Charlie Kirk Shot; NATO on Edge; Abortion Fight; Schools Fail | Yaron Brook Show | Sept 10, 2025 - Yaron Brook Show

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This is the ran Brook Show. All right, everybody, welcome
to your one book show on this Wednesday, September tenth.

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A day earlier in the day, I thought, huh not
not what news going on? What am I going to
talk about today? It turns out there's a lot of news.
All right, let's just jump right in and start with
this horrific story out of Utah at a what looks
like a student rally at Udah State University. Charlie Cooke,

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the founder of Turning Point USA, was shot just a
few minutes ago, it appears, and it's not clear how badly,
how badly he is heard, although there is very graphic
video online that that basically shows the moment of impact

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of the bullet and and and and the bullet hit
him in the neck and blood just spurts out of
his neck. Uh So it is it is really hard
to believe. I mean, I don't know how he survived.
If he survived it, I don't know how. Somebody must
have given him medical attention really really quickly. If he's not,

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you know, if if he's uh, I hope I hope
that he is going to survive this. You all know
I'm a huge Charlie Cooke a critic, but I also
know Charlie Cook personally, and and they knew him when
he was much younger and have followed his career. Admire

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much of what he's done in the sense of his
ambition and the scope of what he's achieved, and very
critical of him in terms of his ideas, in terms
of his philosophy. Uh and in terms of the direction
he's taken. But the idea that somebody gets shot over
their ideas in the United States of America, well, it's

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happened before, and we've lived through it before. Seeing it
happen now here today is super scary. I mean, it's
it's it's it's super scary. It's it's horrifically disgusting. I'm
not going to tell you to pray for Charlie Cook,
because I don't believe in praying, But suddenly my thoughts
are with him, and I really hope he suffsed this.

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He's also a young father. There's just no excuse for this.
And given everything I'm seeing and and we'll talk some
of the things we'll talk about later on the show.
Today there really seems to be a growing appetite for violence,

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for political violence in America. Really, this has been I
think growing suddenly since the first Trump administration, but suddenly
since Black Lives Matter riots that happened in twenty twenty
that in essential legitimized political violence in this century. And

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both on the left and on the right, this seems
to be an increasing appetite for this and an increased
sanction of this. While this shooting by Charlie coocus of
Charlie Cook has been and by the way, the shooter
has been arrested, has been arrested. This video of him

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being handcuffed by police, I assume that is the shooter.
I assume people know that that is a shooter. So
I certainly again hope Charlie survives. But this has been
condemned by pretty much everybody on left and right. But
there's a real edge to the commentary on the right

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and a real okay, they want a civil war, they
want violence, will give them violence kind of attitude. And
of course I think this is more fodder for the
Trump administration to engage in even more aggressive action against
the left. Assuming assuming this, I think the assumption is

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not crazy that the shooter is a left is too,
is trying to silence Charlie Cook. This will give the
Truman administration even more more reason, more excuse to send
troops into various places to violate individual rights, to monitor,

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to monitor people's behaving, and just to reduce our freedom.
I think anytime anytime there's violence, anytime there's an episode
of violence, is a potential reason an excuse for government
to step in and use it as an excuse to
violate rights to increase its power. Whether it's a war,

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the violence stakes a form of for war, the violence
stakes a form of domestic violence, or even more so,
political violence. America has resisted much of that, particularly with
regard to domestic political violence. Certainly, the nineteen sixty saw
a lot of political violence, much more than we're seeing today,
and we did not go. We did not, you know,

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completely abandoned the American system. As a consequence, I don't
know if our system is robust enough to withstand another
bout like the nineteen sixties of this kind of violence,
if people are going to be shot for their political
for their political philosophical, their cultural views. Of course, there

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was the assassination of Temple Trump, which were pretty amateuristic.
And now this but also you know, this is Chris Ruffo,
just to give you a flavor of the tone right
from mister Christopher Ruffo, who's becoming more and more, I
don't know what you'd call it, more and more committed

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to right wing takeover, in a right wing imposing itself
on the country. Christopher writes the psychotic trans shooter gunning
down Catholic kids in Minneapolis, the psychotic black homeless man
stabbing the beautiful woman in Charlotte, and now an assassination

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attempt at Charlie Cooke. The reckoning we need is more
profound than you can imagine. He didn't mention the assassination
of two was it Minnesota Democrats by a Republican who

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went to their homes and shotgun point blank? No, a
Republican wouldn't mention that. So and the many other, the
many other violence committed by the right. But that's not
the point. The point is that there is violence. And
to equate the psychotic black homeless man stabbing the beautiful

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woman as Charlotte, we'll talk about this later, but to
equate that to political violence, that's not political violence. There's
nothing political about that. It really is disgusting how that
murder is being used for politics, and understandably because of
the way George Floyd's death was used for politics, although

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there's a fundamental difference which the right refuses to grasp
between the two. Again, we'll get to that when we
talk about the stabbling in Charlotte. But really horrific. I
don't encourage you to watch the video close up video
of Charlie getting getting shot. It is bruto, it's very unpleasant.

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It's I watched it, I guess accidentally, and it's uh,
you know, it's flashing in front of my eyes as
I talk to you. It really is horrific, you know.
And I can already imagine what he's going through, right,
I mean, I know what it's like to stand up
in front of a crowd. Uh, And and and I

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don't know what it's like to be shot in front
of a crowd. That that is pretty that is pretty horrific. Anyway,
it's not good. It's not good for culture, it's not
good for the world in which we live in. And
and it's it's the response to this is not going
to be healthy. The responsor to this is only going
to exacerbate the the conflict between the sides. Uh, nothing

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good is going to come of this. A lot of bad.
There's a potential for a lot of bad to come
of it. And we will see, we will see how this,
how this pans out, and how this develops again. I
hope Charlie. I hope Charlie suffice it. That is there's

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the main thing right now. I hope they got the bastard.
It looks like they did. It looks like they got him.
And uh, yeah, I don't I don't know. It's yeah,
I've got the video right in front of me and
just turned it up before the key mome because it is.
It is brutal. So yes, we're in a very precarious

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situation in the United States right now, and it is.
It is scary, and I want to watch and see
how everybody responds to this and whether we see any
kind of cooling off of this kind of violence, or
whether we see it stepped up and intensified and uh,

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and accelerated violence is not going to solve this problem.
A civil war will be a massive disaster for this country.
I nobody will achieve anything through it. Violence will not
achieve anything. There is no political entity in the United
States day that would be fighting for freedom and and

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and for something positive. Chris Rufo thinks that the right
is good and the right is right, but the right
is not good. The right we have today is not good.
And replacing all our cultural institutions, replacing the left with
the right that has exist today, is not going to
put us in a better position, is not going to

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improve the world. But the world is a pretty horrible
place because of what the left has done to our
various institutions. So you know, at the end of the day,
I want to remind everybody and that it is ideas
to shape the world. It's ideas to shape the world.
And you can replace one rotten set of ideas with

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another rotten set of ideas, and you're not going to
go anywhere. You're going to continue descent into one form
of hell or another form of hell. If you want
to improve the world, if you want to make the
world a better place, if you want to improve a
quality of life, a standable living, if you want to
improve the culture, if you want to live in a
great life, embracing life, sustaining culture, it is life's standing

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and life embracing ideas you must support, you must embrace.
At the end of the day, the revolution is needed
is a cultural revolution, ideological revolution, a philosophical revolution, a
philosophical revolution. And unless we fight what is going on
in the world right now with an alternative philosophy, with

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better ideas, with solutions to problems, rather than with hatred
and with fear and with violence again, the world will
descend in one form of hell or another. You know,

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people have asked over the last few days where I
think we're heading towards a dark ages. I don't. I
still think we can avoid it. But yeah, but you know,
some of this, some of this is it could really mean,

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this kind of violence, could really mean that we're descending
into a really bad situation in the United States. Whether
there's other places in the world to go to, I
don't know, but the United States could be in deep,
deep trouble in the years and in the decades to come.
I'll talk more about the insanity and the left at

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the end of the show. I was going to talk
about the Democratic Party and the problem it has with
its crazy left. We don't know again, exactly who shot
Charlie Cook. We don't know exactly what happened. But under
the assumption that it's some leftist that did this, that
all link nicely into that a link nicely, it is
not the right word. Let a link into the discussion

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that we will that we will have towards the end
of the show about the Democratic Party it's state today
in the the impossible situation that the better people in
the Democratic Party, and they all good people will better
people at least in the Democratic Party find themselves, they
find themselves an impossible really an impossible situation. All right,

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let's see, all right, yes, let's uh, let's keep going
with the program. And if there's news, if you guys
see anything in the news about this, let me know.
If anything about the shooter comes out, let me know,
if anything about Charlie's condition comes out, let me know.

