1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,359 Speaker 1: Good morning for South Dakota. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 2: Seven days of a government shutdown makes one week. 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: Everyone have a great day. 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 3: Really, really, he didn't have to worry about it. 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: He's retired. 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 3: You didn't get the double entendre. Now seven days makes 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 3: one week? Am I missing something here? 8 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: Government shutdown has been seven days? Right? It makes one week? 9 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 1: W E E K or w E A. 10 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 3: K h Oh. 11 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 3: I don't think he went that route. 13 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: He could have, but I didn't like No. 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,919 Speaker 4: Not that we know him, but knowing him, I think 15 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 4: that's precisely what he was trying to do. Too much time, 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 4: it's got way too much time on his hand. Spent 17 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 4: all night long. What time that came in? I spent 18 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 4: all night long trying to figure out how can I 19 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 4: make some or he heard it somewhere else, he stole it. 20 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 4: Probably stole it from somewhere else, because I can't imagine 21 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 4: by retired, living in the hills, you know, the Black 22 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 4: Hills somewhere, could possibly come up with something that stupid 23 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 4: this early in the morning. 24 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 3: Okay, I I'm just concerned. If you're retired, what the 25 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 3: hell are you doing up so early? Consistently consistently you're 26 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,839 Speaker 3: on vacation. Bro sleep in at least go till six, 27 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 3: you know, seven or eight. 28 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 4: Well, don't let's don't go down that path too far, 29 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 4: because he may still be in bed listening to us. 30 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: That's true. 31 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 4: He's got a battery powered transistor radio built in Japan, 32 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 4: and you know, nineteen fifty three sitting next on the 33 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 4: bedside table. You know, an oil lamp there because you 34 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 4: know where else the Dakotas, they don't have electricity or 35 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 4: bathrooms yet. It's too damn cold to go out and 36 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 4: take a whiz yet. So he's just laying in bed, 37 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 4: all covered up, scared to get out of bed because 38 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 4: you know, I don't. 39 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: Want to walk out to the outhouse. 40 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 4: You know, because again it's the Dakota's you know, it's 41 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 4: over there. It's not cosmopolitan like Denver. 42 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: It's not modern civilization. 43 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 4: Right, no segue here, but let's talk for a minute 44 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 4: about yesterday. 45 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: We talked for a little bit about. 46 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 4: The The really horrible text message is that the candidate, 47 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 4: the Democratic candidate for Attorney General in Virginia, J. Jones, 48 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 4: had posted about wanting to put two bullets in the 49 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 4: head of the then Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. 50 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 4: I did more reading about that last night or yesterday, 51 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 4: not last night. 52 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 3: Did it get any better for him? 53 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: What? 54 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 3: Did it get any better for him? 55 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 4: He got a lot better for him. He got so 56 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 4: much better, and he got so much better for the 57 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 4: Democrats too, Because. 58 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 3: I was trying yesterday when you told me about the stories, 59 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 3: well maybe you know big context context, maybe you know 60 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 3: the conversation before or after laid the ground where let's 61 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 3: just say. 62 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 4: That we now have a much longer history of this 63 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 4: kind of rhetoric from from this dirt bag. 64 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. 65 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's not even Look the guy is. The 66 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 4: guy's a dirt bag. The guy the Democrats ought to 67 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 4: be calling for him to withdraw from the race. They 68 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 4: are probably scared to because they know they're pretty much 69 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 4: guilty of the same thing. Not quite as graphic as 70 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 4: what that is. I mean, when you go back and 71 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,239 Speaker 4: you read what he talked about, he really did talk about, 72 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 4: you know, if it leaves the children fatherless or parent 73 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 4: les's that's okay, and they're going to be raised by 74 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 4: you know, weirdos anyway, So maybe I'll just shoot the 75 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 4: kids too. I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but that really is 76 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 4: how bad it is. But let's go back. You know, 77 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 4: I said yesterday that the assassination of Charlie Kirk was 78 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 4: kind of a seminal moment in an American history, certainly 79 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 4: in American political history. Since that time, the left has 80 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 4: been calling for civility. They want us to lower the 81 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 4: temperature of political discourse. Those are the words they use, 82 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 4: lower the temperature. I mean, it's kind of like, you know, 83 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 4: climate change with all of the people in the Church 84 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 4: of the climate activists, which are pretty predominantly Democrat, But 85 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 4: in this case, the all the congregants in the Church 86 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 4: of lowering the temperature, Would you please tell me what 87 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 4: does that mean? What does it mean to lower the temperature? 