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00:00:57.820 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there's a major attack on the Second Amendment unfolding right now.

00:01:01.640 And one of the largest gun manufacturers in the world is going along with it.

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00:03:04.400 In every country where firearms have been banned, there has been an inciting incident

00:03:08.760 that has been used to justify the crackdown.

00:03:11.820 And very often this inciting incident is either overblown or manufactured or misconstrued in some way.

00:03:17.920 In Canada back in 2022, for example, Justin Trudeau used a mass shooting in the United States,

00:03:22.440 specifically the shooting at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas,

00:03:25.340 to justify a national ban on handgun sales in Canada.

00:03:28.860 So, yes, he used a shooting in a foreign country,

00:03:30.920 which was committed with a rifle, to justify a ban on handguns in his country.

00:03:37.000 And, of course, Canadians went along with it. 0.93

00:03:38.820 They didn't even complain because, after all, they'd been conditioned over many years to account,

00:03:43.920 rather to accept an increasing number of restrictions on their right to own firearms.

00:03:48.260 And bit by bit, they allowed the government to whittle away their rights.

00:03:52.320 So, eventually, when it came time for Justin Trudeau to suspend handgun sales entirely,

00:03:55.900 based on a pretext that was obviously ridiculous, everyone just kind of rolled over.

00:04:00.180 We've seen similar stories all over the world in places like Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and so on.

00:04:06.400 Now, every conservative, everyone who wants the United States to continue to exist as a functional country,

00:04:12.160 where all these other nations have failed, has to be mindful of similar efforts to undermine our Second Amendment rights here at home.

00:04:20.800 We have to pay attention when government officials attempt to use some kind of fake inciting incident to suspend our right to possess firearms.

00:04:29.660 And we certainly have to pay attention when these efforts gain traction, when they appear to be working.

00:04:35.680 And that's the case right now, because lawsuits and political pressure by various states, particularly California,

00:04:42.380 have successfully intimidated the weapons manufacturer Glock into dismantling virtually its entire product line.

00:04:51.300 One of the most popular handgun manufacturers in the world, with probably the most recognizable brand,

00:04:56.140 has been beaten into submission.

00:04:58.340 And it didn't take much, either.

00:05:00.420 This is a story that has not received anywhere near the attention that it should be receiving.

00:05:04.740 It's obviously the first domino among many.

00:05:07.460 If Glock doesn't reverse this decision, if Democrats win this fight, then many, many more dominoes will fall in short order.

00:05:15.320 Just like we saw in Canada.

00:05:16.500 Once you give these people any ground at all, they will just walk all over you.

00:05:21.860 So let's begin with the inciting incident of this particular power grab.

00:05:25.000 It was the worst mass shooting in the history of Sacramento, according to the local media.

00:05:29.780 And it took place in April of 2022.

00:05:33.440 Several shooters were involved as part of some kind of gang warfare.

00:05:37.160 Six people were fatally wounded.

00:05:39.140 Twelve others were injured.

00:05:40.880 And one of the men who was apprehended was named Smiley Martin, who's the brother of Dondre Martin, another suspect in the case.

00:05:47.880 Smiley Martin was found in possession of a Glock 19 handgun with a switch attached to it,

00:05:52.080 which is a device that enables it to fire rapidly, you know, like a machine gun.

00:05:56.780 Switches are illegal, but they can be obtained very easily or created with a 3D printer.

00:06:01.920 And it was determined that Smiley was one of the main shooters in this particular incident.

00:06:05.920 Watch.

00:06:10.160 At 2 a.m. Sunday, people started spilling out of the bars and nightclubs on K Street.

00:06:15.640 Video on social media shows a fight, then gunshots.

00:06:20.060 The gunfire lasting nearly a minute in all.

00:06:25.140 The first fire department crews were sent to the scene at 2.04 a.m.

00:06:29.260 With one, he's down in the alleyway, multiple GSWs to the chest.

00:06:31.940 At 2.13, it was declared a multi-casualty incident as medics raced to 10th and K and 11th and K.

00:06:38.280 Five fire, multiple, big, 10, CPRs in progress.

00:06:41.600 On several.

00:06:42.700 But we're doing test impressions, 10th and K.

00:06:45.720 Patients were rushed to area hospitals between 2.25 and 2.45 a.m., as dispatchers confirm multiple deaths.

00:06:53.300 We're also learning more about DeAndre's brother, Smiley Martin, and his lengthy criminal history.

00:06:59.180 KCRA 3's Lizzie Mitri joins us live now in downtown at the scene of the shooting with more.

00:07:04.960 Lizzie Mitri, Smiley Martin has had run-ins with the law here in Sacramento County as early as 2013, 0.83

00:07:14.080 just six months after his 18th birthday, according to the district attorney's office.

00:07:18.740 In a letter last year to the board of parole hearings, the DA's office called Smiley's criminal conduct violent and lengthy.

00:07:25.240 They wrote he committed several felony violations and clearly has little regard for human life and the law,

00:07:31.440 saying if he is released early, he will continue to break the law.

00:07:35.420 Smiley went to prison in 2018 on a 10-year sentence after a domestic violence incident with his girlfriend

00:07:41.260 and just got out on probation in February.

00:07:44.580 The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says that's because he got a variety of post-sentencing credits.

00:07:50.820 They heard in that report that Smiley Martin had a very long criminal record prior to this shooting.

00:08:00.080 Shocking when you look at him, you'd never guess.

00:08:03.480 But they don't explain why he was allowed out of prison, if that's the case.

00:08:07.280 Nor do they provide more detail on what exactly Smiley Martin did when he committed his other crimes.

00:08:13.060 But that's a pretty big part of the story.

00:08:14.860 So here's the Associated Press with some more background.

00:08:17.040 A suspect arrested in connection with last weekend's mass shooting outside bars in Sacramento

00:08:21.660 served less than half his 10-year sentence because of voter-approved changes to state law

00:08:26.480 that lessened the punishment for his felony convictions and provided a chance for earlier release.

00:08:30.400 Smiley Allen Martin was freed in February after serving time for punching a girlfriend,

00:08:34.840 dragging her from her home by her hair, and whipping her with a belt, according to court and prison records.

00:08:39.980 Those count as non-violent offenses under California law,

00:08:43.920 which considers only about two dozen crimes to be violent felonies, such as murder, rape, arson, and kidnapping.

00:08:49.220 Proposition 57 credits include good behavior while behind bars,

00:08:54.180 though correction officer officials declined to release Martin's disciplinary report.

00:09:00.320 Now, if you listened to the show at all in the past week, this is probably sounding very familiar.

00:09:05.880 It's similar to what happened in Kentucky with the child killer Ronald Xantis.

00:09:10.300 Now, as we discussed, Xantis brutally murdered a young boy and assaulted his father and the boy's father.

00:09:16.380 But his crimes were deemed non-violent under Kentucky law somehow.

00:09:21.520 So he was let out of prison after serving just a few years in prison.

00:09:25.780 Even though the parole board didn't want to release Smiley Martin,

00:09:28.960 they had no choice under the law, just like they had to release Ronald Xantis.

00:09:32.120 Now, in this case, just like Ronald Xantis, Smiley Martin obviously committed actual violent offenses.

00:09:38.800 He punched a woman, whipped her with a belt, dragged her across, you know, the pavement.

00:09:43.480 But because these offenses are somehow considered non-violent in California under the law that was passed in 2016,

00:09:49.920 Smiley Martin was allowed out of prison after serving a fraction of a sentence.

00:09:54.000 And he then used that opportunity to commit a mass shooting.

00:09:56.500 And this is also something to keep in mind, by the way, when you hear about prison reform and criminal justice reform,

00:10:02.040 where they want to, you know, make, they want to, they want to have lenient sentences on non-violent offenders.