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I'll also try to keep like a Twitter, my Twitter
feed open so I can I can see, but I'm
I'm monitoring a lot of different things. Hees it's going
to be hot. But but yeah, I'll trust you guys
to keep me informed about anything anything relevant that is

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coming out. Yeah, I mean, much more appropriate than what
Chris Ruffo mentioned in terms of the left's violence because
I don't consider the the killing of the Ukrainian woman

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an expression of political violence. Maybe the most important example
of political violence is the killing of Brian Thompson, the
United Healthcare CEO. That murder is maybe more indicative of

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the Left's growing appetite for violence, and the support that
the murderer has received is really scary, spooky, disgusting, horrific
and uh, something that is basically going to doom the
Left completely if it doesn't, if it doesn't change its ways.

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As long as the Left supports as long as the elements,
significant elements, that's apport Hamas, that's support the shooting of
Brian Thompson, and then now we'll support the shooting of
Charlie Cook. And I'm sure there will be a lot
of them. The Left is hopeless and the Democratic Party

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without excising the part that is promoting this kind of violence,
the Democratic Party is you know, it is is suicidal
and and unsolvagable unless it can excise this element, just
like the Republican Party without excising MAGA is useless and hopeless.

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All right, Um, what is true? Timpole says, sources saying
Charlie is stable. That's good news. I mean, I mean,
I think the main thing, given the kind of injury
he received, I think the main thing here is is

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a loss of blood. Right, you know, this did not
destroy any major organs. I hope it didn't hit his spine,
but it did it did you know, upture a major
uttery and it looked like a lot of letter spillings.
So the main thing for Charlie, I think is is
a loss of blood and uh and and whether they

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stopped that and managed to give him effusion fast enough.
So that is that is the real question. All right,
Let's see, Let's hope Tempole's sources are correct. Of course,
his sources better than mind I have known. And these things,

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all right, we will talk about we will talk more
about this at the end of the show when we
talk about the Democratic Party. Let's shift now to what
I thought was going to be the lead story today,
and what I thought was was a very war resome development.
Maybe the most war resome development is is the what

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happened in Poland overnight, and that is the fact that
several Russian drones, primarily surveillance drones, although there is there
is at least one, there's some indication of at least
one suicide drone was also located in Poland. The number

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of Ukrainian of Russian reconnaissance drones entered into Poland. They
entered deep into Poland, quite far into western Poland, both
north of Warsaw and south west southeast of Warsaw. They
went all the way southeast of Warsaw and a number
of drones came in. NATO was alerted. NATO planes were

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put in the air, including F thirty fives from the
Netherlands and F sixteen from Poland, that shut down the drones.
Shut down the drones over Poland. This is the first time.
While there'll been cases where drones of broken through airspace,

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there's been cases where Russian airplanes have kind of tested
the boundaries of NATO. This is the first time where
a significant number of drones, a significant number of Russian
systems have actually penetrated a NATO country and actually entered
the NATO country. NATO has exercised. I guessed. Article four

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they call it. Article four is of the of the
NATO Treaty. Article four is it directs the North Atlantic
Council to begin immediately defense and military consultations. So Article four,
consistent with kind of the West and with consistent with

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Western bureaucracy modern European bureaucracy. Article four basically sets up
a committee to study what's going on and so immediate
defense of military consultations for emergencies or situations of emergency.
Uh and it is triggered when quote the territory, integrity,

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political independence, or security of any of the part parties
is threatened. Even Donald Trump was a little surprised by
the infiltration of these Russian drones into into Poland. I
mean Trump is quoted as saying, what's with Russia violating

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Polish airspace? So this is a major incident. It could
very well involve now you know, Russia's claiming that these
drones were steered off course, off the course that they
were taking by Ukrainian electronics. This is not credible given

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the depth in which they went, given the location where
the drones are. Some of the drones were launched on Belarus.
Belarus is not launched drones against Ukraine. There's every reason
I believe that this is a Russian test of NATO's response.
This is a Russian test to see how NATO reacts.

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Maybe they were measuring the speeder which the planes could
reach these drones. Maybe they were just seeing what kind
of political unity NATO had around this, whether what appetite
NATO might have for confrontation with Russia. It's hard to
tell what Moscow's intentions were. One thing is very clear.
I know this is going to be controversial among many

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of the people listening to the show. One thing is
very clear, and that is that since Putin meant with
Trump in Alaska, Putin has acted in greater and greater,
bolder and more bolder waves. That is, it is clear
that whatever Trump told Putin, whatever Trump did with Putin,

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whatever Trump verbally or now verbally you know, signaled to Putin,
Putin has viewed it as weakness. Putin is viewed it
as permission for him, sanctioned for him to escalate. Since
that meeting in Alaska, the number of attacks on civilians

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in Ukraine has increased, the use of drones and missiles
has increased, the aggressiveness of Russia against Ukrainian infrastructure. The
thing that Trump was complaining about has only increased. We
now have this, I mean, Trump keeps saying that the
one Ukraine would have never happened if he was president. Well,

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this suggests otherwise. This suggests that Putin is not intimidated
by Trump. One bid that Putin is willing to at
least poke NATO when Trump is president because he believes
Trump's is weak and he believes Trump will do nothing.

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We still don't know exactly what the nature of the
Trump Putin relationship is, but clearly it's not one in
which Putin is intimidated by Trump, or intimidated by America
or intimidated by NATO. So, uh, this is a interesting development.

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I don't think this is leading into World War three.
I don't think Russia wants to actually go to war
with NATO again. I think this is prodding and testing
and gaining intelligence. But it is, without a question, without
a question, it is an escalation, and it is something
to watch, and it's uh, you know, it's not good.

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It's not good, you know. I certainly do not want
to see the war expanded, the work expanded, you know
a number. It turns out that a couple of unknown
aircraft was a detected entering Lithuania this morning at ten am. UH.
The aircraft being aircraft were scrambled, but the objects were

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not intercepted. UH, and surveillance on going to determine if
they landed or exactly what they were doing in Lithuania space.
So there was there was a lot going on with
regard to uh, you know, with regard to this. UH.
And I don't know that we will ever know the

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entire story. I don't know if we know it now.
But you know, NATO's on high alert. Uh. You know,
we had Italian a waxes in the air, German Patriot
missiles on on high alerts and of course they're Polish
and the Dutch Force knocking down some of these drones. Uh. Again,

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I don't expect this to escalate. Uh, but it's hard
to tell. In the meantime, Trump is urging Europe to
place high tariffs on China and on India as penalty
for them continuing to buy oil from Russia. Trump has
not imposed sanctions on Russia yet. Uh, there've been there's

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been no movement of Trump to penalize Russia for everything
that it's done, and for the fact that Putin has
basically ignored, completely ignored or Trump's or basically snubbed Trump's
efforts at some kind of meeting between Zelenski and Putin

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at some kind of peace deal, ceasefire deal. Putin has
basically told everybody to go to hell, and he is
continuing with his war. So I don't know how this
plays out. It's very difficult to tell what Putin's sakes
move is. This is surprising to me. You wouldn't think

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that Putin wants antagonist the I think if if Poland
was involved in the war, never mind NATO, Uh yeah,
I mean, Russia would be toast, it would be history.
But NATO could annihilate the Russian army with you know,
short of nuclear weapons within days. I don't think Putin
wants a test. I don't think he wants it. But

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maybe maybe he thinks he's stronger than he really is.
Maybe thinks he's stronger than he really is. We will see.
I talk about another murder, and I don't know that.
Charlie Cooks is it's an attempted murder, but you know,

