Ep. 1750 - I Looked Into Why Terrorists Are Being Let Into Our Country. It's WORSE Than You Think
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The third world immigrant with ISIS ties who was allowed to stay in the United States and carry out a terror attack. Also, California is about to make two Muslim holidays into official state holidays, and Erica Kirk is grotesquely defamed yet again.
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Today, the Matt Walsh Show. By now, we've all heard about the third world immigrant with ISIS ties who
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was allowed to stay in the United States and carry out a terror attack. But why did that happen? Why
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does it keep happening? What's the real agenda behind this? We will discuss today. Also, California is
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about to make two Muslim holidays into official state holidays. And Erica Kirk is grotesquely defamed yet
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again. Why doesn't she just sue to put a stop to this? Well, I'll give you the real reason. All of
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Well, it's never a good sign when news anchors begin struggling to keep track of all the Islamic
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terror attacks that are occurring throughout the United States. You see, it used to be that
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when a jihadi tried to commit mass murder, there would be some sort of cooling off period before the
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next attack. But that wasn't the case a few days ago as jihadists, within the span of just two hours,
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attempted to commit mass murder in two separate locations, a college campus in Virginia
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and a synagogue in Michigan. And that left news producers and anchors scrambling to cover what
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was happening. And here's how the local affiliates at Fox responded, for example.
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Okay, so if you were watching us earlier in the day, you know, we were tracking two breaking
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situations. One was what we were just talking about in Michigan. The other in Virginia at Old
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Dominion and Fox 5 in DC traveling down south to report on the scene. The latest in that deadly
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investigation there. Let's watch. And first tonight, we are learning a professor of military
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science. Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw was the victim killed in today's shooting at Old
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Dominion University. And the gunman is a man from Northern Virginia who previously served time for
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providing support to ISIS. The FBI arriving to the shooter's home tonight in Sterling.
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So he's having to pivot from one terror attack to another on the same day. It's not exactly a
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ringing endorsement of post 9-11 foreign policy in this country, which doubled the Muslim population
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in the United States. But the bigger issue with that footage is what came next. We're told
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that the shooter was, quote, a man from Northern Virginia who previously served time for providing
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support for ISIS. So there's a lot to think about in that sentence, starting with the fact that the
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shooter was not, in fact, a man from Northern Virginia. 36-year-old Muhammad Baylor Jallo was
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actually a man from West Africa, specifically the poor Muslim nation of Sierra Leone. And although we
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don't know the precise timeline, the government won't release it, we do know that at some point he
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became a naturalized citizen of the United States. And as part of that process, he was required to pledge
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his loyalty to this country and its constitution. Jallo also served in the Virginia Army National
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Guard from 2009 to 2015. And for the media, that's one of the most important parts of his biography.
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Mark, this is now being investigated as an act of terrorism. The life of this man taken,
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the veteran Army pilot surviving combat missions in the Middle East during the early 2000s,
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only to be killed here on U.S. soil. And there could have been other casualties if it were not
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for those brave students confronting the attacker and ending his life as he tried to end theirs.
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Prior to him conducting this act of terrorism, he shouted, or stated, Allah Akbar.
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Those words and then gunshots as a convicted terrorist targeted Old Dominion University in Norfolk,
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Virginia. All of a sudden we heard a commotion. A lot of people rumbling, starting to get up.
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We started running and that's when we heard gunshots.
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The FBI identifying the gunman as 36-year-old Muhammad Jallo, a former Virginia National Guard
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member. Around 1045 Thursday morning, investigators say he calmly walked into a classroom on campus,
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asked if it was the ROTC. And when someone said yes, he shot the instructor several times.
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There were students that were in that room that subdued him and rendered him no longer
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alive. I don't know how else to say it, but they basically were able to terminate the threat.
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So she picks the single most muddled and incomprehensible way to describe what happened.
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And then she says, I don't know how else to say it.
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The best she can come up with is the cadets rendered him no longer alive.
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And then a reporter has to play guess who and asks her if the cadets used a gun.
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And she says, no, they definitely didn't use a gun.
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Now, not to play mind reader here, but putting two and two together,
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we can conclude that the final moments of Muhammad's life were not exactly pleasant.
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The cadets saw this terrorist murder, murdered their instructor.
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And in response, they stabbed, bludgeoned and stomped him to death.
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And indeed, it was later reported that one of the cadets used a knife.
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In other words, just like the terrorists in Michigan who attacked the synagogue,
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People who only survived because they were armed with a weapon of some kind
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and because they had the heroism and courage to act in that moment
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But the bigger part of the story, which every mainstream media outlet
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is why Muhammad Baylor Jallo was allowed to remain in this country in the first place.
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and like the terrorists who shot 18 people in Austin
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and like the parents of the two New York City bombers
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Muhammad Baylor Jallo was a naturalized citizen of the U.S.
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Our government, without any obligation to do so,
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awarded citizenship to all of these terrorists.
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And you might say, well, we had no idea they'd become terrorists.
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We had no idea that there was any connection
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between Muslims and anti-Western, anti-Christian violence.
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But even if you buy that logic, which is obviously absurd on its face,
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the problem is that Muhammad Jallo remained a naturalized citizen
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even after he pleaded guilty in 2017 to providing material support to ISIS.
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I mean, he quite literally swore allegiance to a foreign enemy
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We didn't take away his citizenship even after he did the one thing
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that under our current law would obviously justify it.
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the more disturbing and inexcusable it becomes.
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We'll start with this news report that I found in the archives of CBS News.
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a former National Guard soldier accused of working for ISIS,
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Afterwards, his attorney declined to talk about the case.
