580 laws are

00:47:48.160 sometimes good,

00:47:49.100 not too many

00:47:49.600 of them,

00:47:50.180 but some of

00:47:50.960 them, because

00:47:53.400 it weeds out

00:47:54.460 people like the

00:47:55.080 guy we talked

00:47:55.540 about yesterday,

00:47:56.080 the people who

00:47:56.560 can't or aren't

00:47:57.280 willing to follow

00:47:58.000 simple, basic

00:47:58.980 rules.

00:48:00.880 And that's

00:48:01.500 good.

00:48:03.440 Because there are

00:48:04.700 kind of two

00:48:05.120 different types of

00:48:05.720 people.

00:48:05.960 people, there

00:48:06.860 are the people

00:48:07.400 who get pulled

00:48:07.960 over for a

00:48:08.900 headlight thing,

00:48:09.720 right?

00:48:10.460 Something small.

00:48:12.380 And they roll

00:48:13.040 their eyes to

00:48:13.540 themselves and

00:48:14.200 they go, all

00:48:14.640 right, fine, you

00:48:15.180 got me, fair

00:48:15.660 enough, okay,

00:48:16.480 yep, here you

00:48:17.960 go, here's my

00:48:18.380 license.

00:48:20.320 And then they go

00:48:21.180 about their day,

00:48:21.780 right?

00:48:22.900 And then you have

00:48:23.480 the people who,

00:48:26.260 when they get

00:48:27.720 pulled over that

00:48:28.160 situation, they

00:48:29.400 say, no, I'm

00:48:31.240 not going to do,

00:48:31.800 you can't make, I

00:48:32.680 refuse, call your

00:48:33.640 supervisor.

00:48:34.960 And I kind of

00:48:36.240 like the fact that

00:48:36.740 these laws cause

00:48:37.420 problems for that

00:48:38.160 second group.

00:48:39.280 I like that it

00:48:40.040 weeds them out.

00:48:42.000 Because they

00:48:42.540 aren't, you know,

00:48:43.020 these are not

00:48:43.480 rebels, right?

00:48:44.480 These aren't

00:48:44.800 people who refuse

00:48:45.620 to bow to the

00:48:46.260 man or whatever,

00:48:47.080 who are taking a

00:48:47.780 stand against,

00:48:48.380 that's not what

00:48:48.840 they're doing.

00:48:49.340 That's not what

00:48:49.780 they're doing.

00:48:51.120 They're just

00:48:51.780 dysfunctional,

00:48:53.080 emotionally

00:48:53.540 unstable, low

00:48:54.700 IQ idiots who

00:48:57.040 don't, who just

00:48:58.340 can't follow the

00:48:59.480 rules, don't want

00:48:59.900 to follow the

00:49:00.320 rules, think, they

00:49:01.720 think the rules

00:49:02.200 apply to

00:49:02.560 everybody else,

00:49:04.300 right?

00:49:05.360 Which is why

00:49:06.020 they're not out

00:49:07.360 like staging a

00:49:08.500 protest against

00:49:09.740 headlight laws in

00:49:10.880 general.

00:49:11.740 They only care the

00:49:12.720 moment it affects

00:49:13.340 them.

00:49:13.800 That's all, they

00:49:14.820 have a very narrow

00:49:15.980 concern about these

00:49:16.940 laws.

00:49:17.200 It's only how it

00:49:17.940 affects them and

00:49:18.900 inconveniences them.

00:49:20.680 And their problem

00:49:21.640 with it, again, is

00:49:22.540 just that they

00:49:24.600 don't think they

00:49:25.000 should have to

00:49:25.280 follow any rules.

00:49:27.240 So this guy,

00:49:28.420 William McNeil,

00:49:29.600 Jr., we talked

00:49:30.380 about yesterday,

00:49:31.180 this is a guy who

00:49:32.260 thinks that he

00:49:32.680 shouldn't have to

00:49:33.060 follow any rules.

00:49:33.960 That's it.

00:49:35.520 It's not any more

00:49:36.360 principle than that.

00:49:37.200 It's just simply, I

00:49:38.760 shouldn't have to

00:49:39.200 follow any rules at

00:49:40.000 all.

00:49:40.320 I'm special.

00:49:41.060 I shouldn't have to

00:49:41.560 follow the rules.

00:49:42.240 How dare you even

00:49:42.900 try to make me

00:49:43.420 follow them?

