Ep. 559 - #MeToo Canceled As Dems Canonize Accused Rapist And Serial Abuser
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Kamala Harris is the latest high profile Democrat to visit and pay homage to accused rapist and serial abuser Jacob Blake Jr. With the canonization of men like Blake and George Floyd, among others, the Me Too movement is now officially dead. Also, five headlines including BLM fighting for racial justice by harassing elderly diners at restaurants, and in our daily cancellation, I will cancel gender reveal parties before they get us all killed.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Kamala Harris was the latest Democrat to visit and pay homage to
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Jacob Blake, credibly accused rapist and serial abuser. With the canonization of men like Blake
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and George Floyd, among others, the Me Too movement is now officially dead. And we'll
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talk about that. Also, five headlines, including BLM fighting for racial justice by harassing
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elderly diners at restaurants. And in our daily cancellation, I will cancel gender reveal parties
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before they get us all killed. All of that and more on the way. But we start here. Kamala Harris,
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as I said, latest high-profile Democrat to meet with and pay homage to Jacob Blake and his family.
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After speaking with them for an hour, Harris gushed to reporters that Blake Sr., known for ranting about
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Jews and crackers on social media, and Blake Jr., accused of drunkenly abusing a woman over the
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course of several years before finally breaking into her house and raping her, are incredible.
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Senator, how was your meeting with the Blake family today?
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It's really wonderful. I mean, they're an incredible family. And what they've endured,
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and they just do it with such dignity and grace. And, you know, they're carrying the weight of
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And what was the message that you shared with him and his family?
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Now, Blake family attorney, Benjamin Crump, a man for whom the term ambulance chaser was invented,
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issued a press release after the visit, providing more details about this kumbaya session. According to
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Crump, he said, did a press release, quote, Senator Harris had an inspirational and uplifting one-hour
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visit with Jacob Blake Jr. and his family today. She spoke individually with each family member
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about how they were handling the trauma and urged them to take care of their physical and mental
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health. In a moving moment, Jacob Jr. told Senator Harris that he was proud of her, and the senator
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told Jacob that she was also proud of him and how he is working through his pain. Now would be a good
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time to remind ourselves why Blake Jr. finds himself in a position where he must work through
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his pain. And that reason is that a few months ago, a sobbing and trembling woman called 911 to
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report that Jacob Blake had allegedly broken into her home early in the morning, digitally raped her,
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humiliated her, then stolen her debit card and vehicle. On the day of the shooting, Blake had
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returned to his alleged victim's house with a knife, taken her keys, and then assaulted the police
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officers when they arrived in response to the woman's emergency call. This is the man that
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apparently swells Kamala Harris with pride when she looks upon him. And she's not alone, not by a
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long shot. Joe Biden had his own state visit with the royal family of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and spoke
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emotionally about the resilience and hope and optimism of the accused rapist and serial abuser.
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I just spent an hour or more with the family as I got off the airplane. Had an opportunity to spend
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some time with Jacob on the phone. He's out of ICU. We spoke for about 15 minutes. His brother and two
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sisters, his dad and his mom on the telephone. And I spoke to him a lot before, but we spent
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it's time together with my wife. And he talked about how nothing was going to defeat him.
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How whether he walked again or not, he was not going to give up.
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We talked about a psalm in my church, our church, Father, based on the 23rd psalm. May he raise you up
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in eagle's wings and bury you on the breath of dawn until we, and keep you in God, hold you in the palm of his hand
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that we meet again. Well, I think, Alderman, what's been unleashed with a lot of people is
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they understand that fear doesn't solve problems. Only hope does.
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Now, I know it can be kind of hard to understand what he's saying there. He's talking as if he just
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jogged 98 miles through the desert, completely out of breath, while he's really just sitting there.
