Ep. 685 - Arab Man Commits Massacre. Media Changes Subject To Gun Control
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The media scrambles to change the narrative after the mass killer in Boulder turns out to be an Arab man who killed white people. Also, a U.S. senator announces her intentions to only vote to confirm nominees of a certain race, and a man finds shrimp tails in his box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media scrambles to change the narrative after the mass killer in
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Boulder turns out to be an Arab man who killed white people. Also, five headlines, including
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the U.S. senator who announced her intentions to only vote to confirm nominees of a certain race.
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And a man finds shrimp tails in his box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. What's the lesson we
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can learn from that story? There is a lesson. I'll tell you what it is. Finally, in our daily
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cancellation, we'll deal with the claim made by a Democratic senator and many others that buying a
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gun is somehow easier than voting. Is that true at all? Talk about that and much more today on
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the Matt Walsh Show. When the horrific news first broke about the mass shooting in Boulder,
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Colorado yesterday, which left 10 people at a King Soopers grocery store dead, the media settled on
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the narrative before the victims' bodies had even been put into body bags. This was another bloody
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rampage carried out by a racist white male. Now, I say another because the shooting last week in
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Atlanta, which left eight victims dead, has not been officially categorized as a race-based hate
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crime by law enforcement. But that hasn't stopped the media and the Democrat Party, as we've discussed,
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from insisting that it could be nothing but a race-based hate crime. They arrived at that
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conclusion in spite of the fact that the shooter himself said his motive was sexual rage, not racial
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animus. Now, in the case of Boulder, they arrived at a similar conclusion in spite of the fact that we
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had at that point absolutely no information about the shooter or his motives at all. And they had
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already determined that it must be a white guy. Caleb Hall has compiled a thread of leftists. You
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can go look at his account on Twitter. It's worth looking at. A thread of leftists in media and
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politics who declared the Boulder shooter was a white male. Many, many, many, dozens said this.
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Mina Harris, who's a lawyer and also a niece to Kamala Harris, went so far as to say that white men
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are the greatest terrorist threat to our country. Many prominent members of the left echoed this
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sentiment. And then, of course, the narrative collapsed. Authorities, after taking a suspiciously
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long time to tell us the name of the killer, announced that he is a 21-year-old immigrant from
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Syria. Now, some on the left continued to cling on to the violent white male talking point, announcing
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that Syrians now basically count as white, apparently. Famous race baiter Tariq Nasheed explained that
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Syrians are, quote, legally, politically, and socially white. This, along with being abject nonsense,
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is especially ironic given the fact that these same people are quick to remind us, and recently have
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been especially quick to remind us that Jesus was not white. Well, which is it? Are Middle Eastern men
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white or not? I suppose the answer is that they're brown when they do good things, such as heal the
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sick and redeem mankind, and white when they do bad things, such as murder lots of people. And this is
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critical race theory in a nutshell, of course. The leftists who were willing to acknowledge that they
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were wrong in their initial statements about the shooter's race mostly excuse themselves on the
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basis that white men commit the majority of mass shootings. Tay Anderson, who describes himself in
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his bio as a community organizer and Denver school board director, no surprise there, justified his
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own false assumptions along those lines, writing, quote, yesterday I assumed that the shooter involved
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was a white male. I was wrong. Over the last decade, a majority of these horrendous acts have been white
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men, but I still refuse to give this murder notoriety. Our attention must be on the victims and the
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Boulder community. How magnanimous. How magnanimous and generous of him to say that. The attention
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should be on the victims. He decided that after he found out who the killer was, then he decided,
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you know what, we should talk about the victims instead. Now, by the way, this isn't even necessarily
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true, what he just said about white males committing the majority of mass shootings. The term mass
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shooting is hopelessly vague and intentionally so. It's generally defined according to the political needs
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of whoever is using the term. In their mass shooting database, Mother Jones defines mass shootings as,
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quote, indiscriminate rampages in public places resulting in four or more victims killed.
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Now, look at all the qualifiers on that. Why does it have to be indiscriminate? And what do we mean by
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indiscriminate? And why only in a public place? And why four victims and not five or two or three?
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Why do they all have to die in order for it to count as a mass shooting? If somebody goes in,
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sprays bullets, and hits 15 people and only kills two, that's not a mass shooting?