00:49:44.680 And so, yeah, I

00:49:45.880 kind of like the

00:49:46.380 fact that we have

00:49:47.160 some rules in

00:49:49.220 place where that

00:49:50.480 sort of weed those

00:49:51.260 people out.

00:49:51.800 that's another way

00:49:58.760 of looking at it.

00:50:00.920 I'm all for

00:50:01.500 exercising your

00:50:02.100 rights.

00:50:02.360 If they ask for

00:50:02.920 your permission to

00:50:03.760 search, never

00:50:04.300 consent.

00:50:04.840 If they ask you

00:50:05.380 where you're going,

00:50:06.140 what you're doing,

00:50:06.780 whatever, my

00:50:07.220 standard response

00:50:07.760 is, sir, I've

00:50:08.660 identified myself

00:50:09.360 and won't answer

00:50:09.840 any other questions

00:50:10.400 without an attorney

00:50:10.860 present.

00:50:11.480 But when told to

00:50:12.000 move, move when

00:50:12.820 they say and how

00:50:13.460 they say and you

00:50:14.420 won't get your

00:50:14.800 ass whooped.

00:50:15.240 Yeah, that's fine

00:50:19.700 if you want to do

00:50:20.560 that.

00:50:20.820 But personally, and

00:50:23.400 I've heard this

00:50:23.960 too, that when you

00:50:24.340 get pulled over and

00:50:25.000 the cops will ask,

00:50:26.480 has any time I've

00:50:26.940 been pulled over?

00:50:27.280 I've been pulled

00:50:27.640 over, I don't

00:50:28.980 know, in my whole

00:50:30.000 life, maybe six or

00:50:31.800 seven times.

00:50:33.580 But whenever I

00:50:36.420 have, you always

00:50:37.780 get the question,

00:50:38.260 where are you

00:50:38.500 going?

00:50:39.520 And I've always

00:50:40.180 answered it because

00:50:40.920 I don't, it's like,

00:50:42.660 oh, I'm going to

00:50:43.120 work or I'm going,

00:50:43.820 I don't know.

00:50:44.660 I don't see the

00:50:45.820 big deal in

00:50:46.280 answering it.

00:50:46.760 I don't know what

00:50:47.260 bad could happen

00:50:48.160 by just, unless

00:50:49.260 you're going somewhere,

00:50:49.940 unless you're like

00:50:50.300 going to do a

00:50:50.780 drug deal.

00:50:51.300 But most of the

00:50:52.580 time just saying,

00:50:53.240 oh, I'm running,

00:50:53.700 I'm running up to

00:50:54.200 CVS down the road.

00:50:55.280 It's like, I don't,

00:50:56.560 I don't, I don't see

00:50:58.660 how that can hurt you

00:50:59.340 to answer that

00:50:59.740 question.

00:50:59.980 But, um, so I

00:51:03.240 don't do this thing

00:51:03.980 that people do when

00:51:04.460 they get pulled over

00:51:05.080 for like a minor

00:51:05.720 speeding thing and

00:51:06.400 they start playing

00:51:07.040 lawyer on the side

00:51:07.900 of the road.

00:51:08.940 So, okay, you

00:51:10.000 know, but I've never

00:51:11.900 done that.

00:51:12.320 And it's just, it's

00:51:12.940 fine.

00:51:13.280 Like, it's just,

00:51:14.280 it's fine.

00:51:15.060 Just, they got you

00:51:16.560 for speeding.

00:51:17.200 It'll be fine.

00:51:18.020 It really is okay.

00:51:19.540 And pay the damn

00:51:20.480 ticket, move on with

00:51:21.280 your life.

00:51:21.740 And that's it.

00:51:22.860 You know, a lot

00:51:24.200 going on in my life.

00:51:24.820 I don't have time to

00:51:25.620 turn something like

00:51:26.440 this into a law and

00:51:27.120 order episode.

00:51:27.720 I just don't.

00:51:30.540 So, um, make life

00:51:32.320 easier on yourself is

00:51:33.280 my, kind of my

00:51:33.940 message there.

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00:52:40.120 say, the Somali community

00:52:41.000 of Minneapolis, I certainly

00:52:42.000 don't presume to have any

00:52:43.580 great insight into any

00:52:44.600 get-rich-quick schemes or

00:52:46.360 anything like that.