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I don't know that it actually it doesn't look like
he's died, or at least not yet, and let's hope
he doesn't. But the stabbing in of a young Ukrainian
refugee in the United States, uh, there was basically video
of it was released this this weekend has really created

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quite a political stone. It is. Uh. It is basically
shown the left uh as being willing to excuse violence
as long as it's black on white violence. Uh and
and to excuse it and justify it and and uh
and and basically shrug it off. And it's shown the

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right as uh being willing to use this particular event.
But I think more broadly black on white violence. Uh
two uh tim based racist theories, tim based racism more
broadly uh and and to to create fear mongering around

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a race war in the United States. Uh uh. And
you've seen the Trump administration, of course, leap on this
opportunity to highlight its so called lawnoda platform to highlight
all the crime happening in democratic in democratic districts or

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democratic areas of the country and jumps on this is
a great pr opportunity, which I think is a sad, tragic, pathetic, horrible.
I mean, violent crime like this happens tragically in the
United States every day. It's only going to create real
resonance in the public when it's black on white or

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white on black. If white skill whites, nothing happens. If
black skill blacks. I don't think anybody cares. It is
latched on by the various racist groups in this country,
whether of the fall Left or the fall right, to
justify whatever agenda they happen to have, and in this case,
again it's going to be justified by Trump to embrace

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a a more a kind of law and order agenda
that ultimately, I wouldn't be surprised involved the significant violation
of individual rights, the significant restrictions of our rights more broadly.
So you know, you've probably been following the story. But

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the story is a black man who is who has
been in a charge many, many many times by the
criminal justice system, sat in jail for five years for
armed robbery and it was recently recently called up nine
one one, you know, claiming that somebody had planted a

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chip in his brain and was making him do you know,
making him do hubble things, that he was out of
control and there was a chip in his brain. And
ultimately when the police came, they said something police can do.
This is a medical issue. He needs to talk to
medical profession and there was some scuffle around that, and

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ultimately he was arrested in charge with a misdemeanor charge
of abusing the nine to one one system. Now, you know,
this thing with a chip in the brain is something
that there are a lot of schizophrenics out there who
really hold this or believe this about themselves or believe
it about other people. And you know, this guy who

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was obviously seriously mentally ill, he's a serious schizophrenic. He's
a crazy person, a real crazy person. Whatever color skinny has,
this guy's nuts and that is where they focus should be.
This is not a Democrat Republican thing. It is a
question of what do you do with really, really really

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mentally ill people who are, because of their mental illness
potentially violent but might not have been vilan yet, but
unstable doing crazy things. Is it legitimative a state to
lock people like that up in mental institutions as we
used to do, And when is a legitimate How do

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we determine when somebody is reaches a point where they
need to be locked up because of their mental condition.
Now I'm all for longer sentences violent criminals, or for
longer sentences for property crime, for burglary and you know,
and stealing stuff, but it is not a part is

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an issue, this question about what to do with the
mental leal it's not like red states have solved this problem.
It's not like red states have laws with regard to
what to do with this. Ultimately, this happened in North Carolina, which,

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while in a blue city, it is a red state.
There's no state law in North Carolina that says that
you should institutionalize people who might be violent. Now, I think,
ultimately that is the solution. That was the solution before
the nineteen eighties, when the mental institutions in the United

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States were opened up and everybody was released from them,
the system had probably been abused in the pre nineteen eighties.
That is, a lot of people were sent to mental
institutions that probably should not have been sent. So it
has to be vigorously monitored, it has to be vigorously
enforced in terms of who goes. But it strikes me

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that people think there's a chip in their brain. And indeed,
he told this guy when his mother asked him or
sister asked him why he killed this girl, he said
that he didn't know that his body just did it.
That the chip in the brain and the programming just
did it. Now it could be exposed rationalization, But he

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has no chip in the brain. But it could be
him consciously kind of coming up with an excuse, but
he said this chip, you know, somebody else was controlling him.
It wasn't him. He would never do this. He said,
it was horrible what happened. Now, after he killed her,
he said something like, I killed the white girl. And

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of course everybody's taking that to mean that he did
it because she was white. Not obvious to me that
that's what he was doing. He was just identifying what
he had done. Again, he's crazy, you know, and and
that needs to be dealt with us. He told is

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mother sister that he did it because she was in
another part of their discussion. I guess all this is
taped that she was listening into his thoughts. I mean,

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a guy's nuts and crazy people, crazy people who have
shown already any clinician towards violence should be locked up
in mental institutions until they show that they're not crazy anymore.
But again, that is not a that is now. I'm

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sure Democrats will oppose that, but it's not a red
blue thing. No state has that, No state has that law,
you know. On the other hand, the left is like,

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you know, we don't know why he did it. We
don't know why he did it. He's a sick man.
Nothing to see here, no conclusions to come to, nothing
to analyze here. Nothing about the culture is broken, nothing
about mental illness is broken. Nothing about the justice system.

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The justice system is broken. No, no, no, nothing to
see here. Let's just move on. It's sad that it happened,
should have happened, But of course if a white man
kills a black then that systemic racism. So the you know,
the attitude of the left is completely disgusting, particularly potht BLM, right.

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I mean, there was no even if Derek chavan who
I think, you know, you know, killed Floyd and it
shouldn't have killed him. There's no reason, no excuse for
him to have killed him. There's no reason to believe
that Derek Chavon did it because Judge Floyd was black.

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I mean, the reason that Judge Floyd case was more
interesting and more important than this is because it was
about police abuse. And BLM had been about police abuse,
I would have been sympathetic the police. The number of
cases where police have killed people for no good reason,

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including white people and black people. And there's a real
problem about police training and the ability of police to
handle difficult situations violence. You can say a lot about
the shape in which policemen are in physically and whether
they are equipped physically and mentally to be able to

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deal with the kind of situations they're thrown into. That
is a debate discussion worth having. Absolutely, instead judge Floyd,
instead of turning on the issue of police abuse, became
an issue of systemic racism, which it was not indicative
of at all and had nothing to do with, and

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that whole situation was, as a consequence, you know, blown up.
Van Jones on CNN says, we don't know why that
man did what he did. This man was hurting hood.
People hurt people, and it's like brushing it off. People
are hurting like this. Something needs to be done, something,

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There has to be a way to pamp this. I mean,
you cannot excuse the behavior of people who are struggling
because they're struggling. Doesn't excuse. It doesn't give this permission
and it doesn't it does not free from responsibility the

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criminal justice system that allowed this nutcase, this person who
was hurting out into the streets to be free. So
instead of Van Jones and the left introspecting and thinking
about this and offering solutions and thoughts about what to
do about the mental illness that is prevalent among homeless

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people that often results in violence. Yeah, hurt people, hurt people,
hurt people. You know that that is that's the sound bite.
That's the sound bite they come up with at the
flip side, of course, is to turn this into a

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racist issue. Now, I don't think there is a racist issue.
I think the racist issue here is that the left
turns turned George Floyd into a racial issue, and you know,
we still have it. I guess recovered from that. This

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is god Saad writing about this. For example, godside from
the right a society that burns neighborhoods and calls for
the funding of the police for the guy, for George Floyd,
and largely ignores the public. Butchering of the woman on
the right is one that is drowning, and a picture

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of the Ukrainian go is one that is drowning in
the infinite pool of suicidal empathy. And I think that's right.
But there is a difference. There is a difference, and
the difference is this George Floyd was killed by the police.

(41:12):
The issue of the George Floyd murder, not that it
justifies voting anything, but the issue of the George Floyd
murder should have been and was for many of US
police brutality. The issue with the goal being murdered is, Yeah,
they're crazy people who do crazy, nutty, insane things. It's

(41:34):
a dangerous world where you leave these people free in
the streets. But it's not about the police. It's not generalizable.
There's nothing I mean. The generalization here is about what
to do with mentally ill people. That's not a conversation
anybody wants to have. By the way, it's not a
conversation the right wants to have, and it's not a

(41:56):
conversation on the left wants to have. Stephen Crowder tweets
White America, you just found your George Floyd. Always supposed
to be more offended at George Floyd situation than irenias,
because I sure as hell am not no the mosquito.

