Ep. 531 - Teachers Are Too Afraid To Go Back To Work, Not Too Afraid To Protest
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Teachers around the country are claiming that going back to school would be a death sentence for them. Yet many of them are out protesting in large crowds. It s almost as if their fear of returning to work is performative and fake.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, teachers around the country are claiming that going back to school
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would be a death sentence for them, yet many of them are out protesting in large crowds. It's
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almost as if their fear of returning to work is performative and fake. I don't know. We'll talk
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about that. Also, five headlines, including, speaking of teachers, a teacher who specializes
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in helping children with emotional needs now arrested for assaulting a state senator at a
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Now this week, public school teachers in DC, who you understand care for nothing as much as educating
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the children and equipping the new generation with the tools they need to succeed in life. That's what
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we're told about teachers. That's all they care about. But they protested the plan to possibly
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reopen schools in the fall by placing fake body bags outside of the school district's office,
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striking a careful balance between absurd melodrama and shameless self-aggrandizement.
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One of the bags was accompanied by, you can see here, a cardboard gravestone that said,
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RIP favorite teacher. Then you can see the others, they read, killed in the line of duty.
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How many will you let die? Teachers across the country have been engaging in these kinds of
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theatrics for weeks now. A recent CNN article says that educators are preparing their wills
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in anticipation of going back to work, which going back to work is an act apparently tantamount to
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being sent to death row. In fact, a recent article on a website for educators called Bored Teacher,
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which I guess I know why they're bored, they're not working, claims outright that reopening schools
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is a, quote, death sentence for teachers, which seems to be the general sentiment expressed by
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many of the hundreds of teachers who have taken to the streets to protest the reopening of schools.
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Now, one can't help but wonder why these teachers who seem, who see the classroom as some kind of
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death chamber apparently have no concern about protesting in large groups.
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You know, we should note that teachers have also had a notable presence at the BLM protests
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and the riots for the past several weeks. In Portland, they've even formed a group called
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Teachers Against Tyrants, because again, they have nothing better to do. And they've been wading
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into the non-socially distanced mass of people to convey that political message. In Philadelphia,
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teachers gathered with their students to march for Black Lives Matter. Similar scenes have unfolded
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other places. Texas, Austin, Texas, they've been out with their students as well.
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Well, if teaching in front of a classroom of children is a death sentence, what about standing
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in an enormous crowd of other adults? Isn't that a death sentence? Now, in reality, of course,
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neither a protest nor a classroom is a death sentence or anything close to it. The average
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age of a public school teacher in America is 41, putting most of them well outside of the high-risk
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age bracket. They're also working closely with children, a group that happens to be least at
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risk of contracting, spreading, or developing serious complications from the virus. So it's
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not that teaching carries no COVID risk at all, but that the risk is far less significant than what
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we're being told and what they're pretending. And whatever the risk, it's hard to see how it
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would be substantially greater than the risk of attending a raucous protest with thousands of
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other adults. Meanwhile, grocery stores, Walmarts, many other retailers have been open throughout the
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pandemic. Even at its height, they were open. Now, it's possible that I missed it, but I don't recall
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the collective voice of our nation's teachers crying out for Target to be closed for the sake of its
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workers. In fact, I would guess that a fair number of these people who are allegedly so petrified of
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returning to the classroom have themselves been patronizing retail establishments and grocery stores
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this entire time. And it's not just teachers. I don't remember hearing almost anyone demand that
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these places be closed. If we're supposed to weep for the fate of our doomed teachers,
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why not Kroger cashiers? What about them? Now, I'll be told that all of this is very different from
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the situation teachers will be in when they return to school. School is indoors. It lasts for several
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hours. Many students are confined to one classroom, all of that. Now, it's true that those factors
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present unique challenges. But there are also unique advantages, namely, as I already outlined,
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the fact that kids are statistically unlikely to contract or spread the virus. Teachers will be
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spending most of their time, therefore, with the safest group of people to be around, at least as far
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as COVID is concerned. So this is one of the reasons, by the way, that the American Academy of
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Pediatrics recommends that schools be reopened in the fall. These are pediatricians saying we have to
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reopen schools. But the main thing that ought to balance out the challenges and prompt any dedicated
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and good teacher to call for a return to class is the overwhelming importance of education. This,
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after all, is the actual reason why few people complained about grocery stores and retail outlets
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remaining open. We all believe those establishments are essential to the proper functioning of society.