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Well, apparently not. Not by this definition. So these are all arbitrary guidelines. And according
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to those arbitrary guidelines, indeed, white men are most often the culprits of that kind of mass
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shooting. Though even by those highly selective and random standards, white men don't commit more than
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their representative share of mass shootings when you look at their overall, the overall population
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percentages and so forth. But if we define mass shooting simply as a shooting where more than one
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person is shot, the picture changes dramatically. And if we do the most reasonable and worthwhile thing
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and focus on all homicides rather than giving undue emphasis to one particular and uncommon form of
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homicide, we'll find that the majority of those crimes are committed not by white men, but by black
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men. Would it be okay then for me to make the blanket assumption that every homicide is done by black
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men until I'm given specific information to the contrary? No. If there was just any story about
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someone being murdered, someone's murdered when a liquor store was robbed. If I were to tweet out and
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say, ah, must be a black guy, I'd be called racist for that. Yeah, this is exactly what the left did
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in this case and then justified it, said, yeah, I made a racial assumption. Of course, I'll be told
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that such assumptions in my case are racist, even though the people calling racial assumptions based
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on statistical generalities racist in that case are the same ones who make those kinds of assumptions
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and justify them when it comes to mass shootings or quote unquote mass shootings. Now, this is how the
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double standard works. It's also why the race of the victims in yesterday's shootings has not been
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judged relevant by the media or our political leaders. After the Atlanta shooting, there were
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marches to quote, stop anti-Asian hate. I'm not really sure how a march is going to, I don't know
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exactly what a march against hate is supposed to accomplish, but we had those. There were demands
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for hate crime charges to be filed, media editorials about the whiteness pandemic. Representative Judy
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Chu, we played this clip a couple days ago of California, said on ABC News that she knows in
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her heart and in her mind that the shooting was a hate crime. And she knows that simply because a
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majority of the victims were Asian and the shooter was white. By that standard, if we were allowed to
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apply the same standard, it must be concluded that yesterday's terrible crime was an anti-white hate
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crime. In that case, all 10 victims were white and the perpetrator, despite desperate claims to the
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contrary, was a non-white Arab man. Why should we not be calling for hate crime charges here? Why should
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we not be organizing stop anti-white hate rallies? It's true that we don't know the killer's motive at
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this point, but when has that ever stopped the race baiters? It's only stopped them in this case.
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After gearing up to make this shooting into yet another story about race, they shamelessly pivoted
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as soon as they heard the name of the killer, and now they wish to discuss issues like mental health
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and gun violence instead. It was considered insensitive and even racist to blame mental illness
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for the Atlanta shooting, because that would be to let the killer off the hook. It would be to
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distract from the matter of his alleged racism, we were told. You'll notice that last week CNN
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featured no segments like the discussion this morning, where host Allison Camerata questioned
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why the gun shop owner who sold the boulder shooter his weapon didn't first conduct a psychological
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examination. That was her question. Let's listen to that. Why in case in terms of making change,
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since it seems intractable at the national level, why don't we go to gun shop owners and say,
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do you think that this 21-year-old who comes in and wants an AR-15 style weapon, do you think that
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he looks like he's going hunting with this weapon? Did you ask him, by the way, do you ever think that
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people are chasing you? Do you ever hear voices saying that people are coming for you? Do they ever
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ask questions like that? Because this guy, it sounds like, according to his family, would have answered yes.
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The short answer is, in our society, we don't ask those questions. We don't demand of gun shops that
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they ask those questions. We have a perspective in America that there is a right to buy a weapon
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absent some compelling and obvious circumstances, and gun shops don't ask those questions. And it's
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very, very painful. Now, sane people can identify many legal and logistical problems with such a plan.
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It's also interesting that the left demands greater scrutiny and oversight for an adult who wants to buy a gun
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than a child who wants to get a sex change. But this is all part of the twisted story of modern leftism.
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Double standards, contradictions. They present themselves in rapid succession.
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And we're supposed to just go along with the program. Don't comment on it. Cooperate with the
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ever-shifting narrative. Never stop to question any of it. Let's get now to our five headlines.
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Yeah. By the way, I have gotten your messages, your emails. Many, many people have sent me the
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stories, including the Daily Wire yesterday, about how we're now told that beards make face
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masks less effective. So I've gotten all those. And my, you know, I don't know if people sending
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me this, they're trying to convince me to shave the beard, just more anti-beard bigotry. I'm sure
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that's what it is. But I think, first of all, yes, I already knew that. Of course, every time I put
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here and I'm sure the virus can still navigate its way up because I'm not exactly getting an
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airtight seal here. So I'm plenty aware of that. This is why I've said all along, or at least thought
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all along, that I should get a medical exemption from wearing a mask because I'm bearded. That's
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the way I look at it. Now let's go number one here. So we, as mentioned, of course, the left is
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making this particular shooting a story about gun control. And you did hear, you heard a little bit
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of that last week, but not as much. And the reason is that they wanted to focus on the racial aspect.
