The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 512 - We Need Law And Order, Not ＂Police Reform＂

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Republicans are trying to appease the left, as usual,

00:00:04.340 this time with police reform measures. But I have an idea for different reforms that we could

00:00:09.100 make our priority and should make our priority before we talk about reforming the police.

00:00:13.980 Also, five headlines, including the Michigan prosecutor who still has not arrested or charged

00:00:19.800 the man who brutally assaulted a Macy's employee on camera, still hasn't done it, according to him,

00:00:25.720 is considering not charging him at all. We'll play that clip for you.

00:00:28.840 And we'll also discuss a video of a white protester trying to explain

00:00:32.840 racism, lecturing about racism to a group of black police officers. It doesn't go very well

00:00:38.640 for her, as you might imagine. All of that coming up. So Republicans in the Senate have come up with

00:00:44.720 a police reform bill. The bill has been blocked by Democrats, not only blocked by Democrats,

00:00:51.520 but Nancy Pelosi infamously said that the bill is murder. It is murder. Republicans are trying to

00:00:57.760 get away with murder with this bill. They're trying to get away specifically with the murder

00:01:02.480 of George Floyd with their police reform bill. That's what she said. How is this bill murdering

00:01:09.100 George Floyd, who is, of course, already dead and who died in a Democrat-run city? I mean,

00:01:13.940 how could you possibly blame the murder of George Floyd on Senate Republicans when he died in a

00:01:20.720 Democrat-run city at the hands of one single police officer? Who knows? But she's not apologizing for the

00:01:26.780 comment. When you were speaking yesterday, you said that Republicans are, quote, trying to get

00:01:31.960 away with murder, actually, the murder of George Floyd. Senate Republicans are demanding an apology

00:01:37.720 for that statement. Will you apologize? Absolutely, positively not. The fact is,

00:01:44.920 people say, I think you, frankly, in the press have given them far too much credit for a bill that does

00:01:50.400 nothing. They're saying, well, you have your bill, they have theirs. Yeah, our bill does something,

00:01:54.360 theirs doesn't. Is Tim Scott working in good faith, I guess? I'm sorry? Is Tim Scott working

00:02:02.080 in good faith? Is this a good starting point? I'm talking about Mitch McConnell.

00:02:05.920 Now, what does this murderous bill actually do, or what is it intended to do anyway? Reading now from

00:02:10.880 an NPR report, which for the most part appears to be relatively fair, surprisingly, it says the

00:02:15.100 legislation will increase federal reporting requirements for use of force, no-knock warrants.

00:02:18.960 It also increases penalties for false police reports. It seeks to encourage chokehold bans

00:02:24.920 through this added transparency and by withholding funding for units without bans on chokeholds,

00:02:29.600 except when deadly force is authorized. The effort also looks to up use of police body cameras with

00:02:36.340 grant programs and in turn penalties for failing to use the cameras. It creates a database of police

00:02:41.560 disciplinary records for law enforcement departments to use in their hiring practices. It makes lynching a

00:02:47.380 federal crime, which is linked to an effort that passed in the House but has recently stalled in

00:02:51.440 the Senate. It directs the Justice Department to develop and provide training on de-escalation

00:02:56.340 tactics and implement duty to intervene policies. That's what Democrats are blocking. And we'll talk

00:03:05.700 about all the specifics here. Making lynching a federal crime, what's the point of that? When is the last

00:03:13.340 time, we actually have a verified case of somebody being lynched in this country? And on the extremely,

00:03:20.680 extremely, extremely rare occasion that it does happen, if it does happen, why would that form of

00:03:28.020 murder be a federal crime? So if you lynch somebody, it's a federal crime, but if you just shoot them in 0.74

00:03:33.360 the head, it's not? Why would we be doing that? Well, this is about, of course, there's no reason for it. 0.96

00:03:38.760 It's absurd. The whole thing's absurd. But this is Republicans just trying to appease the left and

00:03:43.840 give them what they want, even if it doesn't make any sense. But Democrats are blocking it.

