Ep. 744 - Spoiled, Ungrateful Brat Turns Her Back On The Flag
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An Olympic athlete turns her back on the flag as the national anthem is played, a woman defaces a George Washington statue, a self-proclaimed intellectual calls white conservatives "magots" and then apologizes, and in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the latest Pixar film about two young boys, "The Little Mermaid," and much more.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, an Olympic athlete turns her back on the flag as the national anthem
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is played. There's a catastrophic lack of gratitude in this country. It's become a real
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epidemic, in my opinion, and this is just the latest symptom of it. So we'll talk about that.
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Also, five headlines, including peaceful protesters exercise their free speech rights by defacing a
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George Floyd statue. Also, a self-proclaimed intellectual and MSNBC calls white conservatives
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maggots and then apologizes, sort of. And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the LGBT
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activists and people in the media who are very offended and upset that the latest Pixar film
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about two young boys is not a gay romance. All of that and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Roman philosophers, but today this quote comes immediately to mind. Cicero, at least according
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to a Facebook meme that I saw once, said, gratitude is not only the greatest, but is also the parent
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of all the other virtues. That's the more famous version of the quote anyway. Actually,
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the full version is better. He said, in truth, oh judges, while I wish to be adorned with every
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virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than the being and appearing grateful.
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For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.
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Now, the Facebook meme didn't tell me why he said this, but it's not difficult to imagine how one
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might defend that claim, that gratitude is the parent of all virtues. Many other virtues seem to be
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contained in gratitude. In order to be truly grateful to someone or for something, you have
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to be humble. You have to be prudent. You must be kind. Gratitude is the sister of generosity.
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Generosity is in the giving. Gratitude is in the receiving. If one is present in the interaction,
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but not the other, there's a risk that soon both will be lost. You know, if you've ever tried to be
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consistently generous to a habitually ungrateful person, you know how this works. Gratitude is
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certainly not something that a deeply selfish person can experience. A selfish and entitled person
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won't be grateful for anything because they believe that everything they're given was already owed to
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them. And whatever it is, it's not enough anyway. They're never satisfied, let alone grateful.
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And this is why, as parents, we spend so much time teaching gratitude to our children.
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After you take your child out for ice cream, or you go to the zoo, or you put dinner on the table,
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there's that common refrain. I know I say it all the time. What do you say? And the child,
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prompted, shouts, thank you, until hopefully he doesn't need to be prompted anymore.
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Now, this isn't a simple matter of teaching good manners, though it is that also, of course.
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But on a deeper level, you're instilling gratitude. And it does have to be instilled,
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instilled, inculcated, taught. It doesn't come on its own. Children are naturally inclined to take
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things for granted, to think, well, you know, of course mommy and daddy gave me this. That's their
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job. They're mommy and daddy. We have to teach them that much of what we do for them is above and
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beyond the mere fulfillment of a job. We don't have to give them ice cream. We do that because we love
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them. And for that, they should be grateful. And even the things that are fulfilling the job,
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making them dinner, for example, putting a roof over their heads, that should still be met with
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gratitude. This is a lesson we teach them for their own sake, not for ours. Grateful people are good
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people. They're happy people. They're well-adjusted people. Grateful people have friends. They get hired
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for jobs. They enjoy life. So it is then no surprise that in a country where so many people are miserable
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and angry and depressed all the time, there's also a catastrophic lack of gratitude, which brings us
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finally to a woman named Gwen Berry. This past weekend was the U.S. Olympic trials for track and
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field. One of the track and field events is the hammer throw. Now, unfortunately, and I just learned
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this today because I don't really watch the Olympics. They're not throwing hammers like the ones you find
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at a Home Depot, as fun as that would be. I had imagined like a toolbox and they're just chucking hammers,
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maybe at each other. That'd be fun. Instead, it's like the shot put, except with kind of a sling.
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Gwen Berry is one of the athletes who competed in that event, and she managed to achieve third place
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behind a woman named Deanna Price in first place and Brooke Anderson in second. Now, as it happens,
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Deanna Price had a record-breaking day of chucking the metal ball around. She actually was great. I think
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she broke her own record, which she had set before, but that achievement was overshadowed by third place
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Berry, who, while standing on the podium, turned her back on the flag and began visibly pouting as the
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national anthem was played. Towards the end of the song, she covered her head with a black t-shirt that
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read, activist athlete. This is all it takes to be an activist these days, of course. All you need to do
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is stand around like a pouty, sullen child, which at least she didn't burn anything. I guess we could
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be grateful for that, speaking of gratitude. Perhaps she's saving that for when the Olympics
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actually start. Now, after her little stunt, Berry explained to reporters that she reacted that way
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to the anthem because she considered it a personal affront that it had been played at all. This is
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her quote, the quote from her. She said, quote, I feel like it was a setup. I feel like they did that on
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purpose, and I was pissed, to be honest. I was thinking about what should I do? Eventually, I just
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stayed there, and I just swayed. I put my shirt over my head. It was real disrespectful. I know they did that
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on purpose, but it'll be all right. I see what's up. Now, to be clear, she's not saying that her turning her
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back was disrespectful, which it was. She's saying that they were disrespecting her by playing the
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anthem in the first place. She felt personally disrespected by the anthem. This woman is not only
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an unpatriotic, whiny, disgusting brat, but she also believes the world revolves around her.
