Ep. 785 - The Ashli Babbitt Shooting Looks Even Worse Now That The Cop Has Spoken Out
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Summary
The cop who killed Ashley Babbitt has gone public, and after seeing him and listening to his side, I am even more sure than I was before that her killing was unjustified. Also, President Biden literally falls apart on camera while responding to the terrorist killing of 13 American servicemen, and the Supreme Court shuts down Biden s unconstitutional eviction moratorium, unsurprisingly. Plus, the media is lying about COVID in Florida again, and in our daily cancellation, we ll deal with the new non-binary remix of It's Raining Men, a very important issue and one of many that we will discuss today on The Matt Wall Show.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, the cop who killed Ashley Babbitt has gone public. He was interviewed
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by NBC, and after seeing him and listening to his side, I am even more sure than I was before
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that her killing was unjustified. She was murdered. Also, President Biden literally
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falls apart on camera while responding to the terrorist killing of 13 American servicemen,
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and the Supreme Court shuts down Biden's unconstitutional eviction moratorium,
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unsurprisingly. Plus, the media is lying about COVID in Florida again, and in our daily
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cancellation, we'll deal with the new non-binary remix of It's Raining Men, a very important issue
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and one of many that we will discuss today on The Matt Wall Show.
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So last night, finally, more than a half a year after the unarmed Ashley Babbitt was shot by a
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Capitol Police officer in the Capitol building, the name of the shooter was made public, and not
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because it was officially released by anybody in a position of authority, as has happened in every
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other controversial police shooting in recent memory. They would have been fine just letting
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his name never make it officially into the public, even though it had been circulating online for some
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time now. In this case, it was because the officer himself, Michael Byrd is his name,
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decided to speak out. Fortunately for Lieutenant Michael Byrd, who shot Ashley Babbitt in the chest at
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near point-blank range as she was climbing through a broken door, he was able to face the public with the
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help of a very powerful PR team, otherwise known as the entire mainstream media. Doesn't even have
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to pay them. Pay them. It's a pretty sweet deal. Lester Holt of NBC News sat down with Byrd to
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pitch him softballs and give him a chance to extol his own virtue and courage, which he was more than
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willing and eager to do. Early on in the exchange, in fact, Byrd declared that he showed, quote,
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the utmost courage in reference to himself by shooting an unarmed woman in the chest.
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Could you give us the nature of some of those threats?
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They talked about, you know, killing me, cutting off my head, you know, very vicious and cruel
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There were some racist attacks as well. It's all disheartening because I know I was doing my job.
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Given the nature of the threats that you describe,
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do you have any concern about showing your face and identifying yourself?
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Of course I do. That is a very vital point and it's something that is frightening. I believe I
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showed the utmost courage on January 6th and it's time for me to do that now.
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Oh, I'm sorry. He actually credits himself with courage twice. So he has the utmost courage on
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January 6th by shooting an unarmed woman in the chest. He also has the utmost courage just by
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sitting down in front of a friendly media who is ready to celebrate him and accept everything that
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he says. There's a lot of courage there as well. Now, what led into that is he was being asked about
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the threats, the response he's gotten after his name leaked on social media and he claimed that
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he's getting all these threats, people threatening to cut off his head, he claims. He claims anyway.
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And you see Alester Halt there, again, part of the PR team leading him, coaching him along.
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It's like racist threats? Was there racist threats too?
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We haven't seen any of that. We have no evidence of it, but that's what he tells us.
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At least nobody can accuse him of having an overabundance of humility, at least.
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And Bird then goes on to explain what led up to him deciding to pull the trigger on that day.
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He does claim, he claims that he issued repeated warnings.
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And that's one really important part of this. Did he say anything? Did he issue any warnings before
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firing his weapon? He says that he did, but that's not substantiated by any video that we've ever been
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allowed to see or any witnesses that we've heard from. It seems like you probably could substantiate
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that. I'm sure on the other side of that door, there's some security footage, security cameras all in
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that building. You might be able to hear some of that, but we haven't, we haven't, they haven't
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released that to us. We haven't heard from any witness who says that they heard him yelling
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and giving a warning, but he says that he did. And we'll listen to that part here.
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He says officers barricaded the door, what he considered the last line of defense.
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I had been yelling and screaming as loud as I was, please stop, get back, get back, stop. We had
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our weapons drawn. Bird, only his hand and gun visible, targeted a figure trying to climb through
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a window. He fired a single fatal shot hitting Ashley Babbitt. She was 35 years old, an Air Force
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veteran, Trump supporter and QAnon follower. I was taking a tactical stance.
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You're ultimately hoping that your commands will be complied with. And unfortunately they
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were not. When you fired, what could you see? Where were you aiming?