00:03:48.920 Republicans are shocked and scandalized that the bill is being blocked. Here's Senator Tim Scott

00:03:55.020 reacting. In Detroit, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, all these cities could have

00:04:04.820 ban chokeholds themselves. They could have increased the police reporting themselves. They could have

00:04:11.100 more data information themselves. They could have de-escalation training themselves. They could have

00:04:15.300 duty to intervene themselves. Minneapolis as well. All these communities have been run by Democrats

00:04:22.200 Democrats for decades. Decades. What is the ROI for the poorest people in this nation? And I don't blame

00:04:34.320 them. I blame an elite political class with billions of dollars to do whatever they want to do and look at

00:04:42.940 the results for the poorest, most vulnerable people in our nation. I'm willing to compete for their

00:04:51.700 vote. Are you? But Democrats are even more shocked and scandalized. So it's a competition. Who can be

00:04:58.920 the most shocked and scandalized? Democrats are even more, which Kamala Harris says that she's shocked

00:05:04.840 and scandalized because the bill is hollow and political. And she, of course, knows something about

00:05:09.940 being hollow and political. Watch. We're here because Mitch McConnell has put up a bill

00:05:17.100 challenging us to either comply with his political game that is about obstructing the United States

00:05:27.120 Senate's ability to actually do something or to to play a game with him, which is only about covering

00:05:36.740 his political concerns and not about the real concerns that the American people have about the

00:05:44.540 realities of two systems of justice in America. And we're not going to play that game and we're not

00:05:51.240 going to be played. The truth as we know it is that people by the thousands are marching in the streets of

00:05:59.740 America, of every race, every age and gender in every geographic location in all the 50 states unified,

00:06:10.740 demanding we act, demanding that finally something is actually done. And we have it in our power to actually

00:06:25.900 do something. And back and forth we go. But you know something? I'm happy that this bill was blocked

00:06:33.120 by Democrats. I really am. And I want to tell you why. And I'll do that in just a second. But first,

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00:07:58.520 word bike to 64000. That's bike to 64000. Text bike B-I-K-E to 64000. All right. Dems are blocking the bill.

00:08:10.420 I'm happy they did. Here's why. Two reasons. One, I'm an optimist at heart. Cheerful optimist,

00:08:16.980 which you know this about me. I see everything through rosy, rosy tinted glasses. And so I hope

00:08:25.820 that finally, finally, finally, Republicans will learn that you will never ever win by trying to

00:08:36.540 suck up to and appease the left. No matter what you do, no matter what, it won't be enough.

00:08:42.700 There is no reason to ever do anything because you think that it will make them feel good or,

00:08:51.540 or, you know, you're trying not to upset them. There's no reason to ever do anything for those

00:08:56.600 reasons. It'll never be enough. Republicans could pass a bill abolishing the police,

00:09:04.260 abolishing the national anthem, mandating the removal of the Statue of Liberty,

00:09:09.140 which will be replaced by a 300 foot statue of, uh, I don't know, RuPaul deporting all white people

00:09:16.560 to Mars, whatever. And they'd still be told that it's, it's not only not enough, but it's so

00:09:23.760 insufficient that it only proves that Republicans are literal Nazis who, uh, sacrifice goats to idols 0.91

00:09:30.900 of Hitler that are constructed out of the bones of puppies. That's the way it always goes. Okay. 0.95

00:09:39.000 So maybe Republicans will learn that probably not, but that's my hope anyway. Second reason

00:09:43.840 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

00:09:50.380 because they're trying to pass it for the reason just stated to appease the left. When was any Republican

00:09:57.400 talking about police reform before, say two months ago, before George Floyd, I don't remember any,

00:10:04.640 there weren't very many Republicans putting this forward as the number one item on their agenda,

00:10:09.900 were there? Who in the Republican party was calling for that? Almost no one. They discovered this passion

00:10:16.980 for police reform because of the public outcry over one particular case, a case that we have no reason

00:10:25.140 to think has anything to do with bad policy or bad policing strategies. People are so emotional that

00:10:32.980 we can't stop and be, and be reasonable about this and realize that it has nothing to do. This,

00:10:39.620 this had nothing to do with a bad policy. This was the behavior of one cop who it seems may have had a

00:10:46.860 personal issue with George Floyd because it seems like they knew each other though. Actually we still

00:10:51.360 don't know a whole lot about. We still, to this point, there's been a lot, there's been a lot of

00:10:56.180 reaction to put it mildly to George Floyd and his death. We still don't know almost anything about

00:11:03.700 what happened. Do you realize that? We don't know the context. We don't know what led up to it. We don't

00:11:09.320 know. We, to this point, we have not seen body cam footage, though it exists. We have not seen dash cam

00:11:17.400 footage, though it exists. Why is that? That's a, that's a whole different question. But the point

00:11:23.420 is that this bill is a reaction to a high profile news event and bills passed as a reaction to high

00:11:30.420 profile news event events, bills that seek to make new laws and regulations based on the public reaction

