Ep. 652 - Dems Turn Congress Into Group Therapy
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Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a group therapy session on the floor of the House of Representatives, calling herself a survivor of the riot in which no one was hurt. It was a cynical and disgusting display. Also: Five headlines: The White House declared that even after you get the flu vaccine, you still need to wear a mask, so what s the point of the vaccine? And in our daily cancellation, we ll discuss the resurgent career of Nick Cannon, who got his job back after calling white people savages. What does that tell us about the nature of privilege in America? Plus, I ll read some of my YouTube comments, all of that and much more. Today on The Matt Walsh Show: Democrats who sat back and cheered while millions of Americans were impacted by rioting all summer.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, Democrats, who sat back and cheered while millions of Americans were
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impacted by rioting all summer, spent last night on the House floor tearfully describing their own
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trauma from a riot in which none of them were harmed. It's kind of a group therapy session
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and a cynical and disgusting display as well. So we'll talk about that. Also, five headlines,
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including the White House declaring that even after you get the vaccine, you still need to
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wear a mask. So what's the point of the vaccine then? And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss
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the resurgent career of Nick Cannon, who got his job back after calling white people subhuman
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savages. What does that tell us about the nature of privilege in America? Plus, I'll read some of
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cynical and fraudulent displays we have ever seen on the floor of Congress, and I understand what a
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statement that is, a group of Democratic representatives decided to hold a group therapy
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session. As the lockdowns continue to cripple American businesses, millions of our citizens
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face financial ruin, and our nation faces a host of crises from multiple fronts, the Democrats
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still carved out some time to talk about their feelings, their favorite subject after all.
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This special House hearing was requested by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose own cinematic tale of narrowly
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avoiding death at the hands of right-wing assassins took a major hit when it was revealed that
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the riot was happening in an entirely different building from the one she was in. Nonetheless,
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Cortez was given more time and space on the taxpayer's dime, in this case, to spin her yarn.
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So here she is introducing the evening's program while unabashedly labeling herself and her colleagues as
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Less than 29 days later, with little to no accountability for the bloodshed and trauma of the sixth,
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some are already demanding that we move on, or worse, attempting to minimize, discredit,
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or belittle the accounts of survivors. In doing so, they not only further harm those who were there that
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day and provide cover for those responsible, but they also send a tremendously damaging message
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to survivors of trauma all across this country.
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Survivors, yeah. AOC is as much a survivor of this riot as I am. She was never in any direct danger.
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She was never confronted by any mob. She did not survive anything except in the general sense of
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having made it through another day without dying in the sense that we're all survivors by virtue of
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the fact that we're all still currently alive. If that's what she means, then fine. I'll wear the
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label too. I'm a survivor. Someone cue the Beyonce song. Now, AOC was joined in the spectacle by such
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squad luminaries as Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib. The former vacillated between openly weeping
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and boldly declaring that she would have personally whooped the asses of any rioters who tried to
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accost her. So here she is making that claim. Madam Speaker, St. Louis and I rise to reflect
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on how our office experienced the white supremacist attack on our nation's Capitol on January the 6th.
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Everybody is everybody's experiences are different and everybody's experiences must be validated.
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So I remember sitting in the office with my team and just thinking to myself, I feel like I'm back
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at this very minute. I feel like I'm back. I feel like this was one of the days out there on the streets
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when the white supremacists would show up and start shooting at us. This is one of the days when the
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police would ambush us from behind trees and from behind buildings and all of a sudden now we're on
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the ground being brutalized. It felt like one of those days. And now just remember taking a second
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thinking, if they touch these doors, if they hit these doors, the way they hit that door, if they hit
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these doors and come anywhere near my staff. And I'm just going to be real honest about it. My thought
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process was we banging to the end. I'm not letting them take out my people and you're not taking me
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out. We've come too far. Yeah. Okay. Corey, you're about to go full kill bill. I'm sure had the katana
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ready and everything. Uh, now, and, and she says it took her back to the days of white supremacists
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shooting at her. When were those days exactly? What, what is she referring to? That's a, I mean,
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that's a headline. I'd like to know what, what happened. She says that when they were shooting
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at us, apparently this is something that happened to her. I'm not aware of that story. Notice too,
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how she casually labels the rioters white supremacists as she has from the beginning. This isn't very
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interesting as she thinks everything is white supremacy. She would probably label a literal jar of
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Manny. He's a white supremacist, but even so it bears repeating that there's no evidence and never
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was any evidence that anything that happened on January 6th was at all racially motivated for her
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part. Rashida Tlaib could barely speak through her tears. So overcome with emotion, even though she
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wasn't even in DC on the day of the riot. Let's listen to that. So what happened on January 6th? All I
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could do is thank Allah that I wasn't here. I felt overwhelming relief and I feel bad for Alexandria.
