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So the intersectional victimhood hierarchy,

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it actually has some very real consequences. As

0:34

it turns out, the logic of the left is

0:36

now that if you are a trans person

0:38

who murders a bunch of Christian school kids, this

0:41

is the fault of the society that refused to accept

0:43

you for who you truly are. This is the

0:45

new narrative that has just dropped. It was only a

0:47

matter of time, literally the minute that

0:49

it became clear that a trans person had murdered a bunch

0:51

of Christian school kids in Nashville. It

0:53

was it was obvious that the media were going

0:56

to turn to the narrative that the society's fault at

0:58

large. It is your fault. If you refuse to accept that a boy

1:00

can become a girl and a girl can become a boy, then

1:02

if a person who is a woman, who says

1:04

she is a man, murders a bunch of school kids, it's because of your

1:07

lack of acceptance. If only you had been more

1:09

accepting, then this would have stopped shootings

1:11

like this one. If only you had shifted

1:13

the entire realistic worldview

1:16

that men and women are a sexual dichotomy.

1:19

If only you had understood that that's a lie,

1:21

then this wouldn't have happened. All those school kids would still

1:23

be alive. And probably since this was a Christian school,

1:26

maybe a little deserved it, because it's a Christian school and

1:28

they probably were teaching kids that boys are boys

1:30

and girls are girls and they weren't agreeing with this generalized

1:33

worldview. So if a trans person shoots up a Christian

1:35

school, well, it is sort of an act of resistance.

1:37

This is the narrative the media are settling

1:39

on right now. So there are new details that

1:42

are now emerging in this horrific shooting

1:44

at a Nashville school. Let's start with

1:46

with

1:47

at least one act of bravery

1:50

and heroism here. So the

1:53

police officers in Nashville

1:55

did not act like the police officers in Uvalde,

1:57

Texas. They actually did what they were suppo-

2:00

They ran toward the sound of fire.

2:02

Here is a little bit of the video.

2:05

And again, this is tremendous bravery by

2:07

these officers. They did not stop for one second. They get out of

2:09

the car. They run into the building. They run directly

2:11

toward the sound of the gunshots, and they take out

2:14

this mass shooter. Here's a little bit of what that looked

2:16

like.

2:17

Go stairs, go stairs, go. Go, go,

2:19

go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,

2:22

go, go.

2:23

The police officer

2:25

is climbing the stairs. They're moving again

2:27

toward the sound of gunshots. got.

2:31

Keep pushing. Go.

2:36

Shots fired. Shots fired. Shots

2:38

fired. Move. Right,

2:44

right, right. Push it

2:47

LPVO,

2:51

push it LPVO, go right. Move,

2:55

move! Watch

2:58

out, watch out. Stop moving! Stop

3:01

moving! That

3:03

is the police taking out the

3:06

shooter right there.

3:13

So good for them for doing exactly what they

3:15

were supposed to do here.

3:17

And it's officer Rex Engelbert, one of

3:19

those officers and a second officer,

3:22

Michael Colosso, they fatally shot the

3:24

heavily armed 28 year old shooter. So

3:27

again, good for the cops again. Yeah,

3:30

they can only react to something that's already

3:32

happening. So some damage already been done, but certainly

3:34

more damage and more, more murder

3:37

was prevented by these brave and heroic police

3:39

officers. Now we are learning more about the shooter and it's predictably

3:42

precisely what you would This shooter was under psychiatric

3:44

care. According to the Nashville police chief, this

3:46

person was still able to buy some seven firearms

3:49

and was able to obtain firearms legally. This has led

3:52

to calls for red flag laws. Now, the

3:54

next question that should be asked is whether the left would really be

3:56

okay with the red flag law that said that because a person

3:58

was under emotional.

4:00

care that they would be denied the ability to

4:02

purchase a gun, particularly if that emotional care involved

4:04

a transgenderism. Because according

4:06

to the left, again, it is perfectly normal to believe

4:08

that you're a member of the opposite sex. There is nothing

4:11

mentally disordered about that whatsoever. So using

4:13

even that as a red flag, left presumably would object

4:15

it to that. Here is the national police chief announcing

4:17

the obvious.

4:19

We've interviewed the parents of

4:22

Audrey Hale, and we've determined

4:24

that Audrey bought seven firearms

4:28

from five different local

4:30

gun stores here legally. They

4:33

were legally purchased. Three

4:36

of those weapons were used

4:38

yesterday during this horrific

4:41

tragedy that happened. We

4:45

know that they

4:47

felt that she had one weapon

4:49

and that she sold it. She

4:51

was under care, doctor's care, for

4:54

an emotional disorder. Law

4:56

enforcement knew nothing about the treatment.

4:58

you was receiving? Well, maybe

5:01

the vast incentivization by our society of

5:03

that particular mental disorder, maybe

5:05

a society that declares that mental disorders are not in

5:07

fact mental disorders so long as they check particular political

5:10

marks. Maybe that is part of the problem

5:12

here. The Nashville police chief also announced

5:14

that the school shooter wrote about several other locations

5:16

in a manifesto. Now, it is worthwhile noting here that the Nashville

5:18

police have

5:19

not released the manifesto of this particular

5:21

shooter. We've seen the manifesto of nearly every other shooter,

5:23

many because they are posted online beforehand.

5:26

But should the manifesto be released in this case? Well,

5:28

I mean, absolutely, given the fact that there are now a

5:30

bunch of rumors swirling about the school, there's

5:32

a bunch of speculation about motive, a great way

5:35

to clear all of that up is to actually release

5:37

what is necessary about this person's manifesto,

5:40

not to glorify what they are doing, but because

5:42

it has now become an issue of public concern

5:44

as to what drove the shooter, what the motivation actually

5:47

was. We'll get into that in just a moment. Here's the National Police

5:49

Chief announcing that there were several other locations

5:52

in the manifesto, which again, demonstrates the heroism of the

5:54

cops, because presumably if the cops hadn't been there, this person

5:56

would have gone building to building, shooting kids.

5:59

So in the manifesto

6:01

there's several different writings about

6:04

other locations. There

6:06

were locations that was talks

6:09

about the school.

6:12

There was a map of the school,

6:14

a drawing of how potentially

6:17

she would enter and the assaults that

6:19

would take place. That

6:21

is the Nashville Chief of Police, John

6:23

Drake, who again also announced that they have a manifesto,

6:26

but they are not going to be releasing that manifesto. Again,

6:29

to put a lot of the rumors

6:30

to bed releasing at least enough of the manifesto so

6:32

people understand the motive would probably be

6:34

worthwhile at this point. All right,

6:36

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so, again, new details emerging about

7:43

the shooter. Apparently, the shooter had

7:46

sent

7:47

final messages to a friend before going

7:49

and murdering a bunch of school kids.

7:51

The shooter texted to a friend, basically, that post I made on

7:53

here about you, that was basically a suicide note. I'm planning

7:56

to die today. This is not a joke. You'll probably

7:58

hear about me on the news after I die. This is.

8:00

I last goodbye. I love you. See you again

8:02

in another life."

8:03

And the friend wrote back, "'You have so much more

8:05

life to live. I pray God keeps and covers you.' And this person

8:08

writes back, "'I know, but I don't want to live. I'm so sorry.

8:10

I'm not trying to upset you or get attention. I just need to

8:12

die. I wanted to tell you first because you're the most beautiful

8:14

person I've ever seen and known all my life. My

8:16

family doesn't know what I'm about to do. One day this

8:18

will make more sense, but I've left more than enough evidence behind.

