Ep. 1635 - Here’s The Horrifying Proof That All Cultures Are Not Equal
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The Somali Community in Minnesota rallies around a man who abducted and abused a child. They told the judge to go easy on him because he's still getting accustomed to our culture. So what does that say about Somali culture? Also, several more states have now banned junk food from the food stamp program. And also, the rise of so-called EBT influencers on TikTok, which is as horrible as it sounds. Plus, a former CNN anchor interviews an AI version of a child who died in a school shooting.
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Telling that we'll show the Somali community in Minnesota rallies around a man who abducted and
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abused a child. They told the judge to go easy on him because he's still getting accustomed to our
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culture. So what does that say about Somali culture? Also, several more states have now
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banned junk food from the food stamp program. We'll talk about that. And also the rise of so-called
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EBT influencers on TikTok, which is as horrible as it sounds. Plus, speaking of horrible,
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a former CNN anchor interviews an AI version of a child who died in a school shooting.
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More than any other failed state in Africa, Somalia has been in the news a lot lately. First,
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several Somalis were convicted in a $250 million scheme to defraud U.S. taxpayers by claiming they
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cooked meals for children when they were really buying sports cars. Then several Somali politicians
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in the U.S., including Ilhan Omar, announced that they're working on behalf of Somali interests,
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not America's. Then a Somali man in a playground in Minnesota harassed a woman named Shiloh Hendricks
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and her 18-month-old child, prompting the woman to drop the N-bomb heard around the world. Then to cap
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it all off, the Democrat Party endorsed a Somali socialist to be the next mayor of Minneapolis.
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At the moment, he appears to be probably the frontrunner. So it's safe to say that three
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decades after the U.S. government determined that Somalis deserve temporary protected status
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in this country as refugees from their own dysfunctional governance, a temporary status
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that has never been revoked, Somalis are dominating our news cycle and some of our major elections as
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well. And yet, for all the ways that Somalis have found their way into our national discourse
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in recent months, there's one fundamental question that has remained unanswered. What exactly are all
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these Somalis doing in the country? What value do they add? What's their goal? We're told that if
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we draw any general conclusions about Somalis, Somali culture, based on the observable behavior of
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Somalis, then we're bigots. We're not allowed to inquire into their motives in any way. But despite all
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the deflection, no one has ever explained in any affirmative way what Somalis actually care about,
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what's their culture all about, this culture that we're importing into this country en masse. What
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core principle would they defend in large numbers if it ever came under attack? We know, based on the
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candidates they elect, that Somalis wouldn't defend the Constitution or the freedom of speech or freedom
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of association. So what's their motivation? Aside from draining the U.S. Treasury, what single issue
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really matters to them? Regardless of how often I've asked this question, directly or indirectly,
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I've never received a response. But suddenly, and somewhat unexpectedly, that's all changed now,
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thanks to a court case in Minnesota involving a Somali man named Kalinal Ibrahim Deery.
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Now the mystery is over. Yes, as part of this criminal proceeding, the Somali community in the state of
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Minnesota has just revealed what they're truly passionate about, and their answer, in rather unambiguous
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terms, is that they're passionate, apparently, about the right of men to sexually abuse and torment
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other people's children. This is the culture they're defending. This is what they're willing
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to excuse, and there's no debating this. They went to court and made their voices very clear.
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Now let's start with the specifics of this case. Local news in Minnesota, I won't really talk about
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it for obvious reasons, so instead of playing a clip, I'll summarize the background myself.
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42-year-old Kalinal was born in Somalia, spent several years in refugee camps in Kenya. He arrived
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in the United States in 2006. He worked as a driver for Uber and Lyft most of the time. In 2024, Kalinal was
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in Minneapolis when he noticed that a 12-year-old girl was playing in her backyard alone. So he parked
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his Toyota in an alley outside and asked if the girl's mother was at home. She said no. Short time later,
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the man put his hand over the girl's mouth, hit her head to the point that she became dizzy and
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disoriented, drove her a short distance away, and sexually assaulted her in a manner that is too
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graphic to describe on this show. Five days later, the child told a school counselor about the attack.
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The next month, as police investigated, the girl's parents discovered that the man was still calling
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their daughter and sending her text messages. He was saying things like, quote,
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Hey, beautiful, I miss you. When can I see you again? The parents pretended to be their daughters
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to lure the man back. And when he arrived at the home, they held him there until police arrived.
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Once arrested, the man didn't display any form of contrition. He claimed that he thought the girl
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was 19 years old, which apparently would make it okay to abduct her. He criticized the mother. He
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continued to fight the charges until he was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual misconduct
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in May of this year. Now, based on this series of events, which again is as sanitized as I can make
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it for the purposes of this show, but based on all this, any community or culture with decency or
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morality would make it very clear that Kalinal does not represent them. They wouldn't make excuses
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for him. They certainly wouldn't minimize what he had done. Instead, they would recognize his behavior
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as unspeakably evil. And if they said anything to him at all, they'd urge him to repent for the acts
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of horror that he committed rather than, you know, continue to dodge accountability as he's been
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doing. But that is not how the Somali community in Minneapolis has responded to this case. Instead,
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as Alpha News first reported, the Al-Hisan Islamic Center in St. Paul submitted a community letter
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of support for this man addressed to the judge in the case. Now, I'm going to read directly from
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this letter because it answers any and all questions you might have about Somali culture and
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the Somali community in the United States. So this is them speaking for themselves. Here's what they
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We, the undersigned members of the Somali community, write this letter to express our strong and heartfelt
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support for Kalinal Diri, a member of our community. Many of us first met Kalinal through
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our shared journey as Somali refugees arriving in this country with little more than hope and
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determination to rebuild our lives. Like so many of us, Kalinal has faced the challenge of starting
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over in a new culture, learning English, adjusting to a fast-paced system, and raising children in an
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environment far different from the one we grew up in. Before the situation, Kalinal was known as a
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devoted family man and an outgoing person. Despite the financial pressures of life in the U.S.,
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Kalinal also still managed to support needy family members back in Somalia. The situation Kalinal is
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currently facing comes as a deep shock to all of us. Now, this is a letter that you might write if this
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guy had, say, lost his license because he got too many speeding tickets or something, or if he got picked
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up by the IRS because he didn't file his taxes on time. It is not, to any sane person, an appropriate
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letter to write when Kalinal was just convicted for hitting a 12-year-old girl in the head, abducting
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her, sexually assaulting her, and then texting her to see when he could do it again. In no universe
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should an unrepentant rapist receive the strong and heartfelt support of anyone, much less an entire
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community of people, much less a community of people that we have invited into our home, into our country.