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They play the anthem every day during the trials at around that time. Yet, if it plays on the day that
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she's competing, it must be some kind of personal attack against her. But it's no surprise she has
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this attitude. Grateful people tend to possess all the other virtues. Ungrateful people, in contrast,
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tend to possess none at all. She's ungrateful, so of course, she's also self-centered and petty and
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everything else. Now, of course, in a healthy country, an Olympic athlete who turns her back on her own
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flag would be kicked off the team and publicly shamed and reviled for being the disgraceful,
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embarrassing jackass that she is. But we're not a healthy country, so instead she will be and already
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has been lionized as some sort of civil rights hero standing up against oppression. What sort of
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oppression, though? I mean, what exactly is she so angry about? In what precise way has this person
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been at all victimized? What is she mad about? What's the problem? That's never made clear.
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Out of all these people claiming to have some deep grievance against the United States,
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none of them can ever explain what it is. They could talk about history. They could talk about
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things that happened 200 years ago. But they can't explain what's happened to them. What did this
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country do to you specifically that's made you feel this way? That's because their grievance doesn't
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stem from anything external. It comes internally from their own lack of gratitude. This country has
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given Gwen Berry everything. Now it even gives her an international forum to complain about it,
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to complain about her country. But it's not enough. Nothing is ever enough. Her attitude, similar to the
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attitude of so many others, is not that she's grateful for all that she's been given, the freedom
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she's been afforded, the luxuries she enjoys, and yet she still recognizes the problems in our society
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and wishes to fix them. That's one thing. I mean, it's one thing if you say, I'm very grateful for this
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country. I love this country. But it's not a perfect country, obviously. No country is perfect. And so here are
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some problems we should fix. That's a perfectly fine attitude. Anyone should have that attitude.
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Nobody is saying that in order to be patriotic, you have to think that your country is flawless.
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I certainly don't. No, but the problem for her is that she sees only darkness and horror. That's all
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she sees. She can't even bear to look at the flag. Can't bother to stand for two minutes with her hand on her
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heart. She won't even give that to her country. She will give her country nothing in exchange for the
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everything that it has given to her. Because although her life is good, and far better than it would be
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literally anywhere else on earth, which is why she chooses to stay here, rather than move somewhere
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else, even so, it's not perfect. And if she hasn't been given a perfect life, then she won't be grateful
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for a good but imperfect one. This is a woman who, again, like so many others, was never taught gratitude
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as a child, we can assume. And it's probably too late to teach it now, but even so, maybe we should try.
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Okay. So, so Gwen, what do you say? What do you say to America? You say, thank you. And you do it
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hire. All right. So, uh, yeah, so I am back from vacation. Maybe you noticed, um, sort of, I'm actually
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taking another few days around July 4th, but if you complain about that, then you, then you're also
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un-American. It's just, this is my, I think part of my patriotic duty take a couple of days around
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July 4th. Uh, but it, it, it did, it did go well, especially considering 20 drive ended up being 20
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hours with four kids. And, uh, I'm not usually a guy who relies on electronics with the kids in the
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car and all that, but 20 hours, I thought, okay, we have a DVD player in the car. We'll put the DVD
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on, not the whole time, but, um, of course we get in the car, the DVD player is broken.
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So in spite of that, it went well. There was, there was one dust up when we were at our vacation
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home on the lake and my, my four-year-old son, he, uh, often when we're staying outside of our house,
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he gets nightmares, I guess, cause he's feeling a little, a little out of sorts, a little homesick.
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So he got nightmares one night and he comes into our room and, uh, it's like three o'clock in the
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morning. And so I just let him sleep in our room with us, which I knew it was a mistake because
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then the next night he wants to do the same thing. And I'm saying, no, you got to stay,
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you got to stay in your own room. And he's worried about having nightmares again. So I'm sitting there
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talking to him and trying to, you know, figure out a strategy to avoid nightmares. And at first I tell
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him, well, if you start getting a nightmare, just remind yourself that you're in a dream, you know,
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and then, and then you'll wake up. And then I realized that's a bad strategy because sometimes you can do
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that where you realize you're dreaming while you're dreaming, but you can't escape the dream.
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And then it's become sort of an inception type of situation, which can be even more horrifying.
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So then I said, okay, why don't we just plan a good dream to have? And I said to him, think about
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what would be the, if you could go anywhere in the world or do anything, what would it be?
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And he said he would want to go to a candy store. And I said, well, this is a dream. I mean,
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you could be in a forest where candy grows on the trees. You could be, there'd be candy falling from
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the sky. You don't need to go to an actual store. But he said, no, he wants to go to a candy store.
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And I said, okay, how much money do you want to have in your dream in the candy? You could have
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all the money. He said, he wants to have a hundred dollars. I said, you can have a bill,
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you can have $50 billion in the candy store, but all he wanted was a hundred. And so I said,
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just plan to dream of the candy store with a hundred dollars. I will also dream about the candy store
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and I'll meet you there in our dream. And then if any monsters show up, I'll fight them off and
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I'll protect you. And that was the plan. But then my wife goes in to talk to him and he recruits her
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to be involved in the dream too. And then he's talking to his sister and his brother. And now
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they're all, and now we're all coordinating this one dream we're going to have together.