00:10:08.540 You always hear the left talk about this, non-violent offenders.

00:10:11.900 Well, keep in mind that according to the laws they're passing in all these states,

00:10:15.740 non-violent offenders include violent offenders.

00:10:18.800 In fact, they include offenders who have not just done violent things, but have done very, very brutally violent things.

00:10:27.280 So how has the government of California responded to this development?

00:10:31.280 Have they suggested that maybe they should amend the law so that the word non-violent does not refer to crimes that are obviously violent?

00:10:39.440 Have they suggested any changes whatsoever that would prevent violent felons from getting out of prison after serving less than half of their sentences?

00:10:45.680 Well, you probably know the answer to that question.

00:10:49.120 Democrats in California reacted to this mass shooting by pushing yet another law,

00:10:53.420 one that will effectively ban all Glock handguns in the state.

00:10:57.740 And for many years, Glocks have had special restrictions in places like Canada and California.

00:11:01.960 And now the government, in the wake of this mass shooting, decided to go for a total ban.

00:11:06.780 This is from a video posted by Vince for California, the only account I've seen on X that has pieced all this together.

00:11:13.640 Watch.

00:11:15.680 In May of 2017, Smiley Martin was arrested for beating a woman so bloody that a witness said he couldn't see where the victim's eyes were on her face.

00:11:22.340 And because of the new Prop 57, Smiley Martin was let out of prison after only four years of his 10-year sentence.

00:11:28.260 He was released in February 2022, even after a parole board denied him.

00:11:32.120 So you won't believe what California lawmakers have decided as a solution.

00:11:36.140 Rather than amending the Prop 57 loophole of letting violent felons out early,

00:11:40.220 they've instead decided to introduce AB 1127, which will ban Glock handguns in California.

00:11:45.700 You can't make this up.

00:11:46.920 The bill authors even mentioned the K Street massacre as a pretext for the bill.

00:11:50.200 So, yes, you heard that correctly.

00:11:52.300 Government officials in California cited the mass shooting in Sacramento as proof that we need a new law banning Glocks. 1.00

00:11:58.820 That's not because there's anything wrong with Glocks by themselves, because career criminals, 0.99

00:12:03.060 overwhelmingly young black men who pose, you know, posing with their illegally modified Glocks on TikTok all the time, 0.99

00:12:09.720 and who constantly commit violent felonies and then get out of jail in five seconds, 0.82

00:12:14.020 might modify the Glock to make it more dangerous.

00:12:17.160 Because this relatively small demographic is breaking the law, 0.71

00:12:20.320 therefore the most popular handgun in the world should be outlawed in California.

00:12:25.280 Now, technically, you can keep your current Glock, but you can't buy a new one.

00:12:27.940 That's the way that it would work.

00:12:29.500 And that's, you know, that's what they're saying.

00:12:31.040 That's their plan.

00:12:32.840 And it's working.

00:12:33.920 I mean, it's almost as if the entire reason they let these violent thungs out of prison 1.00

00:12:37.060 is so that they can commit more crimes, which Democrats will then, in turn,

00:12:41.020 use to justify more crackdowns on our civil liberties.

00:12:44.280 This is from a local news station in California, quote,

00:12:48.600 Glock handguns, among the most popular pistols on the market,

00:12:51.160 will no longer be available for purchase in California starting July 1st, 2026.

00:12:54.880 Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law AB 1127,

00:12:57.800 which prohibits the sale of Glocks because a small part can be modified or replaced

00:13:01.580 to convert the gun into an automatic weapon.

00:13:04.120 Although illegal, this modification is becoming increasingly popular.

00:13:06.760 among lawbreakers, Tyler Thompson, a Glock dealer at Redding Guns,

00:13:10.560 said the impending ban has left him with only one Glock in stock.

00:13:14.940 Now, along with this law, which was subsidized by Soros and Mark Zuckerberg,

00:13:18.800 there have been various lawsuits filed against Glock by Democrats,

00:13:22.060 including cities like Seattle and Chicago, states like Minnesota and New Jersey,

00:13:26.720 which essentially blame the manufacturer for illegal modifications that people make

00:13:30.660 to their firearms.

00:13:32.580 Now, it's like when Democrats blame Toyota for supposedly making their cars

00:13:36.100 too easy to steal.

00:13:38.100 Now, for about a million reasons, conservatives should be fighting these laws

00:13:41.780 and these lawsuits with everything they have.

00:13:44.480 The NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation are doing their part in filing lawsuits,

00:13:48.340 but there needs to be a much bigger effort.

00:13:52.400 You know, for one thing, let's pull up that law that California just passed.

00:13:56.740 You can see it here.

00:13:57.720 This bill would prohibit a licensed firearm dealer to sell, offer for sale, exchange,

00:14:02.820 give, transfer, or deliver any semi-automatic machine gun convertible pistol,

00:14:07.140 except as specified.

00:14:08.680 For these purposes, the bill would define machine gun convertible pistol as any semi-automatic

00:14:13.160 pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that can be readily converted by hand or with common

00:14:19.200 household tools into a machine gun by the installation or attachment of a pistol converter,

00:14:23.180 meaning any device or instrument that, when installed in or attached to the rear of the

00:14:27.580 slide of a semi-automatic pistol, replaces the back plate and interferes with the trigger

00:14:31.080 mechanism and thereby enables the pistol to shoot automatically more than one shot by

00:14:35.240 a single function of the trigger.

00:14:37.340 Okay.

00:14:37.700 So, among other problems, this law is obviously unconstitutional.

00:14:40.740 I mean, to be clear, it doesn't apply only to Glocks, but also to any handgun with a cruciform

00:14:45.780 trigger bar.

00:14:46.320 And here's what that looks like.

00:14:50.220 You know, you can see there some Smith & Wesson firearms, along with some firearms from Shadow

00:14:54.720 Systems and FMK firearms also have these trigger bars.

00:14:59.140 And yes, it's true that if they revamp their entire product line, Glock can get rid of these,

00:15:04.680 but Glock shouldn't have to do that, nor should they have any of these other, nor should

00:15:09.440 have any of these other companies.

00:15:11.080 The Supreme Court has already held correctly that under our Constitution, Americans can own

00:15:16.060 handguns that aren't unreasonably dangerous.

00:15:18.840 And there's nothing unreasonably dangerous about a Glock.

00:15:21.760 I mean, it's about as vanilla as handguns get.

00:15:24.620 And if a handgun suddenly becomes unreasonably dangerous because somebody makes an illegal

00:15:28.420 modification to it, then every handgun instantly becomes unreasonably dangerous.

00:15:35.000 And, of course, that's what California has in mind.

00:15:37.860 I mean, we all know that.

00:15:39.080 We all know that no matter what changes Glock decides to make to its handguns in order to

00:15:42.820 comply with this law, it will never be enough.

00:15:44.780 It's possible to modify any handgun or rifle to shoot full auto within the meaning of this

00:15:50.060 law.

00:15:51.480 Probably 10 days after Glock changes its handguns to comply with this law, somebody will come

00:15:55.800 up with a switch for the new model.

00:15:58.520 It's not going to be difficult.

00:15:59.500 Many firearm experts have already made that point, and it's true.

00:16:03.120 This is clearly unambiguously the first major step in a larger effort by Democrats to ban

00:16:08.820 handguns outright.

00:16:09.640 The only appropriate response is to fight it right now.

00:16:14.060 There's no limiting principle here.

00:16:15.320 It's like saying, you know, it should be illegal to own a car because car bombs exist.

00:16:19.340 The fact that somebody can come in after the fact and make a product more dangerous by committing

00:16:23.200 a felony does not mean that we should ban the product.

00:16:27.420 But Glock isn't fighting back on principle.