(42:17):
Did I get him? Hope? So anyway, I'm constantly in
this room in a battle of mosquitoes, all right. I
was supposed to be more offended at George Floyd situation
in the arenas because I'm in the hell am not
arena didn't live a life harming those around her. Yeah,
George Floyd was not a good guy. Arena seems to
be a good person. But again, George Floyd was killed

(42:41):
by the police. If that was indicative of police brutality,
that was an issue worth investigating. Arena killed by a
crazy person. White crazy persons with an inclination of violence
in the streets would looking into it. Yes, but this
is not about whites and it's not about black Now.

(43:03):
The left has made it about white and black, and
now the right is making it about white and black.
So not only are we to have political violence seems
to be escalating. What we're seeing now is basically a
call for a race war. Joe Webbin. Joe Webbin a

(43:24):
preacher from I think it's north of Dallas community, one
of these o megachurches. Uh, and somebody who is uh.
You know, I've talked about it in the past because
he is a known antisemite and a real racist. Anyway,
Joel says, a race war is coming. A race war

(43:47):
is coming. So the right is calling for a race war.
The left can only think in terms of race. Not
a healthy situation to be in in this country. I mean,

(44:10):
a very very, very dangerous position for us to be in.
I mean, granted, this Texas Pasta is a nutcase, but
he's very popular. He's a leader within the Christian nationalist movement.
He believes Jews should be second class citizens in the
United States. He believes Jews should not be able to

(44:31):
hold public office. They can live in the United States peacefully,
but he says, this is Christian nation, and those who
are just christ and hate Christ, they can be in
the car and we shouldn't mistreat them, but they don't
get to drive the car. And he would like to
see them all leave anyway, if at all possible. We

(44:53):
talked about this on another show. You want to blame somebody,
Blame the criminal justice system. You want to blame somebody,
blame the fact that this country has not come to
terms with what to do with these, you know, with
with with crazy people who you know, who's susceptible to violence.

(45:17):
This is not about race. This is not about race,
all right. The the this video of the led shooter,
the uh, the guy who shot Charlie Krook as he's

(45:40):
being taken away by police, supposedly yelling shoot me shoot
me again. Another nut? Really, God, really, horrific. The these
people are out there. Let me just see what what

(46:03):
this source is saying. So Charlie Cook has a private
security team. He was rushed to a car, so you know,
since he has a private security team, he might have

(46:24):
gotten very fast, very fast medical care. And again, let's hope,
let's hope that was it. I don't know. Two minutes ago,
there's video saying the video earlier is claimed to show

(46:45):
the shooter has been deleted because police have confirmed that
the actual shooter is not yet in custody. Police have
determined the demand seen being taken into custody earlier following
the shooting of Charlie Cooke at Utah Value University in
or In, Utah, was not actually the shooter. According to

(47:08):
a spokesman for the Utah Valley, it is unclear if
the shooter is in custody. A official with Turning Point
USA told CBS News, Charlie Cook is at the hospital
after being shot in the neck. But it doesn't look good.

(47:31):
Charlie Cook's in critical condition after being shot in the neck. Yeah,
just showing more videos. I don't want to see the video.
I saw it earlier. Charlie Cooke was shot by a
rifle from two hundred yards more snipers. God, all right, yeah,

(48:03):
I mean this is really really really horrible, really horrible.
There's the footage again. I keep seeing it. I keep
not even able to avoid the actual footage of him
being shot. All right, so we might not have the shooter.

(48:25):
I keep seeing conflicting messages. But this is from four
minutes ago. Ware, he's saying that it's not the shooter.
It was not the guy in the video earlier that
was identified. So we will see, we'll see. All right.

(48:47):
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Let me just focus on this for a second. Oh god, right,
how does this work? Right? Let's see. Let me just

(50:40):
check the news one more time. Uh yeah, nothing new
yet on the shooter, who he is and whether he
is in custody or not. I hope he's in custody.
I hope they got him and that they get him

(51:01):
really really soon. Let's see. But it does Yeah, as
we said earlier, this does not bode well for all
of us, for this country, and for instance, Okay, let's
move on. I wanted to cover the story from South
Carolina about a new bill coming before the South Carolina legislature.

(51:30):
This is a bill that's being proposed, so it can
still be fought, So any of you out there in
South Carolina, hopefully you will fight this. But it is
a bill that basically, you know, bans abortion in all
cases from time zero, so no exceptions, and basically from conception.

(51:55):
It would make it very difficult. It would also significant
restrict access to the abortion pill and to even to contraception.
I mean, the war against abortion, the war against women,

(52:17):
the war against sacks, the war against contraception continues to
be like a super priority for the right. If you're
not sure about what motivates the right, this kind of
theocratic action, I think illustrates that the religious right is
really motivated by religion, really motivated by religion. It's not

(52:39):
a pretend. Now in South Carolina, they've tried to pass
very restrict of emotion laws in the past since over
the last couple of years, and they have failed, and
they keep trying again. This one has sent it built
three two three. It's called the Unborn Child Protection Act.
It would appeal comment safeguards on the state's comment six

(53:02):
week abotion band, which is bad enough. It would change
the definitions and will create a new implications for even
contraception and fertility treatments, like in virtual fertilization. In spite
of Trump being pro in virtual MAGA and the religious
right are very very opposed in virtual fertilization. I mean,

(53:28):
these fertilized, you know, are the human and therefore they
must be protected. So what this bill will create as
a total abortion band no exceptions, no exception for rate,

(53:50):
no exception for incests, no exception for fetal anomaly. I mean,
to not allow an abortion for fetal anomaly. I mean
the cruelty of that, the cualty told the child that
will be born, is just astounding. But it's God's will.

(54:11):
Who are we to who are we to change God's will?
I mean there's already massive restrictions in South Carolina. Already
South Carolina is you know, very very stringent in the
way it's enforcing these restrictions, and now they want to
make it significantly tougher. And notice, with everything going on

(54:34):
in the world, with all the issues, all the problems
including violence, including you know, the left dominance of institutions
and the economy, everything that's going on the people are
constantly complaining about what really gets a certain portion of Republicans,
what really gets the juices going, what really gets the motivated,

(54:57):
what really gets them excited, what really gets some past
it is restricting abortion. They want to criminalize it. Not
only would women who get an abortion be charged with
a criminal offense. God, this mosquito is playing with death,

(55:21):
but so far has escaped it. Sorry, guys, it kind
of hovers in front of my face looking for place
to bite, you know, so, I mean a what the
religious right is doing. We've talked about this with the

(55:43):
goat to abortion. What the religious right is doing is
placing the life, if you will, of a fetus, of
a clump of cells, if it's early enough, in the
pregnancy of a potential human being, of aotential human being,
ahead of the rights, dignity, life, life of an actual

(56:09):
human being, of an existing human being, not a potential
and existing the mother. The mother's alive, the mother gets
to decide what she does with her body. That's what
individual rights means. And the right is dedicated to violating

(56:31):
individual rights on a massive scale with its attacks on abortion,
the criminalizing of abortion. I think they've got thirty year
penalties for women who get abortion, and you know, similar
thirty year prisons sentences for doctors who might engage in abortion.

(56:52):
What this will mean is women will have to leave
the state, but it's not clear that way, but to
come back without he prosecuted it. You know, it's it's
probably as bad as the Texas laws that were seeing

(57:13):
but no, this is everywhere, there's the entire South Red states.
This again, is what they really really committed to. This
is what they're passionate about. And yeah, again, I'll keep
bringing to your attention these these abortion issues because I

(57:34):
think they're so egregious. You know, this further shows the
extent to which Hobbes was such a reversal of Rovers's ways.
Was such a horrible decision with such horrible consequences, and
how with such a really a terrible situation right now

(57:57):
as people who believe in freedom leave in liberty. As
we'll see, because I'll talk about this in a minute,
the left is crazy and it advocates for ideas that
are just horriable and clearly anti life and destructive, destructive

(58:20):
to human life in big ways. Oh God, almost had it.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
It's staying too high. You're seeing the war live Uran
versus mosquito. Ah, that was close. God almost had it.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
All right. We should make a short clip of me
trying to kill the mosquito. That'll go viral. Probably. We
really believe in in liberty, in freedom and individual rights.
We've got a crazy right, a crazy right, an evil

(59:07):
right that not only wants to, you know, take away
women's rights to their own life, their own body. Yeah. Yeah,
I've crippled him. He's slowed down, no question about that.

