The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 748 - It's Time To Put Cameras In Every Classroom

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, many parents are finally calling for greater transparency in the classroom and more control over what sorts of things their children are taught.

00:00:08.260 If that's the goal, and it should be, then why aren't there cameras in every classroom in the country documenting everything that teachers do and say to their students?

00:00:15.600 We'll talk about that today. Also, five headlines, including the media, marks the six-month anniversary of January 6th.

00:00:21.300 As we get further and further away from that event, their retelling of it gets more and more dramatic and absurd.

00:00:26.660 Andrew Cuomo also declares gun violence a public health emergency.

00:00:30.140 And Joe Biden wants to go door-to-door to get people vaccinated. That's not creepy at all.

00:00:34.580 In our Daily Cancellation, we'll discuss the orgy of ungrateful whining and complaining that accompanied July 4th this year.

00:00:40.900 All of that and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:12.560 Welcome again to the show.

00:02:13.600 Before we get started, just want to remind you that, you know, the best thing that you can do today to help me,

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00:02:39.620 And that is, again, it's the most important thing you can do today.

00:02:42.460 The other most important thing is you can listen to what we're going to talk about to start the show.

00:02:47.100 You know, if you want to take a trip, let's say, and you can't bring your precious poodle along for the journey,

00:02:54.400 you can always hand them over to your local dog boarding facility.

00:02:57.720 Here in Nashville, for example, one fine option is a place called Camp Bow Wow.

00:03:02.160 And if you go to Camp Bow Wow, unpaid endorsement here, you'll find a feature on the website that has become nearly ubiquitous at these sorts of places, a live webcam.

00:03:12.040 And through this function, a customer is able to tune in anytime and see how their pooch is being treated and cared for by the staff.

00:03:19.980 They also might just be curious to know what little Fido or whatever is up to and how he's getting along with all the other hairy, mangy, slobbering beasts.

00:03:27.280 There are many potential reasons why a dog owner might want to have this kind of access.

00:03:32.800 And it's hard to imagine any real downside to it.

00:03:36.060 What's the, we can imagine some advantages to having the webcam.

00:03:40.180 What's the disadvantage?

00:03:42.640 Everyone agrees that there is probably too much surveillance going on in our society today.

00:03:48.000 But most of the bad sort of surveillance is the kind where we are being watched, often without our knowledge, by people who have no right or reason to be watching us.

00:03:57.640 Most of us agree, though, that surveillance can be good and has a place when it enables us to see what's happening with and to something we care about, like our dogs or our money, which is why nobody complains about bank tellers being closely monitored.

00:04:14.360 Bank tellers today have cameras all over the place focused on every little thing they're doing.

00:04:19.540 Does anyone have a problem with that?

00:04:21.660 Daycares, human daycares, I mean, also have cameras for this same reason oftentimes.

00:04:25.520 It's not that we actively distrust the staff at the dog boarding place or the bank or the daycare.

00:04:31.380 If we actively distrusted them, we wouldn't be sending our dog there or our money there or our kid there.

00:04:37.360 It's just that these people are handling very precious cargo and transparency and accountability are therefore urgently important.

00:04:46.740 You would certainly be quite suspicious of a dog boarder who steadfastly refused to put up cameras.

00:04:52.460 I mean, it's one thing if they couldn't afford it, but if they could afford it and said, no, we absolutely refuse to do that on principle, you probably wouldn't send your dog there.

00:05:01.140 Or a daycare facility.

00:05:03.060 You know, imagine a daycare facility that said that it wanted, you know, we don't want cameras because we want our staff to have more privacy as they care for your toddler.

00:05:10.760 You don't need to see what's happening here.

00:05:13.480 You can trust us.

00:05:15.460 Nothing would make you distrust them more than hearing that.

00:05:20.320 This is all to say nothing of body cameras on police officers.

00:05:23.080 Most people these days support the practice of body cameras and are quite wary of any cop who doesn't wear one.

00:05:30.700 And the cameras in this case work both ways.

00:05:32.740 That's why most people support it.

00:05:33.760 They create greater accountability for police officers, which is good because they are agents of the state who necessarily wield unique power and authority.

00:05:41.320 So you need to have accountability.

00:05:43.140 But they also potentially protect cops from any false claims made against them.

00:05:46.440 Just think about where the cop in the Micaiah Bryant shooting would be today if he hadn't been wearing his body camera.

00:05:52.540 Remember, witnesses and media reports claimed that a racist cop had randomly murdered a helpless, unarmed child.

00:05:59.640 It was only because of his camera that we quickly discovered the truth, which is the unarmed child was a teenager armed with a knife and was in the process of trying to stab another teenager to death when the officer fired, saving the victim's life.

00:06:13.400 This is why, though police shootings themselves are often controversial, the body cameras allowing us to see these incidents generally are not anymore.

00:06:22.380 In the aftermath of any shooting caught on camera, you rarely hear anyone, cop or citizen, say that they wish we were not able to see it.

00:06:33.660 Now, you hear the opposite.

00:06:35.200 Something happens and there's no body camera and we all say, well, I wish we could just see this.

00:06:40.260 But nobody ever says, after something like Micaiah Bryant is caught on camera, no one ever says, oh, man, I wish there was no video of this.

00:06:48.040 So this all raises a question.

00:06:49.520 If almost everyone agrees that we should have cameras to see what dog boarders and bank tellers and cops and daycare workers are doing, why don't we have cameras to see what public school teachers are doing?

00:07:04.660 If you would not send your dog away for a few hours or a few days without the ability to check in and see for yourself what's happening with him, why shouldn't you have the same sort of access to your own child?

00:07:19.380 If you want this level of accountability and transparency for people who watch our pets and handle our money and care for our toddlers and enforce our laws, why shouldn't we want it?

00:07:29.080 Why don't we want it for the people teaching our kids?

00:07:33.660 The current and, of course, well-warranted backlash against critical race theory in schools represents, I think, something of an awakening for many parents.

00:07:41.480 They finally seem to realize that the school system cannot be implicitly and absolutely trusted to teach children whatever it sees fit to teach them.

00:07:50.240 Parents have a right to know what is being taught and to have a say in what is being taught.

00:07:55.060 These are your kids, after all. 0.95

00:07:59.300 Despite the ridiculous arguments put forth by many on the left and some especially feeble and useless members of the right, 0.91

00:08:06.560 teachers don't have a free speech right to say whatever they want to the children in their classrooms. 0.95

00:08:12.360 There's no free speech here.

00:08:14.600 Public school teachers are government employees entrusted to perform a particular task.

00:08:19.360 They do not have the right to deviate from that task whenever and however they like.

00:08:26.980 They don't have the right to stand on their perch as teachers and assume the additional roles of counselor, psychiatrist, parent, spiritual guru.

00:08:37.960 Their job is important, but it's limited.

00:08:43.560 And parents ought to know whether and how that job is being performed.

00:08:47.400 Cameras are not the only way to accomplish this task, but they are an important tool.

00:08:54.420 And though we use them to this end in so many other facets of life, we seem to have exempted public schools entirely.

00:09:01.380 And that simply makes no sense.

00:09:03.920 Now, when I went on Twitter last night to advocate for cameras in the classroom,

00:09:08.080 I was met with intense pushback from many people, including many parents,

00:09:11.900 who apparently don't want to know exactly what government employees are saying to their kids.

00:09:16.160 Which I find very strange.

00:09:19.720 And one common refrain was that cameras would infringe on privacy and freedom in the classroom.

00:09:28.440 Now, I understand the privacy objection as it pertains to the kids.

00:09:32.860 As a parent, now, I don't send my kids to public school at all.