8:21

But something bad is about to happen.'" Well, the friend immediately

8:23

called the cops. Unfortunately, by the time the cops

8:25

were called, it was too late to stop this person,

8:27

she called the cops at 10.13 a.m., the shooting began at 10.14 a.m. So

8:32

there just wasn't time for the cops

8:33

to respond and stop this thing preemptively. But

8:36

the narrative is already beginning to

8:38

form here from the media. And the narrative is, because

8:40

again,

8:41

the media separates all the human

8:43

populations into victims and victimizers,

8:47

not based on their actions, based on their identities.

8:49

So if you're a member of a victim class, you cannot by necessity

8:52

be a victimizer in the same way that the left has redefined

8:54

racism to mean racism plus power,

8:57

which means that if you're a black person who hates

8:59

white people, you can't be a racist because you're a member

9:01

of a victimized class in that exact same

9:03

way. If you're a trans person who shoots up a Christian school,

9:06

you're a member of a victim class. The Christian school kids

9:08

are not members of a victim class. Therefore, we must find

9:10

a narrative that allows you to maintain your

9:12

victimhood status. And that's precisely what

9:14

the media have attempted to do today. The real

9:17

victim here is not the school kids who are gunned

9:19

down for their Christian beliefs. By the way, this

9:22

is in fact a hate crime. When a trans person

9:24

goes to a Christian school and shoots up the school, that

9:26

is no different than when a white supremacist goes

9:29

to a Jewish synagogue and murders the constituents.

9:31

There is no difference whatsoever. That is an ideologically

9:33

motivated murder of innocent people. And

9:36

that's exactly what apparently happened here. And

9:38

so the media have immediately shifted into

9:40

what some people on the line are calling Hamas mode. Hamas mode

9:43

is where a terrorist group shoots a bunch

9:45

of missiles into an innocent Jewish area, and the

9:47

media have sympathy for the people shooting the missiles. So

9:49

they turn it into cycle of violence. It must

9:51

be because they're motivated to do this thing. Society

9:53

has driven them to this extremism.

9:56

And they've moved into that mode almost

9:58

immediately. So. For

10:00

example, the UK Daily Mail is now reporting,

10:02

Twisted School Shooter was at odds with

10:04

her devout Christian parents because they couldn't accept

10:07

she was gay and transgender. Daily Mail can

10:09

exclusively reveal. Church coordinator Norma61,

10:12

her husband Ronald64, refused to let their

10:14

daughter, who had recently adopted a male

10:16

name and used he-him pronouns dress as a man in their

10:18

home. The 28-year-old loner would instead wait

10:21

until she left their $700,000

10:23

national property to change outfits according to a well-placed

10:25

source. She was a woman at home, but when she

10:27

left the house, she changed clothes. They did know about

10:29

it. They just didn't accept it. Neighbors in the tree-lined

10:32

suburban street where the family lived for three decades said they were clueless

10:34

about the apparent transition remembered her as a skater

10:37

tomboy type. She introduced herself

10:39

about a year and a half ago by a female name, said one. I

10:41

treated her like a female. She didn't correct me. She seemed artistic,

10:44

quiet, and well-mannered. Police

10:46

now say, apparently, that more attacks were

10:48

on board.

10:49

Now, again, the

10:52

hijacking of a person's life by an

10:54

ideology that is a lie, a lie that you can

10:56

become a member of the opposite sex.

10:58

That is not the problem, according to the media. When

11:01

people have their minds perverted and twisted by a lie,

11:03

that's not the problem. The problem is that you refuse to accept

11:05

the lie as a general standard in

11:07

society. And so, now the left

11:09

is split along two separate courses. One is

11:12

to pretend that we can't identify the motive. We have no idea

11:14

why this happened. It's all a mystery wrapped in

11:16

an enigma. In the same way that the Fort Hood shooting

11:19

was a mystery wrapped, we had no idea what the motive was. It was clear

11:21

that the person, a Muslim who had murdered

11:23

a bunch of American service members, that

11:25

that person was doing so because that person had

11:27

terrorist motives. We pretended for literally

11:30

years, going back to the Bush administration,

11:32

we pretended that that had nothing to do with Islamic motivation,

11:34

radical Islamic motivation whatsoever, because again, when

11:36

you're a member of the quote-unquote victimized class, we have

11:38

to pretend to weigh the motive, or alternatively,

11:41

we have to use some sort of jujitsu

11:44

to determine that your motive was actually

11:46

created by the intolerance of an evil society,

11:49

an evil decadent society around

11:51

you, a society that refuses to accept you as

11:53

you are. So you can see that split emerging

11:55

on the left. On the one side, you have the people who are

11:58

going to pretend that there is no motive. on the other side they're going to. to

12:00

say there is a motive, but the motive is really driven by those evil

12:02

Christian people. It's really because the Christians are mean

12:04

and nasty that all of this is happening. And so the

12:06

big takeaway here

12:07

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12:09

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so again, the left

13:20

wing line is now split along two

13:22

separate headings. One is we have no idea

13:24

what the motive is. It's all a mystery. This is led

13:26

by some of the political class, who are a little bit more cautious

13:29

for the moment. This would be led by, for example,

13:31

Merrick Garland, the attorney general. So Merrick

13:33

Garland was asked about the motive

13:35

by Senator Kennedy from Louisiana. Why

13:38

isn't this being investigated as a hate crime? I mean,

13:40

normally,

13:40

again, you know if the situation were reversed. Not

13:43

only would be addressed as a hate crime by Merrick Garland,

13:45

Merrick Garland was literally trying to identify

13:47

school parents who were being mean to school board members

13:50

using the FBI. But apparently,

13:53

Merrick Garland has no clue. It's a mystery wrapped

13:55

in enigma. There's no reason to suspect the motive in

13:58

this particular case. Again, if the situation

14:00

Let's say that there were a straight white male who went

14:02

to a progressive school in Santa Monica where there were a bunch

14:04

of, quote unquote, trans kids and started murdering

14:06

the trans kids. Not only would the DOJ

14:08

be investigating it, it would be a two year

14:10

long media news cycle about the intolerance

14:13

of American society towards trans people. It would become

14:15

the key issue in the 2024 presidential race.

14:17

But if you're Merrick Garland, the head of the DOJ right now, you just

14:19

can't tell. It's a mystery. Who knows? Here's

14:22

Merrick

14:22

Garland yesterday. Do you plan on opening

14:25

a hate crime investigation for

14:28

the targeting of Christians? The

14:31

FBI and ATF are both on

14:33

the scene working with the local

14:36

police. As of now, Motive

14:39

hasn't been identified and the police chief

14:41

said at his last press conference

14:43

that they don't yet have reached a conclusion

14:46

with respect to Motive. We

14:48

are certainly working full time with them to

14:50

try and determine what the Motive is. And of course,

14:52

motive is what determines whether it's a hate

14:54

crime or not.

14:57

Oh, well, I mean, I guess you do

14:59

have to be very careful. Careful like Joe Biden. So

15:01

the president of the United States, he was asked yesterday about

15:03

the motivation in this particular case.

15:06

And he sort of

15:07

let the cat out of the bag. He kind of admitted

15:09

that the narrative that he decides upon is essentially

15:12

driven by reactionary politics. That if the right says

15:14

that this is a hate crime against Christians, he will immediately

15:16

shift into, it's not a hate crime against Christians. Here

15:18

is the president of the United States befuddled

15:21

and bemused elderly gentlemen.

15:32

That

15:42

is it. What

15:42

a perverse human being. I mean, seriously, that

15:44

is just perverse.

15:46

Senator Howley says that it might be a hate crime.

15:48

Well, if he's a hate crime, I'd probably disagree.

15:51

So in other words, you're just deciding on the narrative based

15:53

on what your political opponents say. You're not going to look

15:55

at the facts. You're not going to examine the actual issue

15:58

here. You're just going to decide.

16:00

Based on the fact that Josh Halley said a thing, it can't be

16:02

true. I don't know.