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Nor should this community of people repeatedly refer to this brutal sexual assault as a
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situation, which is probably the single most dismissive word they could have chosen.
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And on top of that, they shouldn't brag that he's funneling money out of the U.S. economy and sending it
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back to Somalia. But the most revealing part of the letter is when Somalis that wrote this letter
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explained that Kalinal, quote, has faced the challenge of starting over in a new culture.
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Well, that's about as explicit as it gets. Apparently, in Somali culture, at least according
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to the people who wrote this letter, this is what they're implying, when a young girl is alone and
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defenseless in her backyard, you can sexually assault her as much as you want. And indeed,
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the statistics bear that out. Somalia ranks as the top country in the world for sexual violence
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against children, among other abuses. And that's what they're very clearly implying here.
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Therefore, according to this letter, we should have some sympathy for this poor guy. After all,
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he's just having trouble getting used to our peculiar little customs in the United States.
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It's apparently very difficult to adjust to this whole thing where we don't sexually assault
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children. You know, just like it's tough to learn, say, the rules of baseball or tipping etiquette when
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you go out to eat. It's just like that. And that's the position of this Islamic center in St.
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Paul. He's adjusting to our culture and having some growing pains when it comes to the whole,
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you know, not sexually abusing children thing. Never mind the fact that at the time of this attack,
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Linnell had lived in the United States for nearly two decades. So we had quite a bit of time to get
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used to our laws and, quote, customs. And more importantly, you're supposed to ignore the fact
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that regardless of where you were raised, you should know at an instinctual level that it's one of the
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most profound evils imaginable to assault a child. It doesn't require education to know this. It
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doesn't require customs. It doesn't require anything but a shred of conscience. It requires
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having the moral awareness of a human being instead of, say, a lizard. With this letter,
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the Somali community in Minnesota is acknowledging that by their own words. They don't have that level
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of moral awareness, which means quite simply that they don't have any business being in this
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country. They should be deported and their temporary protected status, which has gone on for 34
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years should be immediately rescinded. Now, if it's true that abusing children is a part of the
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culture, then, as they're implying and as the statistics really do bear out, then this culture
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should not be permitted to enter the U.S. under any circumstance. Now, to be clear, I'm not cherry
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picking one letter here. The Al-Hasan Islamic Center in St. Paul sent this letter to the judge
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on behalf of the Somali community, but they weren't the only ones to voice their support for
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this unapologetic predator. I went looking through the docket on this case, and I found that many of
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this guy's family and close associates wrote letters to the judge as well, and they all said the same
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thing. Here's how prosecutors summarize those letters in their sentencing memo to the judge.
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Finally, defendants, family, and friends do not acknowledge his actions, the impact they had on
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the victim, or recognize his wrongdoing. The statements show that either defendant has not
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told them what he is convicted of or that they are dismissive of his crime. Family members are
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focused on the impact that this has had on him and his family. None of them acknowledge the victim
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and her family. While they cite that he's a person of good character, it is more likely that this offense
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is a side of him they did not know about, nor do they want to know about, but quite simply,
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sexual assault on a child is not something a person of good character does. There's the
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understatement of the century. The victim's mother also stated that she and her family have been
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receiving death threats within the Somali community because of this case. Yes, members of the Somali
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community are currently threatening to murder the victim's mother. That's how they're responding to
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the fact that this woman's daughter was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted by a member of their
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community. They're responding by threatening to kill the victim's mom. They're continuing to terrorize
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the family as a community. And by the way, at trial, Kalinal made it clear that he blames the victim's
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mother for what happened. Certainly doesn't blame himself. And that might seem insane to you or to me
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or to any civilized person, but not to this wonderful community, it would seem. Now, you could tell in
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that paragraph I just read that the prosecutor is trying to search for some plausible reason why
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all of the Somalis involved in this case are defending this man. Like, to a man, they are all
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defending him. And he says that, well, maybe the family didn't know that side of him. This is the
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kind of line that if you're a prosecutor in Minnesota, you have to include in your argument,
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even in the face of overwhelming evidence that Somalis have no business in this country,
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prosecutors still have to pretend that we're dealing with one or two bad apples who can be reformed.
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Even when the entire Somali community rushes to defend this scumbag and attacks the victim's
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family, that's the fiction that apparently needs to be maintained. In the end, the Somalis got what
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they wanted. And that shouldn't be surprising, since they effectively controlled the government
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of Minnesota at this point. The judge, Michael Burns, handed out a sentence of just 12 years
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in this case, with release from prison after 10 years, and the rest served on probation.
