Ep. 511 - The Noose That Wasn’t
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It turns out, it wasn't a noose. But still, the left, the media, and Bubba Wallace himself are trying to retain the narrative, even as it's exposed as fraudulent. They don't care, they're going to keep it going.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, it wasn't a noose, it turns out, as any intelligent person already
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knew. But still, the left, the media, Bubba Wallace himself, are trying to retain the narrative,
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even as it's exposed as fraudulent. They don't care. They're going to keep it going. So we're
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going to sort through all this today. And I want to pay special attention to the fact that the FBI
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sent 15 federal agents to investigate a rope in a garage. So we're going to talk about that. Also,
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of an abolitionist. Why? Why are they doing that? Well, I'll explain the real reason why all these
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I sent you. Okay, shocker of shockers. Who besides me and anyone else with a brain could have possibly
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seen this coming? Who besides those of us with IQs above that of a soggy paper towel could have ever
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predicted this outcome? The noose in Bubba Wallace's garage was not a hate crime. It was just a rope,
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a rope to pull the door closed. That's it. Now, before we get into this, let's reminisce just for
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a moment. Reminisce about the old days, back in the good old days, back way, way back, two days ago,
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in fact, when NASCAR came out in an emotional show of support for Bubba Wallace, and the other drivers
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escorted him around the track as he wept openly before Talladega. And then NASCAR put together this
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inspirational video. Let's just remember this video again. Watch this.
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All of that over a garage door. All of that because Bubba Wallace was afraid of his garage
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door. We are truly living in an idiocracy. Now, here's the statement from NASCAR.
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In this, remember, after they spent the previous day condemning this racist, vile act and rallying
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around Bubba and putting together inspirational videos with the inspirational music in the
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background. And then they come out with this and they say the FBI has completed its investigation
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at Talladega Super Speedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime.
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The FBI report concludes and photographic evidence confirms that the garage door pull rope,
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fashioned like a noose, has been positioned there since as early as last fall. This was obviously
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well before the 43 teams arrived. And we're given the garage assignments. We appreciate the FBI's
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quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional racist
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act against Bubba. We remain steadfast in our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive
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environment for all who love racing. But the left and the media, NASCAR, Bubba Wallace, all of them,
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they're not ready to let this go. They're not going to let this go so easily, okay? And they
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certainly won't admit that they were wrong. That's not going to happen. And even more certainly,
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they're not going to apologize. They will not apologize to those of us who were skeptical of this story
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and were right and were accused of racism because of our skepticism. No one's coming back around.
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No, I was called racist many times over the last few days. Well, I'm always called that just like
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every other ist and ism I'm called. But especially the last few days because I was immediately skeptical
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of this story and I was told that's because you're racist. I'm here. I'm available if you want to come
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and apologize. You want to send me a letter? Send me an email. I am ready to accept your acts of
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contrition. If there are any takers. Surprisingly, there aren't. Wallace said earlier yesterday that
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skeptics were simple minded. He insulted us, called us stupid. Do you think he's apologizing for saying
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that? Is he going to at least apologize for that? Is he at least going to say, hey, you know, maybe it
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turns out you weren't very simple minded. I mean, it turns out you were actually on to something.
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In fact, you guys who were not even there and didn't have all the information that I had,
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you were able to figure this out in 10 seconds. So, wow, not only are you not simple minded,
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but compared to me, you're a genius. You guys are like, you should be private, private eyes. You're
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detectives. You were on the case. No, he's not going to say that. He just called us idiots and is
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going to leave it at that. And he's still making himself into the victim. Wallace went on CNN last
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night for, well, I'm not going to call it an interview. It certainly was not an interview.
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It was more of a therapy session. Don Lemon, the alleged news anchor, didn't ask any prying
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questions or really any questions at all. Didn't try to get to the truth. Never does, of course.
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Instead, he just complimented and soothed Bubba and told him how wonderful he is. In fact, I watched
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this. For some reason, I subjected myself to it because I'm a masochist, I suppose. But really,
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Don Lemon did most of the talking. And he spent the whole time just telling Bubba, nobody blames you.
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This isn't your fault. You're a great guy. You know, we all understand where you're coming from.
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If the media was capable of embarrassment, they would be embarrassed by that sickening spectacle.