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That's why we were fine with them being open. Don't we just say the same, only more so for
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education? Now, I've already argued on a previous show that, as far as I am concerned, public school
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teachers can and probably, in most cases, should be replaced by parents. As a homeschool advocate,
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I don't think that public school is essential. But most of the people protesting the reopening of
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schools would disagree. It's they who would say, in any other circumstance, that kids need school
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and will be gravely harmed without it. So isn't that enough reason to reopen the schools? Putting
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everything else aside, shouldn't the fact that our children allegedly need the public school system
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be sufficient justification for getting them open again? Isn't that all we need to say if you really
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care about the kids? It's clear that the move to keep schools closed has less to do with precaution
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than with priority. Education is not as important to some of these teachers as they used to pretend.
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They will risk their lives to send a political message at a protest or to shop at Target,
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but not to teach our kids. Children have to take a backseat. But if there is one good thing to come
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out of all of this, I think, what we're seeing now with teachers all over the country putting politics
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before their students and demanding that schools remain closed indefinitely, education be damned,
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what we're seeing really is the official and final death of the hero teacher narrative. Because for a
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long time, teachers were put forth as an untouchable group. Saints, martyrs, heroes above criticism.
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The teachers unions have worked very hard to construct and defend this false narrative and inculcate
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society into it. It was never true, of course. I mean, no group is above criticism, least of all
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government employees. And given that these government employees work with our children and
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are entrusted with so much authority over our children, it is absolutely essential that we keep
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a critical eye trained on them and that we're ready to hold them accountable. It's extremely dangerous
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for teachers, of all people, teachers, to be seen as above criticism. And this becomes even more the
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case when you consider that these government employees who spend eight hours a day with our
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kids and have enormous influence over our kids also happen to be overwhelmingly aligned with one
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political ideology. So just to give you an idea of how strikingly disproportionate this is,
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I'm going to read a little bit from an article on the Pacific Research Institute's website.
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Here's what it says. This might not surprise you. It doesn't surprise you that they're biased,
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but it might surprise you to see just how unbalanced it is. The Washington Post,
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this is the Pacific Research Institute, says, the Washington Post reported on research conducted
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by Verdant Labs using political contribution data on the Democrat-Republican divide based on job type.
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While it is unsurprising that among actors and actresses, there are 90 Democrats for every 10
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Republicans, many would be amazed to discover that teachers are actually as liberal or even more so
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than those in acting. Among English teachers, there are 97 Democrats for every three Republicans,
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with the proportion being even more one-sided among health teachers, with 99 Democrats for every one
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Republican. 99 to one. While there are slightly more Republicans among math and science teachers,
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the article continues and says, among high school teachers overall, there are 87 Democrats for every
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13 Republicans. 87 to 13 overall. Okay. Now, just because a teacher has a certain political leaning,
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that doesn't mean they're going to overtly attempt to indoctrinate children into it. But many do
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overtly. And many others do so not as overtly, and perhaps not even consciously, but they still do it.
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My point here is simply that, for the sake of our kids, this is a profession we should be watching
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very closely, like a hawk, very critically. Many teachers are good at their jobs, and really do care for
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their kids, and are wonderful people. I had some teachers like that as a kid. But other teachers are,
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let's face it, political hacks, highly ideological in their approach, selfish, ill-equipped, incompetent,
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dishonest. And this group has been making itself especially known this summer. And this is all
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something we should keep in mind for the future. One final point. Okay. I just want to mention this
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too, because I know it's going to come up. It will be argued that it's okay to close schools,
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because we could just teach kids online, right? We don't even need schools to be open.
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This is false. And it's coming from people, remember, who under any other circumstance
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would say that the actual in-person experience of school is essential to a child's development.
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We homeschoolers have been hearing this socialization line for decades. We have to
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send our kids to school to be properly socialized. Now, once again, I disagree with that claim. But
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the people who made that claim should agree with it, which means they shouldn't be saying that now
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school can be replaced with a computer screen, and we're not going to lose anything in translation.
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But even aside from the social aspect, do you really think that a nine-year-old kid
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can be effectively taught via Zoom meeting or Skype chat? No, the idea is absurd. It's hard
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enough for kids to focus in a physical classroom. Now you expect them to focus and learn by sitting
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in a chair for hours a day watching a talking head lecture them over video? Again, the idea is absurd.
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You cannot replace in-person learning with videos. Kids are human beings, not robots.
