Ep. 497 - The Protesters Are Killing My Grandma
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The same people who fear-mongered about the coronavirus for months and months, are now applauding and celebrating mass protests of people who are not socially distancing and are getting together in large groups. So were they lying about the virus, or are they okay with protesters infecting themselves and each other and dying from the virus? And we'll talk about that today on the Matt Walsh Show. Also, Drew Brees, quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, apologizes for saying we should respect the flag.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the same people who fear-mongered about the coronavirus for months
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and months and months on end are now applauding and celebrating mass protests of people who are
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not socially distancing and are getting together in large groups. So were they lying about the
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virus or are they okay with protesters infecting themselves and each other and dying from the
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virus? Those are really the only two options. And we'll talk about that today. Also, five headlines,
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including Drew Brees, quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, of course, apologizing for saying
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that we should respect the flag. He said we should respect the flag. People were upset and he
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apologized for saying it. And in our daily cancellation, I will address yet another false
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narrative that has been spread widely online. There's been a lot of them recently, especially
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this is one that I think I want to address. We'll get into that today. Let's begin here setting the
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stage. Okay. With this report in the daily wire, this is from Emily Zanotti. It says Joe Biden,
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the presumptive 2020 democratic nominee is expected to attend the funeral of George Floyd, the
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Minneapolis man who's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer sparked a week of
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anti-police brutality demonstrations across the country. According to a report from CNN,
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plans are being discussed, but arrangements have not been finalized. The outlet said Wednesday,
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noting that while a spokesman for Biden's campaign refused to comment on the matter,
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an attorney for George Floyd's family, Ben Crump, told the network that Biden is expected to be in
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attendance. Floyd's funeral will be held in Houston, Texas next week, and it is expected to draw
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hundreds if not thousands of attendees. There will also be a public memorial service on Thursday in
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Minneapolis. Okay. Now, the first thing that jumps out at you about this, of course, is just the
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naked cynicism and opportunism of Joe Biden and the Democrats going to his funeral. Biden did not know
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George Floyd, as far as I'm aware, has no connection to the family. Why does he need to be there?
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You could say because George Floyd died unjustly. All right. Well, many people die unjustly in the
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country every year, unfortunately. In fact, anyone who is murdered dies unjustly. All of the hundreds
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of black men who die at the hands of other black men every year in this country, they die unjustly.
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Joe Biden's not going to any of their funerals, is he? The black people who have been killed by
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rioters and looters over the last week died unjustly. David Dorn, we talked about him yesterday,
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77-year-old retired police captain, St. Louis, went out to stop looters from ransacking a pawn shop
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and was shot in the stomach and bleed to death on the pavement. Is Joe Biden going to go to his funeral?
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No, of course not. Just this one. Why? Well, because it's a political opportunity.
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And everybody knows that's the reason, of course. We all know that. Everyone knows that Joe Biden will
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be there for political optics. And imagine what a horrible human being you have to be to do that,
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to show up at a funeral where there are truly grieving people, family members, friends who knew
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and loved him. They are there because, for the same reason, anybody would go to the funeral of a
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family member. And you're just there for the photo op. You are taking advantage, explicitly taking
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advantage of their grief and pain for your own reasons. I mean, it's no better than running up to
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the casket during the wake, during the viewing, and taking a selfie with the corpse. It's exactly the
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same kind of thing. It's no less tacky and inappropriate and offensive. But that's not
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the point that I want to focus on this afternoon. The fact that a Democrat politician is a shameless
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opportunist exploiting grief and racial tension for his own gain, that is hardly news. We're used to it.
