Ep. 636 - Dems Don't Know How To Quit Trump
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Donald Trump is Impeached for the second time, and we'll have some analysis about that and five other headlines, including another elementary school indoctrinating children into radical left wing racial and sexual theories, and in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the apparently important story of the so-called Soho Karen who made headlines for weeks after accosting a black teenager over her missing cell phone.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Donald Trump is impeached for the second time. I'm sure you've
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heard. We'll have some analysis about that and five headlines, including another elementary
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school indoctrinating children into radical left wing racial and sexual theories. But this again
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is an elementary school now where they're doing it. And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss
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the apparently extremely important story of the so-called Soho Karen. It's a woman who made
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headlines for weeks after accosting a black teenager over her missing cell phone. The media
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thinks this is a very important story and we'll talk about why. All that and much more
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been posthumously impeached, marking his 40th impeachment overall, and what has become a
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sacred annual ritual. As Trump is no longer there to stand trial, a goat is brought in to be his
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symbolic replacement. After conviction, the goat is ceremonially disembodied and disemboweled and
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sacrificed by House Speaker and High Priestess Nancy Pelosi, still maintaining her leadership position
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despite being about 132 years old by now. This is only a very slightly exaggerated look into the
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future. In the non-exaggerated present, the Democrats have impeached Donald Trump for the
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second time in a little over a year. It took Congress about 244 years to impeach a president
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two times. So about 244 years, we had Congress impeaching two presidents, one each. So that's two
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total. The Democrats doubled that number in 13 months. And now that Mitch McConnell has announced
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that he will not call the Senate back in session for trial, the Democrats will also be the first
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to try to convict and remove a president who's already left office. They're going to run into
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the logistical problem when they try to remove him of him not being there to remove. Now, this
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controversy over whether this is legal to do in the first place, though it seems to me unlikely that
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it is, and whether it's legal or not, it certainly is certain that it's an absurd thing to attempt to
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do in any case. But these Democrats just cannot pass up an opportunity for political theatrics.
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Speaking of theatrics, here is Nancy Pelosi on the House floor yesterday making her little stump
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speech. Here it is. Watch. I stand before you as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter,
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a daughter whose father proudly served in this Congress.
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I just wanted to note there, gendered language has been banned by her own rules. But exceptions
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can be made, apparently, so that female politicians can identify themselves as a wife and mother
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before going on to make a point that has nothing to do with the fact that they are wives and mothers.
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I love when politicians do that. I am a wife and mothers. Okay, what does that have to do with
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anything? Really, I'm disappointed that their commitment to genderless language isn't more
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serious. You know, I was looking forward to hearing about the impeachwimant of Donald Trump.
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Meanwhile, one of the newest members of the squad and making a strong push to be crowned
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the most obnoxious, I would say, is Cori Bush, Representative Cori Bush. And she had this to say,
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listen. If we fail to remove a white supremacist president who incited a white supremacist insurrection,
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it's communities like Missouri's first district that suffer the most. The 117th Congress must
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understand that we have a mandate to legislate in defense of black lives. The first step in that
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process is to root out white supremacy, starting with impeaching the white supremacist in chief.
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You know, it's hardly noticeable or notable anymore when they do it. But still, we should take we should
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take note of the fact of how Democrats have just casually and in such a perfunctory way turned the
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Capitol Hill riot into a racist event. Because of course they're going to do that, even though race had
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absolutely nothing to do with it. There are, in fact, many ways to condemn something without calling
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it racist. But the belief on the left now is that anything that is bad must also be racist. If it's bad,
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it's racist. Also, most of the things that aren't bad must also be racist. For her part, Maxine
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Waters played a similar race card, but she took it even further than that. Listen. This president is
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headed toward a civil war and we're the object of their hate. And so it is not only about protection
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and security for the Capitol and us. We need to talk about what we're going to do to force diversity
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and inclusion and protection for our communities. Yes, the remedy for rioting is to, quote,
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force diversity and inclusion. Don't ask Maxine Waters what she means by that, because she clearly
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has no idea. All she knows is that it seems is that conservatives are an apocalyptic threat to the
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United States and President Trump is going to lead them like a warlord into a civil war. If Maxine's goal
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here with her little rant there was to provide a great example of what incitement actually sounds
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like, then she succeeded brilliantly. Because that's the irony of it. As the Democrats impeach
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Trump over incitement, much of what they have said in the process of impeaching him is far more
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inciting than anything Trump said last Wednesday. But here's the central question. Why did the Democrats
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do this? What's the point of all this? We already touched on one point, political theatrics,
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showmanship, the spectacle of false bravery, standing up to the fascist dictator and all that.
