Ep. 1877 - Protecting Non-Binary Assassin？ Brown University Deletes Records
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Brown University is quickly deleting its digital record of a pro-Palestine leftist student with a Muslim name. But the school wants you to stop asking questions about him or her, or them, or whatever. They want you to know that they ve identified the real killer that killed two promising young students, including one of the only conservatives on campus. And the REAL killer, they contend, has nothing to do with the person who pulled the trigger.
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Brown University is quickly deleting its digital record
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of a they-them pro-Palestine leftist student with a Muslim name.
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But the school wants you to stop asking questions about him or her or they-them or whatever.
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The school wants you to know that they've identified the real killer
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that ended the lives of two promising young students,
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including one of the only conservatives on campus.
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And the real killer, they contend, has nothing to do
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Did you know that Jasmine Crockett has identified the chief cause of violent crime in America?
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And you're probably guessing that it's white people and you would be right.
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We'll get into how Jasmine Crockett arrives at those numbers first, though.
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The Brown University shooting investigation has been completely boggled.
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However, internet sleuths have pointed out that there was a guy, a student from Brown,
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who was listed all over the Brown website, whose pages are just coming down now.
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And he's a guy with a Muslim name who identifies as a they, them,
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who's a pro-Palestine activist, who wears the keffia,
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who talks about all sorts of sexually deviant stuff, who, shall we say, fits the profile.
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We talked about this on the show yesterday, maybe Monday too.
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There's two kinds of terrorism in the United States today, really around the West.
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It's the radical leftist terrorism and it's the Muslim terrorism.
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They would have you believe, they, the political elites,
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would have you believe that the real terrorism is from the white supremacists.
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They would have you believe that the real terrorism comes from the Christian fundamentalists or something.
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Even the Atlantic Magazine had to admit terrorism is a left-wing problem right now.
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And there's substantial overlap between the radical leftists,
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And the reason I don't want to say this they, them's name from Brown,
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and the reason I don't want to show you a picture of this they, them, is we really don't know.
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And I want to be much more responsible than the liberal media are.
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Don't forget, Brown already, when they thought it was a white guy, they arrested this guy.
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They ended up leaking the wrong white guy's photo.
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And then it turns out it wasn't that guy at all and they released him.
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But I don't want to be as irresponsible in the other direction as the establishment media are.
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However, it is pretty weird that as this investigation is ongoing,
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Brown takes down this page of the Muslim-named, they, them,
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kafia-wearing, matches the profile of all the terror attacks.
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Don't forget that the first confirmed casualty in this shooting was one of the only Republicans on campus.
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And some of the reporting says that she was specifically targeted.
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Okay, so what does Brown have to say about that webpage coming down?
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Some webpages for students or faculty have been taken down.
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Is that a response to any external threats to anyone in the community?
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We have been working very closely with law enforcement to provide them with
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all of the internal to Brown information that they need to do this investigation.
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It's their investigation, they're the professionals.
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I know nothing about webpages being taken down as part of this.
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Yeah, you know nothing about anything, lady, apparently.
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Apparently, the leadership of Brown knows nothing about anything.
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The leadership of Brown was asked why the alarm didn't go off when the shooting began.
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oh, the alarms aren't supposed to go off when there are shooting events.
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And then one of the reporters responds and says, actually, on your website, it says that the alarms
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And the leadership of Brown says, oh, well, oops.
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Yeah, well, anyway, I don't know anything about that.
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Now, this woman's asked, hey, how come this one Muslim named, they, them,
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Keffia-wearing, leftist, queer, whatever, how come all the internet references to this person are off your website?
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And she says, look, we're cooperating with law enforcement.
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We're giving them what they need, giving them what they need.
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Do they think the internet is like a chest of drawers?
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Like if you want to hand over this information to the police, you need to take it down from the internet.
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The question isn't what are the police looking at?
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The question is why is Brown University removing references to a student who may or may not be implicated in this?
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We don't know because Brown won't tell us anything.
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He certainly, he or they or them, or I don't know what it is, certainly fits the profile.
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But we don't, I don't know if this person's connected at all.
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And now you're stonewalling and you're evading the question.