00:52:46.980 But in light of recent

00:52:48.360 events, I have to make an

00:52:49.340 exception to my general

00:52:50.300 principle, or at least I have

00:52:51.460 to make an exception to a

00:52:52.640 very, very small percentage

00:52:54.740 of my audience.

00:52:56.160 This is a percentage that's so

00:52:57.340 small that really it may not

00:52:58.880 exist at all, if I'm being

00:52:59.760 honest.

00:53:00.020 But if anyone in this very,

00:53:02.340 very specific subset of my

00:53:03.740 audience happens to be

00:53:04.440 listening at the moment, then

00:53:06.060 this is your lucky day.

00:53:07.380 So here we go.

00:53:08.180 If you're one of the 1,400

00:53:09.340 people who happen to be

00:53:10.340 working in construction at

00:53:11.980 Nashville Nissan Stadium, the

00:53:13.680 future home of the NFL's

00:53:15.160 Tennessee Titans, then you

00:53:16.880 currently have the

00:53:17.380 opportunity of a lifetime to

00:53:18.320 make a guaranteed $250,000,

00:53:20.480 no questions asked.

00:53:21.500 All you have to do is explain

00:53:22.840 that you were doing your job

00:53:24.720 in a completely normal fashion,

00:53:25.860 and you will probably receive a

00:53:27.520 quarter of a million dollars.

00:53:28.800 That's it.

00:53:30.020 There's no catch.

00:53:31.420 Here's a local news station

00:53:32.760 in Nashville to explain.

00:53:35.220 A quarter of a million dollars

00:53:36.540 is being offered to anyone who

00:53:38.060 can give information about the

00:53:39.420 person who hung a noose inside

00:53:41.960 the new Nissan Stadium

00:53:43.000 construction site.

00:53:43.980 Work is on pause as they

00:53:45.540 investigate.

00:53:46.220 Our Dryden Quigley has the

00:53:47.500 latest details.

00:53:49.140 It's empty here at the Nissan

00:53:50.720 Stadium construction site.

00:53:52.400 That's because work is shut

00:53:53.760 down while they investigate who

00:53:55.600 is responsible for putting up a

00:53:57.560 noose in the new stadium.

00:53:58.780 This week, the Tennessee Builders

00:54:01.100 Alliance, or TBA, said they

00:54:03.080 discovered a noose somewhere on

00:54:05.200 the construction site.

00:54:06.580 They told us they immediately

00:54:07.820 called police, stopped work, and

00:54:10.120 are cooperating with the

00:54:11.300 investigation.

00:54:12.420 They're making counseling

00:54:13.480 services available to all workers

00:54:15.480 and requiring more anti-bias

00:54:18.060 training.

00:54:18.900 In a statement, they wrote in part,

00:54:20.940 we are outraged and deeply

00:54:22.360 saddened by this act.

00:54:24.020 Racism and hate have no place

00:54:25.960 here.

00:54:26.260 Well, they'll show you pictures

00:54:27.860 of the fence.

00:54:28.900 They'll show you close-ups of

00:54:29.940 random cones and stop signs.

00:54:32.320 The one thing they won't show

00:54:33.100 you, strangely enough, if you

00:54:34.220 noticed, is the noose.

00:54:35.980 You know, the entire purpose of

00:54:37.440 the story.

00:54:38.660 And the $250,000 reward.

00:54:41.460 And the outrage, etc.

00:54:43.300 That's the one thing you don't get

00:54:44.240 to see, is the actual thing

00:54:45.520 itself.

00:54:46.760 And not only that, they won't

00:54:47.820 even mention the possibility that

00:54:49.560 in fact, this noose might really

00:54:50.840 be a standard slipknot for rope

00:54:52.740 rigging, which has about a million

00:54:54.300 reasonable, rather reasonable

00:54:56.620 uses on a construction site,

00:54:57.960 including hoisting or dragging

00:54:59.100 supplies, there's a lot you can

00:55:01.200 do with a rope on a construction

00:55:03.140 site.

00:55:03.960 That doesn't even come up in this

00:55:05.740 news report.

00:55:06.660 You're just ordered to conclude

00:55:07.740 that this invisible noose, which

00:55:09.060 you're not allowed to see, has to

00:55:10.280 be some kind of coded racist

00:55:11.840 message, one that's so damaging

00:55:14.000 that counseling is being offered to

00:55:15.820 the construction workers.