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I told everyone no comment, and you guys are just, you know, continuing to follow me.
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But there will be a time for this, and it's just not now.
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Court documents show Jallo was arrested at his sterling home Saturday.
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and attempting to buy weapons to be used in an attack on American soil,
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that killed 13 people and injured dozens of others.
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We stopped by his home Tuesday to try and speak with his family,
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If you look into here, you can see his house is right there.
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Neighbors like Kenneth Brown never suspected anything was going on.
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We also stopped by Blue Ridge Arsenal, a gun store in Chantilly,
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where court documents state Jallo test fired and then tried to buy an assault rifle.
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He was turned away at first for not having the right paperwork,
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but came back Saturday with the right documents and left with a gun.
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But court documents say unbeknownst to him, the firearm was inoperable
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and the gun store couldn't elaborate on the case.
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Unfortunately, we can't see what's in their mind.
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But the guys here do talk to people and ask questions about why they want them,
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And if they get a negative feel, they're going to shut it down real fast.
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Apparently, the gun store could tell right away that he was probably a terrorist.
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So they sold him a gun that didn't work, probably after contacting the FBI.
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This is the kind of thing that would prevent a lot of mass shootings if more gun stores did this.
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if he's a lone Muslim with bad paperwork who keeps demanding that you sell him a rifle,
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or if he's a blue-haired man who insists that you call him a woman,
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then you have the option of refusing to sell that person a firearm and ammunition.
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And in doing so, you could save a lot of lives.
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Just by using basic common sense, you can stop the, you know, a huge number of mass shootings,
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and you can mitigate the damage when they do occur.
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But in this case, just like we saw in many, many other cases,
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common sense came to an abrupt end once the legal system got involved.
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A federal judge named Liam O'Grady, who appropriately enough was appointed by George W. Bush,
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decided to give Muhammad Jalloh a sentence of just 11 years in prison with credit for time served.
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That was roughly half the sentence that the Justice Department was seeking.
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And we'll talk about why the judge might have handed down that sentence in just a moment.
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But in addition to the light sentence, Jalloh was allowed to leave prison two and a half years early
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You see, in court, he stated that he had been abusing drugs because of a bad breakup
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This is one of those excuses that isn't actually an excuse at all.
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If you're going to commit an act of terrorism because you got dumped,
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then you're liable to fly off the handle whenever you face any kind of setback,
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I mean, you're a danger to society permanently.
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But apparently, in our court system, this is exactly what you need to say.
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And although these drug treatment programs are only supposed to shave a year off of your sentence at most,
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Now, at that point, the moment he got out of prison in December of 2024,
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he should have been detained by the feds and placed in denaturalization proceedings, obviously.
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even though Jalloh's plea deal by itself was evidence that he had lied on his application for citizenship.
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And then when the Trump administration took over, they didn't attempt to deport him either.
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Why was this self-described terrorist allowed to remain in the U.S.
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and continue to plan to murder American citizens in the name of global jihad?
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Why did, in fact, two administrations allow this to happen?
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Well, to answer that question, we need to take a closer look at Mohamed Jalloh's arrest.
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In June of 2015, he traveled to Sierra Leone, only returning to the United States in January of 2016.
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Now, in that period, he met with ISIS members in Nigeria and first came in contact with an FBI informant.
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In February of 2016, he purchased a Glock handgun.
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And concerning an attack on the United States, he said, I really want to, but I don't want to give my word and not fulfill it.
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In April 2016, Jalloh began speaking to an informant about his love for an al-Qaeda cleric
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and provided more indications that he desired to commit acts of terrorism in the United States.
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Jalloh explained that he quit the military and, quote,
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In particular, Jalloh expressed an interest in conducting an attack on the U.S. military.
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He described Mohamed Abdullaziz, who killed five members of the U.S. military in a terrorist attack
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in Tennessee in 2015, as a, quote, very good man.
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He also told a confidential human source for the FBI that he was contemplating a Nidal-Hassan-style attack,
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referring to the Muslim former U.S. Army major who killed 13 people and wounded 32
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during an attack on Fort Hood in November 2009.
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Well, eventually, Jalloh was connected directly with an undercover FBI agent,
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where he indicated he was interested in obtaining weapons for an attack on military personnel in the United States.
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He also sent $500 to an online account that appeared to belong to ISIS,
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although it was actually controlled unbeknownst to him by the FBI.
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Well, that's how the government described Jalloh's crimes, which, again, he pleaded guilty to committing.
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But if you look through the court filings from his attorney, as the journalist Ford Fisher did,
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then you find that Jalloh's attorneys offered a different perspective about what exactly the FBI told him.
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And the attorneys argued that while Jalloh did indicate a willingness to commit an act of terrorism in the abstract,
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he wasn't actually serious about committing an attack himself.
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And that's important because, in this case, there are reasons to believe that Jalloh's attorneys were maybe telling the truth.
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First of all, all the texts and emails and phone conversations were recorded.
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So if the attorneys decided to lie about the contents of those communications,
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they might compromise his plea deal and his lenient sentence.
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Instead, they got the plea deal they wanted, complete with a light sentence,
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which indicated the judge thought their argument was persuasive.
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And the prosecutors didn't object to how Jalloh's lawyer characterized these conversations either, which is telling.
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So with that in mind, it's important to consider the argument that the defense is making.
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According to the lawyers, when Jalloh was first invited by the confidential informant to participate in an operation on American soil,
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And shortly afterwards, he explicitly, quote, refused to participate.
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He wasn't interested in committing an act of terrorism at the time.
