Ep. 553 - An Uprising Of Spoiled Rotten Brats
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Why are our cities being consumed by chaos? What s really driving these lunatics? That s the million dollar question. And today on the Matt W. Show, we ll talk more about it. Also, 5 headlines, including crazed mobs swarming Rand Paul and other Republicans as they left the Republican National Convention in D.C. last night, and we ll discuss the most powerful moment of the entire convention and what we can learn from it.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, why are our cities being consumed by chaos? What's really driving
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this? That's the million dollar question. It isn't a fight for racial justice or anything
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close to that. These are spoiled brats who've never contributed anything of value to society,
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lashing out against normal, hardworking Americans. That's my diagnosis. We'll talk
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more about it. Also, five headlines, including crazed mobs swarming Rand Paul and other Republicans
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as they leave the Republican convention in D.C. last night. And we'll discuss the most powerful
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moment of the entire convention and what we can learn from it. All of that coming up.
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Much more as well. It's a packed show, as always. One thing about living in the dying days of a
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civilization is there's always a lot of news. That's the one positive. So let's start here.
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Last night, as the RNC convention concluded, rioters and protesters again descended on D.C.
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and they comported themselves about how you might expect them to. Here's a quick taste of the action.
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Yes, yes, that was a guy flipping off, running up to and flipping off a small elderly woman as she
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tried to cross the street. Some of us were raised to help old ladies cross the street. Leftist
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protesters were raised to flip them bird and scream in their faces as they cross the street. Just a
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different approach, I suppose. Who am I to judge? Of course, in reality, these people weren't raised at
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all. That's the problem. Certainly not by fathers or any other steady male role model. These are spoiled
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rotten brats more than anything else. That's what they are. Now, similar scenes unfolded in D.C.
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over the night, including a gang of rioters swarming Rand Paul as he left the venue.
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Say her name! Say her name! Say her name! Say her name!
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Y'all can take pictures and run up, but y'all gotta go up to move.
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so you notice how there how the the senator stops in the middle of the mayhem to make sure that the
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police officer is okay that's because senator paul whatever you think of his policies and politics
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is an honorable and decent man this provides a stark contrast with the crowd surrounding him
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where there is no honor or decency to be found anywhere at all so the question again is raised
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the enduring question what the hell is going on why is this happening why are these lunatics acting
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like this all the time everywhere and that question is one that um and has there are many answers to it
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and one that anthropologists and historians of the future will be studying and debate and debating
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as they sift through the ashes of our civilization trying to figure out what destroyed it what i'd
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like to do now is suggest one answer or at least part of an answer at least and um i still think
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that the most revealing thing we've seen of all the video of all the footage of these people
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destroying and burning and assaulting and killing the thing that best captured it all was the blm
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activist in chicago justifying the looting by calling it reparations but there was something else she said
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that got even closer to the heart of the issue i think i played this clip probably three times on the
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show already i'm going to play it again i'm going to keep playing it because i think it's that important
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let's let's play one more time here i don't care if somebody decides to loot a gucci or a macy's
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or a nike because that makes sure that that person eats that makes sure that that person has clothes
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that makes sure that that person can make some kind of money because this city obviously doesn't care
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about them not only that that's reparations that is reparations anything they want to take take it
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because these businesses have insurance they're gonna get their money back my people aren't getting
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anything these businesses have insurance she assures us we're entitled to take what we want
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these businesses will be fine now let's check in with a business owner an actual business owner to
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see how they feel about it this is from the rioters the riots in kenosha uh first you'll see an older
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older one woman surveying the wreckage after the business that she ran with her husband for decades
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was looted and burned and then you see her son talking about how devastating this is to his family
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it's not justifiable we have insurance yeah but the insurance
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isn't there so somebody can destroy and your things and say oh well there's insurance
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um you you pay for that you know we pay for insurance that causes insurance rates to go up
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it's basically that they just stole from us whoever did this stole from us and that raises the cost of
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everything cost of living goes up because of that cost of insurance goes up when when insurance
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claims have to be made i don't think it's justified for anyone to ruin anybody else's property it's
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against the law they'll be put in prison and order have to be paid made to pay back what they've
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destroyed letting these people get away with this and holding the cops hands where they can't do
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nothing that's wrong that cops need to be able to do their job and and you're not doing this isn't
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going to bring is it going to help your cause in other words no you can't just use your insurance
