Ep. 633 - Big Tech Launches An All Out Assault On Conservative Speech
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, big tech is in the middle of a massive purge of conservatives. It's
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worse now than it's ever been before, and the new Democrat administration hasn't even officially
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taken over yet. So how bad is it going to get? Also, five headlines, including AOC claiming
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that half of Congress nearly died when the Capitol was stormed on Wednesday. And in our
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daily cancellation, we have an example, we have a real example of actual systemic racism. We can
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see what it's really like, what it really looks like, courtesy of Joe Biden. All of that and more
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You may remember back in 2012, two gay men visited a small bakery in Lakewood, Colorado,
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asking for a cake for their upcoming wedding ceremony. The owner of the shop, Jack Phillips,
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politely informed them that he couldn't provide a custom wedding cake for a gay wedding due to his
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Christian beliefs, but he offered to sell them any other baked good in stock. The couple left,
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they didn't want anything else, and they promptly filed a human rights complaint with the Colorado
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Civil Rights Commission, which sided with the gay men and ordered Phillips to bake the cake,
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pay the fine, and attend mandatory anti-discrimination training for himself and all of his staff.
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Phillips appealed the decision, and the ensuing six years were a nightmare of litigation,
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fines, and court cases for him culminating in arguments presented to the Supreme Court.
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But even after the Supreme Court sided with Phillips and chastised the Civil Rights Commission for its
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overreach, still the LGBT lobby would not leave the matter alone. A few years later, Phillips was
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in court yet again for declining to make another cake, this time a cake meant to honor a man's
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transition into a woman, a request made by a trans activist who was clearly looking for an excuse
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to sue, by the way, and found it. Now, through all this, the media, the Democrat Party, and the left
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generally have been nearly unanimous in their position that Jack Phillips is guilty of unspeakable
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human rights violations, and that he should not have the right to refuse service to anyone on
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account of his own personal convictions. They've argued stridently for years that allowing a man
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like Phillips to decline to make a custom wedding cake for a gay wedding, even though he was willing
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again to sell them any pre-made item in the store, he wasn't turning them down, he wasn't refusing
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them service, he just said, this one particular service I can't give you for this act, for this
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particular event. But they said that that would lead to the alienation and ostracization of certain
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groups of people, and that such an outcome is untenable in society. The same things have been
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said about florists who don't want to provide flowers for gay weddings, and t-shirt companies
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that don't want to make t-shirts for gay pride parades, etc. In all of these cases, the left has
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absolutely rejected the freedom of association and free enterprise arguments and insisted that,
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for the sake of the greater good, business owners sometimes have to be forced to provide services
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they don't want to provide. Now, this is all important background when we consider recent
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actions by the most powerful big tech companies in the world. Using the riot on Capitol Hill as an
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excuse to do something that they were almost certainly going to do anyway, Twitter last week,
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as I'm sure you heard, permanently banned Donald Trump. That is, the sitting president of the United
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States banned him from their platforms. Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram all announced similar measures.
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Reddit got into the act, banned the subreddit dedicated to Trump. That's out too. At the same
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time, Twitter embarked on what appears to be a massive purge of conservative accounts as conservatives
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with large followings experienced significant drops in their follower counts. Starting last week
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and going into this week, I lost around 25,000 followers in the span of two days, which doesn't
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come close to winning the prize for the steepest fall. And the point isn't that we're upset that
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we lost followers. The point is that that represents 25,000 accounts, for me anyway, that were wiped out.
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So, this is not the first time that these companies have teamed up to purge and punish the cultural
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heretics. Usually, when these things happen, those on the left will sneer that, you know, we conservatives
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should just suck it up and make our own social media sites so that we can engage in wrong think
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out of view and away from polite society. As it happens, some conservatives have done exactly that
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with sites like Parler. And Parler, at first, experienced a dramatic surge in traffic this past week
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because conservative refugees from other sites poured in and set up accounts on their platform.
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But then, the next shoe drops. Amazon, Apple, and Google announced that they're going to be banning
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Parler from their servers and app stores. Parler CEO John Matzzi said that all of the site's vendors,
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every single one, including text message services, email providers, even their lawyers,
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abandoned them all at once, on the same day, all at one time. And now Parler's down. If you try to
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go there, now it's down. And it's going to be down for the foreseeable future. Will it ever be up again?
