Ep. 1991 - Unhinged REACTIONS： Karmelo Anthony Found Guilty Of Murdering Austin Metcalf
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Summary
Anthony Carmelo Anthony was found not guilty in the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalfe, who was shot to death in front of his own home in 2011. But the fact that we are all breathing a sigh of relief actually highlights a deep problem. We are all used to murderers getting off the hook, especially if the criminals are black and the victims are white. We will get into the details of the verdict, as well as the responses of the defense and the prosecution.
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evidence showed that the bloodthirsty Anthony killed Metcalfe in cold blood with provocation
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and premeditation. But the fact that we're all breathing a sigh of relief, that justice actually
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was served in this case, highlights a deep problem. We're all just used to murders and
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other violent criminals getting off the hook, especially if the criminals are black and the
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victims are white. We will get into the details of the verdict as well as the responses of the
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murderers, many fans and defenders outside the courtroom. Then the U.S. bombs Iran again after
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Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S, at takelean.com. Carmelo Anthony, 19 years old. He was charged with first
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degree murder in April of last year over the death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalfe. This was
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down in Texas. They were at a high school track meet, and Austin Metcalfe goes into his team's
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tent, and there's this guy, Carmelo Anthony, who's not on the team. He's in there. He's sitting in
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Metcalfe's chair. He's not supposed to be in this tent to begin with, and so Metcalfe and some of
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the guys say, hey, get out of the chair, get out of the tent. He won't do it. He keeps provoking him.
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And so Metcalf gives him a little shove, and Carmelo Anthony pulls a knife out of his bag,
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stabs Metcalf in the heart, kills him, and runs away and is happily arrested.
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Horrible situation, but it's clear as day what was going on.
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So the judge in this case, Judge John Roach Jr., allowed the jury to consider two charges.
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He was charged with first-degree murder, premeditated murder.
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But he said, look, if you guys can't unanimously agree on the murder charge, you can also consider
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the lesser charge of manslaughter. Murder carries a sentence of five years to life. Crazy. Could
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you imagine five years for murder? Manslaughter is punishable by two years, two years in prison,
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nothing, up to 20 years. So the jury happily concluded the reality of this, which is that
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Carmelo Anthony murdered Austin Metcalfe. He was provoking Austin Metcalfe. This was
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premeditated murder. And implausibly, outside of the classroom, Carmelo Anthony has all these fans
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and supporters who are so upset. Here's one woman who goes viral for her reaction to the
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supposedly unjust verdict. What do you want us to do? What do you want us to do at this point?
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What? I'm lost for it. I don't know what to do. I got five boys. I don't know what. I ain't got
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nothing to tell them no more. You can't walk away no more. I got five boys. I don't know what to
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tell them. I don't know what to tell them to stop them from getting arrested and thrown in jail,
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potentially for life. I don't know what to tell them. Well, one thing I would recommend you tell
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them is don't stab people in the heart over nothing. That would be one thing you could do.
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I would say, one thing you could tell your five boys is don't go to other people's places
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and then sit in their seats and then provoke them and then stab them in the heart and murder them.
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Because if Carmelo Anthony had not done that, he would not be in prison right now.
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In fact, the crucial fact of this case is he wouldn't walk away.
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he went to some other guy's seat sat in the other guy's seat wouldn't move the guy asked him to move
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he kind of push it taps him a little bit and then anthony stabs him in the heart
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it wasn't just this crazy lady there were a whole host of these people protesting outside
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the courtroom holding baseball bats crazy stuff chanting carmelo anthony
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what do we want justice you got justice a guy murders another guy in cold blood and then
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then then really in full justice the murderer would be executed promptly this is a little less
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than justice in that the the murderer will go to jail hopefully for life but maybe for a short
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period of time. It's a Carmelo. So you say, what is this about? And it's obvious, and you're not
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really allowed to say what it's about, but what it's about is racial solidarity. It's not about
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the facts of the case. It's not about the criminal justice system. It's not about how we should
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treat murderers. It's about racial solidarity. And this is backed up by social science. For years
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now, we've seen Pew Research has a good study on this. Black people in the United States have by
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far the highest degree of racial solidarity and the highest degree of racial consciousness.