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Biden. We know about that. The thing that I'm really zeroing in on is the part where it says
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Floyd's funeral is expected to draw hundreds, if not thousands, of attendees. And not just thousands
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of attendees, but attendees from apparently other parts of the country who will be flying in to
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attend it. What's interesting about that is that for the past three months in places all across the
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country and even across the world, funeral services have been postponed, canceled. Attendance has been
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capped. In many places, graveside only services were held with limited attendance. This in fact is what
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the CDC recommended. Still recommends. You can go to the CDC website right now and read their
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guidelines for funerals. And in fact, let me read them to you. It says, consider options for
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modified or new practices that would be acceptable to you and your family and friends, such as holding
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a graveside only service. Consider whether it would be acceptable to hold modified funeral arrangements
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by limiting attendance to a small number of immediate family members and friends shortly after the time
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of death. Now, in many states, this has been not just a guideline, but a requirement. And that's why
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in many cases, people have not been able to attend their own family members' funerals
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because of these coronavirus restrictions. Now, you can go back and Google and look at some of this
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stuff. Box has an article published in April titled, How Coronavirus is Changing the Ways We Grieve and
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Mourn the Dead. And there are many examples of this kind of thing. People not allowed to bury their own
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family members, not allowed to be there when their family members are buried. Let me read just one
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example from this article. It says, Reverend Bill Parnell, a leader in the Episcopal Diocese of
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Massachusetts, told me that many people in the 175 worshiping communities he helps oversee are
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struggling with the restrictions social distancing has put on their grieving process. For instance,
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a retired priest died from the coronavirus two weeks ago in Cape Cod, leaving behind his wife,
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who was also infected. The priest's family couldn't visit him while he was sick, nor can they attend
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his funeral service because of travel and space restrictions. Recall how large funeral services
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were broken up by law enforcement in some cases, and especially in places like New York, where de
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Blasio threatened anyone who holds a large funeral for a deceased family member. He threatened them.
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Remember this. Team coverage for you this afternoon across the tri-state. We'll start with News 4's
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Miles Miller, live in Williamsburg, where police miles are still upset about last night's huge
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gathering there. Well, Stephan, the mayor called that gathering unacceptable, and he said it was the
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largest such gathering of any type since social distancing rules took effect. Few regrets today for
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mayor Bill de Blasio after this controversial tweet singling out, quote, the Jewish community,
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end quote, for a funeral in Williamsburg for a prominent rabbi that drew thousands of Satmar Jews.
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I spoke last night out of passion. I could not believe my eyes, Marsha. It was deeply, deeply distressing.
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The mayor's choice of words drew criticism with his former spokesperson, saying his tweet singled out
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the Jewish community for persecution and the head of the Anti-Defamation League, saying generalizing
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against Jews in large is outrageous. The mayor says he got word of the funeral for Rabbi Haim Mertz
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and had a security detail drive him to Williamsburg to witness it himself.
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Members of the Jewish community were putting each other in danger. They were putting our police officers
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in danger. Putting each other in danger. Putting police in danger. That's kind of weird because now
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the mayor is suddenly encouraging and celebrating large gatherings. You know, even ones that include
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actual assaults on police officers. Forget about the chance of the cops contracting COVID-19,
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which is what de Blasio and many others said would happen.
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So this thing with the funeral is just one example of the incredible hypocrisy and double
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standard that we're witnessing right now. Thousands of Americans for months were prevented from holding
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full funeral services for family members. And now we're tossing that to the side so that George
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Floyd can have thousands of people at his funeral. And this is totally in keeping, of course, with what
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we've seen, the double standard that we've seen across the board. Where again, for months, people were
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arrested for going to the beach, going to church, gathering for parties, even gathering for family
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events. In Michigan, you weren't allowed as a family member to visit your family if they lived in a
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different house. People were shouted at and shamed for protesting or for going to the park, for doing
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anything in any group of any size. And now this same exact people who did the shaming, the same exact
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politicians who sent out cops to arrest these people are celebrating, cheering, applauding, encouraging mass
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mass gatherings of thousands of people to protest ostensibly the death of George Floyd. Of course, we know
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these protests really have nothing to do with George Floyd and aren't actually protests at all. But that
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aside, the change of tune, the sudden dropping of all that fear mongering that brought our nation to a
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standstill for months and put 40 million people out of work is just staggering. Now, some people, some of the
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shameless hypocrites who shut down gatherings for months and are now applauding gatherings have tried
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to justify the contrast. de Blasio is one of them. de Blasio was asked about this at a press conference
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yesterday. And this is the the reasoning that he gave. This is the other piece of the equation.
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When you see a nation, an entire nation, simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary
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crisis seated in 400 years of American racism. I'm sorry, that is not the same question as the
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understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services.