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But this is a healthy man, folks. A very physically healthy man. Not physically falling apart before
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our eyes at all, okay? But anyway, the media, of course, has also played a crucial role in Blake's
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canonization. On Monday, the New York Times published a lengthy article about the suspected
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rapist's medical challenges, declaring that Blake can now be the, quote, rare survivor to, quote,
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tell his own story. And it takes the article's author, Nicholas Bogle Burroughs, about 30 sentences
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to finally mention that the rape charge exists, and then only mentioned as vaguely as possible,
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of course. He writes only that Mr. Blake, quote, pleaded not guilty on Friday to three domestic
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charges against him, including a sexual assault account. That's it. No mention of the specific
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details of the charge, which are harrowing and horrifying. No mention of the knife in Blake's
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possession on the day of the shooting. No mention that he assaulted the police officers who came to
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the aid of his alleged victim. The alleged victim herself gets only half a sentence of acknowledgement.
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She is described as, quote, the woman who reported the assault called 911. That's it. That's the end of it.
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We were told nothing of her condition, how she feels, how she's holding up, how she's coping with
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seeing millionaire athletes and celebrities rally around and celebrate the man who she says raped,
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abused, and terrorized her. The New York Times just does not consider her physical or emotional state
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relevant. And on that point, Biden, Harris, and the rest of the Democrats agree. Now, this is quite
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interesting coming from the same people who, in very recent history, have spoken so passionately
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about the need to amplify the voices of sexual violence survivors. Speaking of which, the leaders
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of Me Too just last week launched something called the Survivors Agenda, which is supposed to amplify the
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voices of sexual violence survivors. In a video announcing the initiative just last week, the Me Too
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warriors said that though they've made, quote, incredible strides and had some, quote, amazing wins,
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there is still much that must be done to ensure that society takes survivors seriously and that
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all survivors are heard. In fact, let's watch that video right now.
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It's been almost three years since millions of us raised our hands and voices to say Me Too.
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Since then, we've seen incredible strides and experienced some amazing wins. We've also learned
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that we have so much farther to go to bring about the change we need to see.
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We launched the Survivors Agenda to center what survivors in this country care about so we can
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build the kind of world we all deserve. As a survivor and an attorney who has dedicated my
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career to seeking justice, the thing that I most want to see is institutions take survivors seriously
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and develop the systems that allow for justice and for healing.
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As a survivor, the things that I care about most are ensuring that all survivors are heard and supported,
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no matter their zip code, immigration status, ethnicity, or any other reason.
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There's power in our numbers and an end to sexual violence needs all of us.
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We've always known that exceptions are made to this amplify their voices thing whenever
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a high-profile Democrat politician is accused. But over the past few months, we've learned that
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the exempt list also includes women who are allegedly brutalized by men who later die or are injured in
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police custody, provided, of course, that the circumstances, including the races of those involved,
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George Floyd was convicted of forcing his way into a woman's home, shoving a gun into her
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stomach, and robbing her in front of her child. Jacob Blake is credibly accused of the brutal
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crimes already described. These victims' voices are far from amplified. On the contrary, the very
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existence of these women is covered up, buried, ignored. The champions of Me Too certainly won't say
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their names or even acknowledge them in passing. They are shoved to the side and trampled over in the
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rush to lionize their abusers. There are real consequences to this. First of all, the continued
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emotional trauma suffered by women who must now live in a country that hails their abusers as heroes is real.
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Also, will the next woman confronted by a man she knows from experience to be violent and volatile
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hesitate to call 9-1-1, fearing that he'll get himself shot and she'll be blamed for it while society
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wails in grief over the tragic fate of her abuser? What if Blake's alleged victim had made that
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calculation? What if she had not called the police? What would the angry man with a knife who had already
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stolen her keys have done? Would he have done something terrible to her? Would he have hurt the
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children? Now, we can't know the answer to that question, but we do know that if things had played
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out that way, BLM would have nothing to say. Me Too would remain quiet. The left and Democrats like
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Biden and Harris would just yawn and continue along their way. The woman in the Jacob Blake case,
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the woman who is still just the woman, nameless, is not the kind of victim that any of these groups
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care about. And that's because they don't care about women at all. Let's get to our five headlines.
