Ep. 507 - Rayshard Brooks Was A Violent Criminal, Not A Victim
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In one of the worst injustices we ve seen in recent memory, the officer who shot Rashard Brooks in self-defense is being charged with murder. We ll talk about this case and why the charges are just completely insane. Also, related to this, the media is attempting to make a saint, a hero, out of Rayshard Brooks. And we know that this is what they do.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, in one of the worst injustices we've seen in recent memory,
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the officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in self-defense is being charged with murder.
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We'll talk about this case and why the charges are just completely insane. Also,
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related to this, the media is attempting to make a saint, a hero posthumously, out of Rayshard
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Brooks. And we know that this is what they do. This is a tactic. So I want to discuss
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the actual truth about this man. What sort of man was he? I think that's important. We'll talk
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about that. Also, five headlines and in our daily cancellation, in honor of my birthday, which is
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Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard in Atlanta, who is, by the way, under investigation
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for funneling funds from a nonprofit to supplement his salary and who has been repeatedly accused of
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sexual harassment by a subordinate and who is now facing a primary challenge, decided to charge the
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cop who shot Rashard Brooks in self-defense with felony murder. The other officer on the scene
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has also been charged. Now, to review, to review the Rashard Brooks case, Brooks is the convicted
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violent felon who passed out drunk behind the wheel of his car in a Wendy's drive-thru. They called
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the police because he was blocking traffic because he was passed out drunk in his car. Police came,
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they talked to him, talked to him for a while, gave a sobriety test. He failed. So they tried to
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make an arrest. Brooks assaults the officers, steals their taser, fires it at them multiple times,
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and then on the second attempt to fire it at them, they shot and killed him. All of this,
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as any rational person can see, is entirely the fault of Rashard Brooks. Every step of the way,
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everything that happened, Rashard Brooks' fault. In fact, let's take a look at that video again of the
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shooting and the lead up to it. If you haven't seen it yet, this is important context. So take a look
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at this. Hold on, Mr. Brooks. Will you take a preliminary arrest test for me? Is it yes or no?
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I don't want to refuse anything. It's yes or no. It's completely up to you. Yes, I will. Okay. Just
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wait here while I grab. What kind of drinks did you have? I'm not sure. It's something she ordered.
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She said top shelf or whatever. Top shelf what? I'm not sure. It was, like I said, it was her birthday
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and you had about one and a half drinks. Do you don't remember what kind of drinks it were? No,
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sir. All right. I really don't, Mr. Ross. All right. I think you've had too much to drink to be
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dry. Put your hands behind your back for me. Put your hands behind your back.
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Stop fighting. Stop fighting. Stop fighting. You're gonna get tased. You're gonna get tased.
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all right that officer that you saw there trying to be very
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reasonable is facing felony murder for shooting a violent criminal who was attacking him
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remember you can see in the video we're told that he was shot in the back maybe he was irrelevant
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because he was turning around and pointing pointing a weapon at the officers after he'd
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already assaulted them after he'd already made it clear that he would do anything he was going to do
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anything he would resort to anything to escape so he made it very very clear he made it extremely
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clear that he was a lethal threat threat to them and now he's pointing a weapon at them
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in fact a weapon that is categorized as a deadly weapon by by uh by the state of georgia we'll get
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to that in a second and so they shoot him now many reports surfaced last night saying that hundreds
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of atlanta atlanta cops were uh walking off the job in protest of this unjust prosecution
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refusing to answer calls you know go basically going on strike good for them this is exactly
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what needs to happen and this should be happening across atlanta should be happening across the
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country this is what cops need to do widespread strikes um if you know if if if the people want
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mayhem if they want anarchy if they don't want cops there to protect them then they can have it
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now before we go any further i want to talk about um and we'll talk about all this in more detail but
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let's take a look at a few of the clips from the press conference that the da howard gave yesterday
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where he was explaining his reasoning for filing these charges because you have to see this for