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And Bubba agreed, by the way, of course. Bubba agreed that he's a wonderful guy and brave. And
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he said so many times in so many words. I kept talking about how I'm still standing up. I'm not
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going to let this stop me. It's a garage door opener. What do you mean you're still standing up and
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you're brave? I'm not going to be sure. They're not going to stop me. No garage door is going to stand
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in my way. But here he is at the very beginning because he's still making himself a victim. Here
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he is at the very beginning of this faux interview saying that he's still the victim. You know,
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he's not the victim of a hate crime, but because there wasn't one. But now he's the victim of people
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who doubted the hate crime, even though the doubters were right. He's still the victim
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of them. Watch this. I'm pissed. I'm mad because people are trying to test my character and the
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person that I am and my integrity. And they're not stealing that away from me, but they're just
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trying to test that. And as a person, Don, that doesn't need the fame, doesn't need the hype,
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doesn't need the media, I could care less. I could give two craps about that. But to sit there and
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read, and that's my problem. I'm reading too much into it and investing too much time into it.
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I am. I am. Don't, don't, don't, don't. I know. I know. I know. I'm trying hard not to. And after
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the night, I'll probably turn my phone off, unfortunately, until about 730 in the morning
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where the interviews start back up again and we get to it all over. And then, and then, so we have
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that. He's still a victim. Later on, he insists that it was a noose. He doubles down and claims that,
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you know, it was still a noose. And he's never in his life, never in his life has he seen a rope
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with a loop on it hanging in a garage. Watch. I've, I've been racing all my life. We've, we've
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raced out of hundreds of garages that never had garage pools like that. So people that want to
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call it a garage pool and put out old videos and photos of, of, of knots being in, in, in, in there,
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as their evidence, go ahead. But from the evidence that we have, um, that I have, uh,
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it's a straight up noose. The FBI has stated it was a noose over and over again. NASCAR
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leadership has stated that it was a noose. I can confirm that I actually got evidence of what was
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hanging in my garage over my car around my picker guys to confirm that it was a noose and never seen
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anything like it. Never seen it. Never, ever couldn't, couldn't possibly imagine ever seeing
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something like that. Um, and, but the left also, as I said, is not ready to let this go. Here's Al
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Sharpton calling for further investigations into the potentially racist garage door.
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We should take it as good news that someone didn't place it into his stall specifically as
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the only full-time black driver in NASCAR who pushed to have those Confederate flags removed
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from NASCAR events. And NASCAR did take that step last week, but it does appear there was a noose as
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the FBI is calling it placed in that garage last fall. The FBI identified it as a noose. NASCAR,
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uh, said it was a noose or went along with the FBI's characterization. It was a noose. So the question
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is, even if they did not know that Bubba Wallace was going to use that stall, why was a noose in the
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stall? It's clear what a noose represents. And I think to, to go whether or not they knew that
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sooner or later, the one black driver would use that stall really doesn't answer why it was in the
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stall at all. And then did someone know that it was in the stall when they did belatedly assign Bubba
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there? So I don't think this answers a lot of questions. And clearly from what we just saw
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of Bubba Wallace, it does not seem he, who is the victim and possible target in this matter,
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seems to be satisfied with this. So I do not think that we've seen closure in this particular
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inquiry. Okay. There's a bunch of other stuff like that from the left and the media. Uh, you know,
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oh, it still might be a hate crime. Why was there a noose there in the first place? Even if it wasn't a
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hate crime, it still could have been. So we had a valuable conversation that we needed to have. We
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should thank Bubba for that. Bubba's innocent in this. He didn't know, you know, that it wasn't a
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hate crime. It was reasonable for him to interpret it the way that he did. And the excuses go on and
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on and on. So I want to make a few points about this. We're going to go through this one by one
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as we sort through it. Um, and as we continue to dissect and analyze a piece of rope in a garage,
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because this is, this is what we do now. And it's a, it's a worth, it's a, it's a good way to spend our
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time. So number one, it was not a noose. Okay. Um, that's, that's not what it is. A noose is a
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certain type of knot. And the whole point of it is that if you put weight on it, it tightens.
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That's why it's also called a hangman's knot. And yes, they use it to hang people. They also use it
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for many non-lethal applications. So a noose, and that's the other part of this. That's sort of a
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side note. But this idea that a, a, a, a, you know, quote unquote noose is a, some sort of
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universal sign of, of racism. Since when did that become the case? These, these types of knots,
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slip knots are very useful. People use them for practical reasons all the time.
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When I see a knot like that, I don't immediately think, oh, someone's going to die. That's not what I
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think. Um, but this was, uh, this was more of just a standard loop knot. It was not a slipknot.
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And we know that because you aren't going to make a slipknot to close a garage door.