00:11:37.220 to something in the news are almost always bad. They are almost always passed for, well, Kamala Harris

00:11:45.400 said it. Hollow and political reasons. I actually agree with her criticism. The only difference is

00:11:50.640 that she forgot to mention that she is also hollow and political and her own police reform efforts are 1.00

00:11:55.200 the same. So she was half right anyway. Do the police need to be reformed? Um, well, again, if you

00:12:04.940 didn't think so two months ago, then you shouldn't think so now. There's no reason. Nothing has happened

00:12:08.540 in the last two months that should make you, uh, that, that would have, that should have changed your mind

00:12:13.600 about however you felt about police reform. Do I think that police should be? Well, sure. Any

00:12:19.180 institution, especially a government institution can stand to be reformed, refined. That's a constant

00:12:24.960 process that, that should always continue. Um, there are always problems to be addressed, adaptations

00:12:31.800 that need to be made, uh, keeping up with the times and all that kind of stuff. So yes, but not like

00:12:39.680 this, not under these circumstances, not for this reason, not passed down from the top, from the

00:12:47.700 federal government in a panic in reaction to voters who are emotional and upset for reasons that many

00:12:56.000 of those voters can't even articulate. These are quote unquote reforms that need to be much more

00:13:02.220 localized and targeted and enacted with the input of actual law enforcement officials, not empty suits

00:13:07.840 in DC. But here's the real point for me. Before we talk about police reform, before we get to that,

00:13:18.020 I think there are other much more pressing reforms that need to be made. And these are the reforms

00:13:24.380 that Republicans, if they had any guts at all, if they were worth anything, if they weren't utterly 0.99

00:13:29.400 worthless, useless, spineless jellyfish floating around, barely able to stand on their own two feet 0.99

00:13:35.760 because they're comprised of such a weak gelatinous material, they would be calling for, um, uh, 0.97

00:13:43.240 reforms that restore law and order in the streets and bring the criminals and terrorists to justice.

00:13:49.580 That's what we need right now. That's what we need first and urgently. And don't tell me that,

00:13:56.120 well, this will help restore law, restore law and order because this is what the anarchists want.

00:14:00.340 And it, it, it, it will, it will make them happy and they'll go away. No, no, they're anarchists.

00:14:05.960 They're insurrectionists. They're nihilists. Okay. They're, they're, they're, they're people that

00:14:11.540 are destroying for the sake of it. There's nothing you can do. They're not going to say, oh, you know

00:14:15.580 what? Republicans passed police reform guys. Let's stop toppling the statue for a minute. Let's look over

00:14:21.520 this bill. We'll talk about it. And, uh, maybe it's good. Maybe we can just go home. That's not going to

00:14:26.700 happen. That's not ever going to happen. Never. There is nothing in a police reform bill that will

00:14:33.600 do one single damned thing to stop the, uh, spread of lawlessness and anarchy across the country.

00:14:43.140 So one example of a reform measure that could be put in place, uh, if you, if you remember this 0.75

00:14:48.960 video, watch it again. Now that dirt bag who pushed the 92 year old woman onto the ground, 1.00

00:14:56.700 she hit her head against a fire hydrant, um, had been arrested anywhere from 60, 60 to a hundred 0.92

00:15:02.500 times already, including sex crimes. Why not a reform that gets monstrosities like that off of 0.96

00:15:10.160 the street for good forever? Why not some reforms targeted at preventing terrorists from tearing down

00:15:17.520 priceless monuments or reforms enacting stiffer penalties for people who participate in riots?

00:15:23.280 I could list dozens of more reforms that could be enacted that, that could be made in the direction

00:15:29.760 of restoring order to our communities and freeing us from the grip of anarchists and insurrectionists 0.97

00:15:35.720 and all around scumbags who are trying to destroy society. And if Republicans had any sense or any guts 0.98

00:15:42.980 or any spine, that's what they would be doing. Instead, we get police reform.