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Instead, he met with the informants for, quote,
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the express purpose of trying to meet a Muslim woman to marry.
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So in this version of events, he was a loser, a loner and a loser,
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exactly the type of person that the FBI has targeted in the past.
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For example, the fake Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot.
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And over the next few months, according to Jalloh's attorneys,
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shaped and influenced his views using text messages, phone calls, and two in-person meetings.
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During these conversations, he agreed to secure a weapon
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continue to decline to participate in any kind of operation.
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Now, we have no way of knowing exactly what the FBI said during these text messages and phone calls
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That's one of the benefits of a plea deal from the government's perspective.
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The government and the judge have access to that evidence, but nobody else does.
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At the same time, it's no secret that the FBI, as a matter of policy,
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routinely uses informants to convince targets to engage in criminal activity.
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Additionally, the FBI has been known to protect terrorists who have a connection to its informants.
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Not many people know this because the government tried to hide it,
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but the father of the Pulse nightclub shooter was an FBI informant for more than a decade,
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right up until the moment of the massacre in June of 2016, in which 49 people were killed.
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And that's significant because several years earlier, in 2013,
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the FBI investigated the Pulse shooter, Omar Mateen,
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after he told his coworkers that he had connections to al-Qaeda.
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But that investigation went nowhere, evidently.
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And then the next year, the FBI opened a second investigation into Mateen
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due to his relationship with a Florida man who traveled to Syria to become a suicide bomber.
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And that investigation also went nowhere somehow.
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But what might be the reason that all of these investigations went nowhere?
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An FBI intelligence report indicates that agents told an unidentified undercover informant
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The informant then became very upset that Mateen was under scrutiny, according to the report,
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although neither federal prosecutors nor the FBI has confirmed that the unidentified informant
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Defense lawyers for Nawar Salman, the shooter's widow,
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assert that they can now infer that the father played a significant role in the FBI's decision
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to close the assessment and not to pursue a larger investigation or criminal charges against Mateen.
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Prosecutors and the FBI director at the time, James Comey,
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tried to hide this arrangement for as long as possible.
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They also downplayed the fact that the FBI launched an investigation to Mateen's father
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finding evidence that he made money transfers to Turkey and Afghanistan
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So let's take this back to the case of Mohamed Jallop, okay?
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Did the federal government see him as a potential informant to be protected?
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Did they buy his story that he was reformed and deliberately spring him loose
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in order to set more traps for other terrorists?
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I mean, that's not a far-fetched conspiracy at all.
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They've also been known to encourage terrorists to commit mass shootings.
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In May 2015, at a convention center in Garland, Texas,
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there was an event called the First Annual Mohamed Art Exhibit and Contest
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where people drew cartoons of Mohamed as a kind of free speech exercise.
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The police were prepared for potential terror attacks,
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so they had police officers, SWAT teams, and snipers standing by.
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The terror attack in Garland, Texas, was the first claim by ISIS on U.S. soil.
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It's mostly been forgotten because the two terrorists were killed by local cops
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we were surprised to discover just how close the FBI was to one of the terrorists.
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Not only had the FBI been monitoring him for years,
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there was an undercover agent right behind him when the first shots were fired.
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Yes, an undercover FBI agent was right behind the shooter.
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And no, the FBI agent didn't neutralize the shooter.
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And it gets worse when you look at what exactly the FBI agent was telling the shooter.
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Suspicion surrounds the undercover FBI agent who did not engage Elmer Simpson and Nadir Sufi
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So it's pretty clear that from day one, the intent was to encourage some kind of action
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Houston attorney Trenton Roberts represents Garland ISD security officer Bruce Joyner
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Days before the attack, the undercover FBI agent was communicating with gunman Elmer Simpson,
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It does look like his intent was to document a terrorist attack
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in order to advance himself within the terrorist organization of ISIS.
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Seconds before the shooting, the same undercover agent took pictures of the south entrance
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to the Colwell Center where the shootout went down.
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These are black and white reproductions from the court record.
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In FBI documents, the unidentified agent says he saw the shooters get out of their car right
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in front of him, the driver holding an assault rifle and raising it up.
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The agent quickly drove away and continued to hear shots fired.
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So there has to be, you know, a very strong necessity argument that they had to keep this
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Sources tell me the agent couldn't risk blowing his cover.
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When you invest an enormous amount of time trying to infiltrate and to get into these organizations,
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And Clarice, Garland Police did stop that undercover FBI agent moments after the shooting.
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Other agents rushed in and swooped him out from here.
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Garland Police could not get any answers about what he knew and when he knew it.
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Again, the FBI wouldn't even identify him as being here for 15 months.
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The official word from the FBI is that they knew one of the shooters was in town three hours
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But the FBI from the top down denied knowing anything about an actual attack being planned
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So they whisked the undercover operative away without providing any kind of explanation
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for what he was doing over the last several months.
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The story just died along with the two terrorists.
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That seems to be the goal with the case of Muhammad Jalloh as well.
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Nobody in the government has explained why he was not denaturalized and deported.
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When he insisted he didn't want to commit an act of terrorism.
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No one has explained why at every turn the government took steps to help the terrorist
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Now, if you're the cynical type and you're left to speculate because that's all we can
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You might conclude that maybe there's some authoritarian political motives here.
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I mean, you might point to the fact that the same week that Jalloh opened fire in Virginia,
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a Virginia state senator named Saddam Aslan Salim, yes, his name is literally Saddam,
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helped pass a major unconstitutional anti-gun bill that he sponsored, which prohibits so-called
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According to Fox, the law would, quote, ban a wide range of firearms and features, including
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semi-automatic centerfire pistols with magazines exceeding 15 rounds, rifles with detachable
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magazines and weapons with certain characteristics such as collapsible or thumbhole stocks and
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Is this the kind of result the Bureau is hoping for?