00:16:29.840 They're not running ads in California pointing out that Gavin Newsom let this mass shooter

00:16:34.440 out of jail early, or that California already outlaws switches, or that the mass shooter

00:16:39.580 was a felon who should have been allowed to possess a firearm in the first place, or that

00:16:44.040 he had a high-capacity magazine that's also illegal in California.

00:16:48.200 Glock isn't running 24-7 ads, which make the extremely obvious point that California could

00:16:52.500 solve its gun problem overnight by actually enforcing its existing laws and by punishing violent

00:16:58.380 criminals.

00:17:00.320 Instead, Glock is caving.

00:17:02.160 They're punishing every law-abiding gun owner in the country.

00:17:04.700 They just announced that they're ditching Gen 5 and starting to make a whole new V-series

00:17:10.220 of handguns that are supposedly compliant with this new law.

00:17:15.420 They just sent this marketing material around.

00:17:18.500 And you can see here, as part of Glock's commitment to future innovations, we're making necessary

00:17:24.860 updates to our product lines to align with upcoming offerings.

00:17:29.580 So they don't even mention why they're doing this.

00:17:32.660 They don't demonstrate a shred of interest in defending American Second Amendment rights

00:17:36.560 or contesting this flagrant overreach by Democrats in California, New Jersey, Minnesota, and so

00:17:41.480 on.

00:17:42.580 They don't even provide any indication as to whether this new series will be compatible with

00:17:46.840 Gen 5 parts, including performance triggers and so on.

00:17:51.260 Nor do they explain how they could possibly make a handgun that's impossible to turn into

00:17:55.640 a machine gun under the law passed in California.

00:17:58.020 They're just hoping for the best, I guess.

00:18:00.740 And meanwhile, where is the Republican Party on this?

00:18:03.960 Has a single prominent Republican made an issue out of the fact that Democrats just strong-armed

00:18:07.840 Glock into dismantling its entire product line?

00:18:10.960 If so, I'm not aware of it.

00:18:13.540 This is a total capitulation.

00:18:15.020 There's no other way to understand what's happening here.

00:18:16.800 It's capitulation on Glock's part.

00:18:19.660 It's capitulation on the part of our elected representatives.

00:18:23.580 And that would be unforgivable in normal times.

00:18:26.220 It's especially egregious now, after we've seen again and again in country after country

00:18:31.580 where total capitulation leads.

00:18:34.720 Glock's decision is going to embolden Democrats to do exactly what leftists have done in Canada

00:18:39.380 and Australia and so many other places.

00:18:41.860 They didn't release Smiley Martin from prison or fund these massive new changes to the law

00:18:46.840 so that Glock would release slightly altered versions of its existing handguns.

00:18:51.520 They released Smiley Martin from prison and they passed this law so that no one can buy a handgun ever again.

00:18:57.920 They want to disarm the entire country.

00:18:59.800 That is their ultimate objective.

00:19:01.440 It's always been their objective.

00:19:03.700 And with this decision by Glock, without much fanfare,

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00:21:33.660 So Abigail Spanberger, a few days out from the election in Virginia,

00:21:39.320 has to this point kind of avoided the trans topic like all Democrats do now.

00:21:44.340 But now she's finally answered it, sort of, although not really.

00:21:48.120 And just to show you how terrified Democrats are to say anything intelligible about this topic,

00:21:52.000 I want you to listen to how Spanberger handles this when she's asked about it.

00:21:58.400 So this apparently is on Katie Couric's YouTube channel.

00:22:05.380 So listen to this.

00:22:07.960 And I think the real challenge is there's a lot of people who've never met a trans person,

00:22:14.780 whether they're a trans youth or an adult.

00:22:16.540 And so there's a real effort to engage in some level of fear-mongering.

00:22:22.920 And, you know, I really do believe that we should, as a society, as a whole,

00:22:29.100 you know, demonstrate a fair amount of grace to people who are confused about, you know,

00:22:33.360 when we're talking about bathrooms or when we're talking about sports participation.

00:22:37.520 Like, what are we talking about?

00:22:39.760 And, you know, I recognize, and I'm a parent.

00:22:44.100 I've got three daughters in Virginia public schools.

00:22:48.080 And so I understand the fact that there, you know, may be confusion about, you know,

00:22:54.060 what is my opponent, as a, you know, very clear example, kind of threatening.

00:22:58.940 And importantly, the willingness to fear-monger with or against kids who are, you know,

00:23:10.320 trying to figure out who they are, who are in, you know, a challenging point in their life.

00:23:16.900 You know, middle school and high school isn't easy for most people, let alone if you might be

00:23:23.100 struggling with or trying to come to terms with your identity.

00:23:26.260 And so just as a basic issue of principle, I do find it really objectionable that, you know,

00:23:34.260 that there would be kids who turn on the television and, and as in an effort to attack me, you know,

00:23:40.400 see, you know, images of themselves sort of reflected as a villain.

00:23:47.440 Okay, so I've transcribed the key part of Abigail's answer, if you can call it an answer.

00:23:52.840 And here's what she said.

00:23:54.760 I really do believe that we should, you know, as a society, as a whole, demonstrate a fair amount

00:23:59.780 of grace to people who are confused about, you know, when we're talking about bathrooms or when

00:24:03.360 we're talking about sports, you know, what are we talking about? And, you know, I recognize that

00:24:08.140 I'm a parent. I've got three daughters in Virginia public schools. And so I understand that there may

00:24:11.620 be confusion about, you know, what is my opponent, as a very clear example, kind of threatening and

00:24:16.340 importantly, the willingness to fear-monger with or against kids who are, you know,

00:24:20.140 trying to figure out who they are. That's a verbatim transcript. And as I read it,

00:24:25.320 I feel like I'm having a stroke. I feel like Joe Biden. I feel like I've contracted dementia

00:24:28.700 somehow. Now we know based on context clues that Spanberger is attempting to say that she's okay

00:24:36.320 with dudes in the girls' bathroom. That's her position. That's what she's attempting to sort 1.00

00:24:40.680 of gesture towards that position. But the actual answer is incoherent. I mean, those aren't even

00:24:45.900 sentences. Fear-mongering with or against kids. What? Fear-mongering with kids. I understand there

00:24:58.380 may be confusion about what is my opponent, as a very clear example, kind of threatening.

00:25:02.400 I don't, that's not a sentence. That's not, those are not, those are words, but they don't mean

00:25:19.600 anything. There's no way to even make sense of that. Well, I do know what it means. It means that

00:25:25.780 you, Abigail Spanberger, know that trans ideology is total nonsense and you're afraid to give any 0.99

00:25:33.900 one single soundbite that supports it. But you also aren't going to come out against it because 0.61

00:25:38.980 you're a coward and you're also a bad mother who would sacrifice your own daughters to some creepy 1.00

00:25:44.440 dude in the bathroom before you would take a stand that upsets your Democrat base and your Democrat 1.00

00:25:48.940 donors. That's what it means. I mean, that's the actual content of what you're saying. But when you

00:25:54.080 take the words at face value, it doesn't mean anything at all. But that really is the game.

00:25:58.380 That's why when Democrats, when they, when they talk about this issue now,

00:26:03.660 their, their objective is to not say anything that could be used in a soundbite, right? That's

00:26:16.380 their objective. And it wasn't always that way. Now, Democrats, ever since trans became a thing, 0.83

00:26:21.320 their, their stance on this topic has been nonsensical, of course, because it's a nonsensical

00:26:27.200 position. But it used to be that they weren't afraid of the soundbite. So they would at least

00:26:32.460 say, they would at least utter clear sentences. And they would say stuff like, well, we believe in

00:26:39.560 trans rights, trans rights are human rights. We should treat these trans women with dignity.