16:04

By the way, making jokes at this time also,

16:06

can you imagine any other mass shooting situation in which

16:08

the President of the United States is making jokes?

16:10

Making actual jokes? By the way, it's the second straight

16:12

day that he has done this. You'll recall that yesterday,

16:15

Joe Biden, when he was

16:16

talking about this, he came down and made jokes about ice

16:18

cream to open his presser on this particular

16:21

issue. There

16:22

is no other, the victims have something

16:24

to do with this. Again, the narrative

16:27

rules all. And for the left, number

16:29

one move here is just pretend they don't

16:31

know the motive. And number two move is going to be blaming

16:34

Christians and conservatives

16:36

for a trans person murdering Christian conservative

16:38

children, presumably.

16:40

We have no idea what happened,

16:42

side of the ledger, or we must obscure what happened, side of the ledger,

16:44

you have Reuters. So Reuters put out a tweet yesterday

16:47

that says, former Christian school student

16:49

kills three children, three staff in national shooting.

16:51

Oh, is that what's happening here?

16:53

It's a former Christian school student. Now,

16:56

this is just obviously perversity by

16:58

omission,

16:59

because we all know what exactly

17:01

happened here. The story here is not disgruntled

17:04

former Christian school student, deranged former

17:06

Christian school, the story here is trans

17:08

person who apparently was motivated

17:11

by anti-Christian animus did this.

17:13

I mean, like this is, nothing is being hidden.

17:15

All of this is now coming out.

17:18

But the media have now shifted into defense

17:20

mode. So Christian school kids get murdered

17:23

by a trans person. Who are the real victims? the

17:25

trans community. That's who the real victims are. Shades

17:27

of after 9-11. Wait, we have

17:29

to be very careful that too many peaceful Muslims getting targeted

17:32

on the streets. You remember, there was nothing but 10 years of stories

17:34

about how Muslims had it really, really hard in America after

17:36

9-11.

17:37

And how Muslims were the real victims here.

17:39

This is, the media love this, this kind

17:42

of stuff. Because again, they have a preset narrative.

17:44

It's all about identity class. If you're

17:46

a member of a protected identity class, and

17:48

somebody from your identity class does something bad, that person didn't

17:50

do something bad, you maintain your victimhood

17:53

status, and there must be maintained above all. So

17:55

why, by the way, does the left insist, why do progressives

17:58

insist on this division between the victim.

18:00

victims and the victimizers based on identity,

18:02

not based on action. Because if you admit that

18:04

individuals should be judged based on

18:06

their actions, that you are either a victim or a victimizer

18:08

based on what you do, it destroys their

18:10

entire worldview. Their entire worldview is predicated

18:13

on the idea that the system is dominated by victimizers.

18:15

People who are successful are victimizers. People who are

18:18

marginalized or unsuccessful, those people are

18:20

victims of the society. And they are going to

18:22

create a coalition of the victimized

18:24

in order to take on the victimizers and recapture

18:26

the center of all morality in American

18:28

politics.

18:30

That is presumably the goal here. That's

18:32

the only thing that can explain the politically motivated

18:34

narrative making that's happening right here. So for example,

18:36

NBC News put out a piece

18:39

yesterday titled, Fear Pervades Tennessee's

18:41

Trans Community Amid Focus on National Shooters

18:43

Gender Identity. Quote, we were already fearing

18:45

for our lives. Now it's even worse. Oh, trans

18:48

people are fearing for their lives. You know who was actually fearing

18:50

for their lives? Would have been the Christian school

18:52

children who were murdered. That would be the people

18:54

who were fearing for their lives, legitimately, since three

18:57

of them are dead, plus our three adults, at

18:59

this Christian school. But according to NBC

19:01

News, the real threat, the real victims here, are

19:03

members of the trans community. Quote, Shortly

19:05

after news broke Monday of a fatal shooting at a private Christian

19:07

National Elementary School, police said the suspect

19:09

was transgender. This detail, according to trans

19:12

people in the state, has poured fuel on an already

19:14

combustive environment that has led many of them to

19:16

fear for their safety. Well,

19:18

I mean, that's clearly the real

19:20

victims. Now, we've spent

19:23

zero time on the actual victims here. The media

19:25

spent zero time on, you know, the targeting of Christians. If

19:27

you wanted to tie this into a broader narrative about the

19:29

victimized in American society, and you're talking

19:31

about the murder of Christians, perhaps you should talk about,

19:34

you know, the widespread vandalism of churches that's been happening

19:36

in the aftermath of Roe vs. Wade, for example, the

19:38

widespread vandalism against pro-life centers that's

19:40

been happening. The DOJ refuses to investigate

19:43

any of those sorts of, again, those are not the victimized,

19:45

they have too much power in American society. So we're not gonna focus

19:47

on the people who actually

19:48

got shot. We're gonna focus on their families

19:50

and their community. We're gonna focus on the

19:52

real victims. People who have ideological kinship

19:55

with the shooter. Those are the people who we really need to focus

19:57

on. That's it, that,

19:59

not that they're. responsible for the shooting. They're not responsible

20:01

for the shooting. But we have to focus

20:03

on people who

20:05

share the general ideology that

20:07

men can be women and women can be men. Those are the real victims.

20:10

Denise Sadler, according to NBC News, a drag performer

20:12

who is transgender, said she had already hired

20:14

four armed guards before Monday's shooting to secure

20:16

a drag show she is hosting at a gay bar in Nashville this

20:18

weekend. Following the anti-trans rhetoric spawned

20:20

by the shooting, Sadler says she is now planning to

20:22

hire eight. You don't know if the shooter's gender identity

20:25

is going to trigger a community of people who already hated us

20:27

to come and try to shoot us to prove a point, said Sadler. At

20:29

the end of the day, there's a lot of hurt going on. There's a lot of anger

20:31

going on. There's a lot of confusion going on.

20:34

So again, we may have to focus on the

20:36

people who really are suffering, the trans

20:38

people, not the members of the community. That's

20:41

one radical group said this out loud, the Trans

20:44

Resistance Network, a far left transgender

20:46

collective. They

20:47

put out a statement on Monday

20:49

calling the mass murder a dual tragedy. The group said

20:51

that the first tragedy was the death of the kids and the adults,

20:54

but there's a second and more complex tragedy. And

20:56

that is the tragedy of the shooter who felt she

20:59

had no other effective way to be seen than

21:01

to lash out by taking the life of others and

21:03

by consequences himself.

21:06

Ah, yes, it's a dual victim.

21:09

The Trans Radical Network world, they do not claim to know

21:11

the individual or have access to their inner thoughts and feelings, but

21:13

they do know that life for transgender people is very difficult

21:15

and made more difficult in the preceding months by a virtual

21:17

avalanche of anti-trans legislation and

21:19

public callouts by right-wing personalities and political

21:22

figures for nothing less than the genocidal eradication

21:24

of trans people from society.

21:26

Is it possible that

21:28

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21:30

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21:33

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21:35

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21:37

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Okay, so the

22:52

folks on the TikToks, they've been

22:54

promoting the same ideology. The ideology is, of course,

22:56

that the real victim here is the trans shooter. So here's

22:58

one TikToker saying that the Nashville shooting

23:01

victims would be alive today if it were not for the,

23:03

quote unquote, anti-trans bills in the Tennessee

23:05

legislature.

23:06

I wonder if

23:09

the parents of the victims of

23:11

the Nashville shooting today would

23:14

still have their children

23:17

if these trans bills in Tennessee were never a

23:20

thing.

23:20

I'm

23:22

not a parent, but if I were, I'd be real, real mad

23:24

at the government. I'd

23:26

be real, real mad at the government.