(59:32):
Once a race war has significant anti Semitic tendencies and
racist tendencies.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
These are Russian drones, since sent sent by the Russian authorities.
It's sent by somebody. Every every every show, there's at
least one of these, and he's just staying out of reach. God. Yeah,
I'm trying to take it out. God, I think I

(01:00:06):
think I pulled my shoulder. Doctor asked me, what did
you do? I was trying to kill a mosquito. I
need to bring I need to bring a spray. I
need to bring the anti mosquito spray and get it
that way. That would rely on my physical agility, which
is not what it used to be not what it

(01:00:27):
used to be. We've got a crazy right, homicidal right,
and a crazy and homicidal left. And you know what
do you do? Well, We've got to get our ideas
out there. We've got to fight for real liberty. We've

(01:00:48):
got to fight for individual rights. And that means fighting
against racism, against anti semitism, anti semitism, were left and right,
it means fighting for liberty and freedom. It means fighting
against the idea that you solve anything through violence, and

(01:01:21):
fighting for sanity, for freedom, for liberty, fighting for America,
resurrecting America. Okay, on either Saturday or Sunday this week,
I will do a show. The title will be what
is America? What are we gonna? What are we fighting for?
And we'll talk more about this on that show. But

(01:01:44):
the right and left of getting worse and worse and worse,
and I don't know what we do what we do?
Friend of herper says, mosquitos everything to gain from uron book.
Uron book has nothing to gain from killing a mosquito.

(01:02:04):
It's not true. I have watched the gain from killing
a mosquito. God, all right, some more bad news about America.
God today turned out to be even more bad news
than I thought it would. Just recently been released the

(01:02:26):
scores high American high school senior scores on math and
reading tests, and Americans are now scoring the worst I
guess they ever have scorn on these particular tests, which
are started in two thousand and five by the Bush administration,
and reading which has a longer history, the students are

(01:02:51):
scoring below where it was in nineteen ninety two. Now,
no one these are scary issues. This is you'd think
that somebody really concerned with the state of America, somebody
really concerned scores not scorned. Somebody really concerned with the

(01:03:13):
state of America, somebody really concerned with the future of America,
would be horrified by the state of American education, would
be spending massive amounts of political capital on trying to
fix it. I think the only way to fix it
is to privatize it, to get rid of public education,
government education, but at least the focus on it, to

(01:03:35):
think about it, to put resources behind it. In terms
of solving the problem. I mean, we're raising generations who
can read, can write, and can't do math. And people
are very concerned about very concerned about AI and can

(01:03:58):
we keep up with the Chinese. Well, we're not going
to be able to if this is the quality of
the students we're producing. This is what an educational system
is doing. Oh ship. So the latest breaking news, and

(01:04:20):
I assume this is true, that Charlie Cook has died.
He was pronounced dead following the shooting. Again, if you
if you see the video, don't recommend it, you will
not be surprised by this. Uh that that the amount

(01:04:42):
of blood he lost from that shot was was, you know,
so so traumatic that I can't even imagine surviving that. Anyway,
It does look like and listless is news, but I
don't think so. That Charlie Cook has passed away, which again,

(01:05:05):
while a rival, somebody had disagreed with somebody, I opposed
somebody in some ways I feared because I thought he
would gain a lot of political power in the future.
This is not the way to resolve This is not
the way to resolve disputes. I knew Charlie when he
was seventeen. I met him when he was seventeen at

(01:05:28):
a coffee shop in Chicago. He was just starting Turning
Point USA. He believed that it would be a high
school student movement. He turned it into the fastest growing
and I think the largest university student groups and movement.
Truly an amazing job in terms of going from nothing

(01:05:53):
to just exploding on the scene the way he did,
and just building an organization, building a culture, building a system. Again,
I very much disagreed with Charlie the turn Charlie took
in twenty sixteen following Trump's election and his advocacy for

(01:06:15):
Trump's ideas and becoming kind of the lead spokesman certainly
among the young for those ideas. But I mean, you
gotta admire what he achieved and how articulate he was.
Certainly in his early days. I bumped into him several
times in different conferences. He was heavily influenced by Iron Rand.

(01:06:38):
He had read Iron Rand in high school, was in
those days a big fan of capitalism, and regularly gave
talks defending capitalism, many of those talks inspired by Ironran
and even by my morality of capitalism talk. You know,

(01:06:59):
the idea year that this is happening right now in America,
the idea that this is how we resolve disagreements or
disputes in America right now is really scary. And and
uh and and uh tragic and uh, you know, I'm

(01:07:20):
not sure what happens now. This this is not gonna
be good. I mean, you know, this is going to
be more than anything. This is going to be a
massive rallying call for the right. Uh. They're going to
be many people on the left who are going to
celebrate this. Imagine if they celebrated the killing of a
CEO of an executive of a of a health insurance company.

(01:07:42):
Imagine what they're gonna do with the with the murder
of Charlie Cooke. This is going to be major celebration
among certain elements on the left. This is this is
really this is the beginning of I mean it's not
the beginning, but this is this is uh dark day
before us. Of course, any kind of more significant violence

(01:08:05):
is only going to encourage the Trump administration team pose
more of its kind of military style uh, law and order.
Uh and and this will give them more and more
of an excuse to do exactly that. Uh And yeah,
you could you could see. I mean this is just

(01:08:27):
this is just you know, absolutely absolutely horrible and uh,
you know, again, shooter, as far as I can tell,
the shooter has not been arrested, has not been captured.
It'll be interesting to see how quickly it does. Yeah,

(01:08:51):
here here's MSNBC. I mean, this is already starting, right MSNBC. Yeah,
I mean it's not m a CNBC, but it's a
commentated in MSNBC saying you can't stop with these awful
thoughts you have, and then saying these awful words and
then not expect awful actions to take place. In other words,
he had a coming is uh? Is uh? You know

(01:09:16):
what they are? What the left is already starting to claim,
and you'll hear more and more and more of that.
It's just I'm gonna skip the last section of what
I was planning to talk about. We'll talk about We'll
talk about this later. We'll talk about that another time
or tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, I mean, Charlie was somebody

(01:09:50):
who went out there debated. He was somebody who put
himself out there at the forefront of these debates. This
this happened on a university campus as he was engaging
with students. If you've watched videos of him, and again
I don't agree with his ideas, but if you've watched
videos of him, he's often confronted and and has to

(01:10:10):
deal with had to deal with pretty contentious Q and
a's but uh, you know he was he was trying
to reach out to convince, uh and and engaging with
the other side. He was not hunkered down in some says.

(01:10:32):
But uh, you know, it's just it just is, it's
just horrible. Nothing good will come of it, and much
evil will come of this. Much evil will come of it. Uh.
There are a lot of bad people out there who
are going to exploit this, uh for for for for
worse things. Yeah, I mean there's already you know MSNBC again,

(01:11:02):
I guess that's citing the same commentary I cited earlier
about this. All right, let's see. Yeah, right, it's in France.
We'll talk about that tomorrow. I'm just looking through my

(01:11:26):
news feed on Twitter to see what's breaking. I only
saw one source actually say that that he was indeed dead,
So again it's it's not we just have one source

(01:11:48):
so far saying that he has passed away. I yeah,
Charlie was thirty one. He father and you relatively new father.
NBC now is confirming that he No, NBC is not

(01:12:10):
confirming anything, all right, Yeah, I'm not I'm not seeing confirmation.
But maybe it's out day. I don't know if you
guys are seeing confirmation. All right, I got the mosquito.
That's good. She won't bother me anymore. And you're saying,

(01:12:34):
you guys are seeing you're seeing multiple multiple sources. So yeah,
it looks like it's a it's it's reality. It's gonna
be interesting where we go from here. It is going
to be interesting. Yep. I mean, let's see.