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The knot, the knot would tighten around your, your hand. You're not going to make a, a, a noose
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to close the garage door. You put weight on it. The thing about you got a heavy garage door to an
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NASCAR garage and you grab a noose around your hand and you yank down. That's a good way to break
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your hand. That's not, if the thing was hanging there for a year, then it was not a noose. No way
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was it a noose. People do not make nooses to close garages with. They don't use them as handles.
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Part of the problem here, maybe an underrated aspect of this story is that the left is comprised
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of a bunch of wusses, you know, a bunch of, a bunch of wusses and shut-ins who have no practical
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knowledge at all and never go outside. They don't know how to identify basic knots when they see them.
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You know, Sharpton says, well, why was it in the garage at all? Well, that's not a mystery.
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It was, it was there to hold onto as you close the door. Yes. In many garages, the pull down will have
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a handle or a little lever or something to grab. But you see, Al, sometimes men, uh, you, rather
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than sometimes they'll just tie a knot or do something like that to solve a problem rather
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than going out to Lowe's and buying a specific garage door closer, they might say, Hey, let me
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just tie a knot. That's what a man's going to do. This is what men do. We tie knots. We also use duct
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tape. Okay. So many times we say, I don't need, I fixed a hole in my kayak the other day with duct tape.
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Okay. Good as new, at least for now, until I drown in the lake. Uh, this is what we do. We tie knots.
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We use duct tape. You, I mean, I, you don't know much about that apparently about just being a normal
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guy. I think, you know, people need just like go do some camping, do some fishing, learn about basic
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knots. Now I'm not a, I'm not a knot expert myself, by the way, mostly because most of the knot tying I do
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is fishing and the Palomar knot is really going to, it's basically indestructible. It's almost
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the only knot you need a couple other knots, uh, like the Arbor knot, which is when you tie the
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line around the reel, but the Palomar knot, when it comes to tying a hook, I, you know, I've been
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using that. I haven't had a broken, I haven't lost a fish to a broken knot in years. I've lost it to
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broken line, you know, or because the fish jumps up because you don't keep the rod tip down when you're
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reeling it in. But, um, anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yeah. Um, bubble Wallace. Okay. So that's,
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that's that. Number two, an attempt is being made to absolve Bubba Wallace of all guilt in this case.
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And we're being told that this is not a Jussie Smollett situation. Uh, it's, it's really not
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similar at all. It's a completely different type of thing. And besides Wallace, isn't the one who
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called the feds. He didn't report it. He didn't see it. That's what we're told. Well, let me say,
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if you fell for the original story and now you're falling for the story that Bubba didn't know and
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was innocent, then congratulations, you got fooled by the hoax and are now being fooled by the hoax
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that covers the other hoax you got fooled by. You damned moron. Listen, let, let me explain this.
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Do you know how I, I knew this was, this, this was probably not a hate crime. Anyone, anyone who knew
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it? How did we know that it wasn't a hate crime? Do you know what, what magical sorcery we used to
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see the future and predict this outcome? Well, I'll tell you. Okay. Here's the sorcery. It's
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called common sense. That's all it takes. Common sense. Common sense told us that there probably
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wasn't a hate crime noose hanging in a NASCAR garage with security and cameras and stuff like
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that all around. We just, we knew it immediately. That's probably not the case. There's probably
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another explanation. Common sense also tells us, and you should listen to our common sense because,
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you know, you apparently have none, so you can borrow ours for a minute. Common sense also tells
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us that even if the initial person who saw the quote unquote noose really did misinterpret it,
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which is possible, maybe they did, it would not have taken very long for everyone else down the line
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to figure out the truth. So when someone comes to you and tells you there's a noose in your garage
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and it's a hate crime, your next immediate response is not going to be, wow, okay, let's
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alert the press. No, no, that's, see, that's, again, it's just common sense. Yes, I was not there.
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I can't prove this. But common sense tells me that is not how human interactions work.
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No, your response is going to be something like, what? Are you serious? Let me see. Let me go see it
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for myself. And then you go and you look or you look at a photo and you would then see that it's a rope
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hanging from a garage and you would at a minimum realize that it's at least possible that this is a
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totally innocent thing. So again, the only innocently duped person was maybe possibly the first person
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who saw the thing. Everyone else from Wallace to the NASCAR president, everyone else, they at a
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minimum would have known that there's a good chance it's not a hate crime. They would have known that
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because they would have looked at it and seen that it's a loop knot hanging from a garage door opener.
