Ep. 512 - We Need Law And Order, Not ＂Police Reform＂
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On this episode of The Matt Walsh Show: Republicans are trying to appease the left, as usual, this time with police reform measures. Also, a Michigan prosecutor who still has not charged the man who brutally assaulted a Macy s employee on camera, is considering not charging him at all. And we'll also discuss a video of a white woman trying to explain racism to a group of Black police officers.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Republicans are trying to appease the left, as usual,
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this time with police reform measures. But I have an idea for different reforms that we could
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make our priority and should make our priority before we talk about reforming the police.
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Also, five headlines, including the Michigan prosecutor who still has not arrested or charged
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the man who brutally assaulted a Macy's employee on camera, still hasn't done it, according to him,
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is considering not charging him at all. We'll play that clip for you.
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And we'll also discuss a video of a white protester trying to explain
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racism, lecturing about racism to a group of black police officers. It doesn't go very well
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for her, as you might imagine. All of that coming up. So Republicans in the Senate have come up with
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a police reform bill. The bill has been blocked by Democrats, not only blocked by Democrats,
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but Nancy Pelosi infamously said that the bill is murder. It is murder. Republicans are trying to
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get away with murder with this bill. They're trying to get away specifically with the murder
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of George Floyd with their police reform bill. That's what she said. How is this bill murdering
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George Floyd, who is, of course, already dead and who died in a Democrat-run city? I mean,
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how could you possibly blame the murder of George Floyd on Senate Republicans when he died in a
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Democrat-run city at the hands of one single police officer? Who knows? But she's not apologizing for the
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comment. When you were speaking yesterday, you said that Republicans are, quote, trying to get
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away with murder, actually, the murder of George Floyd. Senate Republicans are demanding an apology
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for that statement. Will you apologize? Absolutely, positively not. The fact is,
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people say, I think you, frankly, in the press have given them far too much credit for a bill that does
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nothing. They're saying, well, you have your bill, they have theirs. Yeah, our bill does something,
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theirs doesn't. Is Tim Scott working in good faith, I guess? I'm sorry? Is Tim Scott working
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in good faith? Is this a good starting point? I'm talking about Mitch McConnell.
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Now, what does this murderous bill actually do, or what is it intended to do anyway? Reading now from
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an NPR report, which for the most part appears to be relatively fair, surprisingly, it says the
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legislation will increase federal reporting requirements for use of force, no-knock warrants.
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It also increases penalties for false police reports. It seeks to encourage chokehold bans
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through this added transparency and by withholding funding for units without bans on chokeholds,
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except when deadly force is authorized. The effort also looks to up use of police body cameras with
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grant programs and in turn penalties for failing to use the cameras. It creates a database of police
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disciplinary records for law enforcement departments to use in their hiring practices. It makes lynching a
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federal crime, which is linked to an effort that passed in the House but has recently stalled in
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the Senate. It directs the Justice Department to develop and provide training on de-escalation
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tactics and implement duty to intervene policies. That's what Democrats are blocking. And we'll talk
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about all the specifics here. Making lynching a federal crime, what's the point of that? When is the last
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time, we actually have a verified case of somebody being lynched in this country? And on the extremely,
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extremely, extremely rare occasion that it does happen, if it does happen, why would that form of
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murder be a federal crime? So if you lynch somebody, it's a federal crime, but if you just shoot them in
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the head, it's not? Why would we be doing that? Well, this is about, of course, there's no reason for it.
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It's absurd. The whole thing's absurd. But this is Republicans just trying to appease the left and
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give them what they want, even if it doesn't make any sense. But Democrats are blocking it.