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You're taught to aim for center mass. The subject was sideways and I could not see a full motion
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of her hands or anything. So I guess her movement, you know, caused the discharge to, to fall where
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it did. And what did you think this individual was doing at that, at that moment? She was posing a
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threat to United States House of Representatives. Now, you note there how they also included the bit
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about how she was a QAnon follower. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. Now we're told
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that George Floyd being a violent felon who rushed into a woman's home and put a gun to her stomach and
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robbed her in front of her kids, that, that history, those biographical details about George Floyd are
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not relevant at all. In fact, if you bring them up, you're a horrible person. You're a racist even
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somehow for simply bringing that up. It's got nothing to do with anything. We're told.
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And yet the fact that Ashley Babbitt believed in some kooky, uh, QAnon thing, what does that have
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to do with anything? Did, did he know that? Isn't that what we're always told about George Floyd?
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Well, yeah, he might've done all these horrible things and been this violent, uh, terrible scumbag of
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a person, but, but, uh, the officer didn't know that did, didn't know that. That doesn't get him off the
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hook. Well, what did, what information about Ashley Babbitt did Michael Byrd have? None.
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Now this leads us to perhaps the most revealing point in the interview. Holt asks him if the fact
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that he didn't know whether she was armed altered his decision-making at all. And listen to his answer
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because it's very important here. Her family points out that she was not armed. That's correct.
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The fact that you weren't aware whether she was armed or not, did that alter the decision-making?
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It did not. What should we make of the fact that there were other officers in other potentially
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life-threatening situations who didn't use their service weapons that day? Um, I'm sure it was a
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terrifying situation. I can only control my reaction, my training, my level expertise. That would be
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upon them to speak for themselves. Former President Trump has, has talked about you and this, and this
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incident. He says she was murdered. What does it feel like to hear that from a former president?
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Well, it's disheartening. If he was in the room or anywhere and I'm responsible for him, I was
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prepared to do the same thing for him and his family. What does it feel like? What does it feel
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like to be, to be, to be called a murderer? Yeah. What does it feel? Well, it must not feel great.
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Can we get that question to all of, all of the other cops in every single shooting that the BLM has
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been upset about? They've all been called murderers from the very top. What about the cop who shot
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Micaiah Bryant? Saving someone's life in the process, saving the life of a young black woman by
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shooting someone who was trying to stab her to death? Some crazed lunatic with a, with a butcher knife.
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He was called a murderer by many, many very prominent people, including in the White House,
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if I remember correctly. Can we sit down with him? So how does that make you feel? When you were,
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when you were directly saving someone's life and you were called, you were accused of racist murder.
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Now that question isn't asked. We only ask it of, of this guy here. Now on the, on the topic of
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whether or not she was armed, notice what, what Officer Bird does not say. He does not say that
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he thought she was armed. He doesn't say that he couldn't see her hands and thought maybe there was
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a gun. He doesn't say that he thought she had a bomb in her backpack or something. He says that he
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wasn't sure if she was armed or not. And he shot anyway. That's what he just said. Now I want you to
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imagine any other police officer from any other shooting in memory, offering a justification like
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that. Well, did you think he was armed? I didn't really know. But you shot him? Yeah. What kind
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of reception do you think that would receive? And we'll return to that point in a moment, but let's
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wrap up with one more clip. Holt briefly puts Bird in a mildly uncomfortable position by asking him
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about an incident a few years ago where Bird left his loaded service weapon in a bathroom
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and walked away. Clearly demonstrating, you would think, a certain recklessness that may have played
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a role in what transpired on January 6th. But Bird simply shrugs that off and says that it was a
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mistake and it was dealt with and Holt doesn't push him on it. Then at the end, Bird, who has already
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bragged of his incredible steadfast courage, makes this claim. Let's listen.
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Multiple investigations have now upheld Bird's actions on January 6th.
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Capitol Police in their press release after exonerating you said your actions potentially
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save members and staff from serious injury and possible death. What was it like to hear those
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words, to see those words? Those words meant a lot because that's exactly what I did on that day.
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That was my mission. That was what I prepared for. And it's rewarding and refreshing to hear that.
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Oh, I'm glad you're rewarded and refreshed. This is grotesque and just disgusting. You think you
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can't be any more disgusted by the media, but then they managed to stoop to new lows every single day.