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If we care about educating our children, we'll teach them in person. That's what they need and
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deserve, and that's what any good teacher would be wanting and urging that we do. All right, let's go to
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Here's a good place to start. Nice transition. Two women have been arrested for assaulting a Democratic
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state senator in Wisconsin. They went to the protest. I think it was in Milwaukee. The senator
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was there taking pictures. This is a Democrat. And they run up and assault him for no reason. They
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just assault him. Here are the mugshots of these lovely ladies. You can take a look there.
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Samantha R. Hamer and Karida E. O'Reilly. Now here comes the twist ending. One of these women
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is a teacher. Can you guess which one? If you guess the green haired one, well, nice guess. And I wish
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you were right because that would be just perfect for what we're talking about. But no, actually the
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blonde chick is the teacher. But either way, not just a teacher. Okay. She's a school social worker
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who specializes in working with kids with emotional needs and behavioral issues. This is someone
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who's supposed to be helping children with emotional needs and behavioral issues who is out in the
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street assaulting state senators. Number two, let's stay here on the subject of lovely ladies at BLM
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protests. Here's a Portland mom offering a rather loud and unsolicited explanation as to why she is out
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I'm so tired of this. I am so tired. I'm sleep deprived because I'm a single mom and I work full
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time and I have to come and spend my nights with you because I can't stand in my own streets and say
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black lives matter. Black lives matter. That's why we're here. We're not here because of some
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building. We don't care about the building. We don't care about your stupid fence. We care about
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black lives. And I'm a mom and I heard George when he called out mama. That's why I'm here.
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That's why I'm here. Because George called out for his mama. You all have moms. Your mom loves you.
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George's mom loves you. And my kids love me and I want to go home to them. But they agree that this
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is important. And it's not about some white ladies. It's not about me. It's about black lives matter.
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There's so many amazing black women have been doing this fight for years and I showed up late. I'm so
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tardy to this party. But I'm making up for it because I'm so angry. So angry. And black, black people are
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allowed to be angry. And who cares if somebody graffitis on this stupid building? We're talking
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about human lives. Of course, none of what she's saying there makes any sense whatsoever.
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It was a stirring monologue. I'll give her that. Very well rehearsed. And so I give her credit for
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that. But she says she can't stand in the street and shout black lives matter. Meanwhile, that's exactly
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what she's doing. She's standing in the street shouting about how she can't shout. I can't shout black
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lives matter. I'm not allowed to do what I'm doing right now. This is outrageous. I can't do the thing
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that I'm doing. And, you know, in fact, not only can you stand in the street and shout black lives
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matter, but in many cases you can commit felonies. And as long as you shout black lives matter while you
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do it, you're not going to be arrested. So this is another protester who just has imagined
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a form of oppression in her head. She has fabricated it like science fiction,
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just make believe. And she's out protesting against the oppression that she made up in her head.
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And the whole bit about, you know, George Floyd crying out for his mama and she's there for George.
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You know, I'm sorry. Call me cynical. I just don't buy the performative tears for George Floyd at this
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point. I don't buy it. I'm sorry. I, two months later and you're, you're still overcome with grief
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in tears. No, there's quite a lot of death and murder in the streets of Portland or any other
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city every day. Has this woman cried tears for them? I mean, you're, you're, you're apparently so
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empathetic that this one person you don't know dies two months later, you're still not over. I mean,
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two months later, you're still in tears, literally breaking down, weeping in the street. Well, so
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with all of that overwhelming exuding empathy, do you, what about all the other death? Does it,
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does that, I mean, do you walk through your, your day every day, just overcome with tears at death and
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murder? Or is it just this one particular death that upsets you so much and not all the others?
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We talked about Brittany Hill yesterday, young mother gunned down by Chicago gang members while
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holding her one-year-old daughter. Her daughter cried out for mama. What about that? Why isn't
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this woman breaking down publicly in tears over that? I mean, is it because her tears
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only come out in politically and ideologically expedient moments? Is that why?
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Number three, here's some good news. Okay, let's, too much bad news. Let's get to some good news.
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All of that coronavirus cash was handed out, you know, loans and stimuluses from the government.
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And if you're wondering whatever happened to that, don't worry, it was put to good use.
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David T. Hines of Miami obtained nearly 4 million in loans and went out and bought a Lamborghini.
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There's a, the car right there. Not a bad, not a bad vehicle. Not as nice as what I drive.
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You know, I mean, it's a little bit, it's a few steps down for my tastes anyway. But here's,
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here's click Orlando.com reporting says a South Florida man fraudulently obtained 3.9 million
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dollars in federal coronavirus relief loans using money, uh, some of the money to buy a $318,000
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Lamborghini. Prosecutors say David T. Hines was arrested and charged last week with bank fraud,
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making false statements to financial institutions and engaging in transaction.