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Is that why they don't denaturalize anyone, even the self-described domestic terrorists?
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Even someone who literally pledged allegiance to ISIS does not get denaturalized?
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I mean, the only alternative explanation is that they're just extraordinarily, historically
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incompetent to a degree that is impossible to fathom.
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Either way, assuming nothing changes, which is a very safe assumption, we can assume, we
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can conclude that our leadership class has implemented a regime in which, number one, you subsidize
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foreigners who hate you and try to kill you, and number two, when they do kill you or your
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neighbors, they use that as a pretext to strip everybody's constitutional rights.
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And it's not just Democrats who are doing this.
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Nearly two dozen Republicans in the Senate just voted against legislation that would strip
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welfare funding from so-called, quote, unquote, refugees.
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So again and again, our leaders are taking the side of foreign invaders.
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And they do it because they can get away with it.
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Millions of people, myself included, have called for the full and unredacted list of
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Epstein files, but no prominent political figure or journalist has called for the release
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of all FBI correspondence with Mohamed Jalloh, or the Garland shooters, or the Pulse shooters'
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Nor is there any interest in why the Trump administration, which pledged to dramatically increase the number
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of denaturalization proceedings, hasn't done that.
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What are they doing to ensure that we never offer citizenship to another anti-American third
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These are not academic issues, especially now that we've gone to war in Iran, which has 90 million
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Muslim citizens, and this is after 20 years, 25 years of the floodgates being open with the entire
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Arab world invited to come settle within our borders.
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So these acts of terrorism will continue at an ever-increasing pace unless the government
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starts denaturalizing and deporting a lot more of these foreigners, a lot more.
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Okay, on a similar topic, a new bill has been introduced in California that would make Muslim holidays into official holidays, official state holidays in the state.
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And here we have the legislators that are pushing this, explaining this wonderful measure.
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I'm Assemblymember Matt Haney, and we're here at the Islamic Society of San Francisco with an incredible group of community members announcing an exciting bill that we've put forward in the state legislature, AB 2017, which will make Eve a state holiday in California.
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Right now, too many students are being forced to celebrate what is one of the most holy days for them, or missed time in school.
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And workers are being forced to miss critical time at the jobs to be able to celebrate something that is one of the most holy days, not just for Muslim Californians, but nearly two billion Muslims across the world.
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This is how we show truly that we are inclusive, that we value diversity, we celebrate diversity, and that our Muslim neighbors, our friends, our colleagues are fully included and able to celebrate without consequence the most holy day for them.
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So I'm here with somebody who is leading that effort here in San Francisco and is my supervisor and is also the first Muslim American supervisor in San Francisco and is an incredible leader here for the Tenderloin and for District 5.
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So first of all, turn the background music down.
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Are you using like a 2004 flip phone for this video?
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But more to the point, the substance here of what they're saying, they want to make the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha into state holidays.
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And if the bill goes through, it would be the second state in the country after Washington state to recognize Muslim holidays as official state holidays.
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And then there are states like New Jersey, I think Illinois, New York, where schools close for Eid or whatever it's called, even if it's not officially recognized as a state holiday.
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And then there's legislation in other states that would do that.
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We should not be officially recognizing any Muslim holidays at all.
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Now, if you're Muslim and you want to celebrate your holiday, go ahead.
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No one's saying you should be banned from doing it.
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But it shouldn't be recognized by the state.
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And if you're a stupid person, you might say, well, but Christian holidays are recognized by the state.
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Well, actually, to begin with, that is barely true.
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Christmas is the only federally recognized Christian holiday, just Christmas.
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And in California, I think Christmas and Good Friday are recognized as federal, not federal, but as state holidays.
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You know, it's not like every Christian holiday is recognized at the state or federal level, not even close to that.
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But now California is recognizing two Muslim holidays.
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They got two Muslim holidays that they recognize and they got two Christian holidays.
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And I'm sure that's why they did the two, so that it's even.
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I mean, this is the whole problem with the multicultural approach, with the cult of multiculturalism.
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And let's just, and I'm using this one issue as kind of a microcosm.
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I think there's a lot in this one issue that we can, to be analyzed.
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Because the idea, which we're being told now, is that it's not fair for California to give special treatment to Christianity.
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They have state-recognized Christian holidays, and so they should have the same number of state-recognized Muslim holidays.
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Except that Christianity should be treated as something special in California, because Christianity has been special to California since its inception and long before that.
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California would not exist without Christianity.
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Christianity has defined it from the beginning.
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It's part of the fabric of the state at the most fundamental possible level.
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San Diego, San Francisco, San Bernardino, San Mateo, et cetera, and so on.
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Los Angeles, which the angels, comes from Our Lady, Queen of the Angels.
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Sacramento, the capital of the state, literally means sacrament.
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And I would hope everyone already knows all this.
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But the point is that California is steeped in Christianity, Catholicism specifically, at every level.
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That's because the state began as a Spanish territory full of Catholic missions.
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I mean, it has been deeply Catholic since before it was a state.
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That's why Catholicism has defined everything about it, even the architecture, the way that the buildings were built, and what they look like.
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Many of the major universities in California were established by the church or by Christian organizations.
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Many of the hospitals and charity organizations and all the rest of it.
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Catholicism is the foundation of the state itself.
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It's the bones of the place, which is one of the reasons why it's so sad to see what it's become.