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He killed a woman and the whole interview is about how he, how does that make you feel? How does it
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make you, must make you feel good to hear, to hear that? The Capitol Police did an investigation
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of themselves and discovered that they themselves hadn't done anything wrong. Well, that settles that,
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I suppose. In fact, he's quoted, Michael Bird is quoted by NBC News as, and these aren't the words you
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hear in that clip, but they quote him in their article that him saying that he saved, quote,
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countless lives, countless lives. He's not even saying that he thought he was saving lives at the
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time. That would be one thing. He's saying that even now, looking back on it in hindsight,
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he did save all of those lives. I mean, how? We know that Ashley Babbitt, we know now some of this
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he might not have known at the time, but now we know that Ashley Babbitt was a five foot two inch
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unarmed female. And even now he's saying by killing her, he saved countless lives. What was
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she going to do? Was she going to bust through the window and murder dozens of armed cops with her
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bare hands? Was she Uma Thurman and kill Bill, some kind of trained assassin? The claim from Bird is
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absurd on its face. The whole interview was absurd, again, grotesque and impossible to imagine any
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other police officer ever receiving that kind of treatment or being given this sort of opportunity
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by NBC or any other media outlet at all. And that's one important point to be made about this,
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of course. Before we talk about whether Babbitt's shooting was justified based on the objective
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facts of the case, it is inarguable that the people defending it, every single one of them
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would be exploding with outrage if she had a different skin color and a different political
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affiliation. All of these defund the police champions have finally discovered one unarmed
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shooting of a civilian that they support, which only proves what we already knew, that all of their
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concern over police brutality really has nothing to do with police brutality at all.
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And I am not aware, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that none of these people
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have come to the defense of Ashley Babbitt. Not a single one. And they believe by their own
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professions that police officers are, many of them, serial killers, basically. They only get into this
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line of work because they want to bully and kill people and be oppressors. That's what they say.
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Right? And normally when there's a shooting of a civilian and the person is unarmed, right? That's
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all the information they need. They were unarmed and period, you don't kill them. We have been told
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this so many times. And yet in this case, it's not even that they look the other way, they celebrate it.
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They don't care about police brutality. They don't care about abuses by the state. They don't care
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about anything or anyone. They don't even care about the dead criminals whose faces they paint
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in murals on walls. It's only about the ideology. The dead bodies are vehicles for their ideological
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agenda. Now they'll deny this, of course, and say that somehow this is different. Ashley Babbitt was
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in a government building, they'll say. She was trespassing. She was warned, allegedly. But almost
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all of the BLM martyrs were also warned repeatedly to stop. And they didn't. George Floyd was warned.
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Jacob Blake was warned. Rayshard Brooks was warned. They were all warned.
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Michael Brown was certainly warned. And as far as government buildings, if that somehow makes
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all the difference, and I don't see why it should. I mean, is there something sacred about a government
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building? If they've been doing this in some sort of private building, that changes things? Why?
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Are the lives of congressmen and politicians, are they actually more important than the lives of
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just regular people? Is that what you're saying? Apparently, that's what we're being told.
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But if that does make all the difference, well, BLM militants invaded a police station
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and burned it to the ground with cops fleeing for their lives. They assaulted a federal courthouse for
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months on end. If any cop had fired a single shot at any of them, and they didn't, not one shot fired,
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through all of those months. But if they had, there would have been eruptions of outrage.
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BLM would have burned cities to the ground in response. Even more cities, anyway. So we know
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that that is the case with these people. We know that that's the hypocrisy here. And it actually is
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hypocrisy in this case. That's an appropriate use of the term. Because a hypocrite is someone who
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pretends to believe something, pretends to hold a conviction or principle that they don't actually
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hold. And that describes BLM and defund the police to a T. But just looking at the objective facts on
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the ground, the objective facts of the case, was, can we say, with everything that we know now, there's
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still a lot that we're not being told. There's still a lot of evidence that we're not being allowed
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to see. A lot of footage that we're not being given. Many supposed eyewitnesses that we've never
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heard from. But based on everything that we know and have seen, can we say that Ashley Babbitt's
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shooting was justified? And I would say even more now that I don't see how that could possibly be the
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case. And I think there are a few points, a few things that point to that. And many of them were
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touched on in the interview, but they weren't, they didn't dwell on it. They just moved on.
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One of them is that there were a whole lot of cops there that day and not a single other,
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one of other cop felt the need to fire their weapon. I think that really tells you something.
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He was the only one and he claims that he saved countless lives.
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If he needed to fire a shot to save countless lives,
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then, then countless lives should have been, should have been taken elsewhere because all
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these other cops weren't firing any shots. So that doesn't make a lot of sense.
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We also know that, that Ashley Babbitt was surrounded by armed police officers behind her
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coming up the steps, uh, with, with rifles and, and, uh, and on the other side of that door,
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he wasn't the only one in that, in that hallway. You can even see that on the clip.
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Did he need, did he have to resort to lethal force in order to stop her when she is an unarmed woman
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surrounded by police officers with their guns trained on her?
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I don't see how that could possibly be the case.
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Could he not have run up as she was climbing through the door and pulled her down and put her in cuffs
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and detained her? Could he not have easily done that?
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Um, if he had said something like, well, I thought she had a gun. I thought I saw one.
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Yeah. Then it would just be a matter of, do we believe the claim that he actually thought he saw a gun?
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And there'd be no way for us to know. We don't really know. We can't be inside his head in the moment,
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but he's not even saying that he's not even saying, I thought she had a gun.
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And that to me is the final fact that really settles it.
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She was murdered and it's more clear than it ever was before.