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Then the president of Brown makes clear what her agenda is, which is she says, look, you need to stop asking these questions, okay?
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You need to stop asking questions about who may or may not have pulled the trigger because the real killer of these students had nothing to do with the person who pulled the trigger.
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I want to begin by thanking the many law enforcement agencies who continue to work around the clock on this case.
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I also want to thank the mayor and the governor for their continued support.
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The primary point that I wanted to address before we get to questions is that Brown is deeply committed to the safety and security and well-being of our community.
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And I've been deeply sad to see people questioning that.
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We understand that as time goes on, there is maybe a natural instinct to assign responsibility for a tragic event like this.
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Horrific gun violence took the lives of these students and hospitalized others.
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And it's deeply sad and tragic that schools across the country are targets of violence.
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I want you all to know that we take the safety of students very, very seriously.
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And you all want to find out what caused the shooting.
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I mean, the shooter bears some responsibility, but really it was just gun violence.
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Okay, I mean, maybe I have to pay a little lip service to the shooter individually, not as a member of a group.
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Yes, it's true that all the terrorism is committed by Muslims and leftists, but it has nothing to do with Islam or leftism.
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Everyone needs to be judged as an individual, unless we're talking about Christians or men or white people.
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But everyone else needs to be judged as individuals.
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We, I know you all, you rubes, you bitter, clinging, Bible-thumping, idiot rubes,
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who don't even have a degree from Brown University, technically an Ivy League university.
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You went, you don't, you don't understand because you didn't go to Brown, you passionate hoi polloi.
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But you're not supposed to assign blame after a crime.
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No, we shouldn't place any blame on anyone or anything, but actually it was the guns.
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If you're going to say it's the guns, then you say we should place some blame.
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And we do need to place some blame because the only way that you can protect students,
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which you say is your mission, is to figure out what caused the shooting in the first place.
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Maybe you are dumb, but you're not answering why information about certain students who fit the profile.
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There are reports out that before the student opened fire in what is reportedly a targeted killing,
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We don't know because we're getting stonewalled by Brown and by the police,
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and the police don't seem to know anything either.
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But I faced this same issue when I was testifying on political violence just a month ago before the Senate.
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The Democrat ranking member on the Senate said,
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we shouldn't seek to play the blame game here over political violence.
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I mean, yes, it's entirely leftists targeting right-wingers, but we shouldn't play the blame game.
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It's really, it's both sides, and it's irresponsible to play the blame game.
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I said, the only way you can solve a problem is if you identify where the problem's coming from.
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So when you say don't play the blame game, you're pretending to some moral high ground.
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It's deeply immoral because what you're saying is we're not going to solve the problem,
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and we're going to keep killing you. And we're going to let the radical Muslims and the radical
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leftists, who in practice are difficult to differentiate, especially when it's the radical
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queer leftists who are wearing the kefi is chanting the Islamic chants. It's very difficult
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to separate the two. But when it's them committing all the violence against us,
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then it's very easy for you on the left to say, oh, it's no big deal. Let's not play the blame game.
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Yeah, because what that's going to redound to is more persecution of our side.
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Anything better from the cops? Hey, Rhode Island cops, you're going to give us any more
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information than this feckless and apparently dishonest President of Brown?
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The video that we showed you came from inside the building, and that's all we have at the moment.
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Both inside and outside. I'm sorry, just outside. That's all we have, not inside.
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Are they going to be released anytime soon unless they're inside the building?
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That was released already. That was the outside of the building. We already released that.
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This is supposed to have really good security, cameras everywhere.
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For goodness sakes, you have cameras probably all over your house in the middle of nowhere.
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You don't have cameras all over a place where there are a ton of students in a prestigious and wealthy university?
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He says, oh no, well, the problem is we had the cameras inside.
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I mean, I know, sorry, I mean, the cameras were inside and outside.
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I mean, oh no, sorry, the cameras were actually on the outside.
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And I don't, where am I? Where am I? What are we talking about?
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And then this, I don't know, this other guy, Stevie, oh, let me try to clarify.
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And now they're fumbling over themselves, I think quite clearly, because of ideology.