00:15:51.320 Instead, we get them following the agenda of the left. As always, the left looks at what's

00:16:00.740 happening and they say, this is, this is a sign we need police reform. And the stupid useless 1.00

00:16:05.720 Republicans say, you know what? You're right. That's, that's what we need. 1.00

00:16:08.940 Completely useless. And the argument for, for as long as I've been alive, you know, for as long 0.58

00:16:21.580 as I've been alive, I've known that, um, sorry about that. For as long as I've been alive, I've known

00:16:28.500 that the Republicans are useless, but I've always been told that, well, they're better than the 0.99

00:16:35.260 Democrats. So you just got to vote for them. They're better. Okay. It's the best we can do. 0.99

00:16:41.220 Sorry. Just suck it up, buttercup. It's the best we can do. Is it, I mean, are they even better than

00:16:47.640 the Democrats? How are they better? I, it's the, the lines are blurring so much in what way Democrats

00:16:57.940 are doing nothing to restore law and order. Republicans are doing nothing. They're both doing

00:17:02.880 nothing. They're both focusing on police reform. We're really going to get to a point. I think

00:17:11.080 we're probably there already where there just is, is really no substantive difference between these

00:17:15.860 two groups of people. Um, and I think arguably we've been there and have been there for a long

00:17:21.920 time. All right, let's go to news headlines. Number one, over the last several days, I've been telling you

00:17:26.660 about this apparently racially motivated hate crime at a Macy's in Michigan. Uh, watch it again.

00:17:31.960 The important update on this story is that there is no update. Nothing has happened in this case.

00:17:55.800 It's been 10 days. Nothing has happened. No charges. The man seen pummeling a Macy's store manager

00:18:00.240 in broad daylight in the middle of the store on video has not been arrested, has not been charged

00:18:05.240 with anything. He brutally assaulted someone on camera. We, you know, we, we see it. He's the

00:18:10.980 guys on the ground begging for mercy, getting pummeled, hasn't been arrested for it. The prosecutor,

00:18:16.240 David Lighton, um, here's his Twitter, by the way, he hasn't filed charges. He's, uh, still has not.

00:18:23.920 And he's actually considering not filing charges at all. That's what he said. Here he is right now.

00:18:28.840 Well, listen to this. I would say to the president and anybody else who has an interest in this,

00:18:34.900 that I will make a fair and just decision as to charging or not charging after I have all the

00:18:41.560 information. The warrant request only came in today. The police reports only came in today.

00:18:48.800 And after we reviewed them, we determined that they're not complete yet. We want more information.

00:18:53.580 So I would say to Mr. President, give us the time that we need. Uh, and we certainly would

00:18:59.520 appreciate it if you would send more resources in to help us because Genesee County is not the

00:19:05.260 most wealthy county. And our police departments work very, very hard. Our prosecutor's office

00:19:10.520 works very, very hard. Uh, but, uh, it takes time to get these right. We want to get it right.

00:19:16.500 So haste makes waste and we're going to make sure that we do everything. Uh, so it's fair and just

00:19:23.380 for all people concerned charging or not charging. He's deciding about charging or not. He is actually,

00:19:31.120 as of now, according to him, leaving open the possibility of not charging a man with a crime

00:19:37.220 for pummeling another man while that man is on the ground, begging him to stop.

00:19:42.020 He's saying potentially in his eyes, that's not a crime.

00:19:49.280 What would make that not a crime? What information? He said, we're still investigating.

00:19:56.560 What, what information could you possibly discover in your investigation that would make this not a

00:20:01.420 crime? What could you possibly find out? That's what I want to know. What could have happened before

00:20:08.880 this? That would make what you saw on video. Okay. In the eyes of the law, the assailant's brother,

00:20:16.660 by the way, who filmed it and posted it doesn't even claim that it was self-defense. Okay. He doesn't

00:20:23.520 even, so the, the people responsible for it, they're not even pretending that this was legally justified,

00:20:29.900 which, which of course, of course it's not self-defense. A Macy's store manager, I very much

00:20:36.300 doubt would get into a fist fight with random customers who are coming in the door, but that

00:20:40.900 isn't even being claimed anyway. The claim from the assailants, their defense is that the manager

00:20:47.260 said the N word, which he didn't. That's clearly a lie. But even if he did, how would that change

00:20:52.540 a single damned thing in respect to criminal charges? You don't have the legal authority to

00:20:57.280 assault someone because they said a word you don't like. So how would that make a difference?