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All right, so let's go first from Fox, the latest from Afghanistan. This is a day after two suicide
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bombings hit the Kabul airport. The death toll in Afghanistan has risen to more than 100 people.
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Thursday's bombing near the airport killed at least 95 Afghans. And now we know 13 U.S. troops
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have been killed as well on the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since August 2011.
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Late Thursday, U.S. Defense Department officials said the death toll for U.S. service members remained
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at 10, but the count included 10 Marines and two Army soldiers instead of the previously
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reported 12 Marines. And then there was also one member of the Navy was also killed.
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And then that's on top of 100 additional people. And I think we could expect at least that part of
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the death toll to rise. You know, we're going to play, we'll play some clips from Joe Biden's
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press conference yesterday. And we talked about this on backstage last night. And if you watch the
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press conference, it was, it was, it was in many ways, one of the most disturbing presidential
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addresses that I would say, in fact, the most disturbing one that I've ever seen in my lifetime.
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Given the context, given what he is responding to, to see this old, frail, confused man, just
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collapsing on camera, was extremely disturbing. And it doesn't give you a lot of confidence
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that we're going to get out of this situation. And when I look at this, you know, one of the big
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questions that I have is, um, and you know, as I've been saying for the last couple of weeks,
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and like we debated very passionately and furiously on our backstage last night, which is really
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interesting conversation, by the way, if you have, if you didn't watch that episode, you should go
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back and watch it. Uh, it's on, you can watch it on YouTube or dailywire.com. But I, I still
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maintain that leaving Afghanistan is the right thing to do. Uh, it's been handled in the most
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incompetent way imaginable. And a number of very obvious mistakes, like shutting the air force base
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down, very obvious mistakes have been made leading to this situation where now we had, uh, Marines
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at the airport facilitating the evacuation of thousands. And they're still there facilitating
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the evacuation of just thousands of Afghan civilians. Why? While there are still hundreds and hundreds of
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Americans trapped behind enemy lines. And they're at the airport facilitating this evacuation of just
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masses and masses of, of, of Afghans. Now we've been told that, oh, well, the, the Afghans were
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evacuating their interpreters or their people that worked with our military. We owe it to them. Really
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all, all of those masses of people at the airport, they're all interpreters. They, they all work.
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No, these are just people in Afghanistan who showed up to the airport because they want to leave.
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Understandably they want to leave. There's no way to know really who they are or whether they worked
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with us or not. It is a mob of people who want to get out again, understandably, but what is not
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understandable is why our guys are there dealing with that. The first objective should be get Americans
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out. First thing you do. And then any Afghans that we act that actually worked with us, that we made a
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deal with them and said, we're going to get you out, then we should follow through on that deal.
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And then after that, you know what we do? We leave. It's not our job to evacuate half of the country of
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Afghanistan from the country. But Joe Biden standing in front of the people last night, uh, did not imbue
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anyone with a whole lot of confidence, um, going forward. I thought we're going to jump ahead a little
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bit because I thought maybe the defining moment, and this will be really the defining image of Joe
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Biden's presidency. And I said that when we were sitting down watching the press conference, uh, I said that at the
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time, this is the image right here that will summarize his entire presidency. We'll see it here.
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He's, he's going back and forth with, uh, Peter Doocy. And at one point he becomes sort of exasperated
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and he kind of hunches down and just, just watch it here. If you didn't see it, here it is.
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You know, as well as I do that a former president made a deal with the Taliban,
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that he would get all American forces out of Afghanistan by May one in return, the commitment
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was made. And that was a year before in return. He was given a commitment that the Taliban would
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continue to attack others, but would not attack any American forces. Remember that I'm being serious.
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No, I, I'm asking you a question because before, no, no, no, wait a minute. I'm asking you a
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question. Is that, is that accurate? The best of you or not?
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You know, I've actually seen people on social media claiming, trying to defend what Biden is
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doing there. He's, and he's, what he's actually doing is he's sort of like just giving up.
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Um, I've seen people on social media claiming that he's in, that this is, that he's praying.
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This was a moment of him praying for the lives lost in Afghanistan. Uh, no, that's not what he's
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doing. He's frustrated and he's collapsing on camera. He's giving up.
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He can't do it. There's one reporter in that room and it's only ever Peter Ducey. He's the only guy.
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There's one reporter in that room who will ask tough questions and actually have follow-ups and
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demand some kind of answers. And this frail, old, pathetic, nothing of a man who was a pathetic,
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nothing of a man before he became frail and old, by the way, can't handle it.
00:26:37.600
Uh, but I think even, so that's the defining image. There's one other moment before that,
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that also really encapsulates his presidency. I think, uh, when he first began to take questions,
00:26:52.980
the way that he phrased it was, was interesting. Let's watch that.
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May God bless you all and may God protect his troops and all those standing watch for America.
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The first person I was instructed to call on was
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It was very disturbing even before that in a speech because he's, he's doing a lot of the mumbling thing.