00:26:44.900 They'd say stuff like that. That doesn't really, again, it doesn't mean anything actually, but

00:26:49.540 it's at least like on its own, you can understand those sentences pieced together. So it's a coherent

00:26:55.600 sentence, at least, even if what it's trying to convey doesn't make any sense. But now they don't

00:27:02.060 even want to give you a coherent sentence. They don't want to have any sentence on the record that

00:27:06.120 on its own would indicate that they actually support this. And so they just kind of dance around and they

00:27:13.320 say sentences like this, that you can't even clip that and make it into a soundbite because anyone

00:27:19.400 who hears it, they're not going to know what that means. And that's, and that's really the,

00:27:24.300 the objective, of course. Speaking of people who babble nonsensically, this was kind of funny.

00:27:30.960 Here is a Sonny Hostin on The View telling a rather fantastical story. Listen.

00:27:39.080 As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption 0.80

00:27:45.500 of innocence and the presumption of youth. She's calling the police and saying they're 0.72

00:27:49.760 trying to steal her car and they're 11 years old. They don't know how to drive.

00:27:52.700 And so for me, what was interesting was I have had to be in the position where I have gone to my

00:27:57.520 local police department because I know my son is going to be training for the Junior Olympics,

00:28:01.740 running around the neighborhood in an all white neighborhood. And I have brought him to the 0.98

00:28:05.020 police and said, he belongs to me. This is my son. Do not harass him. Do not stop him. So she was

00:28:10.520 doing what so many black mothers do. And she was killed for protecting her child. 0.97

00:28:16.600 So first of all, that never happened. Obviously, you didn't go to the police and tell them that

00:28:20.660 your son will be jogging. And so they shouldn't stop him. That didn't happen. Or maybe it did.

00:28:26.580 Maybe Sonny really is such an absolute psychotic egomaniac that she actually did that. I don't know. 0.96

00:28:31.240 But she actually went to the police department and declared that her son must never be stopped

00:28:35.820 or questioned by the police. As if that's how it works. As if the police would then refrain from

00:28:43.020 ever stopping her son or questioning him about anything because they'd been instructed by Sonny

00:28:48.640 Hostin. Like what happens if the police have a legitimate reason to stop or question him?

00:28:54.160 I guess they'll have to hold back because they'll say, no, we can't stop him. That's

00:29:00.520 Sonny Hostin's son. Remember, she told us not to. Yeah, but I just saw him steal a car. Yeah,

00:29:07.240 you know, we can't. But Sonny has spoken. All hail Sonny. So a lot of people are saying that Sonny

00:29:13.920 is lying about having this conversation with police, but they may be giving her too much credit. 0.97

00:29:17.920 I mean, she might actually be that much of a lunatic narcissist. 1.00

00:29:21.160 She might be so clueless that she thinks she can go to the police station and give the police a 0.92

00:29:27.500 parental permission slip stating that her son is allowed to do whatever he wants without ever

00:29:31.940 getting stopped by the cops. Maybe that part is true. I don't know. Here's what I do know,

00:29:36.920 though. The safest place a black kid can be is in an all-white neighborhood. The most unsafe place 1.00

00:29:44.400 it can be is in a predominantly black neighborhood. That is, you know, and how can I say that? Well, 0.97

00:29:48.580 because literally all the data tells us that, all the statistics, all the crime stats,

00:29:52.820 everything points to that fact. In an all-white neighborhood, your chance of being hurt or killed 1.00

00:29:58.080 or maimed as a black person or any other kind of person at any time, day or night, is basically 0.98

00:30:05.880 non-existent. In an all-white neighborhood, you can go for a walk at night with $100 bills. You could have 0.60

00:30:13.840 $100 bills sticking out of your pockets and go for a walk at night and you'll be fine.

00:30:21.720 If you drop one of your $100 bills, somebody will stop you and tell you that you dropped it.

00:30:28.220 If anything, they'll be mad at you for littering.

00:30:31.020 Excuse me, sir. You're dropping $100 bills. Please don't litter.

00:30:33.280 Can you pick up your $100 bills, please, sir? We don't litter around here. So that's what happens

00:30:39.620 in an all-white neighborhood. Certainly in the kinds of all-white neighborhoods that Sonny Hostin 0.98

00:30:43.480 is talking about and that Sonny Hostin would live in. Which, by the way, Sonny, why are you living in

00:30:49.600 an all-white neighborhood? Why did you, Sonny, decide to move to an all-white neighborhood? 0.94

00:30:54.640 That's interesting, isn't it? It's interesting how all these race hustlers, when they get some 0.99

00:31:02.880 money, they immediately leave the neighborhoods that are predominantly black and go to the all-white 1.00

00:31:07.560 neighborhoods. I mean, if you think that an all-white neighborhood is dangerous for your son, 1.00

00:31:12.880 why are you there? There are a lot of all-black or predominantly black neighborhoods you could live

00:31:18.540 in. A lot cheaper, too. So, Sonny, why did you move into that neighborhood? Why are you there?

00:31:28.120 Oh, it's because those neighborhoods are a lot safer for your son and you, and you know it.

00:31:36.500 Now, if you're in, like, a trailer park in an economically depressed area, hit hard by drugs,

00:31:42.200 then it's a different story, that I wouldn't go walking around with a $100 bill sticking in your

00:31:47.040 pockets. Although I think that you'd be hard-pressed to find a trailer park that's all-white at this 0.97

00:31:50.760 point. Those don't really exist. So, we're back to Sonny being full of crap, you know, because

00:31:56.840 it's an all-white neighborhood. It's almost certain that this is going to be a very safe place, 0.99

00:32:05.380 because the stats clearly show, as I've said before, that the whiter a community is, the safer it is.

00:32:09.860 Regardless of socioeconomics, regardless of anything else, the whiter the safer. Those are the facts.

00:32:14.860 They just are. And that's why the Sonny Hostens of the world, that's immediately where they move

00:32:22.180 as soon as they can. Although I'm sure Sonny Hostens probably lived in those kinds of neighborhoods

00:32:27.800 her entire life. I don't think she, you know, I don't know that she moved into them so much as

00:32:31.140 she's always lived in them. And, but anytime she does move, if she wants to move into a bigger house 0.90

00:32:38.020 or whatever, she's, she's looking for the all-white neighborhoods. With no self-awareness

00:32:44.440 or without ever stopping to ask herself, why is that? Why do I do that?

00:32:52.960 Angel Reese, the WNBA player, is complaining again about not getting paid enough or something.

00:32:58.100 Here it is.

00:33:01.100 We all did it.

00:33:03.100 Yeah, the CBA is coming up. I can't wait.

00:33:07.100 Girl, y'all benefited from everything. Y'all youngins benefited from NIL. 0.92

00:33:12.100 What does that mean? We deserve more.

00:33:14.100 Of course, I agree. Everybody. I agree with that.

00:33:17.100 I agree with that.

00:33:18.100 But we got to get a face of consequences.

00:33:19.100 What?

00:33:20.100 There, we got to get it out there.

00:33:21.100 Y'all got to deal with something. Y'all got to do something.

00:33:24.100 But the women coming in, what, not this year, but next year, or, cause the ones coming in 1.00

00:33:29.100 this year will still be on the rookie contract again. The ones, the year after, they gonna

00:33:33.100 get more, they probably gonna be making more than us.

00:33:35.100 No, they are.

00:33:36.100 I'm hurt.

00:33:37.100 They are. Like, yeah.

00:33:39.100 I've been in the meetings, they are.

00:33:41.100 I need to get in the, I need to get a feel.

00:33:43.100 You do, you need to come to the meetings.

00:33:44.100 I need to get in the meetings cause I'm hearing like, yeah, they don't give it.

00:33:47.100 If y'all don't give us what we want.

00:33:48.100 Like we said, no, that's a possibility for real.

00:33:53.100 Right.

00:33:54.100 So I don't really care what she's saying.

00:33:56.100 Not, not that I even understand it.