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When it looked like the shooter was a blonde-haired white guy,
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oh, they were tripping over themselves to release that guy's photo.
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Then they fumbled it, apparently because of incompetence.
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Now, they either really don't know, and they don't know how to work security camera footage,
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They don't know the difference between inside and outside.
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Or they think that they know who the guy is, but he doesn't fit that ideological narrative.
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He's not a straight, white, right-wing guy, which is what they were all obviously hoping for.
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And if the shooter really is any of the identity groups in this person whose profiles have come down from Brown,
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Muslim, queer, leftist, activist, anarchist, whatever.
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However, if that's true, it seems from all of the available evidence, they will do everything to suppress that.
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Who commits most of the violent crime in America?
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If you were tuning into, you weren't tuning into CNN.
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If you were walking through an airport and CNN was on, you heard Jasmine Crockett say this.
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We, right now, have a white supremacist that is sitting in the White House.
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And if you really want to know who the criminals are in this country, you can Google it.
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But the people that commit 80% of the most violent crimes in this country are white supremacists.
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Yet, for whatever reason, they sit and they serve at the pleasure of the president.
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They are the ones that were there on January 6th, tearing our democracy down physically.
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And now we have them tearing us down right here from within.
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It's resurfacing because Jasmine Crockett is now running for Senate.
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And obviously, it's quite relevant now because crime has ticked up, because the terror attacks have ticked up, because the terror is coming from the left, because violent crime is a big problem in the cities that Trump has sought to suppress.
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And so she says, well, hold on, this is all misplaced.
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Most violent crime in America is committed by white supremacists.
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So this is not merely a claim of, I don't know, of preference.
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This is not a claim of supposition, a gut feeling.
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This is the sort of thing that we actually can test.
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Is it the case that most violent crime is committed by white people generally?
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But when you consider it proportional to the relative white, black, Hispanic, or the other population, it's much, much lower.
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So according to the FBI statistics, 59.4% of violent crime is committed by white people.
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Now, white people are 60%, a little over 60% of the population.
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So it's lower than the proportion of white people in the population.
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Now, black people are only about 12% of the population.
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So much, much higher proportion of violent crime being committed by black people.
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Then 2.4% being committed by Indians, feather not dot.
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Now, you notice there is a demographic group that is missing here.
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The Hispanics are largely classified as white for the purpose of crime statistics.
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Notice Hispanics are not uniformly classified as white.
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Hispanics are not, and you might say, well, look, there are blacker Hispanics and whiter Hispanics.
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Hispanics of more Spanish origin, Hispanics of more African origin, Hispanics of more indigenous origin.
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Regardless, when it comes to crime statistics, Hispanics are largely classified as white.
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When it comes to university admissions, Hispanics are never classified as white.
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It doesn't matter how, they could be lily white, they could be straight out of Barcelona.
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Barcelona, quick little pit stop in Havana, on the way up to America, they are not classified as white.
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In other words, when it is advantageous for Latinos as a group to be classified as white for the purpose of hiding crime statistics, they are.
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And when it is advantageous for them to be classified as non-white, they are classified as non-white, as in the case of affirmative action and university admissions.
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So even that, Jasmine Krakit says, most of the crime is committed by white supremacists.
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Even that, though, a huge chunk of that, we don't know what percentage, is not white people by many metrics in America.
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Okay, then furthermore, let's get to her real claim, which is white supremacists.
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How many white supremacists are there in the country?
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I assume at this point, the vast majority of people who belong to white supremacist organizations are FBI agents.
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It's like, there's 10 people in the Klan group, and nine of them are federal agents, and one of them is Bubba.
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Poor Bubba, who got lured to the, he was probably invited by the FBI, but they just don't exist.
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So then you look, even where there are these gangs, they're mostly prison gangs, like the Aryan Brotherhood, and they mostly just kill each other.
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But I looked at this data set, and according to the statistics, white supremacists account for well under 0.1% of violent crime in the United States.
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So in other words, Jasmine Crockett, completely wrong about this.
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And probably people who observe that will be derided as racist, or playing identity politics, or something, or whatever.
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However, we have to keep this principle in mind.