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and make everything go back to normal the devastation is real it is felt and these are people who are
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innocent who did nothing wrong and were made victims the man you saw there and his parents
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these are just one of the thousands and thousands and thousands of innocent victims over the past three
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months business owners homeowners everything in their lives taken from them sometimes life itself
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taken from them as was the case with david dorn we'll talk about that later on but the reason i play
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that clip of the blm woman in chicago talking about insurance this is a very common theme rioters and
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looters across the country have been using this line for weeks oh they have insurance uh these people
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have no idea how insurance works or what it even is the reason i play it is that it shows that the
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the the rioters they simply don't understand why business owners would be distressed to see their
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whole life's work go up in flames they cannot wrap their puny minds around it and uh the rioters
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the reason is that the rioters have never done anything of value in their entire lives they cannot relate
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to the feelings of productive humans these are societal leeches spoiled brats who have the luxury to
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spend their nights burning and destroying and can enjoy it because they've never experienced the
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real earned joy of building something of value or doing anything of value at all period we have to
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understand you know this is what we're dealing with here this isn't an uprising of the non-contributors
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against the contributors of the unproductive against the productive of the brats against the adults
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the real adults of the entitled do nothings against the doers it is a class war but it is not a war
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between poor and rich that's another thing we have to emphasize again and again and again the people
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who are losing everything the people who have been destroyed by all of this uh these for the most part
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are not rich people they're not even upper class or well off or whatever term you want to use these
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are mostly blue collar working class average ordinary americans going back to kenosha for a second
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here's a man working man trying his hardest to explain to the rioters that they're destroying
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the lives of innocent hard-working people and there's no reason to do it but he may as well
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be talking to a wall because it just doesn't register watch that's what y'all don't f***ing
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understand is that people have their lives in these businesses we don't know what we pay for that
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we pay for that we pay for that we pay for that so what just because y'all are too scared to go deal with
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the cops that's going to burn the whole town yeah yeah yeah yeah and then y'all got mazed and s*** like that
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and all that stuff take your issues up with them
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no it's do you know how many people a furniture store is the police a furniture store is the police
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a deal i didn't say s*** about the furniture i'm talking about the po wall this is a state-owned building bro
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they just can't comprehend what he's trying to say what burning down a furniture store won't help
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spread racial awareness and tell it huh what are you talking about these are people utterly
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disconnected from reality and it's a great privilege to be disconnected from reality most of us cannot
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afford to be that is why this is not poor versus rich many of the rioters are more privileged than
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their victims and we've been setting the stage for this for a long time a culture and system of
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entitlement which coddles and enables and insulates and breeds ultimately a generation of bored disaffected
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feckless disengaged brats morally misshapen from bad parenting or near total lack of parenting
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and their minds rotted from lives spent ingesting 10 hours of media a day why do they riot then is it
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anger is it hunger for justice is it a fight for freedom no it's obviously none of those there is
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zero connection between what we see in the streets and racial justice they do it because it's something
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to do and because they have aggression and have no idea where else to direct it they've gotten bored
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with video games and because they're envious envious of people who have who live real productive lives
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and because they can nobody's stopping them nobody's ever stopped them from doing anything
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and so they never learned boundaries or limitations or how to be decent civilized humans
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what can we do about it now well in the in the immediate in the short term overwhelming police
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response overpower subdue them lock many of them in prison for years punish them severely but the
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long-term answers are much more difficult i mean this after all is the culmination of generations
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of moral malformation it will take generations to undo it so a lot of work lies before us but i would say
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that now is a good as time good a time as any to begin doing it let's go to our five headlines
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well as we'll talk about here in a second the rnc has come to a close and so begins the final phase
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of the 2020 election presidential hopeful joe biden head-to-head against incumbent donald trump
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tonight we're going to completely recap the rnc for you on daily wire backstage at 7 p.m eastern
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4 p.m pacific we're going to review the highlights of the conference compare the rnc's performance to dnc
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from last week as well as the insane reactions from the left um as we just saw some of that and
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so uh final night of the rnc convention the most powerful speech hands down out without question
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my opinion and dorn wife of david dorn retired captain murdered during the riots i'll have more