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They wanted that to be the main story. And they also didn't want to talk about mental illness
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last week, because that would be, they would think, as I said, that would seem to, if the guy's crazy,
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then it's not really a matter of racism. Or if he is racist, if you're crazy and racist,
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then you can't really be blamed for your racism because you're crazy. They don't really want to
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talk about it then. They didn't want to talk about it this, this week. So Joe Biden announced
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yesterday what he wants to do about gun control. And here's, here's his plan. Let's listen.
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This is the one thing I do know enough to say on is in terms of what's happened there.
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While we're still waiting for more information regarding the shooter, his motive, the weapons he
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used, the guns, the magazines, the weapons, the modifications that apparently have taken place
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to those weapons that are involved here, I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour,
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to take common sense steps that will save the lives in the future and to urge my colleagues
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in the House and Senate to act. We can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines
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in this country once again. I got that done when I was a senator. It passed. It was law for the
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longest time. And it brought down these mass killings. We should do it again. We can close
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the loopholes in our background check system, including the Charleston loophole. That's one of
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the best tools we have right now to prevent gun violence.
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Yeah, a lot of problems there. The first one is, I don't know what an assault weapon is.
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I'm not sure. That's still, no one has quite made clear what you mean by assault weapon. What
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is that supposed to mean? And that's why, in fact, when you hear the statement, when you hear a
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statement that there was a mass shooting committed with an assault weapon, that doesn't really tell
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you anything. That tells you almost nothing about what actually happened in the shooting, what kind
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of weapon was used, how many people died, motive. There's no, really no, there's a basic, an all but
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meaningless statement to say that because those two terms can mean anything. And here's what assault
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weapon means. It means a weapon is an assault weapon. If it is a weapon that Democrats right
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now are trying to ban. Why are they trying to ban it? Because it's an assault weapon. Why are they
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calling it an assault weapon? Because they want to ban it. And so we go around and around in circles
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like that. In reality, though, that term has no objective meaning whatsoever. And that's a real
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problem. Now, in more political news, Senator Duckworth, Senator Tammy Duckworth, I really think
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one of the most vile and repulsive people in the Senate. She's a really bad person and a terrible
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incompetent goon. And she should be expelled from the Senate for, I think, probably several reasons.
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But here's number one. This is the only reason I need to give you. This is a report. This is from
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Chad Pergram is a Fox News reporter. He says, reporting from the pool, Democratic Illinois
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Senator Duckworth talking about the effort to get more diverse nominees out of Joe Biden. She says,
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I'm a no vote on the floor on all non-diversity nominees. You know, this is her talking again. You
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know, I will vote for racial minorities and I will vote for LGBTQ, but anybody else I'm not voting for.
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Okay. That's what we call that. That's called racism. Of course. Now, when you say I want diverse
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nominees, but that's another way of saying, I don't want white people. That's all she's saying. I don't
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want straight white people. That's what I don't want. Of course, in reality, to call someone,
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oh, that's not a diverse person. I want a diverse person. White person. What does that mean? How can
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a person be diverse in and of themselves? Again, a word with no meaning. It just means whatever they
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want it to mean in the given moment. And in this case, it's, it's, it is a very thinly veiled way
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of saying, I don't want to vote for white people. I'm a non-white person. I don't like white people
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and I don't want to vote for them. Flat out racism. And she's free to be a racist,
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bigoted scumbag. All she wants to be, but that should not be acceptable in the Senate. She should
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be expelled from the Senate for that. And the Republicans, if they had any backbone, they'd
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be calling for that right now. We need to have hearings. We need to do whatever we can. She needs
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to be gone. We cannot have people in the Senate who are going to stand up and announce ahead of time
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that they're racist against a certain race. And they're not going to approve of anybody who is
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that race. Obviously we can't. And it goes without saying that if this was a white Republican
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saying, you know, I'm, I'm not interested in a nominee who isn't white. I want to stick with my
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own people. And, uh, if they're not white, I'm not interested in them. And if they're not straight,
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I don't want any gay nominees. So if they're not a white straight person, I don't want them.
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If a Republican were to say that, and of course you can't, you can't imagine a politician saying
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that they never would, but it would be, it would be it nuclear. You cannot even conceive
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of the nuclear meltdown that would happen on the part of the media and the Democrat party.
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And they would not stop until that person was gone. Should be the same damn thing here. It is
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just as bigoted and racist and disgusting. But meanwhile, this same person, she's, she's concerned
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about, um, racial hatred while she exhibits that hatred and encourages it and wants to vote based
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on it. She's, she's, she's concerned about it too. She wants to, she wants to make sure that we get
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rid of, uh, uh, of, of racial hatred, specifically anti-Asian hatred. So here she is talking about the
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effort to, um, get an anti-Asian hate crime bill passed. Here she is. Let's listen.