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yourself if you haven't seen it it's a really incredible press conference in a lot of ways and
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all bad ways uh you have to see and hear as this guy tries to justify his decision to throw an innocent
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man to the wolves and he he's he's very desperate to justify it but his reasoning is tortured to say the
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least so uh watch so in reaching our decision there were some considerations that we considered
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important and uh one of the things that we noted from our evaluation uh was that mr brooks on the night
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of this incident was calm he was cordial and really displayed a cooperative nature uh secondly even
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though mr brooks was of slightly impaired his demeanor during this incident uh was almost
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jovial um also we noted that uh he received many instructions from the atlanta officers and he was
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asked many questions some of the questions he was asked repeatedly but for 41 minutes and 17 seconds
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he followed every instruction he answered the questions yeah did you catch that brooks was brooks the
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violent criminal who was assaulting officer stole a weapon was shooting it at them was calm cordial
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cooperative and jovial this is what passes for calm cooperative uh cordial and jovial apparently
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apparently you can cordially assault a police officer
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now i'll be honest i haven't specifically looked up any of these words in the dictionary but i'm pretty
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sure that assaulting a police officer is not going to fall under the definition
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for any of these words although that might change i mean we know that the webster's dictionary changed
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the definition of racism because blm activists told them to so maybe they'll maybe we're going to get
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a change to the definition of cordial because blm demands it and it gets worse if you can believe it
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listen we concluded and considered it as one of our important considerations that mr brooks never presented
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himself as a threat um at the very beginning he was peacefully sleeping in his car uh after he was
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awakened by the officer he was cooperative and he was directed to move his car to another location
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uh he calmly moved his car uh mr brooks was asked whether or not he had a weapon uh he indicated that
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he did not uh without any resistance he passed his driver's license to the officers and the officers
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then asked mr brooks whether or not he would consent to a pat down or a body search and uh mr brooks
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allowed them to search him and the search yielded no weapon uh we found that it was of interest that
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um when the officers patted mr brooks down uh they noticed there was a bulge in his pants they did not
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pull that item out of his pocket they took mr brooks's word that that bulge uh represented a number of
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dollar bills uh but uh mr brooks never displayed any aggressive behavior behavior during the 70 41 minutes
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and 17 seconds never presented himself as a threat peacefully sleeping in his car peacefully sleeping
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that's one hell of a way for a da to describe a guy passed out drunk behind the wheel
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he he blew over a 0.1 the limit is 0.08 over 0.1 for a man of his size you know you'd have to drink
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five or six drinks in an hour to get to that point um which many people are capable of drinking that much
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but the point is if you drink that much and then you drive and you're peacefully sleeping in the car
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that's not sleeping that's passed out that's what we call passed out drunk i wonder could i go pass
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out drunk on the da's porch could i go to his house on his porch sprawl out maybe bring a blanket
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can i peacefully sleep on his porch after a night of drinking and you know he's not going to call the
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cops right will he refrain from calling the cops because he doesn't want to disturb my hallowed slumber
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now um and he keeps going in both of those clips you hear that he goes back time and again he's
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hammering on this uh 41 minutes and 17 seconds thing he keeps saying that for 41 minutes and 17
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seconds brooks was just a swell guy he was a great guy peaceful for 41 minutes and 17 seconds
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41 minutes and 17 seconds yeah for 41 minutes and 17 seconds unfortunately at 41 minutes and 18 seconds
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um he became a violent sociopath uh attacking and assaulting cops and stealing their weapon and
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using it against them that's what happened at 41 minutes and 18 seconds but but from zero seconds to
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41 minutes and 18 seconds um you know he was nice what so what what what are you saying exactly are you
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saying that he he he had been you know once you get to 41 minutes and 18 seconds you're allowed to do
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whatever you want as long as you're nice to the cops and cooperative for 41 minutes and 17 seconds