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Republicans are shocked and scandalized that the bill is being blocked. Here's Senator Tim Scott
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reacting. In Detroit, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, all these cities could have
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ban chokeholds themselves. They could have increased the police reporting themselves. They could have
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more data information themselves. They could have de-escalation training themselves. They could have
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duty to intervene themselves. Minneapolis as well. All these communities have been run by Democrats
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Democrats for decades. Decades. What is the ROI for the poorest people in this nation? And I don't blame
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them. I blame an elite political class with billions of dollars to do whatever they want to do and look at
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the results for the poorest, most vulnerable people in our nation. I'm willing to compete for their
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vote. Are you? But Democrats are even more shocked and scandalized. So it's a competition. Who can be
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the most shocked and scandalized? Democrats are even more, which Kamala Harris says that she's shocked
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and scandalized because the bill is hollow and political. And she, of course, knows something about
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being hollow and political. Watch. We're here because Mitch McConnell has put up a bill
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challenging us to either comply with his political game that is about obstructing the United States
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Senate's ability to actually do something or to to play a game with him, which is only about covering
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his political concerns and not about the real concerns that the American people have about the
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realities of two systems of justice in America. And we're not going to play that game and we're not
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going to be played. The truth as we know it is that people by the thousands are marching in the streets of
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America, of every race, every age and gender in every geographic location in all the 50 states unified,
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demanding we act, demanding that finally something is actually done. And we have it in our power to actually
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do something. And back and forth we go. But you know something? I'm happy that this bill was blocked
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I'm happy they did. Here's why. Two reasons. One, I'm an optimist at heart. Cheerful optimist,
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which you know this about me. I see everything through rosy, rosy tinted glasses. And so I hope
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that finally, finally, finally, Republicans will learn that you will never ever win by trying to
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suck up to and appease the left. No matter what you do, no matter what, it won't be enough.
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There is no reason to ever do anything because you think that it will make them feel good or,
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or, you know, you're trying not to upset them. There's no reason to ever do anything for those
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reasons. It'll never be enough. Republicans could pass a bill abolishing the police,
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abolishing the national anthem, mandating the removal of the Statue of Liberty,
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which will be replaced by a 300 foot statue of, uh, I don't know, RuPaul deporting all white people
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to Mars, whatever. And they'd still be told that it's, it's not only not enough, but it's so
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insufficient that it only proves that Republicans are literal Nazis who, uh, sacrifice goats to idols
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of Hitler that are constructed out of the bones of puppies. That's the way it always goes. Okay.
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So maybe Republicans will learn that probably not, but that's my hope anyway. Second reason
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that I'm glad it's blocked, blocked. It's a bad bill. It is just a bad bill. I know it's a bad bill
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because they're trying to pass it for the reason just stated to appease the left. When was any Republican
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talking about police reform before, say two months ago, before George Floyd, I don't remember any,
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there weren't very many Republicans putting this forward as the number one item on their agenda,
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were there? Who in the Republican party was calling for that? Almost no one. They discovered this passion
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for police reform because of the public outcry over one particular case, a case that we have no reason
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to think has anything to do with bad policy or bad policing strategies. People are so emotional that
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we can't stop and be, and be reasonable about this and realize that it has nothing to do. This,
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this had nothing to do with a bad policy. This was the behavior of one cop who it seems may have had a
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personal issue with George Floyd because it seems like they knew each other though. Actually we still
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don't know a whole lot about. We still, to this point, there's been a lot, there's been a lot of
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reaction to put it mildly to George Floyd and his death. We still don't know almost anything about
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what happened. Do you realize that? We don't know the context. We don't know what led up to it. We don't
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know. We, to this point, we have not seen body cam footage, though it exists. We have not seen dash cam
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footage, though it exists. Why is that? That's a, that's a whole different question. But the point
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is that this bill is a reaction to a high profile news event and bills passed as a reaction to high
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profile news event events, bills that seek to make new laws and regulations based on the public reaction
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to something in the news are almost always bad. They are almost always passed for, well, Kamala Harris
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said it. Hollow and political reasons. I actually agree with her criticism. The only difference is
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that she forgot to mention that she is also hollow and political and her own police reform efforts are
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the same. So she was half right anyway. Do the police need to be reformed? Um, well, again, if you
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didn't think so two months ago, then you shouldn't think so now. There's no reason. Nothing has happened
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in the last two months that should make you, uh, that, that would have, that should have changed your mind
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about however you felt about police reform. Do I think that police should be? Well, sure. Any
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institution, especially a government institution can stand to be reformed, refined. That's a constant
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process that, that should always continue. Um, there are always problems to be addressed, adaptations
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that need to be made, uh, keeping up with the times and all that kind of stuff. So yes, but not like
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this, not under these circumstances, not for this reason, not passed down from the top, from the
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federal government in a panic in reaction to voters who are emotional and upset for reasons that many
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of those voters can't even articulate. These are quote unquote reforms that need to be much more
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localized and targeted and enacted with the input of actual law enforcement officials, not empty suits
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in DC. But here's the real point for me. Before we talk about police reform, before we get to that,
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I think there are other much more pressing reforms that need to be made. And these are the reforms
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that Republicans, if they had any guts at all, if they were worth anything, if they weren't utterly
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worthless, useless, spineless jellyfish floating around, barely able to stand on their own two feet
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because they're comprised of such a weak gelatinous material, they would be calling for, um, uh,
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reforms that restore law and order in the streets and bring the criminals and terrorists to justice.