00:28:13.940
And then there will be these moments of lucidity where he starts.
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It's like it was, it's the Joe Biden of, uh, of 15 years ago.
00:28:26.100
But he has these moments where suddenly he's on the ball a little bit more and he's projecting his voice more.
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So the, the, the lucidity comes in waves and the waves are farther and farther apart.
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And that is what happens with dementia where, when someone is losing their mind and losing their mental facilities.
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Where it begins, where they've got these rare moments where they kind of lose track of their thoughts and they go blank for a minute.
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And then, um, and then those moments come closer and closer together.
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And until eventually get to the point where the lucid moments are the ones that are far apart.
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So, so many Americans have watched this happen with their grandparents or their parents.
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And now we're watching it happen with the president of the United States.
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A consequence of having a 78 year old president, as I have said all along.
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And then he, then he says, uh, we're, we're going to, I was instructed to call on.
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And that's distressing to hear for two reasons.
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Number one, he's, he's too out of it to realize that he shouldn't be saying that out loud.
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And number two, for the obvious reason that, that there is something to be said out loud and to begin with here, that he is being instructed to do things.
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That's a caution for all of the people right now who are saying Joe Biden has to resign.
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Biden was trending yesterday on Twitter and I get it on an emotional level.
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I think he is absolutely unfit to be president and has been from the beginning.
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You need, you need the Democrats to go along with that.
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Um, but even in some fantasy scenario where Joe Biden was kicked out of office, remember that Joe Biden is the puppet.
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He's the one who is being instructed to do things.
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He is the, he's the weekend at Bernie's fleshy mannequin who's carted out there to barely even speak in front of cameras.
00:30:49.600
So if he's the puppet and you get rid of him or he steps down or he goes on to meet his maker, as many people this age do, as everyone this age, that age eventually does, then you're going to go from the puppet to the people pulling the strings.
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So it's, it's hard to see that as an improvement.
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And that only speaks to how, I guess it speaks to how, to how absolutely screwed we actually are.
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You would need everybody in the White House and, uh, to, to resign.
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You need the whole system to forfeit their power, which is not going to happen.
00:31:37.920
I don't, I don't think anyone ever, uh, anyone behind the scenes ever imagined that Joe Biden would actually make it all four years.
00:31:51.520
I thought this was also pretty, uh, revealing yesterday morning.
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August 26th at, at, uh, right, right before 8am.
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This was tweeted out by the Sergeant Major of the army, Michael Grinston.
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I think we have this tweet from him, um, right before the attack.
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Now, in fairness, this was, this was before the attack.
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Well, like an hour before, here's what the Sergeant Major of the army, Michael Grinston tweeted.
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Do you have people that don't look or think like you in the room?
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Inclusion is listening and valuing those people.
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Women, hashtag women's equality day reminds us we're smarter and more lethal when we come together as an inclusive, cohesive team.
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So this is what the army, this is what the top brass, the people in charge of our military were worried about yesterday.
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While terrorists were strapping suicide vests onto their bodies and heading to the airport to kill 13, uh, of, of our own guys.
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That, this is what they were focused on is celebrating women's equality day.
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Claiming that we're really, you're, we're more lethal by being inclusive.
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Now you want to claim that that makes us a more tolerant army than go ahead.
00:33:12.260
But the, the point of the army is not to be tolerant.
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It is to not tolerate certain things like our enemies who wish us harm.
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But now the claim is that actually we're more, we are more deadly and fierce and formidable fighting force.
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If we're inclusive and tolerant, we've got a lot of, uh, estrogen pumping through the ranks.
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I'd like to see some, see some studies on that.
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That show that, uh, the fighting units with women are more deadly.
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And there's no evidence of that whatsoever and no reason to think that it's true.
00:33:59.900
And that's one of the points that I was making yesterday in the backstage that I've, I've been making now for the last couple of weeks.
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That I, I don't think, uh, the United States should be in the business of building empires overseas or nation building or, uh, pursuing imperial ambitions.
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I don't think that the United States should be doing that.
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Um, our, our founding fathers certainly never imagined that for the United States, never wanted that.
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But even if I could go along with that in theory, even if in theory, I could agree that there's, that it's a good idea for us to become an empire and to expand our reach across the globe.
00:34:47.220
And in reality, the people who are running the empire are these kinds of people.
00:34:52.180
And this is the influence that they're extending across the globe.
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So if you like the idea of empire building in theory, what I would say is take it out of theory and put it in reality.
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Do you want these people to be the ones building the American empire?
00:35:13.060
Uh, and speaking of these people who are in charge of the American empire, Nancy Pelosi, in the midst of the crisis in Afghanistan yesterday, she got, this was after the attack.
00:35:21.680
She got in front of, uh, cameras and, uh, and this is what she was talking about.
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Women in positions of high, uh, responsibility.
