Ep. 631 - How We Got Here
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On the heels of chaos in Washington, D.C. yesterday as a group of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building, I want to talk about what led up to those events. The media and the left for months have been openly justifying and encouraging riots and political violence. Today, they say that none of that had anything to do with the riot in DC. But I think there s a very obvious connection, which we ll discuss today. Also, five headlines, including more on the mother and military veteran who was shot and killed by Capitol Police during the riot, and President Trump is suspended from Twitter, plus our daily cancellation and much more, on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, chaos in D.C. yesterday as a group of Trump supporters
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stormed the Capitol building. I want to talk about what led up to those events. The media
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and the left for months were openly justifying and encouraging riots and political violence.
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Today, they say that none of that had anything to do with the riot in D.C. But I think there's
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a very obvious connection, which we'll discuss today. Also, five headlines, including more on
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the mother and military veteran who was shot and killed by Capitol Police during the riot.
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And President Trump is suspended from Twitter, plus our daily cancellation and much more
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slash Walsh for 25% off. It is being demanded that we view yesterday's events in D.C. as if they
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occurred without precedent. Nothing of importance or relevance preceding them. Right-wing Trump supporters
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stormed the Capitol building, vandalized, fought with police, rained down anarchy. And there was
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no catalyst for any of it, no underlying reason other than Donald Trump and his incitements.
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This is how we're meant to see it. But I think it's important that we learn from our experiences
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in this country, especially when those experiences are horrendous and disgraceful, as they were in this
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case. And learning means understanding, which often means stepping back and taking a wider view.
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We don't need to widen the lens very much to see that the rioting and violence on Capitol Hill
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this week happened to occur after many months of violent riots across the nation. Violent riots which
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were defended, even romanticized, by many prominent voices in the media and government.
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Now, I'll be accused of whataboutism for refusing to pretend that this particular bit of chaos erupted in
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a void, in a vacuum, utterly disconnected from all that came before it. But that's not true.
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The simple fact is that left-wing radicals spent the entire summer and much of the fall wreaking
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havoc in our cities and leaving burned out buildings, looted stores, dead bodies in their wake.
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They did this in D.C. as well, multiple times, in fact, over the summer. And the aerial shots of the
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city after their protests looked like something out of Baghdad in 2003. Go look for yourself.
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Now, it's being argued that the BLM riots were a different sort of thing because, for one,
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the rioters were not fueled by conspiracy theories, but by valid concerns over police brutality.
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Also, as the argument goes, they were targeting private businesses and not government buildings.
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So it's a completely different thing and not nearly as bad.
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Both of these arguments are, of course, completely wrong on every level.
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Now, I'm not convinced that any rioters, whether the ones this summer or the ones in the Capitol yesterday,
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are actually motivated by anything other than a savage desire to destroy purely for the thrill of destruction.
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That's why I oppose rioting in all its forms all the time.
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It's illegal and destructive, number one, but also it's fundamentally nihilistic.
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But to whatever extent the BLM and Antifa mobs were animated by outrage over police shootings,
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they were in almost every case wildly wrong about the facts surrounding those police shootings.
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Indeed, they'd been whipped into a frenzy by falsehoods and conspiracy theories
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just as outrageous as anything you may hear in the QAnon fever swamps.
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Many of the police shootings that have provoked rioting over the past several months and years
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were based on, you know, based on all available evidence, were completely justified.
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In fact, this all began, or at least BLM rose to prominence on the back of the Michael Brown shooting.
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So it's not as though BLM and Antifa have truth on their side.
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Again, it's not true that they victimized only private businesses.
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Rioters infiltrated and torched police stations in Minneapolis and Portland.
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I agree, but I think it's also pretty unprecedented.
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And I felt pretty shocked, I don't know about you,
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when I saw people infiltrating police stations and burning them to the ground in the middle of American cities.
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You want to talk about living in a third world country?
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The federal courthouse in Portland was under sustained violent attack for weeks.
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Add in all the police cars that were incinerated or demolished by the mob.
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And the claim that yesterday was unprecedented because it was an attack on government property reveals itself to be entirely absurd.
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But is it really worse to attack government property anyway?
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It's surely reprehensible to swarm the Capitol and put our elected officials in danger.
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But is it better to loot and burn a CVS or a Target and put the workers at those establishments in danger?