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So many of my colleagues that were here, but as I saw it, I thought to myself, thank God I am not
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there. I saw the images that they didn't get to see until later. My team and I decided at that point,
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we'd keep the death threats away. We try to report them, document them, to keep them away from me
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because it just paralyzed me and all I wanted to do was come here and serve the people that raised me.
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Now she mentions earlier in her speech, the death threats that she's gotten during her career, which
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have nothing to do with the riot, but death threats to a congresswoman or to anyone else are horrible.
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I can tell you that I know that from experience. I myself have had plenty of them. I've gotten
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messages, plenty of messages saying terrible things about not just me, but my wife and my children.
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I've had violence threatened against, against my kids. It's very upsetting to endorse something like
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that. I know from experience and the people who make these kinds of threats or send these kinds of
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emails are vile filth, the lowest of the low. The point simply is that this happens to anyone in the
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public eye as a consequence, not of systemic racism or anything like that, but of living in such a
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tribalized society. Another consequence of living in a tribalized society, ironically, is this display
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on the House floor. This is political stagecraft disguised as raw human emotion. For proof of that,
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if you need it, here finally is Representative Dean Phillips in what was hailed as a moving and powerful
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speech, but what was really one of the most shamelessly cynical diatribes we have ever heard
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We know what it feels like searching for something, anything with which to defend ourselves and
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realizing a pencil is about all we had. And we know what it feels like thinking that it's a real
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possibility that we would not see our families and loved ones again. We won't forget. We won't forget.
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But I'm not here this evening to seek sympathy or just to tell my story. Rather, to make a public
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apology for recognizing that we were sitting ducks in this room as the chamber was about to be breached.
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I screamed to my colleagues to follow me, to follow me across the aisle to the Republican side of the
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chamber so that we could blend in, so that we could blend in. For I felt that the insurrectionists who
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were trying to break down the doors right here would spare us if they simply mistook us for Republicans.
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But within moments, I recognized that blending in was not an option available to my colleagues of color.
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So I'm here tonight to say to my brothers and sisters in Congress and all around our country, I'm sorry.
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Give me a break, dude. I mean, it's really quite brilliant, if also completely dishonorable and disgusting.
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He implicates all of his Republican colleagues in the riot, positions the riot as somehow racially
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motivated, and pretends to humble himself while at the same time engaging in naked self-aggrandizement.
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All in the span of 90 seconds, it was, the whole thing was, the whole show, the whole therapy session
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was in some ways a master class for those who are utterly soulless and care for nothing but power.
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Now, if you're not in that category, though, you will be revolted by the display.
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Especially when you consider that these very same people did not care to hear the stories of trauma
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from their own constituents who lived through much worse, much more damaging, much more deadly rioting,
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Yes, I'll say it again. I'll say it a thousand times.
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The rioting that happened in our cities was much, much, much worse than this.
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And the fact that this happened to politicians does not make it worse unless you believe that politicians
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are more worthy, are worth more, have more value than just regular citizens.
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Our members of Congress endured an unpleasant few hours one afternoon.
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Afterwards, they were flanked by National Guard, fortified behind protective barriers.
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The system responded forcefully because, after all, these people are the system.
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And the people responsible are being hunted down and hit with every possible criminal charge.
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For average Americans, though, in towns like Kenosha, Minneapolis, Atlanta, any of the hundreds of other cities,
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for them, Portland, Seattle, it's been quite different.
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In many cases, their neighborhoods are still in ruins.