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He was going to do 10 years in prison for abducting and sexually assaulting a child.
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This is a sentence that, without any doubt whatsoever, should have been life imprisonment
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at a minimum, assuming the sharks and the firing squad weren't available.
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But that won't happen, because of Minnesota's laws, which are extremely permissive when it
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comes to child abuse. Kalino will be out on the streets in just a few years.
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Again, this is nothing new in Minneapolis or the U.K., where Somali rape gangs are particularly
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active. They don't often report on cases like this in the local news, but they're increasingly
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common. Here's another case from an apartment complex in Minneapolis a few years ago to give
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you some idea of how these stories are covered, if the media touches them at all. Watch this.
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We begin this evening with a disturbing story about a 10-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted
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by a stranger. Minneapolis police say it happened Sunday evening in the hallway of an apartment
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building in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood. Police arrested 34-year-old Ahmed Hersey Abdi
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less than 24 hours later. As Angela Davis shows us, court records show he has a history of mental
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illness. I don't know, maybe some sick person did this, but I couldn't believe it. A criminal
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complaint states that neighbors heard screams on the third floor hallway. When they found a young
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girl crying, they ran to get help from two off-duty Minneapolis police officers. The victim told
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police that a man later identified as Ahmed Abdi followed her in and out of an elevator, and as she
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walked down a hallway, he asked for her name. The complaint states he then extended his hand to her.
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When she shook his hand, he refused to let go. Now, they don't tell you where Ahmed Hersey Abdi came
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from. They don't tell you if he's legally in this country or who allowed him to enter. Instead,
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they refer to him as a stranger. They tell us he's mentally ill, and then they spend the rest of the
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segment talking about various resources for sexual assault survivors. But the one resource they don't
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talk about, even though it would drastically cut down in cases like this, is the resource known as
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mass deportation. And that's clearly necessary at this point because we're not dealing, again, with
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one or two bad actors. This is an endemic problem in the culture. Seven years ago, a region in Somalia
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established a new lab to investigate sexual assaults. And I'm going to play this for you
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Somalia has opened its first forensic laboratory to investigate rape cases.
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The lab, with support from the Swedish government and the UN Population Fund,
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brings cutting-edge technology to a part of the world still lacking paved roads and reliable electricity.
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We used to send DNA from here to Europe or from here to South Africa. So those restraints now are easy.
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We can manage this and get answers within a timely period, within hours, within minutes,
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where we used to have days, sometimes months, to get to receive those.
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The lab opened less than a year after the Portland region passed its first law criminalizing sexual
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There are some police officers who say rape is not a big deal and consider it a minor thing.
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Kis Shamis Kabdibail is the only police officer in her unit. She handles all cases involving sexual
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violence in Portland. Officer Bail says many of her rape cases are handled by community elders.
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The perpetrator's family may be ordered to pay the victim's family in camels or goats.
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So as of 2017, Somalia had just gotten around to criminalizing sexual assault. And then with
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much fanfare, they open a sexual assault forensic center. And the victims, if they're compensated
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at all, will be rewarded with camels or goats. That's an actual news report from Somalia.
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Now you have to ask this question, do people in this country realize that Somali culture is this
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backwards? Was there ever a vote on allowing this into our country? Was there ever any kind of national
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conversation whatsoever about this? Or did we just decide to grant these foreigners temporary
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protected status 34 years ago and let them flood into the country by hundreds of thousands with no
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checks and no conversation whatsoever about it? Put simply, we cannot be surprised when we import
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massive numbers of people from a third world hellhole and then they go on to commit horrible
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crimes. This kind of behavior is part of the culture. They have said that themselves. And it always has
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been. That doesn't mean that every Somali commits these crimes or wants to, but it means that the risk
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is unacceptably high for people that we are welcoming into our home. And given this very obvious fact,
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it's time for someone in power to answer this fundamental question. Why would we ever let anyone
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from a culture like this into our country in any capacity under any circumstance? Here's another way of
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phrasing the question. How does it benefit the United States of America to allow this culture into our
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country? Explain to me what the benefit is to this country, ours. And now that we made this mistake
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and allow them to live here, when are we going to rectify this situation? For that matter, why are we
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allowing anyone to live here of any ethnicity or nationality who rejects every foundational principle
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this country stands for? And it's not just Somalis who openly denounce America's interests, morality,
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customs. Just the other day, Illinois Congresswoman is a member of Congress. Delia Ramirez went to
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Mexico City to announce, quote, I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American. Now, this is in Spanish,
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Delia Ramirez, you should know, is the daughter of illegal aliens from Guatemala. She was reportedly
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born in Chicago, which supposedly grants her citizenship for some reason. She's a walking
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example of why this administration should continue the fight to end birthright citizenship. And she's a
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reminder, as we've discussed, that not everyone in this country is an American, even the ones with
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legal status. Because you have ones with legal status. I'm a Guatemalan before I'm an American.
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All cultures are created equal, is what we're told. But it's one of the many great lies of modern
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times. Many of our problems in the West are born from this lie. A lot of people have pretended
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otherwise over the years. They've invented various justifications for allowing these people to
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destroy entire cities in this country. But now that Somalis have finally told the truth about
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their culture to a judge in Minneapolis, and now that members of Congress are admitting their
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disloyalty to audiences in Mexico City, there simply isn't anything to debate anymore. All we have
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to do is read their words, listen to them, pay attention to their actions, and respond accordingly.