88 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 4: Remember it was Gavin Newsom that remarked about Charlie Kirk's 89 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 4: passion and commitment to debate as reclined, praiseed Clerk Kirk 90 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 4: for showing up and talking with anybody just that was 91 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 4: willing to engage. Over at the Atlantic Magazine, you know, 92 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 4: three liberal places so far. Sally Jenkins is over there 93 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 4: talking about how Kirk's growth of his organization and his 94 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 4: own personal growth and then the loss that is death 95 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 4: represented so that they're all more than willing to you 96 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 4: the assassination of Charlie Kirk to talk about really, what 97 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 4: they're really talking about is they're trying to buy that. 98 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 4: They're they're almost like the old Catholics of trying to 99 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 4: buy indulgences. Let me talk about how bad the assassination 100 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 4: was and talk about how great it was that what 101 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 4: he was doing. Now, what they're what they're espousing are 102 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 4: not just careless words and what their spouse, but what 103 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 4: they're espousing is actually trying to see ya, truly trying 104 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 4: to see ya. So while they call for dialogue in 105 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 4: one breath, these leading Democrats over here refused to demand 106 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 4: something fundamental of that candidate in Virginia, and that is 107 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 4: that Jay Jones ought to withdraw from the race. They 108 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 4: two two two forks of that. They ought to demand 109 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 4: that he withdraw from the race. And quite frankly, the 110 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 4: honorable thing for him would be to withdraw the race. 111 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 4: And the more I think about those resurface text messages, 112 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 4: particularly the ones from twenty twenty two, he was openly 113 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 4: fantasizing with someone that he knew was of the opposite 114 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 4: political party, was of his opposition, did not agree with 115 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 4: him and actually begged him to stop doing it, and 116 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 4: upon which when she said please stop doing it, he laughed. 117 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 4: He loled in a response, and then just kept on going. 118 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 4: And now he's like, oh, you know, that was a 119 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 4: horrible thing to do. No, FeSi Sherlock. Really, when you 120 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 4: fantasize about murdering your political opponent, then House Speaker Todd Gilbert, 121 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 4: and even the deaths of their children, the spouse and 122 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 4: the children, you've got a step too far. And they're 123 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 4: not just careless words. They're violent, they're sadistic. They would 124 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 4: be rejected by any decent moral compass. Several people yesterday, 125 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 4: have you ever joked about killing someone? And then I 126 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 4: did something kind of odd. I went through my text 127 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 4: messages and just search for the word kill. I didn't 128 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 4: even find that, didn't even find that. I did find 129 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 4: a reference to several years ago, to my grandson getting 130 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 4: his first ELK, But I didn't talk about him killing 131 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 4: his first out. It was about him getting his first olt. 132 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 4: But set all of that aside for a moment and 133 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 4: think instead about the refusal to condemn violence from the left. 134 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 4: While they're quick to denounce any Republican misstep. That reveals 135 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 4: a dangerous double standard. Yes, there had been ill advised 136 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 4: remarks on the right. A lot of people said some 137 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 4: really stupid stuff. I'll give you some examples in a minute. 138 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 4: So Republicans this dangerous standard, but it's so chillingly explicit 139 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 4: or sadistic in the cruelty, especially toward children. I thought 140 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 4: we left the children alone until they reached the age 141 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 4: of majority, or at least until they maybe got to 142 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 4: sixteen or seventeen, or they had inserted themselves into the 143 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 4: political discourse. I see occasionally now a lot of conversation 144 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 4: on social media platforms about Baron Trump. Oh, how handsome 145 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 4: he is. He could have anybody he wants. He's going 146 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 4: to be a really good catch. I wonder what he eats, 147 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 4: wonder what he does, how tall is he won of 148 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 4: what his sex life is like, on and on and 149 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 4: on and on. Now it's more of a tabloid curiosity 150 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 4: than it is anything directly about him. It's just kind 151 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 4: of they're all I mean, it's the mystery of Baron Trump. 152 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 4: But it's not that he has inserted himself into politics. 