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And yet, still, historically, culturally, there's no question that Christianity has been absolutely integral to the state.
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California never would have become the great state that it once was without Christianity.
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So, should Christian holidays be recognized by the state?
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Should the legislators who are working there over in, you know, Eucharist town, Sacramento, should they at least recognize Christmas at a minimum?
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If we ask what has Christianity contributed, well, it's more like what has it not contributed?
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What has Islam, the religion that is now being recognized by the state, what has it been, what has it contributed to California?
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Catholics have been the foundation of California since the 1700s.
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Since, you know, over a century before it was a state.
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Actually, do you know when the first Catholic Mass was celebrated in California or what would become California?
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There was a Catholic Mass celebrated in California in 1602.
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So, the Catholic Mass has been celebrated in California for 424 years.
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Muslims, on the other hand, when did they show up?
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So, Catholics showed up 424 years ago and celebrated actually before that.
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Well, they showed up in semi-significant numbers for the first time in like the year 2002.
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I mean, as recently as 1990, there were maybe 30,000 Muslims in the entire state.
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It was not until the 2000s that it had a sizable Muslim population.
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And even now, it's sizable only relatively speaking.
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Islam has nothing to do with the history of California.
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It has nothing to do with present-day California even.
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It has nothing to do with its culture, with its identity.
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If Islam didn't exist, what would be different about California?
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If the whole religion just never existed, if we could erase it from the history books,
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I mean, if Catholicism didn't exist, what would California look like?
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It would be something that does not even vaguely resemble California as we know it.
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Most likely, I mean, almost certainly, in fact, it would still be,
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this whole hemisphere would still be run by human sacrificing cannibal savages.
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But, because the Catholics were the ones who came over here and first conquered those barbaric civilizations.
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But, certainly, if Islam didn't exist, everything would be the same.
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Islam has nothing to do with the state of California, historically, culturally, or in any other way.
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Muslims have not contributed anything significant at all.
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And now they get a holiday recognized by the state.
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Like, the most generous thing we can say about Islam to California is that it's irrelevant.
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And this, of course, extends logically to the whole country.
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Christianity shaped this country from the beginning, from way before the beginning of the country.
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The first Westerners who settled this place came specifically in order to spread the gospel and claim this land for Christ.
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It has been Christian to its core since its infancy and before infancy.
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America was culturally Christian before it existed as a nation.
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And Christian ideas, Christian philosophy, Christian theology are embedded into the nation's founding.
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It's also not debatable that Islam is not embedded in our nation's founding whatsoever.
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Islam has nothing to do with this country.
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Again, the most generous thing we can say about it is that it's irrelevant.
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And that's why Christmas deserves to be a national holiday.
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America is so Christian already that even if it weren't recognized as a national holiday, it would still be.
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Like, when the government recognizes Christmas as a national holiday, it is literally recognizing it.
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As in, this is already a national holiday, whether you like it or not.
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And so we're just going to recognize that fact.
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It's just like, of course, Christmas is a, no matter what the government says, it's a national holiday.
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Even if you're Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, you still, you know, you know about Christmas.
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Christmas music, decorations, colors, Christmas movies, the whole thing.
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And Christmas itself is such a wonderful, joyous holiday that even if you aren't Christian, even if you hate, even if you hate Christians, you still can't help but have a warm feeling about our holidays.
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And that's why the holiday is recognized and should be.
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What kind of like cultural associations does anyone have for that?
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Nobody who isn't Muslim has any clue what that is.
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There is no such thing culturally as Eid Al-Fatir decorations or Eid Al-Fatir music.
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No one is saying, hey, you got to get into the Eid Al-Fatir spirit.
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That might exist within Islam, but culturally it doesn't.
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Christianity, and obviously it's not just about California.
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Without Christianity, this country in its form, in the current form, simply would not exist.
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You want to affix your stuff onto our country like a barnacle.
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You want to say, hey, hey, hey, why aren't we recognized?
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We want our faith to be treated as just as important.
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Your religion, if you're Muslim, your religion, America is the envy of the world.
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I mean, that's what this whole argument's about.
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If that wasn't the case, then we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
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Christianity made this country into the envy of the world.
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Now, if you're Muslim, you have your own countries that Islam made.
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Why aren't those countries the envy of the world?
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And so at the very least, if you come here, have the humility to have respect for that.
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Everything that is good about this country, it is because of Christianity.
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And so if you come here, have respect for that.
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And recognize that, okay, Christianity is going to be treated as something special in this.
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And in this country, in America, Christianity is special.
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And if you come here, you should have respect for that.
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Instead, you come here and say, I want Islam to be treated as just as special.
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Go make your own country that will become the envy of the world.
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Go make your own country that everybody wants to move to.
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Uh, there was a post over the weekend that went viral that I want to talk about.
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Um, amplified by guys like Ian Carroll and, uh, other quote unquote independent creators, as we call them now.
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And I'm not going to put the post up on the screen or read it because it's totally false.
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Um, it's just, I will summarize it by saying that this post that was all over X and, and maybe other platforms as well is just another volume in the ever expanding library of anti Erica Kirk defamation.
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And basically the post claimed that an audio recording, which they also posted the audio recording, uh, depicts Erica helping to facilitate sex trafficking for Jeffrey Epstein.
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Now it's not true, obviously it's totally made up.
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Plus the recording is from over like 20 years ago when Erica herself would have been a minor.
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So this person was accusing Erica as a child of being a, a, uh, involved in a facilitating capacity with, uh, sex trafficking.