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For black people, over 70%, I think it's 72% of black people in the US say that being black
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is important or very important to their identity. That number drops a lot when you look at Asians
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and Hispanics, but for both of them, that's north of 50% still. Then you get to white people and
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it's 15%. White people have essentially no racial consciousness and no sense of racial solidarity.
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So if the roles were reversed, ridiculous even to mention it, it's cliche and trite and absurd,
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but if the roles were reversed, there would be no mob of white people outside the classroom
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chanting justice for Austin, if it had gone the other way. There would be none of that.
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It doesn't exist because there's racial solidarity, but really almost only for black
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people to some degree for Asians and Hispanics and none whatsoever for white people.
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So it's a big relief that the verdict came in and this guy who, with many eyewitnesses, with no ambiguity whatsoever, in total cold blood, murdered this 17-year-old kid.
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But the fact that we're relieved by the verdict shows us a problem.
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And the problem is there is a two-tiered system of justice.
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Just by our anxiety, our anticipation of the verdict, we recognize that there's a two-tiered system of justice.
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that if a white cop tries to arrest a black career criminal who's actively resisting arrest
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and something goes wrong and the black criminal dies, let's say I'm just off the top of my head,
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let's say the black criminal has taken four times the lethal dose of fentanyl and then resists
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arrest for 11 minutes and then dies in the process of finally being subdued, just off the top of my
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head. In that case, we know that that white guy is going to go to jail for life, even though he
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really didn't do anything wrong. We know that if a white guy subdues a black criminal who's
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threatening people on subway cars, his life is going to be ruined, at least for many, many months,
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if not send him to jail forever. And we know that the justice system in the United States and in the
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UK has endeavored to be more lenient toward black criminals, a two-tiered system of justice. We just
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saw this with the Henry Novak case. The cops were told from the College of Policing, from the
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Organization of Police Chiefs in the UK and the Police Race Action Plan. They were told,
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go softer on non-white criminals, mostly migrants from places like Pakistan, and be harsher on
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white people. You should reflexively believe the non-white criminals over even white victims.
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That's exactly what played out in the Henry Novak case. And we see the same sort of policing
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here in the United States. It's a two-tiered system. Speaking of the UK, the deputy prime
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minister of the UK, David Lammy, just debated our vice president, J.D. Vance. As J.D. Vance came out
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and he pointed out how unjust all of the circumstances around the Henry Novak murder
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were, where a child of Punjabi migrants, just in cold blood, also a stabbing, stabs this kid,
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Henry Novak to death, the cops show up, and they totally ignore Henry Novak, and they make fun of
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him as he's bleeding to death, and they're joking around with his murderer. So David Lammy says,
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no, no, no, Vice President Vance, you have this totally wrong. Obviously, this Deputy Prime
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Minister, David Lammy, he comes out here, he says, look, you don't understand, Vice President Vance,
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this is not, you just have the facts wrong here, this has nothing to do with mass migration.
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The issue here is that you have a huge number of migrants from places like Punjab, a lot of Pakistani migrants.
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And you've imported some of the racial pathologies from the George Floyd case.
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But furthermore, even before that, you were going soft on the Pakistani rape grooming gangs that were operating with impunity for decades.
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operating for decades, harming white English girls, and you intentionally looked the other
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way because you didn't want to be called racist. You had the College of Policing say you need to
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take it away. I have spoken to J.D. Vance. I spoke to him yesterday and I told him he was wrong.
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This has got nothing to do with mass migration. One, let's be clear that obviously since the
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early 2000s and post-Brexit, migration has come down, but murder has come down too,
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actually in our country. And two, the young man who perpetrated this crime was a Brit,
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born and raised in this country nothing to do with mass migration what did you say to him i told him
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he was wrong now we had an agreeable conversation but we disagree yeah okay the baby this guy was a
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brit vikram digua was a brit okay yeah so first of all his his parents were immigrants so okay yeah
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he's first generation born in the uk but even even if he had been born in the uk and his parents were
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born in the uk and his grandparents were born in the uk which would be implausible but let's say
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we're all true. The whole context around the murder was about mass migration. It was the
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whole context. The police guidelines were there to ignore the victim and to joke around with the
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killer because of mass migration. This is just that meme that so much of left-wing discourse
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is the left pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.