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to say about that in the next segment for now um you know you could tell the convention was overall
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a success because of what democrats are latching on to what they've chosen to focus on you know
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um they've been on social media and on tv trying to fire people up over the fact that the rnc
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allegedly violated the hatch act by involving the white house in their in their convention
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um yes because while crazed mobs are burning down our cities they want us to worry about the hatch act
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meanwhile nobody knows what the hatch act is i got news for you and nobody cares if you explain it to
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them they still don't care um and i don't think anyone is going to the polls on election day super
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passionate about the hatch act i don't think anyone's going the hatch act act must be protected the hatch act
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um no i don't i don't see that it's just doesn't it doesn't quite work for a rallying cry
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and then uh also of course we're told that the crowd at trump's speech violated social distancing
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which again give me a break you don't get to worry about that or point that out while you cheer on
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these enormous writhing collections of screaming lunatics walking around the city spraying their
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disease ridden spittle all over everybody okay you can't it just so that that doesn't stick either
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it doesn't work um as for trump's actual speech well it was 876 minutes long he i think at one point he
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actually read the entire script of gone with the wind as an attack on political correctness which i
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thought that was an interesting choice so it was long um the content was uh you know it's pretty good
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i don't think anyone remembered it 30 seconds after it was over nobody remembers anything 30 seconds
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after it's over the sun could explode today and by tomorrow we'll all be bored with the topic we'll
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also be dead mercifully but also bored um so that was the rc convention let's move on number two the
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squads ringo iana presley is is added again i regret to inform you uh this is what she tweeted
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a 17 year old white supremacist domestic terrorist drove across state lines armed with an ar-15
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he shot and killed two people who had assembled to affirm the value dignity and worth of black lives
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fix your damn headlines okay nothing in that tweet is accurate let's just be clear about that
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it is one falsehood after another stacked on top of each other if she had a dime for every falsehood
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in that tweet she would have well at least 20 or 30 cents which incidentally should be the yearly
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salary of members of congress in my opinion in any case there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever at
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all anywhere that kyle rittenhouse is a white supremacist no evidence of it no reason to claim
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it other than you're just a lying hack um in fact there is positive evidence against the assertion
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that he's a white supremacist based on the videos of him earlier in the night where he's talking about
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the reason why he's there he never says anything about race at all he just says he's there to protect
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private property so this is a lie straight up and i hope to god that kyle um what he beats hopefully
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if he beats this charge if he's innocent of the charge and beats it um that he can then go and
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sue this lying hack into bankruptcy because this is just you're you're a member of congress and this is a
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17 year old and you're out there with no basis at all calling him a white supremacist
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if that doesn't count as slander um then i don't know what possibly could okay now um oh and then
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also of course so what are the other falsehoods in the tweet let's not just cover let's not cover just
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the one the people who were shot there is no evidence that any of them were assembled to affirm
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the dignity of black life um there's no evidence really that any of the protesters give the slightest
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damn about that much less the protesters quote unquote who were chasing kyle rittenhouse and
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trying to harm or kill him one of them did have a gun after all now as i've been saying all all week
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all of the evidence we currently have and have seen points to kyle rittenhouse shooting in self-defense
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after attending the protest to defend property from rioters and insurrectionists and being attacked
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by them that's all the evidence we've seen if if there's some other piece of evidence out there
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i haven't seen it i don't think anybody else has at least not anybody in the public if ayanna presley
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has some other piece of evidence she's withholding she should produce it but i don't think she does
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i think she's just a liar and a disgrace to the country a democrat in other words but nobody has
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produced any evidence so far publicly um that he did anything but defend himself from people who
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are attacking him of course that doesn't stop people from just going around and saying that
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he's a murderer anyway okay um number three wisconsin lieutenant governor mandela barnes has spoken out
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about the jacob lake shooting and uh here's what he has to say listen but as the governor said uh dci's
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investigation is ongoing but we don't need an investigation to know that blake shooting falls
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in a long and painful pattern of violence and this is a pattern of violence that happens uh against
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black lives too often across this country and as you all know we saw even more gun violence unfold on
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tuesday night when two protesters were tragically killed and one other injured by gunshots someone that
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wasn't looking to keep peace an outside agitator someone who came in from illinois with a long
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rifle was able to just walk the streets freely like that's something normal that we should just come