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And yet the original poster claimed factually, objectively that it is, that it's Erica wasn't even like, Oh, this is, might this be Erica?
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This is undeniably Erica Kirk, not even bothering to throw in and allegedly, or to couch the accusation in any way whatsoever.
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And again, it was reposted and amplified by other large accounts.
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And now he, he did do the, um, the, the smarmy, cowardly, passive aggressive thing of allowing yourself plausible deniability because he reposted it and said it was with something like, wow, wow.
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And then later he could backtrack what she did and said, well, I never said it was her.
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I, all I was saying is that we should look into this.
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Um, and again, it's not remotely true at all verified to be false, something your common sense should have already told you.
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And this is, as I said, just one more example of just blatant, fraudulent, slanderous nonsense being leveled at Erica.
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Uh, and there's a lot of it all over the place.
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Yesterday, there's a, a nutcase who calls herself a journalist named Liz Croken kept the narrative going.
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She posted a quote, Erica Kirk is involved in the rape, torture, and trafficking of children.
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Just, just not even an, again, no allegedly, just not the vaguest attempt to even pretend that she's exercising any kind of prudence or discretion at all.
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There's no evidence of Erica Kirk being involved in rape, torture, and trafficking of children.
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There's not even like, you know, if, if proving that is a mile away, like if, if the, if the, if you're, if, if the proof of Erica being involved in that is a mile away, Liz Croken has not even made it an inch in that direction.
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There's no evidence at all, totally made up and, uh, and stated as fact.
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The worst, most insidious, most damaging lies that it's possible to tell about a person.
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And I want to say it here too, because it's important.
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Uh, and there's a reason I bring it up aside from just lamenting the constant assault on this woman who is at this point, the most defamed person to ever live.
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I don't like, I've never seen anything like it, but here's my point.
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I have some ideas maybe, but I don't have a solution.
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I don't know what to do about this exactly, but it's, it's really bad.
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Because this is how defamation works these days.
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You start, you bring in AI and all that kind of thing.
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But as AI videos and AI audio and that sort of thing gets even more, um, sophisticated, this is only going to get worse.
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And, uh, and what you need to understand if you, if you don't, I think a lot of people who, I mean, I think a lot of people don't get this, maybe because they're just not as clued into this particular problem.
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And if you've never fallen victim to it, then I would see why you wouldn't be.
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But the victims of this kind of thing are almost powerless to do anything about it.
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That's the reality that I think most people don't quite understand.
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People say, well, if none of this stuff is true, why is she, why won't she sue?
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And this is a case, again, here's a case study, microcosm.
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I mean, I hope she does just as an outside observer.
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So if the, if the question is, can so-and-so sue this other person?
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But to win a lawsuit, well, that's a different man.
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Because in order to win, she would have to prove that this person, first of all, posted this nonsense knowing that it wasn't true.
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She would have to prove, that's the standard for someone, especially someone who's a quote-unquote public figure.
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Well, I guess like any, like if a lot of people know who you are, then you're a public figure, basically.
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If you're not a public figure, the standard is a little bit lower.
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But, um, if you could be considered a public figure by the courts, you have no hope of getting anywhere unless you can prove not only that the claim is false, but also, and in this case, the proving it's false thing would be easy to do.
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But oftentimes, depending on what the defamation is, even that part is like proving a negative.
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I mean, there are many times when someone can make a claim that, oh, you, you said this or you did this.
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I mean, infamously, proving a negative is very, very hard to do, even if it's clearly not true.
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That's why in a court of law, in a criminal court, you know, if someone is accused of a crime, they don't have to prove they didn't do it.
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Because we all understand that proving you didn't do something, like if you're saying, oh, you killed, if you're coming to me and accusing me of killing someone, I don't have to prove to you I didn't.
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Because in many cases, I might, like, prove that I didn't do or say this on this specific time at this, like, I mean, unless there's video of me at that moment, I'm not, I might not be able to prove that.
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If you're accusing me, well, no, you have to prove that it happened.
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And if you can't prove that it happened, then the assumption is that it didn't.
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But over here, when it comes to defamation, it's, it's flipped on its head.
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Or you have to prove that the thing is not true.
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Okay, well, let's say you, let's say you get over that hurdle.
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Well, now you have to prove that the person who said you did it knew when they said it, that it wasn't true.
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And that's almost impossible to prove in most cases.
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Like, how can I prove, so now I got to prove not only that I didn't do something, but I have to prove what was in your head when you said it?
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And that alone right there is reason enough why 99% of the time when someone's being defamed, especially as a quote-unquote public figure, it's like you don't even, I can't clear that hurdle.
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I can't prove, like, I know what you're doing and you know what you're doing.
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Common sense shows what you're doing, but I can't prove what's in your own head.
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She'd also probably have to prove damages.
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She'd have to prove that this specific lie damaged her in a measurable way.
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So it's not even enough to prove that, oh, it's not true, and then prove that, well, you knew it wasn't true.
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But then you've got to prove, in many, many cases, that this actually harmed you in some way.
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Which, ironically, if you're being lied about all the time by lots of people, it's even harder to prove damages from any one specific claim because you're being damaged all over the place.
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Like a firing squad, you know, when 10 guys are firing at you, how do you know which one actually hit?
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And then she'd have to hope, even if she gets through all that, somehow, then you've got to hope that the broke bastards who are saying all this stuff about you actually have the funds to pay, which they probably don't.
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And all this will take time in court, years potentially, to work itself out.
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And even if she wins, it won't make a difference to the people who have decided already that she's, you know, a villain, that she's some kind of supervillain.
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They'll just use the lawsuit as proof that Erica has something to hide.