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we have to say that there's no racial component to the circumstances around
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the austin metcalf murder there's always a racial component whenever whenever a white person can be
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even slightly plausibly especially if you squint accused of any act of vague racial awareness
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against a non-white person then it's all about race but whenever it goes in the other direction
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including when the perpetrator makes overt racial comments as in the case of the murder of irena
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Zarutska on the train in Charlotte, North Carolina. There we have to totally ignore it,
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which is just downstream of the fact that some races in America have massive racial solidarity
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and racial consciousness. Others do not. And we just conveniently choose when we're going to
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apply racial criteria based on the prevailing liberal narrative. Totally absurd. Now to the
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point that in the UK, you have this video of a Sudanese immigrant who claimed asylum,
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who exploited a loophole to get into Northern Ireland, beheading a man on the street in
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Belfast. That is not, you know, the Irish are tough people and they sometimes brawl a little
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bit. Beheadings are kind of a foreign thing. The nearest country to the UK where you see
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beheadings is like France in the revolution. Okay, this is a little unusual. We don't get
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a lot of that in the UK. And we have to pretend this has nothing to do with immigration. Someone
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pointed out that we've now reached the beheadings in the street stage of cultural enrichment. We
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have to pretend, no, no, no, no, look away here, nothing to see here, nothing to see here. The
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establishment media are basically not even covering this. It has nothing to do with mass
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migration. People vote for the Brexit. They say, we just want less migration. We just have too much
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migration. What happens? Migration goes up. Seems like what the people want, the government just
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refuses to give them on the crucial matters. You're seeing this in L.A. right now. Nidia
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Raman. Nidia Raman is the socialist candidate in L.A. Nobody likes her. Nobody voted for her.
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The race really was between Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt. Karen Bass, who's a communist,
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who's now like an actual card-carrying communist, who's now the incumbent mayor of L.A., and Spencer
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Pratt, who's this reality TV star kind of Republican guy who was making a real insurgent
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campaign. So if you looked at the prediction markets, it looked like the runoff election
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was going to be Karen Bass versus Spencer Pratt. Nydia Raman just hurt her numbers tanked after
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Spencer Pratt's excellent debate performance. So this is where I predicted. I said, look,
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Spencer Pratt's not going to become the mayor of LA. Karen Bass is going to remain the mayor. But
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I think that he got rid of Nydia Raman. I think he destroyed her campaign.
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And this is one, I hate to say, I told you so. This is one where I was only half right.
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And because I was half right in the sense that Nydia Raman now beat Spencer Pratt,
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Pratt's out of the race. The runoff will be between Karen Bass and Nidhi Raman,
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meaning that whoever wins, it's going to be a Democrat. But not to make excuses for my
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half-right prediction, one thing I wasn't counting on was all those mail-in ballots.
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And maybe I should have counted on that because Pratt was winning. On election day,
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Pratt was winning. And then five days later, after they kept counting all those extra votes,
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turned out that Pratt was out. And that in itself is not proof of cheating.
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that in itself is not proof of fraud. But when you get down into the numbers,
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you see something a little strange. Nitya Raman lost her own district.
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She's a member of the city council. She lost her own district to both Bass and Pratt.
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She came in third in her own district. Actually, frankly, I don't even know that she came in third.
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no no it's even worse than that she came in like fifth it was it was bass pratt steyer
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becerra you don't even see ramen on the list so they want us to believe that nydia ramen
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could lose her own district but then win 40 percent of the rest of the vote in the city
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by mail. That's what they want us to believe. Democrats, I need to do a video on this.
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Democrats have been using absentees and mail-in ballots to steal elections since the middle of
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the 19th century. This is the tried and true pattern by which Democrats steal elections.
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In this case, though, it's just so brazen. Nobody supported Nitya Raman.
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And yet, she pulls ahead. You want us to believe that her real constituency
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was just absentees, was people who conveniently couldn't show up to vote
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from everywhere else in the city but the place she actually represents?