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to expect let me tell you that's not anything normal we shouldn't come to expect that we shouldn't
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accept it because what do you think is going to happen if you have an agitated man with a long gun
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walking down the streets thinking that he's some sort of peacekeeper and that kind of behavior
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shouldn't be enabled either and we have to deal with the devastating results of that uh we saw that
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happen in louisville already we saw it happen in charlottesville somebody ran their vehicle into
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protesters and had their hire was killed now kenosha wisconsin is also home to that sort of tragic scene
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we have to not ever want to see that happen again we don't need an investigation he says we don't
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need an investigation uh is we don't need investigation to know that blake shooting falls
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in a long and painful pattern of violence and this is a pattern of violence that happens against black
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lives too often across the country um that's that's what he says there so we don't need an investigation
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no you don't do you mandela uh you you really don't i mean you you you don't you don't require that
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as a democrat truly we don't need an investigation should be the 2020 democrat campaign motto it should
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also be the epitaph on the this our civilization's gravestone of course in reality yes you really do
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need an investigation and you know we can keep saying it over and over again i know it just like
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it doesn't even matter because the people saying this don't care about the truth but um connecting
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this so there there are two levels of of again we got two levels of falsehood uh one is to just flat
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out say that this was a murder by the police officers when once again all the evidence that
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we really have available which would seem to indicate that uh the opposite is the case that
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jacob blake was violently resisting arrest had a weapon in his possession apparently either in the car
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that he was reaching into or he already was holding it one of those two um he was you know wanted
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domestic abuser there on the scene uh apparently terrorizing his girlfriend stole her keys you know
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all of that all the information coming out is lining up in in the corner of the police officer
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vindicating the police officer uh so there's that but then also whatever you think about
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the shooting there's just no reason at all to think that this has anything to do with race
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uh of course we we automatically connect it to that but there's nothing no one has presented a
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shred of evidence for that yet um the lieutenant governor is is ready to say but he doesn't matter
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he doesn't the investigation racist murderer first degree murder hate crime federal prison he's ready
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to say that right away okay uh speaking of hate crimes here's a real one number four a story you
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aren't going to hear on the national news and uh haven't heard but the report is from nine news
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the nbc affiliate in aurora colorado says aurora police arrested a man suspected of stabbing another
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man after yelling black lives matter tuesday evening near uh east alameda avenue and south
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sable boulevard steve sinclair 30 now faces potential first degree murder and hate crime charge
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uh charges documents show um an arrest affidavit says sinclair uses a knife to stab 29 year old michael
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connor who was transported to the hospital for injuries and a collapsed lung so it says first
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degree murder i assume attempted murder because i don't think fortunately his victim survived it
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looks like connor a white male told police at the hospital that sinclair a black male shied at black
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lives matter prior to stabbing him according to the report it's unclear from the report what may have
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led up to the incident but police say that witnesses saw sinclair walk up to connor and said i'm going to
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kill you and your dog one witness said connor tried to run away and defended himself with a stick
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um and then uh officers on the scene showed up off one officer wrote that sinclair had his hands up
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when the officers came and said i stabbed him i'm a psychopath accurate assessment it seems
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um and uh now he's arrested and they're looking at right attempted first degree murder attempted first
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and uh bias motivated crime causing bodily injury now goes without saying we don't even need to say
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it at this point but obviously if this was a black man uh being stabbed by a white guy shouting white
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power or whatever uh this would be news everywhere cnn will be covering it it'd be the only thing we
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talked about for the next five or six days so we all we all know that now one one uh way that i think
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people are going to try to mitigate this is is by saying well this is just a crazy guy
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you know he says i stabbed him i'm a psychopath right so this is just a this is just an insane
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person and it's got nothing to do with black lives matter or hate crime or whatever and the thing is
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as i have said many times in i in an ideal scenario we wouldn't have the hate crime designation at all
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precisely for this reason because it's it's okay he stabbed the guy he's an innocent guy
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just he leaps out and stabs him tries to kill him that's attempted first degree murder i does it
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really even matter you know uh in a vacuum um considered on its own without does it really even
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matter if he motivated by hate or motivated by he just felt like stabbing someone who cares either
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way he tried to stab it should be the exact same penalty when you try to get inside someone's head
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and heart and figure out what emotions led them to this it just seems like an absurd sort of
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uh thing to even attempt in the first place but since we have the hate crime we shouldn't have it
