Ep. 690 - Sacrificing A Goat For Racial Justice
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As the Derek Chauvin trial continues, we ll try to sort through all of the issues related to George Floyd s death. Was he actually murdered? Did it have anything to do with race? And, does he deserve to be memorialized and celebrated nationwide?
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, as the Derek Chauvin trial continues, we'll try to sort through all of the issues related to George Floyd's death.
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Was he actually murdered? Did it have anything to do with race? And however he died, does he deserve to be memorialized and celebrated nationwide?
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These are three separate questions that all need to be dealt with separately.
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Also, five headlines, including another vicious anti-Asian assault that's being blamed on white supremacy, even though it wasn't carried out by a white person.
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Small technicality there. Plus, YouTube makes a move to protect the feelings of YouTube creators like myself.
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And I really appreciate that because my feelings are fragile. And AOC says you're racist if you use the term border surge.
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All of that, plus our daily cancellation and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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Centuries from now, as archaeologists of the future sift through the rubble of our collapsed civilization,
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I wonder what they'll think when they uncover all the statues, memorials, murals to an ancient historical figure named George Floyd.
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If they're very perceptive, they may even note that hundreds of monuments to other figures were torn down around the time that Floyd's monuments went up,
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sometimes the latter directly replacing the former.
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They'll conclude, I imagine, that Floyd was some kind of history-shaping leader, pioneer, hero.
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They'll think he was a great man, perhaps one of the greatest men to ever live.
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This assumption will be understandable, given the evidence, yet totally wrong.
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George Floyd, we know, was not a great man, or a good man, or even a passively decent man.
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He was a violent felon and a drug addict, celebrated as a martyr, based entirely on the manner of his death,
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which, whatever else you might think about it, was not exactly heroic itself.
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The conversation around this man, especially now that the trial of the cop charge and his death has begun,
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There are really three separate conversations that have, since last May, been blended together as one.
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There's the conversation about the manner of Floyd's death.
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And the conversation about Floyd's race and how it related to his death.
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And the conversation about Floyd's posthumous elevation to the status of folk hero.
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Whether he was murdered or not, whether it was racially motivated or not,
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is it good for us to celebrate this man and plaster his face all over our cities in his memory?
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For the media and the left, this is all one discussion with only one acceptable point of view.
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And yes, he should be mourned and honored by all people everywhere through all time.
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To them, the final two propositions flow automatically from the first.
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If you ask them, you know, why we should honor George Floyd, they'll say, well, because he was murdered by a police officer.
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If you ask them how they know he was the victim of racism, they'll say, well, it's because he was murdered by a police officer.
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If you ask them how they know he was murdered by a police officer, they'll just spit in your face and refuse to dignify the question with an answer.
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This is why you cannot criticize the hero worship of George Floyd without being accused of defending the officer who allegedly killed him.
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They don't see a distinction between his death and the hero worship.
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You're required to believe that Floyd was murdered and that it was because of racism and that he deserves to be honored in death in the way that we honor civil rights pioneers and war heroes.
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To stray from that narrative on any one of those points is to reject them all.
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Now, of course, in reality, you might really reject them all and there's nothing wrong with that.
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But the point is that one need not reject them all in order to reject one.
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These are, again, different conversations, different points of contention, different things entirely.
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As to my own view, I think it is going to be very difficult to prove that George Floyd was murdered,
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given the fact that he had chosen to put lethal doses of a dangerous narcotic into his system before he died.
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Floyd, if he had not taken those drugs and then resisted arrest, resisted, we should note, repeatedly and frantically over the course of several minutes, he would most likely be alive today.
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Floyd was also complaining that he couldn't breathe before he was on the ground and restrained.
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The prosecution will have to prove not only that Chauvin's actions were negligently homicidal, but that Floyd died from those actions and not from the drugs.
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Now, I tend to hold the increasingly controversial view that murder cases should be decided in court and that both sides should be heard from before a verdict is decided.
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As to the other questions, these are much clearer to me.
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No, George Floyd's death had nothing to do with racism.
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There is simply no evidence, not even the hint of evidence, that Derek Chauvin was motivated by any racial animus at all.
