Normies are repulsed by the excuses for antisocial behavior (12-12-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] All right. So in an attempt to win back normies, Democrats have, let's see, in the last week, they have been completely baffled by Daniel Penny's acquittal up in New York City and have been celebrating, if not just offering up justifications and rationalizations for the murder of a health care insurance industry CEO.

[00:00:54] So that'll win them back, Democrats. You guys just keep doing what you're doing. All right. I feel like this is totally going to win back all of the voters that think you've gone crazy. This will prove that you're not. Sure. Yeah. Washington Free Beacon. Andrew Stiles.

[00:01:18] There are at least some Democrats who believe that to win elections, the party needs to stop alienating the working class voters without college degrees who comprise a majority of the American electorate.

[00:01:31] Perhaps the easiest way to achieve this goal would be to stop saying things and acting in ways that normal Americans might consider to be just a smidge nuts.

[00:01:43] At least some Democrats. At least some Democrats appear to be trying. I played Josh Shapiro the other day.

[00:01:49] All right. His clip after the assassination of that CEO, Democrat governor of Pennsylvania, saying he's not a hero. He's a coward.

[00:01:58] But in general, the party's early efforts appeared less deranged and out of touch or their efforts rather to appear less deranged and out of touch suggest that a lot of Democrats are simply unwilling or maybe unable to abandon their old ways.

[00:02:16] And see, this this is part of the problem is that, you know, I've said for years, Democrats have become intellectually flabby because they never have to actually debate their ideas.

[00:02:28] I am engaged in now, I think, a two hour running debate on Twitter, formerly known as X, about the passage or the overriding of the governor's veto on Senate Bill 382.

[00:02:41] And. For the emotionalized leftists, they cannot understand that the measure, Senate Bill 382.

[00:02:51] Did have hurricane relief in it.

[00:02:56] Helene relief was in the bill.

[00:02:57] It was in the title. Sure.

[00:03:00] But they cannot seem to understand that there is relief in that bill.

[00:03:06] Along with.

[00:03:08] Other stuff, the power stripping for the governor and the attorney general.

[00:03:16] And a third issue related to it is the way that these two things, the power stripping and the relief funding.

[00:03:27] That they were put together in one bill.

[00:03:31] So you have three different elements of the story.

[00:03:36] And running through this exercise with, I think, three or four of these leftists, including that the moron.

[00:03:50] Kyle Parrish.

[00:03:52] Who I gave him the phone numbers.

[00:03:54] He claims he has no idea when the show is.

[00:03:57] It's like it's in my bio.

[00:03:58] You can you get all upset because there was a Twitter show that was done that.

[00:04:06] Savaged him.

[00:04:07] I was invited to participate.

[00:04:08] And of course, I did because he is a moron.

[00:04:10] And he said some really stupid stuff.

[00:04:12] And it was in the wake of the.

[00:04:16] Of Hurricane Helene, if I recall.

[00:04:18] And so I joined the Twitter spaces and we had it or X spaces.

[00:04:23] They do they call them spaces X?

[00:04:25] I don't know.

[00:04:26] And he was upset that he wasn't invited to defend himself.

[00:04:30] I said, call into the show.

[00:04:31] I'm happy to have a conversation with you.

[00:04:33] You want to call in?

[00:04:34] Call in.

[00:04:36] You get to the front of the line there, bucko.

[00:04:40] I do not shy away from these debates, as one would know if you follow me on Twitter.

[00:04:45] So, like, I don't I walk towards the fight.

[00:04:48] And what this fight today is a perfect example of is.

[00:04:55] How they are not forced into these type of intellectual arguments to make an argument to defend your position.

[00:05:04] Does your argument have merit?

[00:05:06] Is it fact supported?

[00:05:08] And so when I try to say to when I outline, here are your three issues.

[00:05:12] When the the the soon to be governor of North Carolina, Roy 2D2 over here, Josh Stein, when I think he's because he's kind of short.

[00:05:22] I don't know.

[00:05:23] Actually, I don't know if he's short.

[00:05:24] He seems short.

[00:05:25] But maybe just because he was standing next to Roy.

[00:05:26] My good friend, Ray.

[00:05:28] Mini Ray.

[00:05:29] Mini Roy.

[00:05:31] Coop 2.

[00:05:32] Whatever.

[00:05:32] I'm going to come up with some name for him.

[00:05:33] But whatever.

[00:05:34] Josh Stein coming into office.

[00:05:36] He puts out a tweet in opposition to the override of the veto.