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You've got a bridge in Los Angeles to sell me. Do they even have bridges in Los Angeles? I don't
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know. Do they have infrastructure there anymore? I'm not so sure. Now, speaking of Democrat ops,
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even more bad news for the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which markets itself as the
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preeminent civil rights organization in the United States. Then we found out some great reporting on
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this, most recently from the post-millennial. The SPLC was paying for white supremacy. They
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were paying for neo-Nazis. They had leaders of neo-Nazi white supremacy organizations on SPLC
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payroll. SPLC said, well, no, we just wanted moles in the organization. But that excuse doesn't hold
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up when you're actually funding the leaders of the organizations. And now we're finding out
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that SPLC money went to, this is according to the federal indictment, went to racist merchandise,
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okay, living expenses for some of these people, recruitment of other neo-Nazis and white
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supremacists. You can't let the supply run dry. Robes and hoods. The SPLC is paying for the hoods
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of the opposite of nominative determinism, nomenestomen. His name is Mr. Fair. Just delightful.
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our friend, rising Republican star in Congress, Brandon Gill, grilling the head of the SPLC.
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Your organization said that restricting and banning abortion is a tool that the far right
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uses to maintain white supremacy? Do you believe that pro-lifers are white supremacists?
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No, do you believe that pro-lifers are white supremacists?
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I will tell you what I believe if you're asking...
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I don't think that pro-lifers are white supremacists. Do you?
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About 40% of abortions nationwide are of black babies.
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Blacks represent about 13% of the population.
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what i would say again is that splc supports reproductive calling somebody a white supremacist
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is a pretty serious charge isn't it i would i mean i would think you would be able to defend that
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if your organization says that you clearly seem unable to uh mr gill i'm not sure why you would
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think i'm able to do anything well you're unable to do it because you're not doing it that's why
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we would conclude it. But it's not really that you're unable to, it's that you're unwilling to.
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Brandon Gill, the guy gets better at this every day. He started out great at it already,
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and he just gets better at it every day. Very simple, straight down the middle.
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And notice the progression here. The SPLC has gone after all of us, okay? The SPLC on its hate
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watch blog, on its hate watch lists, they've gone after all of us. Everyone slightly to the right of
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Barack Obama has found themselves, if you're in public life at all, you've found yourself in the
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crosshairs of the SPLC at one point. The SPLC really targeted Charlie Kirk because he was so
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effective at organizing young people for real political action. So one of the many ridiculous
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things the SPLC has done is accused pro-lifers of being white supremacists. So Brandon, no
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histrionics, no thea, he's kind of like Josh Hawley in this way. Senator Hawley is very good
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at this too. Just total serious face. Hey, you said on your website that pro-lifers are white
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supremacists. Is that what you believe? And the guy knows it's ridiculous. The guy knows that
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his organization is just a fraud. The SPLC is a fraud, top to bottom. The things it accuses of
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injustice are not unjust. The enemies that it says that it's going to topple, it's actually
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funding and subsidizing. It's just maligning all ordinary conservative Americans. He says,
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do you think pro-lifers are white supremacists? And obviously, the SPLC guy cannot defend his
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own organization here because it's ridiculous. So then Brandon, he lets him flub and flop around,
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and then he moves on, and he says to the kill shot, he says, well, hold on.
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By far, black people disproportionately kill their babies through abortion.
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So pro-life activism, therefore, disproportionately saves black people,
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and it prevents them from being killed. In New York City, the majority of black babies are
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killed through abortion. This is why we say that the most dangerous place for a black person in
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the United States is in his mother's womb in New York. And so Braining Hill points that out. He
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says, not only is it absurd on its face to call a pro-life or a white supremacist, but it's
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perfectly absurd. It's exactly the inverse of reality. SPLC guy has absolutely no answer.
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Daryl Issa then goes after the point I just mentioned about Charlie Kirk grilling the SPLC.
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Your organization has labeled Dr. King and Charlie Kirk and others.
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Or are you going to double down and say that these people, including the martyred Charlie Kirk,
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in fact somehow deserve to be on your hate list for they're constantly talking about bringing people together,
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talking about the teachings of the Bible and the like?