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There is no evidence, not even the hint of evidence, that Chauvin would have acted differently had Floyd been white instead of black.
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There's also no evidence that police are more likely to kill an unarmed black suspect.
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More unarmed white suspects are killed each year by police.
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And when you examine the statistical likelihood that the arrest, that's what you have to look, that's how you have to look at this.
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The likelihood that the arrest of an unarmed black suspect will turn fatal versus the statistical likelihood that the arrest of a white suspect will turn fatal,
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you're going to find that they are almost exactly the same.
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Also, you'll find that the category of unarmed suspect is misleading in the extreme,
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as much of the time the unarmed person, quote-unquote, was nonetheless in the process of trying to kill the police officer through some other means.
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Sometimes by trying to take the officer's gun and use it against him.
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The racial element of the George Floyd saga is a fabrication.
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It is not based on anything other than the left's blanket assumptions, which they apply to all police killings indiscriminately.
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If a black man is killed by the cops, no matter the circumstance, it was because of racism.
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Ten years ago, I may have been exaggerating had I summarized their position that way, but not anymore.
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Finally, should we be celebrating George Floyd?
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Whether you believe he was the victim of murder or manslaughter or his own choices or some combination of these,
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the fact remains that it's a disgrace and embarrassment to our country to have this man's face and likeness plastered everywhere.
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It is gross to give a man like this an elaborate funeral, a golden casket visited by weeping dignitaries from across the country.
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Remember the mayor of Minneapolis breaking down in tears?
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He can't contain himself, breaking down in tears.
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As if he was at the casket of his own child or something, the way that he was reacting.
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It's insane to spend a year mourning his death while thousands of other people have died in the meantime,
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and the vast majority of them were far more deserving of our tears than Floyd.
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because the manner of his death does not change the fact that this was a man who preyed on members of his own community.
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He was a violent man, a career criminal, a predator.
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Who should be alive today simply because he never should have been allowed out of prison after he invaded a woman's home,
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Another man in Floyd's group pistol whipped her in the process.
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Not just breaking into someone's house. No, no, no.
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This wasn't a youthful mistake, but an act of barbaric cruelty committed by a then 33-year-old Harding criminal.
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And after serving an absurdly short sentence for that crime, I think he served maybe six or seven years or less,
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Now, the media tells us he cleaned up his act at that point,
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but it's odd that a reformed man with a cleaned up act would be high on fatal levels of fentanyl
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while attempting to scam a local store clerk with counterfeit bills.
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You know, that to me doesn't sound like reformation.
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Does any of this matter in assessing the facts surrounding his death?
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It does, however, matter in deciding whether Floyd should be canonized.
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We're not picking a dead man's life apart for no reason.
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Normally, this is not a conversation that I would want to have.
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I don't relish the opportunity to point out the sins of the dead.
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I'm not going to find any random person, their obituary in the newspaper,
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and start examining and pointing out all the bad things they did.
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But when you paint giant murals of him and rename streets after him,
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then it becomes necessary to think about the kind of message that might send.
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Now, the irony here is that the left certainly agrees with this in principle
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because they're the ones who've torn down hundreds of statues of dead men
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do we want our children to grow up in a world where a violent felon
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who victimized women and stole from and robbed his neighbors is celebrated
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I want my kids to aim a little higher in life than that.
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You know, we're experiencing kind of a contentious moment in our household,
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which I share with you because why wouldn't I just share it with a bunch of strangers?
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You know, I went into my daughter's room this morning before I left for work to say bye to her.
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And she told me that she had lost a tooth the night before.
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And she didn't tell us that she had lost a tooth because she was running a test.
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She was running a test because she wanted to see, like, yeah, the tooth fairy comes allegedly.
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But if I don't tell mommy and daddy that I lost a tooth, will the tooth fairy still come?
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Because the tooth fairy should still come if the tooth fairy exists, even if mommy and daddy don't know about it.
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And so she told me that night, you know, I'm kind of like scrambling and I'm like, well, yeah, well, we communicate with the tooth fairy or something.