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We don't know. They have to figure out a way to exist on the internet while being blacklisted by Apple,
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Amazon, and Google. That is a very difficult, if not impossible, thing to pull off, especially if you
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don't have massive financial resources. The stated reason for this move against Parler is that somehow,
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in an unspecified way, Parler is violating unclear rules against violence and illegal activity and
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incitement and obscene content. But it goes without saying that none of these companies have ever cracked
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down, ever, on users who celebrated or encouraged the BLM riots, nor have Apple, Google, or Amazon punished
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any social media sites that play host to such content. And as for illegal activity, I mean, come on.
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You can find plenty of that on apps that are still available on these platforms. Many murders and rapes
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have been linked to hookup apps like Grindr and Tinder. And yet, again, there has been no crackdown on such
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a large scale or even on a smaller scale. The reasons given do not hold up to the slightest scrutiny.
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The truth, then, is painfully obvious. The wealthiest and most powerful companies in the world
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have engaged in a coordinated campaign to silence ideologically dissenting voices and drive them
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from the public square. That's what's happening. The people who sit by and watch this approvingly,
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applauding the purge, calling for more of it, are the exact same people who have issued many ominous
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warnings about the dire consequences of allowing a small bakery in Colorado to decline to make a
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customized cake for a gay wedding. Somehow, they argue, gay couples who might have to drive a mile
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down the road to a different cake shop in the same town to get a customized pastry are being saddled with
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a traumatizing burden. And if we don't impose harsh legal penalties on the bakery that refuse them,
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we risk the eventual exclusion of all gay people from modern society. That's what they say.
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Yet, they continue, there is no such risk and no imaginable problem with allowing multi-billion
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dollar tech companies to collaborate with each other to expel politically inconvenient voices
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and relegate them permanently to the backwaters and ghettos of the internet.
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They do not believe that the small town bakery has any claim to freedom of association or free
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enterprise. But they will happily afford those considerations to the billion dollar conglomerates
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who control almost every aspect of our lives. And these are also the people who usually tell us
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about the evil corporations and how terrible they are. This is all, of course, completely backwards.
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And it could only be so backwards because the people who hold this backwards view are not worried about
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intellectual consistency and are not bothered by their own lack of integrity. And they don't care
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if you notice it either. In reality, there is no significant downside, no serious consequence
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to a small business owner in middle America somewhere choosing not to provide a service for a ceremony he
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opposes for religious reasons. At most, on the part of the spurned customer, it amounts to mildly hurt
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feelings and a minor inconvenience as they, again, just have to get in the car, just drive right down
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the street to a different bakery. Same exact thing. The cake will be just as good.
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There are, however, cataclysmic downsides and outright dystopian consequences to allowing
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the companies that essentially control the entire internet to engage in coordinated ideological
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discrimination on this scale. And the other difference between these two situations is that
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a bakery is merely a bakery. It's a small private business and nothing more. But what about Facebook
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and Twitter? What are they? We don't even know. Are they platforms? Are they publishers? Are they
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utilities? Are they all of those things? The answer to that question determines whether they have the
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right to do what they're doing. And if they do currently have the legal right, the next question is whether
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they ought to have that right and whether laws should be changed so that they don't have it.
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I cannot see how any rational and honest person could possibly argue that the bakery doesn't and
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shouldn't have the right to decline one form of service to one customer, yet the big tech monopolies do
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and should have the right to ban millions from all of their services, effectively muting their voices
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in the public sphere and excluding them from the national conversation. That doesn't make any sense.
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Now, there is a purist libertarian argument that defends both the big tech monopoly and the bakery on an
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equal basis, but that's not the argument that most of the people defending big tech in this case are
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making. And also, I think it's a bad argument anyway. Big tech is in a class by itself because of the
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stranglehold it has on all of our lives, whether we like it or not. The question is not whether they should
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be allowed to inconvenience us or bruise our egos or hurt our feelings, it's whether they should be
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allowed to control us, censor us, and rule us. The bakery is not going to rule over us. The bakery has
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no control over our lives at all. Utterly powerless. That's not the case for big tech.