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West Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas have all had new waivers approved that
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the change will impact approximately 8.5 million people. And then that means that the number of
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states that ban junk food purchases has now risen to 12 following similar waivers in Arkansas, Idaho,
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Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah. So here's Brooke Rollins, Agriculture Secretary, talking about this.
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Since my confirmation, our department has encouraged states to think differently and creatively about
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how to solve the many health issues facing Americans. One way is by not allowing taxpayer-funded
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benefits to be used to purchase unhealthy items like soda, candy, and other junk food. The number one
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program. The law states it and President Trump's USDA plans to deliver on it alongside our partners
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at HHS. So today, I'm proud to sign six more waivers for Florida, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana,
00:24:24.380
and Colorado. This is in addition to the waivers we've already signed for Iowa, Indiana, and others
00:24:31.620
across the country. I continue to encourage states to be laboratories of innovation, think through how you
00:24:37.160
can promote healthy families and healthy communities. And because of our historic partnership, USDA and
00:24:44.000
HHS, and the visionary leadership of the governors here with us today, and of the states represented by
00:24:50.020
the signings, we are doing something about it. Now, this is the right move. Obviously, it's the right move.
00:24:56.840
The fact that only 12 states have done this is madness. I mean, the only question, the only
00:25:02.980
controversy that should come from this is that only 12 states, only 12 states have banned junk food
00:25:09.480
purchases from the SNAP program. Why would this ever be allowed? Why would we ever do anything else?
00:25:16.840
Why would we ever allow? Why does any state, why has any state ever allowed people to use tax money to buy
00:25:26.840
What is the reason for that? And we've talked about this many times. I've never been, no one's ever
00:25:31.360
expected, there are plenty of people who object to these, to these kinds of waivers, these changes being
00:25:36.300
made, these very minimal reforms to the system. Lots of people, the left, leftists generally object to
00:25:46.840
What, like, why exactly should I, as a taxpayer, be forced to buy donuts for somebody?
00:25:56.840
Just tell me why. Donuts and candy. Why should that? But they can't. They can't explain it. There's no
00:26:04.880
reason. And, you know, Rollins talks a lot about health and nutrition for the SNAP recipients as a
00:26:10.240
reason for this change. RFK Jr. was at the press conference also. He talked about that too.
00:26:15.240
And they're right. I mean, if we're going to be providing tax-funded meals to people, the meals
00:26:21.160
should be healthy. We should not be subsidizing obesity and diabetes. So all of that is true. But
00:26:29.540
the primary reason why it's a good move to ban junk food from SNAP is not for the sake of SNAP
00:26:35.940
recipients. That's not the primary reason. It's for the sake of the taxpayers. You know, the health of
00:26:43.240
the SNAP recipient, the food stamp user, their health is secondary. That is a secondary issue.
00:26:51.380
First and foremost, what matters is that we need to end the moral outrage of forcing American
00:26:57.660
taxpayers to buy cookies and soda for other grown adults who don't feel like spending their own money
00:27:03.420
on it. It's just grotesque and wrong. And to me, that's the main point. So I get why politically
00:27:12.480
it's framed this way. It's framed as, well, we're looking out for their health. I understand that.
00:27:17.760
And as I said, it's not that that's not him. To me, that's the second issue. But the real reason and
00:27:24.620
how I wish we would frame this is this is a moral outrage. It's not fair to all the productive
00:27:31.260
members of society that they're being forced to buy stuff that has no nutritional value whatsoever.
00:27:38.940
It is, it is, it's, it's, it's grotesque. It's gratuitous. It's just wrong.
00:27:45.440
Um, it's morally wrong, especially when you see, when you see these people, uh, and how they use
00:27:56.540
the benefits, which you can easily see these days because in the year 2025, um, if you weren't aware
00:28:02.560
of this, I'm sorry to report, but EBT influencers are a thing. Okay. Influencers who, um, their whole,
00:28:11.020
their whole gig is that they show off their food stamps and they show off all the things they buy
00:28:17.740
with food stamps. That's a, that's a, that's a thing now on Tik TOK, people showing off their EBT
00:28:22.680
halls and, um, it's as horrifying as you might imagine. So here's just one example. Look at
00:28:43.000
Um, they got these chips, um, some teriyaki, um, teriyaki noodles.
00:29:10.900
Some kind of, some kind of, some kind of, some kind of, some kind of, some kind of, a peck of
00:29:54.720
So that's only 90 seconds. The video is like four or five minutes long and it's all like that.
00:30:01.200
I mean, I got hypertension just from watching it. I died of a heart attack watching. I died of a heart
00:30:06.200
attack, came back to life and then got diabetes and died again, then came back to life again all
00:30:09.720
while we were watching that. A lot happened. A lot happened when that video was playing.
00:30:14.640
It is, it, it, it really does. It's nauseating. I actually felt sick watching that.
00:30:22.920
And it's insane. Nothing but processed junk food. Nothing, no real food.
00:30:27.900
And as I said, this goes on for four or five minutes. This woman is showing off all the stuff
00:30:32.260
she bought. She bought, she bought a truckload of stuff with EBT, with her EBT card.
00:30:39.980
And none of it is food. No fresh fruit, no vegetables at all. No fresh food or vegetables.
00:30:49.160
One source of real protein, which is the pack of ground beef. And it looks like she has about 14 kids
00:30:54.620
and she's got like two pounds of ground beef for the whole family. And, uh, so that, that, that,
00:31:00.020
that's like, that's not enough. That's, that's half a meal. That's half a meal for each of them.