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And of course, the whole time I'm thinking in my head, like, what?
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If I could go back and redo one thing as a parent, go back to the beginning, it would probably be this.
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I think I might not introduce tooth fairy, Santa, Easter bunny, all that.
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And the problem is, or maybe you pick one, like just do Santa, not the others.
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And the tooth fairy is a lot more frivolous than Santa and it feels not as important.
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And also somehow even weirder and crazier and harder for kids to believe.
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Like they're going to figure out tooth fairy before they figure out Santa.
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She's like, oh, we can't tell her about tooth fairy because then Santa goes and I want to get another Christmas out of that.
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And then you're just lying to your kid's face about it.
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It says a racist attacker brutally beat an Asian woman who was walking to her church in Midtown on Monday morning.
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The woman walking, she's walking down the street and then the guy comes up, kicks her.
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And then probably the most disturbing thing you see in the video, you see at the very end, there are two guys standing there watching all this happen.
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I mean, literally insult to injury, the guy starts shutting the door.
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And leaving this woman, this was a 65 year old woman bleeding on the sidewalk.
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Now, for the New York Post report here, the guy yelled at the woman, F you, you don't belong here.
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So this was, it would seem really clearly, an anti-Asian hate crime.
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And from what I read, the hotel staff also have been put on leave for just standing by and watching.
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And I, you know, and I'm not going to make any excuses for them at all, because when you watch something like this happening, your duty is to step in.
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I don't want to hear any, yeah, this is a, this guy that was doing this, a big guy, you know, you might think, I don't know if I can take it.
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It was one of those times, even if you get yourself hurt in the process, you have to step in.
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It's your responsibility as a man, as another human.
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But we also have created a situation as a society where we discourage people.
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Now, after the fact, yeah, we blame people who don't step in.
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And again, we should, we should blame them for, because they should, because they ought to step in.
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But we've also created a situation where we're discouraging people from stepping in, because, you know, the hotel staff might start thinking, well, you know, if I step in, am I going to get sued?
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There are plenty of cases of employees in different establishments, retail stores, trying to stop someone from stealing.
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And they're running through all that in their head.
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Still, you got to do the right thing, even in spite of that.
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But we haven't exactly created a situation as a society where people really are encouraged to do the right thing in these situations.
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Anyway, the attacker's name is Brandon Elliott.
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He is, he's out walking the streets, or he was walking the streets, because he was off on parole after killing his mother in 2002.
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He would have been in his early 20s when he did this.
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Now, that is a sentence that just should not ever need to be written.
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That is not a sentence that should ever be published, because that's not a thing that should ever happen.
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There is no situation where anyone should ever see the outside of a prison after killing their own parents.
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No, what we should be reading about with Brandon Elliott is we should be reading, you know, the state carried out an execution of Brandon Elliott.
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Like, that should be the headline of Brandon Elliott.
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Rather than, I know the prison reform that we got from Donald Trump, supposedly the law and order candidate, the law and order president, right?
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The prison reform we got from him was about letting people out of prison, and it made Kim Kardashian really happy.
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But that's not the kind of prison reform that's going to stop things like this from happening.
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That's not the kind of prison reform that's going to make our community safer.
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The kind of prison reform we need is where you do something like murder your mother or murder anybody.
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That is a one, not, we don't get three strikes, not ten.
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If not, at a minimum, you're in prison forever.
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You do something like what he just did, brutally assault someone randomly for no reason when they're walking down the street, in prison forever.
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When you do that, there are things that you can do as a person where you are announcing to society that you have no interest in being a part of it.
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You don't want to be a part of civilized society.
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And so we have no choice if we want to protect the innocent.
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We have no choice but to say, okay, you want to be treated like an animal?
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Now you're going to be in a cage for the rest of your life.
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If we're not forced to put you down like a dog.
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Then he just starts attacking random elderly people.
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What does Brandon Elliott have to do to get the message across?
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You spend 17, 18 years hanging out with other violent sociopaths.
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You're probably not going to be less dangerous now than you were when you went in.