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then you're fine once you get to 41 minutes and 18 seconds then the purge is on and you can do
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whatever you want is that what you're saying if that's not what you're saying then who gives a damn
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that he was he was he was a nice guy for 41 minutes oh 41 minutes of being a nice guy you mean he didn't
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attack or try to kill anybody for 41 minutes wow that's impressive let's give him a medal let's give
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him the medal of honor posthumously medal of freedom all the medals nobel peace prize let's
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give rayshard brooks the nobel peace prize because for 41 minutes he refrained from trying to kill
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police officers yeah i mean after that he started to try to kill him but for 41 minutes my goodness
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now it's interesting um that this guy howard says the officers lives were not in danger
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you know brooks only had a taser that's interesting because here's what howard himself only a couple of
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weeks ago said about tasers when he was charging police officers with assault for using a taser on
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protesters here's what he said about tasers then listen charged with aggravated assault of uh miss
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pilgrim and this is for pointing a taser at mrs pilgrim and uh as many of you all know on the georgia
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law a taser is considered as a deadly weapon under georgia law a deadly weapon under georgia law
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according to howard's own words uh brooks was using a deadly weapon against the officers and yet
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they're being charged with murder for responding with deadly force when he's using deadly force
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against them the standard here seems to be according to this crooked prosecutor that tasers are only
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deadly weapons when cops use them if you use them against the cop it's not a deadly weapon anymore
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this again is total lunacy it is madness it is one of the worst injustices i've ever seen and i don't
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say that as hyperbole it really is i'm glad the officers are walking off the job i hope they do it
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like i said in cities across america if people want anarchy let them have it if they want their cities
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run by violent criminals and sociopaths like rayshard brooks good have at it enjoy
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well let's be honest about this for once let's be clear about what's happening okay
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officer ralph is being charged because of his race his crime is being a white cop that's his crime
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that's that's that's the the the great crime that he committed is is being a white cop if this was a
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black cop and a white suspect no charges are going to be filed we all know that there's no question
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um this is racial retribution the da is a bigot and a racist targeting a man for his race he should
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be disbarred and he should go to jail now i ask again how are cops supposed to do their jobs
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like this really how are they supposed to do it they're out here every night dealing with the worst
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people humanity has to offer that's most of what a cop is does is going to be that
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i think i mentioned before you know i was i remember uh i got a speeding ticket this is years
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ago i've gotten several speeding tickets afraid to say but this particular one was was years ago and um
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and you know i i was going well over the speed limit so i deserved it but i was i was at the
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court and i was talking to the cop before we went in uh to you know talk to the judge and he was saying
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to me that you know he really doesn't like that that the only time that he one of the only times
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on his job that he that he deals with just sort of nice law-abiding normal people is when he's giving
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them speeding tickets because the rest of the time you know he's answering domestic violence calls
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um he's just in he's in areas where there are a lot of crime he's dealing with criminals
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and one of the only times that he's um actually just dealing with uh you know uh decent people
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is because he's giving them a speeding ticket and uh he doesn't you know it's it's kind of that kind
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of wears on you after a while um i remember the cop saying that and uh and you know that always that
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has always stood out to me because that that's kind of true most of the time cops they're dealing
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with dangerous that they're cops they're going to be dealing with dangerous people criminals
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um they are doing a lot of domestic violence stuff you know that's that's gonna be a lot of the calls
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they're responding to and or or you know things like this someone passed out drunk dealing with
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that drug addicts and so on and so forth so they're out trying to enforce the law on people who like
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Brooks think nothing of lashing out violently sometimes fatally they're dealing with sociopaths
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a lot of the time this is what they're up against and now if they have to defend themselves