00:21:01.580 He also says that, I don't know, I don't think it's in the clip, but he says that they're looking

00:21:07.920 at different footage and they're looking at security camera footage, but unfortunately it

00:21:11.040 doesn't have audio. What do you need audio for? Who cares what's being said? And the prosecutor

00:21:19.580 says he needs more resources that Trump should send him. What resources do you need? You have a

00:21:25.920 video of it and you have a public confession from the assailants that they gave to the media

00:21:32.960 admitting that they assaulted him and saying that the only reason they did it is that he said a word,

00:21:39.540 a bad word. And then you have Macy's who already investigated it and could very easily tell you that

00:21:45.980 he didn't say the bad word. But again, for the millionth time, whether he did or not is immaterial

00:21:51.020 to the criminal aspect of this case. Number two, so this is weird. A few days ago,

00:21:58.360 Kelly Weil of the Daily Beast, not Daily Wire, Daily Beast published this piece under the

00:22:05.640 Chaos Debunked heading. And the piece is titled, Local Businesses Love the, quote,

00:22:11.680 Domestic Terror Zone in Seattle, Actually. And her point was that, in fact, all the businesses in the

00:22:17.800 so-called autonomous zone in Seattle actually love being in a lawless hellscape rife with

00:22:23.380 unregulated and unpunished crime and chaos. They love it. That was her whole, she wrote a lengthy

00:22:27.720 piece about it. They really are, they can't get enough of it. You know, they wake up every morning,

00:22:32.380 tears of joy in their eyes. Those tears you see, those are of joy because they look out their shop

00:22:38.680 windows and see a half-naked man high on heroin spray painting a park bench while protesters smash the

00:22:45.380 neighbor's window and a mentally disturbed woman performs karate with an orange peel over her face, 0.77

00:22:50.960 which is a thing that actually happened. And they think to themselves, I am so glad to be here.

00:22:56.980 That's what Kelly Weil says anyway. But here's the weird part. A report today from Preston Phillips,

00:23:01.960 local news anchor in Seattle, says that a dozen business owners in the chop zone are suing,

00:23:08.180 they're doing, they're filing a class action lawsuit against the city of Seattle for abandoning them

00:23:11.840 and leaving them to wallow in the chaos and filth. That's a, that's a strange way to show you love

00:23:17.240 something, isn't it? To file a class action lawsuit to get it to stop? Hmm. Number three,

00:23:23.400 a Black Lives Matter activist was on with Martha McCallum on Fox News last night. A number of crazy 0.79

00:23:28.620 things were said, as you can imagine, but here's just one example. I just want to put up this quote

00:23:34.220 from Martin Luther King. And I've heard you talk about Martin Luther King versus Malcolm X. And you said

00:23:38.600 that he, you know, was an anomaly, Martin Luther King. He said, let us be dissatisfied until that

00:23:44.500 day when nobody will shout white power, when nobody will shout black power, but everybody will talk

00:23:48.980 about God's power and human power. Do you agree with that? I love the Lord. And my Lord and Savior,

00:23:58.880 Jesus Christ is the most famous black radical revolutionary in history. And he was treated just

00:24:06.660 like Dr. King. He was arrested on occasion and he was also crucified or assassinated. This is what

00:24:14.640 happens to black activists. We are killed by the government. Well, and if you need context, if you 1.00

00:24:21.080 read your Bible, it would say that Jesus had feet like burnt brass and hair like wool. I don't know if

00:24:27.040 you noticed, but our hair seems to be more like wool and we seem to be likened to that color than anyone

00:24:32.820 else. And, you know, it's just a hypocrisy and white supremacy in America and in the world that 0.95

00:24:38.300 would show us portraits of a pasty white Jesus. Jesus was not white. We all know this. Okay. No, 0.98

00:24:46.100 um, no, that no, that's a no on that one. Jesus was a Middle Eastern Jew. Jew. That's what he was. 0.92

00:24:55.200 There's no debate over that. He was a Middle Eastern Jew. He wasn't white. He wasn't black.

00:24:59.480 He wasn't white European. And he wasn't black African. He was a Middle Eastern Jew. Probably 0.99

00:25:05.740 looked very similar to what Middle Eastern Jews look like today, if that matters, which it doesn't. 0.99

00:25:11.240 Um, as to the Bible quote, the Bible verse quoted there, that's not a Bible verse. That's just, uh,

00:25:17.180 he, he, that's, that's not actually in the Bible. The gospels never once describe any of Christ's

00:25:22.580 physical features. Um, they don't say a single word about what he looks like. And there might be a

00:25:29.000 reason for that. You know, maybe there's a reason for that. I say that his physical, his physical

00:25:33.980 appearance didn't matter. Well, I think the writers of the gospels agreed. That's why they don't describe

00:25:39.220 him. Revelation does provide a description you might say, but it's highly metaphorical. And it's

00:25:47.020 describing a glorified Christ returning on judgment day. The actual verse says, um, the hair on his head

00:25:54.060 was white, like wool, as white as snow. That's the verse that he mentioned, but he didn't quite

00:26:00.300 quote it that way. Did he now? I don't think that means Jesus is white as in Caucasian, but it does 1.00

00:26:07.100 show that the wool comment is about color, uh, the color of the hair. That's what it's about.

