Hour 2 - Do the Crime, Do No Time in D.C

Washington, D.C. isn't prosecuting crimes. Biden's dismal approval numbers. Clay vs. Buck: Will the Biden economy be the big '24 issue? Rep. James Comer on rising D.C. crime. Gayle King: Republicans want to ban books, not guns. NPR stats on who's committing D.C. gun violence. NHL commissioner considers dropping gay pride nonsense. Is a man pretending to be a woman the same as blackface?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Second hour of play in Bucks starts now. Everybody,
thank you for a rolling with us. Coming up, we'll
be talking to you about the DC crime situation and
what it tells you about Democrats' ability to make places safer,

(00:21):
to make the streets safer. Also later on the banning
of TikTok via legislation, the what is it Safety or
Security Act or whatever it's called. I'll remember in a second,
seems to give a lot more power to the federal
government than a lot of people would have anticipate. Although
I've been, as you all know, I've been suspicious of

(00:42):
this band TikTok stand up to the Communist Chinese Party
by banning TikTok. I'm like, okay, but is that really
what we're doing? Is that really all we're doing? And
I am always suspicious of these moves where all of
a sudden, especially certain certain congressman on the right, and
all the Democrats seem to agree on this. That actually
makes me suspicious. We'll get into perhaps why that is

(01:04):
in a little bit. But you know, we're having a
talk this week because we all know why about how
to bring violence down and how to deal with the
fact that places are feeling more and more like they
did back in the nineties when the crime rate was
much higher, and the data reflects that if they're not

(01:24):
already there, they are certainly now for years, for three
or four solid years heading in that direction. That's really concerning.
Now you have Biden and other Democrats suggesting if only
we would add one more gun law. The gun laws
in states across the country and federal gun laws. You
have to be an expert, and I actually mean this,

(01:46):
You have to be an expert to understand the gun
laws in New York City, for example, it is very
easy to run a foul of them accidentally, so much
so that the New York City authorities could not even
explained to a judge what the extent of different laws
around handguns were, whether you could take it out of
the city if you had a premise permit, or they

(02:08):
have no idea. They're just they make it as difficult
as possible because making the law abiding jump through endless
hoops and go through all kinds of nonsense makes the
anti gun left feel better. As we know, does it work,
does it bring violence down. No, but it makes Biden
voters feel better. Okay, Well, if we're really gonna look

(02:29):
at violence, and we're gonna look at gun violence specifically,
and you look at major cities across the country and
what they're doing, you will notice a trend. And the
trend is that there are a lot of people who
are not being prosecuted for these crimes. And not only
on gun violence, but all the way down. You're seeing
the decline in case prosecution is a major issue. I

(02:54):
bring you Washington, DC, and Clay had flagged this for
me and I'd seen some of the stats on this.
Just by way of reminder, Philadelphia, I remember I brought
this up. I think I might have actually talked to
Tucker about this on his show maybe about a year ago.
In Philadelphia, there's if you're a felon in possession, there's
basically a fifty fifty chance that you walk found a

(03:15):
possession with a firearms. Yeah, if you want to stop
people from getting shot, I think somebody who has a
gun illegally that is already a convicted felon. So that
is a criminal who is choosing to violate the law
once again to have a loaded weapon on them, you
probably want to really prosecute that person. Half of them,
half of them no charges in DC right now, Washington,

(03:37):
see our nation's capital. As Clay and I discussed a
couple of weeks ago, probably the greatest concentration of law
enforcement resources in the country, all right, I mean it's
something like a police state. They now have, Clay federal
prosecutors in the district Attorney's office. In district's US Attorney's office,
I should say, chose not to prosecute sixty seven percent

(04:00):
of those arrested by police officers in cases that would
have been tried in DC superior court. This is getting
people really fired up because they can complain about resources,
which they do, and they can complain that they don't
have the laboratories to the testing, which they do. How
are we supposed to think that we're going to keep
the streets safe when you have a two out of

(04:21):
three shot of walking, if you commit a burglary, serious drug,
there's a whole risk array of offenses. These are generally
non violent offenses, but non violent offenses need to be
prosecuted too. Yeah. Look, here is the breakdown of that
sixty seven percent buck fifty two percent, of felony arrests