00:55:16.860 Yes, they've offered counseling and

00:55:18.940 shut down the entire job site.

00:55:21.160 I went through about a dozen

00:55:22.280 articles and videos on this

00:55:23.480 horrific incident.

00:55:24.700 Not a single one actually showed a

00:55:26.680 picture of the noose.

00:55:28.880 Here's another one.

00:55:29.760 This is a separate news channel in

00:55:30.940 Nashville, to be clear.

00:55:31.900 Watch.

00:55:33.080 Investigators say a noose was found

00:55:35.040 at the new Nissan Stadium

00:55:36.420 construction site.

00:55:37.700 Now work on that site has been

00:55:39.300 suspended and Metro police are

00:55:41.260 investigating.

00:55:42.180 Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell

00:55:43.260 says the city has taken steps to

00:55:45.180 prevent hate incidents like these.

00:55:47.840 Yes, it is very concerning.

00:55:49.680 There is an open investigation.

00:55:51.020 I know the Titans are cooperating

00:55:52.740 with our Metro Nashville police.

00:55:55.080 The Tennessee Builders Alliance,

00:55:57.060 who is overseeing the stadium

00:55:58.260 construction, released a statement

00:55:59.600 about the incident.

00:56:00.640 They say in part, quote, we are

00:56:01.780 outraged and deeply saddened by this

00:56:03.940 act.

00:56:04.540 We are working in close partnership

00:56:06.040 with our client, trade partners and

00:56:07.940 unions to ensure every worker

00:56:09.900 understands that racism and hate

00:56:11.700 have no place here.

00:56:13.020 Everyone deserves to feel safe,

00:56:14.640 welcomed and treated with respect and

00:56:16.700 dignity.

00:56:17.500 That last part isn't even remotely

00:56:19.120 true.

00:56:19.940 Everyone doesn't deserve to feel that

00:56:22.320 they're safe and welcome.

00:56:23.640 That's actually the root of the

00:56:25.840 problem.

00:56:27.080 I mean, it'd be accurate to say that

00:56:28.400 if a noose were in fact placed on

00:56:31.320 the premises as part of an attempt to

00:56:33.080 terrorize black people by some sort of

00:56:35.160 time traveler from the 1920s who

00:56:36.860 somehow wound up on the construction

00:56:38.340 site of the new Tennessee Titan

00:56:39.600 Stadium, then that would certainly be a

00:56:41.900 noteworthy event for a local news

00:56:43.440 report, I'll admit.

00:56:44.120 But it's not accurate to say that

00:56:46.400 black construction workers are

00:56:48.240 entitled to feel that they're safe

00:56:50.300 and welcomed at all times, no matter

00:56:51.740 what.

00:56:52.900 No one has that right.

00:56:54.340 You are not entitled to have certain

00:56:56.140 feelings.

00:56:57.220 That is an unsustainable and absurd

00:56:59.360 premise.

00:57:01.040 And it leads to situations like this,

00:57:03.600 where a construction site is shut down

00:57:05.480 because of a piece of rope that no

00:57:06.820 one's allowed to even see.

00:57:08.900 Now, fortunately for everybody hoping

00:57:10.080 that this construction will eventually

00:57:11.700 finished, the workers were eventually

00:57:13.600 allowed back on site, having received

00:57:15.600 therapy for the trauma they endured.

00:57:18.880 But at the same time, local civil

00:57:20.340 rights organizations are still very

00:57:22.060 angry about the whole situation.

00:57:23.480 Watch.

00:57:24.320 Construction has resumed at the new

00:57:25.620 Nissan Stadium after a noose was

00:57:27.980 found last week, leading to a

00:57:29.760 shutdown of operations there.

00:57:31.160 Jordan James has more on the decision

00:57:33.060 and what's next.

00:57:34.700 For the first time since late last

00:57:36.700 week, construction is back underway here

00:57:38.600 at the new Nissan Stadium following a

00:57:40.840 noose being discovered.

00:57:42.560 Authorities continue to investigate

00:57:44.060 how it ended up here.

00:57:45.680 The company overseeing this project,

00:57:47.560 Tennessee Builders Alliance, appears

00:57:49.660 to have lifted the shutdown after vowing

00:57:51.660 to focus on inclusion, respect, also

00:57:54.560 requiring additional anti-bias training

00:57:56.900 for workers.