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number one, Black Lives Matter agitators have returned to the familiar well, harassing random
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white people while they eat dinner. This is the, this is the, you know, one of the, one of the primary
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tactics now of BLM, and because BLM are very tough and brave, they focus once again on elderly people.
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You're an embarrassment. You're an embarrassment. You're an embarrassment. This is how you're
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treated. Put the glasses on. That's it. Come on, Harry. I don't think I can't hear this.
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F*** 12 and f*** these f*** the f*** people that built the system set against mine. F***, you old f***.
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So tough, really tough, intimidating to elderly people, you know, big, big tough guys.
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You're so strong and brave are these warriors for freedom.
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Oh, and by the way, here's BLM same day, same city harassing and assaulting a black McDonald's
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Hey, there's somebody with a wheelchair in that you need to let out.
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If we open that door, it's going to open up the people.
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Are you trying to hold that person in there, Ed?
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Are you trying to hold that person in there, Ed?
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Wow. Okay. Well, so apparently every time I've seen, you know, someone shout at a McDonald's
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manager because they got a six piece nugget instead of an eight piece nugget, uh, that was
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really, they were really advancing racial justice. And I didn't realize that. So when you shout at a
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McDonald's manager, you're advancing racial justice. You know, we hear the word hateful
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tossed around quite a bit. Uh, the left especially likes to call everything hateful really. And most
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of the time, hateful really means something more like, uh, has opinions that differ from my own or
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is more passionate about this issue than I am. That's most of the time when someone calls something
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hateful, that's really what they mean. But, um, what we see here with BLM, this is actually finally a,
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a, a real hateful movement movement. Hateful in the most literal sense, they are filled with hate.
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They have only hate to offer. Um, they aren't trying to achieve anything positive. It's not like
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this is just a misguided way of achieving some positive goal. No, there is no positive goal.
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There's nothing harassing and intimidating old people while they eat dinner. You know, that's,
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that's not something you do because you have a goal in mind. It's something you do because you hate,
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you hate them for the race. You hate them for their age. You hate them for their assumed
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socioeconomic status. BLM is only hate. It is defined by hate. It hates white people. It hates
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police. It hates conservatives. I mean, it hates pretty much everything and everyone that doesn't
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bend to its whims. Uh, it hates black people too. I mean, if, if you noticed in that, in that last
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video we played as a black McDonald's manager, um, racial minority, middle-class, you know,
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as far as we know, not a conservative or Trump supporter, but they hated him too. Why? Well,
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because he didn't dance to their tune. That's it. You have to do exactly what BLM wants. And if you
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don't, then they hate you and you're an enemy and, uh, you're a fascist and you're Hitler and they can do
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whatever they want to, and they're morally justified in doing so. That's the attitude.
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Okay. Number two. Um, but wait, BLM maybe is not so bad after all report from the Hill reading now.
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It says, despite several incidents of protests against racism and police brutality, turning
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violent, more than 90% of the summer's protests were peaceful. According to an analysis released
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Thursday, the report produced by the nonprofit armed conflict location and event data project
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identified 7,750 protests between May 26th and August 22nd in 2,400 locations. The report found
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that about 220 became violence, a term described defined as demonstrators fighting with police or
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with counter protesters. The term also applies to demonstrators, uh, or demonstrations that resulted
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in property damage in 93% of cases analyzed. There was no violence. Okay. So a few problems here.
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First of all, um, there's no reason to trust these numbers at all period. So we could just end it
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there, I guess. Second, based on this definition, what we just saw there, BLMers walking around harassing
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and intimidating the elderly that doesn't count as violent by, by this definition. Now it is, it is
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violent, but it doesn't count by this tally to be violent by this definition. You have to assault a
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police officer or burn something or, you know, maybe kill, uh, you know, a random pedestrian as has
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happened. Maybe that will count. I'm not sure. The third thing though, is, um, even, even putting
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all that aside, let's pretend that the actual figure is 7%. 7% is a lot. Okay. That's a lot.
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220 violent riots that even the media will call violent in one summer, 220. And you're what we're
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supposed to be impressed with that. Oh, it was only 220, only 220 violent riots in a summer.