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Was it better when David Dorn was murdered for trying to defend his friend's pawn shop from looters?
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Is it really better to burn down a convenience store because you're mad that a violent felon was shot by the cops?
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Can we not agree that all of these acts are barbaric and untenable in a civilized society?
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Though we're supposed to erase all of this from our mind now and pretend it never happened,
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the truth, again, is that the media and the Democrat Party spent much of the previous year offering full-throated defenses of rioting and looting and political terrorism.
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The very same people who are now shaking their heads and muttering tearfully about how the mob violence in D.C. yesterday was a dark and unprecedented moment in American history
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were, not but a few weeks ago, openly defending and encouraging mob violence.
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We'll play this clip for you just to jog your memory.
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Laughing at the very idea that protests should be peaceful.
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No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets.
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Persistent and poisonous inequities and injustice.
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And please, show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
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Well, and as many people pointed out to Chris Cuomo at the time, it says that actually in the First Amendment.
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Remember, and also remember celebrities like Trevor Noah reclining thoughtfully in their mansions and pontificating about how sometimes protests have to involve violence and arson.
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When you are a have and when you are a have-not, you see the world in very different ways.
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And a lot of the time people say to the have-nots, this is not the right way to handle things.
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When Colin Kaepernick kneels, they said this is not the right way to protest.
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When Martin Luther King had children as part of his protests in Birmingham, Alabama, people said having children as your protest is not the right way to do things.
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When he marched in Selma, people said this is not the right way to do things.
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When people marched through the streets in South Africa during apartheid, they said this is not the right way to do things.
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When people burn things, they say it's not the right way.
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It's never the right way because there's never, there is never a right way to protest.
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There is no right way to protest because that's what protest is.
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It cannot be right because you are protesting against a thing that is stopping you.
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And then many BLM leaders, like the president of the Greater New York Black Lives Matter, in this interview with Tommy Lahren, declaring that rioting is the language of the unheard and that it is a tool of white supremacy to insist on peaceful protests.
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But you don't say anything against them, though.
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Because a riot is the language of the unheard, right?
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And for a country that drops bombs on people, for a country that incarcerates people, for a country that enslaves people, to criticize us, right, for vandalism, it's preposterous.
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It is okay to vandalize, to light things on fire, and to loot businesses because the United States of America drops bombs on other countries and because we have problems here and we have grievances, people have grievances.
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And you co-sign onto that as the chairman of Black Lives Matter.
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I think that it is a tool of white supremacy to say, if you want what you get, if you want freedom, then you get it by protesting peacefully.
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Because the white supremacists who built this country never earned anything peacefully.
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You remember anyone on the left, anyone in the media, anyone among any Democrats at all?
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In fact, Democratic leaders like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez insisted that to call for peace is to call for injustice to continue.
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If you're trying to call for the end of unrest, but you don't believe health care is a human right, if you're afraid to say Black Lives Matter, if you don't, if you're too scared to call out police brutality,
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And she wasn't the only member of the squad openly saying there should be unrest in the streets.
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They know what unrest in the streets is and what it looks like.
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It looks like burning buildings and dead bodies.
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There's a consequence to the decision by powerful and influential people to put on their pom-poms and act as cheerleaders for violent, murderous mobs.
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The consequence is exactly the result they desired, which is the normalization of rioting and the mainstreaming of political violence.
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And now they want to wash the blood from their hands and preach about the need for civility.
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And those of us who object to this charade and call it what it is are accused of whataboutism.
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I'm not interested in justifying anything that happened at the Capitol on Wednesday.
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I'm even less interested in allowing the cretins who set the stage for it by encouraging that sort of behavior for months on end to now pretend they bear no blame.
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This is not just a matter of accountability, though it is that as well.
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It's a matter of understanding what's happening in this country in its full context and why it's happening.
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Because if there's any chance of changing it now, of pulling ourselves back from the brink, we have to start by understanding where we are and how we got here.
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Well, staying on the events in the Capitol, one narrative we're hearing from the left is that the cops went much easier on protesters yesterday than they have on BLM and Antifa.
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And they went easier, you know, for because they're racist.
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Right. Here's Joy Reid on MSNBC making that case and claiming outright that the rioters yesterday were treated with kid gloves because they're white.
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That's what she had to say. Listen, it looked like a war zone.
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They were wearing full body armor, rubber suits where they almost looked robotic.