(04:41):
are not prosecuted. So if you get arrested for a
felony in Washington, DC, you are more likely than not
not going to be prosecuted at all. And these rates
have collapsed. They were only choose to decline in two

(05:01):
thousand and sixteen thirty one percent of all crimes, so
they have more than doubled, you know, in other words,
two out of three times you were still going to
get charged under Obama in sixteen, and they have now
continued to collapse. And also you need to think about

(05:23):
a couple of things that are also significant about two
out of three of the cases not being prosecuted. How
many police are making conscious decisions that it's not worth
their time to even arrest right because you're out there
and the person that you arrested, you know, is going
to be right back out on the street. Like I
believe Buck, the guy who just stabbed Rand Paul's senate

(05:47):
staffer is already back out on the street. I believe
our producers he was out. He was out one day
after serving his sentence, and within one day he stabbed
Rand paul staffer, almost killed him in broad daylight for
no reason. Right back out on the street. And the
other thing to think about here is they are simultaneously

(06:11):
while they are saying we're not going to prosecute basically
two out of every three people who get arrested for
crimes in DC, but they are aggressively still prosecuting anyone
connected to January sixth. So the only thing that they
seem interested in prosecuting to the full ext extent of
the law in Washington, DC is January sixth. Everything else,

(06:35):
even violent criminals, even fell in charges are being dropped
to people are being put right out on the street.
So we understand that there are a lot of there's
a lot of politics involved here in the decision making
about what the criminal justice system in DC is doing.
Remember that Biden with an eye to twenty twenty four,
did not veto, did not veto a congressional override of

(06:58):
a DC City Council um crime bill that was going
to lower lower the punishments for things like non minor
things carjacking. If you carjack somebody, you deserve to have
a serious prison sentence handed down. I'm talking years and years. Okay.
Carjacking is a it's a violent crime. It is a

(07:21):
terrifying crime. It sometimes leads straight to homicide in the act,
I mean they were going to lower the prison sentence
on that. The problem DC has as this Clay, DC
is ninety seven let's talk stats, let's talk numbers. DC
is ninety seven, ninety eight percent Democrat. You've lived in DC.
I've lived in DC. Yeah, we both know. It's also
a city that is very racially segregated. There are whole

(07:45):
areas of the city that are are that are predominantly white,
and whole areas of the city that are predominantly non white.
Democrats don't don't ever actually deal with the realities of
the criminal justice system in Washington, DC and the reality
of this this segregation that's effectively it's de facto right

(08:05):
at our nation's capital. South Past DC is overwhelmingly black.
For people who don't know, Northwest DC is overwhelmingly white.
It's kind of crazy. Yes, And this is just the
the situation. And they have all of the you know,
all of the the predominantly the crime and the poverty
and everything is in the uh in the non white

(08:25):
areas of of DC, and Democrats are in charge, and
it's the seat of the federal government. And you have
a city that is it doesn't get it's you know,
it's been getting more violent in recent years, and their
programs to try to make this better do not work.
You know, you have a de facto situation of you know,

(08:47):
of a structure in DC that doesn't ever get addressed.
They don't ever look at the fact that, you know,
and it's entirely democrat. So you have an entirely democrat
city that is very you know, you could separated by population.
And you say to yourself, well, hold on a second,
what is being done here to improve things? What is

(09:08):
being done here? This is a This is just like
San Francisco. The Democrats are in charge and they have nothing.
They have nothing. They never come up with any way
to improve the circumstances of this, at least not in
recent years, to improve the circumstances of the city on crime,
on public schools, a whole range of issues, and buck
they started. What's so disappointing here is they started to

(09:29):
get things turned around. Because you'll remember, back in the day,
Mary and Barry was the mayor of Washington, DC, and
before they caught him on the you know, smoken crack.
I think it was on video or whatever. You remember
that back in that scandal, back in the day, he
had an unbelievable quote where he said DC doesn't really

(09:50):
have a crime problem except for the murders, which was
and it's been attributed. I think other people have said
similar things, fortunately politicians. But when I went away to
college there, it got markedly safer. People moved back, they
wanted to be there. And now this soft on crime

(10:10):
era is making it much more dangerous to be in
DC than it was in the early two thousands when
so this seemed to be on the on the comeback trail.
This is uh, you know, NPR. This is the headline
an NPR article from about a year ago. The DC
area is the country's fifteenth most segregated metropolitan area. So this,

(10:33):
I mean, there is some awareness that Washington, DC is
this city where people are living in very different communities
in terms of the crime, the schools, and everything else,
and it is entirely in the hands of Democrats. So
I just think, you know, it's a it's a bit
like San Francisco in that sense. Right there there are
and and there are all these you know, all these

(10:54):
white Biden voters, and you know, and and and residents
who are wealthier across the board. Why, I think don't
want to deal with the fact that DC has among
the worst performing public school system in the nation. Buck
you've spent time in Georgetown when I went away to college,
I would recognize that GW we had to walk into Georgetown.