[00:05:41] And I understand Democrats are mad about it.

[00:05:43] The power stripping element of it.

[00:05:44] I get it.

[00:05:44] But to get on Twitter as the incoming governor and say that there's no relief in the bill, in the law.

[00:05:52] That is a lie.

[00:05:53] That is an absolute lie.

[00:05:56] There's a quarter of a billion dollars almost in funding to go into the Helene relief fund, the Helene fund.

[00:06:05] And you know who's in charge of allocating the money through those funds?

[00:06:09] The executive branches.

[00:06:10] He is.

[00:06:14] Not to mention, as I went over the other day, maybe yesterday or day before, the relaxation for various regulatory burdens, building code stuff, to allow for temporary shelters to be more easily built in a disaster area.

[00:06:33] This is a direct response to people who have been saying, we have Helene victims living in tents in freezing temperatures, and they can't get these temporary shelters delivered or set up on their property for various local and state building code reasons.

[00:06:52] And so the General Assembly in this legislation gave exemptions.

[00:06:59] They peeled back a lot of these rules temporarily in disaster zones.

[00:07:08] So don't tell me that there isn't any relief in the bill.

[00:07:11] You could oppose the power stripping part of it.

[00:07:14] I understand why you would be upset about that.

[00:07:16] But how dare you?

[00:07:18] How dare you get out there, use your platform as the incoming governor of the state, the one who's in charge of administering $227 million additional?

[00:07:30] Additional.

[00:07:31] There's already been $800 million plus put into the Helene fund already.

[00:07:35] So we're now over a billion dollars just in state funding.

[00:07:40] And you can argue and be mad about the slow process of how the funds get distributed and the prioritization and all of that.

[00:07:48] You can argue all of that all you want.

[00:07:50] But you cannot say that this bill that was just overridden, you cannot say that it didn't have relief funding in it.

[00:07:58] And that is what he said.

[00:07:59] And when I point this out to people that are so emotionally overinvested in Democrat power and they conflate this all together.

[00:08:11] Oh, well, the power stripping thing is the more important thing.

[00:08:14] And they use the they're ignoring the people in Western North Carolina and they didn't even help them with this bill.

[00:08:20] And but they did help people with the bill.

[00:08:23] Again, they crammed it in to the relief funding bill.

[00:08:27] And you can object to that.

[00:08:29] That's the third point, the process point.

[00:08:31] I get it.

[00:08:32] I don't like omnibus bills either.

[00:08:34] I don't like them using one vehicle that everybody should support and would support.

[00:08:40] Right.

[00:08:41] And then taking something that not everybody would support and sticking it in there.

[00:08:45] But this has been going on for decades.

[00:08:48] Forever.

[00:08:49] I would prefer standalone bills, mainly because it would mean fewer pieces of legislation would actually get passed.

[00:08:56] Right.

[00:08:56] That's what like that would be the outcome that I would prefer.

[00:08:59] Less legislation.

[00:09:01] Fewer laws getting added to the books all the time.

[00:09:05] So I'm OK with separating the issues out.

[00:09:08] And yeah, the power stripping measures might not have passed the legislature and might not have gotten overridden.

[00:09:17] By the the the legislative chambers that that might have failed.

[00:09:22] Everybody would have been on board for the Helene relief.

[00:09:25] Right.

[00:09:25] And then all those Democrats would be running around saying we've been helping Western North Carolina.

[00:09:30] But no, no.

[00:09:31] The power stripping part is included.

[00:09:33] And so now they're saying the Republicans didn't help.

[00:09:35] And that's a lie.

[00:09:37] And they can.

[00:09:38] And these leftists cannot separate these two issues.

[00:09:42] They think it it it's like it does.

[00:09:45] It causes this cognitive dissonance.

[00:09:48] And they just shut down and they just start hurling insults.

[00:09:52] Well, to be fair, Kyle Parrish began hurling the insults immediately.

[00:09:56] So he didn't even get to the malfunctioning brain part of the argument phase.

[00:10:00] But that is his brand, though.

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[00:11:04] Let's go to the phones here and speak with Richard.

[00:11:06] Hello, Richard.

[00:11:07] Welcome to the show.

[00:11:09] Hello, Pete.

[00:11:10] Yes.

[00:11:10] Enjoy your show.

[00:11:11] Thanks, sir.

[00:11:12] Two quick questions about the shooter.

[00:11:14] I was wondering why the media always has to refer to him as a ledge shooter.