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That's it. No, that's, that's a lot. Uh, I am not impressed with BLM's restraint, even if I pretended
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that it was only 7%. I mean, the crazy thing is March for life, pro-lifers get together hundreds
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of thousands been doing this, uh, every year for, for over four decades. It's never been violent.
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There has, there has been 0% violence over four decades with hundreds of thousands of people
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gathered together. Now that's impressive. Okay. That is an impressive streak, but when you can't
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even put together, you know, like four days in a row of nonviolent protests, um, no, that's,
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you know what that tells me? That tells me this is a violent movement. That's what it tells me by
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definition. 7% of your protest, your quote unquote protests turn violent. That's a violent movement
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to be nonviolent. That number needs to be 0%, 0.001% maybe.
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Um, okay. Let's see. Number three. Now, I don't know where this is from or the context, but this
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apparently is a, well, it's a, it's a vegan funeral for slabs of meat at the supermarket. I don't know
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when it happened, but it's making the rounds online. Pretty heart-wrenching stuff. Let's, let's take a look.
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Yeah, that's, that's, that's emotional. Um, and I joined these vegans in many ways. I, I am with
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them and I too hope that one day the sight of a murdered cow will be rare. Um, because that tastes
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a lot better than medium well. And actually this is a common vegan tactic. It turns out I looked it
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up and, um, they do this a lot, I guess. I've never had the pleasure of witnessing it in person
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when I'm at the supermarket. I wish I would, but I've never seen it, but here's some more footage.
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I found this from an animal rights YouTube channel. And, uh, in this case they are mourning
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May they rest in peace is pieces with gravy. Uh, as for the, the vegans themselves. Well, you know,
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they say that there's a mental health crisis in America and exhibit a right there. Number four,
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the United nations sent out a tweet yesterday. It said the COVID-19 pandemic is demonstrating what
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we all know. Millennia of patriarchy have resulted in a male dominated world with a male dominated
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culture, which damages everyone, women, men, girls, and boys. It's demonstrating what now?
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How does the, what, what does the patriarchy have to do with, I mean, okay, I, I guess I, this is kind
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of how I remember thinking back in 2008, how the global financial crisis really demonstrated the need
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for more trans representation in the Australian avant-garde theater scene, uh, which is to say the
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two things aren't connected at all. But I suppose, I mean, really any, any event can demonstrate any
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point you want. If you're not worried about things like making sense, uh, number five, finally, for our
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most important story of the day. And, uh, look, I say this in all seriousness, I've, I've of course,
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never been a supporter of Joe Biden. I never saw myself, you know, voting for him. I still probably
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won't, but, um, I don't know. He just made a case for himself that even I can't ignore. He made one
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point that sort of made me pause and say, Hmm, maybe there is a case for voting for him. I don't
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know. He was being interviewed by reporters yesterday. And, uh, and this is, this is something
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that he mentioned, kind of a sales pitch for himself that I thought was pretty persuasive.
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Listen, step or two, uh, what's your response to that? Look at how he steps and look how I step.
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Watch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps. Okay. Come on.
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Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, if you like me have always planned to vote for whoever can most
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skillfully and swiftly navigate a ramp, then Biden might be our guy. I'm a one issue voter. Okay. And
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my issue is ramps. I want to know how fast can you walk down them? How confidently, how gracefully
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think of all the press of all the ramps that a president walks down in a, in a, I think the
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latest study was a president has to walk down a ramp 14 times a week. Okay. So that's a lot of
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ramps. And I mean, do you want a guy who's tripping and stumbling down the ramp, or do you want someone
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who could do a cartwheel down the ramp if he wanted to? I just wish that I was alive back in the 19th
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century, uh, to see Grover Cleveland, uh, because that man was a master of ramps. He used to, he used to
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go down ramps on his hands, doing handstands. One of the all-time greats when it comes to,
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to ramps. Um, anyway, interesting stuff there. The ramp debate rages on, but a little bit of a food
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for thought, something to think about with, with the ramps. I'm glad that Biden brought that up.