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That's what we need right now. That's what we need first and urgently. And don't tell me that,
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well, this will help restore law, restore law and order because this is what the anarchists want.
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And it, it, it, it will, it will make them happy and they'll go away. No, no, they're anarchists.
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They're insurrectionists. They're nihilists. Okay. They're, they're, they're, they're people that
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are destroying for the sake of it. There's nothing you can do. They're not going to say, oh, you know
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what? Republicans passed police reform guys. Let's stop toppling the statue for a minute. Let's look over
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this bill. We'll talk about it. And, uh, maybe it's good. Maybe we can just go home. That's not going to
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happen. That's not ever going to happen. Never. There is nothing in a police reform bill that will
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do one single damned thing to stop the, uh, spread of lawlessness and anarchy across the country.
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So one example of a reform measure that could be put in place, uh, if you, if you remember this
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video, watch it again. Now that dirt bag who pushed the 92 year old woman onto the ground,
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she hit her head against a fire hydrant, um, had been arrested anywhere from 60, 60 to a hundred
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times already, including sex crimes. Why not a reform that gets monstrosities like that off of
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the street for good forever? Why not some reforms targeted at preventing terrorists from tearing down
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priceless monuments or reforms enacting stiffer penalties for people who participate in riots?
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I could list dozens of more reforms that could be enacted that, that could be made in the direction
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of restoring order to our communities and freeing us from the grip of anarchists and insurrectionists
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and all around scumbags who are trying to destroy society. And if Republicans had any sense or any guts
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or any spine, that's what they would be doing. Instead, we get police reform.
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Instead, we get them following the agenda of the left. As always, the left looks at what's
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happening and they say, this is, this is a sign we need police reform. And the stupid useless
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Republicans say, you know what? You're right. That's, that's what we need.
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Completely useless. And the argument for, for as long as I've been alive, you know, for as long
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as I've been alive, I've known that, um, sorry about that. For as long as I've been alive, I've known
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that the Republicans are useless, but I've always been told that, well, they're better than the
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Democrats. So you just got to vote for them. They're better. Okay. It's the best we can do.
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Sorry. Just suck it up, buttercup. It's the best we can do. Is it, I mean, are they even better than
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the Democrats? How are they better? I, it's the, the lines are blurring so much in what way Democrats
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are doing nothing to restore law and order. Republicans are doing nothing. They're both doing
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nothing. They're both focusing on police reform. We're really going to get to a point. I think
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we're probably there already where there just is, is really no substantive difference between these
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two groups of people. Um, and I think arguably we've been there and have been there for a long
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time. All right, let's go to news headlines. Number one, over the last several days, I've been telling you
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about this apparently racially motivated hate crime at a Macy's in Michigan. Uh, watch it again.
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The important update on this story is that there is no update. Nothing has happened in this case.
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It's been 10 days. Nothing has happened. No charges. The man seen pummeling a Macy's store manager
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in broad daylight in the middle of the store on video has not been arrested, has not been charged
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with anything. He brutally assaulted someone on camera. We, you know, we, we see it. He's the
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guys on the ground begging for mercy, getting pummeled, hasn't been arrested for it. The prosecutor,
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David Lighton, um, here's his Twitter, by the way, he hasn't filed charges. He's, uh, still has not.
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And he's actually considering not filing charges at all. That's what he said. Here he is right now.
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Well, listen to this. I would say to the president and anybody else who has an interest in this,
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that I will make a fair and just decision as to charging or not charging after I have all the
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information. The warrant request only came in today. The police reports only came in today.
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And after we reviewed them, we determined that they're not complete yet. We want more information.