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It gets way too complicated. And then I have the dream. I'm at the candy store and no one else shows
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up. They all went off somewhere else. Cause I get stood up, even in my dreams, I get stood up by my
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own children. That's the moral of the story. But other than that, it was a good vacation.
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Now, uh, we, uh, we start here with a story that I guess this happened on Friday. This happened on
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Friday. So this is from a report from NBC, New York. It says outrage mounted Friday over vandalism to
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newly unveiled George Floyd statues in Brooklyn and Newark, New Jersey. As the former Minneapolis
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police officer accused of murdering, the 46 year old father of five was sentenced to more than 22
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years in prison, a punishment that some didn't believe was harsh enough. Uh, yeah, 22, 22 years
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of prison. You probably heard that on Friday. It's what, this is what Derek Chauvin was sentenced to.
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Yeah. Not harsh enough. That's 22 years in prison because someone else died of a drug overdose.
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That that's, that's a pretty harsh sentence for a drug overdose that someone else had a guy on
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four times the lethal dose of fentanyl died of a drug overdose. And, uh, and you get sentenced to 22
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years. I would say it's pretty harsh given the circumstances. Anyway, back to this report. It says
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many, including tens of thousands in New York city applauded the initial verdict, uh, and frustration is
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growing as the NYPD is hate crimes task force searches for the vandals who defaced the new
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George Floyd sculpture on Flatbush Avenue. The vandalism to the Flatbush statue, which was
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unveiled on Flatbush Avenue last weekend amid the city Juneteenth celebration was discovered Thursday
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morning. Uh, they said that what was the vandalism? They said that the, that it had much of the
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statue had been painted black. The name of a group considered to be a white nationalist hate group by
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the Southern poverty law center, always a reliable source on these things was spray painted on the
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statues pedestal. And then another tribute to Floyd, um, was also vandalized. This in Newark,
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the 700 pound bronze statue in Newark, which debuted earlier this month, outside city hall,
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had the face painted black. And then with the name of the same group on the front of it.
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Um, and they're, they're investigating this as the article says, as a hate crime, Bill de Blasio
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tweeted on Friday. He said last night, a far right extremist group vandalized the statue of George
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Floyd in Brooklyn, a racist, loathsome, despicable act of hate. The city cleanup core is repairing the
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statue right now. And a hate crime investigation is underway. We will bring these cowards to justice.
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Now, first of all, I thought vandalizing statues was an acceptable form of peaceful protest.
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I thought that there's no such thing as violence against property. Isn't that what we heard for
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the whole last year? This is, this is them exercising their free speech rights. This is the precedent
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that's been set. If you don't like a statue, you can deface it. You could tear it down.
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I mean, they should be, they should be happy that the George Floyd statue was only defaced
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and not torn down, set on fire and tossed into a river as other statues have been.
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Um, but a couple of things to think about here. First of all, calling this a hate crime and calling
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it racist. What is it? It's a hate crime against a statue. Who is it a hate crime against? Because
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typically in a hate crime, and I'm not a big fan of the hate crime designation. I don't think it
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should exist at all. But, um, but it, it, as I understand it, usually in a hate crime, there has
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to be a victim, right? Someone is, is a victim in a hate crime. So who's the victim here?
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George Floyd? Is George Floyd, well, he's, he's dead, so he can't be the victim of a hate crime.
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So who is it? Well, I guess I can only assume I, I, the statue can't be the victim. It's only property.
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And by the way, I'm sure it was insured. That's the other thing we learned. As long as, as long as
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it has insurance, then, uh, you can tear it down and do whatever you want. You can burn down a CVS
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as long as it has insurance, but you can't commit a hate crime against a statue. Uh, you can't commit
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a hate crime against someone who's dead. So then, then who is it against? And I guess it's a hate crime
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against all black people. Is that what we're supposed to understand? So George Floyd is now
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a representative of the entire black race is what we're being told. In order for this to be a hate
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crime, that's, that would have to be, you have to view it that way. What? Talk about racist.
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Talk about loathsome and despicable taking this guy and making him some sort of representative
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for a whole race. This guy, George Floyd, who, who achieved precisely nothing of value in his entire
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life. As far as we know, no one's ever told us if he did anything of value or significance,
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we've never been told what it is. The only thing of value and significance that he achieved was when
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he died. And that was valuable and significant to the left because they could exploit it.
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That's all they care about. But as far as how he actually lived his life, he did nothing
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except victimize other people. He was a danger and a threat to his community.