00:26:11.040 Color of the hair specifically is what it's referring to. And so all of that is nonsense. And of course,

00:26:18.380 you know, this, and I've addressed it before, so I'm not going to go into detail, but this constant,

00:26:22.220 constant effort, um, by activists and leftists to make Jesus into, uh, into himself, sort of a

00:26:31.820 political activist who was killed by the government because they were afraid of his political message

00:26:36.940 is just completely off base. There is no support for it whatsoever. No support in the Bible.

00:26:45.420 Now there is support among new age scholars who have, who have for decades been trying to turn

00:26:52.720 Jesus into that, but all you have to do is pick up the gospels and read them. He was not a political

00:26:56.160 activist at all. He, he, he barely discussed anything remotely political. And when he did,

00:27:03.680 you know, he said, give to Caesar what is Caesar's. Um, but that was not Jesus's message. It was not one

00:27:10.460 about politics and the Roman government couldn't care less about Jesus. They weren't, they weren't

00:27:17.240 worried about, about, you know, an itinerant preacher, an itinerant Jewish preacher going 0.99

00:27:22.040 around talking about, from their perspective, from their perspective, he's just another Jewish

00:27:26.960 preacher. There's a lot of them going around talking about, uh, Jewish, uh, you know, theology.

00:27:31.780 They didn't care about that. It made no difference to them.

00:27:33.680 They killed Jesus. Pilate ordered the execution to appease the mob. He didn't care. He tried to,

00:27:41.480 uh, you know, he tried to exonerate Jesus said, I find no fault in him. I don't see a problem with

00:27:47.320 him. Kill them because the mob demanded it. So again, this is, if there's any, um, lesson we can 1.00

00:27:55.040 apply to the, you know, the current it's, it's that this is why you don't go along with mob rule.

00:28:01.300 Number four, Bubba Wallace has slightly changed his tune from that embarrassing CNN performance

00:28:08.260 after the news story was exposed as false as, as you may remember. Um, and he, he went on CNN

00:28:16.860 in what was really a, a therapy session more than an interview and, uh, was defiant and basically

00:28:28.740 doubling down on, on the whole story in a, in a lot of ways, although he admitted that it wasn't

00:28:34.060 a hate crime, but he was doubling down saying it was a noose and trying to still make himself a

00:28:37.840 victim. Anyway, yesterday he published a statement. Well, I don't know if he published it so much as

00:28:41.920 his PR people finally got to him and they published this, but this is what he says. Now it's been an

00:28:46.800 emotional few days. First off, I want to say how relieved I am that the investigation revealed that

00:28:50.780 this wasn't what we feared it was. I want to thank my team, NASCAR and the FBI for acting swiftly

00:28:54.820 and treating this as a real threat. I think we'll gladly take a little embarrassment over what the

00:28:58.020 alternatives could have been. Make no mistake, though. Some will try. This should not detract from

00:29:02.100 the show of unity we had on Monday and the progress we've made as a sport to be a more

00:29:05.940 welcoming environment for all. Okay. That's slightly less objectionable than his, than his,

00:29:14.780 than the spectacle on, uh, on Monday, Tuesday night. But what's missing from this? An apology.

00:29:22.380 There's no apology. There's no apology. How about just, I'm sorry about that. There's no

00:29:26.360 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,

00:29:39.640 a despicable act of hate. That's what you said. You didn't say, I fear that it might be a hate crime.

00:29:44.480 You stated with a, for a fact that it is with not only with no skepticism, but insulting anyone who

00:29:53.280 was skeptical about it. So, and then as far as it shouldn't detract from the show of unity,

00:29:59.860 well, I'm sorry, it does detract from the show of unity because that was a show of unity based on a

00:30:05.840 lie. And if we want unity in America, we're not going to find it based on lies. Number five,

00:30:13.480 here's a great video of a white protester trying to explain racism to black cops.

00:30:19.280 A black person pointing to privilege and power is white? 0.59

00:30:22.860 Yes, sir. A white person?

00:30:26.780 We're done. My black wife is calling me. I'm going to have a conversation. 1.00

00:30:30.080 That doesn't mean like black, Jesus, sir. Just because you have one black friend or a black wife, 0.96

00:30:35.540 you can still be racist. It has nothing to do with your acquaintances.

00:30:38.860 Wow, it must have been so intimidating if all the police moved that way. That's impressive.

00:30:46.160 Just like a little drive.