00:31:06.040
And they probably won't even eat it. I mean, that, that ground beef is going to spoil in the fridge
00:31:10.000
while they pig out on a junk food all week. Now you could guarantee that like the oven
00:31:16.580
in that person's home has probably never been used. It's a brand, it brand new, brand new oven.
00:31:24.620
She might as well go sell it on a Facebook marketplace or Craigslist, you know, so she
00:31:31.300
can buy some more junk food if she hasn't already. No way the oven is ever used. Stove probably never
00:31:36.080
used. Okay. They're not cooking anything. Nothing's getting cooked. Only buying stuff that can be bought
00:31:43.400
in bags. If you can open it in a bag and eat it right away, or maybe a can, uh, that's the only thing
00:31:50.980
they're eating in that house. And it's, it's revolting fruity pebbles, powdered donuts,
00:31:57.660
10 different varieties of chips. The program is called supplemental nutrition,
00:32:04.600
but there is no nutrition to speak of at all. Again, no food, no actual food.
00:32:15.280
I don't know how it's the fact that anyone can actually live this way and survive and not starve
00:32:23.520
to death from a lack of actual nutrition is kind of amazing, but clearly they're not starving.
00:32:30.120
Cause meanwhile, the woman herself, I'm not saying this to be mean to the woman, but, uh, objectively,
00:32:35.280
medically speaking, she's easily 200 pounds overweight. So this is not somebody who's
00:32:40.440
starving. The kids aren't starving either. You can tell these are, these kids are, um, well-fed
00:32:45.020
well, not well-fed, but they're, they're amply felt fed. Okay. They are amply fed, but not well-fed.
00:32:50.740
So, um, why are we doing this? This is another one of those questions that I would love for someone
00:32:58.940
in a position of power, some politician, especially one who supports this. Why are we doing this?
00:33:04.700
What does this benefit? Who does this benefit? Who does it benefit?
00:33:11.020
Why are we spending billions of dollars to buy powdered donuts for obese people?
00:33:15.000
Explain. Who benefits from this? They're, they don't benefit. That's for sure.
00:33:23.400
And, um, and again, I'm not saying that cause I'm concerned about their health. I mean, I'm a little
00:33:27.500
bit concerned about their health. The real victims of this system are the contributing members of
00:33:33.220
the country, the working Americans, the people who are earning a living and being forced to subsidize
00:33:38.320
this. And it would have been told for years have been shamed, morally, emotionally blackmailed
00:33:45.000
into, uh, you know, into just accepting this and tolerating it, not complaining because you're
00:33:52.500
told that, that you're not allowed to even be upset about this. Your money is being
00:33:57.620
just shamelessly wasted and being given to people who didn't earn it. Don't deserve it.
00:34:09.840
That's the other question that woman in the that's doing the tick tock. Why does she deserve
00:34:13.320
help? Here's a, here's a provocative question. Why does she deserve any help?
00:34:20.480
Why does she deserve any help from the taxpayers? You're coming to me as a taxpayer and saying I
00:34:25.800
have to help her. Okay. Why? I'm not against helping people. I help people all the time.
00:34:30.840
I help people all the time. People, my life, friends, family, people that I don't know
00:34:36.820
charities, very selective about that because a lot of charities are scams, but, um, so I'm not at all
00:34:43.800
against helping people. I want to help people. Helping people feels good, but you're coming to me
00:34:50.720
and saying I have to help her. Why does she deserve that? Does she deserve help? Has she demonstrated
00:34:59.260
at all that she's responsible, that she's going to take the help that we're providing her generously
00:35:04.240
and be responsible with it? Does she have any gratitude at all whatsoever for the help that
00:35:09.660
she's receiving? Is she making any effort whatsoever in her life at all to take that help and to better
00:35:16.680
her life, better her situation? Is any of that happening? Or is this someone who is arrogantly and
00:35:27.120
with no gratitude, like a spoiled child taking from us with no thanks, no gratitude and with no plans
00:35:36.320
of, of, of bettering her situation and without even trying, or is, is, is that decision? Is it that
00:35:40.620
latter situation? Cause I think it's probably the latter. I think there's a lot of the latter going on
00:35:44.640
and we're expected to just accept that it's mean for us. It's, it's a lat we're lacking in
00:35:52.960
compassion. No, because in my personal life, again, I'm more than happy to help people.
00:36:06.700
and then tell me that, and then demand more and tell me that I owe it to you somehow, well,
00:36:13.820
that's the last time I ever help you. That's it. I'm never helping you again with that kind of attitude.
00:36:18.720
Um, or if I help you and it's clear that you're taking the help and you're using it to actually
00:36:26.840
make your situation worse, then I'm also not going to help you because it's not, because the help is
00:36:32.040
not helping you. And so that's how we all operate, I think in our, in our daily lives. Um, and yet with
00:36:40.520
these entitlement programs, these welfare schemes, we're told that, you know, we, we, we doesn't operate
00:36:48.720
And it's just crazy. The fact that there is no, there are no real requirements.
00:36:56.280
There's no accountability at all is nuts to me. And here you are slaving away to put food on your
00:37:03.840
family's table. And yet your paycheck is pilfered. So the government can buy lucky charms for obese
00:37:11.420
people who refuse to get jobs. That's what's happening. Okay. That is what's happening. Billions
00:37:16.140
of dollars being wasted this way. And let's just be real about it. You have every right
00:37:22.300
to be furious when you see stuff like that. You should be. Um, and by the way, you should
00:37:30.820
be angry, not only at the system, but yeah, at, at the, at that person individually, like
00:37:36.720
has accountability. Let's stop treating people like they're not, like they're not human. Okay.