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but since we do since we have this category then it has you have to try to apply it equally and
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obviously this falls right into the hate crime category but in any case uh he's a crazy guy maybe he was
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okay well see what do you think is going to happen if you've got crazy people out there
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and you're telling them all of these wild fantastical stories about systemic racism and how you know cops
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and white people are out just hunting black people gunning them down in the street it's false it's not
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true what do you think is going to happen when you tell a lie like that to a violent crazy person
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as we've seen there are a lot of people who are not clinically insane and we see how they react to it
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so this if this was a crazy guy um by no means is black lives matter absolved in fact they're they're
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they are implicated even more for driving um for for helping to motivate and drive this okay five
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from wral in north carolina it says a man was driving his tesla on autopilot mode early wednesday when he
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nearly missed hitting a nash county deputy standing outside his cruiser uh dave devander goley a doctor
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was in was in the tesla watching a movie on his cell phone while his car drove itself the tesla
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apparently not though because the tesla collided with the deputy's car first which then pushed into
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the state highway patrol car from the impact um fortunately it seems like nobody was uh seriously
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hurt goley works at halifax regional medical center was driving back to raleigh when the accident
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occurred he was charged with a move with a move over violation and viewing a television device while
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driving i had no idea that was against the law i'll keep that in mind for the future the tesla's
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marketed as having full self-driving capabilities and is created using artificial intelligence
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technology um but here's here's the part this is what we get to this this this is the this is the
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headline tesla's website says that autopilot still requires attention from the driver the website says
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current autopilot features uh require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous
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so what the hell is the point of that then it's autopilot but i still have to sit there and watch
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what's happening literally the only point of autopilot is so that you can watch youtube while
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driving i don't see any other reason to have it and if you can't do that then it's worthless i could
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invent my own autopilot i just put a cinder block on the on the gas pedal and it'll just go forward by
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itself well i mean i still have to be there to to drive it apparently that's oh look at the technology
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why does it seem like all the futuristic technology this is my point all this futuristic technology that we
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have never seems to live up to the hype you hear you know self-driving car and it turns out you still
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you still need to drive it so it's not self-driving you hear there's a new robot and you see a video
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there's some honda or whatever unveiled a new robot and you're really excited about it and then you you
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turn on the video and it's just a hunk of metal that waddles around and bangs into walls you hear
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they're launching someone into space and you think oh maybe they're going to pluto no they're just going
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to the to the space station which is five or six feet in the air according to science uh nothing
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ever lives up to the hype and of course as i say that while i sit here at my desk there is the
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internet which grants me access to the accumulated knowledge of mankind and can instantly give me any
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information i want but who cares about that can't even shoot laser beams or anything um let's do a
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bonus story i did want to play this for you because i thought this was this was an important
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important political story a man in blackface attended the dc protests last night for unclear
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reasons but um it uh didn't go well for him surprisingly watch
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Wow. All I can say is that the man who assaulted Governor Northam must face severe consequences.
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We cannot attack our elected leaders like that. That was the Northam joke. I had to throw it in
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there. All right, let's get to our daily cancellation. Okay, I don't have a daily
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cancellation today. If you'll forgive me, I did lie just there. The cancellation is canceled just
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for today. And I am no doubt canceled for canceling it. I understand that. But the reason
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is that I want to carve out some time for some positive recognition for a change of someone who
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really deserves it. And there's a larger point I want to make as well. But we'll start with,
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as mentioned before, Ann Dorn, the wife of Captain David Dorn, who was the retired police captain
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gunned down by rioters. The entire speech that she gave at the RNC convention last night is five
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minutes. Well worth your time to watch. I would highly recommend that you go to YouTube or Twitter
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or wherever and find the video and watch the whole thing. I can't play the whole thing here, of course,
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course. But here's a quick piece of it. After I'd gone to bed, David received a call from Lee's
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Alarm Company. The front door of the pawn shop had been breached. This time he didn't wake me up to
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tell me. He probably knew I would have tried to stop him or insist on going with him. As I slept,
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looters were ransacking the shop. They shot and killed David in cold blood. And then live streamed his
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execution and his last moments on earth. David's grandson was watching the video on Facebook in real
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time, not realizing he was watching his own grandfather dying on the sidewalk.