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A violent felon, a career criminal, a drug addict who died high on fentanyl after trying to pass off
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bad checks or a bad $20 bill. And you're making him a representative. I can tell you that that's not
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what I would want. I wouldn't want to take some, some random criminal and make him a representative
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for all white people. I wouldn't want that. You know, the difference between every time I talk
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about this and why George Floyd doesn't deserve statues and monuments. In fact, I would say,
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and I know there are a lot of, there are many candidates for this title. So I'm a little bit
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hesitant in saying it, but there's an argument that you can make that George Floyd is the most
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undeserving person to ever have a statue built in his honor. Again, I know there are others you could
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point to who are in the running, but he's certainly in the top five, at least
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as someone who did nothing of significance at all. And anytime I bring this up, I'm always,
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I'm always told, well, what about this or that historical figure who was a problematic and who
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did bad things? Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. And you start going
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through the litany, right? Well, yeah, see, there's, there's a difference here. We know that nobody is
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perfect. We know that great people who do great things very often have great flaws and are also
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capable of, capable of, and sometimes, and will commit great evil. We know that. And if you are
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set on only celebrating people who are perfect, then you've really narrowed down your list.
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So that's something that we know, but the difference is that if we're talking about
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Christopher Columbus or Thomas Jefferson, or many of these other figures who have had their statues
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torn down, they achieved great things. They are remembered by history for what they, for things
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that they actually did. They changed the course of history through their actions while living
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and in a good way. What about George Floyd? What did he do? Nothing. He broke into, forced his way
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into a woman's home and robbed her at gunpoint in front of her child. That's as, as, as far as we're
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aware of, as far as with, with George Floyd's biography, that is the most significant thing he did with his
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life. The most impactful thing he did with his life was that. And I'm sure it made an enormous
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impact on the woman who was victimized and her child. Of course, nobody cares about her. Nobody
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wonders how she must feel walking down the street and having to see a statue built to the man.
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Just imagine that. Imagine walking down the street and seeing a literal monument to a man who not but a few
00:24:40.800
years ago was forcing his way into your home and putting a gun to you. But nobody cares about
00:24:48.240
her. Her voice is silent. That's it. That's the most significant thing. And then he died.
00:24:58.940
And he died in a way that was, that's exploitable for the left. And that's all they care about. And
00:25:03.960
that's why they build a monument to him. There's, there's a big difference. All of most of the other
00:25:11.040
people who've had statues torn down, even if, even if they are guilty of some of the atrocities
00:25:17.020
they're accused of, and oftentimes they're not guilty of all of the atrocities, but even if they're
00:25:22.140
guilty of some of the bad things they're accused of, there is no question that they achieved great,
00:25:26.940
that they did great things with their lives. That the world is different today because of what they
00:25:34.500
did with their life and different in a good way. All right. Um, so yeah, George, George Floyd
00:25:46.320
statues should, should all be torn down. If we're tearing down statues, if we're tearing down statues
00:25:52.480
of violent oppressors, yeah, let's do that. Let's start with George Floyd, tear down the George Floyd
00:25:58.380
statues and throw them in the river. He was a violent oppressor of women and a bad person.
00:26:09.280
All right, let's go. Uh, number two here, Michael Eric Dyson, speaking of bad people, uh, is, uh, an
00:26:14.520
academic and intellectual and a minister. And we need to put air quotes around all of those descriptors,
00:26:19.780
but that's how he describes himself. And maybe you saw this last week. He was on MSNBC and he attacked,
00:26:25.540
um, white conservatives, calling them among other things, maggots. And we have an update to this story,
00:26:31.640
but first let's play, uh, that clip of him saying that here it is. And speaking about, you know, the
00:26:37.780
maggots, I'm sorry, the MAGA, um, that is so corrosive in this, you know, political, uh, moment. I resent
00:26:47.920
as an intellectual and as a black person in America that we have taken the brunt of anti-intellectualism.
00:26:55.280
We have borne the brunt of being disloyal to this nation. And we have stood by to see mediocre,
00:27:02.500
mealy-mouthed, uh, snowflake white men who are incapable of taking critique, who are willing to
00:27:09.480
dole out infamous repudiations of the humanity of the other. And yet they call us snowflakes and
00:27:16.520
they are the biggest flakes of snow to hit the earth. They are incapable of criticism. They are
00:27:23.160
incapable of tolerating difference. They're scared of, Oh my God, critical race theory is going to
00:27:27.660
kill your mother. And they don't even know they're not critical. They have no race and they don't
00:27:32.480
understand theory. And yet they are allowed to wax eloquently about the means and limits of
00:27:39.740
rationality in this country. And they couldn't save themselves if the world depended on it.
00:27:46.240
And I am tired of hearing mediocre white men, uh, take to their pulpits to excoriate women and trans
00:27:55.220
people and bisexuals and black folk and every other thing that ain't them. It is time that we in America
00:28:02.740
take back this country for certain and to seize the reins of authority so that rhetorics of compassion,
00:28:10.340
discourses of empathy and love in the most radical sense possible would prevail.
00:28:18.500
Rhetorics of compassion, discourses of empathy. By the way, people who speak like this are stupid.
00:28:26.120
When they're speaking in a way where you could tell they're trying to impress you with their
00:28:29.660
intelligence, um, that's a sign of stupidity. Rhetorics of compassion, discourses of empathy.
00:28:38.600
Nobody speaks, nobody talks like that. Uh, and putting aside the irony that he, he began by calling
00:28:48.960
millions of people maggots, snowflakes, and, uh, and, and then he ends with, with, uh, we need more
00:28:57.400
rhetorics, rhetorics of compassion. We need more compassion from these damned maggots.