153 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 4: He's been dragged into politics because of his father, and 154 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 4: he has you know, he's the one that convinced his 155 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 4: dad to go on the Joe Rogan experience, and he's 156 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 4: the one that convinced the dad that, hey, you need 157 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 4: to restart reaching out to TikTok and you ought to 158 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,319 Speaker 4: talk to this guy named Charlie Kirk blah blah blah blah. 159 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 4: But Jay Jones's toxic messages and the Marxist refusal to 160 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 4: act exposes what happens when political activism is used to 161 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 4: satisfy ego focused needs rather than to pursue justice. It 162 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 4: epitomizes what has become a toxic culture. And that phrase, 163 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,559 Speaker 4: the toxic culture is kind of what I was trying 164 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 4: to talk about yesterday in terms of how violent our 165 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 4: society has become, and that violence, I think is an 166 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 4: offshoot or a natural outgrowth of the toxic culture, because 167 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 4: that toxic culture is one that celebrates emotion over facts, 168 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 4: division over unity, and violence over democracy. That is, get 169 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 4: ready for it, We're doing it again, Cloud Piven. That 170 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 4: is rules for radicals. So if you're a conservative or 171 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 4: a conservative slash libertarian, then you really should be demanding accountability, transparency. 172 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 4: You ought to be demanding the restoration of respect for 173 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 4: the rule of law, for our basic constitutional principles, and 174 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,839 Speaker 4: if political leaders refuse to call out the kind of 175 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 4: dangerous behavior that Jay Jones represents, eventually that kind of activity, 176 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 4: that kind of toxic culture, that of conversation, that kind 177 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 4: of messaging will normalize violence on every side, both sides, 178 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 4: left and right. They'll put everybody at risk, will put 179 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 4: our safety and liberty at risk to every conservative in Virginia. 180 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 4: In fact, quite fat you're across the country when men 181 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 4: like Jay Jones are allowed to seek the highest law 182 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 4: enforcement office. We really kind of glanced over that yesterday. 183 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 4: He's seeking to become the Commonwealth of Virginia's chief law 184 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 4: enforcement officer and is jokingly, seriously half asked Lee, I 185 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 4: don't know how you want to describe it, but he 186 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 4: is nonetheless engaged in activity that if some thug was 187 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 4: doing it, you would consider it to be a direct 188 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,559 Speaker 4: assault on your safety or values and the future of 189 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 4: the republic. But because he's doing it, and because he's 190 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 4: a black man and because he's a Democrat, well it's 191 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 4: just like we've said everything we need to say, We're 192 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 4: not going to say anything else, and we're just gonna 193 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 4: let it, just going to let it lie. That's absolutely 194 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 4: the wrong thing to do. These these messages. These messages 195 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 4: point out that we we're already reaching the point where 196 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 4: the violence in Portland, or the violence that we see 197 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 4: in Denver, the violence we see in Chicago. We you know, 198 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 4: Dragon and I we kind of laugh about the Chicago 199 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 4: wee can't crime report. But what we don't stop and 200 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 4: realize is that's a real neighborhood, that's a real city. 201 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 4: Those are real people. And twenty two twenty two individuals 202 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 4: I think it was twenty two from last weekend got 203 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 4: shot and I think five died. Wasn't that the right number? 204 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 4: Something like that, twenty two and five, I think we 205 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 4: matter twenty four and five, twenty four and five, so 206 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 4: twenty are even worth twenty four and five. That's what's 207 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 4: really going on in an American city today, and in 208 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 4: so far as Portland, Portland is just the ongoing vandalism 209 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 4: and damages, and then we see that ICE agents are 210 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 4: being attacked. I watched the video yesterday of the Portland 211 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 4: police chief in essence, now I know there I can 212 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 4: make the argument on the other side too, that he 213 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,839 Speaker 4: was simply trying to advise them of their rights about 214 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 4: what they can and cannot do, but inversely You could 215 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 4: also make the argument that he was advising the ice 216 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 4: protesters about how far you can go you can do this, 217 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 4: and if you go beyond that, you're technically violating the law. 218 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 4: But I'm not going to do anything about it. Go 219 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 4: back to Jay Jones quote. Like all people, I've sent 220 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 4: text messages that I regret, I believe that violent rhetoric 221 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 4: has no place in our politics. Yet hmm. Seriously, Congresswoman 222 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 4: Abigail Spangberger, she's the one that's running for Virginia governor, 223 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 4: She's the Democrat, said that this. After learning of these 224 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 4: comments earlier today, I spoke frankly with Jay about my 225 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 4: disgust with what he had said and texted. I made 226 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 4: clear to Jay that he must fully take responsibility for 227 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 4: his words. I will always condemn violent language in our politics, 228 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 4: But you're going to let him continue to run to 229 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 4: be the chief law enforcement officer. No Democrat official has 230 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 4: called for him to drop out of the race. That 231 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 4: serves us into character. Jay Jones does not have the 232 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 4: character to be the top law enforcement officer in Virginia. 