00:57:58.080 Meanwhile, the impact lingers beyond the

00:57:59.960 stadium as local civil rights organizations

00:58:02.120 demand more accountability.

00:58:03.940 I mean, you can't teach people how not

00:58:05.880 to be racist.

00:58:06.560 You can't teach people how not to

00:58:08.720 come against other people that don't

00:58:12.300 have the same agenda as yours.

00:58:14.540 This stuff has to be grown and raised

00:58:17.920 and birthed in you.

00:58:20.080 Well, OK, if that's the case, then we

00:58:22.340 don't need anti-bias training at all.

00:58:24.700 If you can't teach people how not to be

00:58:26.340 racist and it has to be birthed in you,

00:58:28.540 whatever that means, then there's really

00:58:30.420 no point in shutting down the construction

00:58:31.760 site for anti-bias training in the first

00:58:33.320 place.

00:58:33.620 So at least we've come to a point of

00:58:35.600 consensus to some degree.

00:58:37.120 Both the left and the right can agree

00:58:38.420 that in every case, anti-bias training

00:58:40.160 serves no purpose whatsoever.

00:58:42.440 Therefore, the next time a noose is found

00:58:44.060 at a construction site, the whole thing

00:58:45.240 doesn't need to be shut down so that

00:58:46.720 some DEI consultancy run by a Somali

00:58:49.100 can get six figures worth of taxpayer

00:58:50.540 money to tell everybody that racism is

00:58:52.100 bad.

00:58:53.060 That would be some level of progress, I

00:58:54.800 guess.

00:58:56.060 But an even larger degree of progress

00:58:58.780 could be achieved in if any of these

00:59:01.020 construction companies or activists or

00:59:02.620 media outlets took a step back and looked

00:59:04.920 at the history of alleged nooses that

00:59:06.600 have been found on construction sites.

00:59:07.920 It's a very long and staggering list.

00:59:10.160 And in every single case, the incidents

00:59:11.460 are totally unproven and implausible and

00:59:14.820 ridiculous, which makes you very strongly

00:59:17.160 suspect that in every case, they're either

00:59:19.000 completely normal pieces of rope that

00:59:20.620 serve a vital purpose for the construction

00:59:22.180 job or they're a hoax placed there by an

00:59:24.680 activist.

00:59:26.080 In the modern history of this country, there

00:59:27.860 is not a single confirmed case of a noose

00:59:29.880 being placed at a construction site by some

00:59:32.280 KKK member.

00:59:33.060 In fact, I'm not aware of a single confirmed

00:59:34.520 case of a noose being placed by some white

00:59:37.060 racist anywhere at any point in the 21st

00:59:40.680 century.

00:59:41.700 These cases are always hoax.

00:59:44.220 So let's run through some of these failed

00:59:45.800 allegations as quickly and mercifully as we

00:59:47.520 can.

00:59:48.240 In August of 2017, the DCist reported, quote,

00:59:51.200 After a series of nooses have been reported

00:59:53.060 in DC and elsewhere in recent months,

00:59:54.820 residents in Ivy City called DC police

00:59:56.780 about what looked like a noose that was

00:59:58.300 hanging from a construction site in the

00:59:59.760 neighborhood on Wednesday morning.

01:00:01.840 After investigating the situation, police

01:00:03.080 determined that the construction crew was

01:00:04.600 using the rope to move equipment.

01:00:06.740 Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson

01:00:08.120 Nikita Brown told DCist that the incident

01:00:09.880 is not being investigated as a hate crime.

01:00:12.880 Now, the story actually gets more amusing

01:00:14.180 from there.

01:00:14.760 So let's keep reading.

01:00:15.600 Quote, people have been on high alert because

01:00:17.380 the appearance of nooses is becoming a trend in

01:00:19.480 DC when one was found hanging in an exhibit at

01:00:22.060 the Smithsonian's National Museum of African

01:00:23.820 American History and Culture in June.

01:00:25.520 The museum's founding director, Lonnie Bunch,

01:00:27.440 said it has long represented a deplorable act

01:00:29.820 of cowardice and depravity, a symbol of extreme

01:00:32.020 violence for African-Americans.

01:00:34.440 Parisa Naruzi, who runs the nonprofit Empower

01:00:37.560 DC that does advocacy work in the neighborhood,

01:00:39.700 was on the scene when the first officer arrived

01:00:41.320 and she took issue with his attitude.