00:09:35.780 But if I did, I certainly wouldn't want a live classroom webcam that any person could use to monitor my children.

00:09:43.920 You know, I don't want a random Joe Schmo down the street who doesn't even have kids in the classroom watching the classroom webcam for whatever his reasons might be.

00:09:54.520 They can't be good.

00:09:55.380 So that's an objection.

00:09:59.220 But there are easy and obvious ways around this problem.

00:10:03.720 The cameras could be password protected.

00:10:05.820 Only parents with custody of their children are given the code to access the cameras.

00:10:11.520 Also, the cameras, here's a really easy thing, could just focus on the front of the room capturing just the teacher.

00:10:17.160 Perhaps only the audio would be accessible to parents under normal circumstances with the video being released whenever there's an incident or a controversy like we do with police body cameras.

00:10:28.520 There's also face-blurring technology that could be utilized to protect the privacy of children even more.

00:10:33.700 There are dozens of workarounds which immediately present themselves if the concern is over the privacy of the students in the class.

00:10:41.780 That's a reasonable concern, but we can deal with that.

00:10:47.780 We can get around that.

00:10:49.980 The thing is, though, for most critics of the camera and the classroom idea, the concern seems to be equally, if not primarily, the privacy and freedom of the teachers.

00:11:02.380 And I have no workarounds for that because public school teachers, in their capacity as public school teachers, should have no privacy.

00:11:12.740 Or I will say, only as much privacy as we grant bank tellers, and for the same reason.

00:11:19.180 Now, we're not going to follow them into the bathroom or even the break room with cameras, but when they're on the clock performing the task for which they are paid, they should be monitored closely.

00:11:31.020 If our money is too important to simply trust that the nice lady at PNC will be honest in her handling of it, then how much more important are our children?

00:11:39.420 Of course, the main thing we're looking to guard against is the psychological abuse and exploitation of students through ideological and political indoctrination.

00:11:49.740 Which is an epidemic, and it's going on in every single school in the country.

00:11:55.400 And that's one of the primary things that the camera could guard against.

00:12:00.340 That's not the only thing.

00:12:01.900 I mean, keep in mind that according to the Department of Education's own study in 2004, this again I emphasize, the Department of Education commissioned this study in 2004.

00:12:12.400 And they found that nearly 10% of students are victims of sexual misconduct by educators.

00:12:18.800 10%.

00:12:19.360 Now, that amounts to like 3 or 4 million victims at any given time.

00:12:24.120 All the more reason for greater surveillance.

00:12:28.320 And like police body cameras, the protection goes both ways.

00:12:33.520 Teachers who are falsely accused of inappropriate actions in the classroom, which happens, can simply point to the tape.

00:12:41.040 Teachers stuck in parent-teacher conferences trying to convince oblivious parents that their little angel is actually a demon-possessed terrorist in the classroom will now have video evidence to prove it.

00:12:51.680 Oh, my little junior would never act like that.

00:12:55.540 Oh, he wouldn't.

00:12:56.700 Well, here you go.

00:12:58.520 Hit play.

00:13:00.100 The advantages to cameras in the classroom can be enjoyed by all honest parties.

00:13:06.020 That seems obvious to me.

00:13:08.280 So in the end, it boils down to this question, I think.

00:13:11.460 And you just have to think about this.

00:13:13.000 Is there anything that could happen in a classroom that you absolutely would not want documented on film?

00:13:26.700 Whatever that thing is, it shouldn't be happening in the classroom in the first place.

00:13:32.780 And that's the point.

00:13:34.560 And that's why we need the cameras.

00:13:36.320 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:13:37.580 Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:14:54.140 So I'm back from my second vacation, going on another one in two days.

00:14:58.060 No, that's it.

00:14:59.140 I'm here.

00:15:00.460 I'm never going to leave again.

00:15:02.000 Day in and day out.

00:15:03.340 You will never be rid of me ever again.

00:15:06.000 Two things, two quick notes from, not really from the trip.

00:15:10.140 Well, I had another long marathon drive of a thousand miles that I did over the course of the last two days.

00:15:15.020 And two just things that I saw that I have to mention to you because to me they were notable.

00:15:21.720 Um, the first and the main thing is I guess a shout out I want to give to the town of, I think it was Woodstock, Virginia, right off of, um, right off of, of, uh, of 81.

00:15:34.980 And I was going through this town and I saw, and I hadn't, I hadn't, it's been years since I've seen this.

00:15:41.620 I saw a radio shack, a real live radio shack, not a, not a museum.

00:15:47.040 It was like a real one with, with people inside it.

00:15:50.320 And, uh, it was right next to, I kid you not, a video rental store in Woodstock, Virginia.

00:15:58.040 If you don't believe me, you can go, um, I'll send tourists now to Woodstock.

00:16:01.340 It's, it's worth it just to see this.

00:16:03.260 It's like, I went through some sort of time warp.

00:16:04.880 I don't know what happened.

00:16:07.000 Maybe, maybe I hit 88 miles an hour.

00:16:08.800 What is it?

00:16:09.380 Back to the future.

00:16:09.980 Is it 88 miles an hour?

00:16:10.900 Are you going to, I don't know.

00:16:12.040 But, um, and it was just amazing to me.

00:16:14.800 And both of these places seem to be in business.

00:16:17.040 And you kids, you don't know about the video rental places.

00:16:20.620 That was a, that was a thing for a long time.

00:16:23.340 So you're spoiled these days.

00:16:25.880 Like you don't understand the concept of, of, of, if you want to watch a movie now, right.

00:16:30.340 Or a show and, um, and Netflix has it.

00:16:34.180 Then you just go on Netflix on your computer and you watch it.

00:16:37.160 And that's it.

00:16:38.400 That's all you got to do.

00:16:39.960 But it used to be that Blockbuster or the video rental place, the local video rental place.

00:16:43.740 They, they could have, there's a movie out and Blockbuster has it, but then you go there

00:16:50.640 and they don't have it in stock because other people have rented it.

00:16:53.140 So there's a limited supply.

00:16:54.560 It doesn't exist on Netflix.

00:16:55.860 You don't go to Netflix and, uh, well, 50 people have already rented this movie.

00:16:59.680 So you got to wait.

00:17:01.460 That was the thing.

00:17:02.140 You go into Blockbuster and you want to watch Ace Ventura Pet Detective.

00:17:05.700 And, uh, 10 of the people got there first and now you can't watch that.

00:17:09.160 And then all hell breaks loose because now you're with your friends or your siblings wandering

00:17:12.880 around the aisles debating what else you're going to get.

00:17:15.120 And a lot of times what they would have is, uh, is I don't know who came up with these

00:17:17.980 movies, but there'd be a knockoff version instead of Ace Ventura Pet Detective.

00:17:22.140 There'd be like Bob, the dog finder or something.

00:17:25.960 And you could just go with that, the knockoff version, which was never as good.

00:17:28.940 But so I saw that and that was a lot of fun.

00:17:32.340 Um, and then the second thing that I saw, we have the picture here, which was not as

00:17:36.460 fun, uh, a rest stop.

00:17:39.280 This was a rest stop also off of 81, right as you get into Tennessee at their Tennessee

00:17:44.620 welcome center.

00:17:46.760 And I get out of my car and there is this, I don't know what it's some sort of, I hesitate

00:17:53.440 to call this some sort of artwork that had been put right outside of the Tennessee welcome

00:17:58.680 the first thing you see welcome into the state.

00:18:01.320 And it's this thing here.

00:18:03.820 So the state of Tennessee had a spot available at their welcome center.