233 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 4: The American standard, since our very very beginning has been 234 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 4: equal justice under the law. How can you possibly elect 235 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 4: someone how can you possibly allow someone continue to run 236 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 4: or to be entrusted with delivering nonpartisan, blind justice given 237 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 4: what he revealed in the text messages. Making the text 238 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 4: exchange even more disturbing, is that Poonier, the one he 239 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 4: sent the text messages to, repeatedly ask him to stop 240 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 4: fantasizing about the murder of his political enemies and the 241 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 4: death of their children, and he would not do so. 242 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 4: He simply would not do so. At one point, the 243 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 4: source said, according to some people that I was reading yesterday, 244 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 4: he suggested he wished Gilbert's wife could watch her her 245 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 4: own child die in her arms so that the then 246 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 4: speaker might reconsider his political views. That's domestic terrorism. 247 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: Now. 248 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 4: That prompted the delegate, the Republican delegate he was talking to, 249 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 4: to just simply hang the phone up and discuss. So 250 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 4: it Scott even even worse now, I said, there's you know, 251 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 4: Republicans had done it too. Back in twenty twenty one, 252 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 4: Congressman Paul Goser posted a short anime video on Twitter 253 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 4: showing his face superimposed on a cartoon character that was 254 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 4: slashing aoc with the sword and attacking a figure with 255 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 4: President Biden's face. Last year, Donald Trump said about Liz Cheney. 256 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 4: I'll take it out of context, so you just hear 257 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 4: what people say. He said, Let's put her with a rifle, 258 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 4: standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay, let's 259 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 4: go back to go Sar. Now Jones's remark, Jay Jones, 260 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 4: the Attorney General, was clearly sadistic, even toward the children 261 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 4: and the spouse. As stupid and as offensive as Ghostar's 262 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 4: statement was, he was not literally wishing the death of AOC, 263 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 4: and the media took the Trump quote out of context. 264 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 4: Trump was speaking rhetorically and criticizing Cheney for lacking empathy 265 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 4: for what would it would be like to be in 266 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 4: a war. The full quote is this, she's a radical warhawk. 267 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 4: Let's put her with a rifle, standing there with nine 268 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 4: barrel shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels 269 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 4: about it, you know, when the guns are trained on 270 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 4: her face. So yeah, we say stupid things on the 271 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 4: right too, but then the cabal takes them out of context. 272 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 4: But the cabal here doesn't take things out of context. 273 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 4: Instead they circle the wagon the wagons. No Democrat, major newspaper, raulet, 274 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 4: no media outlet has called for Jones with Golf from 275 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 4: the race. You what they did with Gosar. They censured him, 276 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 4: stripped him of his committee assignments. Well, the Democrats in 277 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 4: the media unanimously condemned both Gossar and Trump. Democrats call 278 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 4: for the death of their enemies. Back back in twenty seventeen, 279 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 4: Missouri state Senator Chappelle and the Doll wrote, I hope 280 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 4: Trump is assassinated turned the temperature down. A good start 281 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 4: would be with Golf from the. 282 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 2: Race, day seven and I'm marked safe from the government 283 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 2: shut down. My ears still hurt and are bleeding from 284 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:52,239 Speaker 2: listening to the dumb assary. But I'm a goober and 285 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 2: I'm a glutton for punishment. 286 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:54,719 Speaker 1: Yea. 287 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 3: I am curious, though, is it the dumb assary from 288 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 3: the Democrats or is it the dumb assory from this show? 289 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 4: I think the answer is yes, Okay, yeah, it's not 290 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 4: A and B at C all of the above both. 291 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 4: It's like taking our ethics exam. The answer is always 292 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 4: all of the above. Now, look, Jones is not going 293 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 4: to drop out of the race, as Dragon pointed out 294 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 4: during the break because Dragon, interestingly, Dragon, and I'm not 295 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 4: I thought maybe I mentioned. 