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And they were phalanxed out all across Baltimore, Penn and North.
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They were standing menacingly waiting to brutalize anyone who even looked at them funny.
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The level of force, the level of just almost indiscriminate, rudeness, cruelty, hardness of those police officers.
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And at curfew time, which would be nine o'clock and then almost every night during that uprising, at some point I would go on with you, Rachel, and describe to you what I was seeing.
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And what terrified me in those moments in Baltimore were not the marchers.
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They just didn't think it was okay to just kill a guy because he looked at the police funny.
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I was afraid of the cops because they were menacing.
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They knew those marchers were coming every night.
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They knew there was going to be a curfew every night.
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The great Elijah Cummings would walk people home and get them to go home because he didn't want them out after curfew.
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But there would always be some guys who would stay out after the curfew, who would refuse to go home, who would claim the right to be in their streets.
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White Americans are never afraid of the cops, even when they're committing insurrection.
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Yeah, and we've heard a lot of this kind of thing that, well, they went easy on these protesters, rioters, because they're white.
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And, you know, look at with BLM, they came down so hard.
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This is just total, absolute nonsense that we're expected to accept.
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We're expected to just accept it and pretend that we haven't witnessed what we've witnessed over the last six months.
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It's not even though there's two years of separation and they want us to pretend that we didn't, we don't remember what happened two years ago, even though there were BLM riots happening two years ago, too.
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We're talking about what just happened in this country, what we all spent all summer watching.
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And now they want to pretend like none of it ever happened or just rewrite the history of it in front of our eyes.
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As soon as BLM shows up, the cops come down hard on them.
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The cops stood back and let BLM riot for weeks.
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We saw the videos of people just strolling into targets and CVSs and taking whatever they want and walking out.
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We all saw that in cities across the country for weeks.
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Actually, when BLM shows up, that's when the cops sit on their hands because they don't want to be accused of racism.
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You'll find loads of videos of people just setting things on fire, strolling in, taking what they want, assaulting pedestrians.
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Somebody runs up and bashes a cop over the head with a brick.
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It's especially nonsense when you consider that the cops yesterday killed somebody.
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A woman yesterday, Ashley Babbitt, mother, military veteran, 14-year veteran, went to the protest.
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I mean, you're watching somebody die right in front of you.
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She's unarmed, and they shoot her and kill her.
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So you're telling us that that's going easy on them, to shoot and kill them.
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If that was a BLM protest, and that was a black woman rather than a white woman,
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the outrage today from the media would be nuclear.
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I'm telling you, if it was the exact same situation, exact same,
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but they're carrying BLM flags, and she's black instead of white,
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the outrage today would be like anything you've ever seen.
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And there would be more rioting in response to it.
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You look at what some leftists on Twitter are saying about it.
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And I'm just not going to sit here and be lied to.
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Because the game we're supposed to play as conservatives,
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what the media tells us we're supposed to do today is just, you know,
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someone like myself, I'm supposed to sit in front of the camera and say,
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It's the worst thing that's ever happened in the country.
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And nobody is to blame at all for it, except the people doing it.
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We're just going to talk about how bad this one thing was.
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Twitter suspended President Donald Trump's account late on Wednesday evening
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for allegedly violating the site's terms of service multiple times
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in response to the riots that broke out in Washington, D.C.
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As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violence situation in Washington, D.C.,
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we have required the removal of three Donald Trump tweets
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for repeated and severe violations of our civic integrity policy.
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This means that the account of Donald Trump will be locked for 12 hours
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If the tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.
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I don't think they're going to ban him from Twitter yet.
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He's as good as finished as far as Twitter goes.
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They'll restore his account probably today at some point if they haven't already.
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And yes, there's an egregious double standard there as well,
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because as we have just gone through all these examples,
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many Democrats have been openly encouraging violence,
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doing it in public, doing it on TV, but also doing it on Twitter.
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I mean, I can sit here and dig up some AOC tweets, I'm sure, that are in that vein.
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But also I have to tell you, and maybe it's just because I'm in a,
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I'm just in a bad mood today, if you can't tell.
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It's hard for me to feel much sympathy for Donald Trump here on this.
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It's hard for me to care if he gets kicked off Twitter.
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Because Trump had four years to do something about Twitter,
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to do something about social media censorship, social media bias.
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But as with so many other things, Trump tweeted about it and said he was very angry
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But at the end of the day, he didn't actually do anything about it.