00:35:33.280
But an attack on the, the right, the right to vote that is happening in our country.
00:35:39.580
A few days ago on Tuesday in the House of Representatives under leadership of Terry Sewell, a woman from Selma, Alabama, we passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Enhancement Act.
00:35:51.260
To offset the damage that the courts are doing to the right to vote.
00:35:59.080
And in, in, in doing so, we also need the Senate to pass it and to pass H.R. 1, which is legislation to overturn the voter suppression laws that are being enacted across the country.
00:36:12.020
Not only to suppress the vote, but to nullify the vote.
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I, when I saw that clip yesterday, I actually did kind of a double take because she, I kind of clued in when she said there was an attack on the right to vote is after the deadliest day.
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She knew that we just suffered the deadliest day in Afghanistan for our military in a decade.
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And she's out there talking about the entirely fictional attack on the right to vote.
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Again, get rid of Biden and these people are still in charge.
00:36:58.300
You may, you may be hearing that it's a bloodbath down in Florida.
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You've probably seen the headlines like this one from Miami Herald.
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It says Florida COVID update, 901 added deaths, largest single day increase in pandemic history.
00:37:18.680
The COVID panic porn pushers have been having a field day with this, the deadliest day in history, they're saying.
00:37:26.780
Which is, which is at first kind of surprising because you think, well, really we're having the deadliest day now when you've got millions and millions of people who either are vaccinated or have natural immunity.
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Now we have our deadliest day, but that's unexpected.
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That's why you always want to go and actually read the article.
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So here's what, if you read the article, this is what it says in the Miami Herald.
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Remember, they said deadliest day is most deaths added in a single day in pandemic history.
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And it says Florida on Thursday reported 21,765 more COVID-19 cases and 901 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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All but two of the newly reported deaths occurred after July 25th, with about 78% of those people dying in the past two weeks.
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The majority of deaths happened during Florida's latest surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Delta variant.
00:38:29.280
So allegedly this, the deadliest day, most deaths added is how they put it.
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But these are all the deaths that are being reported that have happened over the course of an entire month.
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Now, they'll get away with this because they'll say that, well, we didn't say it was the deadliest day exactly.
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We said it was the most reported deaths in a day.
00:38:51.820
Which technically is true, but what they want you to take away from that headline and what most people take from it, because they don't click on it, is that it's the deadliest day.
00:38:58.660
I would hope that everyone realizes this by now, really with anything with the media, but especially when it comes to these sensational claims about COVID.
00:39:10.440
You look, you can't judge anything by headlines.
00:39:21.100
The Supreme Court's conservative majority is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.
00:39:30.800
The court's action late Thursday ends protections for roughly three and a half million people in the United States who said they faced eviction in the next two months.
00:39:37.060
The court said in an unsigned opinion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which reimposed the moratorium on August 3rd, lacked the authority to do so under federal law without explicit congressional authorization.
00:39:49.840
The justices rejected the administration's arguments in support of the CDC's authority.
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Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the three, pointed to the increase in COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant as one of the reasons the court should have left the moratorium in place.
00:40:05.040
He said the public interest strongly favors respecting the CDC's judgment at this moment when over 90% of counties are experiencing high transmission rates.
00:40:15.940
So you notice how the liberal justices who want to affirm this authority by the executive branch to waive their scepters mightily and declare that nobody is allowed to, all landlords across the nation aren't allowed to evict delinquent tenants.
00:40:35.860
But even the liberal justices who support it, they don't make any constitutional argument for it.
00:40:42.060
They're not attempting to claim that this authority exists in the Constitution.
00:40:47.560
They're saying instead that, well, it's, it's, there's a pandemic right now and it's, it's the public interest.
00:40:54.800
We should respect, we should, this is the constitutional argument that the liberal justices are making, that we should respect the CDC's judgment.
00:41:07.280
In fact, Cori Bush, who she was the one, the member of the squad, remember she set up her little fake homeless encampment outside of the Capitol building, staging an insurrection of sorts.
00:41:17.280
And she had all of her Oreos and junk food and everything.
00:41:20.880
And she eventually is one of the, one of the main ones that, that, that bullied the White House into extending the moratorium.
00:41:27.160
Before this decision was decided, she tweeted, 11 million people will face eviction if the Supreme Court blocks the eviction moratorium extension.
00:41:32.580
It's a simple choice, uphold the moratorium or put the lives and livelihoods and millions at risk.
00:41:38.360
The American people are counting on SCOTUS to make the right decision.
00:41:42.780
Well, that's simply false, first of all, that 11 million people are facing eviction.
00:41:46.640
That assumes that all of the people who have not been paying their rent can't.
00:41:54.360
And once this eviction, the moratorium is lifted, they're all going to be tossed out on their butts.
00:41:59.560
Because a certain portion of them will be, and justifiably so, because they haven't been paying their rent for a year.
00:42:06.840
But there's also going to be a pretty large number of people who can pay it, but they're just not, because they don't have to.