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The president on Friday endorsed, uh, a bill. I know you are a co-sponsor of, uh, of called the
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COVID-19 hate crimes act. Um, all the co-sponsors are Democrats. Do you have any pledges from Republicans
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We don't at this time. And it's astonishing to me. I mean, the house passed a bill that actually,
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um, can, it was a resolution against hate crimes against Asian Americans tied to COVID. Uh, and
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you know, we have actually Republicans who voted against it and Mitch McConnell at the time,
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because Republicans were in charge, wouldn't even let us vote on it in the Senate. I mean,
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how, where can you be that you would not be willing to vote on a bill that would condemn
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violence against any group of Americans? Well, she's, she's scandalized. How could
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anyone exhibit that kind of bigotry? Except for me, of course, only she's allowed to be
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a bigot. I wish she would just come out and say that I'd almost respect it. I'd respect
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the honesty. At least if she came out and said, listen, I'm, I am a flaming bigot, but, but
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no one else is allowed to. I I'm allowed to be, but nobody else can. Yeah. Let's, let's
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get a, a, a hate crime, an anti-Asian COVID hate crime bill. What? So, okay. So, so it's
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already illegal to commit a hate crime against an Asian person. In fact, it's illegal two
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times over. If you were to assault an Asian person, it's illegal because it's assault and
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then it's a federal hate crime because it's race-based. So it's illegal twice. And now they
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want to make it illegal three times. Let's add another law on top of it. Let's make it
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illegal three times over. And if that's not enough, let's make it, let's pass another
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bill. Let's just, let's just keep passing bills until anytime someone does that, they've
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committed 20 crimes instead of one. You know what? If you, we could get rid of all of this
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nonsense because you really only need to make an act illegal once. It only has to be illegal
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once. But if you're, if you, if you're saying to yourself, oh, well, there's not enough,
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uh, it's still not dissuading people, you know, there's people are still doing it. Uh,
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this is a, this is a more serious crime. Okay. Well then if you want to make the penalties
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harsher, I'm all about that. Not just for anti-Asian assault, but if you want to make the penalty
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harsher for assault, for example, someone who goes up and assaults a random innocent, um,
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pedestrian walking down the street or whatever it is. And we've seen, we see cases like that all
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over the place. Asians being targeted, white people being targeted, black people. Um, if,
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if you, if you're saying that those crimes are not, um, treated harshly enough by the justice system,
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I agree with you. I think the person that does something like that should go to jail for,
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put them in jail for 30 years for all I care. There was that case in Baltimore, which we,
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we haven't heard anything about. I don't know if there's been any update on it, but there was a
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case of the, um, we had the video that we played months ago of white guy walking down the street.
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Uh, someone runs up, black guy runs up behind him with a, with a brick and bashes him over the head,
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runs away. We have, we heard almost nothing about that when it happened. We've heard
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no update on that case, but if they found that guy, or if they do find him, how much jail time
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is he going to get? I mean, a couple of years at most, I'd say, put that guy, put that scumbag
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in jail for 50 years, put him in jail for the rest of his life. I mean, that is someone we don't need
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in society. Like we don't need you. If you're doing something like that, we don't need you.
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You're gone. One strike, you're out. I never want to see outside of a prison cell ever again.
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I'm fine with that. Whoever the victim is, white, black, Asian doesn't matter.
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Um, but that's not what they want though. You know, cause, and they don't care about the white
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guy getting bashed with a brick. They don't, they give a damn about that. This is all just
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political posturing because when it comes down to it, these people, this is not the tough on crime
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party. If they were, I'd be right along with them. So you want to get tough on crime? You want to put
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these violent dirt bags in jail for a long, I'm with you. Let's do it. All right. Number two,
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there's, um, in unintentionally horrifying article in the Brown daily Herald, which is Brown