296 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: His race yesterday, but I don't. I'm not sure I did. 297 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 3: I don't recall I yesterday when you were talking about 298 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 3: the story, I just found something relatively quickly posted a 299 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 3: link to Michael says go here because I wanted to 300 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 3: make sure it had the screen capture of some of 301 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 3: those text messages in the article, and that's all I 302 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 3: really looked for, posted Michael says go here dot com, 303 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 3: and moved on. So you're talking about it this morning, 304 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 3: So I'm trying to find the new screen grabs of 305 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 3: the new text messages that I've been exposed to really 306 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 3: expose how this guy's personality really is, because he's done 307 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 3: it on multiple occasions and can't shut up about it apparently. 308 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 3: So I've just scrolling scroll. There's a picture of him. Oh, 309 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 3: he's one of the protected classes because. 310 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: You had no you had no idea. He's a black man, 311 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: no idea. 312 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,679 Speaker 4: And of course then your next question can be I 313 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 4: tell him WHATU your next question? 314 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 3: It's a good looking black guy. I wonder if he's gay, Nope, 315 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 3: married with two kids, but. 316 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,199 Speaker 1: Still a protected class. 317 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, So that's why they haven't abandoned him yet. 318 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 4: And and and they're not going to abandon him for 319 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 4: pure political reasons, they may abandon him when they start 320 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 4: to see an effect on the gubernatorial race is spang 321 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 4: Berger continues to her trend line is downward, when some 322 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 4: seers trend lines is upward. And the fact continues, and 323 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 4: there's any correlation or causation between those trend lines merging 324 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 4: and the Virginia's one of those weird states where you know, 325 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 4: they'll go along with the Terry mccaulliff for a while 326 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 4: and then suddenly they end up with you know, Glenn 327 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 4: Youngkin as governor. They're they're sometimes red, sometimes blue, they're 328 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 4: sometimes purple. They they're just they're they're truly kind of 329 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 4: that weird old kind of state. And I think predominantly 330 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 4: because it's a schizophrenic state. Southern Virginia. You kind of 331 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 4: get beyond Richmond. In south it's not so heavily influenced 332 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 4: by the Beltway. From Richmond north. You have commuters all 333 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 4: the way from Richmond that work inside the Beltway. So 334 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 4: you get into the northern Virginia counties along Arlington, Alexandria, 335 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 4: that area, and that's all of the government contractors. You 336 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 4: got the Pentagon, you got everything in northern Virginia. So 337 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 4: it's just it is a schizophrenic state. But the fact 338 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 4: that not a single Democrat is urging this guy to 339 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 4: withdraw from the race, I think is correlated to something else. 340 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 4: Fifty five percent of people who are self identified as 341 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 4: left of center on the political spectrum have told posters 342 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 4: it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Donald Trump. 343 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 4: Forty eight percent said the same thing about Elon Musk. 344 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 4: Twenty five percent of people who describe themselves as very 345 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 4: liberal and seventeen percent of people who describe themselves as 346 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 4: just liberal say that it is sometimes justified to resort 347 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 4: to violence in order to achieve a political goal. Now, 348 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:39,360 Speaker 4: if you describe yourself as conservative or as very conservative, 349 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:47,640 Speaker 4: it's six and three percent, respectively. I'm appalled by those numbers. 350 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 4: Six percent of those who say they're conservative say, yeah, 351 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 4: sometimes violence is necessary to achieve your goal, your political goal. 352 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,680 Speaker 4: We have a political framework in which to achieve our goals. 353 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 4: They're called campaigns and elections. It's called lobbying, it's called 354 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 4: you know, petitioning. Your government is doing all those First 355 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 4: Amendment activities. And three percent who are very conservative, I 356 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 4: guess those are the right wing nut jobs said the 357 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 4: same thing. Now that's a five to one difference between 358 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:26,439 Speaker 4: Democrats and Republicans. Then you look at age, and the 359 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 4: age is what bothers me, because younger and more liberal 360 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 4: Americans are more likely to disagree about political violence is 361 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 4: never justified. In other words, the younger you are, huh, 362 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 4: the more you think political violence is justified. Ages eighteen 363 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 4: to twenty nine, almost twenty percent. It's nineteen point some percent. 364 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 4: Let's just round it up to twenty twenty percent of 365 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 4: those ages eighteen to twenty nine think that political violence 366 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 4: is justified. Ages thirty to forty four fourteen percent, Ages 367 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 4: forty five to sixty four eight percent over sixty five, 368 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 4: the old boomers, the old hippies, eh three percent. Wow, 369 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 4: let's see, that's thirty three forty one. Forty forty four 370 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 4: percent between the ages of eighteen to sixty five think 371 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 4: that political violence is justified or technically, to answer the 372 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 4: poll question specifically, yes, violence can sometimes be justified. Among liberals. 