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Also, general contempt for him and for his voters. No, those are the obvious things. Many other things
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went into it as well. But let me suggest another, if I'm going to get really psychological here,
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let me suggest another, perhaps slightly deeper motivation. And I think it's this. The Democrats
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don't know how to quit Donald Trump. This is, in its way, a romance. Not the kind of love affair that
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you'd read about in a romance novel, but not too far off. They're setting it up so that they can
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continue railing against Donald Trump even after he's left office. He's been the center of their
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political and ideological world for so long. They've defined themselves by their opposition to him.
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He's been the object of nearly all of their attention. Think about that. For five years,
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he has been everything. They have defined themselves and their agenda by him.
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And they can't stand to lose him. They hate him, but they can't stand to lose him. They need him.
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He is their identity, their purpose, the wind beneath their wings. This is especially true of the media,
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which has spent thousands and thousands and thousands of hours talking about Trump. And now
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we'll have great gaping holes in their programming to fill. Holes that will be even harder to fill now
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because they're going to have to ignore any scandals or controversies that come out of the next
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administration. So they're not going to have that to talk about either. This is the quandary that
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the left finds itself in. One familiar to anybody who's been in a codependent relationship. They want
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out, but they're scared of leaving. And it's not just them, in fairness. The political and cultural
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universe has revolved around Trump for everybody. Every issue has been distilled down to Trump.
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And a lot of that has to do with the media. That's the media's doing. Or everything begins
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and ends with Donald Trump. But it's not supposed to be this way in America. We're not supposed to
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talk so much about the president or care so much about him. In times past, and you probably have to
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go back to before the advent of cable news for this, but in times past, people went weeks or months,
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even longer without thinking about the president at all. They weren't inundated with news about him
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every day. They didn't live in an ecosphere that was so saturated with his presence.
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for most of American history. So people had political and cultural identities that were not
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defined by the president, not defined by one man, one politician. And I would say it was better that way.
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A lot of other things may not have been better in those times, but that piece of it certainly was.
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And that would be the one silver lining going forward. That we can talk about something else for
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a change. It may seem small. Maybe it is, but it's not nothing. You can think about something else.
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Of course, the problem is that the Trump obsession will be replaced by something else. Probably not a
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Biden obsession. He's not quite, he doesn't quite have the flair to attract that sort of devotion,
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either in a negative or positive way. But there'll be something, or someone, or a series of
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somethings and someones that the media dangles in front of us to keep us from getting down to the
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heart of the matter and discussing important issues on a deeper level. But hopefully, after this
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experience, we can be on guard against that in the future. Let's get now to our five headlines.
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You know, I really hate that it's become so common for people to make up stories about their
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things that their kids said to them, you know, or in Kamala Harris's case, to make up stories about
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things they said as kids. And this genre is used normally in a political context to prove a point.
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Like, I guarantee you could go on Twitter right now. There are probably a bunch of tweets
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of people talking about their alleged six-year-old who heard the news about Trump's second impeachment
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and had some really insightful thing to say. But the reason I hate this is that kids actually do
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say hilarious and oddly insightful things all the time. You know, anyone who's a parent knows.
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Your kid's capable of saying some really great things, but you can't share it anymore publicly
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because of this veil of suspicion that will cover it because it will sound like you made it up
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because that's what everybody does. So for example, the reason I bring this up is here's a real thing
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my son actually said to me last night. I took my, the two boys out for ice cream and on the way home
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we were talking and he was sharing with me how he had burped loudly earlier in the day and made his
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sister cry because she was so disturbed by the, by the burp, which I, you know, some things you had to
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stifle laughter on as a parent. But then my son says to me, this is a direct quote. He says,
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girls will never understand the ways of men. My seven-year-old son who said that direct quote.