00:18:07.460 They said, we need some artwork to put here.

00:18:09.120 And they, and they went with this.

00:18:11.840 It's just this, this mangled mess of random shapes cut out of sheet metal.

00:18:18.220 What is, it looks like some kind of, I don't know, it's like caribou or deer in some sort

00:18:24.460 of sexual embrace.

00:18:27.180 I'm not sure what it is.

00:18:28.680 You know, a hundred years ago, if you went to that exact same spot, that would be a beautiful

00:18:33.360 sculpture of like some sort of historical figure.

00:18:36.540 And now it's that.

00:18:40.620 Disgraceful.

00:18:42.560 Other than that, it was a fine trip.

00:18:44.080 Okay.

00:18:45.060 Let's move on to speaking of disgraceful.

00:18:48.120 Number one, yesterday was the six month anniversary of January 6th.

00:18:55.140 And the left in the media, they're really milking this thing.

00:18:57.740 You know, you're milking anything when you're, when you're, when you're acknowledging the

00:19:01.500 month anniversaries.

00:19:03.060 It's like you do with your first girlfriend in seventh grade.

00:19:05.380 Today's our two and a half month anniversary, babe.

00:19:09.200 That kind of thing.

00:19:11.320 And they're doing that with January 6th now.

00:19:14.240 So now it's the sixth month.

00:19:15.440 Every month we have to mark it.

00:19:16.800 And as we get further and further away from this, the description of it becomes more dramatic

00:19:25.320 to the point where now we have, this is Matthew Dowd.

00:19:28.420 He was on MSNBC, former GOP strategist, which tells you everything you need to know about

00:19:32.820 the GOP.

00:19:33.400 And here he is arguing shamelessly and publicly that January 6th was, was not just like 9-11.

00:19:41.240 It was in fact, it was worse than 9-11. 0.69

00:19:42.820 Listen.

00:19:43.480 Well, I absolutely agree with you, Joy, that I think it's much worse than it was on January

00:19:48.020 6th.

00:19:48.640 It's much worse than it was in November.

00:19:51.120 It's much worse after January 6th.

00:19:53.020 And part of the problem is, is because, because there's been no accountability, it's given permission

00:19:58.080 to do more of this.

00:19:59.840 And not only is it given permission to just average people out there who might do crazy

00:20:04.520 things, it's allowed the Republicans just to continue this big lie that they've pushed

00:20:09.260 across.

00:20:09.820 I was yesterday, I was in Kentucky, I decided to go to Lincoln's birthplace and his boyhood

00:20:14.480 home.

00:20:15.040 And I was reflecting about it because one of the things Lincoln said was, America will

00:20:19.180 never be destroyed from outside.

00:20:21.320 America will destroy itself.

00:20:23.400 And I think that's what I fear about right now.

00:20:25.980 And one of the things, if you think about this, what would happen if after 9-11, we

00:20:30.240 had done nothing?

00:20:31.340 We had done nothing.

00:20:32.100 Think about that.

00:20:32.760 We had done nothing after 9-11.

00:20:34.500 And to me, though there was less loss of life on January 6th, January 6th was worse than

00:20:40.020 9-11 because it's continued to rip our country apart and give permission for people to pursue 1.00

00:20:46.160 autocratic means.

00:20:47.260 And so I think we're in a much worse place than we've been.

00:20:50.540 And as I've said, I think to you before, I think we're in the most perilous point in time

00:20:54.300 since 1861 in the advent of the Civil War.

00:20:59.060 Worse than 9-11.

00:21:01.500 Not even as bad as, but worse than 9-11.

00:21:06.240 He acknowledges, though, yeah, there was less loss of life.

00:21:11.080 There was less.

00:21:13.480 Yeah, that's one way of putting it, in that there were 3,000 people killed on 9-11 across

00:21:20.220 three states.

00:21:23.580 And there's, so 3,000 versus none.

00:21:33.400 Except for the only person killed by riot-related violence was Ashley Babbitt.

00:21:39.680 It was killed by, we think, a Capitol Police officer, though we've never been told who it

00:21:43.180 is.

00:21:43.340 But the only reason I say none is that Matthew Dowd and the media, they don't count her.

00:21:50.320 They themselves have decided that she doesn't count.

00:21:53.820 So as far as they're concerned, none, because they don't acknowledge that.

00:21:59.880 But really, there was one.

00:22:01.700 How many people did the rioters kill?

00:22:05.800 Zero.

00:22:07.500 Zero.

00:22:07.900 Zero people killed.

00:22:11.980 3,000.

00:22:14.000 Zero.

00:22:16.000 So it is technically correct and accurate to say there was less loss of life.

00:22:23.500 But to call that an understatement would be itself an enormous understatement.

00:22:28.600 But this is what they're doing.

00:22:30.020 You know, it's, they, they, all you need is for the narrative to metastasize, which happens

00:22:37.480 very quickly.

00:22:39.200 I mean, within hours on January 6th, they had settled on this thing of a, it was an

00:22:46.600 insurrection and it was a deadly insurrection.

00:22:49.540 And five people were killed or seven people were killed.

00:22:52.280 The number kind of fluctuated, whatever it was, deadly insurrection.

00:22:55.640 And then very quickly after that, the facts come out and it turns out, well, no, it wasn't

00:23:00.700 a deadly insurrection at all, except for the, uh, the rioter that was killed.

00:23:04.840 In fact, it wasn't an insurrection at all, much less deadly, but it doesn't matter.

00:23:11.120 It does not matter.

00:23:13.860 All they need is the story and then they can run with the story forever.

00:23:18.160 It's the reason why they still say, hands up, don't shoot.

00:23:24.000 Um, but as dramatic as that was, it pales in comparison to this.

00:23:29.860 Andy Kim, who's a congressman from New Jersey, of course, uh, he tweeted this and there's a

00:23:38.020 picture of him holding his cheap blue suit.

00:23:39.860 And he says, six months ago today, I wore this blue suit as I cleaned the Capitol after

00:23:45.100 the insurrection.

00:23:46.520 Now I just donated it to the Smithsonian.

00:23:50.920 January 6th must never be forgotten.

00:23:53.000 While some try to erase history, I will fight to tell, uh, tell the story.

00:23:57.020 So it never happens again.

00:23:58.560 Here is one story.

00:24:00.280 And then, and this is a whole, this is a whole thread.

00:24:02.660 Um, then it says story of the blue suit.

00:24:06.960 Um, he says, when the Smithsonian asked me to donate the blue suit, I thought about how

00:24:10.860 the suit itself is unremarkable.

00:24:13.360 Bought off the rack at J.Crew during a holiday sale.

00:24:16.240 I wanted a bright blue new suit to wear to Biden's inauguration.

00:24:20.120 Then January 6th happened.

00:24:21.260 Can we just stop here for a minute?

00:24:22.440 You're going to an inauguration.

00:24:23.860 This is a big thing for you.

00:24:25.280 Obviously it's a big deal.

00:24:27.140 Um, you're a, you're a, you're a congressman.

00:24:31.500 You're a state.

00:24:31.940 You're, you're a representative of the country.

00:24:35.740 Can you go and get a tailored suit?

00:24:37.660 I know you can afford it.

00:24:39.960 You're running into J.Crew off the rack and buying a suit.

00:24:44.860 That's embarrassing enough on its own.

00:24:49.160 Um, and then he continues.

00:24:51.760 Then January 6th happened.

00:24:53.640 I woke with the news of the winds in Georgia.

00:24:55.640 I decided to wear the blue suit.

00:24:57.140 I bought it to be a suit of celebration.