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If you are really reformed, the way I see it, if you do something like that, and then
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you go to the parole board and you ask to be let out of prison, that to me is an indication
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Because if you were reformed, actual reformation would be, yeah, I've realized the error in
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my ways, and I realize that I deserve to be here.
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The fact that you think you deserve to get out of jail after doing something like that
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That you are still the violent sociopath you were 17 years ago.
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But even so, even after that attack, we're still told that now Brandon Elliott is a black
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Even so, this is still white supremacy, of course, as you might expect.
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Eugene Gu, Dr. Eugene Gu, is a prominent leftist crackpot on social media.
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He's got a big following and half a million followers.
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In fact, he sent out a tweet that said, it was after this story broke, he said, black
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on Asian crimes only occur because of our system of white supremacy that strips African
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Americans of their economic opportunities while taking respect and dignity away from
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Also, white people in power are experts at dividing and conquering to stay in power.
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That's why Brandon Elliott stomped an elderly Asian woman half to death.
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It's because he didn't have economic opportunities.
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That's also why he killed his mother, because of white supremacy.
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That is, this logic is not only insane and twisted, but it also strikes me as incredibly
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racist that you're taking agency away from black Americans.
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What he's saying here pretty clearly is he couldn't help himself.
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The not racist approach is to say, I don't care if you're white, black, or I don't care
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Number two, on the subject of white supremacy, that's a subject every day, of course.
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Even though there are about 12 white supremacists in the country, but this is what we have to
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worry about is white supremacy is the major problem.
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So AOC had some thoughts about the surge at the border, which we're not supposed to call
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it that, but she had some thoughts on it, which she shared on Instagram, and here it
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Anyone who's using the term surge around you consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic
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frame, and that's a problem because this is not a surge.
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These are children, and they are not insurgents, and we are not being invaded, which, by the way,
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is a white supremacist idea, philosophy, the idea that if an other is coming in the population,
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Because white people invented that, that people who are on the outside of your group, your
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tribe, are an other, and when they come, they're invading.
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Isn't that what we hear for the Native American groups all the time?
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Don't we always hear about the European invasion of the Americas?
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It's white supremacists to say that about white people.
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Well, but of course, in that case, it's not, because we know that the term white supremacist,
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you, I still hear somehow normal, sane, rational people, even conservatives using the term white
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supremacy, you know, as if it still means something.
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You got to just stop using that word, you know, because you're, you're, you're, you're accepting
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The word now, it doesn't mean anything anymore.
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White supremacy now is whatever they don't like is white supremacy.
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They have, they have stripped it of, of any other meaning.
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By the way, surge, she says it's, you're, uh, you're consciously.
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If you use the word surge consciously, as opposed to what using it unconsciously, but if you
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use it consciously, then you're, uh, it's a militaristic white supremacist framework.
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She says, well, the, the definition of according to the dictionary definition of surge is a sudden
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powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force, such as the
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waves are tied, uh, a crowd or a natural force moving suddenly and powerfully forward or upward.
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So it's when a, when you've got a crowd of people who are suddenly moving in a certain
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You got a crowd of people moving in a certain direction.
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So like, let's say for example, a crowd of illegal immigrants moving up North.
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Number three, this is from a tube filter, which is apparently a website.
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It says in a, what would mark a major change to the way in which viewers can engage with
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If permanently implemented, the platform is testing a new display whereby video dislike counts
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YouTube announced on Twitter that the experiment is being conducted among a small group of users
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and was conceived quote in response to creator feedback around wellbeing.
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While dislikes won't be publicly displayed or participate, uh, for participants in the
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test, creators will still be able to see the exact number of likes and dislikes on their
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Um, in a help forum post, YouTube clarified that there is no way to opt out of the experiment,
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It says the move is impermanent and that's keeping a close eye on feedback.
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So, uh, what they're saying is that, you know, when, when you're, when you're making YouTube
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videos, like much like I do and you get a bunch of dislikes, it's, it is, it is, uh, damaging
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to your wellbeing, to your psychological and emotional wellbeing.
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At first I saw this and I thought that this is ridiculous, but then I realized, Hey, I'm
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a YouTube creator and it hurts my feelings when I get dislikes.