01:00:43.120 He's extremely dismissive towards us, Naruzi says.

01:00:45.880 We asked what is protocol for investigating a

01:00:48.260 potential hate crime, and his immediate response

01:00:49.840 is, why would you say this is a hate crime?

01:00:52.040 He was very belligerent and condescending.

01:00:53.800 It was really shocking to see, Naruzi said.

01:00:55.400 Instead of securing the area, the officer

01:00:56.660 just walked off, she said.

01:00:58.820 Then a construction worker removed the purported

01:01:00.300 noose that hung several feet in the air.

01:01:02.160 It was taken down by the time other police

01:01:03.920 officers arrived.

01:01:04.960 Naruzi said that a Spanish-speaking

01:01:06.040 construction worker told an officer that they

01:01:08.360 use those all the time for guiding steel.

01:01:11.840 Now, just in case you need a visual here,

01:01:13.580 here's what Parisa Naruzi looks like.

01:01:15.900 This person berated a police officer and a

01:01:19.060 Spanish-speaking construction worker over a piece

01:01:21.000 of rope that she suspected was a noose, and then

01:01:22.920 instead of pretending to care about this woman's

01:01:24.920 obvious mental health issues, they just walked

01:01:27.140 away.

01:01:27.540 And that's obviously the right approach in every

01:01:29.540 situation like this.

01:01:30.980 It's clear for everyone to see that this very

01:01:32.920 overweight and unpleasant activist couldn't tell

01:01:34.860 you a word about construction or about guiding

01:01:37.360 steel.

01:01:39.360 She can't look at a construction site and say,

01:01:41.900 oh, that shouldn't be here.

01:01:43.480 She's got no clue what should be on a construction

01:01:45.500 site and what shouldn't be.

01:01:47.620 And you can't gain anything by humoring someone like

01:01:49.860 this, so you just need to ignore them.

01:01:51.840 But very few people actually do ignore people like

01:01:53.880 this, and therefore, over the last few years, there

01:01:55.600 have been a very large number of reported nooses at

01:01:57.580 construction sites.

01:01:58.340 And in every case, what do you know?

01:02:00.160 No white supremacist culprit has been identified, even

01:02:03.040 though there's been a very clear financial incentive for

01:02:05.300 workers to report the alleged Klansmen in their midst.

01:02:08.720 Here's NPR, quote,

01:02:09.520 In April 2021, construction workers at an Amazon warehouse

01:02:11.840 site in Connecticut were horrified when they found rope

01:02:14.540 shaped like a noose hanging from the ceiling.

01:02:16.880 The hate symbol was quickly reported to their bosses.

01:02:18.920 Two days later, five additional nooses appeared.

01:02:21.060 The next month, two more discovered.

01:02:22.540 Amazon, along with R.C.

01:02:23.700 Anderson and a property developer, Scannell Properties,

01:02:26.480 collectively offered a $100,000 reward for information

01:02:28.660 leading to the identification of the culprits.

01:02:31.760 And guess what?

01:02:32.200 Despite a thorough investigation, a six-figure reward,

01:02:34.880 no suspects ever materialized.

01:02:36.820 It was the perfect crime.

01:02:37.640 Here's the Washington Post, which reported on yet more

01:02:40.640 perfect crimes, all of which took place on construction

01:02:43.620 sites, strangely enough.

01:02:45.620 Quote, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, or their contractors,

01:02:48.980 have all had nooses show up on major construction sites in

01:02:51.420 recent years.

01:02:52.260 Some incidents triggered work stoppages on projects employing

01:02:55.460 hundreds, even thousands of workers.

01:02:58.480 Can you imagine?

01:02:59.420 Amazon, Facebook, Apple are all employing racist contractors.

01:03:02.600 And all these racists, for whatever reason, express their racism

01:03:05.360 in exactly the same way.

01:03:06.940 They hang nooses at construction sites without being spotted by

01:03:10.580 cameras, without being seen by witnesses.

01:03:12.980 These are ninjas, essentially.

01:03:14.940 And these ninjas will turn up anywhere.

01:03:17.680 A few years ago, they turned up at the construction site of Obama's

01:03:20.880 temple, otherwise known as a presidential library in Chicago.

01:03:24.460 A disturbing story now at five.

01:03:27.700 Construction at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago had to be suspended

01:03:31.900 after someone discovered a noose at the site yesterday.

