Ep. 392 - Very Terrible People On Both Sides
Summary
On this episode of the Michael Knowles Show, host Michael Kinsley talks about the two recent mass shootings in the U.S. and how both sides of the political aisle reacted to them, and how they can be prevented in the future.
Transcript
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In El Paso, Texas, an eco-fascist slaughtered 20 people in a shopping mall shooting.
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The next day in Dayton, Ohio, a socialist, Satanist leftist slaughtered nine people, including his own sister at a bar.
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Leftist partisans rushed to blame Trump and conservatives.
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Conservatives, eager to fight the unfair attacks, want to disavow any connection whatsoever to the ideology of the El Paso shooter.
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President Trump weighs in, and we weigh in on his weighing in.
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Then, the Democratic Socialists of America try to topple capitalism at their national convention, but fail to even finish the announcements without infighting over pronouns and phony grievances.
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Finally, Quentin Tarantino delivers in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Obviously, horrific shootings over the weekend in Texas and in Ohio, and the way it's played out has been so predictable.
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You had these two shootings, apparently both motivated by ideology, one very clearly by ideology, and that's a mostly right-wing ideology, though not a totally right-wing ideology.
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Then, the second shooting appears to have been motivated by an almost exclusively left-wing ideology.
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And in response, the left, not the right, the left blamed its political opponents on the right.
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The left totally unfairly blamed the right for this, and then the right, in reacting to it, wanted to disavow any connection, obviously, to the Texas shooting in particular.
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And so they said the guy's ideology has nothing to do with conservatism, has nothing to do with the right.
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The reality is a little more complicated than that, and the hard truth is there are terrible people on both sides of the aisle.
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So we'll get into a little bit of exactly what motivated each shooting, because the broad narrative is what the left wants to promote.
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So the left just wants its own narrative, no details, no specificity, so that it can ram through its own policy goals.
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Details are the enemy of the left, and we'll get into the details, and we'll get into Trump's response, which I thought generally was very good, though there were a couple issues with it.
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A 21-year-old shooter opened fire at the Cielo Vista Mall.
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The shooter posted a manifesto online, and it appears to be authentic, and it's circulated around the Internet now.
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Some people are saying, don't read the manifesto.
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I always want to know as much information as I can as to why these people committed these crimes.
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But to just say that it's senseless violence is to put your head in the sand.
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Because when these shooters tell you that they have a reason for what they're doing,
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When the 9-11 hijackers say, we have a reason that we're doing what we're doing,
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it's because we believe our religion is telling us to topple these two towers.
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You can't just put your fingers in your ears and say, la, la, la.
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So what does the shooter say motivated him in El Paso?
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And the ideology that he embraces is something called eco-fascism.
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Now, the left is saying this is a completely right-wing ideology.
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I believe these things long before Donald Trump ever entered the political scene.
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The reality of this ideology is that it's a little bit right-wing and it's a little bit left-wing.
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So basically, neither side right now is correct.
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A lot of conservatives are saying this guy has nothing to do with the right.
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Or neither, at least, is really getting it right.
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They might think they're telling the truth, but they're not.
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Eco-fascism does not neatly fit on the left or on the right.
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So in some ways, it's very associated with the right.
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It has this very racist category, which, again, doesn't cut right or left.
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But it has this very racial, bigoted category, which is he's anti-race mixing.
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He's not exactly a white supremacist, but he's certainly a white nationalist or a white segregationist.
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He wants there to be different areas of the country for different races.
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So at the base of his politics is racial essentialism.
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This would be categorized under the label alt-right.
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If you want to know more about what the alt-right actually is, not just what Hillary Clinton pretends that it is,
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but if you want to know what the term at least once used to mean, you can check out my PragerU video on this topic.
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It's an alternative version of the right to what we would consider a more traditional conservatism.
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In many of his policy prescriptions or policy preferences, he probably would be considered right-wing.
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So in that way, the right does have an association with him.
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But the eco part is this intense environmentalism, which would be these days exclusively found on the left.
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So he totally buys into the global warming alarmism.
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He says corporations are destroying our environment.
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Politicians of both parties are destroying our environment.
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Now, it's an intense environmentalism, which is strongly on the left.
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Though this kind of environmentalism has had a tie to fascism for a long time.
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There's what has now become a cliche, which is the observation that Hitler was a vegetarian.
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And yet, he wouldn't kill an animal because he was a vegetarian.
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There is a strain of fascism that embraces this.