00:42:17.700
When you don't, when you don't force people to fulfill their obligations, there's a certain portion of them who won't, unless you make them.
00:42:24.080
But even if that was true, once again here, there is no, she doesn't try to say that the executive branch of the CDC had this constitutional authority.
00:42:37.520
Instead, it's an emotional argument, it's putting lives at risk.
00:42:43.280
The only question is whether the CDC had this constitutional authority to do what they did, and clearly they didn't.
00:42:51.820
All right, let's move now to reading the YouTube comments.
00:42:58.260
Matt is harsh on politicians all the time, but he's never commented on male politicians' looks.
00:43:03.920
So yes, this was sexist, talking about my comments about Kristi Noem.
00:43:09.520
Just the other week, I said that de Blasio, the mayor of New York, looks like the love child of Rex Ryan and Gumby.
00:43:20.800
I make fun of the looks of politicians, male and female, all the time.
00:43:31.280
Matt is low-key becoming as popular a conservative voice as Candace Owens.
00:43:36.160
Whenever he moves people on both the left and right, pay attention, even Carrie Underwood.
00:43:40.020
Well, I appreciate that, but please don't use the phrase low-key.
00:43:46.120
I don't know how old you are, but I'm assuming, because everybody is.
00:43:48.340
But thank you, and also you're banned from the show.
00:43:52.160
Matt, what I love about you most is you stick to your personal beliefs no matter what criticism you endure.
00:43:57.000
You're a good man, and as a woman, I find you a very desirable type of man that we need more of.
00:44:01.100
I'm just going to read all these comments that are complimenting me.
00:44:09.620
There are pitfalls to being more attractive than a lot of other women,
00:44:12.800
but it isn't misogyny to point out that appearance may get you more attention.
00:44:16.740
Yeah, I mean, look, as someone who, admittedly, I experience hot privilege myself,
00:44:25.760
But it is kind of, as you point out, it's a blessing and a curse.
00:44:31.100
I find my own beauty, to be both a blessing and a curse.
00:44:38.280
On the other hand, people often don't treat me the same as other people.
00:44:42.740
And I know that I make others feel bad when they set their eyes upon me.
00:44:56.100
I am now a non-binary slug that is attracted to trans women who identify as fish.
00:45:02.480
And thank you for coming out and speaking your truth and living your truth.
00:45:07.580
And I find it quite impressive and inspirational as well.
00:45:15.220
Matt, just own your misogyny and be proud of being called that.
00:45:18.480
The people who hate you are still going to call you misogynist no matter what.
00:45:21.400
Just say, okay, and they won't be able to use that against you again.
00:45:26.300
Yeah, I mean, I don't care at all about being labeled that.
00:45:31.740
Especially by people who reflexively label you in lieu of making actual arguments.
00:45:37.720
But I'm also not going to, as you say, own my misogyny.
00:45:46.760
I'm not going to agree to something that's factually untrue.
00:45:58.720
Meaning I appreciate the unique things that women bring to the table in society.
00:46:02.900
The people trying to erase women, literally erase them.
00:46:15.540
Because I'm doing the, the Dems are the real misogynists.
00:46:22.640
As I've said many times, the Dems are the real racists.
00:46:38.260
And they want to get rid of women as a category.
00:46:44.020
I wouldn't necessarily say all of this in response to being labeled that way.
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So today for our Daily Cancellation, we turn to transgender singer Mila Jam.
00:48:36.840
Mila Jam has recorded an updated and revamped version of the well-known song
00:48:42.700
Now the original is certainly no classic, not exactly an artistic high point for Western civilization,
00:48:47.820
though compared to much of what came after and some of what came before,
00:48:50.780
it may be higher up on the scale than we would like to think.
00:48:52.900
But in any case, it's a dumb song. It's a bad song.
00:48:55.180
But it's kitschy, and it has character at least.
00:48:58.220
It's become iconic in its own way, thanks mainly to its use in comedy montages and so forth.
00:49:03.900
Another quick side note here, since we're on the subject.
00:49:05.940
I discovered only just this morning when I was researching the background of It's Raining Men,
00:49:10.680
because this is the kind of thing my job entails,
00:49:12.700
so that I could give you all of this unnecessary information.
00:49:15.260
I discovered that one of the women in the Weather Girls group is named Martha Walsh.
00:49:20.040
There's no relation as far as I know, though if there was, I would certainly be proud to call her kin.
00:49:24.660
But we probably spent more time talking about It's Raining Men than is necessary,
00:49:27.560
mostly because no amount of time was necessary at all.
00:49:29.940
And it's probably also not necessary to play the remix for you,
00:49:32.520
but I'm going to do it anyway, because there are a few salient points to be made about it.
00:49:37.700
In Mila Jam's new and inclusive version for 2021, all references to men have been removed,
00:49:43.560
which means the entire point of the song has been removed.