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If they were arrested at all, their charges were dropped.
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I mean, they went through weeks and weeks and weeks of chaos, violence, and destruction.
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And when it ended, nobody helped them pick up the pieces.
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Nobody's bringing them up on the House floor to shed their tears under the spotlight.
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Even the people who are ostensibly on their side are too cowardly or too stupid to really help.
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After all, the Republicans could have done what the Democrats just did.
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They could have brought the victims of BLM rioting to Congress and set aside an hour or more for them to speak and tell their stories.
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And so the very people who normalized rioting and cheered it on and created the situation that we now are in
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What we saw on the floor of the House last night.
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Well, the first piece of news, not our first headline, but I just wanted to mention that David Hogg, anti-gun activist, is apparently starting his own pillow company to compete with MyPillow and Mike Lindell.
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So he's going to start a liberal, he's going to start a leftist pillow company.
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And it really, in some ways, this strikes me as the most leftist thing in the world, to make a pillow company out of spite.
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He's going to be angrily just stitching pillows together.
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But it's good because, you know, it's good that now pillows are tribalized.
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Next, I think we need our bedsheets and our blankets to be political statements.
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I can't wait till we're at a point where every item in our house and everything we eat and everything we wear is a form of political branding.
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You can wear your liberal socks or your conservative socks.
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You could drink liberal water or conservative water.
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It's great because this is how you form a healthy and happy society, isn't it?
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Number one from the Daily Wire says, a well-known emergency doctor who's been promoted by the Biden White House said Thursday that folks who did not wear masks to a market in Florida, we played that video for you.
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The CNBC, Shep Smith, was very scandalized because people in Florida at a grocery store weren't wearing a mask.
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And he couldn't just mind his own damn business, so he did a whole story about it and everything.
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Well, this doctor said that in reference to those people, he said that they should be denied vaccinations against COVID-19, adding, let them die.
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That's a great thing to hear from a doctor, isn't it?
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In a now-deleted post, Dr. Cleveland Gilman captured a video of the mask-less Florida marketgoers saying, Naples, Florida, let them die.
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And then he continued, I'm working in the COVID ICU tonight.
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I'm so tired of giving 200% while others in the U.S. can't even help by simply wearing a mask.
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I'll keep doing my part until we're all vaccinated.
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And then eventually he took it down and deleted it.
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And this is what he says when his spirits are high, let them die.
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Okay, if that's him with his spirits high, I would hate to see this guy when he's pissed off, especially if he's my doctor.
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You know, this whole thing, even if you believe that, you know, not wearing a mask is this terribly reckless thing and all of that,
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and if you get sick, you brought it on yourself, and it's very common to hear this.
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Now, usually you don't hear it quite so explicitly from doctors saying, let them die, but at least the peanut gallery on Twitter and elsewhere,
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they've been saying this for months, that if you don't wear a mask, then you should get medical treatment.
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But you notice these people, they would never apply that philosophy in any other context.
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Like, what about someone who is morbidly obese because of their terrible eating habits and then has heart disease?
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What about someone who gets an STD because they're, you know, going out to a bar?
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But someone who meets a different person on Tinder every week ends up with an STD, a consequence we all knew would, anyone knew would come.
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And would we say, let them die or just let them suffer?
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At least if you're going to take this position that allegedly reckless behavior means that you do not deserve medical treatment for the consequences of that behavior,
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then at least have the guts and the intellectual consistency to go all the way with it.
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I wouldn't agree, but at least in that case, I would respect your consistency.
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Okay, number two, the war between the mayor of Chicago and the teachers' union is heating up.
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And I have to say, I'm enjoying it, or I would enjoy it if not for the fact that the kids are being hurt by this.
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So if not for that, I would enjoy it, but I don't.
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Here's Mayor Lightfoot taking it up to another level against the teachers' union.
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And we all know that to be true based upon our actual in-person experience.
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And let me remind you of the over $100 million in mitigations that CPS has invested in our schools to make them safe.
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They included ventilation, testing, health screening, face coverings, enhanced cleaning, and other in-school settings.
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And as the expression goes, the proof is in the pudding.