00:29:06.340
You know, the problem with these filthy, disgusting, worthless, stupid maggots, they don't have
00:29:11.440
compassion. They lack, they lack kindness. Rhetorics of compassion. And I know this isn't even the,
00:29:21.060
the, the, the main point here, but I also, I, I, I took note of, uh, where, where he was talking
00:29:25.280
about the, the mediocre, mealy-mouthed white men. And, uh, once, once again, it goes without saying,
00:29:32.240
uh, but I, I always say it every time that if this was a white guy on cable news, complaining about
00:29:41.100
the quote, mediocre, mealy-mouthed black men, we can imagine what the reaction would be, but it's okay
00:29:47.380
for him to do. He's allowed to do that. Nobody can explain why, but he can. Uh, but he, he says,
00:29:52.440
uh, these, the mediocre white men who are excoriating bisexuals. What? Hey, where, have you ever heard a
00:30:01.900
bisexual be excoriated? Who's doing that? He also said that transgender people and women are being
00:30:09.760
excoriated. That's not happening either, but bisexual is such a specific category to choose here. And I,
00:30:17.020
I've, I've never heard anyone get up on any pulpit and say, these, you know what's problem in America
00:30:24.040
today? These damn bisexuals. I've never heard anything like that ever from anyone. Uh, but there,
00:30:34.080
there he was. And, uh, uh, with, with his, with his, his version of what a rhetoric of compassion sounds
00:30:41.400
like. And then he came back on MSNBC a couple of days later and sort of apologized for some of that,
00:30:49.020
but not really. Let's listen. I myself, the other day, let me, let me apologize on this program.
00:30:54.720
I was trying to be cute and clever when I was talking about MAGA, therefore MAG-GATS, not
00:30:59.800
MAG-GATS. I didn't anticipate that, uh, you know, brothers and sisters who were white would hear it as
00:31:04.420
that. So I deeply and profoundly apologize for that, but I have been hit with an onslaught of
00:31:08.940
death threats and being called the N word, uh, out of white rage, uh, for a mistake I made for
00:31:15.600
which I'm willing to apologize. Certainly. And what black people are often up against
00:31:20.260
is the fact that we have to be told that emotion will not judge, will not lead, um, our, uh, you know,
00:31:27.800
offering of justice to you. Emotion will not drive, uh, or a statement to be made to the American
00:31:33.340
public would not drive what we do legally. And yet so much emotion is directed at us. So much
00:31:38.960
hatred is directed at us. So much white rage is directed at us. Yeah. I mean, every part of that
00:31:45.980
is total nonsense. First of all, he says it was a, it was a mistake. I didn't, I didn't anticipate
00:31:51.980
that anyone would take it that way. What? Uh, no, I, I called him maggots, but I, I didn't,
00:31:58.960
I didn't know that anyone would think that I was caught. I, all he did was call you a maggot.
00:32:05.140
I didn't think that you would think that I was calling you a maggot. What, what do you,
00:32:10.980
what did you mean to say? Um, so he's not taking ownership at all. There's, there's no real apology
00:32:19.280
there at all. But then, and then, uh, and then of course we always hear about the, I've got the
00:32:23.020
onslaught of death threats. You know what? Show me the receipts, uh, Michael, cause I, I don't,
00:32:27.620
or whatever your name is. Yeah. Michael, show me the receipts on that. I get tired of people always
00:32:32.480
talking about, we always hear this. Anytime someone's getting criticized, they say, I've been
00:32:38.500
getting death threats for the last. Have you really? Maybe you have, but, uh, but I, I show me the
00:32:44.120
receipts on that. I want, I want to see the death threats because I do get death threats. Um, and
00:32:51.980
when I get them, I, I do show the receipts. I'll show you what they look like. It's, it's relatively
00:32:58.140
rare. What's, what's a lot more common that I get all the time are people wishing death on me saying,
00:33:03.700
uh, go kill yourself and that kind of thing, which is a horrible thing to say to a person,
00:33:07.540
but I don't call that a death threat. So anytime someone claims that they're dealing with an onslaught
00:33:14.000
of death threats. And so you imagine like hundreds of people threatening to kill them.
00:33:21.280
Yeah. I got to say, I don't really believe it. Could, could be, maybe it happened. I don't know.
00:33:28.060
But in either case, when you, not that a death threat would be justified,
00:33:32.740
but when you get up on national TV and you call millions of people maggots,
00:33:39.440
you're going, you're going to get an angry response. It doesn't matter who you're, what that,
00:33:47.060
whatever group you're targeting with that comment, they're going to be angry.
00:33:51.780
And they're going to let you know that they're angry. And since it's the internet,
00:33:54.580
they're going to let you know in hyperbolic terms, but now he's the victim.
00:33:59.580
All I did was call millions of people maggots. I didn't anticipate all this anger. And you know,
00:34:06.040
this is the problem. Anytime a black man speaks up in America, he has to deal with white rage.