23:28

Oh, well,

23:30

you're mad at the government now. Yes,

23:33

clearly the problem is discrimination

23:36

against the trans community by the Tennessee

23:38

legislature, which of course means that

23:41

apparently trans people get to shoot Christian

23:43

school kids. Here's another TikToker

23:45

who's going even further, suggesting that it's time for

23:47

trans people to—this is after the shooting. people

23:50

must violently resist the predations of the

23:52

surrounding society. Those predations include

23:54

the idea that men cannot be women.

23:57

Pants people in Tennessee, it's time to f***ing

23:59

fight. Trans allies in Tennessee,

24:01

it's time to fight. Trans

24:03

women, if they lock you up for identifying

24:05

as a woman, fight, resist.

24:08

You're gonna die anyways. We're going to die

24:10

anyways. It's time to resist.

24:13

Fight them, hurt them.

24:15

If they put their hands on you, beat

24:17

them. I

24:20

don't even know what to say about that. I

24:21

mean,

24:23

again, the violent and the call to

24:25

actual violence by some

24:27

folks is now considered perfectly within boundaries,

24:30

because after all, American society

24:32

is filled with bigotry. By the way, it's not just random TikTokers.

24:35

The press secretary for the governor of

24:37

Arizona, Katie Hobb, put out a totally

24:39

insane tweet. How insane was this tweet? The

24:42

press secretary now had to protect

24:44

her own Twitter feed. She went private. Her name is Jocelyn

24:46

Berry.

24:48

This is after the shooting. She put up a tweet.

24:51

It's a picture of a woman with two guns

24:53

pointing off camera. And it says,

24:56

us when we see transphobes.

24:58

So, literally in the aftermath of

25:01

the murder of kids by a trans

25:03

person, the press secretary to

25:05

Katie Hobbs

25:07

put up a tweet saying, us when we see

25:09

transphobes with guns pointing.

25:13

Absolutely nuts. But again, all of this is well within

25:15

boundaries, apparently. It's all

25:17

that matters, really, is that the narrative

25:20

be preserved. Oliver Willis of the Exquerable

25:22

Media Matters, he tweeted out, quote, a few months ago

25:24

I I wrote about how Der Sturmer, a pro-Nazi paper in

25:26

the 1930s and 40s Germany, laid the groundwork

25:28

for the Holocaust by linking every crime to Jewish people.

25:31

Anyway, here is the front page of Rupert Murdoch's

25:33

New York Post today.

25:35

All the New York Post had was Transgender Killer Targets Christian

25:37

School, which is exactly what happened. So it's like

25:39

Der Sturmer now. Like if you, that was retweeted

25:42

of course by Alejandro Caraballo, the

25:44

trans activist who was at one of

25:46

the Harvard Law School associated bodies. It's

25:49

just gaslighting and insanity. Next

25:51

level insanity.

25:53

And this has become quasi-mainstream,

25:56

apparently. I mean this is Apparently

26:00

the Minnesota Lieutenant Governor

26:03

Peggy Flanagan

26:04

was caught wearing a shirt that says protect trans

26:06

kids with an iPhone it

26:09

it's it like again,

26:11

imagine the situation being reversed and

26:13

You know exactly what everybody would be

26:15

saying, you know exactly what a rick Cenk Uyghur

26:18

he tweeted out right wing seems to celebrate the

26:20

Nashville shooter was trans as if that vindicates them

26:22

WTF doesn't that prove that maybe you guys shouldn't bully

26:24

people about who they are if you think the answer is more

26:27

bullying you You miss the point and are probably a terrible person.

26:29

And it's your fault. You have to buy into delusions.

26:32

And if you don't buy into the delusions, you're responsible for

26:34

whatever the delusional people do.

26:36

And that's, okay, all of this is

26:39

line number two. So line number one is we're gonna pretend the motive doesn't

26:41

exist. Line number two is it's your fault. You're a person

26:43

who doesn't believe in delusions. If you believed in delusions, if

26:46

you clapped hard enough for Tinkerbell, then none of this would

26:48

have happened in the first place, is the

26:50

idea. And then there's line number three, which is

26:52

of course the traditional gun control line from

26:54

the left. Now, the

26:57

most irritating form of this line is coming courtesy

26:59

of people like John Stewart, but now being repeated across

27:01

the media as though it's a smart point, even though it is a ridiculously

27:04

stupid point. You remember that John Stewart had

27:06

on a state legislator, I believe it was from Oklahoma,

27:09

talking about some bills that were attempting to restrict

27:11

trans indoctrination of kids.

27:13

And he was like, well, you know, guns kill kids, guns,

27:15

and I don't see you banning guns, which of course is

27:17

a complete non sequitur.

27:19

What you are trying to prevent is the indoctrination

27:21

of children into a gender cult that screws with their

27:23

brains on the one hand. On the other, you're

27:25

talking about the complexity of a Second Amendment

27:27

right. There are already laws against people

27:30

shooting kids. There are already laws

27:32

against, for example, people bringing guns

27:35

into schools in most of these places,

27:37

particularly if you're not licensed. This is obviously

27:41

true, but it doesn't matter. John

27:43

Stewart said it, so we have to pretend it's intelligent, and then we have to repeat

27:45

it over and over and over. So CNN's

27:47

Brian Caim was doing this routine yesterday saying, pronouns

27:50

don't kill kids, guns do. turns

27:52

out the ideology that promotes the idea,

27:55

the delusional motion that men can be women

27:57

and women can be men, and that if society refuses to accept you, then society can be you

27:59

then subscribe to our channel.

28:00

society is to blame and perhaps, perhaps

28:02

violent activity against that society is justified.

28:05

Maybe that ideology is in fact quite

28:07

radical. But again, the idea here is we have to

28:10

ignore this one issue. Stop paying attention

28:12

to this issue over here that's really disturbing and

28:14

messed up. Stop paying attention, let's pay attention

28:16

to guns. We can't walk and chew gum at

28:18

the same time.

28:19

It is amazing how for the left the inanimate

28:22

object suddenly becomes the root of all evil the

28:24

minute that the person wielding the inanimate object seems to

28:26

be on their own ideological side.

28:28

This is where we have

28:30

to now focus on an important

28:32

part of an agenda, which includes

28:34

mental health, protecting our kids, fortifying

28:37

schools, but also the connectivity,

28:39

which is a certain kind of gun.

28:41

Look, pronouns, pronouns

28:44

do not kill children, right? People with

28:46

guns kill children, and it's going to

28:48

be a distraction in our coverage

28:51

and keep us from what we now

28:53

know, which is each of these cases has a similarity

28:56

of more than any difference.

28:58

Oh, it's the gun, the gun, right, okay.

29:00

So then you have Joy Reid doing the same

29:02

routine. This

29:03

is Joy Reid, again, suggesting that we

29:05

must ignore all of the gender ideology

29:08

issues surrounding this particular case and focus

29:10

in on gun control.

29:11

But you have this in the state of Tennessee,

29:14

which, you know, ironically is the Scopes Monkey

29:16

Trial state, right, where they used to have a law against

29:18

teaching evolution in public

29:20

high schools, in public schools. They

29:22

now are racing to enact these First

29:25

Amendment limiting laws to limit

29:27

things like drag shows. You have rampant

29:30

book banning. I think Tennessee might be the most aggressive

29:32

book banning state, even more so than Florida.

29:35

And so they were essentially saying it's too dangerous

29:37

to allow children to be exposed to a

29:39

drag show. A drag queen is dangerous

29:42

to children. These books are dangerous

29:44

to children. But when it comes to guns, they're

29:46

like, no, put more guns where children are.

29:49

It is an irony that's hard to get away

29:51

from

29:51

during this time of moral panic over

29:53

books, history, and drag shows. So

29:56

just to be clear about this, She's saying the kids should

29:58

be able to view pornography.

30:00

in order to protect them? Is that apparently

30:03

her connection here? I'm missing the counter logic.