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Because fascism, especially as the Nazis talked about it, was blood and soil.
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So the idea that it's not just about the race, but it's about the geography, the soil.
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And it can be taken to this insane extreme, which is basically sacrificing even our own humanity
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to preserve the collective natural environment.
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That's about as, I mean, we could go into this for two hours, but I think that's the broad view of the ideology.
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It's got a lot of components of the right, this love of tradition, want to preserve the nation.
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It's got a lot of aspects of the left, this hyper-environmentalism, even at the expense of human flourishing.
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That, beyond the ideology, what can we look to?
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Well, like so many mass shooters, this guy comes from a broken home.
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Before I even knew it, I read the manifesto and I said, you know, before I exclusively ascribe this to ideology,
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The parents of this guy divorced when he was 13.
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The father has written extensively about his 40 years of drug addiction.
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So obviously the father was just a total degenerate for much of this kid's life.
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Beneath the kind of political level, there is a cultural level.
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Something just wasn't right with this kid, something, a kid now adult, but when he was a kid,
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certainly when they divorced, something was broken in the home.
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We see this in the regular homicides that happen all the time.
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Often one explanation of gang violence is these kids come from broken homes.
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Now, in this case, the suspect was apprehended alive.
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So he wasn't killed, even though he wished to be killed in his manifesto.
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So he'll likely face the death penalty as he should.
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And we'll get into what President Trump has to say about that in just a second.
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But moving over to the next day's mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
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Young guy, 24-year-old young man opened fire in an Ohio bar on Sunday.
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At least nine people dead, including his sister, and 27 people injured.
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Now, on the surface, these events look kind of similar.
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So the media, irresponsible media, irresponsible Democratic candidates for president,
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irresponsible leftist pundits, have been saying they're both obvious white supremacy.
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There's no evidence that the second shooter was a white supremacist or a fascist
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Actually, when you look at his social media pages, it looks as though he was a radical leftist.
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I want socialism and I'll not wait for the idiots to finally come round to understanding.
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When President Trump won in 2016, he said, this is bad.
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Bizarrely, this guy actually wrote in favor of gun control and leftist gun policies.
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After the Parkland shooting happened, he tweeted out, quote,
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quote, this is America, guns on every corner, guns in every house, no freedom but that to
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He apparently tweeted to Rob Portman, the Republican senator, quote, hey, Rob, how much did they
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Obviously, something snapped in this guy's ideology or in his mental faculties or likely
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You don't see that in the mainstream news coverage.
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But there's not a hint of anything right wing or of white supremacy or any of that.
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Now, despicably, cynical leftist politicians and pundits and commentators are blaming President
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Trump and, quote, white supremacy for these shootings.
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In reality, one of these shootings was perpetrated by probably a Trump supporter, anti-immigration
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advocate and white supremacist and all those other things.
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But at least on the policy level, we know he was opposed to immigration.
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So I guess very likely he would prefer President Trump to some open borders politician, right?
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And then the other shooting was perpetrated by a radical leftist who explicitly endorsed
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Now, in reality, neither of these were caused by Trump or Warren or Bernie Sanders or any
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These people are responsible for their own actions.
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But that didn't stop the left and just the left, exclusively the left, from using these barely
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cold dead bodies to push their own hack, cynical political agendas.
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Here's what Elizabeth Warren tweeted out, quote, we need to call out white nationalism for what
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It is a threat to the United States and we've seen its devastating toll this weekend.
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And we need to call out the president himself for advancing racism and white supremacy.
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If you believe that, if you believe that premise, which I don't, I don't believe the premise
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that when mass shooters quote politicians, the politicians are responsible for the shooting.
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But if you believe that premise, then you need to apologize for the shooting in Ohio,
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You need to bear responsibility for the shooting in Ohio, Elizabeth Warren, because the shooter
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Now she won't do that because she doesn't care, doesn't care about the victims, doesn't care
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about the policy, doesn't care about any of it other than promoting herself in the 2020
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Democratic presidential primaries in a way that is absolutely disgusting, even by the
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I understand in presidential political campaigns, people are going to just use and exploit events
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And Elizabeth Warren should be ashamed of herself.
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If she had the capacity for shame, she would feel shame.