(11:18):
The overwhelmingly white, liberal, wealthy Georgetown residents did not want
a subway stop because they didn't want poor black kids
to be easily able to get to Georgetown. Nobody can
hardly talk about it. You go visit DC and you'll
notice that Georgetown is not on the subway map. Why

(11:42):
the metro map? Why can you not get to DC
on the metro map. The rich people of Georgetown did
not want public transportation to be able to come to
their doorsteps. And you know, we're talking again about about
the crime levels in DC and how it's become a
a major It's become a natural story because I think

(12:02):
homicide year every year as of a month ago for
something like and they're declining at least the the you know,
the US attorney in DC that can take cases that
you know, sometimes things cross over that can be state
and or federal. Obviously in DC, it's not a state,
so it gets a little bit it's a little bit
of a different, different process of specific process to Washington,

(12:24):
d C. M But one of the issues that again
in a Democrat rule city, that they do that they
they have a political problem, a political issue. When you
look at the incarcerated population of Washington, d C. It
is ninety percent black, yepine, and so they're they're declining

(12:47):
a lot of prosecutions because there's a concern that the
left has that the Democrats have um specifically the ones
who are in charge in the city. That this is
at at a time is it's you know, they're starting
to be a little bit of a change in the
national conversation. But at a time of defund police and
all these conversations, how could Washington, d C. Still have

(13:08):
such a disparate prison population in a Democrat city if
the system is so racist? Why is DC having such
a racist outcome in in its prison population and in
its criminal justice. It's a mess. Sonny Houston's not going
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(14:54):
the Wednesday edition of the program. And Buck, I was
looking at this data that just came down from Quinnipiac
about who people are. Oh sorry, this is not Quinnipiac.
This is Gallop this morning, and it's Joe Biden approval rating.

(15:15):
Overall job approval rating for Joe Biden forty percent. But
I thought this was really interesting. Joe Biden's job approval
for independent voters thirty five percent. Now I don't know
how exactly that translates as we move closer to twenty

(15:35):
twenty four. Joe Biden, by the way, in the Gallop
poll has a three percent approval rating among Republican voters,
so I'd love to know who the three percent are.
Still has an eighty seven percent approval rating among Democrats,
which just goes to show that Democrats don't care at
all about what the truth is. But what do you
think He's worst on the economy thirty two percent approval

(15:59):
rating overall of Americans. I just the economy polls when
it comes to Democrats and Biden specifically in matter in
twenty twenty two, I find it. You know, I think
that people love to just talk about Everyone likes to
complain about the economy, and a lot of people complain
about the economy even when it's objectively quite good. But
you know, we all have our frustrations. I just think

(16:21):
that we shouldn't start to think that we're going to
get too comfy unless you are in a really grinding
recession with double digit unemployment and very obvious bad things
going on for millions and millions of people in the economy.
I don't think that that's going to cost you Biden
that much in the and that's just maybe I'm just

(16:41):
pushing too hard in the other direction after twenty twenty two.
But clay inflation was the worst. It wasn't forty years.
I know he wasn't on the ticket, But you know,
Democrats generally get blamed the party in power gets blamed
at the economy's week. We saw what happened, So I think,
I don't know. I'm also suspicious of polling in general.
Now I know that sounds to be conspiratorial, but how
many times is Poland gonna be way off in both directions. Yeah,

(17:07):
I understand that idea. I do think when you're saying
that he's got a thirty two percent approval rating on
the economy, it's hard to believe that's going to move
very much between now in twenty twenty four, which to
me suggests the number one issue by far is going
to be the economy. Now. I don't know. I hope