30:05

I need to hear her argument explicitly spelled out.

30:07

I guess the idea is that if we ban guns but

30:09

gave kids pornography, that's the solution.

30:12

That's

30:13

weird, by the way, if there had been somebody

30:15

on premises with a gun, it turns out it took

30:18

a person with a gun to stop the evil

30:20

person with the gun. In this case, as in

30:22

nearly all other cases, it took an actual human

30:24

with a gun to stop the bad person who was carrying

30:26

a gun.

30:28

There wasn't a school resource officer on campus,

30:30

anywhere on campus at this time. It'll

30:32

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33:06

so the Nashville mayor has decided that he is going to

33:08

jump in on the action. The push for gun

33:10

control is renewed. Now, it's not going anywhere because

33:12

again, the left actually has no solution to

33:15

the problem of mass shootings. It

33:17

turns out that rifles are used in

33:19

a wild minority of shootings in the United

33:21

States. The vast majority of shootings in the United States happen with

33:23

handguns. There's no actual

33:25

efficacy-laden plan

33:28

for gun control that has had any market

33:30

impact on mass shootings in the United

33:32

States. That's not the way that this works. But here's the National Mayor

33:34

blaming inanimate objects. Guns

33:36

lead to tragedies. And

33:39

whatever your political feelings

33:41

are, we should not be celebrating the cult

33:43

of the gun. And we,

33:47

country, needs to pick itself up

33:49

and say no know to an assault

33:51

weapons lobby that again

33:55

is making it too available and too

33:57

convenient

33:58

and to first of mind

34:00

for people to go out and commit terrible

34:03

acts. The cult of the gun. The

34:06

cult of the gun. Again, I have a question. Who's

34:08

a member of the cult of guns? You worship the gun? Who worships

34:10

guns? Like really, a cult, you know it's a cult. A cult

34:12

is believing something that is completely delusional, like men can

34:15

become women. That's a cult. That's an

34:17

actual cult. And if you don't believe in the rites

34:19

and rituals of the cult, well then you

34:21

must atone. But

34:24

according to the left, there's a cult of the gun wherein you love

34:26

guns more than you love children. No one believes

34:28

this. I'm a gun owner.

34:30

I have three kids going on four. The

34:32

reason I own my guns is to protect my

34:34

kids. This happens to be true for the vast majority

34:37

of gun owners. But

34:38

again, the idea that the gun is the problem, really

34:41

what that is, is that's a substitute for the idea that gun owners

34:43

are the problem. That really is

34:45

the lie, okay? When they say that they want gun control, what they

34:47

really mean is that they don't trust a huge

34:49

percentage of Americans with guns.

34:51

And they never explain exactly who they want to remove

34:53

the guns from. In fact, Joe Biden will go out of his way to say, No, no, no,

34:55

I don't mean like normal American citizen, but he does mean normal

34:57

American citizen, obviously. So our

35:00

daughtering president yesterday decided to speak

35:02

about all of this.

35:03

First of all, I wish to note here that,

35:06

you know, it's beating a dead horse almost literally

35:08

because the president of the United States is not with

35:10

us. He's just not with us. There's a clip of the president

35:12

of the United States being told literally where to walk

35:15

by people. I

35:16

mean, it's just, placing

35:19

Alzheimer's

35:20

ridden grandpa and the family photo over

35:23

here.

35:23

Yes, sir.

35:26

Down the ramp. And

35:29

we have people lined up on the left over here, some

35:32

union leaders and workers.

35:39

Your mark is going to be the blue one to the left.

35:42

How you all doing? You've

35:44

got a blue mark, and that's okay. I'll

35:46

stay in my blue mark, and then I'm going to say, load each

35:48

one of you. Yes, sir. I'll help you get started.

35:51

Hmm, hmm.

35:53

So yeah, things are

35:55

going well. Here's President Biden pushing gun control

35:57

yesterday. These are weapons

35:59

of war. I'm a second amendment a guy. No,

36:02

you're not. I have two shotguns. My sons

36:04

have shotguns You know, but

36:06

our states, you know, everybody thinks somehow

36:08

the second amendment is absolute You're not

36:10

allowed to go out and own an automatic

36:12

weapon. You're not allowed to own a machine gun You're not

36:15

allowed on a flamethrower. You're not allowed to own so many

36:17

other things You are allowed to own a flamethrower. Why in

36:19

God's name do we allow these weapons of war on our

36:21

streets and at our schools? He's

36:24

not a second amendment guy. By the way, who is I have

36:26

a question

36:27

Was the gun at the school wielded

36:29

by a legal gun-owning teacher at the

36:31

school? Like, who was in favor of a trans

36:33

murderer at the school with the gun? Like, name the person

36:35

who's like, oh, that sounds like a great idea to me. I would love

36:38

to have this murderer at the school with the gun.

36:40

Like, who is...

36:41

It's such a lie, but again, it's all

36:44

just emotional blackmail. Here's Corrine Jean-Pierre,

36:46

the world's worst press secretary, saying to

36:48

Republicans, what would you say to these parents? What would you

36:50

say to the parents? I have many things to say to the

36:53

parents. The first thing I would say to the parents is, I'm

36:55

so sorry this happened to your kids. Your kids are

36:57

the victims. Not the shooter. That's the

36:59

first thing that I would say to the parents. That's

37:02

the first thing I would say to the parents. You won't say that to the parents. And

37:05

what would you say to the parents? By the way, did they even

37:07

bother to ask how many of these parents themselves

37:10

are gun owners?

37:11

I guarantee you the answer is a lot of them. This

37:13

is Nashville, Tennessee at a Christian school. But

37:17

Karine Jean-Pierre knows best and she's all sympathy.

37:19

She's all sympathy. What

37:23

I will say to Republicans in

37:25

Congress is, what are you going

37:27

to say to these parents?

37:29

What are you going to say to these parents? You're

37:31

going to say to them the same thing that you

37:34

say to everybody who's been affected by a

37:36

tragedy or an act of evil. You sit with

37:38

them in silence because there's no good answer

37:40

to the problem of human evil.

37:43

There's no amazing answer to the problem of human evil. And

37:45

the stuff that is preventable is precisely the stuff that you

37:47

won't let anyone do. Like for example, monitor

37:50

people with symptoms of severe mental illness.

37:52

It's unbelievable. Meanwhile, you

37:54

have the American Federation of Teachers, Randy Weingarten,

37:57

saying, we need gun control. You want to talk

37:59

about people. who have no leg to stand on on any moral

38:01

grounds, Randy Weingarten, who forcibly shut down schools

38:04

for kids for like two years,

38:07

and who's presided over the destruction of the American public

38:09

school system. She has thoughts on gun control.

38:11

Today, we renew

38:13

our call for common sense

38:16

gun safety legislation, including

38:18

a ban on assault weapons.

38:21

This is an

38:24

epidemic. It's

38:26

an epidemic that our great nation

38:29

must solve.

38:31

And how many lives will

38:33

be shattered before

38:37

we have the courage to

38:40

do what Scotland did, what Australia

38:43

did, what New Zealand did, what other

38:45

great democracies do?

38:46

Well,

38:48

I'm looking forward to all Democrats embracing the idea

38:50

that we need a massive gun confiscation plan. Let's see how

38:52

that goes over electorally.

38:54

The reason Democrats keep spitting

38:56

into the wind here is because, specifically because they know

38:59

it's going nowhere. Meanwhile, the media have

39:01

jumped into this and they're going to try to use corporate pressure

39:03

now to cudgel all of the

39:05

corporations into pushing

39:08

gun control. So the Washington Post yesterday decided

39:10

to run a graphic showing the damage done

39:13

from a bullet fired by an AR-15.