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I learned of all this around 4 a.m. when our doorbell rang. The chief of police was standing
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outside. I wondered why Dave had not answered the door. It wasn't uncommon for him to be up watching
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TV at this time. I called out to him several times. There was no reply. He just wasn't there.
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I let in the chief. And fighting back tears, he uttered the words, every officer's spouse dreads.
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I relived that horror in my mind every single day.
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So that's powerful, gut-wrenching, horrific, also inspiring. Inspiring because of the courage it took
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for her to stand there and tell that story, if you can only imagine, you know, having to tell that story
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about your spouse. And inspiring because of the courage and decency of her husband.
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Now, before Anne recounts the murder itself, she explains that her husband, David,
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you know, was the kind of guy who made friends everywhere he went. He befriended years ago a
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child whose family had been murdered. And eventually the child named Lee grew up, opened a pawn shop,
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and he asked David to help him with security for the pawn shop. And this is something that David did
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just to help a friend. He would get up in the middle of the night, go check on things whenever the
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alarm went off. And really think about that. It seems like a small thing perhaps, but think about
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doing this, being on call as security when you're retired, even going out in the middle of the night,
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just out of the kindness of your heart, as a gesture of friendship. You really know everything
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you need to know about David Dorn based solely on that one detail of his life. This is a thoroughly
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decent man. His death was an outrage, a tragedy, an injustice. Yes, it is also an injustice. Committed
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committed first by the piece of trash who pulled the trigger, but also by the state and local elected
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officials who refused to do their job and maintain law and order. His blood is on their hands too,
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without a doubt. But here's the startling fact. A great many people in this country do not really
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feel outraged by David Dorn's death. They don't consider it an injustice worthy of protest or even
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moderate attention. It's not an exaggeration to say that the only deaths that enrage some people in
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this country are the deaths of violent criminals who resist arrest. It's difficult to fathom such a
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mentality if you're a mentally healthy person, but that is the mentality of many people. And there are
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consequences to that. As humans, we become what we aspire to. We emulate our heroes. We follow in the
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footsteps of our leaders. We are inspired and motivated by our martyrs, whichever martyrs we choose to
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raise up and honor. And every culture has martyrs. So what happens to our society then when we tear
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down the statues of our historical heroes and we choose to ignore modern day heroes and martyrs like
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David Dorn, and instead we choose to honor men like George Floyd and Jacob Blake. Floyd was a violent
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criminal and drug addict who forced his way into a woman's home, put a gun to her stomach. Jacob Blake was
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an accused domestic and sexual abuser, apparently terrorizing his girlfriend when the cops arrived.
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These are the men we elevate? Well, one thing is for sure. We could say, absolutely. The Me Too era
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is officially over then. It's been over for a while. Now it's officially over. We cannot still be in the
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Me Too era while making martyrs out of violent abusers of women. Now, it's true that just because
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someone was a bad guy that doesn't automatically make their death or injury at the hands of police
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justified, the justification or lack of justification for that comes from their behavior and choices in the
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moment when police try to arrest them. So what do they do then? That's what matters. And whatever
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else you think about these cases, there's no doubt that both Floyd and Blake made monumentally horrible
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choices in those moments. But if you think someone's death was wrong or unjust, you can make the case
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for that without making martyrs and heroes out of them, without acting as though whatever happened to
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them is one of the great tragedies of American history, without explicitly or implicitly elevating them
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over men like David Dorn. It's one thing to say, you know, I think the police did the wrong thing in
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this case. It's another thing to paint a mural of a career criminal and a violent abuser or go around
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claiming that he was a family man and pillar of the community. When you take the latter route, you turn
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them into role models. And that matters. That really has an impact. That does something. And it isn't good.
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This is not something that we do in a vacuum. There are consequences here. When you walk around the city
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and you see murals of George Floyd, again, a violent criminal, not a good man by any reasonable
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definition, that is honoring him. That is not speaking out against a supposed injustice or simply
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protesting something that the police did. That is honoring the man. And when we honor men like that,
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what happens? You get a lot more men like that. And a lot fewer men like David Dorn.
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Those are the consequences. But that's why I would recommend that you watch that. And,
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and, you know, as much as, as much as possible, if we can focus on the focus on, you know,
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I think we need to elevate positive examples as much as we can to counterbalance all of this craziness.
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So we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Everybody. Thanks for listening. Have
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