00:30:47.860 It's not intimidating. It's just like, you're trying to have a conversation. You have a one-track

00:30:51.740 mind. There's no point to have that conversation before.

00:30:53.940 Amazing. Everyone moved that way.

00:30:54.860 You have to be able to be open to both sides of the story.

00:30:57.660 Amazing, sir. Amazing. Everyone moved over. Impressive. They couldn't even handle it.

00:31:01.660 They couldn't handle it, sir. I wasn't talking to you, sir. I was talking to white people. 0.90

00:31:07.660 Oh, because I can't be racist, right?

00:31:09.700 No, sir. I was talking to you.

00:31:10.820 Yeah, exactly.

00:31:11.700 Systemically, no, sir. Systemically, racism can only be white. Systemically, sir.

00:31:19.880 Individually, it can be a different color, but systemically, it can only be white.

00:31:22.880 It doesn't fit your agenda.

00:31:23.900 It's not an agenda, sir. It's not an agenda. It's the past, the present, and hopefully not

00:31:29.980 the future, sir.

00:31:31.020 Good. I hope you're an anti-racist, sir.

00:31:35.060 How can I be? I mean, I'm white. I'm inherently racist.

00:31:36.820 You just called him a liar, saying he don't have a black wife and black children. 1.00

00:31:41.240 You just called him a liar? 1.00

00:31:42.280 You're young.

00:31:43.400 I wanted to see a check. I wanted to see a check you to believe him.

00:31:46.740 How dare you ask about this man's family?

00:31:50.720 Yeah.

00:31:51.120 How dare you make a personal comment?

00:31:51.900 No, you don't know nothing about it.

00:31:53.900 Amazing. And great stuff from that officer at the end there, from all the officers, actually.

00:31:58.740 But you notice how this woman, it really is a cult. These people are in a cult. Full-on cult. 0.89

00:32:06.180 She's just repeating doctrine. She's like an automaton, a robot. Can't engage. She can't. 1.00

00:32:16.100 It's like she can't even hear what's being said to her. She's saying what she's trained to say.

00:32:20.920 You can almost see the spirals in her eyes like a hypnotized cartoon character, right?

00:32:27.640 Systemically. You're a systemically racist. Systemically. Systemically. 1.00

00:32:31.980 What the hell are you babbling about?

00:32:33.200 This is what people on the left, they think that just saying the word systemically wins the argument. 0.91

00:32:39.100 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.

00:32:52.280 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.

00:33:04.480 But you're saying it because it's what you've been trained to say. 0.86

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. 0.64

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.

00:33:24.040 Yes, actually, it does. It really does.

00:33:27.600 I think having a black wife, very good evidence that you're not racist.

00:33:30.880 Extremely good. I'd say it's almost 100 percent confirmation that you're not racist.

00:33:37.460 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.

00:33:50.240 Racism is not some mysterious, undefinable, ambiguous thing.

00:33:57.860 It's not. I'll tell you what racism is.

00:34:02.960 Racism is this.

00:34:04.780 If you think that people of another race are inferior because of their race, you're racist.

00:34:13.720 If you don't, you're not.

00:34:17.460 That's it. The end.

00:34:20.320 That's what racism is.

00:34:21.620 If if if you have any opinion outside of people of this race are inferior because of the race, you're not racist.

00:34:30.120 There might you might still be wrong.

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.

00:34:39.200 But it's not racist, though.

00:34:42.360 That's what racism is.

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.

00:35:24.300 They love doing that.

00:35:25.740 I'll tell you what racism is.

00:35:27.440 You don't know what racism is.

00:35:30.060 You only think you're not racist.

00:35:32.800 Think about that statement. 1.00

00:35:34.720 Think about what a stupid statement that you only think you're not racist. 1.00

00:35:39.840 Guess what? 1.00

00:35:40.840 If you think you're not racist, you're not.

00:35:44.520 Because racism is all about what you think.

00:35:47.400 What the hell is that?

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.

00:36:01.580 It's as simple as that.

00:36:02.760 It's about what I think.

00:36:04.020 It comes down to what you think.

00:36:05.420 All of these issues are about what you think, how you feel.

00:36:08.360 That's what it is.

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.

00:36:20.260 Because that's what it's all.

00:36:21.740 And you know something else?

00:36:23.800 You are the only person who can speak to it.

00:36:27.580 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.

00:36:38.360 I mean, you could certainly lie about it.

00:36:40.160 But in terms of who is the one single absolute authority on your racism or lack thereof?