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So his answer is that he ruthlessly shut down church services and other kinds of protests and
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other kinds of gatherings, not to mention shutting down hundreds of businesses and leaving business
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owners destitute. But he's not shutting this down because he personally feels that this gathering
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is important while the others were not. He personally is moved by their cause. He wasn't moved by the
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cause of the people who wanted to go to church or wanted to run their business or wanted to end the
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lockdowns. He wasn't moved by that. He's moved by this. He agrees with this. And so that's why this is
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allowed. That's his answer. And that's how elected leaders, mayors, governors across the country are
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operating. This is tyranny. This is flat out tyranny. And I'll tell you this, the next time they try to do
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one of these shutdowns, because it will happen again, we all better just completely ignore them.
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Completely ignore. Continue on with our lives as before. Ignore everything they say. We cannot forget this.
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And I know this is the kind of thing I'm talking about it today. It's a topic for the podcast.
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We'll talk about something else tomorrow. But it's not just a topic. It's not just some
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annoying thing that we talk about today for a topic and we move on. This is, I mean,
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this really is tyranny. This is politicians who shut down the entire country, put 40 million people
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out of work, and are now basically admitting that it was all a sham, that it was all a sham.
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And it's not just politicians. I read yesterday a statement from public health experts, quote unquote,
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who were supporting the protests. The same public health experts who shut down our society to save lives,
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supposedly, are now supporting mass gatherings of thousands of people.
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And then you remember this, let's recall the way that healthcare workers responded to protests and
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mass gatherings. Recall this, healthcare workers who bravely came out to interfere with and demonstrate
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against protests. Because there you see a guy standing in front, there's someone in a protest,
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someone in a car, attending a protest. And you've got a nurse standing there saying,
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no, we're not going to allow that. Because they said it wasn't safe to protest during a pandemic.
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But now, here's what healthcare workers are doing.
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Standing off to the side during a mass gathering of non-socially distanced people applauding.
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these are the heroic nurses, the ones who were recording TikTok videos, and now they're applauding
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as thousands of people violate social distancing. Just an absolute joke and sham.
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And here's the thing. Let's say that I agree for a moment, because this is the justification,
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right, that we keep hearing for this double standard. It's like, well, this is such an
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important protest. It's so important. Let's say I agree for a moment that these protests are super
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important and way more important than the lockdown protests, way more important than every small
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business that was decimated and those small business owners who wanted to go back to work,
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way more important than that. Let's say I agree with that. And let's say I agree that George
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Floyd's funeral is somehow, for some reason, more important than anyone else's funeral.
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If your grandma died in the last three months and you couldn't go to the funeral,
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let's say I agree that George Floyd's funeral is more important than your grandmother's funeral.
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Now, I don't agree with any of that, of course, at all. But let's say for argument's sake, I do.
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How does that change anything? We were told that the coronavirus is a lethal virus
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that spreads easily in large gatherings. And if you get together like this, many people will die.
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Many of you will die, plus many others will get infected. And first responders will be put in
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harm's way. That's an important part of this because they said another argument I'm hearing is
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that these protesters have just decided that this is worth the risk because it's so important to them.
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OK, that's all fine and good, except that you said it's not just about their own risk. They put other people at risk.
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That's the same exact argument that many of us have been making, saying that if somebody wants to go out
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and they want to go to a concert or they want to go to the store or they want to go to church,
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wherever they want to go, if they want to take that risk on themselves, they should be allowed to do it.
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But the response from the people who are now supporting the protests is that that's not good enough
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because it's not just about you. You're putting other people at risk. You're going to kill my grandma
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by doing this. That's what they said. So you can't say now, oh, it's worth the risk for them.
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OK, it's worth the risk for them. But what about my grandma? They're allowed to kill my grandma
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because this protest is important to them. So all that stuff that you said, it's either true or it
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isn't. If it's true, then these protests are killing thousands of people. Thousands are going to die
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because of if everything we were told about the coronavirus is true. Remember, the coronavirus still
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exists. There's no vaccine. OK, still out there. In fact, it's wider spread now than it was
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three months ago when all the lockdown started.
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So everything you said about the coronavirus, either it's true or it isn't.
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If it's true, then these protests are going to kill thousands of people and not just the people who
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are there. Thousands of innocent people who did not make the decision to take the risk
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are going to die. My grandma might die. Your grandma might die. And our hospitals are going to be
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overwhelmed again. And many doctors and nurses are going to be exposed and many of them will die.