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I spent all my time putting this, these videos out there and for you to not like it, you're
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I think it should be really, instead of getting rid of the dislike button, it should be a like
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So you get two choices, but you can like it or you can, or maybe like you can like it
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I think that that's, that's what we should go with.
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I I've got some, I've, I've been the victim of targeted dislike campaigns.
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Some recent shows, in fact, I think of mine have like tens of thousands of thumbs down.
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And again, initially when I, when I would see something that I'd laugh about it, but
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I should take the opportunity to be the victim.
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So remember if you're, if you're watching this right now on YouTube, remember to, remember
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Think about my emotional wellbeing before you hit that dislike.
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Number four, Chelsea Handler noted scholar had this to say on Twitter.
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She said, uh, it's so pathetic that there's a trial to prove that Derek Chauvin killed George
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It's pathetic that we're still doing trials in this country.
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But Twitter's already decided that he's guilty.
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Now she's getting, um, there's a, there's a bit of a targeted dislike campaign going against
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And I'm sure she's a victim of that because people are responding to it in a negative way
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But she's only being honest about, about what the media feels and, and, uh, and how people
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She was, uh, talking about the George Floyd case and her opinion, she used, she used more
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words and different words, but really she came to the same conclusion as Chelsea Handler.
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This case is so much bigger than what happened 10 months ago in the corner of 38th and Chicago
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But for many Americans, this nation is on trial.
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And for many, especially black people, um, this is about black and white.
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This is about justice for people who aren't specifically involved in this case.
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This is about justice for Eric Gardner and, uh, Breonna Taylor and Daniel Prude and on and
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on and on the countless black people who've been killed by police in this country with very
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And I think that that's what makes it interesting.
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When you look at the context, the backdrop of what also was happening in this country on
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May 25th of 2020 in New York city, central park.
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It's the same day that a white woman called the police on a black man who was birdwatching
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and said threatened that she was going to call and follow through with that, uh, to say
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So what does that have to do with George Floyd?
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The woman, woman called the cops on a guy who was birdwatching.
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So what, what does that have to do with Derek Chauvin being on trial?
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Well, it's because she feels exactly how, uh, how Chelsea Handler feels, which is that
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This is proof of, of, uh, proofs in the pudding here that from the left's perspective and
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And I don't know why I list those two groups, like they're two different things, but from
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their perspective, um, Derek Chauvin is, it's not about the facts of the case for him.
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And you heard us say America is on trial, right?
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He's a symbol for all of the things they don't like.
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He symbolizes all of the alleged and perceived sins of whiteness.
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He symbolizes, um, every alleged or actual white racist who has ever done anything wrong.
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All of that is contained in the person of Derek Chauvin or everything that makes up the actual
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Derek Chauvin, all of his unique traits and, uh, all the things that he did or didn't do
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We have kind of hollowed him out and in his place, we have put, um, all of this.
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He's a sacrificial goat and he needs to be slaughtered.
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It's kind of like an actual sacrificial goat you bring up to the altar to sacrifice.
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It's not because the goat did anything wrong necessarily.
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It's about what the goat symbolizes and he's the goat here.
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Now we got, now we got to get to the really important stuff.
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I've been waiting to talk about this because this to me is, is the biggest, most important
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Um, he is, or was a rapper, I think at one point, and now he's an actor, I believe.
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And so for example, he pioneered something called white boy summer, which is picking up
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And, uh, you know, I saw people talking about it online.
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I didn't know, I didn't know what they're referring to.
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And, you know, and then, and then I found out that they're, Oh, they're referring to
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And then I had to look that up and I was, I was digging through and I finally got to the
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videos where Chet Hanks announces white boy summer.
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I still don't know what white boy summer is even after watching the videos, but I thought
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I'd play them for you so that we can all join together and be confused together.
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So here's Chet Hanks announcing white boy summer.
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Um, look, I just wanted to tap in really quick.
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I just got this feeling, man, um, that this summer is, uh, it's about to be a white boy
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I'm not talking about like Trump, uh, you know, NASCAR type white.