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in a situation like that they know they'll go to jail so they're in a position where they're dealing
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with a violent dangerous person and a bad person as Brooks was and he has decided to turn it violent
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and immediately now the cops know they're in a position where this can go a few ways they can be
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killed or they can protect themselves and kill potentially and then face the very real possibility
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that they're going to go to prison for the rest of their lives and be reviled across the world as
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racist and there's going to be riots and their their their family's going to have to go into government
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protection for the rest of their lives i mean they know that how do you do your job
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under those circumstances how do you do it why do you do it
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now there's one other point i want to make here um and this is important because we've seen this
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process play out many times already the game the tactic from the left whenever there's a shooting like
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this is to turn the criminal into a martyr into a saint into a man of unimpeachable character
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a pillar of his community a loving father and husband etc etc etc this is not just about not
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speaking ill of the dead it's not just that they they don't want to speak ill of the dead this is way
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beyond that because they aren't just not speaking ill they're canonizing sanctifying making heroes out of
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them the point is obviously emotional manipulation make it so that rational discussion is impossible
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disallowed make it so that the only thing you're allowed to say about the death of the man is that
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it's an unspeakable tragedy and the world is so much worse now than it's that that he's gone and
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it's the worst thing in the world and you you've been you've been crying yourself to sleep uh five
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nights in a row over it make it so that that's that's the only thing you're allowed to say that's the
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only acceptable take on this matter because then it's impossible to argue that he was the aggressor
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that it was his fault it's impossible to um and even if even if it wasn't his fault even if he wasn't
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the aggressor it's still going to be impossible to inject any kind of nuance into the conversation
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at all and we've seen this happen many times it started with michael brown michael brown was a
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violent sociopath who assaulted a store clerk for no reason stole something just for the sake of
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stealing it the store clerk tried to stop him grabbed him by the neck and shoved him walks down
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the street then tries to kill a cop it's just a bad violent person is a terrible person and they made
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him into a gentle giant you know they they that was the phrase we kept hearing there's a gentle
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gentle gentle gentleman uh young man and and uh we we get his graduation picture over and over again
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we see it now rayshard brooks abc news has this headline um rayshard brooks remembered for hard work
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and dedication to family hard work and dedication to family we'll get back to that in a second what
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what um yeah in what way was he dedicated to his family i'm wondering we'll get back to that here's
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the mayor of atlanta on cnn describing brooks as a guy you're rooting for this has been hard and it is
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um really been difficult for me to put aside my own anger and sadness during this time and really be able
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to articulate what our communities need to hear because the reality is what can you say i've watched
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the body cam video i watched it for 30 minutes i watched the interaction with mr brooks and it broke my
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heart when he talked about his daughter's birthday party that he was planning for this was not
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confrontational this was a guy that you were rooting for and even knowing the end watching it you're
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going just let him go just let him go let him call somebody to pick him up by the way mayor no you you
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don't let a convicted violent felon who's passed out drunk behind the wheel go you don't just let him go
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and that's not what normal people are thinking when they see that oh just let him go
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you don't let him walk away you don't call him an uber the cops are not a concierge service for
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drunk felons that's not what they do you idiot um and you know there's there's you don't let the the
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drunk felon uh just go you enforce the law why is he special if i passed out drunk behind the wheel i would
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expect to get arrested many people have been arrested for that kind of thing thousands of
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people across the country have been arrested for for driving drunk uh and most of them were still
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awake at least when they got pulled over why the hell is there any particular reason why ray shard
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brooks should have been special and let go when nobody else would be in that circumstance