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Where did that come from? I don't know. Kids just say stuff. And really they say so much stuff.
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They're just constantly talking that eventually they'll stumble on something like that on a little
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morsel of brilliance. Um, and quite poignant. I thought guilt girls will never understand the
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ways of men. Very well put though. I confess, uh, the reverse is probably even more, even more true
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than that. All right, let's go to number one. Um, a Virginia school district is considering a slew of
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progressive icons as candidates. This is from the Washington free beacon, by the way, uh, considering
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a slew of progressive icons as candidates to become the new namesake of T.C. Williams high school.
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Who's if you remember, if you, if that name sounds familiar, that's the high school that was, uh,
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featured in remember the Titans. In November, on, uh, November 20, in November of 2020, the
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Alexandria city, uh, public schools board unanimously voted to change the school's name because its
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namesake, Thomas Chambliss, uh, Williams was a segregationist community activists initiated calls
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for a name change following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. Um, now the district
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introduced a poll. And by the way, this is, this is not the first school district or the only school
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district in Virginia right now. That's contemplating name changes. We talked a few weeks ago. Uh,
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there's a school school district getting rid of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson high school
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is out the window. They're going to think of some new name to put there. So here are, um, among the
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choices, uh, Kamala Harris high school. So she hasn't done anything yet, but already she's going to get
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her own name. It's kind of like the Barack Obama gets a Nobel prize system or before he had done
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anything, he still gets the prize. So Kamala Harris already gets the, already gets the high schools
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named after has done absolutely nothing. Um, so Kamala Harris high school, Megan Markle high school,
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and also George Floyd Memorial high school that is being considered. And I wish I could say that
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there's no way they actually choose this one, but given the state of things, I would have no such
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confidence. George Floyd, who's the only distinction about this man's life is that he was, that he died
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at the hands of police. Um, that's the only distinction. Other than that, he was a violent
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felon, forced his way into a woman's home, put a gun to her stomach and robbed her in front of her
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kid. Like that's, that's the other major event from his life that, and he was any, and he died while
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being arrested and get it as on high school. Uh, and then I'm looking through some of the other
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choices. Somehow George Washington is, is, is an option. George Washington high school. So maybe
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they can rename it to George Washington. And then a year from now, take his name off. Cause he was a
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slave owner. Just keep it going. Um, diversity high school is another option. So Hercules high school,
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a lot of options here. Some of them, not terrible. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of course on there as well.
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All right. Um, number two, Mayor Bill de Blasio went on the news yesterday and he had a big announcement,
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a big and brave and bold announcement to make. Uh, and here it is. Listen,
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Nika, uh, here to announce that the city of New York is severing all contracts with the Trump
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organization. Our legal team has done an assessment and the contracts make very clear. Uh, if a company
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and the leadership of that company is engaged in criminal activity, we have the right to sever the
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contract, uh, inciting an insurrection. Let's be clear. I'm going to say these words again,
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inciting an insurrection against the United States government and clearly constitutes criminal activity.
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So the city of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump organization.
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Okay. The, the, now the Trump organization is guilty of inciting a riot, not just Trump himself.
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This is especially rich coming from Bill de Blasio, uh, of all people who did more than almost any,
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any other mayor in encouraging and legitimizing and romanticizing the BLM riots. Uh, but he didn't
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do quite as much as mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland. And since we're on the subject of, of feckless mayors,
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here's an interesting moment with Ted Wheeler, again, mayor of Portland. Uh, let's watch this.
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Just three weeks ago, protesters broke into the Oregon state Capitol. I have heard people at these
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protests elsewhere saying, well, they let it happen in Portland. So why not do it here? It seems in
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some way, the actions of these small groups that you're referring to have set the stage for what
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has happened on a state level and potentially a national level. I know you said it will take time
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to crack down on these groups, but do we have that time? Are, are you blaming me for what happened
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at the U S Capitol? I don't buy that. Are you blaming me? Are you, are you saying I could be
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respond? I could have something to do with it. Is that what you're suggesting? Uh, yeah, it's what
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I'm suggesting Ted. I don't know if that's what she was suggesting, but it's what I'm suggesting.