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And the answer to whether or not they should be allowed to control us, censor us, and rule us is no, they
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should not. They should be reined in. They should be held to basic standards of ethics, fairness, and
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transparency. But unfortunately, the next part of the answer is that though they shouldn't be allowed to do what
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they're doing, they have been allowed to do it. And Trump and the GOP didn't do anything to prevent it when they
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had the power to prevent it. So this is where we are now. And it's not going to stop. The left cannot win
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based solely on its ideas. It cannot win through argument or advocacy. They know it. And that's why
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they're done with arguing against your ideas. Instead, it's very simple for them. They'll just ensure that
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your ideas are not heard in the first place. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Uh, you know, big, big football weekend, by the way, in more, more positive news and lighter news,
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big football week. I feel kind of bad being, um, happy this morning after the Titans lost because I,
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you know, it just moved to Nashville. So I'm a, I'm a Tennessee resident now, but I'm also a big
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Ravens fan. So big, uh, big matchup between the Titans and Ravens yesterday. Ravens win. I feel great
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about it. The rest of the town, they're all in mourning and tears. And I'm just skipping merrily.
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I skipped to work today, merrily whistling and singing. That's how happy I was. And it's, it's,
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it's bad too, because it's, uh, you know, these are two teams that don't like each other. And at the
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end of the game, the Ravens, uh, Marcus Peters got an interception to seal the deal. And then they went
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to the middle of their, they're playing in Nashville. They went to the middle of the stadium
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on the Tennessee Titans logo and just started dancing and stomping on it, which in fairness,
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the Titans did it first because Titans played the Ravens in Baltimore earlier in the season,
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did the exact same thing. Now, usually I wouldn't accept that excuse for my kids.
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They did it first, but in this case, I accepted because I'm a Ravens fan and I kind of loved seeing
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it. Also it's football and that's just the way these things should go. I, you know, I don't believe
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in the teams shaking hands and they pretend to be friends. No, you should hate each other when
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you're on the football field. That's how I feel. Uh, but that was great. We have more on, on, uh,
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on football weekend and, uh, coming up a little bit later in the five headlines, but let's start
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with this. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was on ABC this weekend and, um, made some rather dubious claims
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about the Capitol Hill riots and the, the, uh, the danger that she says she was in. Let's,
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let's take a listen to this. Republican members of Congress who opposed, uh, raising objections to
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the certifying the electoral college vote have written a letter to president elect Biden opposing
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impeachment. Here's what the letter says. It says in the spirit of healing and fidelity to
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our constitution, we ask you fully request that speaker Nancy Pelosi discontinue her efforts to
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impeach president Donald J. Trump a second time, a second impeachment only days before president
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Trump will leave office is as unnecessary as it is inflammatory. They're saying for the sake of
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unity forgo impeachment. Well, you know, I think there's a couple of things. One is we have to
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understand that what happened on Wednesday was insurrection against the United States. That is
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what the, that is what Donald J. Trump engaged in. And that is what those who stormed the Capitol
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engaged in. And so when we talk about healing, the process of healing is separate and in fact requires
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accountability. And so if we allow insurrection against the United States with impunity, with no
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accountability, we are inviting it to happen again. That is how serious it is. And I do not believe
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that, that perhaps my colleagues weren't in that room. Perhaps my colleagues were not fully present
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for the events on Wednesday, but half of, we came close to half of the house nearly dying on Wednesday.
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Oh, you did. Half of the house nearly dying. Half. Really? That's what we came close to.
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And she, she has no, the phoniness here, of course, is off the charts across the board with everything
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she said. Um, and the idea that, that half of the house almost died is, is she has no basis for saying
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that. But then again, this is the woman to remember if you're, if you're, you shouldn't be surprised to
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see drama and hyperbole from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This is the woman who went down to the border.