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So I would say to Mr. President, give us the time that we need. Uh, and we certainly would
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appreciate it if you would send more resources in to help us because Genesee County is not the
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most wealthy county. And our police departments work very, very hard. Our prosecutor's office
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works very, very hard. Uh, but, uh, it takes time to get these right. We want to get it right.
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So haste makes waste and we're going to make sure that we do everything. Uh, so it's fair and just
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for all people concerned charging or not charging. He's deciding about charging or not. He is actually,
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as of now, according to him, leaving open the possibility of not charging a man with a crime
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for pummeling another man while that man is on the ground, begging him to stop.
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He's saying potentially in his eyes, that's not a crime.
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What would make that not a crime? What information? He said, we're still investigating.
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What, what information could you possibly discover in your investigation that would make this not a
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crime? What could you possibly find out? That's what I want to know. What could have happened before
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this? That would make what you saw on video. Okay. In the eyes of the law, the assailant's brother,
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by the way, who filmed it and posted it doesn't even claim that it was self-defense. Okay. He doesn't
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even, so the, the people responsible for it, they're not even pretending that this was legally justified,
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which, which of course, of course it's not self-defense. A Macy's store manager, I very much
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doubt would get into a fist fight with random customers who are coming in the door, but that
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isn't even being claimed anyway. The claim from the assailants, their defense is that the manager
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said the N word, which he didn't. That's clearly a lie. But even if he did, how would that change
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a single damned thing in respect to criminal charges? You don't have the legal authority to
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assault someone because they said a word you don't like. So how would that make a difference?
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He also says that, I don't know, I don't think it's in the clip, but he says that they're looking
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at different footage and they're looking at security camera footage, but unfortunately it
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doesn't have audio. What do you need audio for? Who cares what's being said? And the prosecutor
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says he needs more resources that Trump should send him. What resources do you need? You have a
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video of it and you have a public confession from the assailants that they gave to the media
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admitting that they assaulted him and saying that the only reason they did it is that he said a word,
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a bad word. And then you have Macy's who already investigated it and could very easily tell you that
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he didn't say the bad word. But again, for the millionth time, whether he did or not is immaterial
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to the criminal aspect of this case. Number two, so this is weird. A few days ago,
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Kelly Weil of the Daily Beast, not Daily Wire, Daily Beast published this piece under the
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Chaos Debunked heading. And the piece is titled, Local Businesses Love the, quote,
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Domestic Terror Zone in Seattle, Actually. And her point was that, in fact, all the businesses in the
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so-called autonomous zone in Seattle actually love being in a lawless hellscape rife with
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unregulated and unpunished crime and chaos. They love it. That was her whole, she wrote a lengthy
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piece about it. They really are, they can't get enough of it. You know, they wake up every morning,
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tears of joy in their eyes. Those tears you see, those are of joy because they look out their shop
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windows and see a half-naked man high on heroin spray painting a park bench while protesters smash the
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neighbor's window and a mentally disturbed woman performs karate with an orange peel over her face,
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which is a thing that actually happened. And they think to themselves, I am so glad to be here.
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That's what Kelly Weil says anyway. But here's the weird part. A report today from Preston Phillips,
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local news anchor in Seattle, says that a dozen business owners in the chop zone are suing,
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they're doing, they're filing a class action lawsuit against the city of Seattle for abandoning them
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and leaving them to wallow in the chaos and filth. That's a, that's a strange way to show you love
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something, isn't it? To file a class action lawsuit to get it to stop? Hmm. Number three,
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a Black Lives Matter activist was on with Martha McCallum on Fox News last night. A number of crazy
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things were said, as you can imagine, but here's just one example. I just want to put up this quote
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from Martin Luther King. And I've heard you talk about Martin Luther King versus Malcolm X. And you said
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that he, you know, was an anomaly, Martin Luther King. He said, let us be dissatisfied until that
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day when nobody will shout white power, when nobody will shout black power, but everybody will talk
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about God's power and human power. Do you agree with that? I love the Lord. And my Lord and Savior,
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Jesus Christ is the most famous black radical revolutionary in history. And he was treated just
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like Dr. King. He was arrested on occasion and he was also crucified or assassinated. This is what
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happens to black activists. We are killed by the government. Well, and if you need context, if you
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read your Bible, it would say that Jesus had feet like burnt brass and hair like wool. I don't know if
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you noticed, but our hair seems to be more like wool and we seem to be likened to that color than anyone
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else. And, you know, it's just a hypocrisy and white supremacy in America and in the world that
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would show us portraits of a pasty white Jesus. Jesus was not white. We all know this. Okay. No,
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um, no, that no, that's a no on that one. Jesus was a Middle Eastern Jew. Jew. That's what he was.