39:15

I

39:16

mean, as though a bullet fired from a handgun wouldn't

39:18

be damaging enough to kill somebody despite the fact the vast majority

39:20

of killings in the United States occur using a handgun.

39:23

So here's a little bit of their graphic display.

39:26

The piece is called the blast effect. This is how bullets

39:29

from an AR-15 blow the body apart. And

39:32

they say, editor's note, we are publishing these 3D

39:34

animations to show the destructive power of the AR-15.

39:36

These images may disturb some people. Again, the idea is

39:38

that AR-15, if you don't have an AR-15, then nobody

39:42

is actually going to die. That AR-15s are

39:44

going to save, banning AR-15s

39:46

is the solution.

39:47

And the data just don't exist to promote

39:49

this idea. You know, you can do this about literally

39:51

any weapon.

39:52

I noticed one thing that they're not doing is a series

39:55

on the damage done by a knife to the chest.

39:57

Like is it not perfectly obvious that

40:00

AR-15 fired at someone can kill someone.

40:02

This is literally what you are taught. This is the first

40:04

thing that you are taught when you are when you

40:06

begin to use a gun. Is it never point

40:08

the gun in a direction where it's

40:11

where you're not prepared to fire the

40:13

gun because it will destroy whatever you point at. It's literally

40:15

the first thing that you are taught. Not number two, number

40:17

one, never point the gun in a direction where

40:19

you're not willing to have it fired. And

40:21

then the second thing you're taught is don't have your finger on the trigger

40:24

control, right? These are the things that

40:26

you are taught at the very beginning of learning how to

40:28

use a gun.

40:29

Everyone understands the destructive power of a gun. That's

40:31

why they buy it.

40:33

But

40:35

the entire point that's being made by the corporations is, well, what

40:37

if we just ban this? So CNN is already tweeting

40:39

out, in the aftermath of the latest mass shooting at

40:41

a school in Nashville, most companies declined

40:43

to speak out. Much of corporate America has grown

40:45

silent on guns. Ah, their silence is deafening. Their

40:47

silence is deafening. Ah, so the people to blame now. So

40:49

we now have a new list of people to blame. So the people to blame for

40:52

a trans shooter murdering Christian

40:54

kids are in order, the parents of the of

40:57

the trans shooter for not being accepting enough of trans

40:59

identity,

41:00

Christians generally for not being accepting

41:02

enough of trans identity, Republicans

41:05

for not being in favor of gun control, and corporations

41:07

for not sounding off on gun control. You

41:09

know who I noticed is missing that list? The trans shooter.

41:12

That's the person who I noticed is missing from your list.

41:15

You seem damned eager to make sure

41:17

that that person is never blamed because that might tie into

41:19

broader ideological concerns that you would like to

41:21

avoid.

41:23

And this of course was the approach.

41:27

The only reason to watch the view is because it is the dumbed

41:29

down version of every pseudo-sophisticate argument

41:31

that is made on the left. So Whoopi Goldberg yesterday,

41:33

the repository of all morality on the left, she says, I'm

41:36

tired of your 75 guns. Yours. Okay,

41:38

so I have a question. Did any of my guns do anything? They

41:40

didn't. I noticed. They're still in my safe.

41:44

Did any of your guns do anything yesterday? Probably

41:46

not. But apparently it's your 75 guns

41:48

that Whoopi is deeply worried about. guarded by armed

41:51

guards over at the

41:52

local affiliate studios.

41:54

put

42:00

in place trainings, background checks, mental

42:02

health screenings to be able to have one. Why

42:05

are we compromised? Well, you know what I'm tired of? I

42:08

don't mean to cut you up. I'm

42:10

tired of trying to find a way to justify

42:13

you being able to

42:14

keep 75 guns in

42:16

your house. I am tired of

42:19

trying to figure out a way to

42:22

say, listen, we have

42:24

rules and regulations. The Constitution

42:27

is very clear.

42:29

Scalia changed the meaning

42:31

of what the Constitution says. Oh

42:33

yeah, constitutional scholar Whoopi Goldberg

42:36

is on the move here. Taking on Antonin

42:38

Scalia,

42:39

I just have a question for Whoopi Goldberg.

42:42

What does Article I do?

42:44

How about II or III? What does Article IV do, Whoopi?

42:47

Her knowledge of the Constitution is about

42:49

as deep as her understanding of Holocaust history. Meanwhile,

42:52

Joy Behar on the same show, she says that

42:54

really what's happening here is that the gun lobby wants kids to die.

42:58

The avoidance here is astonishing.

43:00

It's astonishing.

43:02

Again, if the situation were reversed, if this had been

43:04

a straight white man shooting up quote

43:06

unquote trans kids at a progressive school in Santa

43:08

Monica, we all know what the subject would

43:10

be. But for the left, it's gun control

43:13

and the cruelties of American society trans people. It's

43:15

maddening. The next mass

43:17

shooter is planning their shooting.

43:20

What will this chamber do about it? Nothing.

43:24

They'll do nothing. They do

43:26

nothing. It's all about the money. You know, Marsha

43:29

Blackburn is a senator from Tennessee. She,

43:32

of course, sent out her thoughts and prayers. She

43:35

is 13th on a list of senators who

43:37

received the most money from the NRA. She

43:40

received over 1.3 million in donations while

43:43

representing a state with 1,273 gun deaths a year.

43:49

Okay, follow the money.

43:52

This is what this is all about, the gun lobby.

43:54

All these people who are selling guns, they make a

43:56

lot of money off of children's deaths apparently

43:59

in this country.

44:00

God, these people are, they're so tiresome, they're so

44:02

tiresome. The

44:05

stupidity of people like Joy

44:07

Behar that somebody disagrees with you so it's about the money,

44:09

fine, I can do that, I can play this game too. Maybe the reason

44:11

that Joy Behar believes what she believes is because it's about the money.

44:13

She doesn't get paid to be on the view and have rational

44:16

views. She gets paid to be on the view and be a moron.

44:18

Maybe that's, so it's about the money. I'm going to assume that she doesn't

44:20

actually believe any of the things she says. It's because her advertisers

44:23

want her to keep saying that stuff.

44:25

If it's good for the goose, it's good for the ganner. Or maybe

44:27

Marsha Blackburn believes, like a huge majority

44:29

of Americans, that there are gun rights under the Second Amendment,

44:31

and that my ownership of a gun is not responsible

44:34

for a trans person shooting up a bunch of Christian

44:36

school kids.

44:38

God, it's so disgusting. It

44:40

truly is. I mean, the media are

44:43

just vile. When

44:45

school kids get shot in Parkland, then we have a vast

44:49

display from CNN, where

44:51

we drag Marco Rubio before the

44:53

15-minute hate crowd, and we shout at him in front of a crowd,

44:56

about how he hasn't done enough on gun control. When

44:58

a trans person shoots Christian kids, we're like, oh, well, you know, we're

45:00

not gonna talk about the Christian school being victimized, we don't

45:02

know the motive. We're not gonna talk about the ideology of

45:04

the trans shooter. That's off limits. Let's

45:06

talk about the guns some more. Maybe we can drag Marco Rubio out here.

45:08

Maybe it's Marco Rubio's fault. Maybe it's Marsha Blackburn's

45:11

fault.

45:12

Or maybe you guys don't actually wanna solve any problems.

45:15

Maybe what you are all about is the preservation

45:17

of that core ideology, victims, victimizers.

45:20

And people cannot shift classes. You cannot be a member

45:22

of the victimized class and also be a victimizer.