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
Uh uh.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
Yeah, very Charlie was very pro Israel. I'll give him that.
And uh uh again. Van Jones is going out there
kind of blaming the victim here and that anybody is

(01:13:32):
justifying this is ridiculous. The better voices on the left
are are coming out and condemning this, but I don't
think they matter. I don't think the better voices on
the left matter. I think, you know, unless they really
really distanced themselves from the crazy left. Yeah, all right,

(01:14:05):
Chris willfo again. The last time the radical left orchestrated
a waiver of violence and terror, Jared go Hoover shut
it down, all down within a few years. It is
time within the confines of the law. Well, that's good.
At least Chris is talking about the law. It is time,
within the confines of law to infiltrate, to swew up
the rest and incartiate all those are responsible for this chaos. Yeah,

(01:14:26):
I mean I agree with that. I completely agree with that,
all right. I worry about the confines of the law
and whether how much that could be actually real. Yeah,

(01:14:55):
there's just no leadership. That's the problem. There's just no leadership,
Enwick says. After the Montin Luther King assassination, Robert Kennedy
confronted the rage to put out the flame? Is there
anyone now? Of course, Robert Kennedy was assassinated as well,
so you know, I don't. That's the problem. There's no leadership.

(01:15:17):
There's no political leadership right now. There's no somebody who
can take the reins and actually lead. It's not Trump,
and there's nobody on the left who is in that position.
I mean, yes, Governor Newsom has condemned this. If you
remember he interviewed Charlie. I think that was the first
interview he did on his show, which chose Charlie's willingness

(01:15:39):
to engage with the left. But you know, it's I'm
just looking, just liketing to see if there's anything coming.

(01:16:02):
I'm not. Yeah, I'm not getting on my feeds anything
really new. All right, here's a BuzzFeed m Yeah, I

(01:16:25):
mean busfeed makes the announcement about Charlie Cook being killed
or being shot, and and people are like chewing this on.
They're they're excited, they're thrilled, they're they're they're chewing this on.
And and busfeed is not some radical left crazy place,
but this is this is the left that's celebrated I've

(01:16:48):
October seventh. This is the left that celebrated Luji Maggione.
Uh and this is the left that will celebrate Charlie
Cooke's death. And uh, oh god. This is the problem them.
I've got and and there are two of them, and
the left is the left will continue. Yeah, I mean

(01:17:21):
here's at MSNBC. Again he is constantly sort of pushing
the sort of hate speech aimed a certain groups, and
I always go back, yeah, so again, But all right,
I think I think that's that's where we are right now.

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(01:18:51):
So I don't think you'd get that from the wall
Streat Journal unless it was verified. So there it is. Yeah,
as I said, many of you are seeing the video.
I suggest not watching the video. Don't watch the video.
It's gruesome. It's gruesome and it's scary. There's just no
point in it. And the video is going to be

(01:19:12):
shown over and over and over again because that's what happens.
People relish this kind of stuff. But you know, Charlie
was engaging with students about transgender people when he was shot,
so it was doing kind of a Q and a
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(01:19:37):
this is gonna this is going to silence people. This
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(01:19:58):
can quieten us down. There are no doubts in the
room who can bring sanity to the situation and get
people to back off from the complete insanity of political violence,
a path that we clearly seem to be heading towards,
a path of Again, I don't see how civil war

(01:20:19):
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see the growth of political violence as an excuse for
the federal government to increase its power, increase its emergency powers.
We know that this administration is very prone to declaring emergencies.
You can see an emergency coming because of this violence,

(01:20:41):
and it's very, very very hard to tell what the
outcome of such emergency powers will be and how they
will be used. So I really do think this is
potentially a very very very negative turning point in the
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(01:22:13):
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You know, right, Yeah, it looks like the guy who

(01:22:36):
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(01:23:23):
sense of your own self worth, some sense of you know,
your own value. And if we have to have some
sense of self esteem, something you can't. I don't think
you can come into it completely having both psychologically and

(01:23:46):
philosophical and completely having bought into the current culture and
somehow I embase iing Man's ideas out of Nowhay. It
has to resonate with something in your soul or something
you So you've had to had to do something, and
what would have caused you to do that something I

(01:24:08):
don't know, but you must have done something to make
you the kind of person, to make yourself the kind
of person. The response to the iron, Rand, you must
and I think some of that is self esteem, not
all of it, but some of that is. Some is
some sense of self esteem. You have to at least
believe this new philosophy that you're about to be embracing.

(01:24:33):
You are worthy of it. You're worthy of embracing it,
or worthy of pursuing it. So yes, all right, let's see,
all right, Rand, thank you, right fifty dollars. Really appreciate

(01:24:57):
that it's no longer psychologically healthy focus on news for
any length of time, Enjoy life, keep up with you
on and ignore social and mainstream media. You can't worry
all the time. It just makes you sick. I agree
with that. I mean, even listening to me every day
could make you sick. But obsessing beyond that is definitely

(01:25:21):
is definitely, you know, not healthy and not good. You know,
the culture is in decline, the news is not good. Generally,
they are positive trends. They're mainly in technology, but they
are outliers. They are not the thrust of the culture.
They're not the main movement of the culture. There's health

(01:25:45):
can't breakthroughs, there's bio breakthroughs. They are they are breakthroughs
with regard to technology that should be celebrated and should
be should motivate you around what's possible in the future.
But the reality is that when it comes to politics,
when it comes to geopolitical events, when it comes to

(01:26:08):
the state of the world, there's very little good news.
There's very little good news. So I encourage people to
use me as a filter. I'll give you the bad news.
You'll get all the bad news. You'll get it in
a couple of hours, and you're done with it. If
you do this and you watch Fox and you watch
a bunch of other things, you're wasting too much of

(01:26:28):
your precious, precious, precious life time life on all this stuff.
I mean, it's way too depressive to engage with it.
Too much, too much.

Speaker 4 (01:26:50):
Yeah, all right, let's see what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
Let's see how this plays out. All right? What is it?
Eat something? All right? Did you see? Congress showed a
twenty twenty four video of a US reaper firing a
million dollar health fire at a glowing orb off Yemen.

(01:27:34):
Either its first contact America shoots to kill or it's
such a shiny balloon. What a time to be alive.
God bless America. I doubt it's first contact. Who knows
what it is. There are lots of things out there,
the lots of you know, atmospheric illusion illusions as well.

(01:27:57):
There are lots of shiny balloons. There lots of kinds
of stuff that happens to be out there. Again, the
you know, making big grandioses claims requires a big, grandiose evidence,
and I don't see the big grandiose evidence of first
contact so far. So I have no idea what it is.

(01:28:20):
But you know, if it is for contact, why would
they be in Yemen? I'm kidding, but but maybe not anyway, Yeah,
thank you for the Wow, that's forty five dollars. I
appreciate that. It's it's a great it's a it's an
amazing time to be alive. Yes, for for better and

(01:28:41):
for worse, no question, h And alive is the emphasis
uh that we should we should be the thing we
should be emphasizing right now. I'm just following to see,
uh what is happening?

Speaker 3 (01:28:59):
Uh yeah, all.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
Right, Beery my friend says that everybody has intrinsic value,
and that is where your self esteem should come from,
not from what others think of you or your job.
What do you think? Well, I think both your friend
and the alternate position are both. Mom. I mean, I

(01:29:35):
don't know what intrinsic value means. You have value to yourself,
or you should have value to yourself. You should value you,
but you should value you for a reason, not just
because because it's it's you, and you have the opportunity
to live, and you have an opportunity for joy and
happiness and pleasure and success you have, you have an

(01:29:56):
opportunity to enjoy life, so everybody, you know. Your self
esteem should come not just because you exist. Your self
esteem can come from from knowledge and conviction and understanding

(01:30:16):
that you are good or you have the potential to
be good, and that you can. You're worthy in a
sense of happiness, that you can live in this world
or this world. You know that you can't earn values
that you can achieve, you can't succeed. Self esteem should
come from you achieving your values. Indeed, self esteem has

(01:30:41):
nothing to do with others, nothing to do with other
people think of you, nothing to do with what other
people think of your job, what other people think of
your anything of your value. It's all about It's all
about what you think of yourself. It's all about how

(01:31:05):
you esteem yourself, and it's not automatic. So it's not
intrinsic in the sense that it's automatic. You have to
earn the esteem, and you earn that esteem by choosing
life affirming values and achieving them and knowing and proving

(01:31:28):
to yourself through this achievement that they are achievable that
you can't achieve them. That's where self esteem comes from.
So yeah, I mean, I think your friend is close up,

(01:31:51):
but he's still wrong. It's not automatic. I know lots
and lots and lots of people don't esteem themselves, but
he is right in a sense that has nothing to do,
nothing to do with with other people, nothing to do
with other people. All right, I'm sorry, I keep switching

(01:32:14):
and checking checking. Uh what is being said out there? Yeah,
I mean, you get condolences from all sides, but you're
also i'm sure, getting kind of ugly celebrations from the left.