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There's no debate over that. He was a Middle Eastern Jew. He wasn't white. He wasn't black.
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He wasn't white European. And he wasn't black African. He was a Middle Eastern Jew. Probably
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looked very similar to what Middle Eastern Jews look like today, if that matters, which it doesn't.
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Um, as to the Bible quote, the Bible verse quoted there, that's not a Bible verse. That's just, uh,
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he, he, that's, that's not actually in the Bible. The gospels never once describe any of Christ's
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physical features. Um, they don't say a single word about what he looks like. And there might be a
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reason for that. You know, maybe there's a reason for that. I say that his physical, his physical
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appearance didn't matter. Well, I think the writers of the gospels agreed. That's why they don't describe
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him. Revelation does provide a description you might say, but it's highly metaphorical. And it's
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describing a glorified Christ returning on judgment day. The actual verse says, um, the hair on his head
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was white, like wool, as white as snow. That's the verse that he mentioned, but he didn't quite
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quote it that way. Did he now? I don't think that means Jesus is white as in Caucasian, but it does
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show that the wool comment is about color, uh, the color of the hair. That's what it's about.
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Color of the hair specifically is what it's referring to. And so all of that is nonsense. And of course,
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you know, this, and I've addressed it before, so I'm not going to go into detail, but this constant,
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constant effort, um, by activists and leftists to make Jesus into, uh, into himself, sort of a
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political activist who was killed by the government because they were afraid of his political message
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is just completely off base. There is no support for it whatsoever. No support in the Bible.
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Now there is support among new age scholars who have, who have for decades been trying to turn
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Jesus into that, but all you have to do is pick up the gospels and read them. He was not a political
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activist at all. He, he, he barely discussed anything remotely political. And when he did,
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you know, he said, give to Caesar what is Caesar's. Um, but that was not Jesus's message. It was not one
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about politics and the Roman government couldn't care less about Jesus. They weren't, they weren't
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worried about, about, you know, an itinerant preacher, an itinerant Jewish preacher going
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around talking about, from their perspective, from their perspective, he's just another Jewish
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preacher. There's a lot of them going around talking about, uh, Jewish, uh, you know, theology.
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They didn't care about that. It made no difference to them.
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They killed Jesus. Pilate ordered the execution to appease the mob. He didn't care. He tried to,
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uh, you know, he tried to exonerate Jesus said, I find no fault in him. I don't see a problem with
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him. Kill them because the mob demanded it. So again, this is, if there's any, um, lesson we can
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apply to the, you know, the current it's, it's that this is why you don't go along with mob rule.
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Number four, Bubba Wallace has slightly changed his tune from that embarrassing CNN performance
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after the news story was exposed as false as, as you may remember. Um, and he, he went on CNN
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in what was really a, a therapy session more than an interview and, uh, was defiant and basically
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doubling down on, on the whole story in a, in a lot of ways, although he admitted that it wasn't
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a hate crime, but he was doubling down saying it was a noose and trying to still make himself a
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victim. Anyway, yesterday he published a statement. Well, I don't know if he published it so much as
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his PR people finally got to him and they published this, but this is what he says. Now it's been an
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emotional few days. First off, I want to say how relieved I am that the investigation revealed that
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this wasn't what we feared it was. I want to thank my team, NASCAR and the FBI for acting swiftly
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and treating this as a real threat. I think we'll gladly take a little embarrassment over what the
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alternatives could have been. Make no mistake, though. Some will try. This should not detract from
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the show of unity we had on Monday and the progress we've made as a sport to be a more
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welcoming environment for all. Okay. That's slightly less objectionable than his, than his,
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than the spectacle on, uh, on Monday, Tuesday night. But what's missing from this? An apology.
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There's no apology. There's no apology. How about just, I'm sorry about that. There's no
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accountability. And he says, oh, it's, it's not what we feared it was. Oh, you, you, you just feared
00:29:33.140
that it was that because that's not what you said, Bubba. What you said was that this is a hate crime,
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a despicable act of hate. That's what you said. You didn't say, I fear that it might be a hate crime.