00:36:50.280 You.

00:36:51.820 Whether you speak honestly on the subject or not is a different subject.

00:36:55.500 But you're the only authority.

00:36:56.860 Not some other person.

00:37:00.160 Not some leftist in a surgical mask holding a sign at a BLM rally.

00:37:04.320 Shouting at you.

00:37:05.340 They're not an authority. 0.97

00:37:06.180 They don't know a single damn thing about what you think or what's in your head. 0.78

00:37:12.000 All right. 0.72

00:37:12.500 Now we're going to move on to our daily cancellation.

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00:37:56.120 Now for our daily cancellation.

00:37:57.520 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

00:38:12.440 was a symptom of her, quote, white privilege.

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.

00:38:44.120 This, this is the goal, right?

00:38:45.520 Of white supremacy is, uh, it's very, I don't mean to laugh.

00:38:49.000 It's very serious.

00:38:50.620 Slate promised to do her part to fight the white supremacist scourge by, quote,

00:38:54.360 engaging in meaningful anti-racist action.

00:38:57.300 And she expressed deep remorse for anyone that she may have, quote, hurt

00:39:00.880 by doing voiceovers on a cartoon show.

00:39:04.920 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.

00:39:15.540 She really is.

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

00:39:32.020 the show, big, big mouth on Netflix.

00:39:34.580 It was ruining my life.

00:39:35.840 It was the only thing I could think about.

00:39:38.120 Finally, I have some closure on the same day.

00:39:40.840 Actress Kristen Bell, uh, stepped aside from her, her role voicing a non-white character 0.67

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

00:40:37.860 to step aside.

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

00:40:48.700 rectify it.

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 0.99

00:41:03.700 and approval in no way, in no way was that what this was about.

00:41:08.540 Certainly not.

00:41:09.920 No, no, no, no, no.

00:41:10.960 Don't, don't, don't, don't be cynical about this.

00:41:14.020 Okay.

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, 0.98

00:41:31.260 and white supremacy talking. 0.98

00:41:32.720 Okay.

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 1.00

00:41:42.340 relentlessly progressive they are.

00:41:44.540 Instead of canceling them, I would like to suggest other characters that should be canceled

00:41:49.400 along similar lines.

00:41:51.360 So I want to, I want to kind of build off of their, the steps that they've taken and

00:41:56.740 suggest some other characters as well.

00:41:58.260 So, um, obviously Darth Vader has to go. 0.85

00:42:01.060 He's a white man in a black suit voiced by a black man. 0.78

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. 0.95

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

00:42:44.980 America.

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 0.99

00:42:59.840 white supremacy.

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.

00:43:54.100 It really is as simple as that.

00:43:55.740 We have to remember something.

00:43:56.920 Okay.

00:43:57.060 Acting is not about pretending to be something you're not.

00:44:03.880 That's not what it is.

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

00:44:25.400 actors, no directors.

00:44:28.260 Instead, the audience would just watch people, all of them non-white, of course, going about 1.00

00:44:33.660 their day, running errands, sitting on the couch, checking the mailbox, preparing dinner,

00:44:38.800 et cetera.

00:44:39.520 Um, and that's what it would be.

00:44:40.640 That's all the film would be.

00:44:42.520 Every film would be like this.

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. 0.87

00:45:01.780 Another bigoted film that must be eradicated or changed immediately would be a disturbing 0.95

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

00:45:16.620 a quest to find their owner.

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. 0.97

00:45:46.000 If they're not even allowed to play toasters, how are they supposed to get a foothold in the

00:45:50.000 industry?

00:45:50.280 That's my question.

00:45:52.080 Similar problems can be found in the film Babe, um, where the protagonist pig is not 0.82

00:45:56.900 portrayed by an authentic pig.

00:45:59.660 Boss Baby, a film in which Alec Baldwin ruthlessly appropriates the lived experiences and identity 0.91

00:46:06.260 of actual toddlers.

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

00:46:12.580 not a real one.

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 1.00

00:46:32.420 day, GDH for short.

00:46:34.740 Um, many other examples could be provided.

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.

00:46:51.580 This has to end, and it has to end today.

00:46:56.280 Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate have helped to take the first step.

00:47:00.080 We have to have the courage to go all the way.

00:47:02.320 And until that happens, all movies and all shows and everyone who watches them are canceled.

00:47:13.200 And we'll leave it there.

00:47:14.320 A lot to think about and meditate on, which is what I will go do right now.

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Ep. 512 - We Need Law And Order, Not ＂Police Reform＂

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