373 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 4: If you're eighteen to forty four and you describe yourself 374 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 4: as a liberal, more than twenty five percent of you, 375 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 4: twenty six percent of you think that political violence is justified. 376 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,120 Speaker 4: Now the good news. You know I'm looking. I'm looking 377 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 4: for the good news. The good news is among self 378 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,879 Speaker 4: described liberals, if you're forty five years or older than 379 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 4: only twelve percent of you I think that violence is 380 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 4: political violence is sometimes justified. Moderates eighteen to forty four 381 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 4: twelve percent, forty five and older six percent. So among 382 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 4: moderates only eighteen less than a fifth of moderates think 383 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 4: that political violence is sometimes justified. Conservatives eighteen to forty 384 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 4: four year olds seven percent, forty five and older four percent. 385 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 4: So among conservatives a mere eleven percent. And I find 386 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:36,399 Speaker 4: that astonishing. Eleven percent of conservatives think that political violence 387 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 4: is sometimes justified. I know it's a broad category. When 388 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 4: is political violence justified, I'm not sure that it ever 389 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:55,919 Speaker 4: is unless you're threatening the very existence of this republic. 390 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 4: And that's what the revolution founding fathers did. They saw 391 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 4: the tyranny and revolted against it and used violence by 392 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 4: engaging in a war. But I think there's a huge 393 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 4: difference between an actual war to preserve your country and 394 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 4: political violence because you oppose an individual, or an issue, 395 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 4: or a candidate. I think it's a very I think 396 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 4: it's a very significant distinction. I oppose I saw this 397 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 4: stupid story the Mayor of Loveland last night. Bear with 398 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 4: me while I tie this together. The Mayor of Loveland 399 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 4: last night, because there were heavy rains your house. Dragon 400 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 4: thunder woke me up last night. Yes, wow, it was 401 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 4: a nice storm. Went oh, I went nice. Back to sleep. 402 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 4: The pitter pattern of the rain on the rooftop is wonderful. 403 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 4: The Mayor of Loveland heavy rains, saw people in pitched 404 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 4: tents on city Hall property, so she took it upon 405 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 4: herself to unlock the doors and let the homeless move 406 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 4: into city Hall to escape the rain. Now you may 407 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 4: think that was compassionate. I think it was stupid. They 408 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 4: had tents, they were intense. I've been camping in downpours. 409 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 4: I've been camping in a stupid blizzard. Got caught up 410 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,439 Speaker 4: in the Indian Peaks of wilderness and a blizzard. I 411 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 4: know it happens. Happened, and that happened to me. I 412 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 4: didn't call nine one one, of course, that was back 413 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 4: in the dark. They just didn't have a cell phone. 414 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 4: But it's curious to see what's going to happen. Come 415 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 4: in a few weeks, maybe next month, when it snows, 416 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 4: I got it again. I guess City Hall will now 417 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,679 Speaker 4: become the new shelter of last resort. 418 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: I don't know. 419 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 4: I think it was stupid. That was a political decision, 420 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 4: and I think it was stupid. But I don't think 421 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 4: there's any way you could justify violence against the mayor 422 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 4: of Leveland for doing something stupid. Congressman do stupid things 423 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 4: all the thing. It does not justify violence. I think 424 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 4: the income tax ought to be repealed, doesn't justify violence. 425 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 4: But while there's certainly a lot of people in this country, 426 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 4: particularly of a certain age and a political ideology, to 427 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 4: believe that violence can sometimes be justified when it comes 428 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 4: to political issues, I don't think it's ever justified when 429 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 4: it comes to the survival of the constitution and the republic. 430 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 4: We're no longer talking about violence. We're actually talking about 431 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:37,880 Speaker 4: taking up arms to protect the Constitution and to protect 432 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 4: the survival of the republic. 433 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: But that's not. 434 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 4: Because I'm pissed off because oh, you're wearing a MAGA 435 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 4: hat or you're wearing an Antifa hat, But you're not 436 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 4: doing anything. No, and if you're engaged in violence and 437 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 4: a cop is trying to enforce the law, and has 438 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 4: to be violent to stop you. That's not political violence. 