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I'm talking about, you know, you know, me, um, John B, Jack Harlow type white boy summer.
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Let me know if you guys, uh, can vibe with that and, uh, get ready, you know, cause I
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He said, it's not a, I'm not a big NASCAR guy either, but you know, he's, it's doesn't
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He's just, he, all he says is I, I got this feeling.
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Now, later on, as this conversation about white boy summer, uh, continued, he recorded
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another video giving some of the, and so now it's starting to clarify a little bit.
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He's giving some of the rules for white boy summer.
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Um, but I just want to drop a few, uh, rules and regs for the white boy summer.
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Uh, to all my white boys out there, no plaid shirts.
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I can't be looking like a picnic table out here, boys.
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That's not the kind of white boys we're talking about, dog.
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And you can't just see a hat check and be like, dude.
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Is this, so this is what white boy summer is just at is a bunch of rules that we have to follow?
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I thought, I thought it, I thought it, I thought it.
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I was expecting something a lot more fun than that.
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You cannot call it white boy summer and tell me no plaid.
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The rest of that, I don't know what the rest of that is.
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Maybe, and I admit, maybe the problem is he's white boy summer.
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Uh, maybe it's more, it's not really about your chronological age.
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And as a father of four kids, a married man, I'm probably too old for white boy summer, which
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is why I decided I'm announcing, and this is pretty exciting.
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Um, and white dad summer, the uniform for that, very simple.
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Um, and you can go plaid, but the main thing is tucked into cargo, cargo shorts, new balances.
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You know, white new balance is obviously going to be the traditional footwear of our people
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as white dads, but you can really go any color you want.
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Um, and you got the socks pulled up and, uh, and then you got the sweat stained ball cap,
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which is with the bent brim that you've had since 1993 that you still wear.
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And then the knockoff Oakley shades, of course, that is white dad summer.
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That's what I, and that, and by the way, that summer is in full effect in my house anyway.
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All right, let's move on to, I'm glad we were able to talk about that and cover that.
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Uh, it's from Ronnie says, how can Chauvin possibly get a fair trial when the city of
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Minneapolis already admitted guilt by settling a lawsuit and awarding the family millions of
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Not only is it, is the trial still in Minneapolis and not being moved to another city, but this,
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The city has already, has already admitted guilt.
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Um, and they did that during the jury selection process.
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So it's clear that I talk about the left and the media, they're trying, they, they want,
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they see Chauvin as a symbol and he has to pay the price.
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He's, he's a sacrificial goat as far as they're concerned.
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Um, Mike says, could you explain your stance on breaking up via text?
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It's more of, um, you know, if, if, if, if you've only been dating, I know this is not
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a popular view, but if you've only been dating for a few months or a few weeks or whatever,
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and, and it's not working out, like your relationship is so insignificant that it really
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doesn't, you don't need a whole long emotional conversation.
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And, uh, one of the problems is if you do the long emotional conversation in person or on
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the phone, uh, that's when the other person might be able to convince you.
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Like, you know, this is not working at all because it's a couple months into it and already
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But if you have a conversation, other person might be able to emotionally blackmail you
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and convince you to stick it out for a little bit longer and just delay the heartbreak for
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So, you know, I'm of the opinion, it's, they won't like it, but it's the best for everyone
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involved to just make it like a bandaid, quick, simple, easy, send the text message, you
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But at the same time, it's probably better for them anyway to, to, to hate you for it.
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And, uh, and that's my, I'm not saying it's good advice, but that's simply my advice.
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The phrase no cap means something is true or that the person who says it is not lying.
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No cap means something is true or that the person who says it is not lying.
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I just, I get older and older as, as we progress here.
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Um, and finally, Nicholas says commenting for the algorithm.
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I will say, Nicholas, you are not banned for that.
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You are a knight of the Matt Walsh show for doing that.
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And, and by that, that's the, that is, that is the main thing.
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Leave a comment, smash the like button and, uh, and leave a comment.