00:34:11.300
Yeah. If a black man calls people maggots, he's going to have to deal with rage. Just like if a
00:34:15.900
white man did it, he'd also have to deal with rage. That tends to enrage people. People tend to get
00:34:23.080
upset about that. Most people, when you call them a maggot, they're not going to laugh about it
00:34:30.000
or say, well, you're entitled to your opinion. You believe I'm a maggot. I don't think I am,
00:34:37.120
but we'll let bygones be bygones. Now on the internet, you can't even, I say what your favorite
00:34:47.160
flavor of ice cream is without people taking it as a personal attack. So if you call them maggots,
00:34:59.360
But he gets, he gets close to the precipice of an apology and then turns right back around and says,
00:35:05.960
uh, nevermind. You know what? Actually, I'm the victim.
00:35:11.060
And it's okay. He'll get away with it. Even the, the non-apology that he gave was,
00:35:16.660
uh, not even actually necessary because no one's going to hold him accountable and
00:35:21.180
he can still appear on cable news and he's not going to lose any jobs or, you know, if he's,
00:35:27.920
I don't know what he, if he works for a university or something, they're, they're not going to get
00:35:31.060
rid of him. So there's no accountability there at all. All right. Um, a couple other things I
00:35:38.840
wanted to mention. We got to do, eh, maybe we'll save this for tomorrow. Cause we also have the,
00:35:45.460
the UFO report, but you know what? I was going to skip over it because I am,
00:35:52.060
this is the moment I've been waiting, as you know, I've been waiting for this moment.
00:35:56.580
I bought the t-shirts. I had the merchandise my whole life leading up to this moment. And, uh,
00:36:03.060
and then the, the, the, the much anticipated UFO report is released. And, uh, basically it's,
00:36:11.040
it's not even worth going over because it's everything that we already knew.
00:36:17.560
So if there's any headline from the UFO report, um, it's that, uh, reading out from the daily
00:36:23.800
wire, it says the director of national intelligence on Friday released a highly anticipated report
00:36:28.520
outlining what the government knows so far about unidentified flying objects and the threat they
00:36:32.980
pose, but it offered scant conclusions about such phenomena. The DNI announced Friday afternoon
00:36:38.500
that it has submitted a preliminary report to Congress on the progress that the U S Navy's
00:36:42.460
unidentified aerial phenomena task force has made an understanding unidentified aerial phenomena
00:36:46.940
more commonly known as UFOs. The intelligence report said, this is, I guess is really the headline,
00:36:51.320
the only headline. The intelligence report said that U S intelligence cannot explain 143 of the 144
00:36:57.320
cases of UFOs observed and reported by military aircraft from 2004 to 2021. The one incident that they
00:37:04.180
could categorize with certainty was identified as a large deflating balloon. But I don't know how,
00:37:13.040
isn't a large deflating balloon rather, uh, rather easy to identify. Why was it in the report at all?
00:37:20.540
But the others remain unexplained. So that's kind of it. I was hoping that in the report,
00:37:29.700
you know, they would confirm aliens are real and they're among us
00:37:35.340
and they're standing right next to you. That's what I was hoping the report would say.
00:37:44.440
Was that a delusional hope? You know, was that the hope of a, of a, of a, of a deluded and,
00:37:53.220
and pretty stupid individual? Yes. But even so,
00:37:59.700
I wait for months and this is what I get. I guess this is kind of, I'm now experiencing the letdown
00:38:07.240
that people feel, I guess, when a new star Wars comes out. I never quite understood that as a,
00:38:13.720
as an, as a, as a non-star Wars fan, as someone who recognizes that all the star Wars movies are
00:38:18.260
bad anyway, I've never quite felt or experienced the anger and disappointment and letdown that
00:38:26.100
everyone feels every time a new star Wars comes out. And you have all this anticipation that it
00:38:29.680
doesn't live up to the hype at all. I feel that way about this because this was supposed to be the
00:38:34.660
real star Wars. And, uh, just didn't work. Didn't happen. All right. We're going to have one more
00:38:45.160
here. A report from the NBC affiliate in Orlando, um, says president Joe Biden is celebrating pride
00:38:50.720
month with a series of activities, a reflection of the growing stature of the LGBTQ community at
00:38:55.820
the white house. On Friday, Biden signed into law, a measure designating the pulse nightclub as a
00:39:01.180
national memorial. The shooting at pulse in 2016 was the deadliest attack on the LGBTQ community in
00:39:06.860
us history. Biden made the announcement of the designation on the fifth remembrance of the
00:39:10.840
deadly shooting. The president emphasized that the country must do more to reduce gun violence,
00:39:15.820
such as banning assault weapons and closing loopholes and regulations. Um, and then the,
00:39:21.580
uh, the one pulse foundation said in a statement, quote, today is a major milestone of fulfilling the
00:39:27.340
mission of the national pulse Memorial museum. It is so meaningful to everyone here, especially in
00:39:31.820
families of the 49 survivors, first responders, and, uh, all the lives affected. It's also clear,
00:39:37.540
a clear and lasting message to the LGBTQ plus community that what happened at pulse matters and will
00:39:43.560
never be forgotten for future generations. And that we will always out love hate, out love hate.
00:39:50.720
Now we should mention, um, because it matters because it's the truth that this connection that
00:39:58.860
they're trying to make now, and that Biden is sort of implying, um, and that we hear in the media
00:40:05.320
between anti-gay hate and the pulse nightclub shooting, that connection is, is not real. Uh, the killer,
00:40:13.840
there's, as far as we know, and has ever been determined, this shooting had nothing to do with
00:40:19.120
anti-gay hate at all. In fact, the killer was himself gay, according to people close to him
00:40:24.900
anyway. And he himself said that he was motivated by revenge for drone attacks in the Middle East.