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You stated with a, for a fact that it is with not only with no skepticism, but insulting anyone who
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was skeptical about it. So, and then as far as it shouldn't detract from the show of unity,
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well, I'm sorry, it does detract from the show of unity because that was a show of unity based on a
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lie. And if we want unity in America, we're not going to find it based on lies. Number five,
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here's a great video of a white protester trying to explain racism to black cops.
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A black person pointing to privilege and power is white?
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We're done. My black wife is calling me. I'm going to have a conversation.
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That doesn't mean like black, Jesus, sir. Just because you have one black friend or a black wife,
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you can still be racist. It has nothing to do with your acquaintances.
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Wow, it must have been so intimidating if all the police moved that way. That's impressive.
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It's not intimidating. It's just like, you're trying to have a conversation. You have a one-track
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mind. There's no point to have that conversation before.
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You have to be able to be open to both sides of the story.
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Amazing, sir. Amazing. Everyone moved over. Impressive. They couldn't even handle it.
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They couldn't handle it, sir. I wasn't talking to you, sir. I was talking to white people.
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Systemically, no, sir. Systemically, racism can only be white. Systemically, sir.
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Individually, it can be a different color, but systemically, it can only be white.
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It's not an agenda, sir. It's not an agenda. It's the past, the present, and hopefully not
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How can I be? I mean, I'm white. I'm inherently racist.
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You just called him a liar, saying he don't have a black wife and black children.
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I wanted to see a check. I wanted to see a check you to believe him.
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Amazing. And great stuff from that officer at the end there, from all the officers, actually.
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But you notice how this woman, it really is a cult. These people are in a cult. Full-on cult.
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She's just repeating doctrine. She's like an automaton, a robot. Can't engage. She can't.
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It's like she can't even hear what's being said to her. She's saying what she's trained to say.
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You can almost see the spirals in her eyes like a hypnotized cartoon character, right?
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Systemically. You're a systemically racist. Systemically. Systemically.
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This is what people on the left, they think that just saying the word systemically wins the argument.
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All they have to do is say, oh, really? Systemically. Boom. Mic drop. Got you on that, didn't I? Nothing you can say in response to that. Systemically.
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Systemically. She's just shouting the word systemically at him. Systemically. It's systemic.
00:33:00.900
You have no idea what you're saying. You have no clue what you're saying.
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But you're saying it because it's what you've been trained to say.
00:33:06.720
By the way, the officer with the black wife, and he says, you know, it starts by saying, OK, I'm going to go call my black wife now.
00:33:15.420
Try, you know, obviously as a as a dig at the woman calling him a racist.
00:33:20.400
And she says, it doesn't prove you're not a racist.
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I think having a black wife, very good evidence that you're not racist.
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Extremely good. I'd say it's almost 100 percent confirmation that you're not racist.
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Yes. Do you know why? Because despite what you're what we are told by these barely coherent activists who are shouting the word systemically.
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Racism is not some mysterious, undefinable, ambiguous thing.
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If you think that people of another race are inferior because of their race, you're racist.
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If if if you have any opinion outside of people of this race are inferior because of the race, you're not racist.
00:34:31.860
You might. There are plenty of other objectionable opinions a person can have on in, you know, in the realm of race or in any other realm.
00:34:44.040
But the left doesn't want us to think that or know that because it's a pretty clever trick.
00:34:53.160
They know that if they turn racism into this impossible to understand, highly sort of academic and scholarly concept, then they become the gatekeepers and they get to decide.
00:35:07.640
And then and then you're no longer able to deny that you're racist because then they can say you only think you're not racist, but you actually are because you don't know what racism is.
00:35:17.400
And that's why you constantly have leftists, many times white leftists, trying to lecture you about what racism is.
00:35:34.720
Think about what a stupid statement that you only think you're not racist.
00:35:50.220
It's like, you know, if I think that, you know, that I don't like vanilla ice cream, then I don't like it.
00:36:05.420
All of these issues are about what you think, how you feel.
00:36:11.520
So if you think you're not bigoted in a certain area, then you're not.
00:36:15.060
If you think you're not racist towards a certain group of people, you're not.