01:03:35.560 The Obama Foundation called it a shameless act of cowardice and hate.

01:03:39.360 The construction company building the center says it has zero tolerance

01:03:42.940 for any form of bias or hate.

01:03:45.240 The company is offering a $100,000 reward to help find whoever is responsible.

01:03:50.340 So, of course, it's Bubba Wallace's garage all over again.

01:03:54.360 Sure, there's no suspect, even though this was an extremely high-profile story

01:03:57.600 with an immense amount of media and police interest.

01:04:00.440 Sure, there's no picture of the noose.

01:04:02.840 You just get stock footage of the construction site once again.

01:04:06.080 But the important thing is that you recognize that construction workers are so racist

01:04:09.200 that they feel no compunction whatsoever about hanging nooses on job sites

01:04:12.540 to terrorize Black people.

01:04:14.780 I could spend the next hour going through all the noose hoaxes on construction sites

01:04:18.060 in the past few years.

01:04:18.680 In fact, we did something like that relatively recently.

01:04:20.520 So instead, I'll just make two obvious points here.

01:04:23.020 The first is that it's fashionable to demonize construction workers

01:04:25.660 because they're rare examples of productivity in a modern America.

01:04:29.220 Angsty teenagers will identify as non-binary, transgender, or whatever,

01:04:33.140 but they'll never identify as construction workers.

01:04:35.040 And there's reason for that.

01:04:35.960 People who actually create value in society are the single greatest enemy

01:04:39.300 of the people in power.

01:04:40.420 They are not dependent on handouts.

01:04:44.220 They're not relying on government to survive.

01:04:45.940 They don't revel in self-pity or mental illness or weakness.

01:04:49.720 Therefore, they have independence.

01:04:51.340 As a result, they're the enemy.

01:04:53.180 The media has no reservations whatsoever about smearing these people

01:04:56.260 as cartoon racists without any evidence.

01:04:58.780 The other point that needs to be made here is that even if a noose was placed

01:05:02.900 on a construction site by a card-carrying member of the KKK,

01:05:05.560 which again has not happened,

01:05:07.080 the response here is completely disproportionate and insane.

01:05:10.360 You don't need counseling because of a piece of rope,

01:05:12.420 no matter what shape that rope is in and no matter who placed that rope.

01:05:15.920 Multi-million dollar construction projects don't need to be shut down

01:05:18.580 because someone claims there's a noose.

01:05:20.720 Huge awards don't need to be offered.

01:05:23.280 A sane society can recognize bad conduct without melting down into hysterics over it.

01:05:28.340 And a functioning society can move on productively

01:05:30.600 in the face of inanimate objects that appear on construction sites.

01:05:34.920 On the other hand, when you reward people for spotting fake nooses

01:05:38.300 and devolve into panic and start offering quarter-million-dollar rewards,

01:05:42.540 you simply encourage more fake reports of nooses

01:05:45.060 by construction workers looking for a payday.

01:05:47.640 And in many cases, as we've seen in several other contexts,

01:05:50.560 alleged victims will hang the nooses all by themselves

01:05:52.960 simply to garner sympathy or a quick payday.

01:05:56.700 That's the rational response, really.

01:05:58.540 They're giving people massive incentive to claim victimhood,

01:06:01.580 and they'll happily do it,

01:06:02.600 as demonstrated by the rash of nooses on construction sites

01:06:05.280 and, you know, many other places.

01:06:09.080 The only way to end this cycle of self-pity and dysfunction

01:06:11.480 is for self-described journalists to spend a day on a construction site

01:06:15.040 so they can learn that rope is not, in fact,

01:06:17.960 a weapon of mass destruction that was invented by white supremacists

01:06:20.540 to terrorize construction sites.

01:06:22.760 It'd also be helpful to remove all the incentives for this kind of hysteria,

01:06:26.400 starting with the huge rewards.

01:06:28.940 But because the media is desperately trying to drum up

01:06:30.880 another George Floyd narrative at the moment,

01:06:32.520 it's likely that we won't see any of those reforms anytime soon.

01:06:35.760 And that is why everyone who's pretending that a racist noose

01:06:38.260 was just found at the construction site

01:06:39.680 of the future home of the Tennessee Titans

01:06:41.000 is today canceled.

01:06:44.400 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

01:06:45.960 Talk to you on Monday.

01:06:47.980 Have a great weekend.

01:06:48.660 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 24, 2025

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