00:49:48.020
This song, which is originally about sex, has been rendered sexless,
00:49:51.740
as Mila Jam sings not about women or men, but about them.
00:50:49.900
I'm sure you're glad that you were able to see that.
00:50:52.880
And I'm glad you were too, because if you can get past just how terrible the song is
00:50:56.700
and everything else about it, I think it does provide some very useful,
00:50:59.760
if still grotesque and disturbing insight into our current cultural condition.
00:51:07.200
The original song has heterosexual women singing about their desire for men.
00:51:21.880
This is a vague and undefinable group with no particular characteristics and features.
00:51:26.580
Are we supposed to imagine that there are people who get all hot and bothered
00:51:31.660
The thought of just people in general with no other specifications?
00:51:36.160
Does anybody walk into a room filled with people with thems
00:51:39.760
and feel attracted to everyone regardless of their physical attributes?
00:51:43.640
Has anybody ever walked into like the DMV and said,
00:51:53.140
but that is indeed how the left thinks it should work and how we should work.
00:51:57.020
They wish to usher in a kind of sexless, ambiguous utopia
00:52:00.920
where nobody is anyone and there is no real sexual attraction
00:52:04.400
because sexual features are irrelevant or erased.
00:52:07.820
And that's what this move to non-binary is all about,
00:52:10.340
a self-identification which means nothing and is inherently nonsensical,
00:52:13.840
but is also increasingly popular, especially among younger people.
00:52:17.440
Non-binary is not an identity, it's an anti-identity.
00:52:21.300
It is the rejection of all that is specific and particular and unique about you.
00:52:26.340
You become a them, which is to say that you become really nothing and no one.
00:52:33.280
Here's a high school teacher in a recent viral video
00:52:55.860
So I usually go by Mr. Johnson, but I would like to be called ZOA now.
00:53:03.120
So you can call me Mr. ZOA, you can call me Miss ZOA, you can call me Mix ZOA.
00:53:25.040
If anybody has any questions, you can ask me at the end of class.
00:53:38.980
To jump on this trend and to say this thing that is sure to bring you applause is just,
00:53:47.660
Now, it's obviously bizarre and wildly inappropriate for a high school teacher to be talking to
00:53:54.660
And this is just as obviously someone who is not mentally fit to be a teacher at all.
00:53:58.840
Then again, if we disqualified teachers on that basis, we'd be left with only about 12
00:54:18.740
Now, this is narcissistic to a literally insane degree, but it's a narcissism, an obsession
00:54:26.520
He is so focused on himself, so in love with himself that he has obliterated himself.
00:54:31.700
He has collapsed into himself and become a sort of ghost or phantom, undefinable, identity
00:54:38.180
At least he wants to be undefinable and identity less.
00:54:41.880
And yet he doesn't want to be that either at the same time, because you'll notice something
00:54:46.420
How the people who want to reject the gender binary and remove themselves from this thing,
00:54:51.100
which nobody can really remove themselves from, they're reluctant to take it all the
00:54:59.160
Because if you're a person who's neither male nor female, even though that isn't possible
00:55:03.220
and nobody fits into that category or ever will.
00:55:05.840
I mean, the appropriate response, when someone says to you, oh, I'm non-binary, the appropriate
00:55:12.240
But if it was possible to be that, and that's the category to which you belong, that in fact,
00:55:18.840
your correct pronoun would be not he or she or they or them, but it.
00:55:22.900
Not they, because they is plural and you're just one person, not he or she, because he
00:55:28.080
or she denotes male or female, and you say that you're neither.
00:55:34.260
And now think about what if my dreams ever do come true and space aliens land on this
00:55:38.340
planet and they walk off their spaceships and they appear to not have any recognizable
00:55:45.700
If we were talking about an individual, one of these creatures, we would point and say
00:55:51.900
And well, I hope it doesn't use that laser gun on us and so on.
00:55:56.140
But even most supposedly non-binary people don't want to be called it because it is dehumanizing.
00:56:03.440
It makes you sound like you're not a person, but some sort of bizarre creature, some kind
00:56:09.620
You want to be a human and I don't blame you, but the problem is that humans are males
00:56:21.560
And you shouldn't try because to escape it is not to expand your identity, but to lose
00:56:31.380
And that's why the person who sang that It's Raining Them song is canceled.
00:56:36.120
Another one where it took us a while to get back around to it, but they're not going to
00:56:41.780
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The Matt Walsh show is produced by Sean Hampton, executive producer, Jeremy Boring.
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And our production coordinator is McKenna Waters.
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The Matt Walsh show is a Daily Wire production.
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Hey, everybody, this is Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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You know, some people are depressed because the republic is collapsing,
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the end of days is approaching, and the moon's turned to blood.
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But on The Andrew Klavan Show, that's where the fun just gets started.
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So come on over to The Andrew Klavan Show and laugh your way through the fall of the republic