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And assuming that these are not actual certifiable clinical lunatics we're dealing with,
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they at least somewhere in their, in their head in a probably pretty prominent place would have been
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the thought of, you know, this could really just be nothing. And yet they all came out. Wallace included
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stated as fact that it's a hate crime, an act of hate despicable was the word that Wallace used
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in a very self-aggrandizing way, talking about how he's, he's going to stand up. He's not going to be
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intimidated. I will not be, I will not be intimidated. I will not be cowed down under the,
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under the weight of this garage door. No, see, that's, that's what he did. He didn't say,
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hmm, you know, guys, this is a little bit concerning, but let's check it out and see what's
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going on. It might be fine. That would have been a good response. That would have been a response that
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an innocent and, and intelligent and honest person would have given an even better response would have
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been, Hey guys, calm down. Like it's, it's just, it's a garage door opener. I'm sure that's all this
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is. Okay. He choose, he chose neither of those responses. Instead, he went all in on the hate
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crime, despite at least knowing that there's a likely innocent explanation. So did he perpetrate
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a hoax? Yes, absolutely. 100%, 100%. This is a hoax. And yes, he was, he was the ring,
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one of the ring leaders of it. Um, maybe not one that he planned or staged, maybe not one that he
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paid two Nigerian dudes to carry out, but it's a hoax all the same. Also keep in mind that Wallace
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went on the view after he'd been interviewed by the FBI. He said in the interview that he, you know,
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that he, that he talked to the FBI. The FBI at that point would have already looked at the tapes
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and known that it wasn't a hate crime. They would have figured that out in 15 seconds.
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As soon as they, now, if they've got any common sense at all, they would have known it as soon as
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they looked at the rope. But, but if not then, then as soon as they looked at the security camera
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footage and saw that, okay, that thing's been there for months, over a year, they would have known. So
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by the time they talked to Wallace, they knew that this was not a hate crime.
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And that fact would have come up in the quote interview. In fact, I doubt that it was really
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an interview at all. It was more of a meeting of the FBI saying, Hey, listen, this wasn't a hate
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crime. I'm, I would say 90% certainty that that's what the interview was because there'd be nothing
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for them to interview Wallace about at that point. Um, yet he still went on the, on the view and
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perpetuated the, uh, hate crime hoax and even shamed and insulted the people who he knew were
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right, that it wasn't a hate crime. So this guy, this guy's a liar and a fraud. And the fact that
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how, how gullible and stupid do you have to be that you fell for it the first time
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falling for it again? Good God. I really think there are a lot of people in this country that
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just love being fooled. They, they, they, they, they love making asses of themselves. They enjoy it.
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Number three, here's the most important thing to focus on. I want to read the FBI statement to you,
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uh, because there's one thing in this statement that really jumps out.
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Let me pull it up. Okay. FBI statement says on Monday, 15 FBI special agents conducted numerous
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interviews regarding the situation at Talladega super speedway. After a thorough review of the
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facts and evidence surrounding the event, we have concluded that no federal hate crime
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was committed. Um, and then it goes on from there. I don't even need to go any further.
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What I'm really homing in on here is 15 FBI agents
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investigated a rope in a garage, 15 FBI. And they're proud of it. They're telling us
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we were on the case. 15, 15, what are these, what are they doing? I know what one guy is good at. One
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guy looks at the rope and probably at that point says, Hey guys, just a, it's just a loop knot is
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you close the garage with it. Look, see here, look, that's all you do. So one guy is doing that. Maybe
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another guy goes and then, and then, and then another guy is told, Hey, go check the security
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camera. Let's be sure about this. Okay. That's two guys at most. What are the other 13 guys doing?
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What are they, what exactly are they doing? Are they dusting for fingerprints? Are they,
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what is they doing to a, doing a forensics investigation? Good Lord. Now what makes this
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even more, uh, it goes from being absurd and almost funny to actually infuriating when you realize
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that the federal government sent 15 agents to look at a freaking rope in a garage while there are
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violent mobs, tearing our cities apart. As we speak, tearing down monuments and statues, statues,
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burning buildings. It's still going on attacking police officers. And there's a lot that the
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federal government could and should be doing about this. There are, there are a lot of questions that
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they could be investigating. There are a lot of arrests they could be making and, and, and things they
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could be investigating. Like what are the groups backing these, these violent quote unquote
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protesters? You know, who's funding BLM? Who's funding Antifa? They could be investigating that
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kind of stuff. You can put 15 special agents on that. Put, put, put 50, put a hundred. The full force
00:23:51.220
of the federal government and our, and the federal government's law enforcement arm should be focused
00:23:57.280
focused on this, that we have violent insurrectionists right now trying to tear the country apart.
00:24:06.760
And they're all over the place. And you send 15 agents for a rope.