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CPS had three weeks of successful implementation of these mitigation plans in our schools.
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That was until the CTU blew up that success and created chaos that we are now enduring.
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You know, I would like to say that maybe this is some kind of small awakening moment for Democrat mayors across the country.
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She's not the only one trying to get the schools open and teachers' unions are refusing.
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Because as we've been talking about, the teachers' union exists for the teachers, not for the kids.
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And what that means is that they're pitting the interests of the kids against the teachers.
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Anytime the interests of the kids and the interests of the teachers collide, teachers' unions are always going to say, well, it's all about the teachers.
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In fact, it's not just that they put teachers above the kids.
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It's just that the kids are irrelevant to the teachers' union.
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Education is also irrelevant to the teachers' union.
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The only thing the teachers' union cares about, why they exist, is just to get more perks and advantages for the teachers.
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So I would like to say that this is an awakening moment, maybe, maybe a small little red pill moment for some Democrat mayors where they're realizing that, oh, gee, the teachers' union, they're sort of a cancer on the education system.
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I mean, maybe we shouldn't have this really powerful organization in the education system that does this, that discards, disregards the interests of kids and of education.
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I would like to say that, but we all know that this lesson that Mayor Lightfoot and others are learning will not be, will not last long.
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Once we get past this, however long it takes, if it takes 10 years, eventually they're going to go right back into propping up the teachers' union again, unfortunately.
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Number three, Jen Psaki at the White House press conference reiterated something that we've been hearing more and more recently and that some of us predicted long ago.
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What we're also trying to do is make our health and medical experts available to ensure people understand, and I'll reiterate it here today, it's not just a vaccine.
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It's obviously an incredible medical breakthrough, and we want every American to have one.
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But even after you're vaccinated, social distancing, wearing masks are going to be essential, and we'll need to continue communicating about that through health and medical experts.
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If you want people to actually get vaccinated, if you believe in the vaccination, and you want people to get vaccinated, and you want this to end, if all those things apply to you, which the White House, Joe Biden, Jen Psaki would say that it does, then this is the worst possible message that you could possibly have.
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All you're doing is discouraging people from getting the vaccination.
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Because what you're telling people, what you're implying anyway, I mean, the message people will take from this is that, oh, well, apparently the vaccine doesn't really do much.
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You're saying my lifestyle is not going to change at all.
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If it's effective, then I shouldn't need the mask, and I shouldn't need to socially distance.
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And in fact, this is the reason, I'm guessing, like 90% of the people, especially those who are not elderly and who do not have preexisting conditions, 90% of those or more that are going off to get the vaccine or who will get the vaccine in the future,
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it's the thing that's going to motivate them is this idea that they can get back to normal once they have it.
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If you're taking that away, then people aren't going to get vaccinated.
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And when you have trouble getting people vaccinated, that's your fault for that message.
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So the truth, though, why are they saying this?
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Number one, it's just people in power like having it.
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People in positions of power, they can control what we wear on our faces.
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They can tell us how close we can be to other human beings.
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They're never going to admit it, but they enjoy it.
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And also, at another level, they just don't trust us as the American people.
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So the problem, from their perspective, probably, is that if they say, well, okay, you get the vaccine and then, you know, you really don't need the mask anymore because the vaccine works, right?
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If they say that, well, then how are they going to know, right?
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If you're going into a store without a mask, how are they going to know whether you got the vaccine or not?
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I mean, maybe they give out vaccine cards or something, but they're not sure if people will go along with that.
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So the next solution is just to have everyone wear a mask whether they want it or not.
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Because that's what this has been about all along.
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Many of these regulations and everything, it's just because they think we're stupid and reckless and basically suicidal.
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And that's how they've been approaching this pandemic from day one.
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And the unfortunate thing is that a lot of people are perfectly okay with that.
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Number four from the Daily Wire, a USA Today sports columnist says that NFL superstar quarterback Tom Brady
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eluded criticism over his support from former President Donald Trump because of white privilege.
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In a piece published Tuesday, headline, Tom Brady has gotten an undeserved pass for his past support of Donald Trump.
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Nancy Armour said the Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB shouldn't get a pass just because he's a star.