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She's the whitest woman in America who pretended to be an Indian Native American for her entire
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career in a way that would take jobs away from Native Americans, in a way to look with
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her white face, look people dead in the eye and say, I am a Cherokee Indian, give me preferential
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I mean, that sort of shameless person would absolutely have no problem using barely cold
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So it's not just the shameless Elizabeth Warren exploiting dead bodies for her own personal
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In response to the suggestion that video games and other cultural aspects that celebrate
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violence might have played some role in this shooting, she tweets out,
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Sadly, the GOP refuses to acknowledge that because their strategy relies on rallying a white
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That's why the president has stadiums of people chanting, send her back and targets Congress
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If you believe this premise, if you believe this premise that anyone who holds an idea
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that is also held, well, actually, no, I'm sorry.
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I got, I must've gotten a little confused there for a second because she's ascribing white
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President Trump has repeatedly condemned white supremacy, right?
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How many times a year does this guy condemn racism?
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Which conservative member of Congress, of the Senate, the president, which governor,
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But let's take her premise at its word and let's just, let's just replace white supremacy
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Because we know that the shooter in Ohio was a leftist, socialist, Satanist.
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Oh, you remember actually the guy who shot up the congressional baseball game was a Bernie
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Sadly, the GOP Democrats refuse to acknowledge that because their strategy relies on rallying
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That's why the congresswoman from Queens hosts rooms of people chanting, I don't know, socialism,
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bring us socialism, tax the rich, soak the rich, and targets Congress members of baseball
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See, in the case of AOC's tweet, it didn't make any sense because no conservative is embracing
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But the shooter in Ohio was an avowed socialist.
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Tom Perez says she's the head, the future of the Democratic Party.
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But by AOC's logic, looks like AOC needs to take responsibility for the shooting in Ohio.
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Mr. President, stop your racist, hateful, and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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Your language creates a climate which emboldens violent extremists.
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A Bernie bro shot up the congressional baseball game.
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Do you, Senator Sanders, bear responsibility for the attack on the congressional baseball game
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By your logic here, which I don't believe, you, Bernie Sanders, are responsible for almost murdering Steve Scalise.
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Now, they would never accept responsibility because they don't care.
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They're just saying words and words to exploit dead bodies for their political game.
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Fortunately, President Trump came as the adult in the room.
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And this almost sounds funny because we say President Trump, he sometimes behaves in a childish manner.
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President Trump is far and away the adult in the room in this situation.
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So he shows up and he gives remarks this morning.
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He started out by condemning bigotry explicitly as it was described in the El Paso Shooters Manifesto.
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In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.
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Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul.
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He said it per, I don't know how he could have said it more clearly.
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Now, the other aspect of why this comment was so great is he didn't go as far as he could have to hammer the left.
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He could have easily said racism and white supremacy and bigotry, racial bigotry is absolutely awful.
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Also, Satanism, leftism, and socialism are awful.
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Because that would have just been a repeat of there are fine people on both sides.
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Now, even though we know that in Charlottesville, when he said there were fine people on both sides,
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that he was explicitly condemning neo-Nazism, white supremacism, white nationalism, racism, bigotry, what have you.
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Even though we know that it was totally twisted and politically it still is hurting him.
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If he had said, we condemn racism and bigotry, we condemn Satanism and leftism,
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But he's smart also because there was no leftist manifesto in Ohio, not that we know of.
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So we're pretty certain we know who this guy is.
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So we just, I mean, President Trump is playing it a little more cautious here.
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He was very smart only to focus on the eco-fascist.
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I mean, he's just, he's just gotten savvier about all of this.
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Then he turns his attention on finding solutions.
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So the first solution he offers is probably what most of us were not expecting.
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It's, he's just talking about the internet, issues on the internet and the way that information moves around the internet
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and the way that people get radicalized on the internet.
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First, we must do a better job of identifying and acting on early warning signs.
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I am directing the Department of Justice to work in partnership with local, state and federal agencies,
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as well as social media companies to develop tools that can detect mass shooters before they strike.
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As an example, the monster in the Parkland High School in Florida had many red flags against him,
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So, and he ties it to Parkland, which is really smart.
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There's going to be a great new book coming out very soon on how that Parkland shooting in Florida came to happen.
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There were so many warning signs along the way, and the schools did nothing.
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So many warning signs on social media, on the internet, in chat logs.
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This is a little bit of a dangerous point to bring up because you never want to censor the internet.
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You know, if you start censoring the internet, that can go real wrong real quickly.
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You could, all of a, I mean, frankly, the left is already censoring the internet by kicking off conservatives.
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But you do want to be able to use warning signs on the internet.