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No matter how important the protest is, how could that possibly be justified? And if you believe that
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Black Lives Matter, wouldn't that be all the more reason to oppose the protest, considering that the
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virus is now going to kill thousands of black people because of the protest? These protests are
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happening. Many black Americans are at the protest. These are happening, many of them in black
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neighborhoods in the city. And this is going to decimate the black population. If you believe
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Black Lives Matter and you also believe all that crap that was said about the coronavirus,
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then you should be standing up and saying, no, no, go home. You're going to die. This is going to
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kill you. How can you say, I believe that Black Lives Matter, therefore I'm in favor of thousands of
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black people infecting themselves and others with a deadly virus? How does that make any sense?
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Now, on the other hand, the other option is, it's that everything that we were told about the
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coronavirus was a lie. And it was never as deadly as they said, or as contagious. And actually, you can
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have large gatherings safely, and it's not going to be a huge problem. And you could basically, you
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know, for the most part, go about your life. That's the other option. That's what you would have to
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believe if you support these protests. Unless you're a psycho who doesn't care about the lives
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of thousands of black people. So those are the only two options. For everybody who screamed about
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the virus for three months and advocated for shutting down society because of it, but are now
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supporting the protests, if you're in that camp, there are only two options to explain your position.
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Only two. Either you're a sociopath, psychotically applauding while protesters infect themselves,
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kill themselves, and kill many others. Or, second option, you were full of crap in your fear-mongering
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about the virus, and you never really believed it, and it was all a lie. So you're a psycho or you're
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full of crap. There is no third option. There really isn't. This really is A or B.
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Okay? This is an A or B binary type of situation here. Either what you said isn't true, and you're
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full of crap, or you're a psycho, and you're applauding while these people kill themselves.
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Now, I will allow, by the way, I guess for an option C, where you're both a psycho and full of
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crap. So there might be an element of that too. But I am thinking that for most people,
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it's actually option B, that you're just full of crap, and that what we were told about the
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coronavirus was a flat-out lie. And though it is a virus that is dangerous and that is killing a lot
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of people, it's not nearly as bad as what they said. And many of the things we were told we can't
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do, we actually could have been doing all along. And 40 million people were put out of work for no
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reason. And we decimated our society. We shut down society. We tore up the Bill of Rights for no
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reason. I think that's actually what's going on here. All right, let's move on to emails. Or no,
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not emails, sorry. Actually, headlines is what I'm searching for. That's the word I'm searching for.
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Number one, Drew Brees, NFL star quarterback for the Saints, was interviewed by Yahoo yesterday,
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and he made comments that provoked a huge backlash. Many people were very upset, reduced to tears over
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what this NFL player said. Now, I'm going to play the comments for you. I want you to prepare yourself.
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They are highly offensive, very upsetting. In fact, if you have any kids in the room and you're
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listening to this, I want you to have them leave the room. I don't want them to be exposed to this at
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all. It could traumatize them like it traumatized me. This, I warn you, what he has to say,
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is very, very offensive. And I think it will, you're not going to be the same after you hear it.
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Everyone is looking back now at Kaepernick's protest from a few years ago, and obviously,
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they were always about police brutality. And now it's coming back to the fore. And a lot of people
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expect that we will see players kneeling again, even when the NFL season starts. I'm curious how you
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think the NFL will and should respond to that. And of course, you're such a leader
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in the league. What is your responsibility as a leader in times like this for the rest of
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Well, I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our
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country. Let me just tell you what I see or what I feel when the national anthem is played
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and when I look at the flag of the United States. I envision my two grandfathers who fought for this
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country during World War II, one in the Army and one in the Marine Corps, both risking their lives
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to protect our country and to try to make our country and this world a better place.
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So every time I stand with my hand over my heart, looking at that flag and singing the national anthem,
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that's what I think about. And in many cases, it brings me to tears, thinking about all that has
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been sacrificed, not just those in the military, but for that matter, those throughout the civil
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rights movements of the 60s and everyone and all that has been endured by so many people
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Wow. Wow. I am appalled. I am frightened. I may have wet my pants, frankly. I may have,
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if you want to know the truth, listening to that. I cannot believe, or maybe on second thought,
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actually what Drew Brees said there is totally normal and fine and uncontroversial and just like
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a completely standard and by the way, correct point of view that most Americans agree with.