00:33:58.100 I just, I saw this pop up and I think cause somebody posted it like, oh, there's Angel

00:34:02.100 Reese complaining. 1.00

00:34:03.100 She's not getting paid enough again, which is stupid. 0.99

00:34:06.100 But to me, the, the, the, the headline or the question that comes out of it is, is, 0.99

00:34:12.100 why does this podcast exist?

00:34:14.100 This is apparently the Angel Reese podcast called unapologetically angel, because she's

00:34:20.100 going to give us her unapologetic takes. 1.00

00:34:23.100 Watch out.

00:34:24.100 Angel Reese is unapologetic.

00:34:27.100 This is the innovative new concept for the podcast.

00:34:31.100 She's giving us unapologetic takes. 1.00

00:34:33.100 No one's ever done that before in a podcast.

00:34:35.100 It's really filling a hole in the marketplace.

00:34:38.100 She said, you know what I need?

00:34:40.100 You know what?

00:34:41.100 You know, the world needs more of a podcast.

00:34:43.100 And someone said, well, there's a million podcasts.

00:34:45.100 Yeah.

00:34:46.100 But in this podcast, I'm going to give my takes and they're going to be unapologetic.

00:34:49.100 This is going to be no filth, no filter, no holds barred, uncensored.

00:34:55.100 How literally every other podcast on the market builds itself.

00:35:00.100 And, uh, apparently these unapologetic takes are just her slouched in a chair mumbling.

00:35:05.100 You know, there, there are a hundred billion podcasts on the market at this point.

00:35:10.100 And 99.9% of them are just this.

00:35:13.100 Somebody slouched in a chair, just randomly spluttering words out of their mouth and barely audible whispers.

00:35:22.100 99.9% of podcasts are just someone is just sitting there talking to someone else.

00:35:28.100 Yeah.

00:35:29.100 So like, yeah, that's crazy.

00:35:32.100 Yeah, man, bro.

00:35:34.100 Yeah.

00:35:35.100 That's crazy.

00:35:37.100 Yeah.

00:35:38.100 You know, like when the, you know, you know, when that happened.

00:35:41.100 Yeah.

00:35:42.100 You see that when that happened, that was, that was nuts, man.

00:35:46.100 Wow.

00:35:47.100 Yeah.

00:35:48.100 That's nuts.

00:35:49.100 That's crazy.

00:35:50.100 That's 99.9% of all podcasts.

00:35:52.100 It's just that.

00:35:53.100 Like nothing being even talked about.

00:35:56.100 Is anyone listening to it at all?

00:35:59.100 Who would, can you imagine just, just like throwing on the Angel Reese podcast and listening

00:36:04.100 to that for 45 minutes?

00:36:06.100 Who would, would any person ever?

00:36:09.100 I see all these other podcasts and I think, why do I put effort into mine?

00:36:15.100 Like, it may not look like it, but I do like hours and hours.

00:36:19.100 Hours and hours of research and writing each episode.

00:36:23.100 I write whole monologues.

00:36:25.100 I have my fish cam.

00:36:26.100 You know, there's a lot going on.

00:36:27.100 We've got the fish cam.

00:36:28.100 We've got, we've got the fish cam.

00:36:31.100 We have the beautiful studio, all this effort put into it.

00:36:34.100 And I'm just like sitting there for hours, seven, eight hours.

00:36:42.100 Insane.

00:36:43.100 And then I see 99.9% of other podcasts on the market and it's just someone half awake.

00:36:47.100 No prep.

00:36:48.100 Just like sitting there mumbling about nothing for seven and a half hours.

00:36:58.100 Making small talk with some other random person no one's ever heard of.

00:37:02.100 And I, and I think, why do I even try?

00:37:05.100 Why do I try?

00:37:06.100 What's the point of trying?

00:37:09.100 Now, granted, uh, Angel Reese's podcast gets like 200 views an episode.

00:37:13.100 So that part is encouraging.

00:37:15.100 So I asked who would ever listen to that.

00:37:17.100 The answer is no, nobody, at least to that.

00:37:20.100 But I see some of these and it's like, you look at it, it's like they got a huge following.

00:37:27.100 There's a hundreds of thousands of people are listening to this, listening to nothing,

00:37:32.100 listening to two people talk about absolutely nothing at all.

00:37:39.100 It's, it's, it's crazy.

00:37:41.100 Yeah, man.

00:37:42.100 It's crazy, man.

00:37:44.100 Isn't that crazy?

00:37:45.100 It's crazy, man.

00:37:46.100 I don't know.

00:37:49.100 You know what I think it is?

00:37:53.100 Cause I've thought about this.

00:37:54.100 I see some of these podcasts, everyone's podcast, but mine, all the other podcasts are the problem,

00:38:01.100 but mine.

00:38:02.100 No, I'm kidding.

00:38:03.100 There are, uh, mine is fine.

00:38:05.100 And then there are six others that are good.

00:38:07.100 I'll let you guess the six good ones.

00:38:09.100 There are six good podcasts.

00:38:10.100 So seven total.

00:38:11.100 There are six good ones.

00:38:12.100 Plus mine.

00:38:13.100 Mine is the, is the, is the fourth best on the list.

00:38:19.100 I'll let you guess what the other ones are.

00:38:22.100 It's mine.

00:38:23.100 Angel Reese.

00:38:24.100 Hawk to his podcast.

00:38:26.100 So there's, those are, those are three.

00:38:29.100 You can guess the other four.

00:38:31.100 But, um, anyway, so I, I was, I was wondering, I was thinking when I see some of these podcasts

00:38:38.100 and I think like who, why would I even listen to this?

00:38:42.100 And I think what it is, is, um, that some people don't have an internal monologue.

00:38:49.100 And so maybe these podcasts serve as almost a substitute for an internal monologue.

00:38:54.100 Like it's one thing to be listening to a podcast where someone is presenting a point of view

00:38:59.100 like I'm doing right now.

00:39:00.100 You might not like the point of view. 0.99

00:39:02.100 You might think that I suck.

00:39:03.100 You might, you might not like me, but at least I'm, so I have a point of view and I'm presenting 0.97

00:39:07.100 it and I'm making an argument and here it is and something to think about.

00:39:10.100 So, okay, fine.

00:39:11.100 But a lot of these other ones, there's no point of view really being expressed.

00:39:15.100 There's no argument being made.

00:39:17.100 There's nothing really being discussed.

00:39:18.100 There's nothing to think about.

00:39:19.100 There's just nothing happening.

00:39:21.100 And I, and what is the attraction to those?

00:39:23.100 I think it is just that.

00:39:24.100 I think it's like people that have no, no internal monologue.

00:39:29.100 And, and, uh, and so the podcast just becomes a sort of a stand in for that.

00:39:35.100 Like I would never listen to something like the Angel Reese podcast

00:39:38.100 because I don't need to hear random, just like babbling going back and forth.

00:39:42.100 Cause I already have like, that's my internal monologue.

00:39:44.100 You're always just sort of thinking about things and thinking, so you don't need that.

00:39:48.100 But if you have no internal monologue, I think that, um, that I think that's what it is.

00:39:53.100 I don't know.

00:39:54.100 That's my, that's my theory.

00:39:56.100 Anyway, maybe it needs some work.

00:39:59.100 All right, let's get to the, uh, comment section.

00:40:05.100 If you're a man, it's required that you grow a bit.

00:40:08.100 Hey, we're the sweet baby gang.

00:40:13.100 Okay.

00:40:15.100 Comment section.

00:40:16.100 The, uh, comments that we'll read.

00:40:19.100 This comes from.

00:40:24.100 Clone as T dream killer, five, two, seven, seven.

00:40:28.100 I can remember in high school, I took an, uh, anthropology class.

00:40:31.100 This was in late eighties.