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And if all, if that's all you're doing is leaving the comment saying it's for the algorithm,
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We've been talking recently about gun rights and the attacks on gun rights or the attacks
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on our constitutional rights in general, which there's, there's been quite a lot of
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that, unfortunately, in the last year, especially, uh, and as conservatives, we always say, well,
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Today for our daily cancellation, I'm not sure who exactly is getting canceled, but I do know
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So this past weekend, I went to the zoo with my wife and kids, along with my niece and nephew
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Another one, my brother-in-law was carrying around a fussy one-year-old and I was hampered
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because of the soft pretzel and cheese dip that I was trying to eat as we walked along.
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Now it's, um, it's very hard to keep track of six children in this environment, especially
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You're going to, you're going one, two, three, four, five.
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And to make matters worse, as your kids are running around this way and that you're noticing
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that the meerkats and monkeys all have better behaved children than you do.
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They're looking at you shaking their heads with disapproval.
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But then I noticed a woman, um, with what appeared to be just one child walking him along on a
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leash and the leash was attached to the kid's backpack, making it slightly less aggressive
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and noticeable than the harnesses they used to attach directly to kids' bodies back in
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I saw this and I thought the same thing that I always think on the rare occasion that I
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I totally understand why that parent is doing that, but I can't do it because I don't want
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See, as parents, we all know that the child leash makes a lot of sense.
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We've all looked with a mixture of awe and envy at the parents with leashes.
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But that we don't say that though, because if we notice another parent is also looking,
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instead we'll turn to them and say out loud, sheesh, she's got a leash on that kid.
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And we all walk away speaking our forbidden pro-leash truth silently in our hearts.
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As I said, back in the old days, this wasn't an issue.
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I distinctly remember being five or six years old and seeing other kids walking around the
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Then at some point in the last 20 years or so, we decided that this is now unacceptable.
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Many parenting shortcuts have been deemed problematic and somehow negligent or abusive in recent
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years, just in time for me to not get to use them.
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Back when I was a young child, kids were put into pens, much like barn animals, for hours
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You didn't have to worry about your one-year-old running through the house, swallowing quarters,
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sticking their fingers into outlets, falling down the steps.
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You just had to put them in the cage, I mean, the detainment facility, and sit down and drink
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Again, when I was a kid, I vividly remember being left in the car often and for long stretches
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We would get left with snacks and a sleeping bag in case it gets late.
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She made sure that the temperature was comfortable.
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Obviously, we weren't left in a 95-degree vehicle.
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But then she would run and do her errand, that we would wait in the car.
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But now, leaving your child in a car for even two minutes, no matter how cool it is outside
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or what precautions you take, it's considered an act of unthinkable neglect.
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If you do that now, people say, you left your child in a car?
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Parents these days are afraid to leave their kids alone in a car while they walk 12 feet
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Or at least that's the excuse they always give me for leaving the cart.
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A child in a locked car on a cool day in a shopping center parking lot is perfectly safe.
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Well, he's just as likely to be kidnapped in that circumstance as he is to be kidnapped
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Which is to say it almost certainly will not happen.
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You hear about the cases when it happens because it almost never does.
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Yet we've decided to make life a little harder for parents in this area for no reason.
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Do you know they expect you to keep a kid in a car seat until he's like five now?
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And then you switch to a booster seat until he graduates college?
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And the car seats are not so much car seats as they are seats salvaged from rocket ships.
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And they restrict the child's movement so much so that he's guaranteed to cry and whine
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When I was a kid, you know what putting a kid in a car meant you just, you opened the
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And the kid got in and buckled themselves and said, that was it.
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My parents had me in the front seat, no car seat, no booster seat.
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When I was like four, we had the middle seat in the front.
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They have to spend 45 minutes getting everyone locked in.
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Like we're about to blast off on our way to a settlement on Mars or something.
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Fewer rules, less shame, less of a chance that CPS would knock on your door because your
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neighbor reported you for allowing your eight-year-old to ride his bike down to the playground by
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I guess everyone who has made parenting this complicated.
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Which includes myself because like I said, I do join in the shaming of the leashed kids
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and the, or the parents who use leashes, even though I sort of envy them.
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I cancel everybody else and boomers also for having it so damned easy.
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Um, and I guess we'll leave it there for today.
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