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So today for our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling gender reveal parties
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because it's happened once again, according to the California department of forestry and fire
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protection, some pyrotechnics used during a gender reveal party caused a forest fire and the people
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responsible will face severe penalties. Here's the press release. It says Cal fire law enforcement
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has determined the Eldorado fire burning near Oak Glen in San Bernardino County was caused by a smoke
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generating pyrotechnic device used during a gender reveal party. The fire began at 10 23 AM on
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Saturday or on September 5th, 2020 in the Eldorado ranch park. Cal fire reminds the public that with
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the dry conditions and critical fire weather, it doesn't take much to start a wildfire. Those
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responsible for starting fires due to negligence or illegal activity can be financially responsible
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and criminally responsible. So, uh, so, so far 7,000 acres of land have been incinerated because a
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couple of narcissists wanted to announce their baby's gender with fireworks instead of announcing
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it by just, you know, announcing it saying something like, Hey, we're having a girl, but no, they needed
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pink flames to rain down from the sky, lighting up the heavens and declaring their news onto the whole
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earth. Uh, and this is not a new thing by the way, gender reveal parties seem to start for forest fires
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every year. In total, about 98 million square miles have been burned because of gender reveal parties
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and two and a half billion people have died. Those are rough estimates. Don't Google it. Just,
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just go with it for now. The main point is simply that fires are no fires. Gender reveal parties are
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stupid, extremely stupid for many reasons, but here's the main one. And I don't mean to disenchant or
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demoralize you with this information, but, but here it is. Nobody cares about the gender of your
00:27:15.740
baby. Nobody is on pins and needles needing to know you might be, but nobody else is. I've got
00:27:23.340
like over 20 nieces and nephews and counting. And that that's one figure that is not an exaggeration.
00:27:28.460
Um, I, I didn't have a preference for the gender for any one of them. I didn't care that much. I'm
00:27:33.480
interested to know, but it would be, it would be really weird if my sister said to me, Hey, we're having
00:27:37.620
another baby. And I, and I went, Oh boy or girl. And she said, well, if you want to know, come to
00:27:41.920
the park next Friday at two 30, bring a long chair, uh, show starts at three. What? Why don't
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you just tell me? Like, I'm not that interested. I'll, I'll wait for the baptism if that's how it's
00:27:52.500
going to be. But see the gender reveal party wouldn't bother me as much if it weren't part of
00:27:57.900
a larger trend. And the trend is people in the modern world deciding they need about 52 public
00:28:03.440
celebrations and gift giving occasions for every milestone, milestones that used to be normal and
00:28:09.040
celebrated, you know, once if at all. Uh, and, and, and with an intimate circle of family and very
00:28:14.780
close friends. But now we've decided that these things, which humans have been doing for millennia
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are when we do them anyway, historically momentous occasions and legions of angels must come from on
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high to sound the trumpet and sing choruses of hallelujahs. Consider how many public celebrations
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a modern couple might have before they've even made it around the first turn on the monopoly board
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of life. First, they have their engagement party, then a bridal shower, then the bachelor party,
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then the bachelorette party, then the rehearsal dinner, the wedding, the wedding reception,
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the post wedding brunch. If you're counting at home, that's eight parties just because these
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egomaniacs are getting married. Meanwhile, nobody cares that much. I mean, we care, but not eight
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parties worth of caring and they aren't done yet. Not by a long shot. When they decide to have a
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child, there's the gender reveal party. There's the baby shower followed now by the man shower,
00:29:09.080
which is a baby shower for men or more precisely for individuals who might be mistaken for men. Uh,
00:29:15.660
then the mother gets a push present simply for pushing the baby out. And, uh, after that there is,
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I'm told something called a sip and see, which is a party where people come and see the baby.