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You know, maybe that's it. And yet, because we live in an enormously stupid time and our country
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is filled with idiots and whiners and pathetic crybabies who should all be deported to Jupiter,
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those comments provoked lots of anger. And now get ready for this part. So that's what he said.
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Almost every normal person in the country agrees and says, yeah, I mean, we should respect the flag.
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Fantastic. But now here's the part that you definitely saw coming. Drew Brees has apologized.
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And in comments posted to Instagram, he says, this is after about a day, less than a day of a
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backlash. He says, quote, I would like to apologize to my friends, teammates, the city of New Orleans,
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the black community, NFL community, and anybody I hurt with my comments yesterday. In speaking with
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some of you, it breaks my heart to know the pain I have caused. In an attempt to talk about respect,
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unity, and solidarity centered around the American flag and the national anthem, I made comments that
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were insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country.
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They lacked awareness and any type of compassion or empathy. Instead, those words have become
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divisive and hurtful and have misled people into believing that somehow I am an enemy. This could
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not be further from the truth. And it is not an accurate reflection of my heart or my character.
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This is where I stand. I stand with the black community in the fight against systemic racial
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injustice and police brutality and support the creation of real policy change that will make a
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difference. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It goes on and on and on. I mean,
00:26:13.920
just groveling, groveling before the outraged masses. Actually, actually lying about what he himself
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said. He is dishonestly assigning himself nefarious motives, saying that it lacked empathy and sympathy.
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What are you talking about? You were talking about empathy. You were saying, you know, empathy for
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our soldiers and people that have died. And that's what you were talking about. It was a very empathetic
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perspective that you had. And now you're lying, claiming that you lacked empathy when you actually
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didn't. I'm sorry for the pain I caused. I caused so much. Yeah, I'm sure you really caused a lot of
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very sincere and genuine pain because you said you said we shouldn't disrespect the flag. I'm sure a
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lot of people were very much in real pain over that. I'm sure it wasn't just a bunch of performative
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outrage. But he caved to it. And here's the thing that really frustrates me. You know, when I see an
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average person who attracts the ire of the mob and because because they said something normal and
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sane and rational, and these days that's how you're going to attract the ire of the mob is by saying
00:27:32.600
normal, rational, sane things. If you go out and say things that are truly insane and irrational,
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you'll be fine. But the moment that you make the mistake of revealing yourself to be someone who has
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common sense, that's when they come after you. Now, when you've got just an average person, not in the
00:27:50.840
public light, not rich or anything, not a famous celebrity, you know, makes the mistake of having
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common sense publicly. And then people come after that person and they apologize. Now, I don't like
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it. I'd much prefer that they stuck by their guns. But I get it. I understand because they want to have
00:28:10.060
a job, right? And they don't want people coming to their home and throwing bricks in the window.
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And so they're worried about their safety and their family safety. They're worried about
00:28:18.420
their financial security, especially. It's very sad that we live in a country where
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you have to make those kinds of calculations. But I, so I get that. I'm really, I just,
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I'm not going to hold it against somebody when they make that decision because I understand.
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But somebody like Drew Brees, he's a multimillionaire, famous celebrity. He's got the money to tell these
00:28:45.540
whiners to kiss his ass. I don't know what Drew Brees' net worth is, but I guarantee you it's over $100
00:28:52.240
million. So he could look at them. He's got all the money in the world. You know,
00:28:58.100
if they run him out of town, so what? I mean, he's not going to be destined to,
00:29:02.160
he's not going to be homeless on the street. He could look at them and say, and I mean,
00:29:06.840
worse, even if he got kicked off the team for saying this, he's Drew Brees. Somebody will hire
00:29:12.280
him to play, to play football again. I can guarantee you that. So he's, he's, he's in a
00:29:18.360
position where he could look at these people and say, oh, you're offended by, by the totally normal
00:29:23.320
common sense thing that I said. You're offended that I said we should respect the flag. You're
00:29:27.180
offended by that. But guess what? I don't care. I don't care. Oh, you're crying. So what? Cry some
00:29:32.880
more. Cry some more, you crybabies. Makes no difference to me. It's your problem. Go, go tell
00:29:42.400
to your therapist. Okay. How about that? That's what he could say, but he doesn't. These people
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have nothing on him. They've, they've got nothing to hold up. What are they going to take from Drew
00:29:52.780
Brees? That's what makes it to me. That's what makes it so just pathetic. And, and I always think,
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you know, you consider what a stubborn jerk I am already, and I'm not rich and famous.