45:25

That's all, it's just preservation of the narrative at

45:27

all costs. That's all that matters is preservation of the narrative

45:29

if you're on the left and damned if

45:32

people's lives get in the way. Who cares? Who cares? Meanwhile,

45:35

over in France, apparently democracy

45:38

is not under threat in France. It is amazing how

45:40

the media have decided where democracy is under

45:42

threat and where democracy is not under threat. So right now in

45:44

France, there's an actual attempt at seizure of

45:46

power that does not belong to the executive branch by

45:48

Emmanuel Macron. He's attempting to ram through

45:50

an unpopular retirement reform under

45:52

which he's going to raise France's legal retirement

45:54

age from 62 to 64 without a vote. He's

45:57

going to ram it through Parliament without a vote.

46:00

And hundreds of thousands of people are

46:02

protesting. Apparently, according to the Interior

46:04

Ministry of France, there

46:06

have been 740,000 protesters. That

46:08

is down for more than a million five days ago. But there's hundreds

46:11

of thousands of people in the street over there. It's

46:13

not a threat to democracy. It's only a threat to democracy

46:15

when it's a right-wing government. And it's being protested

46:17

by left-wingers. Then the right-wing government is a threat

46:20

to democracy. Even what they're pushing for is more democracy. Right over

46:22

in Israel, if there are people blocking freeways

46:24

and shutting down airports illegally, if they're

46:26

doing all of that in the name of preserving judicial

46:28

authoritarianism, They're just trying to stop the

46:30

threat to democracy. If in France there are massive

46:32

protests against Emmanuel Macron, who's not a person of the

46:35

right. Macron is not threatening democracy,

46:37

obviously. He's just doing the right thing. The

46:40

political bias in the media is truly an astonishing,

46:42

astonishing thing. But one of the things that's happening here

46:44

is basically France is recognizing

46:47

the reality of its own fiscal

46:49

insanity. And when

46:51

I say France, I mean Macron. Macron is right

46:53

on the issue. There's no question that France has to raise

46:56

its retirement age. By the way, there's no question the United States needs

46:58

to raise its retirement age. All of these social security

47:00

programs are bankrupt. They're all pyramid schemes reliant

47:02

on generations

47:03

yet to be born and will not be born given

47:05

the reproductive rates in the West.

47:08

It's a simple fact of the matter. Right now, if you look

47:10

at the unfunded pension liabilities in France, like 200% of GDP,

47:13

if you look at the unfunded pension liabilities in the United

47:16

States, it's just as much. I mean,

47:18

it's actually way higher in the United States. There

47:20

are certain estimates that suggest that the

47:23

unfunded pension liabilities in the United States

47:26

amount to like 700% of GDP. It's

47:29

totally insane.

47:30

We're gonna have to reshift all of these social security and welfare

47:32

structures because again, they were pay it forward

47:35

structures that were not

47:37

input defined, they were benefits defined. They were defined

47:39

benefits plan, not defined contribution plans.

47:42

And so now we're gonna be forced to take austerity

47:44

measures. But the problem is that when you make

47:46

people promises, then they want those promises

47:48

to be kept, even if it's not possible. So

47:51

you have a new day of action in France. The day

47:53

of action is the 10th since protests began in mid-January

47:55

against the law, which includes retiring the retirement,

47:58

includes raising the retirement age from 62.

48:00

to 64 according to France 24.

48:03

The interior minister said 13,000 members of

48:05

the security forces would be deployed on Tuesday 5,500

48:07

in Paris alone. So people are

48:09

taking to the barricades because they're really,

48:11

really pissed that their lives are going to get slightly

48:14

harder in that they will have to work into, you know,

48:16

late middle age.

48:17

They might have to work until they are 64. Now, the French

48:19

way of life,

48:20

which is essentially 35-hour

48:22

workweek and retire when you're 62 that you can

48:25

paint

48:26

on the on the on the Sen like

48:29

that's under threat if you'd have to work for a couple extra years

48:32

it's

48:33

the West had yet to come to grips with

48:35

the fact that it signed a bunch of really bad contracts

48:37

in order to gain votes and so a lot

48:39

of people have now got it in their

48:41

heads that these are entitlements owed to them welfare

48:44

was never an entitlement it was a it was a

48:46

privilege not an entitlement but the the simple fact

48:48

that there's so many people who have taken it now

48:50

as an entitlement means that anytime you attempt

48:52

to revise that bargain,

48:54

people are going to lose their minds. The same thing is going to happen

48:57

here in the United States as well. If you think that it's not going to

48:59

happen, you're totally wrong.

49:00

It's why both parties right now are kicking the can down the road

49:02

on entitlement reform, which everyone acknowledges, everyone,

49:05

right, left, and center. Everyone knows the entitlements are bankrupt

49:07

in the United States. They just refuse to say it out loud

49:09

because they're afraid of the political blowback. It's the

49:11

third rail of politics. Even Emmanuel Macron is now

49:14

generating fires in the streets. You

49:16

can see that the West is about to run headlong

49:19

into reality. Reality never loses. Meanwhile,

49:21

I

49:21

have to say, it is quite amazing

49:24

how the media cover immigration.

49:26

So if Donald Trump were president right now,

49:29

then he would be the one being blamed for the

49:31

death of 38 people in a blaze

49:33

at a Mexican detention facility. According to the New York

49:36

Times,

49:36

Katuyuska Marquez said she was begging for

49:38

money on the streets of Chudad Juarez on Monday afternoon

49:41

when Mexican migration officers took her and her family

49:43

to a migration detention facility just across the border

49:45

from El Paso.

49:46

Hours Hours later, the 23-year-old Venezuelan was released

49:48

along with her two young kids and husband. She said the authorities

49:51

wouldn't release her older brother, Orlando Maldonado.

49:53

One of the last things her brother told her, she said, was, don't let me die.

49:56

At night, a fire broke out inside the facility,

49:59

killing at least

50:00

38 people injuring 28 others. 68 men

50:02

from Central and South America were being detained at the facility

50:04

according to the Mexican government.

50:07

The site of the fire is like, we're talking like right

50:09

next to the US-Mexico border. This is a detention facility

50:11

that is directly across the border from

50:14

El Paso.

50:16

One of the reasons that this detention facility

50:18

exists is because this massive crush of migrants

50:20

at the border and then the held in Mexico policy

50:22

has created an extraordinary surge of people

50:25

being held in really cramped and crowded conditions

50:27

across the border. If Donald Trump were the president

50:29

right now, the media would be blaming his evil and

50:31

vile immigration policy for the deaths in

50:33

Chudar Juarez. They're not doing that right now.

50:36

Instead, they're suggesting that it's just, you know, it's kind of Mexico's

50:39

fault, really.

50:40

Now, there are certain people who

50:42

are calling out the Biden administration, but

50:44

Rachel Schmidke, a senior advocate for Latin America

50:46

at Refugees International, says, alongside the Mexican government,

50:49

the U.S. has direct responsibility for what happens

50:51

to migrants in Mexico because they force people to stay

50:53

in Mexico. But the real answer here is

50:56

that it is the fault of a government

50:59

in the United States that incentivizes illegal

51:01

immigration. The border surge that has happened under Joe

51:03

Biden is unprecedented in American history.

51:06

It's extraordinary and unprecedented, and it's leading

51:08

to overcrowded conditions at the border. Meanwhile, the Homeland

51:10

Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, he has no

51:12

answers as to exactly

51:14

how to handle the border. Here he was yesterday testifying

51:16

in front of Congress.

51:17

He would not say that there was a crisis

51:20

at the border. People are getting burned to death just across the border,

51:22

and Mayorkas is like, well, I'm not gonna say there's a crisis. He

51:24

was asked, I believe, five separate times by Ted Cruz.

51:26

Is there a crisis at our southern border?