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and then we also hear um that once all this happened and he's running away they just let
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him go they didn't have to shoot him never mind the fact that he's pointing something he's pointing a
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weapon at them but even if he wasn't you know something even if he wasn't pointing which he was
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but even if he wasn't you have again a drunk violent dangerous felon who has already demonstrated that
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he will do anything to get away uh he doesn't care and he'll resort to violence doesn't matter to him
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you're going to just let him run off into the night
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and and what hope that he goes home and sleeps it off and waits for the cops to come pick him up the next day
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is that what you're going to do is that the safest thing for the community
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um and uh no brooks is not a guy that you're rooting for i'm not rooting for him
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i wouldn't root for him here's cnn again uh this is anderson cooper saying that brooks
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is trying hard to do right by his family and he's he's reaching heroically for redemption
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given the news tonight that one fired atlanta police officer has been charged with a capital
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crime another also faces serious charges in the killing of rayshard brooks the next item is haunting
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you'll see what might have been a story of struggle and perhaps redemption in video obtained exclusively
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by cnn's van jones mr brooks talks about life after incarceration the impact it's had on his family
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the ham family that he's trying hard to do right by trying for redemption which he can see within
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reach and which he can not know will never come and on and on and on you get the idea okay so
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let's talk about the reality and the reality is this because the truth matters the reality
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matters truth matters here it is rayshard brooks was a bad man a violent man an abuser of women and
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children brooks in 2014 pleaded guilty to false imprisonment family violence battery and felony
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cruelty against children now if you're wondering how you get a felony cruelty to children
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charge in georgia let me let me just read from a a lawyer website this is conway and strickler
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um i you know i just googled this is what popped up describing the parameters of the cruelty to
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children crime is what it says this is not specifically related to rayshard brooks but this
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is the charge that he was uh he pled guilty to um willfully depriving a child of his or her basic
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needs for survival to the point that health and well-being are jeopardized or causing a child cruel
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or excessive mental or physical pain are considered first-degree cruelty to children offenses
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criminal negligence that causes cruel or excessive mental or physical pain falls under the heading
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of second-degree cruelty to children while the offense of cruelty to children in the third degree
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can result when an individual intentionally allows a child to witness forcible felonies battery or family
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violence so that's um rayshard brooks falls in somewhere that's just one of his crimes
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dedicated to his family felony cruelty to children dedicated to his family a family man
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and we're told he he he wanted to get home for his his daughter's birthday so he's out passed out
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drunk in the middle of the night that's what you do when you want to get home and see your child for
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it for her birthday i mean i relate to you know wanting to be there for your child's birthday i got four
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kids i want to be there for the birthdays i want to be there you know for as long as i can through their
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lives that's why i'm not going to drive pass out drunk uh you know in the middle of the night or
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at any other time of day and that's why if i did do that um and i was getting arrested i wouldn't start
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assaulting the cops and throw my life away that's not what you do that is not what you do if you want
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to see your kids drunk driving resisting arrest assault of a police officer assault with a deadly
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weapon those are the crimes we can add to the crimes he already committed so we got everything
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i listed plus drunk driving resisting arrest assault of a police officer assault with a deadly weapon
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on top of cruelty to children false imprisonment family violence domestic abuse
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no this is not a man dedicated to his family this is not a man that you root for
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i don't root for child abusers i don't know about you mayor i don't root for child abusers they're
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not the people that i root for i don't root for violent sociopaths who use deadly weapons against
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police those aren't the people that i root for i don't root for men like that no he was not a good