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university's new newspaper about the, um, and this is about their new online system for reporting
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sexual harassment and assault online anonymous. What could go wrong? The article says the title
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nine office introduced a new method of reporting incidents of sexual harassment, sexual violence,
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or gender-based discrimination on its website. The online sexual violence and gender harassment
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incident reporting form aims to provide an easy mechanism to report incidents. Um, this according
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to the title nine program officer, Renee Davis, the form allows students to report descriptions of
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incidents, concerns, and involved persons, such as alleged aggressors, harmed individuals and
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witnesses, as well as the desired response from the title nine office. Students can also opt to make
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their reports anonymous. So you can, you can implicate somebody in a crime. Uh, you can tell the
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school what punishment you want for that alleged perpetrator. And you could do all this anonymously
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so that the person being accused doesn't even know who's accusing them has no right supposed to
00:24:31.780
have the right to face your accuser in court. None of that out the window. That's at Brown university
00:24:42.240
And then, and then the second part of that is that the person accused of course goes into the kangaroo
00:24:50.140
court, the, the, the rape tribunal or whatever, and is summarily punished. No evidence. I mean, think
00:24:57.620
about that. Not if you're, if you're a man being, and this is all, it's all going to mostly be men
00:25:03.080
accused anyway, as we know. And that's the point here, but you're being accused of something. No
00:25:10.520
evidence is brought to bear and you don't even know who's accusing you and you get kicked out of
00:25:16.860
school, labeled a rapist for the rest of your life. Yet another reason to be very careful about sending
00:25:25.060
your kids off to college, especially your sons. Let's see. This is a story that gets more and more
00:25:32.400
bizarre. Okay. A guy says that he found shrimp tails in his cinnamon toast crunch. Now, and I was
00:25:42.520
reading this story that every, every sentence it gets, it gets weirder and weirder. So I guess he had
00:25:48.480
already, he, he ate a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch and then he was pouring more because he was going
00:25:55.560
to eat another bowl and the shrimp tails fell out of the box. And this guy, first of all, is apparently
00:26:03.560
the husband of the woman who played Topanga on Boy Meets World, because why not? And also his other
00:26:09.960
box of cereal evidently had dental floss in it. And there was a hole in the, in the bag and then it
00:26:17.320
was taped over and there was dental floss in it, which really whoever did this, I mean, I feel bad
00:26:23.200
for this guy. Believe me, I would, I would be traumatized for the rest of my life, but it's kind
00:26:29.000
of brilliant in an evil way. Cause if you could think of like, what are the two worst things you
00:26:35.000
could find in a box of cinnamon toast crunch? That's probably it. Shrimp and dental floss. It's
00:26:40.720
hard to think of something worse than that. And then he contacted the company and originally the
00:26:46.640
cinnamon toast, I guess it's Kellogg's. I don't know. Well, I don't want to implicate
00:26:50.420
them. Whoever makes cinnamon toast crunch, they originally, they said that the shrimp
00:26:55.100
tails only looked like shrimp tails. So this was a little bit of like spilled milk situation
00:26:59.040
where it can look however you want. They said, no, it's not a shrimp tail. It is a, it is clumps
00:27:03.120
of cinnamon that is congealed together and taken the form of a shrimp, which, which, you
00:27:09.620
know, if I was a cinnamon toast crunch customer, I wouldn't feel a lot better about
00:27:13.540
that, that the cinnamon can do that. I, it wouldn't make me feel much better, but then
00:27:20.540
he says, no, it's really shrimp. And, uh, apparently now they're backpedaling and they're trying
00:27:24.020
to figure out what it was. I mean, in fairness to them, this could have been, if it's not
00:27:28.660
all a hoax, this could have been something that happened in the grocery store. That would
00:27:31.700
be my first guess that someone in the grocery store did this. I don't know, but here's the
00:27:38.440
lesson for, I said, there's a lesson we can learn from this. And here's the lesson.
00:27:40.860
This is what you get, um, for being an adult who eats cinnamon toast crunch. That is a children's
00:27:50.660
cereal. Like if you're over the age of say 15, you shouldn't be eating it in the first
00:27:57.060
place. So yes, this is me victim blaming. You get what you deserve. That, that, that's
00:28:03.860
the lesson there. Really as an adult, you shouldn't be eating cereal at all. It's arguable
00:28:11.280
whether adults should be eating breakfast, frankly. Um, but certainly not cinnamon toast
00:28:16.840
crunch. If you got, if you're going with, with, with breakfast cereal, if you got to
00:28:21.480
do that as an adult, you got to go bland. This is what adults do. Shredded wheat, raisin
00:28:27.420
bran. Okay. That's what we eat as adults. It's penance for our sins. Uh, finally, I have
00:28:35.040
to do this. You know, I, I, I have no choice, but to do this. I don't want to do it. I have
00:28:39.500
to do it. We have another video of some middle-aged liberal woman on Tik TOK singing a song that
00:28:47.160
she made up. Um, this one about the stimulus package. And every time I play this stuff on
00:28:54.260
the show, people get mad at me and I want you to know, I have no choice. You know,
00:28:58.940
I feel that it's my obligation, or at least if I have suffered through this, then I feel
00:29:05.140
as though for your own good, you should as well. I hope that makes it better, but here's
00:29:10.460
the song. Listen, look at this stuff. Isn't it neat? Competent leaders getting us back on
00:29:18.560
our feet. The American rescue plan. It has almost everything. A year into this mess, recovery
00:29:30.040
unfolds. How many wonders can one rescue plan? This is Little Mermaid, I think, right? Reading
00:29:35.980
it over, you'd think. Really? If I know my Disney films. No Republicans voted for this thing.