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You certainly have something to do with it. This is what happens when you give people the idea that
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rioting is not, it's, it's a really important facet of this. Not just that rioting is, uh, that it's
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okay. You know, that's the message that we've gotten from Ted Wheeler and many others on the left,
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but also that it works because on the left, when they rioted, they got what they want.
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Uh, now you might say the cost to them was not worth the price, at least the cost of them
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ideologically, because at the same time, did they scare a lot of other people away who are sort of
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in the middle, who see the rioting and defund the police? And you know, are they scared away from the,
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from the left now? That's a question. But in terms of affecting policies and that sort of thing,
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they, they got what they want. They got, they got utter and total capitulation from people like
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Ted Wheeler. Now on the right, that's, that's not how it works. Right? So with, with, with, uh,
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the Capitol Hill rioters, what, what has happened? What has happened since then? Um, Donald Trump is
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impeached, deplatformed thousands of, of conservatives banned from social media, entire conservative social
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media apps taken down. Um, not to mention people died and dozens of arrests. So that's what happens
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when conservatives do it. Uh, and that's, that's also something that, that I think conservatives have
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to keep in mind. We have to live in reality and, you know, we shouldn't be rioting because it's,
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it's wrong in the first place, whether it works or not, you shouldn't be doing it,
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but it's also something conservatives should remember when they say, well, the left does this
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and so we can do it. Yeah. But two things, number one doesn't make it right. Number two,
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uh, we, we live, we don't, we don't live in the same universe as them. That's just the reality.
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That's the reality of the situation. They, they own the system. We don't. So if you go and riot,
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you're not going to get utter and total capitulation from, from, from your leaders and politicians,
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people that rule over you, you're not going to get it. They'll get it. You won't. That's just the
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reality. And I'm a big fan of operating within reality. I'm a big fan of that. All right. Number
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three, I just want to read this headline headline from the wall street journal. Um, Pope Francis
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says women can read at mass as debate on women clergy continues. You see these things throughout,
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throughout, uh, his pontiff. We've seen headlines like this. And I always enjoy them as a Catholic
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where we're told the media tells us that Pope Francis has made this revolutionary radical step.
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And as a Catholic, you read it and you say, well, no, it's all, it's, what do you mean? It's,
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it's been like that for a long time. I can tell you right now, if you've seen this headline,
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women have been reading in Catholic masses for decades. I mean, my, my whole life is I've seen
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this and goes back even further than that. Uh, so this is, this is not news at all. So Pope Francis
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has said that women can keep doing the thing that they already were doing. Big news there. All right.
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Um, Christopher Ruffo, who we've, we followed, he works for the city journal. We followed his
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reporting. Um, he reports on a lot of the, the, uh, brainwashing, especially the critical race
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theory of brainwashing in public schools. And here's his latest thread. This is on Twitter.
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He says a Cupertino elementary school forces third graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual
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identities, then rank themselves according to their power and privilege. Just to highlight again,
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this is an elementary school. Okay. Not a high school, not that it's okay in a high school, but
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even worse, the younger they get. Um, he says, I've obtained exclusive whistleblower documents from
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inside the classroom. They will shock you. We'll read through some of this. It says first,
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the teacher told the eight and nine year old students that they live in a dominant culture
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of white, middle-class, cisgendered, educated, able-bodied Christians who created and maintain
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this culture in order to hold power and stay in power. This to a bunch of eight year olds
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and eight year olds are just sitting there. And this is, this is why this stuff is so,
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is so evil and infuriating because the six year olds are just sitting there soaking this in.
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They have no idea what's being said. When an eight year old hears this, all they can say is,
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okay, if you say so, they do not have the information, the knowledge, the critical thinking
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skills, and it's no knock on them. It's just, they, they, they just don't have it to analyze this
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stuff. Reading, going back to the, his, his thread says reading from this book is anti-racist.
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The teacher taught the children, the theory of intersectionality and claim that those with
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privilege have power over others. And that folks, by the way, folks, F O L X, that is the genderless
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way of saying folks because somehow K S is gendered. Replace it with an X and it's okay.