00:37:41.080
These are human beings. Let's let's have a little accountability. You're being irresponsible. It is
00:37:46.880
unacceptable. You're doing this with my money. And yeah, I'm mad at the system. I'm mad at you
00:37:52.740
to actually you individually, personally. Uh, and, uh, I'm just, I'm sick of it. We should all be sick of
00:38:02.140
it. All right. New York post reports a Texas cop vowed to give everyone a ticket after she didn't
00:38:14.840
get laid the night before, according to a since deleted viral Tik TOK. The post showed uniform
00:38:21.740
Harris County, uh, constable precinct five deputy Jennifer Escalera writing on a notepad with the
00:38:27.960
caption didn't get cracked last night. So everyone's getting a ticket.
00:38:32.140
Uh, okay. So that's, what's going on there. Very lovely stuff as always. Here's a local
00:38:39.500
report about this. Listen, in the video, you can see the deputy taking some notes,
00:38:47.060
joining in on the Tik TOK trend and blurring out certain parts of her uniform, but she leaves her
00:38:52.940
name visible to see. We see all other videos on her account where she's in uniform doing some Tik
00:38:58.920
talk trends. Her account has since deleted. And we spoke to some people here in the precinct five
00:39:03.000
area who tells us she's free to do whatever she wants on her personal time. But when she's
00:39:07.600
representing the company and representing the law enforcement agency that she works for,
00:39:12.880
she has to be more cautious. I think it's real inappropriate and disrespectful.
00:39:17.080
This is very unprofessional. You know what I'm saying? Like you shouldn't be doing nothing
00:39:20.540
like this. You know, I've already given my speech about female cops. Um, I've given it in the past
00:39:27.060
week anyway. So I only need to give it once a week. I, we may improve. We may move to two times
00:39:32.960
a week if the situation doesn't improve, but I won't harp on that angle for now. I will say this woman
00:39:40.000
has been doing Tik Toks in uniform for a while. Apparently, why was that ever allowed? Why wasn't
00:39:46.940
that shut down immediately? Why? And you see this, you see other Tik Toks that sometimes cops, like,
00:39:53.100
why are we, why is it ever okay for a cop to do a Tik Tok in uniform? Why are we ever accepting that?
00:40:00.920
Why is that not shut down the second it happens? And even now they're going to investigate, uh,
00:40:07.380
this situation, but this, this ridiculous woman is not going to lose her job. She'll stay on the job
00:40:12.720
on patrol, making Tik Toks, showing up to the scene of the crime only to be totally useless and a major
00:40:18.260
liability. Uh, you know, that's, what's going to happen. And I think, and so there's a theme here
00:40:25.180
emerging as there often is in this show, um, that we need to greatly, greatly raise our standards.
00:40:32.620
Okay. This is a general comment about just everything everywhere in life, in all walks of
00:40:40.440
life, in every capacity we need to write. And this is not just the point about DEI. I mean,
00:40:46.260
it applies to that too. DEI shouldn't exist. Um, but even aside from that, or, but beyond it,
00:40:53.880
rather, one of the things we're dealing with in our society, I think right now is that our,
00:40:58.080
our standards, our standards in every facet really, and corner of life have just plummeted.
00:41:03.720
And we put up with so much nonsense that, um, and no one's ever punished for it or held
00:41:09.020
accountable or fired. And I don't just mean with the police or in government jobs, although it's
00:41:14.420
particularly bad, uh, in government jobs often, but everywhere in general. And I know I'm not the
00:41:21.900
only one who's noticed this quality of everything has declined. Customer service everywhere is terrible.
00:41:26.280
I think part of the reason that, that this happens is that we've just sort of stopped holding people
00:41:34.180
accountable for anything and, and, or holding them to any sort of standard. I mean, do people get
00:41:41.300
fired anymore? Is that, is that a thing? Now I know layoffs. I know people get laid off, which is
00:41:47.200
tragic. We know, we know lots of people get laid off all the time. Layoffs are real and a sad thing.
00:41:52.780
Clearly people lose jobs. Uh, but do people get fired? Like you get called into your boss's office
00:42:00.900
and told that you're losing your job specifically because you're bad at it. That's why you're losing.
00:42:07.800
They're not eliminating the position. It's not that they're getting rid of 25% of the workforce and
00:42:11.920
you're one of the casualties. It's just, you're getting fired all by yourself because you're just
00:42:16.680
bad at doing your job. This is an indictment on you and the job that you are doing and you are
00:42:22.600
getting fired and you're getting replaced by somebody else. Is that a thing? I assume it is,
00:42:31.620
but based on circumstantial evidence, it seems like it isn't because everywhere you go, you find these
00:42:35.700
people are just obnoxiously terrible at their jobs and you're thinking, how are they not fired? How,
00:42:41.420
how is this possible? How do you have a cop that's doing tech talks on the job and has been doing this
00:42:46.940
for a while and just hasn't gotten, isn't that an easy call? Like you're fired. We don't need you
00:42:52.020
here that you're clearly, you're fired. This is, we don't have to even think about it. This is very
00:42:56.720
easy, easy call. Or you go to, into any store and you deal with some of the customer service and
00:43:06.000
they're just, they, total disdain, dripping, dripping disdain for the customers. And you think
00:43:13.000
again, isn't this an easy call to fire this person? Not even anything personal. I, I wish them the best
00:43:19.720
really. I hope that they, uh, this could be a good wake-up call and then they improve and go get a
00:43:25.860
better job in the future. But clearly you should be fired from this job. You're really, really bad at
00:43:31.320
it and you make everyone else uncomfortable and you're doing the opposite of what you should be
00:43:35.760
doing, which is making your customers feel welcome and making them feel like they want to come back.