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You know, this guy in Dayton, Ohio, he apparently had a kill list and a rape list that he would write on the wall of the school.
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This is tied to mental health, which Trump gets to in a second.
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Then Trump gets to his second suggestion, which I think is a little bit weaker.
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I think this is the weakest of all of his arguments and it has to do broadly with a culture of violence and specifically video games.
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Second, we must stop the glorification of violence in our society.
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This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace.
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It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence.
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We must stop or substantially reduce this and it has to begin immediately.
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You know, when I was a kid, I didn't play video games a lot, but there was one violent video game, Grand Theft Auto, that I played for, I don't know, six months or something.
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And I was playing it and then when I went to learn how to drive, I did have this impulse to drive like a maniac.
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Well, I mean, I drove like a maniac like all teenagers do, but I didn't, you know, drive like I was in a video game.
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I distinctly remember it thinking like, oh, I should swerve into that lane and swerve over here.
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And obviously that had just been kind of bred into my mind because I played this video game a lot for a few months.
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Maybe video games have something to do with it.
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Our culture, our pop culture has always been violent.
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I think it's the fact that in the old days, the violence had an order to it.
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And today, violence is pretty much nihilistic, random, arbitrary, absurd, senseless.
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Don't forget, our culture, the three biggest poems that found our entire culture are all war poems.
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They're all about one specific war, which is one of the bloodiest wars ever written about, which is the Trojan War.
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I mean, the first lines, I'm going to sing about war and all this gory, crazy violence.
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That was war with a moral universe, a war that had value, a war that had honor and valor and purpose, and even a sense of good and evil.
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The Lone Ranger, one of the biggest shows from the 1950s.
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It's about a good guy getting the outlaws, getting the bad guys.
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But in modern depictions of violence, it's just senseless.
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There might be something there to that cultural problem.
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Then he gets to the key, the biggest issue of all, which is mental health.
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President Trump then gets to the heart of the matter on the solution.
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Third, we must reform our mental health laws to better identify mentally disturbed individuals
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who may commit acts of violence and make sure those people not only get treatment,
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Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun.
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Involuntary confinement, involuntary commitment of the mentally ill.
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The left doesn't want to do it because the left is completely insane
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and the left doesn't really even believe in the concept of mental illness.
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They say, let's all talk about our mental illness.
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And the right doesn't want to talk about it because we don't want to give the government
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that much power to involuntarily commit people.
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But in the 1950s, we had a peak high of mentally ill, confined people.
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Then states began to empty the asylums in the 1960s.
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Actually, Ronald Reagan, of all people, helped that process along.
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He didn't begin the process, but he did help it along when he was governor of California.
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I mean, a huge proportion of these people have clear signs of mental illness, if not all of them.
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And we need to be able to take them off of the street.
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I mean, President Trump makes this great point, which is that guns don't kill people.
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It's the psychological process that leads to the decision to pull that trigger.
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It is not sustainable to allow dangers to society to be on the street.
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Because we think freedom just means anything goes.
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People who are mentally ill are not capable of freedom.
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Actually, people who are totally uneducated, totally uncultured, totally disengaged from their civilization,
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The founding fathers and the people who have constructed our republic had a very elevated view of freedom.
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You have to be sane in order to have some freedom.
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And if not, then it's not that that liberty will be taken from you.
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It's that you are not capable of that liberty in the first place.
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So that would be a good place to start is building some more mental asylums and throwing people who are a danger to society in them, getting them drugs.
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I mean, one of the reasons why they emptied out in the 1960s and 70s is because we had all these good psychological drugs now and we could cure people.
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So if someone had some mental illness, they'd take a drug.
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They wind up on the street or they wind up to be a threat to others.
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And then President Trump hits with great moral clarity on what we should do about the killers now.
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Today, I'm also directing the Department of Justice to propose legislation ensuring that those who commit hate crimes and mass murders face the death penalty
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and that this capital punishment be delivered quickly, decisively, and without years of needless delay.
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Trump has a lot of moral clarity on this issue.
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So one of the guys who shot up the bar in Ohio, he was killed, but the guy who shot up the El Paso, Texas mall was not killed.
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He was apprehended and he should face the death penalty.
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You got to remember, I know it's unpopular these days.
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There are three purposes of capital punishment.
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Now, rehabilitation doesn't seem like it factors in a whole lot in terms of capital punishment.