00:29:42.340
It's got direct relief to American families. It's got a path to reopen our schools. Cost of
00:29:51.000
childcare? Tax credits, baby. It's like they care. It's a big deal. Mental illness is a serious
00:30:01.060
problem. Imagine the neighbors looking out their window and seeing this happening.
00:30:10.900
I want to go, want to go out dancing, having convos with those. What are they called again?
00:30:18.780
Oh yeah, friends. Okay. Turn this off. Turn this off. Turn it off. Who put this on? Oh my gosh.
00:30:30.560
And who, there's someone behind the camera. Who is behind, who is doing this to this poor disturbed
00:30:37.940
woman? Like someone in that family. I don't know if it's the husband or a child. It's probably one of
00:30:45.140
the kids. You know, whoever it is. Your mother comes to you and says, listen, I wrote this song
00:30:52.200
about the stimulus package. It's kind of, it's based on a Little Mermaid song. I wanted to perform it
00:30:57.300
and then put it online. Will you, will you film? If you love your mother, there's no way you say yes
00:31:03.340
to that. No, you, you go, you, you take her to therapy. You take her to counseling. You say, mom,
00:31:10.520
listen, I know it's been a tough time. There are people who can help you. Let's get in the car.
00:31:13.520
Let's go talk to some people. Okay. It's going to be fine. We don't need to do this.
00:31:18.860
That's who I'm angry with. I mean, I am angry at the family members who allow these women to do this.
00:31:28.020
If you have a middle-aged woman in your, in, in your family, this is what, and she wants to,
00:31:32.800
to make a TikTok video with a song she made up under no certain, maybe pretend you're filming.
00:31:38.400
If she really insists, take out the phone and say, okay, mom, go ahead. Wow. This is a great song.
00:31:44.440
Yeah. I'll post this online. Oh my goodness. All right. Uh, let's, uh, let's move on to reading
00:31:51.700
the YouTube comments. This is from Bobby backs. He says, I switched from Gillette to Harry's
00:31:57.740
because of their wokeness. Now I guess I have to grow a beard. Yeah. Well that's that. See,
00:32:01.480
that's it. Gillette, Gillette went woke. Harry's went woke. All of the razor blade companies are
00:32:07.200
going woke and that's all the more reason, all the more incentive. You grow a beard. You don't have to
00:32:12.100
worry about this anymore. Uh, another comment says when I was three, I would go into my mom's
00:32:16.460
closet and put on her high heels because I thought they were funny. I'm glad I wasn't
00:32:20.960
manipulated into thinking that my, that that's my real identity forced to cross-dress and eventually
00:32:25.600
injected with puberty blockers. Yeah. I hear this all the time from, from adults, at least the
00:32:32.060
reasonable ones, the rational, insane ones saying, man, I can't all, all of the crazy stuff that I said
00:32:37.740
when I was a kid, all the things I pretended that I was, all the claims I made when I was a child.
00:32:43.820
I'm so glad my parents weren't insane enough to take that seriously.
00:32:49.240
Um, another comment says, dude, your whole rant about trans kids is so correct. Kids don't know
00:32:54.560
what they mean because they have a limited vocabulary and don't know which words to use when they express
00:32:58.680
how they feel about things because they don't understand their emotions yet. That's the most true
00:33:03.060
statement I've ever heard. And it's honestly a statement that should go without saying, yeah,
00:33:07.340
it should, uh, it should, if you, if you understand, this is not on my part, some sort of deep insight
00:33:12.540
into child psychology. This is basic, basic level insight into child psychology that you don't even
00:33:17.780
need to be a parent to have this insight because you were a kid yourself at one time. And if you can
00:33:22.100
remember, if you can remember back to that at all, you know, you can remember being a child who
00:33:28.080
believed all kinds of crazy things as a kid. Um, Mike Dutton says, I'm a terrible person. Can't
00:33:39.320
stop laughing at the term fat community. Yes, I'm fat, but that doesn't make you a terrible person.
00:33:45.600
That makes you a normal person because the term fat community is absurd. This is one. This is a,
00:33:52.000
another thing you notice is how this word talk about words that, that, um, are vague and meaningless.
00:33:58.640
Now community is another one. Everything is a community. Now a fat community. Well, what exactly
00:34:05.560
is the, the only thing, if you're, if you're overweight, if you're obese, um, the only thing
00:34:10.720
that you necessarily have in common with the other members of the obese community is that you all
00:34:16.440
eat too much, uh, relative to the amount of calories you burn. That's how you lose weight.
00:34:24.240
Now, look, I understand there are conditions, there are disabilities people can have and all that, but
00:34:29.180
vast majority of cases, if you're gaining weight, it's not complicated. It's not a mystery.