00:24:59.060 And I thought, what better way to give the suit meaning than to wear it when I confirmed

00:25:03.980 the electoral college.

00:25:04.860 And then later to the inauguration, a suit of celebration that you spent $72 on in clearance.

00:25:10.080 Come on.

00:25:11.640 Um, and then he goes on.

00:25:12.740 I can't even read this whole thing.

00:25:13.620 Well, he goes on for a while talking about how he wore the blue suit.

00:25:18.200 And then there was the quote unquote insurrection.

00:25:20.700 And then, um, he helped to clean up a little bit.

00:25:22.920 He picked up some old, uh, just some, some like plastic bottles and stuff that had been

00:25:26.620 left there.

00:25:27.440 And he put those in a garbage bag.

00:25:28.960 And it was this heroic moment of, uh, by Andy Kim.

00:25:33.100 And now he's giving his suit to the Smithsonian.

00:25:34.720 He's giving it to a museum.

00:25:37.960 And I'm, I'm a big fan of the Smithsonian.

00:25:40.400 I'm a big fan of museums.

00:25:43.860 Just think about how confused future generations are going to be when they go to the Smithsonian

00:25:49.880 and they see all of this remarkable, his, you know, these, these remarkable historical artifacts.

00:25:57.400 And then they just see someone's cheap suit from J.Crew hanging there.

00:26:02.060 You would almost think like, did someone take this off and leave it here by accident?

00:26:05.280 What is it?

00:26:05.560 Is this even an exhibit?

00:26:06.640 What is this?

00:26:09.020 Oh no, this is the suit he was wearing when some people trespassed in a building that he

00:26:13.260 was in.

00:26:16.340 I got to tell you, I was in, uh, I, you know, I was once.

00:26:20.060 In a building, um, where there was trespassing that happened a few years ago.

00:26:25.220 And, uh, in fact, I was, I was at an Applebee's speaking of high class.

00:26:29.100 I was at an Applebee's and I don't know what exactly happened, but some, so someone came

00:26:32.660 in and they weren't supposed to be there.

00:26:34.540 I don't know what exactly, but they, but they got kicked out.

00:26:36.240 Maybe they were drunk or something.

00:26:38.460 And, um, and I'll never forget that moment.

00:26:41.220 I'll never forget that day.

00:26:42.520 I'll never forget the trauma that I experienced from that.

00:26:44.840 Um, and so now I'm thinking that I'll take the flannel and the jeans that I was wearing

00:26:50.680 that day.

00:26:51.260 And I'm going to donate.

00:26:52.320 In fact, I'll donate the flannel to the Smithsonian.

00:26:55.840 Um, my, my pants I'll send on a rocket ship to the moon to have placed there in memoriam.

00:27:02.660 Um, my shoes I'll burn and I'll scatter the ashes across the sea so that nobody ever forgets

00:27:11.460 the day that someone got kicked out of an Applebee's while I was sitting there.

00:27:15.980 I almost died.

00:27:20.620 Theoretically.

00:27:23.820 A lot of, a lot of heroism in the world today.

00:27:26.060 Let's go.

00:27:26.500 Number two here from NBC, New York says governor Andrew Cuomo has issued the first in the nation

00:27:31.800 executive order declaring gun violence in New York as a disaster emergency.

00:27:36.400 The first step in a comprehensive plan that aids, that aims to tackle the surge in gun

00:27:41.040 violence throughout the state.

00:27:42.980 Uh, the announcement was made at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan in

00:27:46.660 New York Tuesday afternoon.

00:27:47.980 This is the first step in a comprehensive plan Cuomo outlined composed of seven key areas,

00:27:52.800 all with the aim of quelling the gun violence surge.

00:27:56.180 The key areas are quote, treat gun violence like the emergency public health it is.

00:28:00.480 Um, target hotspots with data and science.

00:28:06.360 What does that mean?

00:28:07.820 This is how we're going to solve gun violence.

00:28:09.440 Target it with science.

00:28:12.000 What are you going to do about gun violence?

00:28:13.460 Uh, science.

00:28:15.160 What do you mean?

00:28:15.980 You know, science solves everything.

00:28:20.080 Um, positive engagement for at-risk youth.

00:28:23.220 Number four, break the cycle of escalating violence.

00:28:25.880 Number five, get illegal guns off the street. 0.99

00:28:28.940 Number six, keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.

00:28:31.200 Seven, rebuild the police community relationship.

00:28:33.800 Just a whole bunch of broad, vague.

00:28:37.460 You might as well say, um, I have one step to solving the gun violence problem.

00:28:42.260 Number one, solve the gun violence problem.

00:28:45.420 How do you put, break the cycle of escalating violence as one of the steps on the way to

00:28:53.060 achieve it?

00:28:53.600 That is the goal.

00:28:55.300 Now, how are you going to do that is the question.

00:28:58.200 Oh, you're just going to, you're going to declare gun violence a public health emergency.

00:29:03.260 Okay.

00:29:03.660 That's really going to help.

00:29:04.520 This, this is part of the, the religion of the left.

00:29:06.820 They believe that every bad thing is a public health emergency, um, because everything has

00:29:13.680 to be framed in the sort of sanitized medical kind of way.

00:29:18.860 Everything becomes a health crisis.

00:29:20.640 It's a, it's a, it's a really a medical scientific issue.

00:29:24.780 And why do they do that?

00:29:25.900 Because they're trying to remove the moral dimension from all of these things.

00:29:31.160 And they think just by declaring something a public health crisis, that that in itself

00:29:35.040 will solve the problem.

00:29:36.820 Um, and in trying to remove the moral dimension, what they're looking to avoid is the reality

00:29:43.160 that gun violence happens just like all other kinds of violence.

00:29:48.720 And there's a lot of it happening in our cities and not all of it involving guns, but it happens

00:29:54.000 because individual human beings make the choice to behave this way.

00:30:02.720 Um, but they don't want to talk about choice.

00:30:07.480 Because when you talk about choice, then you have to ask, well, why are they making this

00:30:10.880 choice?

00:30:12.180 Why are they acting this way?

00:30:15.000 If you got a 17 year old guy, um, out there on the street in, in, in New York or Chicago

00:30:20.540 or Baltimore, and he just goes up and shoot someone dead to steal his shoes or because

00:30:27.160 he's selling crack on the, on a, on a street corner where, where, where he would prefer to

00:30:30.960 be, um, yeah, you could blame the gun if you want and say, this is a public health emergency.

00:30:36.820 Or you can ask what in the world has happened that would, that would lead to this 17 year

00:30:46.480 old throwing someone's life away and his own life away for nothing.

00:30:51.800 This is someone who does not value life, his own or anyone else's.

00:31:00.580 How did we get there?

00:31:01.620 That's the real disaster emergency.

00:31:05.100 And I'll tell you one of the ways that we've gotten there.

00:31:08.060 You want to, you want to talk about the real disaster emergency, quote unquote, in urban

00:31:12.120 communities, in the cities.

00:31:13.180 It's that almost all of the people responsible for this quote unquote, gun violence don't

00:31:19.680 have fathers in the home.

00:31:20.760 That's not the only thing.

00:31:22.060 That's not the only contributing factor, but it's a big one.

00:31:28.200 You know, when you've got 70, 80% of fathers choosing not to be in the home, raising their

00:31:35.200 own kids.

00:31:37.440 Yeah.

00:31:37.900 You're going to have a gun violence epidemic and you're going to have a drug abuse

00:31:40.320 epidemic and you're going to have a suicide epidemic.

00:31:42.560 You're going to have, you're going to have crime of all kinds is going to be an epidemic.