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It actually does have a role in capital punishment in the sense that it can reform one's mind as he prepares to meet his maker and face the gallows.
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But broadly speaking on criminal justice, those are the three purposes.
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An injustice has been committed, and for that injustice, because the civil authority exacts justice, for which we have a criminal justice system,
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the criminal has to be punished just for committing the crime.
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So if capital punishment isn't a great deterrent now, when we have 30 or 40 year waiting periods to kill people,
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we need to enact, or exact justice rather, swiftly.
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As we hear the endless debate that is just beginning.
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You're going to hear gun control brought up a lot.
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There is no gun control law that would have prevented either of these shootings.
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Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you.
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And they're exploiting your emotions to affect their political purposes.
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And they're exploiting dead bodies to affect their political goals.
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There is a reform that could have stopped maybe the Ohio shooting.
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He could have been committed to a mental institution.
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He could have been denied his Second Amendment rights.
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He could have been denied other civil liberties, too.
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You can't just take away people's civil rights, Second Amendment rights, willy-nilly,
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just because you don't like them or you don't like the cut of their jib.
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You can take away their civil rights if they are not deemed fit for liberty.
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If they're not deemed fit to behave as individuals in a free society.
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Also, on gun control, as they tell you, all gun control laws would have fixed it.
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Don't forget, President Trump is sympathetic to gun control.
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He actually bragged in his remarks about how after the last big mass shooting in Las Vegas,
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At my direction, the Department of Justice banned bump stocks.
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Last year, we prosecuted a record number of firearms offenses.
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Now, you see that he accidentally, or maybe intentionally,
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Because we said at the time, when they banned bump stocks after that mass shooting in Las Vegas,
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I said, this bump stock ban isn't going to do anything.
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The bump stock ban didn't stop this mass shooting.
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It didn't stop either of the mass shootings this weekend.
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It achieved nothing, other than to limit people's Second Amendment rights to protect themselves.
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The other thing to keep in mind here, mass shootings are not really on the rise.
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At least according to the most recent data that we have.
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So, New York Magazine, which is not a conservative publication,
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The number of mass shooting incidents that involve four or more fatalities
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is not really up since 1976, since they've been keeping track of this.
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Number of people killed and the number of incidents has not really increased since 1976.
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Now, what is different here is the media coverage.
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So, people are covering this, and we all have instant access to media everywhere.
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This is not a lot of comfort to victims or families or people who see these images on their TV screens.
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is that mass shootings are just one tiny aspect of our national misery epidemic.
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They're just one tiny aspect of our national problem.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, that leftist scientist, clock that is broken is right twice a day.
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He tweeted this out over the weekend, and he's getting a lot of flack for it.
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In the past 48 hours, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings.
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On average, across any 48 hours, we also lose 500 people to medical errors, 300 people to the flu,
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250 people to suicide, 200 to car accidents, 40 to homicide via handgun.
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Often, our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.
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290 people killed in just the last 48 hours from homicides and from suicides.
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It's almost 10 times as many people as were killed in those mass shootings occur every two days.
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That's, again, that's no consolation when you see these awful images on TV, but those are the facts.
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Almost 10 times as many people killed every two days as were killed in those mass shootings.
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Just in Chicago this weekend, seven people were killed, 59 people were wounded from gun violence.
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Just in Chicago, that's one American city, just this weekend.
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It's not a mass shooting, it's just the way it was.
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And yet, the whole purpose of this hysteria, this sensationalism, this vitriolic exploitation of dead bodies on the left
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They want you to be so riled up by emotion that you do whatever they say.
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You saw these cynical political hacks on television all weekend.
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On MSNBC, they had this professor from Princeton, Eddie Glaude, who told people that they actually
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had to stop using the phrase illegal immigrant because it contributes to mass shootings.
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But it's also important for us to understand the kind of continuity, the line, the connection.
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What does it mean to have a discourse in which people are dehumanized, where you use a phrase
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like illegal immigrant, where the phrase itself places that person outside of a certain kind of sense
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What happens when we use language like infestation, children.
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You set the stage for people who are even more on the extreme to act violently.
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And there are some people who bear the burden of it.
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He said, if you tell the truth, you are responsible for mass murder.
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If you use the phrase illegal immigrant, it's not even the best phrase.
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The correct phrase is illegal alien, illegal foreign national in our country.
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If you use that phrase, if you point out that they carry disease and crime over here,
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We mean a cold war where you're talking about a mass shooting.