00:34:37.920
You're gaining weight because you're eating more than you're burning.
00:34:41.080
That's it. In fact, I, I just read a, there was a survey done and I, I, I find this hard to believe
00:34:50.200
that, but the survey claimed that, um, the majority of Americans gained weight during the, uh, during the,
00:34:56.660
the COVID lockdowns. Now that part is easy to believe, but then they claim that, you know,
00:35:00.960
the average weight gain was like, I think it was like 20 pounds or more than that. Uh, that seems a
00:35:06.580
little bit hard to believe, but the point is people are gaining weight. That's totally believable
00:35:09.980
during the lockdowns. Why are they gaining weight? Did everyone develop a thyroid condition?
00:35:15.440
No, it's because they weren't moving around as much and they were eating more and you gain weight.
00:35:23.480
Does that make you a part of a community, a community of, of like-minded people? No,
00:35:29.940
just, you all share the same vice. And by the way, it's a vice that we all share to some degree or
00:35:35.000
another. I mean, we all commit the, uh, sin of eating too much, at least sometimes.
00:35:39.980
Um, and finally, Walsh is probably my favorite daily wire commentator guy rivaled only by Knowles.
00:35:47.200
Shame. He doesn't even have his own Wikipedia page. That's true. I don't. And I've complained
00:35:52.100
about that before. I should probably complain about it more because it's a serious problem
00:35:56.100
in my life. And I think for, for, I think you would agree in your own as well.
00:35:59.120
This is how, this is some of the persecution I suffer.
00:36:04.580
That I've been giving my opinion online for years and I still don't want a Wikipedia page.
00:36:09.940
No one tell me I'm privileged. Okay. I don't even have a Wikipedia page.
00:36:16.680
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here, now let's get to our daily cancellation. You know, one of, one of the favorite strategies
00:38:44.460
of the gun grabber is to compare the alleged ease of purchasing a firearm to the alleged
00:38:49.920
difficulty of performing some random other task. Often you'll hear it formulated this way. They'll
00:38:55.300
say in America, it's easier to do X than it is to vote. We really have our priorities screwed up.
00:39:00.820
President Obama was famously fond of this particular Mad Lib. On more than one occasion,
00:39:05.540
he filled in the blank with book, claiming that it's harder somehow to obtain a book than to obtain
00:39:10.880
a shotgun. This may be true if the book you're trying to obtain is one that the left has already
00:39:16.580
banned or burned. But as long as you're not trying to buy some forbidden text like Dr. Seuss's
00:39:22.660
McElligott's Pool, it's quite easy to buy books. You can even get them for free at the library. I mean,
00:39:28.780
in most cases, kids as young as six can obtain a library card. Check out all the books they want.
00:39:32.800
No questions asked. As I said, there are many versions of this buying a gun is easier than
00:39:38.400
such and such formulation. Yesterday, Senator Alex Padilla of California was one of several
00:39:42.780
Democrats to put a familiar spin on this old yarn. Echoing a Washington Post editorial published a
00:39:48.240
few days ago, he claimed that buying a gun is easier than voting. Let's listen.
00:39:54.780
You know, for most states, the age required to legally purchase a rifle.
00:39:59.500
And the age required to cast a ballot are both 18. However, there's some shocking disparities in
00:40:09.400
legal state requirements for obtaining a weapon versus casting a ballot. In 25 states, voters must
00:40:19.420
be registered and have specific forms of ID in order to cast a ballot. But those same states allow people
00:40:26.720
to buy rifles without permits and require no background checks for some sales. Additionally,
00:40:34.320
in a majority of states, new voters are able to obtain a rifle quicker than they're able to cast their
00:40:42.640
first ballot. It seems to me that we have our priorities entirely backwards when it comes
00:40:48.640
to this. When we make it easier to buy a gun than we do to cast a ballot.
00:40:56.960
Priorities are way out of whack according to this thing I just made up. We should note that PolitiFact
00:41:02.800
has previously fact-checked this claim and determined that it's true. They said it's true. But if you're
00:41:08.640
not convinced of the truth of a claim simply because a website with fact in its name says that it's true,
00:41:13.080
it may be necessary to take a closer look. And you don't need to look very long or hard to discover
00:41:18.760
that what we're dealing with here is anything but a fact. It is rather a gross and absurd
00:41:23.000
fabrication and one that quickly evaporates on closer inspection. First, let's consider the process
00:41:29.000
of voting. Okay. All right. If you want to vote and you're a legal adult, the only thing standing
00:41:35.460
between you and the ballot box is the requirement that you register ahead of time, which you can even do
00:41:40.540
on the same day that you cast the ballot in many states. You can also accomplish this task online.