00:31:48.360 If you were to cut that, if even, let's say we're at 70% in the city right now, if we were

00:31:52.920 to make it 45%, well, let's say 40%, cut it down by 30%, 40% would still be an enormous

00:32:02.260 number, but you would see magically so much of this gun violence would disappear.

00:32:12.560 But we can't discuss that.

00:32:14.400 That is not in the seven key areas that he outlines.

00:32:17.640 Doesn't talk about that.

00:32:19.080 Doesn't talk about how almost all of these perpetrators of gun violence don't have dads.

00:32:29.400 Governor Cuomo also on the gun violence front tweeted this as well.

00:32:33.280 He said, the gun industry is the only industry in America with immunity from civil lawsuits.

00:32:38.620 It's an insult to victims of gun violence.

00:32:40.920 Today, I'm signing legislation to reinstate public nuisance liability for gun manufacturers

00:32:45.460 in New York state.

00:32:47.900 I thank the sponsors of the bill.

00:32:49.460 Well, that's just, that's just a lie.

00:32:52.680 Just so you know, when you hear this thing about how gun manufacturers are, are not liable

00:32:57.620 or they're, they're insulated from, from, from lawsuits or anything.

00:33:01.000 They have immunity from civil lawsuits.

00:33:02.820 That is not true.

00:33:05.560 A gun manufacturer can be sued under the same, for the same reason that the manufacturer of

00:33:11.520 any other product can be sued.

00:33:13.440 If you sell someone a product and it malfunctions, it does something that it's not supposed to do

00:33:18.460 and somebody gets hurt or killed in the process, you get sued for that.

00:33:22.140 If I take my Glock 19 down to the range and I pull the trigger and it explodes and kills

00:33:27.640 me, my family could definitely sue them for that.

00:33:32.240 But what you can't do is sue someone or sue the manufacturer of a product if somebody else

00:33:40.660 takes that product and uses it in a, in an, in an illegitimate and illegal criminal way.

00:33:47.960 That's what you can't sue gun manufacturers for, obviously.

00:33:52.800 If there's an ax murderer running around out there, you can't sue Home Depot because that's

00:33:58.960 where he bought the ax, much less can you sue the company that made the ax.

00:34:03.560 You can't do that.

00:34:06.040 If somebody buys the ax and they pick it up to cut some wood and the, you know, the blade

00:34:11.300 comes flinging off of the ax and hits someone in the head and kills them, again, you could

00:34:15.100 sue them for that. 0.97

00:34:15.740 But if you take the ax and choose to use it in a way that you're not supposed to, then

00:34:25.020 you're the one liable.

00:34:27.120 Same for guns.

00:34:27.980 So this is a misnomer.

00:34:30.420 This is a falsehood.

00:34:31.360 It's a lie.

00:34:31.940 In other words.

00:34:33.540 OK, next year, Joe Biden unveiled his plan for getting the holdouts who are not vaccinated 1.00

00:34:38.260 vaccinated.

00:34:39.080 And he said he wants to go door to door and find all you people and drag you there by the

00:34:44.440 scruff of your neck.

00:34:45.280 Here he is explaining.

00:34:45.980 Because here's the deal.

00:34:49.000 We are continuing to wind down the mass vaccination sites that did so much in the spring to rapidly

00:34:55.440 vaccinate those eager to get their first shot and their second shot, for that matter, if

00:34:59.900 they needed a second.

00:35:01.500 Now we need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes

00:35:06.480 door to door, literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people protected

00:35:11.700 from the virus.

00:35:12.600 Right.

00:35:15.600 That's not creepy at all.

00:35:18.460 You know, I talked about there's good surveillance and bad surveillance.

00:35:22.600 Good surveillance is when it's the citizens, we the people who are given the ability to

00:35:28.540 see what, you know, government workers are doing, especially with respect to our children.

00:35:36.820 So that's good surveillance.

00:35:40.060 Bad surveillance is something like this.

00:35:43.600 First of all, we should have, we're supposed to have privacy.

00:35:47.000 We're supposed to have medical privacy.

00:35:48.760 Our medical records are supposed to be private.

00:35:51.080 So Joe Biden and his administration shouldn't even know who hasn't gotten vaccinated and who

00:35:56.720 has.

00:35:58.100 That is private medical information.

00:36:01.020 So if the government is accessing that information and then going to your door and knocking on your

00:36:05.460 door and saying you need to get vaccinated, that's a form of surveillance and that's a bad

00:36:08.940 kind.

00:36:09.200 That is big brother.

00:36:09.920 I had a lot of people, by the way, going back to that, I just, as I said, when I put this

00:36:17.140 out on Twitter yesterday about, about cameras in the classroom and a lot of people very upset

00:36:21.080 at this idea.

00:36:22.020 And that's one thing that I heard is this is, this is Orwellian.

00:36:25.920 This is big brother.

00:36:28.060 A lot of people is Orwellian is, that's a term used by people who've never read Orwell.

00:36:33.980 Probably don't even know that his name is George Orwell.

00:36:36.120 I don't even know where the word comes from.

00:36:37.320 No, this is, this is, when citizens are surveilling the state, that is the opposite of Orwellian.

00:36:47.160 It's literally the exact opposite of Orwellian.

00:36:51.660 This is more along the lines of Orwellian.

00:36:54.520 And it's all, it's all completely pointless and useless because just so you know, the people at

00:37:03.040 this point who are not vaccinated, it's not because they don't realize that the vaccinations

00:37:08.020 are out there.

00:37:09.340 It's not because they don't know how to get vaccinated.

00:37:13.260 It's not because they, no one has given them the information about the advantages of vaccination.

00:37:19.700 That's not the reason.

00:37:21.500 They know that it's there.

00:37:22.920 They know they could get it.

00:37:24.320 They know that it's free.

00:37:25.760 They know that it's really easy to get.

00:37:27.500 They know that it would take 15 minutes, just go down to CVS and they could get it done.

00:37:30.560 They know all of that.

00:37:32.860 But they're not getting it anyway.

00:37:34.220 Why?

00:37:34.700 For their own, it's their business, for their own reason.

00:37:37.620 They don't want to, they don't feel like it.

00:37:39.440 They're worried about side effects.

00:37:40.580 They're worried about long-term, whatever, whatever their reason is.

00:37:44.020 They have a reason and there's nothing you could say to them at this point

00:37:48.660 that's going to change their mind.

00:37:53.320 Unless you really start putting on the pressure.

00:37:56.800 Unless you start issuing threats and that kind of thing.

00:38:00.920 Which maybe is what happens next.

00:38:03.900 Because he doesn't really clarify what exactly will be said when they knock on the door.

00:38:09.100 But I guess we'll find out.

00:38:10.300 One other thing from the White House.

00:38:12.060 This is the White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, speaking out about systemic racism in education history.

00:38:18.540 Let's listen.

00:38:19.920 Nicole Hannah-Jones, who passed up a position at UNC, who will be teaching the Elk Road at Howard.

00:38:25.280 She said this morning that it took protest, the threat of legal action, all this just to get to a 9-4 vote.

00:38:32.520 What does Biden make of the UNC process and her decision?

00:38:36.340 And is this an example of the systemic racism that he promised to heal?

00:38:39.920 Well, I have not spoken with the president about the decision on tenure by the institution in North Carolina.

00:38:46.600 I will say that the students at Howard are quite lucky to have her as a professor and in their family.

00:38:52.280 But I think there's no question that there continues to be systemic racism in our country.

00:38:58.360 We see that in a range of sectors, including in some learning institutions.

00:39:02.300 But the president, that's why the president is continuing to make racial equity and addressing racial equity as a central priority and crisis that he would like to address and focus on as president.