[00:11:20] And the other question I had was, when did UPenn become Ivy League?

[00:11:26] I never knew that.

[00:11:29] So, UPenn has been an Ivy League school since 1933.

[00:11:37] I would guess.

[00:11:38] I'll show you what I know.

[00:11:40] Along with all of the others.

[00:11:43] Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.

[00:11:49] And it's not like any...

[00:11:50] Well, it was originally written by some sports writer based on their athletic programs and lumped them all in together, all of those schools.

[00:11:58] And so, yeah.

[00:11:59] Yeah.

[00:12:00] And so that was the...

[00:12:01] And then after that, there was like the formal establishment of the athletic league for the Ivy colleges.

[00:12:07] And so that's where that came from.

[00:12:09] Came out of their athletic programs.

[00:12:11] Regarding the use of the word alleged, there is this idea that if you say allegedly in your news story, then that will protect you from lawsuits.

[00:12:26] But it doesn't.

[00:12:27] Yeah, but it doesn't.

[00:12:28] That's...

[00:12:29] But, like, just saying the word allegedly does not protect you in all circumstances from saying that.

[00:12:35] Now, I...

[00:12:35] And so they...

[00:12:36] So the use of the word alleged or allegedly, nowadays, it's basically...

[00:12:41] It's just like this idea that they haven't been adjudicated.

[00:12:44] They haven't gone to trial and been convicted yet.

[00:12:46] You know?

[00:12:48] I figured liability.

[00:12:50] I just get tired of hearing it.

[00:12:51] The...

[00:12:51] I heard somebody on the media say the alleged gun that was used, which sounded ridiculous to me.

[00:12:57] Right.

[00:12:57] It is alleged that the gun that they had recovered, right?

[00:13:00] That's the allegation.

[00:13:02] That is alleged by law enforcement.

[00:13:05] By the DA.

[00:13:06] Yeah.

[00:13:06] That's it.

[00:13:07] Thank you.

[00:13:08] All right, buddy.

[00:13:08] I appreciate the call, Richard.

[00:13:09] Thanks.

[00:13:11] And no, I did not just know that information about the Ivy League schools.

[00:13:15] I Googled it.

[00:13:17] Or I...

[00:13:18] Sorry.

[00:13:18] I duck-ducked it.

[00:13:19] I go-ed it.

[00:13:20] I DDG'd it.

[00:13:21] What are they...

[00:13:23] I ducked it?

[00:13:25] I de-ducked-ed it.

[00:13:27] No.

[00:13:28] Okay.

[00:13:32] The Free Beacon, Andrew Stiles, he writes this piece,

[00:13:36] Democrats campaign to win back normal Americans going about as poorly as expected.

[00:13:42] Earlier this month, there was a meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.

[00:13:46] Democrat state chairs gathered for their annual winter meeting, and they kicked things off

[00:13:52] with a land acknowledgement.

[00:13:58] A symbolic apology that means absolutely nothing, and it doesn't require any kind of payment for the sin.

[00:14:07] And it's just like, yeah, we're totally standing on this land that somebody else took from somebody else who took it from somebody else who took it prior to that from someone else who, before that, took it from someone else.

[00:14:23] And we pay tribute to only one of the groups of people that took it, the people that we took it from.

[00:14:30] And by we, I mean somebody else.

[00:14:32] Right.

[00:14:33] So, they kicked things off with their land acknowledgement.

[00:14:36] A symbolic apology for standing on ground that was, quote, stolen from Native Americans.

[00:14:41] Jamie Harrison, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, lashed out at critics who have urged the party to stop obsessing over identity politics.

[00:14:50] So, we are not backing away from identity politics.

[00:14:56] Tim Walz, the prancing VP nominee.

[00:15:01] Right.

[00:15:02] He said in an interview, first interview after his defeat, that the loss had taught him an important lesson about the American people's preference for racism.

[00:15:13] Quote, we were pledging to be inclusive.

[00:15:16] We were pledging to bring people in.

[00:15:18] Donald Trump has said that he that isn't what he wants.

[00:15:21] And so, if that's what America is leaning towards, I guess for me, it's to understand and learn more about America because I thought that they were going to probably move towards a more positive message.

[00:15:35] This is, I'm sorry you were offended.

[00:15:40] This is the meme from the Simpsons episode where Principal Skinner, you know, has like this brief brush with self-awareness where he says, could it be that I'm the one that's out of touch?

[00:15:53] No, no, no.

[00:15:53] It's definitely the children.