00:41:45.500
Requires no money. No additional hoops must be jumped through or obstacles navigated. You must
00:41:51.200
only provide proof that you're a resident of the state in which you'll be voting. And that'll be the
00:41:56.060
end of it. As for voting itself, you can do it through the mail from the comfort of your own home.
00:42:00.620
You can do it early. You can do it on election day. There's nothing difficult or confusing about
00:42:05.160
voting. Any legal adult, providing they're not a convicted felon, though even that's not going to
00:42:09.180
permanently rule you out in most states, can vote. There's quite literally nothing standing in your
00:42:15.260
way when you want to vote. It's free. It's easy. The only prerequisite is that you might have to
00:42:22.580
provide minimal proof that you're voting in the right state. Voting is so easy that 155 million people
00:42:29.900
successfully completed the task in 2020. It could be said without exaggeration that literally every
00:42:36.940
single person who wanted to do it and was eligible to do it did it. How can a thing be any easier than
00:42:45.060
that? What about purchasing a firearm? Well, the first thing that purchasing a firearm requires is
00:42:51.340
money. That alone makes obtaining a firearm more difficult than voting. We could end our comparison
00:42:57.940
right there. One is free. One is not. One is a free activity that any legal adult can engage in.
00:43:03.240
The other is an activity that requires money. End of discussion right there.
00:43:07.980
But the differences extend far beyond that. There are a great many laws governing who can buy a firearm,
00:43:14.100
what kind of firearm they can buy, where they can buy it, where they can carry it, what they can do
00:43:19.660
with it, when and where they can do the things they can do with it, etc. It's true that it's generally
00:43:24.920
easier to purchase some guns than others. So the laws aren't the same for every gun, but that's the
00:43:30.880
point. The prospective gun owner must first navigate the red tape and research the laws to
00:43:35.480
figure out which gun he can buy and how he's supposed to buy it. No such process is necessary
00:43:41.720
for voting. Many states require waiting periods before buying a gun. Some states require waiting
00:43:47.260
periods for all guns. You can buy some guns online, but the guns that you do buy online have to be shipped
00:43:53.220
to a licensed dealer. No sort of equivalent red tape exists for voting online. Again, there really is not
00:43:58.980
red tape at all for voting except the most basic and easily navigated requirements. Anyone can do it.
00:44:07.180
If you fulfill those really basic requirements, you can do it. This is not the case for buying a gun.
00:44:15.200
You can also lose your right to a gun much easier than you can lose your right to vote. Federal law
00:44:20.900
prohibits felons from obtaining firearms. No such federal law excludes felons from voting.
00:44:25.160
You can even lose your rights for being dishonorably discharged from the military for a host of other
00:44:31.360
reasons. There's no comparison here. Voting is simple. It's free. It's easy. Buying a gun is expensive
00:44:41.220
and complicated and may even be impossible depending on who you are and what gun you want to buy and where
00:44:46.360
you live. Voting is much easier than buying a gun. Much easier. But, and this is where I might lose
00:44:55.120
you, it shouldn't be. See, I wish the Democratic fable was true. I hear them say stuff like this and I
00:45:03.740
think, man, if only. I wish the situation was reversed. I wish they were telling the truth.
00:45:10.140
Gun ownership is, after all, a more important and more essential right than voting.
00:45:16.540
More people should own a gun than vote. And it should be easier to do. Voting is not really a
00:45:22.660
human right at all. You want to know the truth? It's not a human right. It is a privilege granted
00:45:27.700
to us and a privilege that should be reserved for those who are the most qualified to do it.
00:45:31.960
That's voting. The ability to defend yourself and your family is fundamental. It has to be fundamental.
00:45:37.760
If you can't preserve your own life, then you can't do anything else. Certainly, you can't vote.
00:45:44.660
Well, I mean, in some cases, maybe you still can vote even if you don't preserve your own life.
00:45:50.600
We all have the God-given right to ensure our own safety and that of our loved ones.
00:45:56.420
But determining the political course of the nation is something different.
00:45:59.660
It's not fundamental and it should not be opened up to any warm body or even cold body in some cases.
00:46:07.280
There ought to be tests. There ought to be requirements for voting that rule out millions
00:46:12.240
of current voters who are not equipped to take part in the process and have no business involving
00:46:16.440
themselves in it. That's the way it should be. But that's not the way it is.
00:46:22.640
So even though I wish that this fable was true, this fantasy land that the Democrats have
00:46:31.300
concocted in their heads, I wish it, this is the one time where I wish it was actually a reality,
00:46:37.980
but it's not. Not even close. Not remotely close.
00:46:41.840
And so, for that reason, they, of course, are all, once again, canceled.
00:46:48.260
And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
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