00:40:32.100 One day our teacher asked us if we were able to go back in time 150 years and take a walk, man.

00:40:37.100 What would the people find hardest to understand about it?

00:40:39.100 Most people guessed stuff about the batteries and electronics, the plastic, et cetera.

00:40:43.100 My teacher said something I never forgot.

00:40:45.100 He said they could get used to all that stuff, but they could never grasp was the fact that you experience music as a private phenomenon.

00:40:52.100 For all of history, music required community.

00:40:55.100 Obviously someone could bang a stick on a rock or something, but this point was a profound one and it changed the way I thought about the culture for the rest of my life.

00:41:03.100 Yeah, it's a really fascinating point.

00:41:05.100 Um, and it's true, you know, prior to the invention of personal listening devices, the only way you would ever hear music was in some kind of communal environment.

00:41:13.100 You know, you could play music yourself with no one around, but then it was something that you were actively doing.

00:41:19.100 If you wanted to hear music from somebody else, it was communal by definition.

00:41:22.100 I mean, even if it was just one person playing the piano or something in your parlor, um, you, it was still a communal experience.

00:41:30.100 And in that case, it'd be a communal and very intimate experience of someone playing music.

00:41:33.100 But, um, yeah, music by definition for most of human history was a communal thing.

00:41:41.100 And that's true.

00:41:43.100 And it speaks to what I talked about yesterday, which is that prior to the monoculture, you had localized culture.

00:41:48.100 And music was a huge part of that.

00:41:50.100 You know, music was one of the things that brought local communities together to have a shared experience.

00:41:54.100 And then you had the advent of first record players, which could be listened.

00:41:59.100 You could listen to record players alone, although often they were listened to communally.

00:42:03.100 Then you had Walkmen who could only, that could only be listened to alone.

00:42:07.100 And that gave way to the CD, portable CD players and eventually MP3 players, eventually iPods.

00:42:11.100 But through all of that, up to post 2008 era, even when you listened to the music on your personal device, you were still participating in the monoculture.

00:42:22.100 Because although we often listened to music individually, we were all listening to the same things.

00:42:26.100 So there was a shared experience, um, even if you get to that shared experience individually, right?

00:42:35.100 So it's like, it's kind of like, um, if you're going somewhere and you could carpool with somebody and you could get there together, or you could meet them and drive individually.

00:42:45.100 But in both cases, you're having a shared experience because you're both going to the same place and then you're going to get there and you're there together, right?

00:42:51.100 So, um, the monoculture kind of had that element to it.

00:42:56.100 And the monoculture also maintained local culture, a less vibrant, less unique version of it, but it was still there.

00:43:03.100 You know, I go back to like local radio, obviously as a former radio DJ, it's something I feel a certain tie to.

00:43:10.100 And local radio was great because it really was the nexus.

00:43:14.100 It was the tie binding local culture to the monoculture.

00:43:17.100 This is one of the primary, one of the primary things that I mourn having lost from the before times is this.

00:43:25.100 Because with local radio, your local DJ would, you know, play much of the same music that was played everywhere else in the country.

00:43:33.100 That was the tie to the monoculture, but they would also play local bands that your station would promote and tell you about.

00:43:39.100 And so that was the local culture. You did a lot of events like community events, concerts, charity events, all kinds of stuff.

00:43:45.100 And, um, and so you had these, these things that were sort of like the, the, the, the, the tie.

00:43:54.100 And I was thinking about this too, cause I've heard the criticism from some in the audience that I'm just, that as I've talked about the monoculture and the changes in the culture that I'm just being nostalgic and that people are always nostalgic for the early, for like their early twenties.

00:44:11.100 And as it happens, when I say the culture peaked in 2007, well, that's right when I was in my early twenties.

00:44:17.100 And so I've seen these comments that say, Oh, what a coincidence. You know, you think the culture peaked right when you were 22 or whatever.

00:44:24.100 So do I. And I, and I get it. I understand that criticism. It's, it's a fair one, but I do think I'm hitting on something real and true, regardless of how nostalgic I might feel.

00:44:37.100 I think I've described my theory of the monoculture and its collapse in a way that doesn't depend on pure nostalgia. So I think I've succeeded in doing that.

00:44:46.100 But on the topic of nostalgia, I'll say two things, which first of all, my nostalgia for the good old days is, is not at this point, me mourning that I no longer get to experience them.

00:45:01.100 It's mourning that my kids never will. So it's a different kind of thing.

00:45:06.100 I'm not mourning my own loss, but my children's loss.

00:45:11.100 You know, as you know, we don't let our kids use smartphones.

00:45:16.100 We try to do our best to make sure they have a real childhood, a childhood not dominated by the screens.

00:45:21.100 But the fact is that the world around them is dominated by the screen.

00:45:26.100 So my kids will never know, you know, the world before smartphones, before the screen took over.

00:45:33.100 They'll never know that.

00:45:36.100 And I do mourn that for them.

00:45:38.100 Because I can give them a version of that world, but it's like we have to construct it for them.

00:45:46.100 We have to make it.

00:45:48.100 And the trade off is that it is more isolating.

00:45:53.100 Right.

00:45:54.100 Because we are all of their friends are all using phones all the time.

00:45:58.100 And that's and that's how they interact and everything.

00:46:00.100 And so we're not doing that.

00:46:02.100 And so in order to give them a real childhood and to give and to preserve and maintain their innocence.

00:46:11.100 And to make sure that they're able to use their minds and their creativity and like run outside and use their, you know, and and and and all of that have an active childhood.

00:46:21.100 And one of the trade offs is that it is it there's an isolating factor to it.

00:46:26.100 Not totally isolated.

00:46:27.100 I mean, they still they have friends and they but it's just that like they don't live in the, you know, back when I was a kid, we didn't have to.

00:46:35.100 My parents didn't have to like construct that kind of world for them.

00:46:37.100 It's just just the world we lived in.

00:46:40.100 And there's another point about nostalgia that I wanted to make, which.

00:46:44.100 Which is that because I've thought about why are we so obsessed with it?

00:46:48.100 And I think there's a reason for there's a reason why every generation now is so nostalgic.

00:46:59.100 And we take that for granted.

00:47:00.100 You know, we say, well, sure, that's that's how it's always been.

00:47:03.100 Every new generation longs for the good old days when they were younger.

00:47:06.100 But I don't think that's quite true.

00:47:07.100 You know, I'm sure people have always, to some extent, look back wistfully on their childhood.

00:47:11.100 I'm sure that's a common human trait.

00:47:16.100 But I don't think this kind of intense, there's this intense, almost like unbearably sad nostalgia that we have now that I don't think was as common in history as it is now.

00:47:31.100 And that's because the nostalgia that we feel is a symptom of our lack of cultural continuity.

00:47:36.100 You know, things change so fast now and they've been changing so fast for the last 100 years.

00:47:43.100 And so, you know, if you think back, if you think back to most of human history, think about some villager who was living in a village in the year 1140.

00:47:54.100 Well, his life, his existence, the world he inhabited would have been very similar to the world inhabited by a villager in the year 940.

00:48:04.100 Or, you know, 1340, you know, 200 years after him.

00:48:10.100 Or even really 140 BC.

00:48:13.100 I mean, I would argue that somebody in the 12th century had more in common with people who lived 1000 years before him than we do with people who lived 80 years before us.

00:48:26.100 I would even go further and say that someone in the 12th century had more in common with an ancestor who lived 3000 years before them in a village in a different country than we do with someone who lived 150 years before us in the same town, in the same state, in the same country.

00:48:47.100 And I think that that's kind of undeniable.

00:48:52.100 You know, that person who lived, if you live in a, you could live in the same house, right, as someone who lived 150 years ago.

00:49:04.100 You live in an old house in the Northeast somewhere.