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If I was rich and famous, can you imagine what a stubborn jerk I would be?
00:30:14.700
I mean, most people dream of having that kind of money where they can, where they're in a position
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where they don't need to worry at all about what people think of them. Drew Brees has it and doesn't
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use it. Just a shame. Okay. Number two, Chick-fil-A, uh, home to the overrated chicken and third best
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French fry put out a statement yesterday. And, uh, here's what the statement says.
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Words are not enough and they sometimes aren't the right words, but we want to say something.
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Racism should have no place in society. Not now, not ever. It cannot be tolerated. Our hearts are
00:30:48.800
breaking for our black team members, operators, and staff, and all those in the black community who
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are suffering and have suffered for too long because of racism. At Chick-fil-A, we know we have a
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role in moving us all forward. We will listen. We will be intentional. We will share.
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I just wanted to play. I just want to share that with you because it's, it's so inspirational and
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courageous, right? To be a brand, to be a major brand coming out against racism. Think about the
00:31:16.000
courage that takes. It's not like everybody agrees with them and, and, and feels the same way.
00:31:25.880
And so it doesn't need to be said. No, it's not like that at all. Of course we need people. I just,
00:31:30.380
I enjoy when you've got someone, a brand or anybody saying something that requires no courage
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whatsoever, something that everybody agrees with and is, it is guaranteed to provoke zero backlash.
00:31:43.140
And they say something like that, but they set it up as if it's going to be some really bold statement.
00:31:48.020
And so the beginning of this statement is we got something we need to say, sit down for this. All
00:31:54.160
right, sit down for this because you're not going to like it. Okay. I'm ready for the backlash, but I
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got to say this. I'm not going to be scared to say this. Here it is. Racism is bad.
00:32:07.480
All right. Um, and, and, and here's the thing, Chick-fil-A, I know why they, they put the
00:32:13.200
statement out because they're, you know, they're hoping Chick-fil-A has gotten a lot of bad press
00:32:17.920
among liberals and in the last very many years. And they're hoping that something like this will
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change it. It's not going to change anything. They still hate you. It doesn't matter what you do.
00:32:27.180
It doesn't matter any, any of the groveling that you do, any of the dumb platitudinous,
00:32:31.400
platitudinous, uh, platitudinous, that's the word statements that you put out makes no difference.
00:32:38.880
Number three and looting and rioting is not over, by the way, it's still happening. Here are the
00:32:54.300
Everything in this store is completely destroyed.
00:33:01.400
Platitudinous. Platitudinous. That's a word, right? I think that was a word that I used.
00:33:18.000
Anyway, you saw all those grieving people, um, you know, uh, perusing a pharmacy for stuff to steal.
00:33:23.180
I like how casual the, the, the looters are at this point. You see that most of those people aren't
00:33:27.880
running because they know that the police aren't going to show up. They've been doing this for a
00:33:32.100
week now. It's like a full-time job of looting. I wonder if they set their alarm in the morning
00:33:37.220
and they get, they say, ah, well, it's 8am. Got to get out there, hit the pavement, do some looting,
00:33:42.500
pack a lunch and everything. Well, I guess you don't have to pack a lunch. You can steal it.
00:33:45.640
But, uh, you see them there. Now they're selective about it as they're walking through
00:33:48.980
because there are entire aisles and no one's looted, I guess, because they think like they walk through
00:33:53.140
and they say, huh, do I, do I need a whole case of car chargers? Oh, no, no, no. Actually, I looted.
00:33:58.360
I stole that from a Rite Aid back past their last Thursday. So I guess I probably don't need that.
00:34:02.640
That's a, that's, that's where we've gotten now where the local government has so abandoned its duty
00:34:09.320
that looters are almost getting bored with it. That's the plan. We're not going to arrest them.