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You're the only person who can decide whether or not you're racist.
00:36:34.240
Nobody else can because no one else can see inside your head.
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But in terms of who is the one single absolute authority on your racism or lack thereof?
00:36:51.820
Whether you speak honestly on the subject or not is a different subject.
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Not some leftist in a surgical mask holding a sign at a BLM rally.
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They don't know a single damn thing about what you think or what's in your head.
00:37:12.500
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The actress Jenny Slate has apologized for her flawed decision
00:38:01.900
to voice a non-white character on the Netflix show Big Mouth.
00:38:06.440
Slate announced that she's stepping aside from the role.
00:38:09.280
She acknowledged that her initial decision to voice the animated character
00:38:14.800
And she explained that she originally thought it was okay
00:38:17.240
because her character, Missy, has a white Jewish mother.
00:38:20.920
Um, but, but, and, and she is white and Jewish.
00:38:25.120
So she thought, okay, I can, but she now understands that she could only take on that role
00:38:30.040
because of, quote, unjust allowances made within a system of societal white supremacy.
00:38:35.240
And she makes a salient point, of course, because it's well known that the ultimate goal of any
00:38:39.800
Nazi or Klan member is to be a voice actor for a mixed race cartoon character.
00:38:45.520
Of white supremacy is, uh, it's very, I don't mean to laugh.
00:38:50.620
Slate promised to do her part to fight the white supremacist scourge by, quote,
00:38:57.300
And she expressed deep remorse for anyone that she may have, quote, hurt
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If you were somehow hurt in some way by the fact that Jenny Slate was doing a voiceover
00:39:11.900
on a Netflix cartoon show, she's sorry for that.
00:39:16.160
As a person who was hurt by it, um, I'm, I'm glad that she has, it means a lot to me.
00:39:25.160
I, you know, I was waking up every morning distraught over Jenny Slate's character on
00:39:40.840
Actress Kristen Bell, uh, stepped aside from her, her role voicing a non-white character
00:39:45.020
named Molly on the animated show Central Park, which I didn't even know existed until now.
00:39:49.720
She apologized for her, quote, lack of awareness of her, quote, pervasive privilege.
00:39:54.160
Uh, she admitted that, quote, casting a mixed race character with a white actress undermines
00:39:58.580
the specificity of the mixed race and black American experience.
00:40:02.520
Now, it's not clear how a cartoon character's voice could undermine anyone's experience or
00:40:10.560
even what it means to undermine an experience, but whatever it means and however it happens,
00:40:15.700
the point is that Kristen Bell is very sorry and she wants you to know that she's not one
00:40:19.420
of the, she's not one of the bad inherently racist white people.
00:40:23.380
Um, in the Twitter thread, uh, that, where she posted this, this statement, the, uh, very
00:40:33.240
humble Kristen Bell responded to a person thanking her for the statement and for her decision
00:40:38.680
And, uh, she responded by saying, you know, quote, I don't deserve a thank you.
00:40:43.060
And she said that, uh, she, quote, deserves to acknowledge my part in the problem and then
00:40:49.420
And this was an impressive answer, I thought, because it goes to show that in no way whatsoever
00:40:54.260
did Kristen Bell come to this racial enlightenment at this particular moment in time and dramatically
00:40:58.800
announce that enlightenment, uh, to the entire world in a public forum because she wanted applause
00:41:03.700
and approval in no way, in no way was that what this was about.
00:41:10.960
Don't, don't, don't, don't be cynical about this.
00:41:15.200
Now I personally find these decisions by Bell and Slate to be inspiring and so inspiring
00:41:22.440
that the last thing I'm going to do is cancel them.
00:41:25.320
You thought I was about to cancel them, didn't you?
00:41:27.060
That's because you're a bigot and that's your own inherent privilege and pride and, uh,
00:41:34.040
In fact, I'd like to build statues in their honor so that protesters can promptly tear them
00:41:38.880
down and the women themselves, I'm sure will join in tearing them down because that's how
00:41:44.540
Instead of canceling them, I would like to suggest other characters that should be canceled
00:41:51.360
So I want to, I want to kind of build off of their, the steps that they've taken and
00:42:01.060
He's a white man in a black suit voiced by a black man.
00:42:06.600
I'm not sure how that's racist, but I'm sure that it must be somehow.