00:40:31.220
And what we learned from investigators early on is that he had a couple of targets in mind. Um,
00:40:38.480
one happened to be the gay nightclub, and then there was another bar nightclub in town that he was,
00:40:42.620
he was kind of deciding between the two. And he decided on a whim that it was going to be
00:40:45.780
the pulse nightclub. That doesn't make it any less horrific, obviously. Um, but this is what we get
00:40:54.100
from the left and from Democrats. They can't stick with the simple facts. Just say that it was a,
00:41:01.260
a horrible, uh, travesty, a massacre. There are any negative adjective meant most of the negative
00:41:12.480
adjectives that you could use would apply here, except it's not an anti-gay hate crime.
00:41:18.000
And that doesn't make it any better. Okay. You get to a certain level, and this is one of my
00:41:25.240
problems. This is one of the problems I have with the hate crime designation. You get to a certain
00:41:29.300
level where an act is so evil and so horrible that it can't possibly be worse. So we get the hate crime
00:41:41.680
designation and we're trying to parse, uh, well, was this, was, was the person motivated by hate?
00:41:48.000
Were they motivated? Why does it even matter? Look at what they did in terms of condemning it,
00:41:55.540
in terms of, uh, of, of punishing the, the perpetrator, if they're still alive.
00:42:04.160
What, what, what does it matter? What motivated it?
00:42:08.680
It's obviously can't be motivated by anything good,
00:42:10.800
but also, and, uh, I'm afraid I just have to point this out at the ceremony. I wanted to show you
00:42:17.900
Jill Biden, the good doctor. I just wanted to show you this. I'll put this up on the screen.
00:42:24.440
You see the dress that she's wearing at, uh, I believe this was the same ceremony.
00:42:31.320
And you see that, I don't know what's happening here in this dress. It looks like she was caught
00:42:34.460
in a tornado inside of a Joanne Fabrics. It's like she got assaulted by all of the curtains in my
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grandmother's house at one time. I, I don't know what, who, I'm not someone who notices most of the
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time. You've got to make a really outrageous fashion choice for me to notice how bad it is.
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And I just see that, like, what do you think, especially at a solemn occasion like this,
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wearing a dress like that, a memorial where 49 people died. And that's the dress you put on.
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Um, I don't know, but all jokes aside, I mean, Jill Biden, I guess is showing what equity and
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A couple of weeks ago, Pixar released its newest film, a coming of age tale about two young boys in
00:45:50.080
Italy who spend a summer getting into mischief, going on adventures, discovering the true meaning of
00:45:54.780
friendship, et cetera. Uh, the twist is that both of the boys, Luca and Alberto are actually sea
00:46:01.320
monsters. And when they venture in onto dry land, they assume the appearance of human beings, but
00:46:06.040
whenever they're in the water, they revert back to their true sea monster form. This apparently is
00:46:10.960
the plot. Now, not to give away the ending, but eventually everybody on land learns that the boys
00:46:16.720
are actually sea monsters and things get a little hairy at first, but then they all learn to accept Luca
00:46:20.540
and Alberto for who they are. While more importantly, Luca and Alberto learn to accept
00:46:25.480
themselves. And I don't need to see the movie to tell you it ends that way. Almost every kid's movie
00:46:30.200
since the dawn of time has been at some level, a coming of age story. And there's almost always
00:46:35.060
prominent themes of self-acceptance of being yourself and so on. Pixar isn't doing anything new here.
00:46:41.180
Even the sea monster bit is clearly reminiscent of the little mermaid, a disturbing tale about a
00:46:45.920
monstrous aquatic freak who crawls onto land and stalks a young prince, eventually ensnaring him
00:46:51.180
in a romantic relationship on false pretenses. The only thing that's arguably unique about Luca
00:46:56.440
is that the film centers around male friendship. There, there is no romance here. Um, unlike in
00:47:03.520
Little Mermaid. Now, when I was growing up, those kinds of stories were a little more common. The
00:47:07.960
Sandlot is one example. I was a big fan of that movie as a kid. But these days, most movies feel the
00:47:13.760
need to shoehorn in some kind of romance angle. And of course, there always has to be at least as
00:47:19.420
many female protagonists as male. Luca slightly breaks from that mold, it seems, by telling a
00:47:25.720
more simple, innocent, straightforward story of two young boys who become friends. But nothing is
00:47:32.760
allowed to be simple and innocent and straightforward anymore. Not when there is so much indoctrinating to
00:47:37.580
be done and so little time to do it. And that's why many people on the LGBT left and the media have
00:47:43.100
spent the last several days insisting that Luca must, in fact, be a gay movie. It's not a gay
00:47:49.780
movie. The boys are not gay. And there's no romance between them, which is good because the characters
00:47:55.240
are prepubescent children. We're not yet at the point where Pixar will release a movie about eight
00:48:00.600
year old boys in love. We may get there eventually. But for some on the left, that time can't come soon
00:48:06.420
enough. They're impatient. And that's why if you go to Twitter and you search for Luca right now,
00:48:11.220
you'll find many tweets like this from a guy named Eric Rosewood or Rosswood, I think self-professed
00:48:18.360
LGBT activist and author of the book, The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads. And he tweeted, quote,
00:48:24.900
just saw Luca. And I don't care what anyone else says. It's the first gay animated film by Disney
00:48:29.900
Pixar. Feeling like you might have to hide a part of yourself, meeting someone you like for the first
00:48:35.080
time, strangers calling you and your friends monsters, finding the good ones. I cried.