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Maybe you've learned that by now. You know, all existing words are offensive because they already
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exist. If you want to make them non-offensive, just put X, just randomly throw an X in there
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somewhere. Folks who do not benefit from their social identities have little to no privilege
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and power. The teacher asked students to create an identity map listing their race, gender, class,
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religion, family structure, and other characteristics. They were told to circle the identities that hold
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power and privilege. In a related assignment, the children were asked to write short essays
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describing which aspects of their identities hold power and privilege and which are oppressed,
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in effect, ranking themselves according to their intersectionality hierarchy. Okay. So you,
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so certain parts of your identity can have power and certain parts could be oppressed. Is that how
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it works? So you can, so you can, you can oppress yourself, I guess, because if the people that are
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the oppressors, so you have, you have oppressors and you have the oppressed. Well, now, according to this,
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parts of your identity can belong to either group. Now I'm assuming I haven't read the, uh, I haven't,
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I haven't looked through all of the PowerPoint slides yet, but I'm assuming, for example, a white woman,
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probably classic example of somebody oppressing themselves because you're white. So you got the
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oppressor role covered, but you're also a woman. So you're oppressed, oppressing yourself.
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This is not schizophrenic or insane at all. Um, parents at the school were scandalized. They were
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basically teaching racism to my eight-year-old said one parent who rallied a half dozen families
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to protest the curriculum and demanded a meeting with the principal. Um, and then it details some
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of the other parents and their reaction to it. Okay. Well, all I can say with this sort of thing is,
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I mean, it's the same thing I always say, and I can only repeat myself. That's all I can do.
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Get your kids out of the public school system. This, I cannot stress enough. This is not going
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to get better. It will not. And if you're in a school right now, or if your kids are in a school
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where this isn't happening, first of all, how do you know it's not happening? You only think it's
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not happening. Could be. Um, cause your kid is not even, is not even telling you like 10% of the
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things that happen in a school day. If you remember when you were a kid, you didn't. Uh, so,
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but if, if your kid is in a school where this isn't happening, eventually it will happen.
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It will no way around it. This is what the public school school system exists for
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to indoctrinate children into the overarching, the dominant dogmas and doctrines of the day.
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Didn't mean to go for the alliteration there, but there it is. So get your kids out of public
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school system. There are other options. I'm not saying everybody can homeschool, but there,
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there, we got to start getting creative about, about, um, solving these problems about the way
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we educate our children. The system relies on you just sending your kids there by default
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because it's the easy thing to do. It's the automatic thing to do. It's what, it's what you
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did as a kid. It's just what you're supposed to do. The system relies on that. So we have to break
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missing. The bright cluster galaxy, a two, two, six, one, one of my favorites appears to have lost its
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black hole. And some scientists think it could now be floating through space. All right. So that's,
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that's, here's another thing we can worry about. Apparently black holes can just become dislodged
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from their location in space and just float, just float away. That's, that's the next thing. I mean,
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I, I, I, I couldn't say I would object that much if they told us that a black hole was floating
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towards earth. I think our reaction first of all would be, well, of course it is. Of course the black
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parent when a kid is missing something. Actually, my mom's a classic advice. Anytime I was, I couldn't
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the floor and look under that? And the thing that always annoyed me is that 95% of the time it was under
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get to our Daily Cancellation. So today for our Daily Cancellation, we start