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And if you remember a couple of years ago, uh, took, took pictures of herself pretending to cry
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outside of a, uh, immigrant detention center. Actually, she wasn't even outside of the detention
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center. She was outside of a parking lot. She took pictures of herself outside of an empty parking
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lot, posing as if she was in tears. So keep that in mind. That's, that's who this is coming from.
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But everything else about this was insurrection, insurrection, even if it was okay. Uh, I'm not
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even arguing about what label we put on it, whether it was or wasn't. I don't believe for a second that
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or any of the other Democrats actually care about insurrection in principle
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because they certainly didn't care. But leftist radicals set up their own country in the middle
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of a, of an American city for months and were allowed to do it. And we all just went about our day
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and said, okay, well that's something you can do now. Apparently they set up their own sovereign
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country. Said they were seceding from the union, had their own country in the middle of the city.
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Is that not insurrection? Or as I pointed out many times last week, invading a police station
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and burning it to the ground. It's a government building. That's an attack on law enforcement.
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Is that insurrection? She didn't care about that.
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And speaking of pretending to care about things, it has, it has, it's very difficult for me to hear
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people like this, um, or Democrats generally, as they have been in the media, um, over the last
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several days has pretend, has been pretending to mourn the death of officer Sicknick, who's, uh,
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the officer who, who died during the, uh, during the Capitol Hill riot. Now I mourn for, for the
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officer and for his family and I'm devastated that he died. I'm infuriated by, by his loss. Now it's also,
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it's also not yet clear. It's not exactly clear yet how he died. There's a lot of information we
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haven't been given. And as far as I know, the, the, the images of, of his interactions with the
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crowd, whatever happened at that incident, we haven't seen any image of, we haven't seen any
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video. We haven't seen any photograph as far as I know. And I've looked, um, maybe there isn't any
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image, but that would be hard to believe these days. So it's not exactly clear what happened,
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but, or how it happened. They haven't given us all the information yet, but however it happened,
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it's a terrible tragedy because we know that an officer died yet. Now you have Democrats
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in the media talking about officer Sicknick and how terrible it is and what a tragedy it is.
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And it is terrible. It is a tragedy. I just don't believe that they give the slightest damn about
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him. And the reason for that is that this is the only dead cop that these people have ever mourned
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ever prove me wrong. Find me another example because there unfortunately have been a lot of dead police
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officers through, through history. And especially this past year, a lot of police officers were
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physically assaulted. Police officers would beat over the head with bricks during BLM riots.
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We got, we got video in New York, police officer getting beat over the head with a brick.
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The only reason he didn't die, he didn't die. Thank God. It's not for lack of trying though.
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We don't give BLM credit because, well, they tried to kill a bunch of cops, but they failed.
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You don't get credit for that. It's, it is, it is the rest of society's great fortune that he's still
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alive, but you tried to kill him. But anyway, do you remember, did, did Alexandria Kaye as a credit?
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Did any Democrat, when that video came out in New York of, of the cop getting beat over the head
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with a brick, how many Democrats, how many people in the media condemned it? Did any of them?
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You know, pretending to be upset that, uh, the, the flag wasn't put at half-mast outside the White
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House right away. Once again, I think the flag should be at half-mast and now it is. I think
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it should have been at half-mast right away. Do they actually give a damn though about that?
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No, they don't. Absolutely full of it. Um, speaking of being full of it, number two,
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big news from Colin Powell. He is, uh, leaving the Republican party again. I think this is his
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fifth time leaving. He's gone for the Guinness record, which is eight, I believe that I got to
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check again, but here's Colin Powell leaving the Republican party again.
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And that's why I can no longer call myself a fellow Republican. You know, I'm not a fellow
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of anything right now. I'm just a citizen who has voted Republican, voted Democrat throughout
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my entire career. I would hope that the Republican party, as they're moving away from this fellow
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who's no longer the president, I hope they would not let him back into the camp so he could
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demonstrate or say that, oh, I'm still here. I'm going to do it all. No, you're not. You're
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out and act like you're out. Okay. Yeah. So another, another time this was, this was news
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the first time he did it back in like 2008 or seven or eight to whenever it was. But Colin Powell
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is this guy now. He's one, he's one of many guys that, um, that the, the media has on tap where they,
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they just bring him in every few months to leave the Republican party. If they need a guy to leave
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the Republican party, they just bring Colin Powell in again. Just one of those guys that they have do
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that. And we've seen this a lot over the last four years. Um, people performatively denouncing
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and leaving the Republican party over and over again. I mean, it's one thing to do it once. If
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you're leaving, you're leaving fine, but to keep on doing it. And, and, uh, at a certain point it's
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like, well, you've already left. So what does this mean? It's kind of like, it's in the same vein
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as when the left boycotts a company that they would never use in the first place, a store they never
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go to, they boycott like a hardware store. They don't boycott a hardware store. You know,
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they don't even know what a screwdriver looks like except the kind that you, you know, get at a bar.