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We have to keep this principle in mind when we're talking about the terror attacks that were foiled on New Year's Eve,
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terror attacks that just took place at Brown University in Sydney, Australia.
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It is very important to identify where the problem is coming from.
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Not out of cruelty, not out of hatred, not out of bigotry, not because we hate the leftists and want to round them all up and send them to camps,
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not because we hate black people or these people or that people,
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but because clarity is charity, and you can only fix a problem if you identify where the problem is coming from.
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And you want to fix the problem for everyone, even for the perpetrators.
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It's the idea of a rehabilitative criminal justice system.
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Okay, speaking of racial politics, a very sorry scene took place in the U.S. Capitol.
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Statue of Robert E. Lee was just removed from the Capitol.
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This has been a process that's been building for years and years and years, since BLM.
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So they take down the statue of General Lee, one of the greatest Americans ever to live,
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and they replaced the statue of General Lee with a statue of civil rights icon, Barbara Rose Johns.
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I say civil rights icon because that is how this is being reported everywhere in the liberal media,
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And I know there's this impulse, especially among people who want the approval of the liberal,
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coastal, intellectual, credentialed, institutional elites.
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I know there's this impulse to say, no, of course I've heard of that person.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I've totally, of course I've heard of it.
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Oh, I've been, my family's been celebrating Juneteenth for, you know, like 100 years.
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What are you, oh, yeah, of course I know what that is.
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The left is trying to make her into an icon by iconoclasm taking down the icon of General
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Lee, who, as an icon, stood for something and stood for something very good.
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He stood for reconciliation among Americans who had such bitter divisions that they went
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And General Lee, after defending his countrymen, General Lee, after not even really defending
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slavery, which was obviously an important issue in the Civil War.
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But General Lee, who famously said that he celebrated the end of slavery.
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General Lee, who would have happily given up all of his slaves if it were up to him.
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And he fulfilled what Abraham Lincoln called for, which was malice toward none and charity
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And now there's a new icon, this woman that no one's ever heard of.
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The very fact that no one knows who she is is actually part of her iconography.
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The victory of the unknown person over the great man of history.
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Victory of the modern progressives over the traditions of America, over the traditional
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And I can't tell you the surprise and disappointment I felt when I read Glenn Youngkin's take on this.
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You have a total desecration of American history.
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You have the statue toppling of one of the greatest Americans ever to live, to put up
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this woman that no one's ever heard of as merely a stand-in to spit on the tradition
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of America and say it all used to be terrible, but finally we've overcome our awful oppressors.
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Today we gathered in Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol to dedicate the Barbara Rose
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Johns statue to honor her legacy as a trailblazer and ensure her story of courage and conscience
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You can't tell the story of Virginia or the story of how our nation overcame segregation
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without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns.
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You can't tell the story of Virginia without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns.
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We've done a pretty good job of it for the last 300 years.
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No one ever heard of this woman before yesterday.
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yesterday, no one had ever heard of this woman.
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You can't, we were doing a pretty good job telling the story of Virginia before yesterday.
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Frankly, we were doing a better job of telling the story of Virginia in years past, before
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the recent spate of statue toppling and spitting on our ancestors.
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There are political exigencies when you're a Republican governor in what is generally a
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This is, this has taken political stretching of the truth into the realm of the truly absurd.
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You can't tell the story of Virginia without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns.
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I forgot her name in between the last time I was complaining about this and this most recent
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statement, which was a time span of about 32 seconds.
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Maybe if you're watching this, you see it on the screen.
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But if you're listening, pop quiz, what's the lady's name?
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Now, in stable countries, I want to be totally fair.
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Stories about our heroes, our ancestors, our lore, our mythology, they change over time.
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So our understanding of George Washington today is a little different from the founding
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father's understanding of George Washington is a little different from the 19th century
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George, why he cut down a cherry tree and he could not tell a lie.
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However, in stable countries, the stories that we tell about our heroes just kind of develop.
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And these heroes of American history are just secular or civic saints.
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But the stories of the saints, there are real saints.
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And then legends develop about the saints, you know, slaying dragons and things like that.