51:30

Senator, there is a very

51:32

significant- That's a yes or no question. There's a very significant-

51:34

Is there a crisis? Senator,

51:37

there's a very significant challenge- I think your microphone

51:39

is not on. There

51:41

is a very significant challenge that we are

51:43

facing. Yes or no, is there a crisis? I

51:46

believe I've addressed that question. So you're refusing

51:48

to answer. Senator, there is a very

51:50

significant challenge and we are- Will you answer if there's

51:52

a crisis? Therefore, we are dedicating

51:55

the resources- Okay, so you're refusing to answer. Well,

51:57

you're and President Biden's chief of the board.

52:00

patrol in a sworn deposition

52:02

in July of 2022 when asked, would

52:05

you agree, Chief Fortese, that the southern border is

52:07

currently in crisis? Answer, yes. Notice

52:10

none of those wiggle words, none of that equivocation.

52:12

One word, one syllable, yes.

52:15

But apparently, according to Americans, we don't actually have

52:17

a crisis at the border, certainly not a crisis

52:19

that has anything to do with

52:21

Joe Biden. Meanwhile, he can't even say if Mexico

52:23

is a reliable partner on immigration. Here he

52:25

was yesterday.

52:27

You agree with Secretary Blinken

52:29

that there are parts of Mexico run by

52:32

drug cartels. I do. Okay.

52:34

Do you consider Mexico a reliable partner in this

52:37

fight regarding fentanyl and

52:39

legal immigration? Uh, Ranking Member

52:41

Graham, we, we are working with Mexico,

52:43

uh,

52:44

on the fight against, uh, fentanyl. Are

52:46

they a reliable partner? We have brought great cases,

52:49

uh, together and we are looking to

52:51

enhance our cooperation.

52:53

Well, I mean, that's, that's good. Everything is under

52:56

control, guys. is just fine. Okay,

52:58

time for some things I like and then some things that

53:00

I hate. So things that I like today. Apparently,

53:03

a court has now reinstated Adnan

53:05

Syed's murder conviction in that serial case. You

53:07

remember that there is a man named Adnan

53:09

Syed. He was convicted of murder of

53:12

his former high school girlfriend way

53:14

back when. And then there was a podcast called Serial,

53:16

became the most popular podcast in America. And it

53:18

called into question whether Adnan Syed had actually

53:20

committed the murder. The suggestion was, of course, that it was

53:22

some sort of systemic bigotry that led to to

53:25

the arrest and conviction of Adnan Syed.

53:27

Well, now the appellate court of Maryland has ruled that a trial

53:29

court had violated the right of young Lee, the brother of

53:31

High Min Lee, the victim, to have been notified of

53:34

and to attend the hearing in September where a judge vacated

53:36

Syed's conviction. Now, the reason that the judge vacated

53:38

Syed's conviction was not because

53:41

the evidence actually demonstrated that he was innocent,

53:43

per se. The reason that the judge

53:45

vacated the conviction is because Marilyn Mosby,

53:48

the district attorney in Baltimore,

53:50

decided that she wanted to make some headlines, and so Adnan

53:52

Syed should be released. Well now in a two to one

53:55

decision, the appeals court ordered the trial court to hold

53:57

a new hearing on the motion to vacate science conviction. That would

53:59

give Lee enough notice. to attend in person, unlike

54:01

the previous hearing, which he joined via Zoom. That

54:03

doesn't mean that Tyed has to immediately go back

54:05

to prison. Sanford

54:08

applauded the appeals court for agreeing with Lee that the

54:10

trial court had violated his right to be given adequate notice of

54:12

the hearing in September to be physically present at

54:14

the hearing. The decision,

54:17

according to Doug Colbert, a law professor over

54:19

at University of Maryland, said it was stunning and surprising.

54:22

Now,

54:23

one of the things that happens

54:26

to be true about this particular case is that there

54:28

is very good that Anand Syed actually murdered

54:30

the victim in this particular case. I understand

54:32

that we can build now crime podcasts

54:35

in which podcasters pour over the old files and

54:37

look at the defense case and they try to prove that the defense

54:39

case was actually plausible. But

54:41

the reality is that you had an accomplice who testified

54:44

at the trial that he helped Syed bury the victim's

54:46

body in a public park.

54:47

There was cell phone

54:49

evidence, like cell tower evidence, showing

54:51

Syed's phone in the park on the night in question.

54:55

The witness said, there's nothing that's going to change the fact this guy drove

54:57

up in front of my grandmother's house, pop the trunk, and had his dead

54:59

girlfriend in the trunk.

55:00

Anything that's going to make him innocent doesn't involve me. There

55:04

are a bunch of questions the serial tried to raise, suggesting

55:06

that this particular witness doesn't

55:08

remember the exact time when Syed first showed him the body,

55:11

but nothing has actually fully

55:13

undermined the case against Adnan Syed.

55:16

So it'll be interesting to see

55:18

whether this is just kind of a procedural snafu, or

55:21

whether they're going to look at the evidence again, and

55:23

maybe question whether Marilyn Mose be a really

55:26

headline-seeking DA is just attempting

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to seek another headline. Okay, time for some things that

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I hate.

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So I gotta say, I'm so tired

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of celebrities apologizing for literally

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nothing.

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So Guy Pearce,

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he's a really good actor, Guy Pearce, one of the great

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underrated actors of our generation.

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And Guy Pearce put out a full-on

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apology letter today.

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The

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apology was for a tweet in

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which he said, If trans actors are the only ones

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allowed to play trans roles, are we also suggesting

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trans actors are therefore only allowed to play trans characters?

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This seems like a perfectly logical question. If the basic idea

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is that you are only allowed to play a character who shares

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your identity characteristics, then trans actors

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should only be allowed to play trans characters.

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Obviously. You

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shouldn't have a trans woman playing a biological

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woman because they're not exactly the same thing. But

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this generated an online playback. You're not allowed to say

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that. No, the rule is that

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a black person is allowed to play a historically white person,

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but a white person is not allowed to play a historically black

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person. The rule is that a trans person can play

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a biological woman. But a biological woman like

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Scarlett Johansson definitely cannot play a trans

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woman. Like these are things that we can't have happening.

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Again, if you're a member of a victimized group,

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you can do whatever the hell you want. If you're a member of the

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victimizers group, or at least you are

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higher on the intersectional hierarchy of power,

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if you're higher on that intersectional hierarchy, then you certainly

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cannot take advantage of that position.

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So Guy Pearce questioned that, now he's in real trouble. So he

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put out a letter. This

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sort of stuff is just pathetic malice struggle,

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such in garbage. It's really stupid.

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Here is what the letter said. To quote, hello everyone, I see

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that raising the question of gender identity within the casting

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process on a platform like Twitter was not a good idea.

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For that, I apologize enormously. I acknowledge

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it has only stirred up and inflamed attitudes and made

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us all dig our heels in. I take responsibility

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for that and again, apologize for starting a fire.

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This is a subject that needs to be discussed face to face, person

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to person, over a good amount of time and where we are all heard

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and understood. No it isn't. This is a very, very

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simple subject. People should be able to play whoever the hell they

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want. That's it. If you're the best person for the party,

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you should win the party. Does it require a face-to-face

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conversation to say you a man should not play

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a woman because you're a man? I mean

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and again if you of all

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you're saying is there's a set of rules and the set of rules is members

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of identity groups can only play members of those identity

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groups then That means that

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members of every identity group can only play members of that

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identity group period right the rule applies

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to everyone This doesn't require a long conversation.

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What he's really

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apologizing for is having spoken and And

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here's the thing, his cowardice is going to have no impact on

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Guy Pearce, but it has impact on every other actor in Hollywood

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who now is now not as powerful as Guy Pearce

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and can't say the thing. When powerful people

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apologize.

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before the mom, it's not just that they're doing something

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wrong. They are. They're doing something morally wrong. But

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they're also disincentivizing people who are not powerful

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from ever saying anything again. Because are you as powerful

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as Guy Pearce in American society? the answer is no. When

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people speak up loud