00:24:14.700
My God. Uh, and, and that is the headline. That's the real headline of all of this is the,
00:24:23.560
the federal government's involvement. Even if, I mean, even if it was a noose, okay. Even if,
00:24:32.860
even if some jerk had put a noose there as a hate crime, even then, what the hell do you need 15
00:24:40.320
agents for? Why do you need any federal agents for that? If you're going to involve law enforcement
00:24:47.140
all in a situation like that, then, you know, I'm sure a local cop could, could handle it.
00:24:51.800
A local cop can go and look at the security camera and see who did it and find that guy.
00:24:59.340
So even if this was a verified hate crime, it would still be insane to send 15 federal agents for it.
00:25:10.980
All right, let's move on to headlines. Number one, Lincoln County in Oregon has issued a new order
00:25:18.160
requiring that everyone wear masks in public, but the order exempts quote people of color.
00:25:24.460
So if you're a black person, you don't have to wear a mask. If you're white, you do.
00:25:27.940
The reason given is that black people might be concerned about racial profiling. Here's the
00:25:31.800
reading out from the daily wire. It says the post sites ACLU racial justice program director
00:25:37.300
Renika Moore, who said, uh, who told CNN for many black people deciding whether or not to wear a
00:25:42.960
bandana in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose
00:25:46.620
situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way. CNN quoted Trevin
00:25:51.580
Logan, who is black, also as saying a mandate to wear face coverings are basically telling black
00:25:56.720
people to look dangerous given racial stereotypes that are out there. This is in the large context
00:26:01.460
of black men fitting the description of a suspect who has a hood on, who has a face covering on.
00:26:05.240
Okay. So first of all, has there, have there been any cases of a black person who's wearing a face
00:26:14.000
covering for coronavirus, you know, getting assaulted or shot or arrested erroneously? Has that
00:26:20.280
happened at all? Is there one case of it? One single case or the ACLU is, is certain that this is a big
00:26:26.780
problem. They're certain it's a big problem. Okay. It's a, is it, if it's a problem that it should be
00:26:33.220
happening? Is it happening? If it's not happening, then it's not a problem. There's some more basic
00:26:38.780
common sense for you. If a thing is not happening, then it's not a problem because it's not happening.
00:26:46.120
But the other issue here is that there's no way this is constitutional. There is no way that a law
00:26:52.000
specifically exempting a certain race is constitutional, which isn't to say that it will be,
00:26:58.280
that it's going to be struck down by, by the courts. I'm, I'm not predicting that at all.
00:27:02.140
Just because the law is unconstitutional doesn't mean the court's going to strike it down. And just
00:27:07.040
because, uh, uh, you know, just because a law is constitutional doesn't mean that the court won't
00:27:12.080
strike it down. We know that that's how it works. The court's full of far left activists, as we know,
00:27:15.680
but in reality, the constitution does not allow this. This is not equality under the law. You can't
00:27:20.660
make an ordinance and say, if you're, if you have a certain skin pigmentation, you don't have to
00:27:24.920
follow it. Number two, and, uh, in statue toppling news, protesters, quote unquote, in Wisconsin tore
00:27:32.400
down, uh, the Lady Forward statue. Here's a picture of that. And then they defaced and tore down the Hans
00:27:37.340
Christian Hegg monument in Wisconsin. This was all in one night. Lady Forward is a monument to social
00:27:44.840
progress. Hegg was an abolitionist and a union soldier. Well, I believe died in the civil war. I'm
00:27:53.400
pretty sure about that. Uh, this was someone who just dedicated his whole life to abolishing
00:27:58.520
slavery. That was his, he was a anti-slavery activist and put his money where his mouth is on
00:28:04.060
it. So, and yet they tore his statue down and they tore down a statue to progress,
00:28:11.160
which I think is very appropriate. In fact, because yes, these are enemies of progress,
00:28:17.940
but you wouldn't think that they would see themselves that way. So why did these statues
00:28:24.560
have to come down? Why? Well, because the statues depicted white people. That's it. That that's
00:28:32.400
really all there is to it. Now, if it's a statue of a white person, it has to come down.