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with a quandary. What do you do when you want to convince people that America is a racist
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country, but America stubbornly refuses to provide you with enough legitimate examples
00:31:04.760
to prove your point? This is a problem that leftists and race hustlers run into on a daily
00:31:08.620
basis and they've innovated several different ways to deal with it. One is to, of course,
00:31:12.680
invent racist hate crimes out of whole cloth, telling fables about bleach-wielding white supremacists
00:31:17.460
shouting MAGA country in Chicago and so forth. The other is to wildly misinterpret actual
00:31:23.240
statements or events to fit into the desired racism mold. In the most extreme cases, a garage
00:31:28.960
door pole may be labeled a noose and handed over to the FBI for investigation. These are
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tried and true, but not nearly as cynically brilliant or effective as the third method,
00:31:39.340
which is to take a potential example of real but isolated racism or racial profiling and treat
00:31:45.300
it like Pearl Harbor, blow it up into a national crisis, and draw all sorts of broad and sweeping
00:31:50.400
conclusions from it. And that third strategy brings us to the story of the so-called Soho
00:31:56.200
Karen, real name Mia Pancetto. Now, Pancetto achieved national notoriety a couple weeks ago
00:32:03.180
after accosting a 14-year-old black teen, son of a musician named Keon Harold, and falsely accusing
00:32:08.820
him of stealing her cell phone. He didn't really steal it, but she accused him of it. The altercation,
00:32:13.400
which was caught on video by Harold, unfolded in the lobby of the Arlo Hotel in New York City,
00:32:19.000
Pancetto mostly ranted like a crazy person before grabbing the teen and actually tackling him to
00:32:25.140
the ground. The video quickly went viral and Pancetto, with her new Soho Karen moniker,
00:32:31.940
became infamous across the nation. The media conducted extensive investigations and published
00:32:36.640
lengthy reports revealing Pancetto's past criminal record, her DUI arrests, the vandalism of her
00:32:44.120
Airbnb apartment on the morning of her confrontation of the cell phone. She apparently smashed her door
00:32:49.240
with a fire extinguisher, I believe. Now, it's clear that Pancetto was firmly in the wrong.
00:32:56.740
It's possible that she racially profiled the young man, though it seems even more likely,
00:33:02.340
or at least just as likely, that she's simply an unstable woman who has acted this way towards
00:33:07.260
many people in her life with no regard to their race or ethnicity. I mean, she smashed her door
00:33:11.800
with a fire extinguisher right before this. So, maybe an equal opportunity lunatic, you might say.
00:33:19.840
But what's not clear in any case is why this deranged behavior by a random woman in a hotel lobby
00:33:25.460
needs to be the subject of national discussion. But the national discussion ensued anyway,
00:33:30.160
helped along by the likes of Al Sharpton and the ubiquitous ambulance-chasing lawyer Benjamin Crump,
00:33:36.900
though there were no ambulances or injuries reported in this case, but Benjamin Crump is
00:33:40.940
always on the scene now. And they both sort of rappelled down as though from helicopters hovering above
00:33:45.780
to conduct a press conference with the boy's parents and presumably to get a piece of any
00:33:50.380
forthcoming lawsuits. The parents claimed that their son's life was put in danger.
00:33:55.280
And they found reason, somehow, to blame the hotel where the assault happened,
00:34:00.380
arguing that the business is culpable for the arbitrary outbursts of any troubled woman who
00:34:04.940
happens to wander into their lobby. They even had a nifty refrain they kept repeating,
00:34:09.880
ready-made for t-shirts and posters, calling on the hotel to check out from racism.
00:34:15.740
Check out because it's a hotel. Get it? That's the, yeah, very clever.
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Uh, let's, let's listen to a little bit of this news report about the case.
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Keon Harrell Jr.'s parents say they're still traumatized by the attack on their son.
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They want everyone involved to be held accountable.
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This racial profiling thing is real. You don't have to say the N-word to, to act in a racist way.
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The incident took place at the Arlo Hotel in Soho last month. Surveillance video appears to show
00:34:45.700
this woman, 22-year-old Mia Ponsetto, tackled 14-year-old Keon Harrell Jr. after accusing him
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No, I'm not letting him walk away with my phone!
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The manager of the hotel approaches the boy and asks to see the phone, which he does not have.
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The family is now asking for people to boycott the business and its parent company,
00:35:07.120
unless they put an end to what they call racial profiling.
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Arlo Hotel is just as responsible as this Soho Karen,
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and we're gonna check out if they don't check, step up.
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The Arlo Hotel has apologized for the incident and says the manager did call police regarding
00:35:26.200
Check out if they don't step up. They got the poster boards ready, they got everything.
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They're boycotting the family, the parent company.
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They're accusing the hotel and the parent company of racial profiling.
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I mean, maybe, again, you know, if it were me, and I was walking out of a hotel,
00:35:49.760
and some crazy woman came up, accused me of stealing her cell phone,
00:35:52.100
it was draped all over me, trying to tackle me to the ground,
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I would call the police, because she's crazy, and that's illegal.