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It's not that the legends totally undermine the real history of the saints.
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They color in the real history, but they don't undermine the truth of it.
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You get some legends and myths and the stories we tell about the heroes change.
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In revolutionary countries like we live in right now, the heroes themselves change.
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When I was a kid, we learned about the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
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People learned about the midnight ride of Paul Revere from the revolutionary era when it was news all the way up through probably about 20 years ago.
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Now, if you polled 100 kids under the age of 25, you said, who's Paul Revere?
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Not just how many of them would have their stories differ a little bit and different.
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How many of them would even know who that person is?
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Because these heroes of American history are not merely having their reputations changed or even damaged.
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Like the Taliban blowing up the Buddha statues.
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Ike Eisenhower was a moderate Republican president.
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Presided over really probably the greatest era of peace and prosperity ever in the United States.
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Here's what Dwight Eisenhower had to say about Robert E. Lee.
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I think there are a good many of you people here, both photographers and representatives of the press,
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have been going into my office for the past four and a half years, occasionally.
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No doubt you've noticed that on the wall there are the prints of four men.
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Men that I consider in my book are about the four top Americans of the past.
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They are Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, and Lee.
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And anybody who ever tries to put me in any other relationship with respect to General Lee is mistaken.
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Ike Eisenhower, as moderate, as beloved an American as ever there was, for now,
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says General Lee was one of the greatest Americans ever to live.
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It's not that that was in the heat of the moment.
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And now, 70-ish years after that, his statue can't even stand.
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But what that tells you is that something recent radical, not in response to events of the past,
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something modern and revolutionary is taking place.
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Okay, speaking of these radicals, I told you about the New Year's Eve plot in Los Angeles.
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There was, the FBI foiled this plot where a bunch of leftists who were aping the slogans of the Islamists.
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They were going to blow up L.A. on New Year's Eve, and four of them were arrested.
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He was tied to chats with suspected members of the terror group Turtle Island Liberation Front
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and the spinoff group that was planning the attack.
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This guy went by Kateri the Witch on the group chats and Dark Witch She slash Her.
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So he's a tranny, and he was apparently a Trantifa extremist.
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Trantifa and a portmanteau of trans, transgender and Antifa.
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There have been so many this year, haven't there?
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The one that affected all of us the most, and that is the assassination of Charlie.
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We're getting ready for AmericaFest just this week, which TPUSA is valiantly continuing to put on
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under the leadership of Charlie's widow, who, among all the other awful things she's going through,
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has to run this organization and put on this event, which is Charlie's legacy,
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Any time there is an assassination of a major political figure, conspiracy theories crop up.
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It's true with Kennedy, true with McKinley, true with, I don't know, it's true.
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One reason that I have consistently shot down some of the conspiracy theories around the
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assassination of Charlie is that it's always the ones you most expect.
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One reason that I in particular, the moment it happened to, I was supposed to give a speech
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with Charlie 12 days after he was killed, and then I ended up doing it.
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It was me in an empty chair, and a lot of the speech was a memorial to Charlie, and also focusing
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on the radical leftist, trans-loving, sexually deviant person who did it, all the way through
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up until today, part of the reason that I have never for one second doubted that it was a
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leftist, trans-identifying, LGBT, whatever person, is because these are the people who
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Sometimes it's the Muslims, sometimes it's a Venn diagram intersection of the Muslims and
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I've experienced this personally when I was giving a talk at the University of Pittsburgh.
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That was the subject of my Senate testimony about a month or so ago.
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I was another one of these Antifa freaks, and it's just, it's always them.
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And so, I'm one that, in the abstract, likes to entertain conspiracy theories, because I
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think they're the sign of an active mind, and they can be kind of amusing when you go
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However, when we're talking about urgent events, recent events that involve people who are very
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close to us, that we actually know personally and have relationships with, to me, the bar
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to entertain those kinds of things is much, much higher, because it causes real pain to
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And the bar has to be much, much higher when there is so much evidence in support of, it's
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the leftists, it's the sex freaks, it's the tran-tifa, it's the people who always do
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this, this guy, Micah James Lanyon, Kateri the Witch, Dark Witch She-Her, Tran-tifa Extremist,
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Justice for Palestine, it's all the same stuff that we always hear from these people.