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man he was not trying to turn his life around don't give me that you don't drive drunk pass out
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in a drive-thru lane than assault cops if you want to turn your life around trying hard he's trying
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hard to get to get back on there i mean i've never done any of those things and it required no effort
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at all not to do it i've been pulled over as i've said i've been pulled over many times um
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i've never assaulted a police officer it required no effort at all for me to refrain from assaulting
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the police officer so you're telling me that that he's trying hard and can't manage to stop himself
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from assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon in that case he's worse than i thought because if that
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was the absolute best he could do if that was him at his best that's him trying hard well i'd hate to
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see him at his worst and it sounds like his children did see him at his worst and paid the price for it
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so don't give me this bs i don't want to hear it we can't allow this to happen this time we can't
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let them turn rayshard brooks into a hero a saint anything like that this is a bad man a violent
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felon that needs to be the message because it's the damn truth and it's what we need to say it matters
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you can't get squeamish about it and say i don't want to you know this man passed away i don't want
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to okay well you could be squeamish and you could be nice about it and they're going to build this
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narrative and they're going to use that narrative to send an innocent man to jail
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forever if not the death penalty that's the narrative they're going to use so you could be
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a very nice person and not want to contradict that narrative then you could very nicely sit there
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while a man is sent um effectively or literally to his death
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let's go to uh news all right number one a couple of weeks ago it was claimed that a truck driver
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made a white power sign at a black lives matter protest as he was driving by
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the mob went into action of course the man was uh fired
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well now he's speaking out um this this guy that supposedly did a white power sign at a black
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lives matter protest explaining that he he never made a white power sign he was cracking his knuckles
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as he drove by and there are other details as well about this guy that i think are relevant so watch
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this local news report on it it's scary that you can be charged tried and convicted
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on social media without your permission with no corroborating evidence of any type
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a local sdgne worker has been fired after allegations of racism were made against him now he's speaking
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exclusively to nbc7 about what he calls a major misunderstanding he says his employer jumped to
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conclusions and he should not have lost his job priya shreether has the story it all started about
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two weeks ago near a black lives matter rally in poway emmanuel cafferty says he had an interaction
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with a member of the public that later got posted on twitter he says shortly after he was fired by his
00:30:49.840
employer sdgne this was the tweet that emmanuel cafferty says started it all it shows an sdgne worker making a hand
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gesture that some say is a white supremacist sign when my supervisor said that i was being accused of
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doing a white supremacist gesture that was baffling cafferty is the man in the picture and says he had
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no idea what the symbol meant he was just cracking his knuckles but shortly after he was
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informed that he was suspended by sdgne pending an investigation and a few days later he was fired
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i do that a lot when i'm driving it has no racist intent behind it and i was confident that
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i would be able to you know with my character show sdgne that i'm not a racist according to the
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anti-defamation league this hand sign has been used in recent years by white supremacists as a white
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power gesture but a post on the organization's website says that it is also widely used as a
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sign signifying approval and therefore shouldn't be assumed to be a white supremacy symbol unless
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there's other evidence to support those claims i don't know how long it's going to take me to get
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over this but to lose your dream job for playing with your fingers that's a hard pill to swallow okay
00:32:12.560
so that this is and you know we have to appreciate uh the anti-defamation league explaining to us what
00:32:18.160
the okay sign means and this how many times we have to go through this the okay sign is not a white
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power sign and never was that was an internet hoax i think that was 4chan made that up and they're still
00:32:34.000
going with it oh but they at least they'll admit that you know sometimes people can do that and not
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mean anything by it sometimes but you know it could be that they're white supremacists so this
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was a completely innocent man speaking of innocent man uh being being accused of things this that's
