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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of West

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Speaker 1: Site Connect Trends courtesy of super producer Brian Leang and

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Speaker 1: a gang bing bing bang. Uh that's Miles. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: Jack Yeah. Um we are this place bugging so uck

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Speaker 1: uh we yeah. So Kyle Rittenhouse is the main thing trending. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know we we talked about it a little bit

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Speaker 1: more in depth on Monday's episode. But you know, one thing,

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Speaker 1: A lot of the conversation around this on social media,

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Speaker 1: like all the upvoted Reddit comments and response to the

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Speaker 1: fucking Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty post is like these supposedly

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Speaker 1: like sober minded you know, centrists or libertarians being like

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Speaker 1: this was inevitable the second the guy said, Kyle didn't

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Speaker 1: fire a shot until the guy point a gun at him, Like,

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Speaker 1: shut the funk up, Like, look at the millions of

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Speaker 1: cases where the people of color were sent to jail

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Speaker 1: for much less or often in ship they didn't do. Um,

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Speaker 1: try to find me a case of a person of

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Speaker 1: color getting technicality after technicality pop up that favors them

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Speaker 1: and they get away with murdering someone on camera. Um,

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Speaker 1: And for the judge to be like that the picture

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Speaker 1: I saw this morning. Um that I hadn't seen was

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Speaker 1: the judge. I think it was probably the um carnival

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Speaker 1: like ping pong ball selection process. But as the judge

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Speaker 1: kind of leaning back with Kyle Rittenhouse sort of leaning

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Speaker 1: over his shoulder, Um, you got this kid. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: is somebody who was charged with murder that you are, like,

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Speaker 1: think about what that says to the jury when you

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Speaker 1: are sitting right next to him, like he's like a

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Speaker 1: fucking puppy dog. No, they did they he didn't know that,

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Speaker 1: that's right exactly. So that's the point. Like, the whole

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Speaker 1: fucking point is that that's not like an accidental letting

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Speaker 1: it slip that he has bias or a byproduct of

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Speaker 1: like you know, judicial bias where you know he doesn't

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Speaker 1: know what's going on. That it is. It's the whole

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Speaker 1: fucking point. Like not allowing them to call the people

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Speaker 1: who he shot victims is not subtle. That ship is

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Speaker 1: not subtle. Like that is that these are American values.

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Speaker 1: As you know, a lot of people who are in

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Speaker 1: power see it, and they wanted some central, like fucking

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Speaker 1: uh spotlighted example that they could set to be like

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Speaker 1: we got your back. White supremacy is still enforced number

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Speaker 1: one five violence. It's our number one value. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: ship looks like like they look like a golfer and

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Speaker 1: his caddy lining up a put next to one another

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Speaker 1: in this fucking thing. Um, but I mean that, but

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Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, know what better representation than Kyle Rittenhouse, who,

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Speaker 1: in this case is the embodiment of white purchase, white

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Speaker 1: white supremacist protector and judge as also part of the

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Speaker 1: legal systems, you know, hand in perpetrating and maintaining white supremacy. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, you know again, it's the same thing

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Speaker 1: that most people go through and they go, I don't

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Speaker 1: expect anything different. It's and and and then I think

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Speaker 1: that's what that's also the shitty part two is that

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Speaker 1: some of us have to condition ourselves to a society

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Speaker 1: where we we don't actually like to maintain some semblance

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Speaker 1: up about justice being served ever, And like to your

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Speaker 1: point that if you're Tamir Rice and you're a little

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Speaker 1: kid with a toy gun, that's enough to get you

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Speaker 1: out and killed by police. But you know them. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's what's so funny is like, the message

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Speaker 1: there's there's just two different legal systems. And there's two. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then the way that our legal system looks at

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Speaker 1: it is even if you're a victim of white supremacist violence,

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Speaker 1: and even these victims were not people of color, I

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Speaker 1: somebody who's there to reinforce it, so you know, stand down.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's like a again another another intentional

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Speaker 1: part of a decision like this, to erode people's willingness

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Speaker 1: of people in physical space. Yeah, and obviously fuck the

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Speaker 1: judge fun Kyle Rittenhouse. But extra like, because this is

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Speaker 1: who is defending this verdict. All these sudden fucking legal scholars,

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Speaker 1: that we have fucking legalized slavery. In prisons, we have

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Speaker 1: racist murder squads in every city. You think there might

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Speaker 1: for centuries. But by all means, Chris, I mean there

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Speaker 1: motherfucker's Um like, that's this was all intentional. They spotlighted it.

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Speaker 1: They want people to know, this is this is what

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Speaker 1: y'all are allowed to do. M And again, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: And it's like, well, you know, if if, if you

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Speaker 1: we can make that work too. Um all right, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Kamala is trending. She was president for an hour, uh

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Speaker 1: while while Joe Biden got his colon checked out and

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Speaker 1: she said we did it, Joe. She was president for

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Speaker 1: one hour. But other than that, God, what up, Let's

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Speaker 1: let's just go to a break. Yeah, we'll be back

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Speaker 1: and we're back and build back better. Is trending past

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Speaker 1: the past the House? Yeah, despite Kevin McCarthy doing an

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Speaker 1: which means now it goes to the Senate and where

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Speaker 1: off during that process. What the so? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: like the you understand politics way better than me. You

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Speaker 1: understand the workings you worked in politics. It seems to

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Speaker 1: What's what's happening? Why does it seem that way to

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Speaker 1: I'm an old man, you know. I mean, like there

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Speaker 1: exactly you've seen you know what the joker was up

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Speaker 1: I was like, we'll go from there. What is that

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Speaker 1: bringing back money, right that you motherfucker's left in the

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Speaker 1: middle of There's a lot of singles. I mean the

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Speaker 1: It's like the joy is truly like, wow, of course

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Speaker 1: We'll start like thanks, you bring the money back, and

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