00:49:07.100 And you'll have less in common with the person who built that house 150 years ago than someone in the 12th century would have with someone who lived in a different country 3000 years before them.

00:49:17.100 Okay, I think that that's the case.

00:49:20.100 And that's not to say that there weren't there that there weren't changes over the course of the millennia back back then.

00:49:26.100 But the changes now are so fast and so vast and so earth shaking that every few decades, it's like we've shifted into a new universe into a new reality.

00:49:38.100 I mean, if you think about it, if someone 150 years ago could see our lives now in the year 2025, they wouldn't even understand what they're looking at.

00:49:52.100 You know, it would be no different than dropping you on a planet in a different galaxy, where you have no frame of reference, you have no clue what's going on.

00:50:03.100 There is nothing, there's nothing in their lives in the year 1875 that's even analogous to a lot of these things.

00:50:11.100 They have no frame of reference, they have nothing to compare it to.

00:50:14.100 Understanding depends on analogy. You can only understand something if you can compare it.

00:50:20.100 Like if you want to explain something to someone, the only way to explain it, this is the challenge of explaining something to a child, is that they don't, they haven't experienced as much, they don't know as much.

00:50:30.100 And the only way to explain something is to compare it to something that they understand, that they do understand.

00:50:35.100 And they have a, they have a, they don't understand as many things.

00:50:37.100 And so you're always looking for ways to take this really complicated thing they're asking you about and compare it through analogy to something that they do understand.

00:50:46.100 That's the only way to understand anything is through analogy.

00:50:49.100 Well, people who, 150 years ago, there are so many things in our lives now that there's no one even analogy to anything that they would have experienced.

00:51:01.100 Now, on the other hand, a villager in the year 300 BC could take a glimpse at a villager in the year 1300 AD, a thousand years in the future, and more than a thousand years.

00:51:14.100 And they would totally understand everything they're seeing, you know, it would look a little different, but the basic rhythm of life would be very similar.

00:51:23.100 And whatever new technology they saw, it would at least be analogous to something they have in their time.

00:51:30.100 And that's not the case for us.

00:51:32.100 You know, if you were to show someone 100 years ago, a smartphone and AI, they couldn't, they would, they would not be able to even comprehend what this thing is, much less how our lives are centered around it.

00:51:50.100 And I think that's why nostalgia is so intense now.

00:51:54.100 It's, it's not the nostalgia simply of someone who's grown older.

00:51:59.100 That's not the nostalgia.

00:52:00.100 That's the common human nostalgia of you grow older, you long for your youth.

00:52:05.100 Sure. That's, I'm sure that's common.

00:52:06.100 That's common, but what we feel now and what I feel, you know, what we all, what I feel like when I think about my kids, it's more like, it's more like the nostalgia you would feel for earth.

00:52:24.100 If you move to Mars, it's like if you're, if you, if you move to a colony on Mars and you had kids there and you, and you, you mourn the fact that they will never know what earth is like.

00:52:34.100 And it's the morning of a lost world, not just a changed world, but a lost one.

00:52:41.100 And, and so I think that that's what's going on.

00:52:45.100 I don't think that that even responds to the original comment, but speaking of podcasts where they just babble on nonsensically, here I go.

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00:54:45.100 So did you hear about Dave?

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00:55:32.100 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:55:34.100 For today's daily cancellation, it seemed appropriate to spend some time checking out the content that's being produced over at MSNBC,

00:55:47.100 the cable news station that is about to be canceled due to its extremely catastrophically low ratings.

00:55:51.100 By my count, we have only about three weeks left before MSNBC is removed from the airwaves and replaced with something called MSNOW, which will also inevitably be canceled soon afterwards.

00:56:01.100 So out of a morbid sense of curiosity, I decided to watch some Morning Joe, their marquee program that's lost about 50% of its audience since the election.

00:56:09.100 They're apparently less popular than CNN's morning program, which no one has ever even heard of.

00:56:13.100 In other words, morale is probably very low and dropping fast over at Morning Joe.

00:56:18.100 And that may explain why, instead of producing compelling segments, they're just pulling up random New York Times editorials and reading them out loud.

00:56:25.100 Watch.

00:56:26.100 So, Molly, you have a guest essay out in the New York Times this morning, your new place of work, entitled Democrats Need to Chill About the Electability of Women.

00:56:37.100 Hmm. You write in part, the specter of 2024 and the reign of Trump terror that has followed has Democrats on edge.

00:56:45.100 Nowhere is this more apparent than in the governor's race in New Jersey.

00:56:49.100 Representative Mikey Sherrill, the Democrats' great-on-paper centrist nominee, is ahead in the polls, but still being second-guessed.

00:56:59.100 One of the biggest problems facing Mikey Sherrill's bid for governor may have nothing to do with Mikey Sherrill and everything to do with a certain pundit class miasma about the supposed unelectability of women.

00:57:13.100 After all, this is a party that has run two super-competent women for president on its ticket, and they both lost against Mr. Trump. 0.99

00:57:23.100 One of the Democrats' 2025 big bets is on the national security mom.

00:57:27.100 There's also an off-year election in Virginia where Abigail Spanberger, a former House member and CIA officer, checks similar competence-centrist boxes.

00:57:37.100 Both are being asked to save the party while simultaneously being questioned about their electability.

00:57:43.100 That's code for how sexist is the electorate.

00:57:48.100 That's sad.

00:57:50.100 Well, it is sad on multiple levels.

00:57:52.100 First of all, there's no logic whatsoever in that hysterical rambling wall of text that she just read.

00:57:57.100 We're told that Trump's administration is a reign of terror and that a woman named Mikey Sherrill is the victim of misogyny, even though she's attracting large crowds, leading in the polls to be the next governor of New Jersey.

00:58:08.100 Somehow this qualifies her as a victim of sexism, all because some unnamed pundits are questioning her electability. 0.95

00:58:13.100 Which means, of course, that every female candidate from now until the end of time will be a victim of misogyny. 1.00

00:58:18.100 And secondly, somewhere in there, I heard the phrase national security mom.

00:58:22.100 This is a phrase that should never be uttered by any human being in any context.

00:58:25.100 It makes no sense for one thing. 0.99

00:58:26.100 It's a phrase that's intended to empower and lend legitimacy to some of the dumbest women we've allowed to seize power in this country. 1.00

00:58:32.100 That includes women like Nina Jankowicz, the buffoon who made songs about how the government should censor conservatives online. 0.97

00:58:39.100 It also includes Victoria Nuland, who oversaw the war in Iraq, the overthrow of Ukraine's government.

00:58:45.100 Pretty much every other disastrous foreign policy decision in this country's recent history. 0.94

00:58:49.100 It includes CNN analyst Juliette Kam, the imbecile who recently tried to claim that the guy who shot up an ICE facility had no discernible political motivation. 0.96

00:58:59.100 So these women are all national security moms. 0.98

00:59:02.100 And the world would be a much better place if every single one of them had stuck to just being a mom instead of getting involved in national security. 0.96

00:59:08.100 But the MSNBC clip does not stop there. Somehow it becomes even more embarrassing and pathetic for everybody involved. 0.97

00:59:14.100 Watch. 0.96

00:59:16.100 You can't take anything for granted and you can't dismiss it.

00:59:19.100 There is some misogyny that is in the electorate that needs to be confronted.

00:59:24.100 It really is incredible when you have Abigail Spanberger, Mikey Sherrill, her background, all the different jobs that she has held in the military.

00:59:33.100 And also like Alyssa Slotkin.

00:59:36.100 I mean, my God, these women are incredible. 1.00

00:59:39.100 And to them, I would say fight, fight, fight, because we need them.

00:59:44.100 Yeah, we need them.

00:59:46.100 And I mean, and Mikey is like she's doing a ton of interview.

00:59:50.100 You know, when I talked to that, when I was in the car, you know, was this car she had gone from interview to interview to talk to talk to.