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Um, so that, that's, that's the, the first thing. And the other thing is let's pretend this was
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Colin Powell's first time that he's leaving the Republican party or anybody else, you know,
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people in the administration who are resigning in protest or some of the people that have come out
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in the last week and said, I'm done with this. Um, that, that's not really worth anything
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because whatever you think of Trump and how he's acted, he's, he's, he's been Trump the whole time.
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Right? So this is, this is, this is who Trump's been. And if you're just deciding right now,
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when it happens to be the end of his administration, that now you're going to come out and make your big
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stand. Um, yeah, I'm not very impressed. I have to say talk about it. It is like the emptiest of
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empty gestures imaginable. All right. Number three, Brian Stelter on CNN wants you to know that the
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big tech purge is really no big deal. No big deal at all. Don't worry about it. Here's a Brian
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Stelter's argument, but it doesn't get much more shameful than this white house aides talking about
00:23:57.880
a narrative shift. Trump advisor saying they want people to talk about big technology and not the
00:24:03.860
riot. You know what? I have had enough of this talk that they can try to change the narrative
00:24:09.200
that they can try to divert attention. How about focusing on the funerals? How about focusing on
00:24:14.820
the fact that this president hasn't even had the flags in Washington lowered to have staff
00:24:19.520
in respect for the Capitol police officer who was killed, who was attacked. How about that? How
00:24:25.700
about some focus on that? You know, I think what's clear, Victor and Christine, in the last couple
00:24:29.640
of days, we've seen more and more videos of the riot from different angles, uh, visuals that we
00:24:35.300
didn't see live on Wednesday. It's become more and more clear. This attack was even more violent than
00:24:40.640
we saw live on TV. This was even more treacherous. Trump's behavior was even more disturbing than we
00:24:46.340
knew in real time. Uh, we were minutes away from a possible massacre of lawmakers in our country,
00:24:53.880
in our, in our seat of government. And, and I, you know, I actually think as the days go on and
00:24:58.520
people process this trauma and we see more and more of these videos, this story becomes bigger
00:25:03.440
and it becomes worse. So good luck, Mr. President talk about big technology. I'm sure that his super
00:25:09.680
fans, the most loyal of his fans will go along with that petty attempt at a diversion. But I think
00:25:15.640
the vast majority of Americans will see through it. How do people watch this guy on purpose?
00:25:21.080
Every time I see a clip like this, I can barely get through it. Imagine there, I, I, I guess there
00:25:28.240
are people who sit down on their couch, like on a, I don't know when his show airs, but on a Saturday
00:25:33.720
and they say, I'm going to spend an hour watching this guy. My God. Now, I mean, we, we know that,
00:25:40.720
that 90% of CNN, CNN's audience are people in, you know, dentist waiting rooms and airports. So maybe
00:25:47.720
that accounts for all of it, but I just can't imagine it or understand why, but in any case,
00:25:53.840
he's, he's worried about changing the narrative. We're distracting from the real story. Yeah. We
00:25:59.420
know, we know Brian Stelter and CNN. They're really worried about that. These, these are the people
00:26:03.940
we recall who, you know, spent months and months telling us about coronavirus and how it's the worst
00:26:12.000
plague in history and we're all going to die. And then, and then at the drop of a hat, they just
00:26:15.860
dropped that and, uh, we're cheering on mass rioting for months on end. And then when the mass
00:26:23.120
rioting ended, they picked right back up with the coronavirus again. But yeah, they're, they're
00:26:28.360
concerned about changing. We don't want to change the narrative too much. Sure. Number four, uh,
00:26:34.220
the news last week was that president Trump will not be attending the inauguration, which,
00:26:38.900
you know, in every sense to me, it seems like, like it's probably for the best. Isn't, isn't it
00:26:46.140
for the best? Isn't, isn't it best for everybody involved? Trump, Biden, the country, if Trump just
00:26:51.440
isn't there, but CNN thinks it's disgusting. They're very offended by it. And I think they know,
00:26:57.680
I know the real reason why they're upset and I'll talk about that in a second, but here, here it is.