[00:15:55] Right.

[00:15:56] Oh, he was so close.

[00:15:59] Like, no, it's dude.

[00:16:02] If you don't understand the results you are seeing, reassess your assumptions.

[00:16:08] Your assumption is that all of these people are racist and the only way that people would vote against you would be if they're all racist, too, I guess.

[00:16:16] And so, when you lose the election, rather than say, maybe I was wrong in my assumption, your reaction is to what?

[00:16:24] Double down and say, wow, there are way more racist than I thought, including all of these people of color that all voted for Trump this time.

[00:16:33] Like, the swings.

[00:16:34] There were seven districts in New Jersey, I think it was, that swung.

[00:16:41] These are like predominantly Hispanic districts that swung for Trump.

[00:16:46] That is not racism, my friend.

[00:16:49] That's a you problem.

[00:16:50] That was a you problem.

[00:16:52] All right.

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[00:17:22] So, you know, Trump has said he wants to restart border construction on day one.

[00:17:26] Brent Scherr from the Washington Free Beacon reports.

[00:17:28] The Biden administration is running a fire sale now of the border materials.

[00:17:33] Daily Wire reports weeks before Trump takes office, Biden is racing to auction off unused border wall materials.

[00:17:43] All right.

[00:17:43] So tell me again why Republicans are the meanies for trying to move power out from underneath the governor to appoint members of the Board of Elections in North Carolina.

[00:17:54] Like, I can't believe that they would do this right before they're going to be losing their majorities.

[00:18:01] See, this is why I say like your charge of hypocrisy carries no purchase.

[00:18:06] I do not care anymore.

[00:18:07] It is a consistent application of the standard.

[00:18:10] I don't like the standard, but it is consistently applied.

[00:18:14] You don't get to cry about it, Democrats, when the Republicans do this sort of stuff to you.

[00:18:19] Again, I don't like it.

[00:18:22] For example, do you know that they're running a bill in the House to expand the size of the Supreme Court?

[00:18:28] Yeah.

[00:18:29] Do you wonder, will Democrats support it this time?

[00:18:32] No.

[00:18:33] But they were all for it.

[00:18:34] Just what?

[00:18:35] Six months ago.

[00:18:37] But now they're all going to be against it.

[00:18:39] Why?

[00:18:39] Because they only wanted it for their own power.

[00:18:42] Republicans running the bill to prove the point.

[00:18:46] And if they happen to expand it, if they happen to, look, if they turn around and they try to expand the court under their majority, under the new House, I would still be opposed to it.

[00:18:59] They control the Senate, rather.

[00:19:00] The Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate.

[00:19:03] They have the House.

[00:19:04] They have the presidency.

[00:19:04] If they ran the bill to expand the U.S. Supreme Court, I would still oppose it.

[00:19:10] But the standard set by the Democrats is the one that Republicans are now forcing them to live with.

[00:19:16] It's the same thing with the filibuster.

[00:19:19] They told you don't blow it up.

[00:19:20] Harry Reid blew it up.

[00:19:22] And then Democrats hoisted on their own petard by a consistent application of the standards.

[00:19:28] I don't know how much clearer I need to be about this, but apparently everything that I have said about it is not clear enough for leftists.

[00:19:35] When you degrade the standards, you have to live with them, too.

[00:19:42] Back to this piece at the Free Beacon by Andrew Stiles.

[00:19:47] Yeah, Andrew Stiles.

[00:19:50] After Trump won the election by assembling one of the most inclusive Republican coalitions in history,

[00:19:59] Tim Walls says, oh, well, I guess America is more racist than I thought.

[00:20:03] That's his explanation for it.

[00:20:04] Like, dude, you're not going to win people back to your side by calling them racist for opposing you, for disagreeing with you.

[00:20:51] I'm kidding.

[00:21:05] I'm kidding.

[00:21:08] I'm kidding.

[00:21:09] He wrote a dear white people letter.

[00:21:14] I don't know why I feel the need to keep talking to you.

[00:21:16] I don't know why part of me still has hope for you and for us.

[00:21:20] Some of you are too far gone, but maybe enough of you aren't and will join us in fighting to end white supremacy because Penny got acquitted.

[00:21:28] That's Jamal Bowman's take.

[00:21:31] While condemning Penny as a heartless killer, the left has been lionizing the lunatic Luigi.

[00:21:39] Who, by the way, now may be cut out of the inheritance because apparently his grandma's inheritance or her will.