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And so he's going to face consequences for that.
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And they're going to kick him off because they can.
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The Washington Post has issued a major correction admitting that Jacob Blake,
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the Kenosha, Wisconsin man shot by police in August,
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The Post on Tuesday, we talked about this yesterday,
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claimed that in a tweet that police officers won't be charged in shooting of Jacob Blake,
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an unarmed black man who was shot seven times in the back,
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The article itself claimed Blake was unarmed when he was shot.
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But the Kenosha DA, we played the audio for you,
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He said it was incontrovertible that Blake was armed and video footage proves it.
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In fact, he said that Jacob Blake admits that he was armed.
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Jacob Blake comes out and says, yeah, I was armed.
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And still the media for months insisted that, no, no, you weren't.
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After claiming Blake was unarmed, the Post updated its article with a correction at the top that reads,
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an earlier version of this story incorrectly described Jacob Blake as unarmed.
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While his family has said he was not armed when shot by police,
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prosecutors on Tuesday said video evidence depicts him holding a knife.
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Just to be clear, they only corrected this because they absolutely had to because of the backlash they were getting.
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But if it wasn't for the backlash, they, of course, would keep that falsehood up there
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because they knew it was false when they published it to begin with.
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So even before the press conference, it was, it was known to everybody with eyes that Jacob Blake was armed because you could see it in the video.
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You could see him holding a knife and you can hear them shouting, drop the knife.
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So if you have eyes and ears, you knew he was armed and they knew it.
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So this is a retraction because they were caught.
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And when you see here, they say, well, his family still says that he was, he was not armed.
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And this also shows something that I guess people are often uncomfortable pointing it out.
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But it's the reality that oftentimes in these situations with these police shootings,
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these high profile police shootings, oftentimes the families will just straight up lie about what happened.
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Now, you might say, okay, well, of course, they're biased in favor of their family member.
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I still say that doesn't excuse you for lying, especially when your lies are fueling rioting and violence and murder as it did in Kenosha.
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But either way, the problem is that whatever the family says,
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the media will treat the family of this so-called victim as the ultimate authority.
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And they'll just repeat whatever the family says as if it's fact.
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And if the family here is saying it wasn't armed, they are lying about that.
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Number four, I wanted to play this for you, not to belabor the point,
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but we were talking about the media's encouragement of rioting and I played a few examples for you.
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But this I just saw before we went on the air here, Tom Elliott at Grabian Media put together,
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I think it's a pretty powerful, I didn't even show you the half of it.
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This is a pretty powerful 90 second compilation that I just want to play for you.
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Just to show you, it says the media's history of supporting Antifa.
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It's just from, most of this is from the last, the past few months.
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I argue to you tonight, all punches are not equal morally.
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But in the eyes of good and evil, here's the argument.
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And what they see in the Trump administration and what they see happening in this country,
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And they've taken a principled stand to stand against white supremacists and white nationalists
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It says it right in the name, Antifa, anti-fascism, which is what they were there fighting.
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Listen, there's, you know, no organization is perfect.
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I think that a lot of people recognize that when pushed, self-defense is a legitimate response
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The problem is to equate the violence in reaction against bigotry with the bigotry itself is
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to misunderstand the fact that when you go to cancer treatment, the radiation is tough
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treatment, but it is meant to remove the cancer.
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There's a group of anti-fascists called the Black Bloc, which do tend to get violent.
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Their idea is, look, nonviolence hasn't worked and we are going to try to stop this.
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They wouldn't have been anywhere near there had it not been for the fact that white supremacists,
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neo-Nazis were out scaring the living day louts out of most of the people in that town.
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Thuggishness is thuggishness wherever it comes from politically.
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I mean, if they're being honest, the media, and they were to respond to the charge of hypocrisy
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on this issue, where they were openly supporting rioting for months and now pretending to be shocked
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and appalled by it and violence and all that, their honest answer is that it's okay when we do it.
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And if they're doing it for a leftist cause, and especially if their victims have the right ideology
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and skin color, then right in terms of right for being the victim, then it's okay.
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That's, I guess, the advantage of being a moral relativist, that you don't have to hold yourself
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Something can be totally wrong when one person does it and totally okay when someone else
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does it because there is no moral, there is no objective moral truth.
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There is no universal moral standard that everybody is held to.