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Brady's ability to enter and exit the debate at his choosing to shield himself from accountability is the height of white privilege.
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As this country grapples with the far reaches of systemic racism, look no further than Brady,
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for whom the expectations and allowances granted will always be different.
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It is so unbelievably stupid on so many levels.
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We covered it in the Daily Cancellation, at least the comparison with Tom Brady and Kaepernick.
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Oh, why does Kaepernick not have a job but Tom Brady does?
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Well, Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback in NFL history, bar none.
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And on top of that, he's also a huge headache and he's got the circus act that he brings along with him.
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If you own a team or if you're a general manager, why would you want a second or third string caliber guy
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who's going to bring a lot of unwanted negative attention and probably accuse you of racism when you don't start him?
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Well, again, because he's won six Super Bowls, he's the greatest quarterback in history.
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But this claim is trying to make Tom Brady into this guy, this political guy.
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When has Tom Brady made any political statement?
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That is based on the fact that like five years ago, he had a MAGA hat in his locker.
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He didn't put it on and say, hey, everybody, look, I'm a Trump supporter.
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And this is being called a political statement.
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And it's being compared to the statements of Colin Kaepernick,
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who protested during a game and during the anthem.
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Tom Brady has been very consistently apolitical through his whole career.
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Now, so it's not that Tom Brady is dipping in and out of political conversations at will,
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and he's able to do that because of white privilege.
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Do you know someone, a star athlete, who's able to do that, what Tom Brady is accused of?
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If she says, enter and exit the debate at his choosing, you know who's doing that?
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LeBron James, he can, massive star athlete, and he can enter into a political debate,
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say a bunch of incendiary, inflammatory things,
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lob a couple of rhetorical grenades into an already chaotic situation,
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And he plays, and he's going to be starring in Space Jam.
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And he is able to do that while also being, at times, intensely political
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I don't know, maybe you've got to respect this.
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A defendant in Florida tried to make a move on the judge during his bond hearing.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, but maybe not here.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, but maybe not here.
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But I saw that, and in some ways, it reminded me of a video.
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But unfortunately, there are many people who have never had the pleasure of seeing this.
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It's been one of my favorite videos for a long time.
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A similar, now this, okay, so that guy, he's sitting on the judge during the bond hearing.
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He was charged, convicted, false imprisonment, and a number of other felonies.
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And he tries actually serenading the judge during the sentencing hearing.
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And if you've never seen or heard this before, well, you're in for a treat.
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Hello there, your honor, I want to say I'm sorry.
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This is when the hello to Adele song was going to be good.
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And I try and be stronger in this life I chose, but I want you to know.
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Notice how no one's laughing in the background.
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That door I close, in your honor, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
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To my mother, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
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Everyone just, like, does this happen all the time?
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To the victim, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
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Yes, your honor, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
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So, the song, I don't know, I guess the judge was not an Adele fan.
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Should have chosen maybe a different pop song to go with.
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You know, that, we talked yesterday about people are indoctrinated by Disney movies.
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And we've seen way too many Disney movies growing up, brainwashed by them.
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A similar thing here, maybe this guy has seen too many musicals.
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And so, he watches the musicals and he sees how someone can get themselves out of a bind
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by just singing a song, expressing their feelings.
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A couple of comments from yesterday worth noting, if I can find them.
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A rogue addict says, in reference to that bat story that we talked about yesterday,
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the flightless arthritic bat whose caretakers are flying it around,
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even though it can't fly, it doesn't know any better because it's blind.
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And I said, the most merciful thing with an animal like this is,
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even though it's very cute and heartwarming to keep them alive,
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the most merciful thing is to just put them down.
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When the animal cannot perform its basic function,
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like fly or walk, whether it's a dog or a bat, you put them down.
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should we also kill the vets that came back without limbs or with the PTSD?
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They are also far from happy and they are in pain.
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I heard this from a lot of people when I made that point.
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And this is why it always somehow manages to surprise me each time
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No, I'm not in favor of killing people who are, say, crippled or blind.
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People are more important than your dog, who you love so much.
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Every person on earth is more important than your dog.