[00:21:47] I just saw a report has something in there about if you're convicted of crimes or something, you don't get any of the inheritance.

[00:21:52] So lost that.

[00:21:53] And then there's this Heather MacDonald.

[00:21:57] She was on the Megyn Kelly podcast.

[00:21:59] Heather MacDonald has done a ton of work on crime matters and such.

[00:22:04] And.

[00:22:06] This is her explanation of the of the reaction that we have seen.

[00:22:12] In the wake of the Penny verdict, we've lived with this lie for now.

[00:22:16] What is it?

[00:22:16] Forty years since the 1990s.

[00:22:18] It was completely blown out of the water by some early sociologists.

[00:22:22] The idea that housing it's a homelessness is a housing problem.

[00:22:26] No, it's not.

[00:22:27] It's a problem of mental illness, drug abuse and what what some early researchers called disaffiliation.

[00:22:33] That means you've broken your social ties, those social ties that may allow you to shack up with your mother or sister.

[00:22:42] You're so obnoxious.

[00:22:44] You're so involved in your own addictions that people say, I can't take you any longer.

[00:22:50] So you don't have that that social safety net.

[00:22:53] But but nevertheless.

[00:22:54] So it's not about housing.

[00:22:56] These people are offered housing numerous times.

[00:22:59] Homelessness, vagrancy.

[00:23:01] I don't even like to use the phrase homelessness, but sometimes it just comes ready, ready to hand.

[00:23:06] It's a lifestyle choice.

[00:23:09] I've written on Skid Row in Los Angeles, which is the biggest hell on earth.

[00:23:14] There's no there's no Vista that you've ever seen like it unless you've actually seen Skid Row of block after block of human degradation beyond belief.

[00:23:25] But people come from across the country to be in Skid Row because they know they can party without interference.

[00:23:34] They run prostitution rings out of their cardboards.

[00:23:37] This is a choice.

[00:23:38] And if you allow certain people to make that choice, they will, whether they're capable of making it or not.

[00:23:44] But frankly, you do not get to colonize public space.

[00:23:49] We used to understand this.

[00:23:51] You know, for centuries, people understood this.

[00:23:54] We had Skid Row's cheap cage housing, SRO, single room occupancy hotels.

[00:24:01] And the police did something that now you're not allowed to talk about.

[00:24:04] They moved people along.

[00:24:06] If you say you don't get to stay here, people make other arrangements.

[00:24:10] And now now the government believes that its only duty is to the dysfunctional and the antisocial.

[00:24:18] It owes nothing to the law abiding, the hardworking, the taxpaying.

[00:24:23] They're simply supposed to put up with crime and squalor and feel lucky to be paying taxes to support this massive, feckless, totally incompetent social service industry.

[00:24:36] Nailed it.

[00:24:37] Antisocial behavior is excused.

[00:24:40] That's what we're seeing.

[00:24:42] Antisocial behavior being excused and even in some cases rewarded.

[00:24:47] And that's the thing, though, about antisocial behavior.

[00:24:50] It's antisocial.

[00:24:51] You cannot function in a society if too many people are permitted to engage in antisocial behavior.

[00:25:00] Nobody feels safe and the society breaks down.

[00:25:04] A high trust society.

[00:25:08] And people have rejected it because the party that was most closely associated with excusing this kind of antisocial behavior, if not profiting off of it, is the Democrat Party.

[00:25:20] Right?

[00:25:21] They were the ones perceived to be the ones promulgating this antisocial excusing.

[00:25:29] And I don't know if Democrats can course correct on this.

[00:25:32] I really don't.

[00:25:33] They may be in for some real problems, electorally speaking, for years to come.

[00:25:41] I've seen some of the projections about the 2030 census.

[00:25:46] Yeah, that does not look good for them.

[00:25:50] All right, let's go to the phones.

[00:25:51] Here is James.

[00:25:53] Welcome to the show, James.

[00:25:55] You did have to get me laughing just before you picked up, didn't you?

[00:25:59] That's what I do.

[00:26:01] Yes, very well.

[00:26:02] No, my comment was this.

[00:26:05] Back when I started in law enforcement in the dark ages, the early 80s, we still had a partially functioning mental health system.

[00:26:16] We still had the ability to involuntarily commit people.

[00:26:21] And so we didn't have homeless.

[00:26:24] We had winos and bums.

[00:26:28] We had people that it didn't matter what you did for them, they weren't going to change.

[00:26:32] And everybody understood that.

[00:26:34] Nobody was allowed to put up tents on public property or on sidewalks because nobody wanted to.