(01:32:37):
But political violence is evil. It's evil. I'm very worried
about this country. Worried about this country. Oh right, Michael,
do intellect just think elimination of the wefare state is
a form of eugenics? Is it? In a way? No?

(01:33:00):
I don't think they think that. There might be some
people who think that, but no, I don't think that,
and I don't think it is. There's no eugenics involved
here because I don't think the welfare state is correlated
with genes. I think the welfare state is correlated with culture,
with collated with attitude, correlated with and what you're killing
is not people. You're killing a culture. You're killing an attitude.

(01:33:22):
And people won't die if there is an a welfare state.
It's not like people are dying in the streets of
America when there wasn't a welfare state. So eliminating in
the welfare state it's not going to solve gonna. It's
not an issue of eugenics. It's an issue of justice.

(01:33:44):
It's an issue of both justice in terms of the
money you're taking from some people to give to others,
and an issue of justice visa vita people you're giving
the money too, who you're basically helping institutionalize into poverty.
So it's wrong for both, but it's it's absolutely wrong.
It's absolutely wrong to think of it in terms of

(01:34:09):
in terms of eugenics. Has nothing to do with eugenics.
Henry Nighting the gale. Has is all done anything of
the negative things West accuses is of? Can isol be
blamed for the suffering in Gaza by not having ended
it faster? So has is all done anything of the

(01:34:31):
negative things the West account? Because you'd have to give
me a list. So, I mean, the you know, it's
always done a lot of the things that it's being
accused of, but it's justified in doing it. So a
lot of the things that the West says is always doing,
it's knowing, it's it's it's you know, children are dying,
Civilians are dying, there's no question about that. You know,

(01:34:56):
the lives of Gazans are hell right now, there's no
question about that. So is Tho's doing all that? But
my point is it's justified in doing that and indeed
justifying and doing a lot more than that. You'd have
to give me a list. A lot of what the
West accuses as well of doing it isn't doing it,

(01:35:19):
just isn't doing it just makes stuff up. So it's
a it's a it's a it's a mixed bag. The
question is not, you know, justification, The question partially is
is as well justified in doing it? Is it right
for you to do it, And look, is those not perfect?
Is all does a lot of bad things. Certainly some
of the things that's doing in the West Bank. Certainly

(01:35:41):
what the settlers are doing in the West Bank attacking
Arabs is wrong, and Israeli States should be coming down
much harder on those settlers and prosecuting them. But overall
is all the good guys here. So that doesn't mean
when you say is all the good guys that every

(01:36:02):
single action it takes is right. It just means overall
they're the good guys, and overall the Palestinians here the
bad guys. Canizel be blamed for the suffering in Gaza
by not having ended it faster, Well, it's a crazy
way to put it. Let me be very direct here,

(01:36:22):
I don't care about the suffering in Gaza. The suffering
in Gaza at whatever level is occurring, for however long
it happens, is a consequence of Hamas's action. It's morally
the responsibility of Hamas, So I think I mean, I

(01:36:43):
would say Canizo be blamed for the death of its
soldiers by not having ended it faster. Yes, that's the blame.
But the suffering in Gaza is Why are you concerned
about it? Why do you care? Why do you care,
And to the extent that you care, why do you

(01:37:05):
blame Isel for any of it? For any of it,
Every single bit of that suffering is on Ramas. If
Israel would have done it fast, it would have been
blamed for doing it fast. If your Isoel does it slow,
it's blamed for doing it slow. Isel is going to
be blamed no matter what. The question is, who is responsible,

(01:37:27):
who made Gaza what it is, who brought it to
this brink of destruction or not? Just to bring to
destruction Tramas, It's all you need to know. So and

(01:37:47):
many people in Gaza, you know, granted their innocence like children.
Many people in Gaza are getting what they deserve. They're
getting the consequence of decisions they've made for years. They're
getting the consequences for the leadership they chose and supported.
They're getting the consequences for the fact that they cheered

(01:38:09):
and supported the murder rate, you know, and slaughter of Israelis,
and then cheered and supported as hostages were brought back
to Gaza. They were there cheering and supporting, not not
all of them, but many of them. Childn't supported even
though they want caught on camera. So I have no

(01:38:30):
sympathy for the Gazians. And to the extent that the
children involved, that's on Ramas and it's on their parents.
It's their fault. Unless you can say, oh, no, I
fought against Ramas, I objected to what Ramas was doing
in the Gaza strip. Then I have sympathy for you.

(01:38:51):
Everybody else, I just don't have sympathy for you. It
doesn't mean they'll deserve to die, but it doesn't mean
that the suffering is self inflicted. Michael, I just watched
up close video. Stomach churning. Yeah. I keep telling you
not to watch the video. People keep doing it. Neil Khan,

(01:39:13):
I'm disgusted by how both right and left politicize the
stabbing of the Ukrainian fueling racism. As someone who is
poer Ukraine, this is appalling. It's appalling whether you're poor
Ukraine or not. It's irrelevant the Ukraine. It's irrelevant to Ukraine.
It's appalling that they've taken this and politicized it, and

(01:39:35):
it's appalling that the left tolerates this and that the
right makes it into politics. I'm going to make another
appeal because we're not kind of meeting our targets. Just
to remind you that this show is only possible because
of you. Guys. There's two hundred people watching it right now.
We should have you know, a lot of people supporting

(01:39:58):
the show. Because you're here, it means you value something
about the show. It means you value something about my
presentation of the news. Trade with me. Show that you
value a show. Do a two dollars sticker, one dollar sticker,
three dollars sticker. It's not a lot, just something to
express the fact that you value being here. Tom says,

(01:40:23):
I hope you're enjoying European trip. I am, thank you, Tom,
appreciate it. Finnhopa says, mosquito has everything to gain from you. Ron,
Your honor is not need the gain from the killing
the mosquito I do. It's distracting me and it ultimately
will bite me and cause me pain. So I have
everything to gain by killing it. I killed one, but
there's a second one here, and who knows there might

(01:40:44):
be three, four, five, six, Who knows how many they
are here. I need to bring a like a spade
or something. James, what does it mean for him to
be shot in conservative state and it is one of
the top twenty safest in the United States. How does
the impact future college speakers. I don't know what that
has to do with anything. And also a state that

(01:41:07):
has pretty you know, pretty loose gun laws that allows
people to carry and and and allows people to own
guns pretty pretty easily. So in that sense, a conservative state,
I don't know what what conservative state has anything to
do with this. Right, Conservative states have lots of crazy people, leftists,

(01:41:32):
who who who might want to take him out and
and it's easier to take him out in a conservative
state because the gun laws are easier. Right, So it's
not clear to me exactly what what what points you're
trying to highlight. I mean, I would highlight the point
of it's not about red of blue. It never has me.

(01:41:56):
This is the point about politicizing the North Carolina. The
quitte is crime is actually in a decline in the
United States. It's lower, murdered rates are lower. But if
you want to commit a political crime in the United States,
you can do it guns that are easy to attain.
You just go to wherever the politician is and you
go up and you get close and you shoot them.