00:28:37.600
That's the only litmus test. This is, this is racism. And if it was a crowd, if it was a white
00:28:47.000
crowd, let's say a crowd of, of violent, uh, white supremacists who are tearing down statues of black
00:28:55.280
people for no discernible reason, other than their race, we'd call it a hate crime on top of not only
00:29:04.420
would they be arrested for destruction of property, property, they would also be arrested for
00:29:08.540
committing a hate crime. Yet in this case, you've got violent left-wing mobs going around tearing
00:29:14.540
down statues for no, I mean, the reason doesn't even matter. I don't care what your reason is,
00:29:18.880
but it's worth noting that at this point, their only reason is that's a statue of a white person
00:29:25.100
that can be the only, that could be the only coherent, uh, vaguely coherent reason to tear down a
00:29:31.600
statue of an abolitionist or a statute of progress is that it's depicting a white person.
00:29:37.060
So this is a racist campaign to take down monuments to white Americans, which isn't to say that these
00:29:42.200
are monuments to white America. They are, no, these are monuments to individual Americans who
00:29:48.720
happen to be white and also happen to do incredible and great things, but they have to come down.
00:29:55.720
So this is racism. The only other thing it could be, and I think also is, it's kind of a combination of
00:30:01.360
these things is destruction for destruction's sake. Nihilism, sociopathy, all of this is mixed into
00:30:08.580
it. I think there are people involved who just want to tear down a statue because it's fun. There's
00:30:12.560
a lot of that. There are people involved who just don't care about anything. Um, sociopaths, nihilists,
00:30:18.660
uh, there are people involved who have a beef with Western civilization in general. And then there are
00:30:24.260
people involved who just want to tear down statues of white people. All of that is mixed in. So
00:30:29.600
nihilism, sociopathy, uh, psychopathy, racism, all of that bigotry. Yeah. Number three, here's
00:30:38.360
somebody at a Trump event talking about the American dream.
00:30:42.000
Aunt Jemima was canceled. And if you didn't know Nancy green, the original first aunt Jemima,
00:30:49.820
she was a picture of the American dream. She was a freed slave who went on to be the face of the
00:30:56.520
pancake syrup that we love and have in our pantries today. The American dream is to be the face of
00:31:03.020
pancake syrup. That, that could be someone's dream. Uh, people are making fun of this, uh, this girl
00:31:09.060
for, for saying that, but I, you know, it could be someone's dream. Personally, I'd like to be the face
00:31:14.160
of Dijon mustard. I don't so much, you know, syrup, not really, not really my thing, but, uh,
00:31:19.280
if I was gonna be the face of any kind of condiment, I'd love to be the face of Dijon mustard. That's,
00:31:22.960
that's my great dream and goal, uh, in life. It's the only thing I want to achieve, but we all have
00:31:28.960
our own dreams, of course. Number four, as if we didn't have enough problems on our hands already,
00:31:34.040
uh, now a massive cloud of dust is floating our way from the Sahara desert. CBS news reports,
00:31:39.880
a massive plume of dust from the Sahara desert in North Africa has been traversing the atmosphere
00:31:45.200
thousands of feet above the tropical Atlantic Ocean, and is now cloaking the Caribbean and
00:31:49.760
closing in on the southeastern U.S. Um, while summer dust plumes are common occurrence, this
00:31:58.320
appears to be one of the most extreme in recent memory. Pablo Mendez Lazora from the University of
00:32:03.360
Puerto Rico's School of Public Health said, this is the most significant event in the past 50 years.
00:32:07.840
Conditions are dangerous in many Caribbean islands. Wait, wait a second, what? The most significant
00:32:12.760
event in 50 years? The dust? The dust is the most significant event in 50 years? Maybe he means
00:32:19.640
this is the most significant dust-related event. Uh, and, and that I could see. Though personally,
00:32:26.520
I think the great dust storm of 87 or maybe the dust cloud of 72 could perhaps rival this, but this is a
00:32:32.840
debate that never ends among dust enthusiasts, um, the dust enthusiast community. So that's, that's
00:32:39.400
interesting anyway, but look out for the dust on, on, uh, on its way over here. Five, finally, sports
00:32:44.600
writer, genius, and scholar Rob Parker has written an article for Deadspin that I'm pretty sure is not
00:32:51.400
a parody. You could never be entirely sure these days, but, uh, here's, here's, here's the article.
00:32:58.040
He says that the name of the masters must now be changed. And here's how he argues the point. He says,
00:33:03.160
the name, the masters must go the heralded, the heralded golf tournament. One of the four majors
00:33:10.840
needs to go back to its original name, the Augusta national invitation. It became the masters in 1939.