(17:30):
I think it is. But I was talking last night.
I was in DC and I was talking to people
and there's a lot of discussion in DC that they
think the next step on the economy, and we've predicted
this on the show, is that the Biden administration is
going to come out and say two percent inflation was
really just kind of a made up target in the
first place. Three or four percent inflation is not that

(17:51):
bad in the groud. Yeah, they're just going to change
the metrics, which is what they always do. Yeah. Other
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getting worse and worse over the last few years, and
how it seems that the authorities there have no good
ideas for turning things around right now. They don't know
what to do. They say they don't have the resources.
They say they lack the crime lab access that is necessary.
So a huge number of people that are committing felonies

(19:19):
are just walking, not member. Usually we'll talk about all
plea deals and our people's are people getting deals that
are too lenient and things like that. A declination to
prosecute means you're free, you're done, there's no there's nothing
against you, and you get to walk. And here is
I meant to play this before, but we got we
got deep into the conversation Representative James Coomer talking about

(19:42):
what is going on in DC Play sixteen. We have
a tall task today examining DC's failures. The crime statistics
alone are shocking. According to the DC Metropolitan Police Department,
carjackings in the district have increased one hundred and five
percent compared to this time last year. Fifty percent of
these carjackings are committed by juveniles. Total property crime is

(20:05):
up twenty eight percent. Homicides are up thirty seven percent
since twenty nineteen. Just days ago, fourteen men were shot
in ten separate incidents within a twenty seven hour span
in Washington, DC. DC clearly has a crime crisis, so
that's going on. Play Meanwhile, Gail King over at CBS

(20:29):
using her platform to talk about how the issue we
want to stop violence is guns, and they're banning books,
and clip ten play it. We report these stories and
we go on to the next thing, and people are
still suffering all these years later, and I keep thinking
about those families we were talking about. Your kids rooms
are still there with all of their places in it.

(20:50):
And I've come to the point and it's very difficult
to even think that that we live in a country
where apparently we value guns over children, we value guns
over the lives of human beings. Guys, they're banning books
in schools. Books can't kill your children. They're banning some
books in schools, but yet the rules are very different
when it comes to guns. They're not a stupidity here.

(21:12):
Book it just so, first of all, if you want
we said this in the first hour, and I do
think it's worth bringing up again and again, if you
want to ban guns, just say it, own it as
your argument and start to advocate for it. In the
First Amendment marketplace of ideas, you're going to lose, and

(21:34):
you're going to lose in a major way. And that's
why they don't ever actually say that, by and large,
although Randy Weingarten, as I said, the idiot teachers Union
chair did just come out and say that, so at
least she's being honest about that. Now, every time I
hear that a book is being banned, I want to

(21:54):
pull my hair out. The book is not being banned.
I just if you don't take your kid to an
R rated movie. The R rated movie is not being banned.
Parents are making choices about at what age it is

(22:16):
appropriate to expose their kid to certain content. Buck one
of my kids came home recently unable to sleep because
he had watched forty minutes of this movie Smile, which
evidently is really terrifying. I haven't seen it. I bet
almost every single person listening to us right now remember

(22:42):
seeing at some point a scary movie that you might
have been too young to have seen Graham Stoker's Dracula.
Raise your hand. Even if you're driving around in the
car right now, if you didn't listen to mom and dad,
grandma and grandpa whoever was in charge, and you snuck
your way to watching a movie that was too scary

(23:05):
and that you were too young to have watched. I
remember still those Friday the thirteenth, those Nightmare on Elm
Street movies. They are in the like cotton candy for kids, right,
you can't not try to watch them, but you know
at the same time, it's gonna be hard to sleep
when it's dark in your bedroom after you watch those movies.

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So most of the time, parents spend a lot of
their parenting effort to make sure that the age at
which you are exposed to content is appropriate. And so
this idea buck of banning guns, it's not gonna go anywhere,
are you. You're legitimately going to go start pulling up
to people's homes and try and take their guns away.
It's crazy talk. And simultaneously, this idea that they're they're

(23:51):
trying to tie to books and whether the books are
appropriate to be in the library. I'll give you an example.
When I started, you're much younger than me, totally different generations,
that's true. I remember when the Internet came to school.
For those of you out there who remember when suddenly
you might not have had the internet at home, we
didn't really have the internet much at my house when
I was in high school, but we had it at school.