00:43:39.800
You're doing the opposite of that. You're, you're a negative, you're a net negative on. So how are you
00:43:44.060
still here? What, how have you not, why are you not immediately fired? Why is this not a decision
00:43:48.820
that's made in 15 seconds and you're gone? Um, and, um, but it doesn't seem to be happening.
00:43:59.380
Of course, the more likely scenarios, people do get fired all the time, but just the, the overall
00:44:03.380
quality has diminished to such an extent that they're always replaced by people who also
00:44:07.320
are terrible. Uh, so that's probably what's happening. Very cheerful situation. It's been
00:44:13.880
a cheerful, this, even by my standards, this show has been unusually cheerful and I got to,
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After Elon Musk bought Twitter and ended some of the large-scale censorship that existed in social
00:46:16.540
media, there was a mass exodus among left-wingers to a copycat social media platform called Blue
00:46:21.540
Sky. The sales pitch was pretty straightforward. Anyone who voiced a remotely conservative position
00:46:26.040
would be banned on Blue Sky, creating an echo chamber. Of course, this is an appealing proposition
00:46:30.660
to leftists because most of their ideas wouldn't survive for five seconds outside of an echo chamber.
00:46:34.960
So they went over to Blue Sky and spent the last few years affirming all their insane ideas with no
00:46:39.560
pushback. The result has been exactly what you'd expect. They're constantly one-upping their own
00:46:43.360
derangement to the point that Blue Sky now resembles an asylum. There is no idea, no matter how bad it
00:46:48.240
may be, that's too unhinged for these people. If you ran a poll, you'd find 100% support on Blue Sky
00:46:53.480
for executing every billionaire, bringing back mask mandates, forcing Sidney Sweeney to wear a burqa.
00:47:00.620
You'd also find unanimous enthusiasm for child abuse, Stephen Colbert ceding California to the Aztecs.
00:47:07.780
All this is to say, for the past several years, there hasn't been a single issue, not a single one,
00:47:13.360
where the average conservative voter would find any point of agreement with the average leftist on
00:47:18.940
Blue Sky. And it was impossible to imagine a scenario where that might change as Blue Sky
00:47:23.580
drifted further and further off the reservation and into leftist oblivion. And yet, contrary to all
00:47:30.340
expectations, and indeed even you would say the laws of physics, one man has just done the impossible.
00:47:36.140
He has managed somehow to bring this great and seemingly insurmountable divide and to bridge it.
00:47:41.580
And that man, suitably enough, is not a mere mortal like you or me. Instead, the heroic unifier is a
00:47:49.380
former daytime CNN anchor and White House correspondent by the name of Jim Acosta. Now, back when Acosta was
00:47:55.100
on the air, many observers doubted his intelligence, his morality, his capacity to accomplish anything
00:48:00.780
notable whatsoever in his entire life, and so on. But yesterday, all those observers fell silent.
00:48:06.500
And that's because Jim Acosta posted this message on both X and Blue Sky, quote,
00:48:11.400
a show you don't want to miss at 4 p.m. Eastern. I'll be having a one of a kind interview with
00:48:15.460
Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting in 2018, but his parents have created
00:48:20.400
an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence. And then beneath the
00:48:27.280
message, Jim Acosta posted this excerpt from the interview, apparently as a kind of teaser.
00:48:31.880
Watch. I would like to know what your solution would be for gun violence.
00:48:40.340
Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and
00:48:45.000
community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections,
00:48:49.800
making sure everyone feels seen and heard. It's about building a culture of kindness and
00:48:57.980
Now, Acosta later posted a link to the full interview with this AI chatbot, and we'll play
00:49:03.360
a little bit of that. Notice that the AI constantly finishes its robotic answers with a question for
00:49:09.780
Jim Acosta to keep the conversation going, exactly like ChatGPT or Grok do. It's as stilted as it could
00:49:16.400
possibly be. And then at the end, Acosta announces that it's exactly like talking to a human being.
00:49:22.500
Grok, I want to know what your favorite basketball team is.
00:49:25.340
I'd probably go with the Miami Heat. They have such a passionate fan base and an exciting playing
00:49:30.460
style. How about you? Do you have a favorite basketball player?
00:49:34.720
Oh, yeah. I definitely like LeBron James. He's amazing.
00:49:39.160
LeBron is incredible. His skills on the court and his leadership off it are truly inspiring.
00:49:43.520
He's made such a huge impact in the game and beyond.
00:49:46.220
Definitely. Whenever LeBron is playing, I always have to watch him.
00:49:51.600
Hey, Joaquin, what about movies or TV shows? Was there a movie that you liked?
00:49:56.380
I love a good movie. One that really resonates with me is Remember the Titans.
00:50:00.780
It's all about teamwork, overcoming adversity, and the power of unity. It's inspiring.
00:50:05.400
What about you? Do you have a favorite movie or show?
00:50:12.200
Star Wars is such an epic saga. The adventures, the characters, and that iconic music are unforgettable.
00:50:19.400
Oh, it's got to be Luke Skywalker. I love Luke Skywalker. What about you?
00:50:24.140
Luke Skywalker is a classic hero. His journey from a farm boy to a Jedi is so inspiring.
00:50:29.220
I'd probably say Yoda is one of my favorites too. What do you love most about Luke?
00:50:32.880
I like that Luke became the hero. He came from a very small planet.
00:50:38.440
I have to say, I'm kind of speechless as to the technology there.
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I mean, it was so insightful, and I really felt like I was speaking with Joaquin.