00:39:13.700 This is a great story, by the way.

00:39:14.980 I don't know if you heard about this.

00:39:15.900 Nicole Hannah-Jones, she's the race hustling hack, 1619 Project and all that. 1.00

00:39:22.460 But she was not offered tenure originally by UNC, and she said this is racism and all of that, and she threatened to sue.

00:39:32.980 And then finally, they said, OK, we'll give you tenure.

00:39:35.900 And she said, you know what?

00:39:36.840 I don't want it anymore.

00:39:38.100 And she declined it after insisting for so long that it was racism. 0.97

00:39:42.960 I want it.

00:39:43.660 You didn't give it to me.

00:39:44.880 OK, here you go.

00:39:45.640 I don't want it.

00:39:47.420 Just like a child.

00:39:48.440 This is what my kids do this all the time.

00:39:53.260 They're fighting over a toy.

00:39:54.640 I want it.

00:39:55.360 He took it.

00:39:55.820 I want the toy.

00:39:56.400 OK, here, you can have the toy.

00:39:57.460 I don't want the toy anymore.

00:40:00.020 So Nicole Hannah-Jones did that, which is embarrassing UNC, which I think is fantastic.

00:40:05.420 They deserve to be embarrassed.

00:40:09.040 And Jen Psaki's response to that is that this is somehow systemic racism, and there's still systemic racism in the education system, 0.93

00:40:16.660 which, of course, we have to say again, she's right.

00:40:20.780 There is systemic racism in the education system, and it's systemic racism that leads to a situation where, you know, a white student who is more qualified than a black student might not make it in,

00:40:36.400 and instead the black student will be in there because of racial discrimination against the white person.

00:40:41.780 So there is systemic racism in education, but it is anti-white and also anti-Asian racism.

00:40:48.860 Well, we always have to clarify that because you hear conservatives sometimes say, oh, systemic racism in education, that doesn't exist.

00:40:55.100 And I probably say that sometimes when, you know, when you get a little, when you're not being specific enough.

00:41:01.000 No, it does exist.

00:41:03.420 It's just that it's anti-white.

00:41:06.700 All right.

00:41:07.300 Finally, here's an inspiring message I just wanted to share with you if you're looking to be inspired.

00:41:11.180 This is from Diddy, Sean Combs, Puff Daddy.

00:41:14.880 And this got some attention.

00:41:16.160 It's an Instagram post.

00:41:17.980 And there's a video.

00:41:18.820 We'll play the video first.

00:41:20.260 But it's really the caption that matters here.

00:41:22.260 But first, here's the video.

00:41:23.980 You can do it.

00:41:26.700 You can be whoever you want.

00:41:27.860 You can be eating mango, too, with the ocean as your backyard.

00:41:31.700 I ain't special.

00:41:33.620 I just want it.

00:41:34.700 I want it bad.

00:41:36.140 You feel me?

00:41:37.320 And I'm going to allow myself to not have mango.

00:41:42.540 I hope you're hard.

00:41:43.700 You know what I mean?

00:41:44.780 You know what I mean?

00:41:45.220 I don't know if you're in my way.

00:41:46.840 No, baby.

00:41:47.440 This is it.

00:41:53.980 Okay, so he's clearly high as a kite.

00:42:01.060 I have no idea what he just said.

00:42:02.060 There's something about mango and work hard so you can have your own mango, I guess.

00:42:06.480 I think it's a very mango-centric inspirational message.

00:42:11.360 Which really, I think you could just go to like Whole Foods or something and get a mango.

00:42:15.140 Really, you don't have to be rich to do that.

00:42:16.560 But I don't know if he thinks that you have to fly down to a tropical location to get a mango.

00:42:22.420 You could really get them at the grocery store.

00:42:23.660 But anyway, here's the caption is what got my attention.

00:42:27.180 He says, one day when I was growing up, I woke up and there was 15 roaches on my face.

00:42:33.100 At that moment, I said, hell no, I refuse to live like this.

00:42:36.380 Work hard, believe in your crazy dreams, and never settle.

00:42:39.620 Hashtag love.

00:42:42.480 I'm just, 15 roaches on your face?

00:42:47.960 So many questions.

00:42:49.040 Like first, how does a roach infestation get so bad?

00:42:51.540 You have 15 of them on your face.

00:42:55.560 What is this, fear factor?

00:42:57.000 Were you sleeping on the set of feet?

00:42:58.340 I mean, how did all of those get on your face?

00:43:00.960 And what were they doing there?

00:43:02.920 Did you smear bacon grease on your face before you went to bed?

00:43:07.460 And here's the, but here's even more, more pressing question.

00:43:11.760 How did you know that it was 15?

00:43:17.300 It's such a specific number.

00:43:19.180 Did you count them?

00:43:21.360 What kind of person wakes up and goes, oh no, there's roaches on my face.

00:43:24.260 One, two, three, four, five.

00:43:26.480 It doesn't make sense to me.

00:43:30.720 I'm calling shenanigans on this, on this roach story.

00:43:33.240 Maybe there was one roach on his face, and the story has grown into 15.

00:43:40.440 In five years, he'll be telling the story, and there was 6,000 roaches crawling all over

00:43:45.120 his body.

00:43:45.540 Who knows?

00:43:45.880 I'm not sure if I believe it.

00:43:48.360 Okay.

00:43:49.440 Moving on to reading the YouTube comments.

00:43:50.840 We've got to go back far.

00:43:52.000 We've got to reach back far in time, almost as far back as when Radio Shack existed, except

00:43:56.240 in Woodstock, Virginia, to find these comments on the last show we did on Thursday.

00:44:01.840 But here they are.

00:44:02.960 Diana says, America is so great a country, even those who hate it won't leave.

00:44:08.800 And we have more on that in the daily cancellation in just a second, but I agree with you.

00:44:12.620 Another comment says, it used to be about letting adults do adult things, but now it's pushing

00:44:18.620 adult things onto children.

00:44:21.540 Yeah, that is true.

00:44:23.000 There's a lot of that that happens, and the last show we did was about the Washington Post

00:44:28.600 editorial from a woman who brought her young children to a gay pride parade so that they 0.93

00:44:34.180 could watch kink, so they could be exposed to the fetishism and kink of gay men. 0.97

00:44:42.620 So in a way, that is children being exposed to adult things.

00:44:46.640 I got to tell you, the other problem I have is how this word adult is now used.

00:44:52.900 Because we think, oh, these were men in leather thongs being led around on dog leashes, and

00:45:02.840 well, that's adult.

00:45:04.040 That's for adults.

00:45:05.300 Or when you're driving down the highway and you see adult superstore. 1.00

00:45:11.540 And this is, so adult has become shorthand for perverse, weird, bizarre, disgusting, stupid. 1.00

00:45:22.800 That's what adult has come to mean. 0.99

00:45:24.840 Now, I agree it's adult in the sense that kids should not be exposed to this.

00:45:29.560 Absolutely.

00:45:31.000 But I just, I lament the fact that the word adult has come to me.

00:45:34.520 When you see adult superstore or whatever, that should mean that you go in there and there's

00:45:40.340 like Russian novels and comfortable leather chairs and, you know, fancy globes for your

00:45:47.520 office.

00:45:47.980 Like, that's what we should mean when we talk about, it should mean sophisticated, mature.

00:45:52.820 Well, even mature doesn't work anymore because that word also, but sophisticated, that's

00:45:56.860 what it should mean.

00:45:58.240 Intelligent.