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There you go. And this is the key. And this isn't just about embarrassing the head of the SPLC,
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which is fun to do. It's politically important to do. He's embarrassed himself enough, of course.
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But this is about the political import of all of it. And it really does come back to Charlie.
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The assassination of Charlie Kirk is the most egregious action of the mainstream left in my
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lifetime. It's not the most egregious action of the left. They're always fringe wackos. After 9-11,
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they said America deserved 9-11. But most of the mainstream left did not say that.
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Basically, nobody on the mainstream left said that. Whereas after the assassination of Charlie
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Kirk, in fact, as it was happening, you had mainstream left wingers minimizing it, dismissing
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it, excusing it, even celebrating it. You had Matthew Dowd, the Democrat strategist on MSNBC,
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the Democrat cable channel, saying, well, as Charlie's dying, he said, well, you know, I mean,
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this is what happens when you spread hate. You know, he kind of had it coming. That was essentially
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what the guy was saying. You had elected Democrats, you had Democrats in the media,
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you had Democrat activists, and you had the lady who sits next to you at work all saying,
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well, yeah, Charlie kind of had it coming. And so now to ask the head of the SPLC, okay,
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do you regret calling Charlie Kirk, this guy who was totally gracious and charitable to his
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opponents, who always just wanted to talk it out, who was as mainstream centrist as they come,
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do you regret calling him a hater saying that he was one of the real targets of your hate watch
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because he was spreading hate and division and injustice in america do you regret that charlie
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freaking kirk do you regret that after he was murdered by one of your own by a lefty
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and the head of the spLC refuses to do it which gives away the whole game
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if any of us were murdered, if any of us, not just people in public life, but private citizens,
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in as much as you have any effect on politics, in as much as you can be used to have any effect
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on politics, the mainstream left would celebrate your murder. Indeed, they did. Brutal, brutal
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grilling on Capitol Hill. For the SPLC, sure, but also just for the state of politics in the U.S.
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Okay. Speaking of political violence, the ceasefire is still on, but we're shooting at each
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other in Iran, but we're still on a ceasefire and we're almost at a peace deal, but we are
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shooting each other. And this because two nights ago, the Iranians shot down a US Apache helicopter.
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According to President Trump, quote, I've just been informed by our great military that last
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night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters
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Nevertheless, the United States must of necessity
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now we're gonna give him hell and glass Tehran
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I've seen some people on the social medias try to argue that this was a false flag attack.
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And they're blaming Israel as everybody blames Israel for everything.
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But the way they got there was the United States wants a peace deal.
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And we're the co-belligerents in this war against Iran.
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So I guess it's not that hard to make the logical leap that maybe Israel would benefit
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if hostilities between the U.S. and Iran kicked up again, because then you don't get the peace
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deal, then the war goes on, then maybe you topple the regime. The problem is, there's no evidence
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for that. I see how you could get there in the abstract, but there's actually no evidence for
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that, because Iran is half denying this, but half taking responsibility. According to Iranian state
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media, citing military sources, they said there would be a decisive response to any attacks based
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on the, quote, pretext of the crash of a US military helicopter. Okay. So here it seems
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like they're really not taking any responsibility. But then Al Jazeera reports that Iran's foreign
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minister said the helicopter was not deliberately targeted. And the word deliberately is doing a lot
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here. So I guess it could have been the case that Iran seems to be saying, yeah, okay, we shot it
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down. But we didn't do it deliberately. We weren't deliberately targeted. Maybe we were just shooting
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in the general direction of a perceived threat, but we weren't deliberately taking the helicopter
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down. Or perhaps more likely, this is an instance of division within the Iranian state. Because
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don't forget, the Iranian government doesn't really control Iran right now. Certainly doesn't
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control the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps controls the
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Strait of Hormuz, and those are not the same thing. So what the Iran foreign minister might
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be saying is, look, we didn't, this wasn't a government order to shoot it down, but the IRGC
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went a little rogue, got a little big for their britches, and they shot it down. But we wish they
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didn't shoot it down. We actually do kind of want a peace deal. Any of those possibilities are on
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the table here. And ultimately, this doesn't really change the calculation. There are a lot
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of war hawks here who don't want a peace deal, who want the Iranian regime to be toppled,
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who want us to go all the way, who are saying, this is ridiculous. The Iranians clearly don't
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want peace, and they're not to be trusted anyway. And so we just need to go in and glass Tehran.