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All right, five, finally, big celebrity news from CNN.
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Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West are figuring out their future and whether they're going to
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stay married, according to two sources close to Kardashian West who spoke to CNN.
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The sources confirm that West has been living at their home in Wyoming in recent months while
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his wife stayed in California with her children.
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They've been living separately for the last few months.
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They've been in marriage counseling and have discussed divorce.
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And sorry, as I read, as I'm reading this, I'm just realizing how little I care.
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I'm realizing that I don't care at all about this story.
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And I, and, uh, and hopefully they'll, they'll work out their differences.
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That's my full analysis on that particular story.
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Now I'll tell you one problem that I have, and it's a pretty, pretty significant problem,
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Today we're going to cancel Gretchen Whitmer, the Empress of Michigan, who has driven many
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of her citizens into financial ruin over the past many months, but that's not why we're
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And, but there's a photo of a prayer candle adorned with the image of Stacey Abrams.
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Abrams is wearing a robe, holding a Bible, has a halo around her head.
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This is not the only example of religious worship being directed at Stacey Abrams, who many on
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the left credit with helping to mobilize support for the Democrat candidates in Georgia, which
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And that's why they're being especially worshipful towards her today.
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Actor Mark Ruffalo also tweeted a picture of Abrams, along with the caption, Stacey Abrams
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is a real super superhero, once again, saving us all.
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And as noted by The Hill says, quote, comedian Chelsea Handler and Frozen songwriter Chris
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songwriter Kristen Anderson Lopez suggested statues should be erected in Abrams's honor.
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And West Wing alum Richard Schiff floated making her person of the year while actress Rosanna
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Arquette predicted the fair fight action founder would be the recipient of the country's highest
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But topping them all is a tweet from a guy named Jeff Tiedrich saying, quote, I want to
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He wants to bear her children, which I'm told these days is possible somehow.
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But just so you know, if anyone ever asks you for the definition of the term beta male, just
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The personality cult around Stacey Abrams is, I have to say, one of the absolute weirdest
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things in American politics, which is saying quite a lot these days, especially she is not
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charismatic or especially impressive or accomplished.
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She's a mediocre failed politician, much like Kamala Harris, who's also now lauded as a deity
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in her own right, which we discussed earlier in the week.
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But I suppose we should expect the Stacey Abrams personality cult to be weird because they're
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And so on second thought, I'm canceling all personality cults of all kinds, especially
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those that form around politicians or in this case would be politicians.
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Now, it's one thing to support a politician, even to like a politician.
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Personally, I tend to dislike all of them by default.
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And then at best, I'll develop a mild tolerance for the ones that disgust me the least.
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I can tell you which ones disgust me the least, which of my least repulsed by.
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I'm not suggesting that everybody should be as cynical as me, but if not cynical, we should
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We should always keep in mind that they are in a position of power over people.
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You know, now it could be that they wanted it because they have such a deep and abiding
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That may be the case for like four or five politicians in the history of America.
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The rest, though, you know, they may have some degree of passion for public service.
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But the fact is that there's also a fair amount of narcissism, greed, self-interest and so on
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I mean, you just have to think about what is it that would make you want to be have power
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Why would you go through all this just so you could be in this position?
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Again, you might have noble reasons, but most of the time for most people, you don't.
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Now, as you know, I plan to one day be the theocratic dictator of America, and it's entirely
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greed and narcissism that fuels that desire for me.
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The point is that the only safe and prudent and truly American attitude towards politicians
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Support them when they're right, criticize them when they're wrong, and never expect
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them to be your savior or your goddess or your god.
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This is one of the great problems we face in American society today, I think, in my view.
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Even if people are not literally putting halos around a politician and lighting prayer candles
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with her face on it, still many Americans have been conditioned to look to politicians, especially
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politicians on the national stage, for the answers to their problems.
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You know, we're searching for someone to save us, to restore our hopes and dreams and everything.
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And the ones that promise they can do it are always lying.
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If America is to be saved, whatever that means exactly, it will happen in your home, in
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Mother Teresa famously said, if you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
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It sounds like a platitude, but there's a deep truth in it.
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And it's much better than if you want to change the world, go vote for this problem, this person
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And it's part of what's destroying us right now, which is why it is canceled.
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But again, especially the cult around Stacey Abrams, because that one is just her of all
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I mean, at least choose someone who's charismatic.
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