(24:14):
And do you know what one of the first things
that teenage boys in my school tried to do when
they got on the internet, buck I have a feeling
I might probably have a guest, probably have a good
guess as to what they were trying to look at.
Teenage boys on the internet. We were not allowed. It's
a huge scandal in the school. You're not allowed to

(24:35):
try and look up porn on the Internet. We got
to put filters on the Internet. Nobody came running around saying,
oh my goodness, they're trying to ban the Internet in
the school. No, they're banning pornography on school computers. My
school to Dean ban Maxim magazine, which when I was
a kid, when I was in a youth, Maxim magazine

(24:58):
was amazing. If you got call with a Maxim detention, now,
that wasn't banning Maxim from life. You weren't going to
prison for having a Maxim magazine on your person. But
the school said that's not appropriate for the school day
and for our hallways. And it was a pretty serious
Jesuit institution, and so that's how it went. But so

(25:19):
they keep saying this line about the banning of books.
It is, it is a lie. It is it is propaganda.
But I would just note that while you know, so
they're all focusing on this, and they want to talk
about assault rifles, they want to talk about semi automatic
and by the way, I know, people get so mad
we use this term. They have managed to codify out
a number of places assault rifle is a thing that

(25:42):
exists in like the New York State, for example, in
the New York State Criminal Code or Code of Regulating Firearms.
So it does they've created it now, it does exist
as a term. I know that it's to a lot
of people a meaningless term because it's a semi automatic
rifle with certain cosmetic characteristics. But meanwhile, I just think
it's interesting. If it's really to stop gun violence, why

(26:05):
not focus on where the gun violence is happening and
focus on putting the police resources in communities for this
too much gun violence. I bring us back to Washington, DC.
I just think this is a fascinating example, the same
way San Francisco shows you what you get if you
just go completely left and you allow people to camp

(26:26):
on the streets and do drugs in open air and
don't enforce the laws about a whole range of petty crimes.
You just get to decay disorder. And everyone who goes
there now admits the same thing in Portland, same thing
in Seattle. You're having something different in DC, and right
now you know, similar but different. There there's a story

(26:48):
up again and going to NPR. And this is from
a year ago that the city commissioned to study that
there are five hundred people. DC city proper has maybe
six or seven hundred thousand residents. That called six hundred
thousand residents right, five hundred people are responsible for seventy

(27:08):
percent of the gun violence. Yeah, that's great. Here's this
crazy idea to keep six hundred thousand DC residents safer,
including three hundred thousand black residents of DC and all
the rest of the residents of DC. To keep everybody safer.
And remember the black community is disproportionately affected by the

(27:32):
gun violence, and that most of the victims of the
gun violence are black. Arrest the five hundred or so
perpetrators and lock them up, keep them off the streets.
This is, by the way, they had a similar statistic
in New York, except it was, you know, because a
much bigger city I forget, you know, will Bill Barr
wrote this editorial in the Wall Street Journal. He was like, look,

(27:54):
there's like a couple thousand people in New York City
who do all the bad violence, all of it. Basically,
lock them up and your crime rate goes away forever.
And they keep saying, oh, well we will, Yeah, you
lock them up on crime number fifty, and that's when
you catch them and buck. It's a tiny number of
people in a tiny number of neighborhoods. By and large,

(28:16):
we know not only who the people are, we know
where they're likely to commit their crimes. That's one of
the legacies of the nineteen nineties war on crime, and
we just forgot all the lessons of that era. And
now we're right back where we were in the nineteen eighties,
as we were running up to those all time highs
in the early nineties and violent crime. We know that

(28:40):
the status here, the situation is clear, and it really
is about you know, if they want to talk to
us about gun violence and saving lives, let's deal with
how we can actually save lives, and that is to
enforce the law in urban centers across the country in
a way that keeps dangerous people off the streets. I
also think we haven't even gotten this be in the

(29:01):
context of even a mass shooting situation, you have to
keep people who there has to be we talk about
mental health, people who are saying and plotting out possibly
very dangerous things. It has to be easier to commit
people involuntarily, which has been a thing that's gone away
really for the last thirty or so years. But that's

(29:22):
a whole other conversation. We'll get back to that. My friends,
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Flyers a few months ago refuse to wear the rainbow
jersey because he said it violated his own personal beliefs
to celebrate that from a religious perspective. And I saw
this headline and I thought to myself, my goodness, maybe