00:33:16.760
Tiger woods, other big time golfers and corporate sponsorships should demand it in the current climate
00:33:21.480
with all the sweeping changes. It's only right. And just best of all, in this case, it's a simple
00:33:25.480
and smooth fix. The masters never felt good or even sounded good when you said it. And before we hear
00:33:30.920
from the choir about tradition and history, save it. When that history and tradition is rooted in
00:33:35.560
slavery, it shouldn't be preserved and honored. Augusta national was built on grounds that were
00:33:41.080
once a slave plantation and was the property of a slave owner. So then why do you want to call it
00:33:46.360
the Augusta national invitation? You're saying that you want to name it after a property that was,
00:33:51.160
that was, was owned by a slave owner. I don't, I don't understand how that's an improvement.
00:33:56.280
And according to a 2019 New Yorker piece about the course, it's believed that enslaved blacks were
00:34:00.680
housed on the property and be honest. When you hear anyone say the masters, you think of slave
00:34:05.800
masters in the South. There's nothing else, nothing special. You don't think of someone mastering the
00:34:12.120
game of golf. What has anyone mastered? When has anyone mastered golf? I can't even, I can't continue.
00:34:21.080
I'm losing brain cells. Brain cells are leaking out of my ear. As I, as I speak right now,
00:34:26.680
I can feel them dropping out like dandruff, just falling, falling onto my shoulders. I mean, this is
00:34:34.360
when you hear the masters, you don't think of someone mastering the game of golf.
00:34:37.640
That's exactly what I think. That's what any normal person thinks. When have you heard of someone
00:34:42.680
mastering golf? I don't know. I mean, everybody at the masters has mastered it pretty much. They're
00:34:46.840
professional golfers. Yes, be honest. Be honest. When you hear of the masters golf tournament,
00:34:55.480
your mind immediately conjures images of slave masters golfing. Admit it. Be honest. Oh wait,
00:35:02.680
you don't think of that? Okay, that was just my own psychosis talking. Okay then. No, but Rob really
00:35:07.400
makes a good point, I think. Because I also think the name of the show Master Chef should be changed.
00:35:13.320
Because when I hear Master Chef, I think of slave owners baking cakes. The rapper Master P
00:35:22.200
has to change his name, obviously. Master Peace Theater. Can't have that. Because that brings to mind
00:35:30.840
a piece of a slave master. Just a piece of him. Like an arm or something lying there.
00:35:36.040
A masterpiece. So maybe that's okay actually. Because that brings to mind dismembered slave
00:35:43.720
owners. Maybe that's okay. I don't know. I don't know what the new rules are. But there's Rob Parker
00:35:50.120
with a great take, as always. We're going to move on to our daily cancellation. Before we do,
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Sign up for just a buck. Now, daily cancellation. Today, we're going to be canceling the claim
00:36:39.880
that America is a racist country. And in canceling it, I'd like to echo the point made by many others
00:36:45.720
that if America was truly a racist country, if racism was rampant in our country, as it is claimed,
00:36:53.880
then there wouldn't be any need or desire to invent hate crimes. The existence of guys like Jussie
00:37:01.000
Smollett and Bubba Wallace. And the prevalence of these hoaxes. And the fact that the intelligent
00:37:07.080
among us knew the news story was a hoax just because they are so often hoaxes. This all amounts
00:37:14.600
to very strong circumstantial evidence against the systemic racism theory. This does not in itself,
00:37:21.160
by itself, disprove systemic racism. I think there's other things you can look at that
00:37:27.000
make that essentially disprove it. But it's very good circumstantial evidence.
00:37:37.160
Someone tells you about a systemically racist country, a country that is beset by racism,
00:37:41.720
racism, and you don't know anything about this country or this culture. The last thing you would
00:37:46.680
expect is that the, you know, the people who are allegedly victims of this, of this rampant systemic
00:37:53.640
racism, you know, would be, would be inventing instances of it. So let's think about why this
00:38:01.160
keeps happening. We all know that it does keep happening, but why does it keep happening? Why would
00:38:06.360
someone do something like this? Why pretend that a hate crime has been committed against you?
00:38:12.520
This happens so often, but we barely, we rarely stop to ask, why would someone do this? What's the
00:38:18.200
point? Or why would you allow yourself to be deceived into thinking that it has happened?
00:38:24.200
Why would a person be eager to interpret it this way? Well, it's because victimization is power in
00:38:30.520
our culture. Victimization is trendy. Victimization means attention, admiration, money,
00:38:35.880
sympathy, clout, political influence. But is that how it would be if America was systemically racist?
00:38:44.280
Could a person expect to profit off of claims of racist victimization in a racist country? How so?