00:42:11.540
Bart Simpson is a boy voiced by an adult woman.
00:42:15.040
Now for years, uh, I accepted this problematic dichotomy because I assumed that the Simpson
00:42:20.320
was headed, Simpsons was headed in a direction, uh, for a story arc where the young Bart would
00:42:25.920
discover his inner female identity and come out as transgender and begin hormone therapy.
00:42:31.180
But, you know, after 30 years on the air, this moment still has not arrived.
00:42:34.860
And I'm beginning to despair that the Simpsons will not ever, uh, make the expected transition
00:42:39.700
into a nuanced introspective drama about the experiences of transgender adolescence in modern
00:42:45.820
And because of that, I think we have to get rid of that character too.
00:42:48.860
Other characters that should be canceled, abolished, outlawed, uh, imprisoned, executed, or at least
00:42:54.380
recast are perhaps maybe a little bit less obvious, but I think still, still crucial to defeating
00:43:00.420
So let's go through a few of these, um, ET from the movie ET only a few lines of dialogue
00:43:07.800
in the movie, which is a problem in and of itself.
00:43:09.580
But those lines are handled by a white voice actress named Patricia Welsh.
00:43:17.440
It boggles my mind that in the entire cosmos populated by a hundred billion galaxies with a
00:43:29.340
hundred billion stars in each of them and trillions of planets, Steven Spielberg could not find even
00:43:35.520
one actual extraterrestrial to take on this role.
00:43:40.300
You mean to tell me in the entire universe, he couldn't find one.
00:43:43.540
A white actor cannot empathize with the lived reality of aliens.
00:43:48.120
Um, certainly not enough to capture the fullness and depth of their experiences on screen.
00:43:57.060
Acting is not about pretending to be something you're not.
00:44:05.420
Acting in an ideal society would consist of people being themselves and doing and saying
00:44:12.860
all the same sort of stuff they would do and say on a normal day.
00:44:15.740
So in a truly progressive culture, films would have no characters, no script, no plot, no
00:44:28.260
Instead, the audience would just watch people, all of them non-white, of course, going about
00:44:33.660
their day, running errands, sitting on the couch, checking the mailbox, preparing dinner,
00:44:44.060
All of them would be titled experiences and all of them would win every Oscar every year.
00:44:50.920
The fact that this scenario I just concocted in my head is not a reality just proves that
00:44:57.820
white supremacy is real and literal Nazis are running the country.
00:45:01.780
Another bigoted film that must be eradicated or changed immediately would be a disturbing
00:45:06.360
fascist manifesto from 1987 called The Brave Little Toaster.
00:45:10.740
Now, the film tells the story of appliances, uh, led by the titular toaster who embark on
00:45:18.700
Now, there are a number of obvious problems here, not the least of which being the deeply
00:45:22.500
insensitive reference to owners, which brings to mind the legacy of slavery.
00:45:26.560
But more to the point, none of the characters, not Toaster, not Lampy, not Blanky, not Radio,
00:45:35.160
not Kirby the Vacuum, are voiced by actual household appliances.
00:45:39.860
And it is difficult enough for toasters to find work in Hollywood already as it is.
00:45:46.000
If they're not even allowed to play toasters, how are they supposed to get a foothold in the
00:45:52.080
Similar problems can be found in the film Babe, um, where the protagonist pig is not
00:45:59.660
Boss Baby, a film in which Alec Baldwin ruthlessly appropriates the lived experiences and identity
00:46:08.220
Um, though, of course, he does act like a toddler much, much of the time, but, but he, but he's
00:46:13.640
A Nightmare Before Christmas, a movie about undead humans that exclusively casts alive humans.
00:46:19.080
The 90s Nickelodeon cartoon Hey Arnold, okay, which features a person with a normal-shaped
00:46:25.400
head voicing a character with a grotesquely deformed head.
00:46:28.540
A casting decision that still rankles the grotesquely deformed head community to this
00:46:37.720
The point is that a great many films and television shows, arguably all of them, have for decades
00:46:45.580
featured actors playing characters that are in some way different from their real selves.
00:46:56.280
Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate have helped to take the first step.
00:47:02.320
And until that happens, all movies and all shows and everyone who watches them are canceled.
00:47:14.320
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