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Defense attorney Chad, uh, Petrowski said Hines is a legitimate business owner who is anxious to tell
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his side of the story. He's, he's got his side of it. It's not what it looks like. All right.
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Like I know it looks bad right now. I've got a $319,000 car that I bought with coronavirus
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loans. I know it looks bad. I know how this looks. Got a good explanation. I'm, uh, I'm anxious,
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I'm anxious to hear what it is. I, we're not provided the explanation, but now it's kind of
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a cliffhanger. We'll have to check back, I guess. I'll, I'll, I'll keep updating us on this story.
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Uh, let's go to the AP. Joe Biden yesterday was photographed holding his notes, um, for remarks
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he was given and he was giving remarks and he had, he had notes and the AP got a good, a good view of
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his notes. Let's look at this picture there. Um, okay. His, his handwriting is almost worse than
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mine and my eyesight isn't very good. So let me see if I can, um, okay. It says Kamala Harris do not
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hold the grudges. Is that, so is he, is he listing good things about her, um, campaigned with me and
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Jill talent. Does that say talented? Talented? I can't tell what that says. Hold on. Talented.
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Great help to campaign. Great respect for her. How does he read? I have this problem with my own
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notes when I write notes for myself and I can't tell it's like a foreign language. I can't read my
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own handwriting. I go back and try to, I have to decipher it. I have to call in a, you know, like an
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Egyptologist, Egypt, Egyptologist. Are they the ones that the cipher hierarchy reflects? Anyway,
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um, uh, I'm just trying to figure out. So he's, he's listing good things or is he saying Kamala
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Harris do not hold, like he's telling himself not to hold grudges against her. Are these,
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these are reminders to himself about what he should think about her? Is that what this is?
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Just remind you, you ever seen that movie Memento with, um, you know, where the main character has,
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uh, he, he, he's a, he has no memory. So he forgets things after 40 seconds. He has to,
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he has to write all these notes. He actually tattoos them on himself just to tell him what
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he should be thinking and feeling kind of reminds me of that. All right. Number five, finally,
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very important report here in the daily mail. Listen to this. It says women across the country
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are reporting a rise in aggressive eye contact since the introduction of face coverings in some
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public places. New laws introduced over the weekend forced customers to wear face masks in
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all shop stations, banks, and post offices, while it was also mandatory to wear coverings on public
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transport. But many women have been sharing stories online of aggressive eye contact and quote,
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hard staring from men wearing masks with one tweeting grown men staring at you with a mask on is
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worse than when they don't have a mask. UN women, UK executive director, Claire Burnett, uh, or Barnett
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told email that's what F E M A I L, uh, said as we work to build back better following lockdowns,
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we need to prevent the lack of witness of antisocial behavior due to less populated public spaces,
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as well as the anonymity face coverings can provide leading to further rises in harassment and
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threatening actions towards women, girls, and minoritized groups. Uh, this will require
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widespread changes in attitudes and behaviors, uh, creating an understanding that behavior like
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unwanted and persistent staring is intimidating, that we will have a role to play in making our
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public spaces more inclusive. Okay. So this is someone from the UN who is set on the task of
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dealing with the problem of aggressive eye contact. I, I don't even, what is a, how can you make eye
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contact aggressively hard staring? I don't even know what that is, but either way, this, once again,
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we have the feminists, strong, independent women who are traumatized by aggressive eye contact.
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Sure. That's feminism for you. All right. We're going to move on to our daily cancellation. Um, but first,
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slash Ben. Okay. Now for our daily cancellation, speaking of aggressive, we are going to cancel
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aggressively and with great wrath and vengeance. Everyone who is pushing the police are kidnapping
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people narrative. Now we know this started in Portland when uniformed police officers were
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seen arresting someone and putting them in an unmarked vehicle. This is something that has
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happened countless times over many decades. It is very normal. Um, there is nothing unique or new
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about it, but suddenly somehow for some reason, it's a scandal. You know, it's a, it's a, it's a horrible
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thing that's happening where we're, we're arresting people in unmarked vehicles. So here's the latest
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now a video of someone being arrested by NYPD has gone viral and has the left to include people like
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Chris Hayes and Jerry Nadler. Very, very upset about this video. Just, uh, we'll, we'll play it right
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There is nothing strange or upsetting or disturbing about what you just saw. It's an arrest. That's
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all. Yes. The person being arrested doesn't want to be, but that's pretty typical of arrests.