00:46:02.680 But by the way, just so you know, I don't, if you do, don't, you go to the adult store,

00:46:06.840 you're not going to find Russian novels.

00:46:08.720 At least not the kind that you hopefully would be looking for.

00:46:12.780 Matt Bertrand says, just saying it would probably suck to play Scrabble against Walsh.

00:46:17.880 I don't know exactly what you mean about that by that.

00:46:20.020 If you mean that I'm a master at Scrabble, then you're right.

00:46:23.800 If you mean that I would just be a really annoying person to play board games against

00:46:27.920 because I'm way too competitive and I get really angry when I lose, you'd also be right.

00:46:37.160 And finally, Mrs. 0.95

00:46:38.300 Mack says, Matt, you flew on an airplane.

00:46:40.360 I thought you canceled and banned flying.

00:46:42.300 I did cancel and ban it, but you know, I also canceled and banned birthdays and I still

00:46:49.600 celebrated my own because I think it should be clear by now.

00:46:53.700 And I haven't denied this, that the cancellations, I have my own set of rules and there's the

00:47:00.120 rules for you and everybody else and there's rules for me.

00:47:02.620 So I did fly.

00:47:05.420 I flew again last week.

00:47:08.260 Oh, that was one of the, that reminds me of one other thing that happened that I thought

00:47:11.560 was funny.

00:47:12.860 This was last week.

00:47:13.860 I was in the Nashville airport and this is never, I never had experienced this before.

00:47:18.480 I was sitting in the terminal waiting for my flight and this blaring alarm comes on.

00:47:23.660 It's like a fog horn type alarm.

00:47:25.560 And then there's a recording that says, um, there's a fire emergency, please evacuate the

00:47:31.480 building immediately.

00:47:32.520 And the report, the recording keeps playing and the alarm is blaring and it's really creepy.

00:47:37.900 Um, and then I look around and I don't know if I should be encouraged by this or not, but

00:47:43.880 nobody moves.

00:47:46.660 We all just keep sitting there while this alarm is saying everyone evacuate immediately.

00:47:51.480 We all sit there.

00:47:52.500 No one leaves.

00:47:53.420 So the good thing is there was no panic.

00:47:56.100 This was not a panicky bunch, but also we weren't reacting at all.

00:48:00.920 I know my reason was I was thinking, well, if there's really a fire, I probably see smoke.

00:48:05.300 This could be a false alarm.

00:48:06.960 And I don't really want to leave the airport because then I got to go through security again.

00:48:09.800 I got to be on my flight in 30 minutes.

00:48:11.100 Just seems like a big hassle.

00:48:12.740 So I'll take my chances here.

00:48:14.920 And then they came on, uh, two or three minutes later and said that it was a false alarm.

00:48:18.620 And so we were fine, but I just thought that was great how we all completely ignored

00:48:22.920 the alarm.

00:48:23.300 Um, and it worked out.

00:48:26.320 It was a gamble, but it paid off.

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00:51:16.900 You know, I spent this July 4th at a lake house, uh, drinking beer, eating copious amounts of meat,

00:51:22.260 watching unsanctioned and arguably unsafe fireworks displays put on by different houses around the lake.

00:51:27.760 At one point, someone's firework misfired and a ball of flame descended gracefully from the sky

00:51:32.800 and landed directly on the roof of the house next door.

00:51:36.520 Unfortunately, it was slightly raining at this point, so no fires were started,

00:51:39.680 though the guy who owned the house was not amused for some reason.

00:51:43.320 My point is simply that I, just like so many of you, celebrated the holiday the way that it was meant to be celebrated, 0.99

00:51:49.380 patriotically and joyfully and gluttonously and gratuitously and stupidly. 0.92

00:51:53.940 But July 4th for many other Americans is not a time for something so frivolous as happiness. 0.97

00:51:58.520 It is rather a time for anger and sorrow.

00:52:02.160 These are the Americans who profess to hate this country,

00:52:04.240 though they choose to still live here, gorging themselves on the bounty of Western civilization

00:52:09.060 while bitterly complaining about the people who provided that bounty to them. 0.98

00:52:13.580 Most of these ungrateful, whiny losers can't even really explain why they hate this country so much, 0.99

00:52:18.920 as this recent video from Campus Reform demonstrates. 0.99

00:52:23.460 Are you proud to be an American?

00:52:25.800 No.

00:52:26.280 I feel embarrassed to be an American every day.

00:52:29.840 Um, not really in this climate.

00:52:32.200 No, like, I'm a black person, so obviously I experience a lot of, uh, you know,

00:52:38.720 there's like oppression that comes with that.

00:52:40.880 Um, not most of the time.

00:52:43.740 I think sometimes it's just a little embarrassing.

00:52:46.060 No.

00:52:46.920 Be proud of what? 0.94

00:52:47.860 What is there to be proud about if you're black and being, like, you know, 1.00

00:52:50.960 because it's just like it's still a lot of stuff that goes on for black people.

00:52:53.760 I think that's a complicated question for me.

00:52:57.040 I think I, I, I think most of the time, no, at least over, like, the past four years, um,

00:53:03.720 it's been tricky to, you know, love to be an American. 0.99

00:53:06.960 Well, like, America sucks, you know, because, like, it oppresses black people or whatever. 0.99

00:53:12.220 However, how does it oppress them? 0.99

00:53:16.440 What is the exact nature of this oppression?

00:53:19.360 That's never explained.

00:53:20.840 The people who hate America are like sullen teenagers who go around complaining that their

00:53:24.560 lives are so difficult and miserable, even as they enjoy the easiest and most painless 0.65

00:53:29.060 existence that the world can possibly offer to a human being.

00:53:32.080 In fact, those same sullen teenagers crying that they're being oppressed by their parents

00:53:36.280 because they aren't allowed to stay out until 1 a.m.

00:53:38.760 on a school night or whatever it is, often grow up and turn into the sorts of adults who

00:53:42.740 cry that they're being oppressed by society or systemic racism or the patriarchy for reasons

00:53:47.460 that are even more superfluous.

00:53:49.460 July 4th has now become an occasion for such people to air their grievances. 0.85

00:53:54.260 And while this is annoying and pathetic, it's also illuminating because in airing their 1.00

00:53:58.300 grievances, you're able to see just how stupid are those grievances and how hypocritical and 1.00

00:54:03.620 also stupid are the ones airing them. 1.00

00:54:06.860 So here's one representative example that is worth, I think, some special attention. 1.00

00:54:11.480 This comes from a Twitter account called Lakota Man.

00:54:14.840 His bio tells us that he has a BA in sociology.

00:54:18.620 You perhaps can already guess where this is headed simply based on the fact that this is

00:54:22.160 the kind of guy who brags about having a bachelor's degree in sociology.

00:54:26.320 On July 4th, Lakota Man BA tweeted this.

00:54:29.920 He says,

00:54:30.820 Hey America, F you for desecrating our sacred mountain. 1.00

00:54:34.520 Hashtag happy fourth.

00:54:36.300 And it's accompanied by a picture of presumably himself and two other people pointing their

00:54:40.700 middle fingers at Mount Rushmore.

00:54:43.440 Now, many questions potentially arise.

00:54:46.220 Questions like, what sort of person drives all the way out to Mount Rushmore just to flip

00:54:51.320 off a bunch of rocks?

00:54:52.380 I guess it kind of reminds me of the time when I drove four hours to the beach in order

00:54:57.300 to scream at a mound of sand.

00:54:59.460 It's really annoying when sand gets in your shoes.

00:55:01.980 And I just thought it was time that someone finally sent the message.

00:55:04.920 But in any case, more to the point, let's consider the specific complaint that Lakota

00:55:08.980 Man BA has here.