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sort of the theme here just a normal guy just a guy doing his job now he's unemployed he's reviled as a
00:32:56.640
racist because someone caught him making an offensive shape with his fingers meanwhile he's not even white
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white you saw the guy right he's mexican this is a mexican american okay a man of mexican descent
00:33:15.120
he's fired from his job for being a white supremacist and he's mexican how did that
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conversation go when he when his cowardly employers pulled him in and said yes uh sorry we have to let
00:33:28.800
you go for for being a white supremacist yeah but i'm not white though
00:33:35.120
i'm not yes but uh you're you're a suspected white supremacist i'm not you see not white this
00:33:41.520
here i i literally cannot be a white supremacist it's impossible it is actually impossible i am not
00:33:47.280
white you see everything going on here non-whiteness i imagine the covers i hope the conversation went
00:33:54.160
something like that anyway um this is just it's it's collective insanity we've fallen into collective
00:34:02.400
hysteria you know it's it's you can't reason your way out of it anymore if we're firing a guy because
00:34:10.400
he was cracking his knuckles in an offensive way and saying that it makes him a suspected white
00:34:15.200
supremacist even though he's mexican yeah okay where do you go from there you can't argue against that
00:34:21.920
it's not like someone who would defend that you you can't present an argument to them that's going to
00:34:26.080
change their mind this is someone in order to argue against someone in order to present an argument
00:34:32.640
to someone they have to they have to have a functioning brain that they're willing to use
00:34:36.240
and unfortunately there are a lot of people in our country that don't have functioning brains
00:34:39.920
or at least are not willing to use them if they do and so there's nothing you could say to them
00:34:45.760
number two here's an attack that happened outside of a gas station in texas take a look
00:34:49.200
the victim says the assailants screamed black lives matter so this is basically jussie smollett
00:34:56.880
except race is reversed and it actually happened so i guess it's nothing like jussie smollett
00:35:02.240
come to think of it but um it's it's in terms of how think about how gratuitous
00:35:10.480
that attack was that just the the attack that jussie smollett claimed happened completely gratuitous
00:35:16.080
and and ridiculous that's one of the ways you knew it was fake except here that sort of thing
00:35:21.840
actually happened we know it happened because we can see it only the races are reversed and of course
00:35:27.840
we know that you reverse the races back and this is a uh you know these are white guys doing this
00:35:32.240
who are the culprits then that's national news it's headlines there's probably gonna be protests and
00:35:36.480
riots so on and so forth number three a report from the daily wire says infectious disease expert
00:35:41.440
dr anthony fauci a key member of the president donald trump's uh president donald trump's
00:35:45.520
coronavirus task force admitted tuesday that health experts including himself downplayed the efficacy
00:35:50.160
of face masks in preventing the spread of covet 19 out of concern that americans would snap up the
00:35:55.760
available stock and there would be none left for health care workers so he's just the latest person to admit this
00:36:04.080
i guess most people are okay with it it seems like from the reaction they're admitting that they lied to
00:36:11.840
the public and by their own logic put the public in danger from those lies
00:36:20.000
because they thought that we couldn't handle the truth
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how is that not an enormous scandal number four uh john bolton has a book out where he talks about some of the
00:36:31.280
stuff some of the stuff i don't care i don't care about this this is what i just don't care
00:36:42.880
i really don't i'm i'm i'm done with all this all the drama with trump and the personal feuds on both
00:36:50.720
sides i just don't care yeah i mean i get it okay we we know who trump is i'm not just i i get we get it
00:36:59.200
now i i personally for one i get it i don't need another book and john bolton some of the stuff he's
00:37:08.080
accusing trump of i really don't care at all to be honest with you but some of the stuff he's accusing
00:37:13.840
trump of sound you know if they actually happen sound like they'd be potentially criminal huge scandals
00:37:22.160
why didn't you say something when they happened if they actually did
00:37:24.880
why didn't you testify why didn't you say something you wait you wait until you're fired
00:37:31.680
and they waited wait another what year to put it in a book so you can sell a book off of it
00:37:36.960
so if it did actually happen then um that just makes you a horrible scumbag as well
00:37:46.240
one of the things he claims is that trump endorsed uh concentration camps in china i don't know if that
00:37:52.480
happened or not um that wouldn't be a crime on trump's part but it would be a big scandal
00:37:57.280
that's the kind if that actually happened and you're a man of integrity you you would come out
00:38:01.360
right away and say something about that while you're still in the administration right because
00:38:06.720
then you have some credibility then it's then it's not like you're a a spurned or employee or you know a
00:38:11.760
jilted it's it's not like that you're not you're not a disgruntled ex-employee
00:38:16.400
but no instead he he writes his little notebook supposedly and then brings it up uh a year later
00:38:24.480
so he can sell books off it and it's just and then trump is on hannity last night and he's and
00:38:28.800
he's tweeting and he's talking about john bolton no one cares about this this is not what's important
00:38:36.320
you know we don't care about your personal feuds mr president we care about the fact that the
00:38:41.840
country is falling apart at the seams that's what matters that should be your focus 100 of your
00:38:49.040
focus entirely nothing else number five finally variety has an article making the rounds uh the
00:38:57.040
headline 10 problematic films that could use warning labels so this is we know about gone with the wind
00:39:05.600
problematic film that now has a warning label on hbo max variety helpfully has suggested other
00:39:11.600
films that should use that should have warning labels uh they have uh what do they say they say
00:39:18.160
dirty harry should have a warning forrest gump it says forrest gump was made by intelligent people won
00:39:23.600
six oscars and is beloved by many while the film is condescending to anyone with a disability uh vietnam
00:39:29.280