00:27:01.980
The president already had as a parting shot, an alleged incitement to a deadly riot.
00:27:08.900
And now he will add one more 12 days from now by denying that step that presidents have done
00:27:15.560
since the mid 19th century, attending their successors inauguration. Tell us the significance
00:27:21.920
of this to his legacy. What remains of it? Well, he's absolutely a sore loser, isn't he? Jim? And
00:27:28.780
you contrast what he said last night. Uh, and it just proves how false those words were last night
00:27:35.000
in that, in that video. As a friend told me, it looked like a hostage video, uh, that, uh, you know,
00:27:41.240
he was forced, he was forced to make those statements and he put sent out tweets today that
00:27:45.920
make it clear. He didn't really believe what he was saying. Uh, and I think for him not to come as,
00:27:50.620
as he is an ultimate insult, you know, there are a lot of people who are going to be glad he's not
00:27:55.040
there, uh, because he would distract a lot of attention. It would be a lot about the Biden Trump
00:28:00.700
dynamic on the, on stage and we'll be spared that at least, but nonetheless, this is wrong.
00:28:06.620
Um, and if we're going to heal the country, uh, we have to, Trump has to play a part in that and
00:28:13.040
bring his base around and to say, we're going to be part of the normal politics. And when we lose,
00:28:18.020
we lose, but we'll try to take it back next time. I just, it would be so much better for the country.
00:28:23.340
I think this is, you know, he's just so insulting in so many ways, uh, and such a cry baby. It's just
00:28:29.540
disgusting. It's funny. He says cry baby at the end of the, after he just was crying for,
00:28:34.000
for 90 seconds. It's so disgusting. It's so disappointing. I'm just so, I'm so offended by
00:28:38.600
it. And he even acknowledges that it's probably for the better because that's exactly right.
00:28:43.580
What he said, if, if Trump is there, all we're going to hear about and all they're going to cover
00:28:47.860
is the dynamic between the two and all of the shots are going to be on Trump. It'll be a Biden's
00:28:54.860
inauguration, but it would be all about Trump because if Trump is there anyway, it's always going to be
00:28:58.460
all about Trump. Um, especially as far as the mass media is concerned. So they say it's, so this was
00:29:04.400
the right move by Trump. And I can guarantee you it's what it's also what, by the way, Biden probably
00:29:11.740
prefers. So what, why are they upset that he's not there? It's not because it's disgusting and
00:29:18.140
insulting. We all know it's for the best. Well, the answer is just that they want, they, if he's not
00:29:24.060
there, then that gives them less to talk about less to cover. They want that controversy. That's
00:29:31.080
what they want. It Trump being Biden's inauguration by itself, who cares? Who's going to tune in to
00:29:39.880
watch Biden's inauguration? Nobody gives a damn Biden's inauguration with Trump there. Now that's
00:29:47.400
the ratings bonanza. Everybody's going to tune, I would tune in just to see how that plays out.
00:29:53.360
So that's what they're, that is what they're upset about. What they are disgusted by is that Trump
00:29:57.600
has just denied them the ratings that they would have gotten. That's what this is all about. All right.
00:30:04.340
So NFL playoffs this week, as I already mentioned, um, some really great football games. Also something
00:30:08.900
a little strange, a little different. Nickelodeon hosted its first playoff game. Um, the idea was to
00:30:14.120
get the kids into football, I guess. So they put, they put the games on Nickelodeon too.