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And with that footage, Acosta managed to unite both conservatives and leftists together
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on Blue Sky, X, Facebook, everywhere else, to condemn him as a complete and total buffoon
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who should never show his face in public ever again.
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There is now unanimous agreement across both space and time among Antifa, the Proud Boys,
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the Tea Party, the Green Party, that Jim Acosta should cancel whatever podcast he started
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after he was fired from CNN, and that he should retire to an undisclosed location,
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The commentator, Stephen Miller, assembled some of the reactions on Blue Sky to give you an idea.
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ChatGPT is not a sentient entity you can interview.
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This is unconscionable, ghoulish, and manipulative.
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How dehumanized do you have to be to think this was a good idea?
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This is the AI version of Weekend at Bernie's, and they did a better job of animating a dead guy than this.
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I don't usually comment on stuff like this, but this is beyond effed up and gross.
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You're talking to the simulacrum of a dead person.
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Now, there's no point in reading the comments on the other social media platforms besides Blue Sky because they're all the same.
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Every American, whether they're normal or crazy, straight or demi-queer, doesn't matter, can agree that the failed CNN anchor, Jim Acosta, needs to find another line of work immediately.
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And it's not hard to see why this is happening.
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First of all, no one wants to see any more of this.
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We don't want to see Jim Acosta interview this next guy, for example.
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Side effects of comply may include dizziness, obedience, improved breathing during police encounters, and sudden respect for authority.
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No one wants to see the George Floyd AI getting interviewed, as entertaining as that may be.
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And similarly, everything about Jim Acosta's real-life Black Mirror episode is disturbing, including the reasons the parents agreed to this creation of this AI thing to begin with.
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The parents of Joaquin Oliver, one of the students killed in the 2018 Parkland High School shooting, have created an AI version of their late son, who partook in an interview with journalist Jim Acosta on Monday, August 4th.
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The interview took place on what would have been Oliver's 25th birthday.
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The conversation, which aired on Acosta's Substack, found the journalist essentially talking with an animated photo of Oliver with moving lips and other small gestures.
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Oliver's father, Emmanuel, said in an interview with Acosta that the AI model was trained on general information as well as knowledge based on things that his son wrote, he said.
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In his interview with Acosta, Oliver's father explained that his mother frequently interacts with this AI watch.
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Also mentioned that I understand that this is AI.
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I don't want anyone to think that I am in some way trying to bring my son back.
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However, the technology is out there and we can, there's two things.
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I can hear his voice again, which is something that Patricia loves.
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And she, like any other mothers, she loves to hear Joaquin saying, I love you, mommy, you know?
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And on the other hand, we can just raise our voices.
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And, and now Joaquin is going to start having followers.
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And I heard this from, from tech guys that have other intentions that moving forward, we will have Joaquin on stage in the middle of a debate.
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And his knowledge, you saw it, his knowledge is unlimited.
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And it's based on knowledge that is out there through artificial intelligence, but also knowledge that we were able to upload based on things that he wrote, he said, he posted.
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So this is a very legit Joaquin, the one that has spoken to you.
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He really loved LeBron and he really loved the Miami Heat.
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First of all, reducing a human being to utterly banal traits like this, you know, love of Star Wars.
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He liked basketball is dehumanizing and extremely depressing.
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Even the most uninteresting person on the planet is way more interesting than they're describing the way that they are describing and presenting Oliver, who I'm sure was a vibrant and complex and interesting human being when he was alive.
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But this AI sock puppet version is not and never can be.
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Secondly, if the idea is to put this AI on stage for a debate to add to the conversation about gun safety with its unlimited knowledge, then this AI is utterly terrible at its job.
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In that interview, the AI was asked about its ideas to reduce gun violence.
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And its response was, quote, I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support and community engagement.
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We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard.
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So the AI just produced the least interesting series of cliches imaginable and just vomited them out one by one.
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If you set a human being down and told him to produce meaningless word salad for about 20 seconds, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a worse answer.
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And this is supposedly one of the main reasons they created this AI.
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Now, as to the second purpose of the AI, to give this person's parents the illusion that their son is still alive, that is by far the most disturbing part of all of this.
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We're told that his mother spends hours talking to this AI, which is very sad.
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And it strongly suggests, of course, that this family hasn't come to terms with the fact that Joaquin is actually dead.
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It's obviously a tragedy that he was killed, but no man and certainly no computer can bring him back to Earth.
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The people who created Oliver, presumably, find that outcome to be so bleak and incomprehensible that they feel compelled to run away from it, which is understandable on an emotional level.
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I mean, I can only imagine how I would respond if, God forbid, I lost a child.
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But this is not the way, and it should not be normalized or accepted at all.
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We cannot bring our deceased loved ones back from the dead.
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As with all attempts to assume the role of the divine, this effort is a tragic failure.
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It can't convince even the most delusional fringe elements on the left.
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The only person who's even feigning interest is Jim Acosta, alone in his home, sitting in front of a webcam, desperate for an audience that he never had.
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It doesn't come close to approximating the traits that made this person unique.
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In the end, the only purpose this AI chatbot serves is to remind us all that we are not gods, and computers are not people, and we should never pretend otherwise on either account.
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And that is why Jim Acosta and his interview with an AI posing as a reincarnated human being are today canceled.
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Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, bisexual, queer, black woman Cynthia Erivo plays the world's weirdest version of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ Superstar.
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As Hollywood erupts over the revelation that Sidney Sweeney is a registered Republican, the stock market bounces back in preparation for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut, and Democrats continue their flight from Texas.