00:48:41.220
Now, he's not alone in this assessment. A headline from BuzzFeed says, I'm sorry, but Luca is totally
00:48:47.540
a gay movie. And that's why I loved it so much. Screen Rant announces why Luca is an LGBTQ story,
00:48:55.140
despite what Pixar says. The AV Club has a lengthy missive explaining in strenuous detail
00:48:59.900
why the gay interpretation of Luca is entirely valid. And Vanity Fair takes a more sort of middle
00:49:05.960
the road approach with its contribution to this discussion. The headline is Luca Pixar's first
00:49:12.080
gay movie. Maybe. We should note, meanwhile, that the director of the film, who may be considered an
00:49:19.020
authority on what the movie is about, has addressed these claims and clarified that no, it's not a gay
00:49:23.940
thing. The boys are just friends. Boys are allowed to be friends. In fact, most boys have friends who are
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boys and there's nothing sexual about it. This is quite normal and healthy. What is not normal and
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healthy is to see all male friendship, even prepubescent fictional animated male friendship
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through a sexual lens. The insider website has taken a different approach, accepting that Luca is not a
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gay story and castigating Pixar for lacking the courage to sexualize a relationship between two
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elementary age children. The author, Jacob Sarkeesian, he writes, quote, while the implications of
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queerness are there, particularly in the friendship between Luca and Alberto, it's disappointing that
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Disney's Pixar wasn't brave enough to fully commit to their first queer animated tale. He continues, Luca is
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immediately taken by the free-spirited Alberto when he meets a fellow sea monster off the coast of
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Portor Rosso. They're casually physical with one another, sleeping side by side under a star-filled
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sky, wrapping their arms around each other's waist, and watching the sunset together. In fact, they spent
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a lot of time embracing one another, teasing that their relationship could blossom into something more.
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The comparisons to Call Me By Your Name, a film where two young men fall in love, are well-earned.
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The Italian seaside setting, the hazy beauty of the summer scenery, and the tale of two boys
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experiencing love for the first time. Now, Sarkeesian begrudgingly accepts that the nine-year-olds in
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the cartoon aren't sexually interested in each other. It's just that he's disappointed, is all.
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He says, this may seem refreshing to some to see a Disney movie explore friendship as opposed to a
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fairy tale love story, but it's a shame that this decision has come when a gay romance could have so
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easily and naturally been explored. Making Luca and Alberto explicitly gay or queer wouldn't have felt
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contrived, it would have been a meaningful confirmation of what is already a story rich in
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gay subtext. Yes, why tell any other kind of story when you could have so easily told a gay one?
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Why does Sylvester Stallone fight Carl Weathers and Rocky when they could have been gay lovers instead?
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Why is Apollo 13 about an aborted lunar mission when it could have been a romance between two gay
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astronauts on Mars? A kind of broke-back mountain in space type of thing.
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And by the way, I hope you'll admire my restraint in refraining from making a Uranus joke right here.
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I'm not doing that. But why should any story be told if it's not a mechanism for sexual indoctrination?
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Why should anything exist if it's not ideologically useful to progressives?
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These are the questions that torment our friends on the left, and the questions are all the more
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disturbing when applied to a movie about eight or nine-year-old boys.
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It's bad enough for them to sexualize children as they do, but now they're offended when children
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are not sexualized. The writer of that insider article is experiencing something like moral
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indignation at the fact that a couple of prepubescent cartoon characters aren't depicted
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in an explicitly sexual embrace. I'd really hate to see what sort of improvements, quote-unquote,
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this weirdo would make to those stories of male friendship that I grew up watching.
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Don't let them anywhere near the sandlot, is all I can say. Don't let them anywhere near an actual
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sandlot either, if there are kids on it. The implications here go beyond movies and cartoons.
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The real point for these leftists, with their half-baked Freudian notions, is that all people
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are driven primarily by sexual impulses, and this includes children to them.
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In their dark, pedophilic vision of reality, innocent platonic friendships don't exist,
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can't exist. They see two boys with their arms around each other, and they think,
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well, why would anyone behave this way unless it's for sexual reasons?
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No other kind of love, no other sort of bond, can or should be formed.
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And this kind of over-sexualization of everything makes it more difficult for boys in reality to
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form those platonic loving bonds with each other. When we hear so much about a lack of representation
00:53:32.680
in film, well, male friendship is not represented very often or very well, and so boys are not
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provided with examples of what those relationships look like. And here we see part of the reason why.
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Pixar can't even put out a movie about a couple of sea monsters becoming friends
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without leftists trying to drape a rainbow flag over the whole thing.
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And for that reason, they are, of course, all of them together, very much canceled.
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