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And over the weekend, you had a radical eco-fascist and you had a radical leftist each commit a mass shooting.
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So it doesn't seem like a cold civil war at all.
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What he's saying is you have blood on your hands if you tell the truth.
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This guy goes on television and encourages everyone to lie.
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Allow your emotions to run away with you and lie.
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Lest you calm down, look at the facts coolly, and tell the truth.
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Don't think absolutely despicable emotional exploitation from the left.
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We should accept with resignation, but nonetheless acceptance, that we live in a fallen world.
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Even if these mass shooting incidents are not increasing, which they're not, even if gun crime is decreasing, which over a 30, 20, 30 year span it is, even if all those things are true, we live in a fallen world.
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We will never eliminate murder, hatred, bigotry, violence.
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No utopian scheme promised us by the left is going to do it, and no amount of emotional manipulation is going to lead to that utopia, to that paradise.
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Actually, those utopias tend to be hell on earth.
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And then, when we are thinking clearly, once all the emotional exploitation is gone, we should address these issues in a rational manner.
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You could make it easier to involuntarily commit people.
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You could encourage a culture that fixes broken families.
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The vast majority of these mass shooters come from fatherless homes and broken homes.
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You got to do it in a thinking manner and not allow these sick, cynical, political anglers to exploit your grief and a national grief to their own benefit.
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Before we go, speaking of these cynical anglers, I just want to show the bright side of this.
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At the National Democratic Socialists of America Convention in Atlanta, the DSA promised to topple capitalism.
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Except they couldn't get past the announcements because all of the crazed leftists were arguing about pronouns and phony medical conditions and fake grievances.
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If we want to defeat capitalism, we are going to need a party that will organize working people to fight for the demands that we want and to win socialism.
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Guys, first of all, James Jackson, Sacramento, he, him.
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I just want to say, can we please keep the chatter to a minimum?
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I'm one of the people who's very, very prone to sensory overload.
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There's a lot of whispering and chatter going on.
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Please, can we just, I know we're all fresh and ready to go, but can we please just keep the chatter to a minimum?
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Okay, is there a speaker against, name, chapter, pronoun?
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Please do not use gendered language to address everyone.
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You couldn't see, by the way, in the video, when the first guy talks about sensory overload,
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everyone just raises their hands and starts shaking them.
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But they don't clap because that would be sensory overload.
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But I assume it's not just the auditory sense, right?
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I assume also the visual sense could be overloaded.
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And then just the righteous anger of that second guy.
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And then I wanted the auditory, the sensory overload guy to get back up and say, please stop yelling so it's too much.
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And they could just get into like a screech off.
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That's basically what we're seeing in the 2020 Democratic presidential debate anyway.
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This is just, I would say, you know, the young people, the university campuses, that's the crystal ball.
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That's what our society is going to look like in 20 years.
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So you are looking at a preview of the 2048, whatever the year is, Democratic presidential primary debates.
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And something tells me capitalism is going to win.
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Something tells me capitalism is going to survive.
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Before we go, I just have to give a quick little review of Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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Went to see it last night with Jay Hay and Andrew Klavan and Spencer Klavan.
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It's almost three hours long, but it actually flies through.
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Tarantino's not a great filmmaker, but he's a really good one.
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The reason I would encourage people to watch it, I don't know that the film has a lot of meaning.
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But if the film has meaning, I think part of the meaning of it is how Hollywood went so wrong.
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And how in the 1960s and 70s, Hollywood basically cracked up and went just totally off the rails.
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And it's a movie about how it might have avoided that fate.
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So he goes back and, you know, the Jews kill the Nazis and, you know, so on.
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And so the black slaves rise up and kill the white slave owners in the South.
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But it's got a profoundly conservative tone to the movie.
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You'll at least get your money's worth for three hours of gratuitous violence and Tarantino entertainment.
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At the very least, you'll be able to lament, along with the filmmakers and all of us, the demise of our culture.
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We just had to get to this big story today, but much more coming up.
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Hey, guys, over on The Matt Wall Show today, of course,
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we'll be discussing the horrific shootings that happened over the weekend.
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But what I want to do is go beyond talking points, go beyond the partisan blame game,
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and talk instead about what factors are really contributing to this epidemic,
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especially what new factors in our society might be contributing to this.
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I have a few ideas that I think hopefully get to the heart of the matter,
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or at least get close to the heart of the matter.
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And we'll talk about that today over on The Matt Wall Show.
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