vets and people with aids among others it's actually hostile to pro to protesters activists and counterculture
00:39:34.800
as a bonus lovable title character nathan bedford forrest was named after his grandfather the first
00:39:39.520
grand wizard of the klu klux klan so that's very problematic indiana jones and the temple of doom
00:39:44.480
is problematic needs a warning label steven spielberg and george lucas are generally compassionate
00:39:48.800
filmmakers but this film went a little too far in trying to replicate the mood of 1930s action serials
00:39:54.080
like those old movies the exotic villains are portrayed as primitive and bloodthirsty foreigners
00:39:59.040
resulting in negative and stereotypical depictions of india and of hindu customs
00:40:02.800
and then uh okay all right speaking of things nobody cares about how about this if you're the sort of
00:40:15.200
person who would get offended by indiana jones and the temple of doom or forrest gump uh if you're the
00:40:24.720
sort of person who would need a warning label on a film rather than us putting warning labels in all the
00:40:30.800
films why don't you just deport yourself to jupiter and leave the planet and never come back
00:40:40.880
i think that would be the best for all parties concerned
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now we're going to go to our daily cancellation it's a very important one
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before we do um if you're not already a daily wire member you should consider getting a reader's
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and i would highly recommend it now for our daily cancellation today on my birthday
00:41:19.040
i thought it was a perfect occasion to cancel cake i want to explain why um and this is by far the most
00:41:27.840
important issue i'm going to talk about today on the show so you need to pay attention you know the
00:41:32.800
other day i was talking to my wife and she said that she wanted to get me a cake for my birthday
00:41:38.640
and this is exactly the kind of microaggression that people around the world have been suffering for
00:41:43.920
too long every birthday is made to revolve around cake it's just assumed that if you have a celebratory
00:41:50.960
occasion birthday wedding retirement but whatever it is there's going to be a cake there should be a
00:41:56.960
cake what kind of cake do you want it's not even like do you want a cake it's what kind of cake is it
00:42:02.240
going to be there's the assumption of the cake the pro cake assumption is itself deeply problematic
00:42:10.320
meanwhile cake sits there confidently arrogantly on its on its lofty perch as humanity's celebratory
00:42:20.240
pastry of choice when in fact it is subpar okay sometimes outright bad most of the time acceptable
00:42:29.360
but not special it's kind of like the i don't know the the alex smith of pastries so let's be honest
00:42:34.720
honest and this this is what you can't deny this you have never had a great piece of cake in your
00:42:42.640
life you never have don't tell me that you have i know i know better than you do about what about
00:42:47.840
what's happened in your life and what you've what you've eaten okay so let me tell you you have never
00:42:52.960
had a great piece of cake maybe you've had pieces of cake that were great for cake by the standards of
00:42:59.760
cake they were great you've never had cake that was truly great that was that was that truly deserved
00:43:05.440
to be in the pantheon of your all-time great dessert experiences if you were to make a list of the 10
00:43:12.880
best desserts you've ever had nobody's birthday cake is going to be on the list unless you're mentally
00:43:20.400
disordered now so here's the thing you've had slices of pie that warranted those accolades you've
00:43:31.840
had brownies that did you've even had cookies that you maybe have had ice cream that did and yet those
00:43:38.960
don't get the recognition that cake gets and if somebody on his birthday say me for example uh wants
00:43:46.080
to have brownies instead of cake he sneered at mocked discriminated against belittled assaulted
00:43:55.840
killed i've seen it happen i've seen someone be murdered on their birthday for not having cake
00:44:02.880
happens all the time okay and i'm done with this so it's time to be honest it's time to confront the
00:44:09.280
truth cake is okay not special not sufficient for birthday celebrations what does it tell you
00:44:17.120
here's all the proof you need here's all the evidence you need what does it tell you that the
00:44:21.760
actual cake part of the cake has to be slathered in sugary disgusting icing nobody has a cake without
00:44:29.280
icing why is that i mean the cake the actual cake is the cake i mean the icing is just uh is just uh
00:44:34.960
an added supposed to be an added bonus icing on the cake they say right that's where the
00:44:39.920
but nobody's just gonna have the cake why is it because the cake is not that great
00:44:45.440
cake has been skating by for far too long like this and i've had enough i don't want to hear
00:44:52.000
excuses like well cake can be decorated uh you could put candles on cake those are aesthetic factors i'm
00:44:59.520
talking about taste i'm talking about what the food actually tastes like i mean i could put a can
00:45:03.440
i could put a a candle on my desk does that mean i'm going to eat my desk in fact you know there's
00:45:11.280
so many so many of the cakes i've had are so stale that i might as well be eating a desk and that's
00:45:15.200
the other problem that in order for cake to be even just passably good the person making it needs to be
00:45:25.200
an expert chef most people don't know how to make it and and even then expert chef the best you could
00:45:31.760
hope for is a b minus c plus type of cake most people their cakes are you know d's e's and f's
00:45:39.920
because you have to be an expert to really make a good cake most attempts at making homemade cakes
00:45:43.680
end up disastrously most store-bought cakes are terrible
00:45:46.800
so i don't know how many times i've been at someone's birthday party uh they serve me a cake
00:45:54.080
i take one bite i throw it directly at their head and say what the hell is this get this out of my
00:46:00.400
face what are you doing giving me this go to hell you scumbag it's a whole scene you know cops are called
00:46:08.080
everything this could be avoided if we did birthday pie birthday chocolate chip cookies birthday brownies
00:46:17.200
even a birthday donut would be better as long as it's not from dunkin donuts which is also cancelled
00:46:24.480
for being revolting uh and there we go that's my that's why cake is cancelled i'm glad we could
00:46:32.400
finally have this much needed discussion and uh of course in uh conclusion happy birthday to
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00:47:29.920
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