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They say, well, if it's not true, why aren't you suing?
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And then she sues, and then they say, oh, you're suing, you're trying to shut me down, you're trying to censor me now.
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No matter what, it doesn't matter, and we all know that.
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Erica's not suing, and everyone says, oh, it's a little suspicious she's not suing.
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If she did, the second that happens, the second a lawsuit is announced, we all know what the reaction will be.
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There's not a single person who's been attacking Erica who, because she files a lawsuit, will say, oh, well, if she's filing a lawsuit, then, okay, well, maybe we should step back a moment and let this thing, no, it's not going to happen.
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Every single one of them will say, well, clearly.
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And meanwhile, she'll have only further highlighted and called attention to the very lies that she's trying to rectify in court.
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When you're being lied about and defamed, and then you file a lawsuit over it, well, all you're doing is making it into a bigger story.
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Now you're taking this lie that you'd rather, that you just want it to go away, because you don't want to be lied about.
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You don't want to bring it to the attention of more people.
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It's like someone saying something about you and then suing them over it is you might, it's like, it's the equivalent of taking a megaphone and repeating what they just said.
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And so it's a lose-lose scenario is what I'm trying to say.
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And I've experienced much smaller versions of this.
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I've had people Photoshop like fake tweets and messages I never sent.
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I mean, there's so many people that just, they have no moral standards at all.
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For all these reasons, all the reasons I just described.
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I, I, I run through the math and I go like, it's just, it's not worth it.
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I mean, it's, it's only going to cause more problems than it solves.
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Lying about someone to destroy their reputation.
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I mean, to me, morally, I put that on the same level as like murder or close to it.
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Using, using lies and deceit to, to destroy someone's reputation.
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I put morally, I, I, I personally, I put you on the same level as like murder.
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And, um, and so you want justice for it also, but you run through all the, the math of it
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and you realize that the chance of getting justice here is very low.
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Even if I do get money, that's not going to restore my reputation.
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And the option, the upshot here is that the slanderers and the defamers basically have
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carte blanche to lie about you and destroy your reputation.
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Your only recourse is costly, um, time and cost prohibitive and may damage your reputation
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Uh, Erica Kirk is one of the worst examples we've ever seen, but it's like, it's not just
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And this is all part of the, you know, the information environment that we're in now, which is totally
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Um, and you know, mainstream media obliterated its reputation, its credibility over the course
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I mean, it used to be that the, you know, information, if you were getting information
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about what's going on in the world, you could, you would, you could only get it from these
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And that also gave you recourse by the way, because back before all this, if like some
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New York times reporter came out and just stated as a fact, Erica Kirk is, you know, torturing
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Um, it's well, now you have, now you're, you've, you have many more options.
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And, and even before a lawsuit, like you could, there's an institution there.
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You can try to hold the institution accountable.
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And if you do go and file a lawsuit, well, now there's like, they've actually got, they've
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got something to lose here because it's the New York times.
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Um, but now in this environment, it's not like that anymore because everyone just has
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They can say whatever they want and they can lie.
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And a lot of people do, uh, does that mean that we're, it'd be better off if it was still
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The mainstream media obliterated its credibility over the course of decades, culminating in
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COVID, BLM, transgenderism, three of the worst examples of mass hysteria in American
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history, all unfolding at the same time, basically.
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I mean, transgenderism that the trans ideology had predated it.
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Obviously the BLM did too, but like all these things kind of came to a head at this, basically
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And they were all pushed by, by, uh, by the mainstream media.
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And that was the end of the old gatekeepers regime.
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And there's no, there's no coming back from it, nor should we any faint hope of redemption
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I don't think there is any hope, but if there ever could be, it would require accountability
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and consequences for the people who push these lies.
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Well, into the vacuum that has been left rushes the, uh, independent quote unquote creators,
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independent, even though they're not actually independent.
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And I don't just mean because of foreign involvement or whatever.
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I mean, sure there's some of that, but, but, uh, everybody is relying on ads.
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They're reliant on, you know, ad revenue clicks, um, subscriptions in many cases, like all these
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That's not, it's not sinister in and of itself, right?
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Well, but like anyone who has sponsors, if you have sponsors, I have sponsors.
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But in any case, all these, everyone else rushes in and, um, and then what's ended up
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happening is that many of them have proven to be just as deceitful, amoral and fame
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Uh, and in the past, it was the MSM pursuing ratings and that's many of their worst sins
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came down to not only their, their political ideological commitments, but the fact that
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And now we have, uh, instead of chasing ratings, chasing clicks.
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The results have proven to be just as bad, if not in some cases, worse in some ways.
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I don't, I don't know what to do, except that, um, I think, uh, all it just comes down
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to the individual to exercise a lot of discernment.
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So, so there, there is no going back to how it was before.
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We shouldn't want that anyway, because like I said, those people were all liars and rats
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Um, so individual discernment is the only way forward.
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People have to be very discerning and just realize that, um, integrity is a rare trait,
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especially for people that, you know, talking to a camera every day for a living or make
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And so you have to keep that in mind and exercise discernment.
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Because it's not, you know what, the people that are, that are spreading, I mean, going
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back to where this, what I started with, the ridiculous claims about Erica Kirk, she's
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Well, yeah, the people that were pushing that, the personalities or whatever, that they, they
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deserve most of the blame, but it's not just them.
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What about all just like the normal people who also retweeted that or commented approvingly?
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Don't just like assume it's true because you'd like it to be, or because it, because it's,
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it supports your preexisting narrative that you have about this person or this issue.