439 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 4: That's law enforcement violence. And it's not justified. We actually condon't. 440 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 4: We actually say yes, you should go do that. In fact, 441 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 4: we celebrate that on Fridays with taxpayer relief shots. When 442 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 4: someone points a gun and threatens the life of a 443 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 4: cop Boom, or when someone I don't know why this 444 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 4: one sticks in my head, but when you're taking a 445 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 4: hammer to your girlfriend during a domestic dispute and you 446 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 4: won't stop and the cops make you drt dead right there, 447 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 4: that's justified. 448 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 5: Mike or Michael, you math whiz. If it's seven percent 449 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 5: of people from eighteen to forty four or whatever the 450 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 5: age was, that approve of violence, and then there's four 451 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 5: percent from forty five on up that approve the violence, 452 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 5: that doesn't mean eleven percent of the people approve the violence. 453 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 5: It's an average somewhere in between. 454 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 4: There. 455 00:29:58,600 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 5: You don't add them up. 456 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 4: The normalization of political violence gets exacerbated by all this 457 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 4: political and cultural polarization. And there's another factor that I 458 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 4: think that we don't take into consideration enough, and that's 459 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,479 Speaker 4: emotional individualism. 460 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: We're all we're. 461 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 4: A country of individuals and we all have the right 462 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 4: to pursue happiness, and we all have these individual god 463 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 4: given rights, but we emotionalize all of it, and we suddenly, 464 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 4: particularly people who don't have any sense of any being 465 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 4: greater than themselves, then start looking to other sources of meaning, 466 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 4: and that meaning becomes this extraordinary, just overwhelming individualization that 467 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 4: really becomes, in this perverted way, collectivism. Because they all 468 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 4: gather together, they all gathered together, and they all start 469 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 4: pursuing the same goals. Then you have the erosion of 470 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 4: religious moral restraints and of course the partisanarities of things 471 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 4: being an existential threat. I tried to be a little 472 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 4: careful when I talked about existential threats because I do 473 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 4: believe that there are some existential threats. But that polling 474 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 4: that indicates with the share of just over thirty percent 475 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 4: of young people in twenty twenty five, that shows that 476 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 4: increasing polarization and just the general acceptance of violence as 477 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 4: a political tool, and the parts of the left over 478 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 4: time attitudes about political violence show that increasing polarization itself, 479 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 4: with young liberals showing measurable support for political violence in principle, 480 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 4: Then Dragon made me think, and Fox News has that 481 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 4: the New Jersey, the aguberlatory election is just four weeks away. 482 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 4: It's four weeks from today, Tuesday's election election day. The 483 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 4: same is true in Virginia, where they have early voting, 484 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 4: which is one more reason why I oppose early voting, 485 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 4: because if you've already voted for Jay Jones and you 486 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 4: find this rhetoric and these text message ubhor him and 487 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 4: don't believe that he has the character to be the 488 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,959 Speaker 4: next Attorney General of Virginia. Yeah, you voted for him 489 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 4: for any number of reasons. Because he's a black guy, 490 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 4: because he's a black guy with two, you know, cute 491 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 4: little kids. Because he said all the right things, but 492 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 4: oh he said some really bad things. But now, but 493 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 4: now you're screwed. Your vote has been taken in, tabulated, anonymized, 494 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 4: and now there's no way to take that vote back. 495 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 4: Same day voting. Everybody votes on election day, no more 496 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 4: mail in ballots. 497 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: Stop it. 498 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 4: And Jay Jones is an absolutely, I think wonderful example 499 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 4: of why you shouldn't have it, because as uli long 500 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 4: and keep repeating, he tells you there is always something, 501 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 4: and with Jay Jones, it's that he is of not 502 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 4: the right character to be the chief law enforcement of 503 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 4: the Commonwealth of Virginia. So for all of you in 504 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 4: Virginia who have voted for Jay Jones because you thought 505 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 4: he was well, he's a very handsome, young black man 506 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 4: with a couple of you know, good looking kids. And 507 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 4: he said all the right things yeah, and he said 508 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 4: all the wrong things too. 509 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: And now what are you going to do. 510 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 4: You're going to elect a guy that believes that Republicans 511 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 4: ought to be killed and their children how to be killed, 512 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 4: and let the mother watch so if they die in 513 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 4: her arms, Christmas and Democrats, here are a bunch of weasels.