00:30:17.660
And, or at least one of the games they put on, um, saints and, and, uh, and bears game they put
00:30:22.520
on Nickelodeon and they added new features like virtual slime and cartoon graphics and all kinds
00:30:28.540
of stuff. And this is real. They really did this. So let's play. We have some of the footage here.
00:30:32.500
Let's just play this. See what this looked like.
00:30:35.060
Uh, yes, exactly. Oh, it's brought down another turnover right there.
00:30:44.120
John Jenkins in the bread basket. Bear hugs it and the bears are in business.
00:30:49.400
Big celebration on the field now. Oh yeah. Nate, when you were back, uh, playing football,
00:30:54.680
how did you come up with the perfect touchdown dance? What did that feel like?
00:30:58.140
I used to practice in the mirror the night before the games.
00:31:06.580
We have a cartoon slime. I just want to see what happens in the touchdown. Here it is.
00:31:12.120
Tops it off. Latavius Murray has some space in front. Makes a nine miss. And he's into the end zone.
00:31:17.260
Yep. And then the cartoon slime. Okay. So that's, that's what that looked like.
00:31:20.720
And you had, you know, you had different, the announcers a little bit different. Um,
00:31:24.680
they had a woman in the, in the, in the announcing booth. Nothing wrong with that.
00:31:28.800
Um, but, uh, there was the Nickelodeon thing. It actually wasn't, I watched a little bit of that
00:31:35.800
and I, so I, I sort of wanted to hate it, but I thought, well, this is kind of cool.
00:31:41.820
I don't know. I'm, I'll, I'll be okay with it. It's obnoxious, but I'm fine with it.
00:31:46.580
My real problem, if I'm looking for something to have a problem with, here it is. Uh, my real
00:31:50.760
problem is, is with this, that Nickelodeon viewers, you know, the kids watching, um, they got to vote
00:31:56.740
on their own MVP candidate, which they're calling the MVP, the Nickelodeon's valuable player.
00:32:02.260
And they gave it to Mitch Trubisky, who's the quarterback of the bears. The bears lost 21 to
00:32:06.680
nine in the game. Trubisky went 19 for 29 passing for 199 yards, one touchdown, not terrible. Um,
00:32:13.940
especially by his standards, but is it MVP worthy? And this is the problem with kids today.
00:32:19.520
First of all, they don't know a damn thing about football. Okay. My seven-year-old son voted for
00:32:24.700
Mitch Trubisky. And I said to him, you obviously have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
00:32:28.560
Drew Brees had 265 yards, 70% completion rate, two touchdowns, a QBR of 107, and he won the game.
00:32:33.940
And, and you're going to vote for Mitch Trubisky. Go to your room. You're grounded.
00:32:39.440
This is the problem with kids. First of all, clueless about the facts. Second, guided by emotions
00:32:45.540
rather than data and evidence. They felt sorry for Trubisky. So they gave him the award.
00:32:51.540
Pitiful is what I say. But anyway, congratulations to Mitch Trubisky. This is the only, this, this is
00:32:58.660
the only football related honor he will ever win. And, uh, so I say maybe we should just let him have
00:33:04.320
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subscribe. Let's get now to our daily cancellation. So today, exciting news for Joe Biden as he's getting
00:38:03.260
his first cancellation of his term and his term hasn't even started yet. I expect there'll be many
00:38:07.960
occasions to cancel Biden in the years ahead during the course of the Harris administration. So, um,
00:38:13.660
I'll have to choose my spots a little bit. Can't cancel them all, unfortunately, but here's a spot
00:38:17.660
definitely worth choosing. Joe Biden delivered a speech this weekend discussing his plans for
00:38:22.860
coronavirus relief and he wants to save American small businesses. He said after spending now he wants
00:38:27.720
to save them after spending months supporting the policies that are destroying them. But here he is
00:38:32.380
describing the plan and how the plan will be implemented. Listen, focus will be on
00:38:37.900
small businesses on Main Street that aren't wealthy and well-connected, that are facing real
00:38:43.800
economic hardships through no fault of their own. Our priority will be black, Latino, Asian, and Native
00:38:50.620
American-owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to
00:38:55.540
resources needed to reopen and rebuild. Okay, so he says his priority will be black, Latino, Asian,
00:39:00.860
Native American, and women-owned businesses. Not just his personal priority, but the priority of his
00:39:05.460