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we are starting to win some battles on sports, just
going back to sports and not getting lost in the
crazy woke universe. The NHL commissioner Gary Bettman came out
and said because these LGBTQ Pride uniforms and stories are

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becoming a distraction that he believes they may need to
eliminate them going forward. And I saw this quote and
I thought to myself, Wow, this is the first time
we've experienced that. I think it's something we're going to
have to evaluate in the offseason. This is one issue
where players, for a variety of variety of reasons, may

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not feel comfortable wearing the uniform as a form of endorsement.
I think it's become more of a distraction now because
the substance of what our teams is being pushed to
the side for a handful of players making personal decisions,
and you have to respect that as well. This is
kind of crazy to hear a commissioners say, hey, maybe
we'll just play hockey and not worry about endorsing any

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particular group of people. And that was the America that
we all thought we were growing up in. With regard
to businesses operating as businesses for the most part, you know,
it's just you know, where you go buy your paper towel,
or you know what bakery you get your cookies from
or whatever. You just wanted a good product and good
customer service and you went about your day. You know,

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you didn't need emails about what the latest, you know,
stance of the company that's selling you. You know, tissue
paper thinks about the LGBTQ plus yes, civil rights struggle
in America or whatever. But you know, I think it's
worth looking at, as people online say, the slip Slope
as the undefeated champion, which is so true. You know,

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if you didn't have this pushback, and I think everybody
should consider this as well, not just for professional athletes,
but for your own, your own children, in your own life,
and your own corporate existence at your company. How long
before be okay everybody? So you know we're all gonna
like put on a ribbon or do some show of
solidarity with gender affirming surgery for kids. How far out

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do we really think that would be without pushback the
Biden anyone who would argue, oh that's crazy, the Biden
White House and Joe Biden himself speak out forcefully in
favor of this as necessary healthcare. Yes, that is what
that is their official position. So why wouldn't they say,
we all need everybody to stand and you know, you know,

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a moment of solidarity here with gender affirming care for
twelve year olds as in chemical castration and or sex
change operations for teenagers or whatever. How far away do
you think that is? I don't think it's far oh.
I mean when Joe Biden is being interviewed in the
White House by a man pretending to be a woman,

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that Dylan mulvany or whatever that person's name, not well,
by the way, in a way that really also mocks women,
you know what I'm saying to this note, And this
never gets talked about, but but you know, Dylan mulvanny
and some of these influencers, these these friends influencers, their
version of women is and put aside the physical and
the but I just mean, the presentation is always of

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almost like you know, a valley girl. You know, I'm
just you know, just I've never met a woman who's
like any of these women they're pretending to be. It's
basically blackface, except of women, right, Like, I think there's
a strong argument that it's woman face, meaning the way
that they preen around and behave is a very exaggerated

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sense of the way that women behave, right, And they're
not women, and so the outfits that they wear, the
way they run around, the way they behave, it's a
form of theatrical behavior that is not representative of the
average woman. And I don't understand how we have reached

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this world. Then let's build on this because did you
see did you see over the weekend where CNN had
a piece saying that if you're a white person and
you share a meme or a jiff of a black person,
that you're guilty of digital blackface. Yes, it did get
the worst ratio on Twitter. I think I've ever seen
of people completely condemning this idiocy. But yes, but it

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did raise, in my opinion, the question of which I
think is so impossible for any left winger to answer.
If pretending to be a different race is unacceptable in
the extreme, how is pretending to be a different sex heroic?
No one can answer this question. And there is more

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criticism on CNN of a white person sharing a black
person meme on Twitter than there is of a man
pretending to be a woman, isn't how do we end
up in this world? Also, you look at look at
the rules here. I mean there's there's now this whole
movement to just cast um, you know, not non white

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actors in historical pieces to play This is the constant
thing that's going on. I mean it's Hamilton started this thing, right,
but it's been followed by everyone, Like I'm gonna do
Bridgerton and it's gonna be eighteenth or nineteenth century Britain,
but we're gonna have people who clearly did not live
in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. But so that that

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is like celebrated to the height of culture. But if
you share a little video of Michael Jordan crying to
make a joke about something, you're a bad person.