00:34:13.700
We're not going to stop them. We're going to wait until they get bored and they've stolen
00:34:17.240
everything they could possibly need and can fit in their homes. And then they'll stop.
00:34:21.340
Number four, this is interesting. Um, Karens are now patrolling the streets
00:34:26.180
to yell at you for not doing graffiti. This is a plot twist. Nobody saw it coming. Watch this.
00:34:35.540
Why are you guys removing Black Lives Matter's graffiti?
00:34:39.360
We're trying to take care of it. Yeah, we tried over there and it wasn't coming off. It's still
00:34:43.100
not coming off. Well, why do you want that to come off?
00:35:00.820
If you don't disagree with the message, maybe it's just on the building. We're just trying to clean it.
00:35:05.720
Great. Not, not a great way to use your white privilege, ladies. Not a great.
00:35:14.840
Disgusting. It's disgusting to clean up graffiti on a government building.
00:35:20.600
Karen's point here is that if you clean graffiti off of something, then you must automatically be disagreeing with whatever message that graffiti is ostensibly supposed to be spreading.
00:35:34.320
So then if that's the case, I guess, you know, somebody should go and paint, spray paint equality for all on the side of Karen's house.
00:35:48.680
If you go home and take a shower and clean it off, what are you saying?
00:35:54.640
I mean, that's the only conceivable reason why you wouldn't want it spray painted across your forehead.
00:36:00.840
Five, finally, how about a legitimately inspiring video?
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Okay, this one is actually inspiring, actually courageous.
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Black kids in Chicago get killed every single day.
00:36:20.200
When black people kill black people, they don't come out and do this crap.
00:36:24.140
The only time they do this crap is when a white person touch them.
00:36:29.960
Because white cops, it's wrong for a white cop to kill a black person, that's for sure.
00:36:35.680
But if it matters, it shouldn't matter at all times.
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Stop forcing on people to accept that they're oppressed.
00:37:14.820
Stop making people accept that they're oppressed.
00:37:17.220
You're forcing a rhetoric into your mind, which is not true.
00:37:26.160
Have you seen any white person coming out and saying white life matters?
00:37:32.900
Every time there's a black lives matter process, a white person...
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The blacks kill blacks in black neighborhoods every single day.
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I have never seen a black life matter in those neighborhoods.
00:37:48.460
When a black person kills a black in a black neighborhood, they come out and they say,
00:37:52.140
when the police comes, do you know what they tell the police?
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But if a white person kills a black person, black life matter.
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That is the definition of an inspiring, empowering message.
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Something that expresses, that gives power, autonomy to a person.
00:38:31.560
Well, the message of I am free, I am not oppressed, that is...
00:38:35.460
Saying I'm oppressed, I'm a victim, that's the opposite of empowering.
00:38:44.260
That, what you just heard there, is an empowering message.
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But then you see, you can kind of laugh about it because of how ridiculous this scene is.
00:38:53.440
Where you've got a black woman, obviously an immigrant, talking about the fact that she's free.
00:39:01.180
And then you've got a white woman trying to convince the black immigrant that she's oppressed.
00:39:07.960
And could there be a better illustration of the way that the Democrat Party works?
00:39:16.020
The white woman in that discussion, she is a representative of the Democrat Party.
00:39:21.320
A bunch of white people trying to convince black people and minorities that they're oppressed.
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And getting upset and offended if they won't agree that they're oppressed.
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I was lying about having something in it, as you can clearly see.
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For our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling the promoters and propagators of false narratives.
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Obviously, there are a lot of false narratives out there, like the false narrative about racist police hunting and killing black people.
00:41:36.420
You know, that's the narrative that's fueling the destruction of our cities right now.
00:41:40.740
I want to take a smaller, more specific example so we can kind of look at the anatomy of a false narrative, how it works, how it spreads, how it's concocted.
00:41:53.480
I don't think this person is someone in the media or anything like that.
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But I'm pointing to it because last I checked, this morning anyway, that tweet was pushing 70,000 retweets.
00:42:08.260
It says, they were all charged for the exact same crime, the exact same day, and in the exact same city, but y'all don't see the problem?
00:42:18.880
It doesn't give us a link to the, does not give us a link to where the screenshots are from, which is red flag number one.