00:59:55.100 But, you know, you still see the anxiety.

00:59:58.100 Yeah.

00:59:59.100 Cheryl did have a few missteps in her campaign, but she still has, as you say, about a five or six point lead for polling. 1.00

01:00:03.100 Spanberger is leading Virginia a little bigger than that.

01:00:06.100 But, you know, both still competitive races here heading into the last couple of weeks.

01:00:10.100 But but to Mika, to Molly's point, I mean, this is something that a lot of Democrats are grappling with right now as they've elected.

01:00:16.100 They've nominated women two of the last three elections for the presidency, lost both. 0.99

01:00:21.100 There are some who say, well, we can't do that again.

01:00:23.100 The stakes are too high.

01:00:24.100 But of course, that does fall into the same misogynistic trap.

01:00:27.100 Other countries have no problem electing women. 1.00

01:00:32.100 So they're blaming sexism for the fact that Abigail Spanberger, the Democrats nominee for governor of Virginia, is struggling in the polls.

01:00:38.100 And once again, there are about 10 different problems here.

01:00:41.100 We'll start with the fact that, like Mikey Sherrill, Abigail Spanberger is not, in fact, struggling in the polls.

01:00:45.100 She's ahead by a lot.

01:00:47.100 According to most polls, she's up by eight points.

01:00:49.100 So they're just making that claim up out of thin air and presenting it as fact.

01:00:52.100 Secondly, if Abigail Spanberger were actually down in the polls, it would make perfect sense. 0.82

01:00:56.100 She's a horrible candidate. 1.00

01:00:57.100 She was asked on stage during a debate to explain her support for Jay Jones, the Democrat who's running for attorney general in Virginia, 0.98

01:01:03.100 who sent several text messages talking about how badly he wants to see the children of conservative politicians get murdered. 0.95

01:01:08.100 And in response, Abigail Spanberger just grinned like a sociopath. 1.00

01:01:12.100 Watch. 0.85

01:01:13.100 That's why I'm wondering why my opponent won't say beyond its abhorrent and disgusting why she won't say.

01:01:25.100 It is not okay.

01:01:27.100 And that he must leave the race because Jay Jones advocated the murder, Abigail.

01:01:32.100 The murder of a man, a former speaker, as well as his children who were two years, two and five years old.

01:01:40.100 You have little girls.

01:01:42.100 What would it take him pulling the trigger?

01:01:44.100 Is that what would do it?

01:01:46.100 And then you would say he needs to get out of the race? 0.53

01:01:49.100 Abigail?

01:01:50.100 You have nothing to say?

01:01:52.100 Abigail?

01:01:53.100 What if he said it about your two children, your three children?

01:01:58.100 Is that when you would say he should get out of the race, Abigail?

01:02:01.100 You're running to be governor.

01:02:06.100 Now, by itself, this should have tanked Spanberger in the polls.

01:02:11.100 In a normal country, one where Democrats didn't want to murder every single one of their political opponents,

01:02:15.100 Spanberger would be down by about 20 points after this.

01:02:18.100 And, of course, that video reveals yet another major problem with the MSNBC ladies' argument, 1.00

01:02:22.100 which is that Abigail Spanberger is running against a woman. 1.00

01:02:25.100 And not just any woman, but a black woman, as you can see right there. 0.99

01:02:29.100 So how exactly are we supposed to shake our heads as we watch the Virginia's governor race 0.98

01:02:33.100 and condemn America for being a sexist, misogynistic hellhole, which will never elect a woman, 0.92

01:02:37.100 unlike all those other more sophisticated countries, 0.94

01:02:40.100 when a woman is inevitably going to emerge as the winner of this election? 1.00

01:02:44.100 How does it make any sense at all?

01:02:47.100 Now, if MSNBC wasn't going to disappear in about five minutes,

01:02:50.100 then maybe someone would have been awake enough to notice this fundamental flaw in the reasoning.

01:02:54.100 But really, that's just being too optimistic.

01:02:56.100 This is a perfect illustration of how effortlessly, how reflexively,

01:03:00.100 the identity-based victim card is still thrown around.

01:03:03.100 Even after the last election, which you'd think would have been a pretty big wake-up call,

01:03:08.100 this is still their go-to.

01:03:10.100 Even when it makes no sense whatsoever,

01:03:12.100 blaming sexism in a race between two women, that's what they're doing. 0.64

01:03:17.100 What's especially interesting about this particular segment

01:03:21.100 is that it shows how the left doesn't even respect their own victim hierarchy.

01:03:25.100 Because according to their hierarchy under normal circumstances,

01:03:28.100 the black woman is above the white woman, no questions asked. 1.00

01:03:32.100 You know, they should be talking about how Winsome Sears is only trailing in the polls because she's black, 1.00

01:03:37.100 and Virginia just isn't ready to support a strong, independent black woman. 1.00

01:03:40.100 But, you know, black women are carrying the country on their backs with no credit, with no gratitude from anybody. 1.00

01:03:52.100 That's usually what they say in these kinds of situations.

01:03:54.100 But of course, you know, politics overrides everything in the end, as we know.

01:03:58.100 So instead, we're treated to wailing about how Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were supposedly super competent,

01:04:04.100 even though Hillary Clinton was a criminal and Kamala couldn't even pronounce her own name. 1.00

01:04:08.100 Kamala was asked the world's biggest softball question on national television, and she flubbed it. 0.83

01:04:13.100 She was asked point blank, as you recall, whether it's a good thing to provide taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal aliens in federal prison.

01:04:20.100 Anybody with political instincts whatsoever, anybody with an IQ higher than an amoeba, would say,

01:04:26.100 no, we shouldn't do that.

01:04:27.100 That sounds like a policy that's cooked up in a lab somewhere to be the worst policy idea ever proposed in the history of this country.

01:04:32.100 Obviously, we shouldn't do that.

01:04:34.100 But Kamala didn't say that.

01:04:35.100 She told Bret Baier that whatever the law is, she would follow it. 1.00

01:04:39.100 Too stupid to comprehend the idea of changing the law, just like she's too stupid to carry a friendly interview with CBS without heavy editing that bails her out. 1.00

01:04:48.100 After watching this very dire segment on MSNBC, the only question that remains is whether the left could ever bring itself to play the sexism-racism card 1.00

01:04:57.100 on behalf of a white male Democrat running against a black female Republican.

01:05:03.100 Now, that'd be an interesting hypothetical.

01:05:06.100 And in that case, I'd say probably not.

01:05:09.100 I don't think they're willing to go that far. 0.92

01:05:11.100 Politics overrides everything on the left, except their deep and passionate hatred for white men.

01:05:17.100 Some bridges are just too far to cross.

01:05:20.100 MSNBC would rather die out completely and fade into nothingness than come out in defense of a white man in that scenario.

01:05:27.100 And what do you know? In just a few weeks, that's exactly what's going to happen to MSNBC anyway.

01:05:31.100 All ten of their viewers will have to go online to read dumb and incoherent New York Times op-eds about sexism because MSNBC won't be around to read it to them. 0.61

01:05:41.100 The endless identity politics simply aren't keeping the lights on anymore. 0.87

01:05:46.100 And after watching this extremely grating segment, it's not hard to see why.

01:05:51.100 And that is why what is left of MSNBC, which apparently isn't much, is today canceled.

01:05:57.100 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:06:00.100 Talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.

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01:06:57.100 I just want to make one more point here and then you can say whatever you want.

01:06:59.100 I'm not going to play that game with you.

01:07:00.100 What makes you a conservative?

01:07:01.100 No, I don't think that's right.

01:07:02.100 Well, hold on.

01:07:03.100 That's not as crazy.

01:07:04.100 I just want to say I agree with that.

01:07:06.100 I totally disagree with it.

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