[00:26:41] If people had mental health problems, they were sent to Broughton or to Dorothea Dix.

[00:26:46] Mm-hmm.

[00:26:48] And we didn't have the issues that we have now.

[00:26:50] So what is the difference then?

[00:26:52] And this goes to, I mean, part of this is due to that Supreme Court case that allowed people to publicly camp and such.

[00:26:59] And a lot of these anti-loitering laws and stuff, whatever, got thrown out.

[00:27:05] So when you say winos and bums, like what's the difference, like what was the distinction?

[00:27:12] Well, the distinction between a bum was somebody who didn't matter what you did to with them.

[00:27:19] They simply did not want to live like a normal person.

[00:27:23] The wino was literally a wino.

[00:27:25] Right, alcoholic that was on the streets because of their addiction.

[00:27:29] Because of their addiction, yeah.

[00:27:30] Every time we saw them, and usually they were getting arrested because they were falling down drunk and they were trespassing.

[00:27:38] Right.

[00:27:38] Or they were falling down drunk and they were trying to steal more boots.

[00:27:41] Right.

[00:27:42] But the bum was somebody who, for whatever reason, could not or would not let anybody help him.

[00:27:52] So, and this is what Heather McDonnell was talking about, though, is that you've got, I mean, there's a deinstitutionalization aspect to this.

[00:27:58] But there's also, as I mentioned, the Supreme Court case.

[00:28:02] And there is all, and she mentioned this at the end of her clip, which is the cottage industry of these nonprofits.

[00:28:09] And they, and Michael Schellenberger has written about this at great length, and he's done a lot of work on the ground, you know, in Skid Row, out in L.A. and in San Francisco and whatnot.

[00:28:21] And he has, he's talked about these, this constellation of nonprofits that literally are in business and only exist to provide all of these services.

[00:28:32] And they don't ever fix the problem.

[00:28:35] They're not, because their incentive is not to solve it.

[00:28:38] Their incentive is to keep homelessness in existence.

[00:28:42] So this way they keep drawing paychecks and they keep getting funding.

[00:28:46] There has never been a government program that has ever solved anything it was created to fix.

[00:28:56] Because if the bureaucrats solve the problem, the bureaucrats no longer have a job.

[00:29:02] Yeah, they're, yeah.

[00:29:03] It doesn't, it doesn't work that way.

[00:29:07] It's, you know, it's like the idea of getting our beloved political leaders to vote themselves out of office with term limits.

[00:29:18] It's not going to happen.

[00:29:21] Politics, bureaucrats are not going to fix the problem, because if they fix the problem, they don't have a job anymore.

[00:29:26] Yeah, no, I got you.

[00:29:27] James, I appreciate the call, sir.

[00:29:28] Thanks.

[00:29:30] Thank you.

[00:29:30] Yes, sir.

[00:29:30] Take it easy.

[00:29:31] And thanks for your service, too.

[00:29:33] We appreciate it.

[00:29:36] A.G. Hamilton, he's a writer.

[00:29:38] I quote him pretty frequently.

[00:29:40] He's got, he's got a sub stack, but he's written for a bunch of different publications over the years.

[00:29:46] What the CEO killing should make people realize is that there's a segment of people in this society that'll absolutely celebrate the death of you and your family.

[00:29:53] If you happen to be part of the wrong class, have the wrong job, belong to the wrong identity group.

[00:29:59] These people are focused in academia, the media and a few other industries dominated by the far left.

[00:30:05] There is a dehumanization element to it.

[00:30:08] A health insurance executive did not commit a crime that would justify seeing them as evil.

[00:30:14] But that's how they view him because they don't like the current system.

[00:30:17] And among the far left, being part of the system they hate justifies anything that you do to him.

[00:30:24] But it doesn't end with health insurance CEOs.

[00:30:27] That logic will expand to million of others American, millions of other Americans.

[00:30:32] And here's the thing.

[00:30:32] It always does.

[00:30:33] This is the hallmark of leftism.

[00:30:36] There is no limiting principle.

[00:30:40] If you're part of a system they don't agree with, they will justify violence against you.

[00:30:44] Remember, punch a Nazi?

[00:30:45] And by the way, a Nazi is anybody I disagree with?

[00:30:48] That's what the weekly pro-terror marches in New York City are really all about.

[00:30:52] And people better start to recognize it because the mainstreaming of that view is absolutely a threat to a future America that protects individual rights and economic freedom.

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