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and we need regime change. Would that it were so simple. I guess my calculation from before
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the strikes began to the day they were happening when I was on air in this chair,
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and every week since then, my view has remained the same, which is that it would be great if we
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could replace the Iranian regime. Wouldn't that be great if we could do so easily? If we had a
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reasonable probability of success in doing that, which is one of the criteria of just war. But I
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don't think we do. I think the Iranian regime is more durable than that. I think they have 50 years
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worth of contingencies. And I think the last few months have really proved that it's not so easy
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to topple that regime. We've been hearing forever from the propagandists that, oh, 50,000 people are
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going to march into the street and the Persians are going to overthrow their oppressive regime.
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They've never done it. They just haven't done it. There has been resistance and the resistance has
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been defeated by the regime. So I think it would be much, much harder to topple the Iranian regime.
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I don't see evidence that the regime that we would replace it with would necessarily be better.
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And I'm skeptical of the proportionality here, that the good to be achieved by regime change
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would outweigh the costs that would be incurred. So I think the US position remains exactly the
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same, which is that we want to stop Iran's nuclear weapon. We certainly want to weaken
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the regime. That means degrading their ballistic missile program. But we're probably going to stop
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short of regime change. Much the same calculation that we had in Iraq during the first Gulf War
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under George H.W. Bush, a war that we should note was much more successful than the second
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Gulf War under George W. Bush. That seems to be the calculation. So yes, we have to respond,
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but I think the president's being very responsible here. He's saying, look,
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of necessity, we have to respond to this, but our calculation does not change.
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My favourite comment yesterday is from rosygirl2485.
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says, Charlie Kirk spoke endlessly to college students about AI taking over their jobs and
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that their degree would become meaningless. Yeah, he did. And this was an area where Charlie and I,
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we disagreed a little bit, but ultimately I think we were kind of talking about the same thing.
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Because Charlie is such an impressive guy. He didn't go to college. He just went straight
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into political action. He was very, very successful at it. But Charlie knew that he
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needed an education. And he and I spoke about this a number of times. And so he would find
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elsewhere. He would read on his own. He ended up doing the Claremont Lincoln Fellowship,
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which I recommended to him. I thought it'd be good for him. I thought it'd be good for the
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Claremont Institute, where Charlie could fit in what most people would get in a four-year
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college education. Frankly, more than most people would get in a four-year college education,
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Charlie fit into about 10 days. So his knock on college was that the degrees were basically
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worthless today. But I guess my caveat to that, and where I really separate from the opinion of
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virtually everyone else on the right in the last 10 years, is it doesn't have to be that way.
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That's true. If you just study some trade at university, if you just study some specific
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kind of computer programming or engineering or whatever, that will become obsolete. For years
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and years, you heard from the right, don't go to college. But if you do go to college,
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study engineering, study business, study something really practical. And I said,
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no, no, no, it's the opposite. If you go to college, you should study something totally
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impractical. And the reason for that is a liberal education is meant to help you make sense of your
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freedom, to tamp down your lower appetites, to cultivate your higher will, to be filled with
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knowledge so that you can become free because freedom is willing predicated on knowledge.
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That's a very concise definition of freedom. And so getting back to that story we were talking
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about yesterday. These nerdy girls in Silicon Valley, AI's taking their jobs, so they decide
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to become hookers. Because they say, well, I got one thing an AI doesn't have. I got a body,
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so I'm going to sell that to the oligarchs in Silicon Valley. She's getting at something real,
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but it's that she's going in the wrong direction. The advantage that we have over the AI is our
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humanity. And so actually, my argument is, if you're going to go to college, in some ways,
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it benefits you to study the humanities. It benefits you. One thing that a computer can't do,
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One thing that an AI can't do that you can do, or potentially can do, is write poetry.