00:55:09.900 He says that America has desecrated his sacred mountain, the Black Hills, by carving the Mount

00:55:16.200 Rushmore sculpture into it.

00:55:17.740 He also says in subsequent tweets that this was land theft and colonization, etc.

00:55:25.000 Now, this claim of land theft made by modern Native Americans is almost always specious 0.96

00:55:29.600 and hypocritical.

00:55:30.680 But when it's made by someone descended from the Lakota tribe about the Black Hills, the 0.99

00:55:35.700 irony is even more pronounced.

00:55:38.320 Lakota Man BA says that his people owned the Black Hills.

00:55:41.800 It was sacred to them.

00:55:43.200 The white man ruthlessly stole and desecrated the land that belonged to them.

00:55:48.880 But does that mean that the Lakota were the first to inhabit this region of the country?

00:55:53.500 No, far from it.

00:55:54.500 Before the Lakota, the Black Hills were occupied by the Arapaho.

00:55:58.120 In fact, the chain of possession during recorded history goes back to the 16th century.

00:56:03.000 And during that time, the land was claimed by the Arapaho, Kiowa, Crow, Cheyenne, and Arikara

00:56:08.400 tribes before we got to the Lakota.

00:56:12.900 And that's only recorded history.

00:56:15.700 Archaeologists tell us that the very, very first occupants of this region were called the

00:56:20.520 Clovis people about 13,000 years ago.

00:56:24.260 Well, archaeologists did tell us that.

00:56:25.920 Now we're told that the Clovis people came somewhat more recently and they're predated by

00:56:30.320 another group of people who we know very little about.

00:56:32.560 The point is that the Black Hills, his sacred mountains, are not his at all.

00:56:39.620 His people were not the first to occupy it. 0.95

00:56:41.740 Not the second, not the third, not the fourth, not the fifth, not the sixth.

00:56:45.880 Indeed, the Lakota came in the 19th century, moved everyone else out, took over, and immediately 1.00

00:56:51.080 declared the mountains sacred to them.

00:56:53.740 Like they just got there, killed a bunch of people and said, these mountains are sacred.

00:56:58.820 Keep something in mind here.

00:56:59.840 When we say that one tribe moved other tribes out of the region, we don't mean that they

00:57:07.020 asked them politely to leave.

00:57:09.300 Okay?

00:57:09.500 They didn't show up with a note and say, hey guys, would you mind skedaddling here?

00:57:17.180 Would you mind moving over and giving up some space?

00:57:19.960 Would you mind?

00:57:22.000 That's not how it worked.

00:57:23.060 In Indian culture, war over land was very common and it was very, very brutal.

00:57:32.300 Slaughter, decapitation, dismemberment, rape, enslavement, scalping were all common features

00:57:40.320 of these conflicts.

00:57:41.680 Speaking of scalping, the earliest evidence that we have of this practice, to my knowledge,

00:57:46.260 dates to the 14th century in South Dakota, a mass grave from that period has been uncovered.

00:57:53.980 And we don't know exactly what happened, but whatever happened, it's been dubbed the Crow

00:57:58.000 Creek Massacre because the human remains show that hundreds of people were cut to pieces,

00:58:04.380 scalped, tortured, mutilated.

00:58:06.200 And this is before any white man had set foot on that part of the globe, way before, which

00:58:13.280 means that one Native American tribe did that to another.

00:58:19.140 And there's nothing especially surprising about that.

00:58:22.520 That's how they treated each other.

00:58:24.320 And that's what they did when they wanted to take the land occupied by some other group.

00:58:30.340 Now, bringing this back to the Black Hills, one Indian tribe conquered and massacred another

00:58:35.240 tribe for access to that land.

00:58:36.980 And then that tribe was conquered and massacred by another and so on and so on.

00:58:39.780 Until finally, not but a century or so before the white man showed up, the Lakota came and 0.99

00:58:43.920 did the same, stealing the land from the thieves that had most recently stolen it before them.

00:58:49.240 Then a short time later, in the grand scheme of things, the U.S. government rolls in and a

00:58:53.640 series of battles are fought over those mountains called the Black Hills War.

00:58:57.440 And the U.S. won the battle.

00:58:58.760 That is, the U.S. conquered the people who had most recently conquered the land. 0.91

00:59:06.940 We're left then with the original question.

00:59:09.960 Who owns that land?

00:59:12.980 If you say that conquest is illegitimate and it's always wrong to conquer land and overthrow

00:59:19.120 the people occupying it, then you can't say that the Lakota own it because they did the 0.97

00:59:23.860 same.

00:59:24.820 And you can't say that the Cheyenne own it or the Akira or the Kiowa.

00:59:29.760 So who owns it?

00:59:31.400 Who's the victim of this theft?

00:59:34.040 The Clovis people with their stone tools 13,000 years ago?

00:59:38.260 Maybe we should find some of them and apologize.

00:59:41.180 But they weren't there first either.

00:59:43.860 They somehow came to supplant some other Stone Age people before them.

00:59:47.180 And I can pretty much guarantee you that that supplanting was not peaceful.

00:59:50.780 Very few things were at that point in our history.

00:59:55.600 This is the absurd rabbit hole that you fall down whenever you try to claim that the U.S.

00:59:59.500 stole the land it currently occupies.

01:00:01.740 In order for a thing to be stolen, it must first be owned.

01:00:05.220 But if you say that the most recent Indian tribe who lived on it owned it, then you're 0.97

01:00:09.580 legitimizing conquest.

01:00:10.900 And if you legitimize conquest, then there's no reason why the United States' conquest should

01:00:15.720 not be considered legitimate.

01:00:16.960 As I've argued many times, conquest was the way of the world, all over the world, everywhere,

01:00:24.500 among all people for thousands of years.

01:00:26.940 If you wanted it, you took it.

01:00:30.000 If you wanted to keep it, you defended it.

01:00:32.460 If you couldn't defend it, you lost it.

01:00:34.780 If you couldn't take it, you didn't get it.

01:00:36.820 As simple as that.

01:00:38.980 America didn't invent this concept.

01:00:40.800 We didn't even practice the most brutal form of it.

01:00:42.860 Not even close.

01:00:43.540 Today, we're simply blamed because we were better at it.

01:00:49.980 Americans played the exact same game that the Indians played. 0.72

01:00:53.220 They observed the exact same rule of conquest, a brutal rule, but a universal one.

01:00:58.120 And they were just better at it.

01:01:00.100 They won.

01:01:02.180 And now we're supposed to be ashamed of that victory and weep over it and apologize centuries

01:01:07.240 later.

01:01:08.040 But apologize to who?

01:01:09.500 The conquerors who were conquered?

01:01:13.300 The thieves who had their stolen goods stolen?

01:01:16.680 That's absurd.

01:01:18.380 I, for one, apologize for nothing.

01:01:20.560 And I'm ashamed of nothing.

01:01:22.280 And I'm happy that America is here.

01:01:24.120 And I'm happy that it won that conflict and that war. 0.83

01:01:27.800 I'm happy that this civilization is here.

01:01:29.920 I would rather live in this civilization.

01:01:33.860 And I think everyone would, including the Lakota man, B.A.

01:01:38.740 But anyone who is ashamed of America is free to leave.

01:01:42.180 And on the way out, please just know that you are, of course, canceled.

01:01:47.760 And we'll leave it there for today.

01:01:49.060 Thanks for watching.

01:01:49.600 Thanks for listening.

01:01:50.140 Have a great day.

01:01:51.680 God bless America and Godspeed.

01:01:53.340 We'll see you next time.

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