00:36:06.380
You know, I would probably just go home, and it would be a funny story I would tell
00:36:10.460
my wife, and, you know, probably from then on out, it's a story I would tell periodically.
00:36:14.940
But I just can't imagine holding a press conference about it.
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Now, for all the talk of systemic racism in law enforcement,
00:36:25.300
the NYPD certainly expended more time and resources on this case
00:36:29.260
than they would on almost any other similar case of a random weirdo accosting somebody in public.
00:36:33.920
Detectives tracked Ponsetto all the way back to California
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and brought her to California, to New York, to stand trial.
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She was hit with four felonies in the case, attempted robbery,
00:36:45.580
attempted grand larceny, and attempted assault.
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Again, Ponsetto's behavior was obviously wrong and also criminal,
00:36:51.620
but you might argue that it's a tad overkill to pursue her across the country
00:36:55.400
and put her on trial for four felonies when nobody was hurt in her outburst,
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and the only long-term consequences of her actions will be suffered by the culprit herself.
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Hours before her arrest, Gail King on CBS conducted an exclusive,
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Now, when you watch it, when you watch this interview,
00:37:14.020
all you can wonder is why is this crazy woman who freaked out about a cell phone
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With everything else going on in the world right now,
00:37:32.080
A search for Mia Ponsetto's name on Google returns thousands of results,
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many of them reporting breathlessly about every aspect of this earth-shattering case,
00:37:39.760
others offering lengthy analyses of the cultural implications,
00:37:44.620
then others like this article in the New York Post reporting that Mia Ponsetto wears ugly outfits.
00:37:51.700
Soho Karen Mia Ponsetto mocked for wearing trash crop top, sandals, and socks.
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Well, if wearing sandals and socks is a fashion crime, then you're going to have to lock me up, too.
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So I may not be the best one to defend her fashion choices, nor am I interested in it.
00:38:07.100
But I will say to her credit, she tried to beat the media at its own game.
00:38:15.320
claiming that she cannot be racist because she herself is a woman of color.
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Mia Ponsetto approached 14-year-old Keon Harrell Jr. at a New York City hotel last month,
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His father, jazz musician Keon Harrell, recorded the encounter and accused Ponsetto of racial profiling.
00:38:42.120
I was approaching the people that had been exiting the hotel because, in my mind,
00:38:47.220
anybody exiting is probably the one that might be the one that is trying to steal my phone.
00:38:51.920
I admit, yes, I could have approached the situation differently or maybe not yelled at him like that
00:38:56.880
and made him feel, you know, maybe some sort of inferior.
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I'm a woman. I'm Puerto Rican. I'm like a woman of color.
00:39:10.700
Does that mean that you can't be racist because you're saying you're a woman of color?
00:39:17.140
Well, I would disagree that people of color can be racist.
00:39:34.180
I think anybody of any race or ethnicity can be racist.
00:39:38.840
Gayle King could be racist if she wanted to be.
00:39:41.600
Your skin pigmentation does not make you any more or less susceptible to racism.
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But again, I don't make the rules, unfortunately.
00:39:51.220
The people who do make them have long since clarified that only white people can be racist.
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It's what those kids in school are being indoctrinated into.
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According to this doctrine, Ponsetto says she isn't white.
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And by the looks of it, you know, it seems like she isn't lying.
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So notice how quickly critical race theory is abandoned or exceptions and additional qualifiers are conjured out of thin air just to maintain the narrative about this woman.
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Now we find many headlines like this one in Yahoo News.
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Mia Ponsetto proves proves that simply being a person of color isn't enough.
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It seems redundant to cancel Ponsetto, who is now facing four felonies and is a national disgrace and pariah.
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The parents of the kids say, if it's not enough, there's not enough justice has been done.
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So I would say that's probably punishment enough, given the offense.
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Instead, I'm canceling all of the people who were so excited to have a video like this, to prove their point, that they've made this woman famous in the process.
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And I'm canceling the race hustling vultures like Sharpton, who've swooped in to get their piece of the action, doing their normal routine.
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