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Because to write poetry, you have to come up with new metaphors.
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And to come up with new metaphors, you have to have sensory experience.
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And you have to have cultivated an intellect and a will to make sense of that.
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But if you just go through college like most people do today, yeah, AI is taking your job,
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Scott Pelley, who has been at CBS's 60 Minutes for the last 150 years or so,
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he is one of the most intolerably left-wing condescending journalists out there.
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He just got canned by Barry Weiss. He was very upset that Barry Weiss,
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a center leftist, not even a conservative. By the standards of the establishment media,
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she's Francisco Franco. But by ordinary political standards, she's not even on the right. She's not
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even conservative. She is like a lesbian libertarian. But by today's standards, that
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makes you Mussolini. Anyway, she comes into CBS and she says, hey guys, you got to get on the
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program. You got to be a little bit more objective. You can't just be such blatant propagandists all
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the time. And Scott Pelley puts up a big hissy fit about this in front of the whole staff,
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reportedly. And so Barry Weiss says, all right, buddy, you're fired. You're out. Sorry, I'm not
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tolerating this. We're going to restore some fairness to journalism. So then Scott Pelley
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goes on the New York Times podcast to whine and to make an absurd claim. What was the feeling
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about that particular opening salvo to the team uh-oh she i am told said something to the effect
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of why do you think the country thinks you're biased but she didn't offer any kind of a metric
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you know what's your metric why why do you think so uh do you have a poll is there uh market
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research what are you talking about because we certainly didn't believe that we certainly
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don't think that people think that we're biased to the left. Okay, first of all, he's doing that
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thing that liberals do. It's so annoying, and it's a consequence of the empirical age and the
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Enlightenment and the scientific revolution just taken to the most ridiculous extreme.
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But what they'll do is you'll say something totally normal, something totally common sense.
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You'll say, you know, the sky looks blue today. And what the left will say is, oh yeah, do you
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have a source for that? Do you have a study? Do you have a peer-reviewed study that proves that?
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Or to make it more realistic, you'll say, hey, I don't think a boy can actually become a girl.
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Yeah, this was an argument for the last five years. I don't think a boy can actually become
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a girl. They'll say, what's your source? Excuse me, because the consensus coalition of academic
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scientist colleagues of consensus, they actually say that a boy can become a girl. Where's your
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source. You say, I don't know, my source is my freaking eyes and my brain, bro. My source is
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called common sense, which you apparently totally lack. Yeah, what's your source and proof of that?
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Yeah, I think marriage is between a man and a woman. Do you have evidence?
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Yeah, okay, here's some evidence. Everyone for all of human history everywhere has thought that.
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Here's my evidence, the complementarity of the sexist. And it reveals a shallowness of thought
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on the part of these people who are supposed to be the fancy guys who are really wise,
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wearing neckties. A shallowness of thought that is deeply embarrassing. But then to go even further,
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he's asking, well, do you have evidence to show that people think that we're biased?
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And the answer is yes, actually. Just right off the top, all sides media bias rating rates CBS
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News as leaning left. Ad Fontes Media rates CBS News Roundup as leaning left. A study in The
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Economist found CBS Evening News using more Democrat-associated language over time
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and employee donations at CBS skew heavily Democrat. Pew Research just last year found
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that Democrats are much more likely to use and trust CBS News. 39% of Dems get news from it
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regularly. Republicans show much higher distrust for major networks, including CBS. A quarter,
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roughly a quarter of Republicans trust the big three networks, but much larger shares of Republicans
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do not. So even on the stupid question that he's asking, can you prove that people think we're a
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little biased? Yes, actually we can. That's what all the evidence shows and none of the evidence
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shows your prejudice. So just if Pelley is this oblivious, he has no business being a prominent
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journalist. You don't need to be a philosopher to be a journalist. You don't need to be a theologian.
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You don't need to be a scientist. You don't need to be that competent in anything, but you do at
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least need to know the basic facts of public life. That's like the basic thing you need to know.
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And he doesn't know the basic facts of how the public perceives him, himself, his network.
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Great stuff from Barry Weiss, an absolute joy to see Scott Pelley whining and crying on air. Okay,
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