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We all know that, which is why when you're driving down the road
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and you see a dead raccoon or a dead deer on the side of the road,
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Now, if you were driving by and you saw a dead person on the side of the road,
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you're going to react very differently to that, aren't you?
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Because people are more important, have more value than animals.
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For some reason, when you say it out loud, it's scandalous to people,
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but it's one of those things that everyone thinks.
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That's why they kill animals in their shelters all the time.
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Steve A says, our local hardware store says masks are optional.
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But the fake outrage from that jackass on MSNBC is more disgusting.
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It's more disgusting than the filthy rags people are covering their face with.
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The message, if we had leaders who respected us,
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the message from the very beginning would have been just be smart.
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then, you know, you want to take even more precautions maybe than someone who isn't.
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not everyone's going to be doing exactly the same thing.
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Not everyone has to lock themselves in their home.
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Not everyone is at the same risk of being severely affected by COVID.
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And not everyone's at the same risk of spreading it either.
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Your decision to forego using a private jet to help save the planet has inspired me to do the same.
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If ever I get the chance to own a Lamborghini, I pledge to never drive it.
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These are things where we all, you know, we all have to do our part.
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They all just watched as Kitty was being stabbed to death in broad daylight.
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Now we must all fear evil men, but there is another kind of evil which we must fear most.
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I haven't gone back and watched it again because it's one of those movies that I suspect if I watched again as an adult, it wouldn't hold up.
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I'm just going to let it be, you know, in my memories as a great movie.
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See, it's not the indifference of good men that we have to worry about in society.
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Because good men, by definition, are not indifferent.
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If you're a good man or a good woman, then you have virtue.
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Virtue is something that you're doing every day.
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So, no, it's not the indifference of good men we have to worry about because that's kind of a misnomer.
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And I would submit that the primary or at least the most harmful form of badness in our culture today is indifference.
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There are a lot of hateful people, but those aren't really the people we've got to worry about the most.
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It's just the empty, indifferent people who maybe don't care.
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They just don't care about their fellow man at all.
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Well, Scott, out of respect for you, I have worn long sleeves today.
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Anyway, you know, I would never want to cause, I'm a Christian.
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I would never want to cause my brother in Christ to stumble.
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let's look at two stories that are happening at the same time.
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First, Morgan Wallen is watching his career implode before his eyes
00:42:19.900
as a consequence of a video that catches the country music star using a racial slur.
00:42:26.920
Now, Wallen and his buddies were laughing and carrying on
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after returning home from a night of drinking this past weekend,
00:42:32.600
and their antics were so loud and disruptive that they woke up the neighbors,
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one of whom decided to pull out a phone and document the commotion.
00:42:40.440
Unfortunately for Wallen, the camera had been turned on right before
00:42:43.380
he shouted to one of his friends across the street,
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presumably referring to another friend who was in perhaps an especially drunken state.
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I wanted you to see or hear that just to get the tone of it.
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Um, it's clear that Wallen used the word he should not have used.
00:43:26.540
It's also clear that he didn't mean for it to be public,
00:43:28.800
though he did shout it in the street, which is not a good way of keeping things private.
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Nonetheless, as expected, the penalties have been quite significant.
00:43:39.100
Wallen apologized profusely, but that didn't stop the inevitable from happening.
00:43:43.320
The Academy of Country Music Awards revoked his eligibility.
00:43:46.680
Cumulus Media, iHeart Media, and SiriusXM pulled all of his songs from their stations,
00:43:50.520
effectively removing him from the radio altogether.
00:43:53.760
This is the swiftest and harshest backlash we have probably seen against a star,
00:44:02.620
Even though star musicians do and say objectionable things all the time.
00:44:06.080
While Wallen's star is rapidly plummeting after saying one offensive thing,
00:44:11.780
a thing which, if context matters, was said drunkenly and in jest,
00:44:16.100
another star is ascending again after a minor and temporary dip.
00:44:20.320
The juxtaposition here, I think, is quite instructive.
00:44:22.920
Nick Cannon and ViacomCBS have reunited and are feeling so good,
00:44:27.440
and the production of his VH1 series Wild and Out will resume following a brief suspension
00:44:32.100
of their relationship following comments that Cannon made on his podcast last summer.