00:29:26.440
We used to call that seeing the baby. Now it's a sip and see, make sure to bring a present. This
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will be the 15th time you give these psychotic materialists a present in the past year and a
00:29:38.480
half. And at some point there's going to be a first wedding anniversary party because that also is a
00:29:43.180
thing that people do now, by the way, apparently, I don't know if you knew that a party to congratulate
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themselves for not getting divorced within the first 12 months of taking their vows. Uh, people have
00:29:52.620
parties for that now, and there will be, you know, the big first birthday party for the child
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followed. I'm sure not far behind by the divorce party and then another engagement party and so on
00:30:05.100
and on and on until we are all saved by the sweet release of death. Of course, with our luck, when we
00:30:10.100
die, it will, it will turn out that, you know, there's a big reveal party for each soul to find out
00:30:15.000
if they're going to heaven or hell, like bite into the cupcake. If it's red inside and tastes like sulfur,
00:30:19.500
I hope you packed your summer clothes. Um, and it's kind of strange when you think about it because
00:30:25.180
by the amount of, of, of celebrating we do for these ordinary life events, you'd think that we in our
00:30:33.860
culture have a serious and profound appreciation for their personal importance and personal magnitude. But
00:30:41.420
that doesn't seem to be the case. I don't look around at our society and notice a deep reverence for
00:30:47.540
marriage and parenthood. I notice in fact, the exact opposite. And when you think a little harder about it,
00:30:53.340
you realize that it kind of makes sense. These parties are not a reflection of our appreciation for these
00:30:59.200
institutions and milestones. That's because the parties don't really celebrate the institutions and
00:31:03.980
milestones themselves. The parties are a celebration of the individuals. The individuals are throwing
00:31:11.200
themselves expensive parties to give you an opportunity to celebrate them as individuals.
00:31:18.100
This also explains why all of these baby and pregnancy celebrations are popular in well-off liberal areas
00:31:24.500
where almost everyone is pro-abortion. What are they doing celebrating what they believe to be a
00:31:30.120
parasitic infestation? Well, again, they aren't celebrating the pregnancy or the baby. It's the woman,
00:31:35.000
the person. They are gathering to stroke her ego. Rather, she has called this gathering. She has
00:31:42.040
summoned them for the solemn task of kissing her ass, which these days also, of course, is what almost
00:31:49.740
the entire wedding reception is designed to do as well. We joke about women being bridezillas on their
00:31:55.980
wedding day, and we excuse it by saying, well, it's her big day. But first of all, just because it's your
00:32:02.320
big day, why should that be an excuse to act like a raging sociopath? I don't even tolerate that behavior
00:32:07.880
from my three-year-old on his birthday. You're a grown woman, allegedly. Pull yourself together. Also, it's not
00:32:15.280
just your big day, okay? It's supposed to be a day for you and the groom and the family. It's supposed to
00:32:21.280
really be a day celebrating the marriage, not you, the marriage. If you're seeing it as a day about you, that's a bad
00:32:31.380
sign. And that's why I would recommend to any man out there, if you're engaged and your bride-to-be is
00:32:36.760
already giving off bridezilla vibes, maybe think about getting out now while you still can. Bridezillas
00:32:42.700
become wifezillas. Women who want everything to be about them on their wedding day will, it turns out,
00:32:48.360
bring that attitude with them into the marriage. When it comes to her narcissism and self-involvement,
00:32:54.200
the wedding is just the appetizer. You don't want to see the main course. And dessert, well, dessert is a
00:33:00.120
70-30 custody arrangement. Now, I was fortunate that I didn't have to learn this lesson the hard way. My wife was
00:33:06.240
anything but a bridezilla, yet there are a lot of bridezillas and brozillas out there. Our culture of self-worship
00:33:12.000
is pretty much designed to create them, build them, churn them out like an assembly line. And all of the over-the-top
00:33:17.800
self-congratulatory pageantry is both a symptom and a cause of the problem. So, I'm canceling all gender reveals
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and other superfluous celebrations. You will be permitted one wedding reception, no more than
00:33:32.120
three hours in length. And that's the only public celebration you get until your 50th wedding
00:33:37.480
anniversary. Needless to say, when I am theocratic dictator, this will be a matter of law. Violators
00:33:43.280
will be thrown into a volcano. And that will be a cause for public celebration.
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