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The only other option aside from arresting people like that is, is, is to do it consensually. And
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this appears to be what the left has in mind. You know, this is the way they think arrests should
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go. Now the officer should walk up, I guess, very, very politely and say, say, excuse me,
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uh, but I noticed you committing a series of felonies. Would you mind if I arrested you for
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that? I mean, you see, we have these things called laws and typically we, what was that? Oh,
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you don't, you don't want to be arrested. You know? Oh, well, okay. I had no idea. So sorry to
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bother you. Please, please continue here. Is this what you're about to throw a rock at a cop car,
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right? Well, here you go. Here's the rock right back. Well, um, please,
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please proceed. Sorry to interrupt. Have a great day, sir. Now I wish I was joking that that is
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really what they want. Um, many leftists in response to this video have declared that the
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arrest was unjustified. How could they possibly know that from that footage? It seems like they
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just have a problem with arrests in general. How can you see a video of someone being arrested?
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No context, no footage of what transpired before it, and just know automatically that the person
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is innocent. You don't even know what they're accused of doing. I don't know what this person
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is accused of doing or why they're being arrested, but they're innocent. Take me seriously. It doesn't
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make any sense. Um, if you know, minor details like facts matter, I'll tell you what they're arrested
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for. Uh, the N N Y P D has, uh, explained it. Here's N Y P D news on Twitter explaining they've
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got, they put out a series of tweets says in regard to a video on social media that took place
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at a second Avenue and 20, 25th street, a woman taken into custody in an unmarked van
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was wanted for damaging police cameras during five separate criminal incidents in and around city hall.
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Uh, the arresting officers were assaulted with rocks and bottles when officers from warrant squad
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took the woman into custody in a gray N Y P D minivan this evening. They were assaulted with
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rocks and bottles. The warrant squad used unmarked via vehicles to effectively locate wanted suspects,
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uh, which, which makes a lot of sense. It makes sense to use them for that reason. They continue
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when she was placing the warrant squad's unmarked gray minivan, it was behind a cordon cordon of,
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uh, N Y P D bicycle cops in bright yellow and blue uniform shirts there to help affect the arrest.
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Um, makes sense to me. Nonetheless, people like Chris Hayes, as you can see here say, this is
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kidnapping. This is dot, dot, dot kidnapping. Very, very dramatic. No, Chris, this is not kidnapping.
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This is making an arrest. That's what it looks like. Sorry to scandalize you, you hysterical child.
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Oh, they're using unmarked vans. The vans are unmarked. So why does that matter? I say again,
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there is nothing strange, new or scary about unmarked cop cars. Police have been using unmarked
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cop cars for decades. They use them as was just explained because sometimes the cops don't want
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criminals to know they're coming. This is not a scandal. This isn't anything. It's just normal
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stuff. Very normal stuff. Um, now we have the, here's what Jerry Nadler, a giant potato
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come to life. That's my theory anyway, on Jerry Nadler is what he has to say about this. He sent
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out a tweet. This video of a protester in New York city being thrown in unmarked van is terrifying
00:29:32.180
and should be unacceptable to everyone who respects the constitutional rights. This country was founded
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on, um, there must be an immediate explanation for this anonymous use of force. Anonymous, anonymous,
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they have bright neon uniforms that say police on them. You potato. This is what we get for electing
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potatoes to public office. I've always said we shouldn't, you know, we should stick with,
00:29:58.240
with, you know, non potatoes, at least Nadler says he's terrified, terrified of the concept of
00:30:06.460
police making lawful arrests and putting suspects into unmarked vehicles, which they've done millions
00:30:10.820
of times since the invention of the automobile. Did Nadler just start being terrified by this now,
00:30:17.600
or has he always been terrified of unmarked police cars? Why didn't he say anything earlier? He could
00:30:22.500
have got some medication or something. He's driving down the roads. He's an unmarked cop car at a,
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you know, doing traffic stops. Does he break down in tears? Petrified? So just to review here,
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it is not illegal for cops to use unmarked vehicles. They do it all the time. It makes sense to use them
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because oftentimes criminals don't want to be arrested and will run away if you announce your
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arrival. And in fact, despite claims to the contrary, it actually doesn't matter if criminals
00:30:50.800
don't want to be arrested. They can still be arrested even if they don't want to be. And it's
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not kidnapping because police have arresting powers. And that's why everyone complaining
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about this is canceled. And they're all potatoes, all of them. Potatoes are canceled too, just for
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the record, just to cover all the bases. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching,
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