00:44:38.520
Now, you might remember what provoked the backlash was Cannon's claim
00:44:42.020
that black people can't be anti-Semitic because they are the Semitic people
00:44:50.100
This is what prompted the brief severing of ties with ViacomCBS and an apology from Cannon.
00:44:56.620
But that's all water under the bridge now, apparently.
00:44:58.640
Cannon's career is back and it's on track and he's rolling again.
00:45:02.800
But the true Hebrew stuff wasn't close to the worst thing he said during the podcast.
00:45:09.240
The really offensive and racist remarks were never acknowledged by the media
00:45:13.600
or by Cannon himself or even by ViacomCBS when they initially condemned his statements.
00:45:19.860
Cannon, in fact, has faced no consequence, not even a temporary consequence,
00:45:24.120
for his actual racist diatribe in which he claimed that white people fear black,
00:45:29.920
quote, unquote, and have a, quote, lack of compassion because of their melanin deficiency.
00:45:36.060
And if that wasn't enough, he also said that white people are, quote, a little less,
00:45:42.020
And that because they don't have the power of the sun, they behave, quote, out of fear,
00:45:48.280
out of low self-esteem and out of deficiency and can, quote, only act evil.
00:45:54.620
Robbing and raping in order to survive, he says.
00:45:57.340
White people, Cannon says, are, quote, closer to animals and are, quote, the true savages.
00:46:01.700
Okay, that's, these are all things that he said.
00:46:05.300
This is by far in a way the most racist thing that any celebrity of his stature has said in many years.
00:46:11.360
If you've got a, if you've got a more racist thing, then let me know.
00:46:15.760
And he never, and he, and now he has his job back.
00:46:18.140
So let's stack these two situations up against each other.
00:46:20.880
Wallin used a racial slur in a non-racial context,
00:46:26.040
was drunk and joking and never meant for it to be recorded.
00:46:30.080
Cannon, on the other hand, expressed his true feelings about white people with thorough detail
00:46:37.400
His opinion, as he says himself, is that white people are subhuman animalistic savages
00:46:49.860
Objectively, there is little doubt that Wallin is the lesser offender,
00:46:53.640
also the lesser human by Nick Cannon's way of thinking,
00:46:56.100
and even less doubt that he has endured the more severe professional consequences.
00:46:59.160
He's also the only one between the two of them who apologized.
00:47:04.060
So, talking about privilege as we were earlier, who has the real privilege here?
00:47:09.560
The man who said a bad thing apologized and lost his career anyway,
00:47:13.440
or the man who said a worse thing didn't apologize and got his career back?
00:47:19.360
You cannot say that the first man has all the privilege without removing all meaning from the word privilege.
00:47:24.820
So, is it enough then, in that case, to say that white privilege is a myth,
00:47:37.720
then Candace Owens, not only black but a woman as well,
00:47:41.200
would enjoy all of Nick Cannon's privilege and then some.
00:47:48.240
it's probably more accurate to speak of identity privilege,
00:47:59.940
the pecking order is determined by a complicated and convoluted hierarchy of identities.
00:48:04.200
Nick Cannon can survive and thrive in spite of his insanely racist views,
00:48:16.360
an acolyte of, you know, Thomas Sowell instead of Louis Farrakhan,
00:48:26.180
which affords him power and prestige to begin with,
00:48:29.180
he earns his rank according to his racial and sexual identity.
00:48:38.300
he can say pretty much whatever he wants about race.
00:48:41.000
But he's not at the very top of the intersectional heap.
00:48:47.300
he had labeled, say, gay people or transgenders or women,
00:48:56.440
with all the same speed and vigor that has been directed at Morgan Wallen.
00:49:07.060
which makes him, for all intents and purposes anyway,
00:49:08.900
a conservative, or at least conservative adjacent.
00:49:19.460
And that'll probably be enough to keep him comfortable for a while,
00:49:21.960
but not enough to save his career or his reputation.
00:49:30.180
This is, Nick Cannon shows exactly how privilege works.
00:49:41.740
And this is why the concept of white privilege is canceled.
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