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So, actually, the one aspect of a conspiracy around the assassination of Charlie that I think
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also a lot of us have been quite open about entertaining from the beginning is, this guy
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was in group chats, this guy had this text thread with his trans furry boyfriend or whatever.
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You're telling me none of them knew about this?
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But in our modern age, we're not allowed to have prejudice.
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But one of the great insights of conservatism is that your gut is usually right.
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It has to be conditioned by justice and scrutiny to reason and all of these other things.
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That's one of the big dividing lines, I would say, between a conservative disposition and
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It's the liberals and leftists to say, don't trust your gut.
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Don't think it's the people you expect to have done it.
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Don't rely on what has always happened in the past.
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And it's the conservatives who say, you know, look, precedent is not a guarantee that something
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But past performance is not necessarily a guarantee of future success.
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Speaking of the left making the country worse, Zoran Mamdani has a novel theory on how to
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Live Love Llamas, who says,
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The Providence shooter, the Providence rather, can't identify a shooter on camera, but go
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five miles an hour over the speed limit and they produce a 4K glamour shot of my license
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Never underestimate the incompetence of Ivy League University administrators and police
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The photos of the first white guy suspect, those things leaked faster than they could utter
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Now, these other people, you don't hear so much about them.
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Zoran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York, he has a theory on how to deal with the spiking
00:40:24.400
crime that has occurred under the leftist mayoral administrations in recent years.
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When we made those bus routes free after a year, assaults on bus drivers dropped by 38.9%.
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Because unlike the train, the act of fare collection on the bus happens on the bus.
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And bus drivers and unions have shared anecdotally that about 50% of assaults happen around the
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So when you eliminate the fare box, you make for a safer experience for the bus driver,
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So the problem is that on the buses, these violent criminals, these repeat criminals,
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keep coming up, and they don't want to pay their two bucks, so they assault the bus driver.
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You want to protect the bus driver and the passengers on the bus from the violent criminals
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Zoran Mamdani's solution is to stop making them pay the $2, and then maybe they'll stop
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Now, another solution, of course, would be to arrest the criminals, but Zoran Mamdani says
00:41:45.060
Zoran Mamdani says punishing criminals doesn't reduce crime.
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So what you have to do is be really, really nice to criminals.
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So, for instance, if you want to reduce burglaries, if you want to reduce murders during burglaries,
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you know, the burglar comes in, the couple's there, and he murders them.
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Well, the way that you reduce murders during burglaries is not arresting the murderers and
00:42:10.720
It's by making sure that everyone keeps all their jewelry in the front hall so that when
00:42:14.780
the burglars get in, all the valuables are there, and they don't have to go to your
00:42:19.560
Actually, it's an apt comparison because the New York City government runs terrible deficits
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and relies on federal funding for like 10% of the city budget.
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And then when you factor in grants, specifically grants to transportation, they rely on $100
00:42:36.880
So they're robbing the taxpayer blind, further robbing the taxpayer blind by letting these
00:42:41.800
degenerate criminals ride the bus for free, two bucks at a time, starts to add up.
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But it's like saying that we're going to reduce murder during rape by telling the victims not
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Yes, sometimes rapists murder their victims, but I've got the solution.
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We're not going to arrest the rapist murderers.
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We're going to just tell the rape victims to stop resisting, and then maybe they won't
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I lived the first 24 years of my life within an hour or two of New York City, spent a lot
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However bad you think this guy is, it's going to be a lot worse.
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Now, there's an alternative theory of criminal justice.
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The one is be really nice to the criminals, and maybe they'll stop attacking you.
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The other theory is arrest the criminals and arrest them the first time they offend, arrest
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them on the relatively minor offenses so they don't go on to the bigger offenses, and arrest
00:43:47.560
Here is a Pennsylvania sheriff who, I don't know, we should put him in charge of federal
00:44:03.700
As we've said before, you can't go any place, any time, that you're not on a camera.
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So Dick's Sporting Goods knows that they're stealing because they're watching this systematic,
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I don't know if these all were starters or not, but I can tell you that we were finishers.