00:38:51.400
How could they? How could you profit off of a claim like that? Benefit from it. Benefit from it so much
00:38:59.320
that you would make it up or be eager to interpret an innocent act as a hate crime if the country is
00:39:05.320
actually racist? Now, you notice something. Look back through history. Look at all the examples,
00:39:11.720
unfortunately many examples, of oppressed groups in various societies around the world,
00:39:18.680
including in the history of this country. In the history of this country, there obviously have been
00:39:24.520
systemically oppressed groups. But what you don't find in these examples,
00:39:28.760
you don't often find these groups inventing additional oppression. Why not? Well, because
00:39:35.480
there's nothing to be gained from it. They're oppressed. How much more oppression, how would
00:39:39.800
more oppression help their cause? They're already oppressed. Also, they wouldn't need to invent it.
00:39:44.760
Even if they wanted to, even if they thought that somehow an instance of oppression would benefit
00:39:49.480
them, they wouldn't need to invent it. And anyone in one of these oppressed groups anywhere,
00:39:54.120
they wouldn't need to invent it because there's an ample supply of it already on offer. There's a
00:39:59.720
whole, you know, there's a buffet of oppression that's there at all times. They don't need to
00:40:06.200
invent additional oppression. You think about, you know, an example would be Christian minorities in
00:40:13.720
the Middle East who are oppressed and persecuted and killed. They're not making it up. They're not
00:40:21.880
inventing additional instances of it. If they get executed, if they're at church and get rounded
00:40:28.760
up and executed by Muslim militants, that's all the oppression that is needed. They're not going
00:40:34.920
to go and come up with some other example. It wouldn't make any sense to do that.
00:40:39.960
And thirdly, and this is important, truly oppressed groups have no appetite for fake martyrdom.
00:40:45.960
Oppression and victimization isn't a game to them. It's real. The last thing they would want is to
00:40:50.520
exaggerate or fabricate. There's no appetite for that. No, no desire for it. It's kind of like if,
00:40:58.120
you know, if someone who isn't actually sick, but exaggerates their symptoms to get sympathy,
00:41:03.560
or maybe to get out of work, or, you know, as I used to do very often as a kid to get out of school,
00:41:08.760
compare that to someone who's very sick, legitimately sick. Let's say so sick they're in the hospital,
00:41:15.300
maybe even deathly sick. Maybe they're, you know, they've got terminal cancer or something,
00:41:18.920
a very sick person. Now, that person isn't going to exaggerate symptoms. They're not going to make
00:41:25.960
up symptoms they don't have, because there's no need anyway. The symptoms are bad enough as it is.
00:41:31.300
And also, they'd be in no mood for that. For them, sickness is not a game. It isn't play acting. It
00:41:37.420
isn't a tool they're using. It's just, it's real. It's terrible. It's inescapable. And they just want to
00:41:44.180
get better. They want to be free of the sickness. That's their desire. Oppressed people seek to be
00:41:49.640
free of the oppression. They don't seek to extend it, or add to it, or, you know, fabricate it,
00:41:59.200
or find more of it, or create it. They want to be free. Bubba Wallace is not oppressed. He is not a
00:42:07.960
victim. He is a rich man of power and privilege. He lives a luxurious and enviable life. He lives a
00:42:17.100
better life than almost everyone else on earth. Okay? He is at the, he is, he is in terms of everyone
00:42:24.000
on earth, and everyone that's ever existed on earth. Being a, you know, being a famous person,
00:42:30.600
a rich professional athlete, he's up close to the top. And all of that, I think, made him greedy.
00:42:41.340
He wanted more. And he used fake victimization to get more. Because no real victimization was on
00:42:47.980
offer for him. This country is not systemically racist against him. Which is good news. And
00:42:55.440
something that he would celebrate, and should celebrate. If he weren't a fraud. Which he is.
00:43:03.560
And that's the other thing. The very revealing thing. When I, when something is claimed to be a
00:43:09.740
hate crime, and it turns out not to be one. Notice how the left, and the race hustlers, and, you know,
00:43:18.620
hacks like Al Sharpton. Notice they're upset. They're angry. Palpable disappointment is on
00:43:27.160
their face. And in their words, they're desperate to preserve it as some kind of hate crime, or sort
00:43:32.580
of a hate crime, semi-hate crime. What does that tell you? They should be relieved. They should be
00:43:40.340
saying, thank God. And then they should also be embarrassed that they were fooled. Relief and
00:43:45.540
embarrassment. It should be the two things. But no. No. They're clinging on to it. They want it.
00:43:55.700
The people on the left, they wanted, they wish it was a hate crime. They are disappointed that it
00:44:02.460
isn't. And I think that right there tells you everything you need to know. And we'll leave it
00:44:08.320
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