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All right, finally, briefly, I want to mention this post-millennial report.
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A left-wing Portland politician has gone after a 95-year-old constituent blasting her on social
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media after she made a mild criticism of how he choose to present himself in public regarding
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He wrote back that she was small-minded on his personal Instagram account.
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The 95-year-old woman, whose name is Joan, wrote to city councilman Jamie Dunphy that
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tattoos can be very personal and can be a turnoff to many people.
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She then suggested that he wear a long-sleeved shirt.
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Please consider wearing long-sleeved shirts in public, the note read, which appeared to
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be torn in half after Dunphy posted an image of the note on his personal Instagram account.
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Dunphy, who responded via social media, posted a picture of the elderly woman's correspondence
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and said, no, mind your own business and keep your small-minded opinions about other people's
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The 95-year-old woman who struggles to hear because she has hearing aids was not able to
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be reached for comment by the Oregonian by phone after a failed phone call.
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The outlet sent the constituent a text, but she didn't respond.
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Dunphy, meanwhile, has doubled down, said, I'm genuinely shocked by the audacity of any
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person in our community thinking it's appropriate to contact elected officials criticizing their
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Portlanders pride ourselves on our weirdness and our ability to be openly ourselves.
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So I'm honored to be able to reflect that as a leader in our city government.
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Okay, so first of all, obviously publicly dunking on a 95-year-old woman is about as lame as
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This guy's a dork and a bully trying to play tough by telling off a woman who's old enough
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Now, personally, leaving aside the specifics of what she said, I'm very happy that there
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are still old grannies out there that are writing letters of concern like this.
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She apparently wrote like a physical letter and said it to him.
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And this woman saw this dude's tattoos, thought they were inappropriate, took the time to personally
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write him a letter, a correspondence to express her concern.
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And there's something just very genuine about that.
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Like, there's just something genuine, sincere, not performative about it, which I appreciate,
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especially nowadays when nobody really cares about anything.
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Everything is for likes and shares all the time.
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If anyone does have a complaint, they always air it publicly.
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So there's, I think we're going to miss, we're going to miss when the last of the old grannies,
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the old concerned grannies who write letters of concern, when they die off, we're going to
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She would, we would, there'd be something like a Disney movie she didn't like, and she
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would write a letter to the Disney corporation to let them know about it.
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It comes from having a genuine, real human reaction to something and then trying to express
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There's a kind of like an, there's a sincerity and sort of innocence to that, that I find,
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And as to the issue of tattoos themselves, well, you know, my objectivity might seem to
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be a bit, a bit, uh, compromised on the subject, given that I have, you know, I've got a tattoo.
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And, um, however, I still actually agree with the granny, even on the substance of the
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You know, my relationship with tattoos is a little bit weird.
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I don't regret getting them necessarily, or, or having gotten them when I was in my early
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twenties, when everyone else gets tattoos, uh, I'm not going to get them removed.
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I don't have like an emotional, I don't, I don't waste any emotional energy feeling bad
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Um, however, and as far as tattoos, like it could have been a lot worse.
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I got my tattoos in early, early two thousands when the, like the tribal armband tattoo was,
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At least I didn't get a tattoo that would permanently brand me as a guy who was a big
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However, if I never got them, would I get them now?
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If I had no tattoos, would I, as 39 year old Matt Walsh, would I go to a tattoo shop
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I don't actively regret them, but I, I wouldn't get them now if I hadn't already done so.
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All that said, there's no question that the tattoo thing has gotten out of hand.
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I mean, it's, and it's totally lost whatever appeal it had in terms of being rebellious
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I mean, like this guy says, oh, I have my tattoos because I'm an individual and I'm weird
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It's like, no, you, you look like every other person in Portland.
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You may as well claim that you're expressing your individuality by wearing jeans.
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You may as well just be wearing blue jeans and said, this is my, this is who I am.
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Tattoos have absolutely been one of the major drivers of the erosion of professional standards.
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I mean, it used to be that having a tattoo was considered uncouth.
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That was part of the, that was part of the whole deal of it being rebellious and individualistic.
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You know, if you want to be rebellious and individualistic and brand your body with it,
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well then, you know, it's, it's going to create some difficulties for you.
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So every workplace has just given up and professional standards have eroded even further.
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I wish there were still that taboo around tattoos.
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Not because I have some desire to commit social taboos, but because that would be a sign of a healthy society.
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And the funny thing is when I got tattoos when I was 20, 20 years ago or so, a lot of people told me that,
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well, you're going to regret it later in life because it's going to be hard to get a job, you know.
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And that ended up not being the case, um, because, you know, I never got a job.
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So it doesn't really matter, but also because professional standards have plummeted into the ground.
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Like I could go work in a, I could work in a business environment and it wouldn't matter at all.
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And even if you have tattoos, I think we should all acknowledge that.
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Um, and yeah, it's true that like, if you, if you've decided, especially if you've branded your whole body,
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But the idea that every environment now has to conform to that or everyone has to be okay with it.
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I mean, you've branded your whole body in this way.
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That's a, that's a, that's a, like an, a, an aggressive move to make to go to a tattoo, especially this guy.
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So you're going to a tattoo artist and saying, brand my entire body.
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You do that and then you turn around and you're offended when anyone is even slightly critical, when anyone has even the slightest credit, the, the mildest criticism and says, Hey, would you, you know, I don't know if that's entirely professional.
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That's why I have a common cause with the anti-tattoo 95 year old woman on this issue and probably on a lot of other issues.
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I probably have common cause with her on like almost everything, whatever that says about me.
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For decades, you've been told that you live on stolen land.
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