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In Polk County, Florida, we'd lock you up for stealing, for being a thief.
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This is also the thoroughbred thieves, and it's their choice.
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And for the coach, you're way off base here, buddy, way off base.
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If you'd been coaching these kids upright, if you knew where they were, if you didn't
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allow them to Uber away, they would have played in a ballgame Saturday night.
00:45:12.840
And this coach says, oh, you know, these kids who are stealing all this stuff, these
00:45:18.780
kids, you know, look, you got to go easy on them.
00:45:24.780
And this sheriff comes out and he says, man, coach, you're totally wrong.
00:45:31.460
And you're saying that you guys winning this ballgame is more important than protecting
00:45:37.560
But at a deeper level, you're being selfish, even with regard to the kids.
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This is the false mercy of Zoran Mamdani, where he says, you know what we got to do to
00:45:51.460
To the assailants, to the murderers, to the criminals, we got to not punish them.
00:45:55.960
And if we don't punish them, that will be really nice for the bad guys.
00:46:01.480
This is an argument, I mentioned this book before on the show, that was taken on millennia
00:46:06.280
ago in Plato's Gorgias, which is the question of, is it charitable to wrongdoers not to punish
00:46:17.140
It's bad for them not to punish them, because it will encourage them to continue doing bad
00:46:30.560
It will probably destroy their material flourishing, too.
00:46:35.960
If you want to stop violent crime, if you want to protect people, if you want to reform
00:46:40.840
criminals, you have to punish them, even over the small stuff, even and especially when
00:46:51.680
Okay, speaking of young people, one story I alluded to yesterday that I really want to get
00:46:57.620
This is from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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This report has just come out on why housing is no longer affordable.
00:47:08.040
This is from Secretary Scott Turner, who I interviewed a little earlier this year.
00:47:14.980
Mamdani says he ran on affordability, specifically housing affordability.
00:47:22.640
Trump is running on deport the foreigners, the illegal aliens, and the left is running on
00:47:29.320
And what's so amazing about those two issues is the fact that the left let in all the foreigners
00:47:38.620
According to this HUD report, the two-thirds of rental demand growth in recent years has
00:47:47.500
been on account of foreign-born people in the country.
00:47:52.340
The reason that you, young people especially, but people of all ages, can't pay your rent
00:47:58.660
is two-thirds predominantly because the left let all these foreigners into the country.
00:48:06.180
Not just the three million illegals a year that Biden welcomed in, but the million legal
00:48:10.760
immigrants a year that the United States has welcomed in, that the left has encouraged
00:48:17.040
The reason that the Democrats might be able to win, at least in the blue cities, on the
00:48:21.460
affordability crisis is because of the affordability crisis that the Democrats caused.
00:48:31.220
You're the reason for the affordability crisis.
00:48:33.240
No, you're the reason for the affordability crisis.
00:48:35.840
The affordability crisis comes down largely to food, the prices of which were driven up
00:48:41.860
chiefly because of Joe Biden's inflation and because of welfare fraud, which we learned
00:48:46.140
during the government shutdown, and housing especially, and the housing crisis, the unaffordability
00:48:53.160
crisis in housing is caused overwhelmingly by mass migration.
00:49:09.120
Maybe some of the older millennials, Gen X boomers need to get the message too.
00:49:13.460
Okay, speaking of foreigners, Jasmine Crockett just said the quiet part out loud.
00:49:17.280
She said we need illegal aliens in the country because, quote, we done picking cotton.
00:49:23.620
We might have to get to that tomorrow because today is Woke Wednesday.
00:49:29.760
You have to check out for two months free on all annual plans.
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They say the future and the past are known to him.
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That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets.
00:50:27.940
That the magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.
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That the world burned and trembled at his wrath.
00:50:42.880
The Merlin died long before you and I were born.
00:50:52.060
Merlin Emrys has returned to the land of the living.
00:51:04.380
Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty.
00:51:08.980
And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.
00:51:15.060
If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him,
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A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand.
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There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.
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These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.
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They say Merlin slew 70 men with his own hands.