administration, his government, when, um, when helping these businesses out. There's a term for
00:39:11.540
this. It's one we hear a lot. It's called systemic racism. If that term has any meaning at all,
00:39:18.180
then this must be it. Let's look at it. Racism, dictionary definition, prejudice, discrimination,
00:39:23.360
or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their particular membership in a,
00:39:28.040
in a racial group. That's what this is. And it will be systemic in a literal sense. It will be
00:39:33.740
discrimination by the system. Now notice something here. He mentions black, Latino, Native American,
00:39:41.100
women, and Asian business owners as the priority groups. This is a problem because first of all,
00:39:46.340
he said Latino instead of Latinx, which proves that he's transphobic. And speaking of which,
00:39:51.360
he didn't specifically mention trans business owners as a priority or gay business owners or
00:39:56.880
bi-gendered, polysexual, drag queen business owners. Leaving me to assume that he hates all those
00:40:02.760
people and is literally Hitler. What other explanation could there be? These are the rules
00:40:06.900
now, but more to the point, the inclusion of Asians is telling because Asians do better than white people
00:40:14.140
in this country, economically, financially. Their median household income is something like $20,000
00:40:20.180
higher. So this already is pretty good evidence that white privilege is a myth. You know, it's white
00:40:26.500
privilege, but the people who do the best here aren't white. So that tears down that whole house
00:40:32.980
of cards. It's also evidence that the prioritization of non-whites in Biden's plan has nothing to do with
00:40:38.520
helping the disadvantaged, despite how it's being sold, because that's what they'll tell us. They'll
00:40:42.480
say, well, these are just the groups. It's not about the race. It's just that these are the groups who
00:40:46.400
are most disadvantaged. And so we're trying to help them out. Well, Asians are quite a bit less
00:40:52.320
disadvantaged. They are more advantaged than whites. And yet they get the priority while white males are
00:40:58.560
left in the dust. The real point for Biden and Harris is simply to punish white males. That's
00:41:03.560
the point. He might as well have saved himself some time and some words, especially as it obviously
00:41:08.840
strains him to speak words. So he could have saved that trouble and just said, white males will get the
00:41:13.740
short end of the stick. Or he could have said, we will make sure that white males don't get any help
00:41:18.400
because that's the point. The point is who they aren't helping, not who they are helping. And this
00:41:24.740
is what we can expect in the years ahead. The Harris administration with Biden as its figurehead
00:41:30.380
will be the most racist in modern American history. The left is long past hiding its racial
00:41:36.460
bigotries. They blame white males for all the ills in the world today and through history. And now they
00:41:42.700
intend to punish the villains. And the problem is that most conservatives, as usual, have been too
00:41:48.420
afraid for years to meet this head on and call it what it is. They have believed what the left has told
00:41:54.700
them, that either anti-white racism doesn't exist or it's not a big deal or that somehow it's racist in
00:42:01.300
itself to call it out and oppose it. But that was nonsense. Always was. Is and was. We all know that
00:42:10.540
that if Donald Trump had ever given a speech where he announced a plan to give relief to business
00:42:15.600
owners with priority to white males especially. Can you imagine that? The entire country would lose
00:42:20.340
its mind. Democrats would call for their third impeachment and there would be near unanimous
00:42:25.820
agreement that his plan was racist. Nobody would disagree. It's no different here. We never should
00:42:32.420
have allowed the left to pretend that racism is somehow different when directed at white males.
00:42:37.520
But that's the lie that has cemented itself into our culture. The cancer that has metastasized.
00:42:44.360
And we're going to see how bad it gets. Because they literally haven't even gotten started yet.
00:42:51.120
But for now, Biden is canceled. So I'm doing my part at least. I don't know what the rest of you can do,
00:42:58.160
but I will at least cancel him repeatedly. Hopefully that'll do something. Won't do anything,
00:43:04.880
but helps me vent anyway. Helps me emotionally. And that's it. We'll leave it there for today.
00:43:12.400
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