00:42:26.420
And it shows how three people were arrested for violating curfew in Greensboro, North Carolina, but they were all given different bond amounts.
00:42:33.860
With the black guy given the highest bond amount at 500 bucks.
00:42:37.000
And the obvious insinuation here is that it's racism.
00:42:57.740
Another red flag is just the very idea that they would blatantly set bond based on race.
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A policy like that would be shot down by the Supreme Court in 60 seconds flat.
00:43:13.760
I think we should, we should take a look and see.
00:43:16.900
Maybe in Greensboro, North Carolina, they've got a policy where if you're black, you get a higher bond amount.
00:43:21.720
As I said, I would be shocked that that policy has not been challenged yet by the Supreme Court.
00:43:30.120
So I went and I took a look at the story and I found it.
00:43:37.040
And this is where this person got the information for this massively viral tweet going all over social media.
00:43:51.000
Now, the first two guys, for the first two guys, the information is exactly what the tweet says.
00:43:57.660
Troy Herring, 21, of Greensboro, was charged with violating curfew.
00:44:01.620
His $100 bond was posted and his next court date will be September 15th.
00:44:06.820
Jeff Schwanzu, 21, of Stokestale, was charged with violation of curfew.
00:44:19.460
And there's actually a little bit more information.
00:44:23.200
It says Malik Perry Davis was arrested after he climbed a statue in downtown Greensboro following the protest that was dispersed.
00:44:30.820
Greensboro fire crews used a ladder truck to remove Davis from the statue before he was arrested.
00:44:36.000
His address is listed in Jacksonville and Onslow County, but he said he was from a mix of Greensboro, Jacksonville, and Greenville, and Hawaii.
00:44:44.820
According to social media, he lives in Greensboro.
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He was charged with curfew violation and his bond was set at $500.
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Now it's all coming together because this viral tweet, the person who put the tweet together,
00:45:00.940
they coincidentally forgot to include all of that additional information.
00:45:06.600
Malik was arrested not just for violating curfew, but because he had climbed a statue and they had to bring in a fire truck to get him down.
00:45:19.420
He's from a mix of several different places, including a place 5,000 miles away.
00:45:24.220
And he says he's from one place, but social media says he's from another place.
00:45:28.280
And then he also says, yeah, by the way, I'm also sort of from Hawaii and all these other places.
00:45:37.540
They're going to raise bond if you're a flight risk.
00:45:40.360
If they can't tell exactly where you're from and one of the places is 5,000 miles away, that's going to raise your bond.
00:45:48.560
And also they're going to raise bond if, while violating curfew, you pulled a stunt that required them to use the fire department to come get you.
00:45:59.180
And they're using the fire department while there are riots, you know, across the country and things are being set on fire.
00:46:04.980
So, you know, they might really be thinking, we need this fire truck potentially for something more important like a burning building.
00:46:12.580
Now we have to use these fire department resources to get you down from a statute because you refuse to come down.
00:46:18.400
You do something like that, yeah, your bond's going to be higher.
00:46:31.860
In fact, this guy's lucky for only a thousand dollar bond.
00:46:34.920
Given that he was violating curfew and they had to take him down from the statute with a fire truck, they only charged him with violating curfew.
00:46:54.220
And what we know is that with false narratives, you know, for one thing, it's oftentimes, it's not that things are being just totally made up out of whole cloth.
00:47:07.800
Sometimes you have things totally made up out of whole cloth.
00:47:14.360
But oftentimes, it's based on a morsel of truth.
00:47:18.600
It's just that the false part of the narrative comes not from the part they tell you, but from the part they don't tell you.
00:47:26.520
And the reason it spreads is because most people are concerned with stuff that confirms their priors.
00:47:37.840
They have their own biases and their own prejudices and their own perspectives that they're bringing to it.
00:47:44.620
And all they're looking for is confirmation of what they already believed.
00:47:49.460
So a whole bunch of people said, oh, yeah, well, I already believe that racism, you know, that there's a pervasive systemic racism, especially in the South.
00:47:59.660
And so I'm just going to spread it and assume it's true.
00:48:03.280
Why would I do the work to see if it actually is true?
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All that really matters is, you know, the ideology and everything else.
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All of the propagators of false narratives are canceled.
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