(01:42:16):
And here the shot was taken from two hundred yards.
But there are plenty of Americans who can go to
a firing range and train and figure out how to
shoot somebody two hundred yards away. So this is not hard.
This is easy and way you do it, the state
you do it. It's not like I mean some of

(01:42:36):
the least safe states or red states Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri,
Saint Lewis, Kansas, City states, I mean, cities and states
that are that are red, blue and red have nothing
to do with this. The fact that it's one of
the safest places in the United States has nothing to

(01:42:57):
do with it. Even the safest place in the United
States has some murders, some crime, some violence. Now doesn't
impact future college speakers. It has to write I mean,
I mean, colleges is an't gonna have to think about
how they're going to provide security. And people are gonna

(01:43:19):
have to think about going out particularly large audiences like this.
And if you're if you're particularly controversial or in this case,
I don't think it's an issue of being particularly controversial
if you're on the right, left, split right. The lots
of us out there who are controversial. Nobody's coming after me.
Nobody's coming after you know, a lot of people, because

(01:43:40):
we're just not big enough and we're not controversial on
the right issues. Right, we're not controversial on this left
right split. And if you're controversial on the left right split, beware.
But again, it's going to be interesting to see what
the response to this is and how how the US
response is the you know, after the CEO of United

(01:44:02):
Health was murdered, did we see a big increase in
murders of CEOs of other companies? We didn't, and now
we don't. Is this an indication that's now less safe?
Is this an indication there's going to be more of this?
Probably not. It's still probably a one off. It's probably
some crazy, some left is crazy like Maggione who killed

(01:44:24):
that CEO, who wanted to make wanted to make a statement.
But I don't see this as the beginning of a
big spat of this other than you could see kind
of a tit for tat response. And that's what I'm

(01:44:46):
afraid of. I'm afraid of kind of the responses the increase,
well broadly in political violence that might happen in the
United States so I don't see this as a wave
now of people being shot who go to university campuses.
I don't think that at all. If anything, security is
going to be tight up. All right, thank you, Henry,

(01:45:09):
thank you Jeffrey. These all people doing stickers and training
showing their appreciation for the show. E Demand, Apple Jack,
Thought Criminal, Mary Ellen, Jacob and Martin and yeah, thank
you guys. Really appreciate the stickers. Keep them coming, guys.

(01:45:32):
You can do two dollars, one dollars, ten dollars, five
hundred dollars. But whatever to show again, value for the value.
All right, fend Harper psa. Donald Watkins' Effective Egoism is

(01:45:54):
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All of you guys should buy it. You can get
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So check it out. Thank you Fedd Hopper for doing

(01:46:16):
the public Civilce announcement. It's incredibly valuable. Okay, we have
one last question, so if you want to ask me
a question, now's the time to do it. Now's the
time to do it, and so jump in. SHAWNA. Fhulton says,

(01:46:46):
we also don't know if the criminal was a leftist.
We don't, we don't. I'm assuming we're talking about the
person who shot Charlie Cook. I'm assuming it was. I'm
assuming it was politically motivated, because why else with a
sniper be at a public event shooting Charlie Cook. So
I'm assuming it's political. The right loves Charlie Cook, so human.

(01:47:08):
It's not somebody on the right who has a political
beef for Charlie. So I think it's a safe assumption
it's somebody from the left. It could just be a nutcase.
It could be just somebody looking for attention, like the
person who tried to shoot Donald Trump. Is not clear
that guy was a leftist. It's not what he was.
But you know, we will see confirmation for what. I'm

(01:47:38):
not sure what Ian says. Why is the only confirmation
of this still Trump's statement? Is the media completing capable
of doing their job? No, I mean there's been confirmation
from a bunch of people, a bunch of new sources,
including the Wall Street journal I don't think that just
came from Trump. Yeah, I mean, here's the last interaction

(01:48:13):
that Charlie had, last interaction with Charlie had, and this
is the kind of issues that, for whatever reason, really
really gets people. Audience member, do you know how many
transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last ten years?
Cook says too many? Same audience when member says no,
the numbers five, and then asks Charlie if he knows

(01:48:37):
how many mass shooters they have been in America over
the last ten years. Cook says, counting on not counting
gang violence, and the guy says the number is fifty
seven hundred and I don't think. I don't know if
that includes mass violence or not. Was that's when he shot? So,

(01:48:58):
I mean, it's completely messed up. It should never come
to this. Violence is not the solution. What we need
is more speech, more robust speech. What we need is
more debate, more interaction. I will say that on the
front of debate. I was approached yesterday. We'll see if
this pans out by an organization, a very prominent organization

(01:49:22):
in the UK, a media organization in the UK, the
ones to start hosting large debates in the UK and
asked me if I would participate in the debate with
potentially two different debates, one on Donald Trump and one
on this is a conservative organization, by the way, one

(01:49:45):
on Donald Trump and one on capitalism or tariffs. So
stay tuned. If anything comes of it, I will let
you know. But what we need of robust debates, and
what we need is a speech. We need more speech,
less violence, more speech, more engagement, more more dialogue, and

(01:50:08):
more disagreement, more and the willingness to disagree while recognizing
morady judging people morally judging people doesn't mean they should
be shot if you modely judge somebody negatively. The CBS
story quotes Donald Trump. I don't know if the Wall

(01:50:32):
Sat Journal was quoting Donald Trump. I don't know who
is quoting, who's quoting whom, So I don't know. I
assume this is being verified by the media beyond just
quoting Donald Trump, or they wouldn't be doing it. Fanks says,
fifty dollars in memory of Charlie of Charlie Cooke an

(01:50:53):
exemplary example of the power of free speech, respect for facts,
and no nonsense business like epistemology. He I mean, I
agree with that up to a point. You know, I
hate to say ill of the of the of the murdered,
but I don't think he had a great epistemology. I
think he was way too reliance on religion. I think

(01:51:17):
he did not he respected facts up to a point,
up to a point where he did not conflict with
his particular mystical beliefs. And and there's a lot of
issues where he was completely utterly wrong on and where
he deviated from the facts significantly. But again I haven't
knownus amount of had ansome out of respect for what

(01:51:39):
Charlie built created the fact that he was willing to
go out there and debate and engage and and and
participate in the debate. He didn't shy away from confrontation,
and he was calm and collect in front of an audience.
You didn't see him yelling and losing losing his cool.

(01:52:01):
He was. He exhibited, you know, the positive traits of
being good at debate. Even when his epistemology was significantly flawed.
He often engaged in I think pretty false and bad reasoning. Again,
that is not to say anything about the fact that

(01:52:23):
I disagreed with him. I'm still unbelievably shocked and saddened
by his by his being murdered. It really is horrific.
Adif thank you for the stick. I really appreciate that.
All right, let's see. I'm just looking at the chat

(01:52:48):
to see if there's anything of interest. But yeah, all right,
let's see how this plays out. We will be talking
about this, I think for the next few days, and uh,
we will be analyzing the consequences. And I think there

(01:53:11):
will be consequences. We'll see how they play out. I
don't think anything good is gonna come of this if. Sadly,
there are no there are no there are no adults
in the room to turn this into a teaching moment
or a learning moment or calm things down and h

(01:53:34):
So I see nothing but but negative consequences. All right,
checking to see if there's anything else it is no.

(01:53:54):
Smith says that this is the first assassination of a
major media figure, uh that we've seen in the last decade.
I mean that strikes me. It's true. I don't know
if it's true. I can't think of anybody else was
who was shot, assassinated, killed in the last decade, a

(01:54:17):
public figure. So it would be if somebody, if somebody
knows something different then then let me know. But all right,

(01:54:37):
I mean this is a I mean, I'll just say
it's a big blow to the New Right and to
to the to the cause of MAGA and to the
cause of the right. I mean, Charlie was a raising star. Uh.
He probably could have run for president. He was definitely
one of the one of the superstars on the right.

(01:55:00):
Uh and uh, you know yeah, and he's literally answering
a question about violence when he was shot, and a
lot of people on the right are furious, really really upset,
really really angry, and and one wonders, I'm just scrolling
through this and wondering how that how that you know,

(01:55:23):
plays out in in uh what happens now? Stayment now
from Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro also met it looks like

(01:55:45):
Matt Charlie when he was eighteen years old. And uh, yeah,
I mean Charlie was an impressive guy. Impressive guy. All right,
we will call that and I again, if you want
to support you one book show, A lot of you
are here, a lot of you are watching. If you'd

(01:56:06):
like to support your on book show, please do so.
Patreon dot com just put you on book show and
become a monthly supporter. You obviously value some of what
we do here, you know, And and sadly, there's gonna
be reason for you to keep coming back to this

(01:56:26):
as as. I don't think things are gonna calm down.
I think things are gonna get You're gonna get worse
and not batter for quite a while. And so, uh
think about think about the trade. All right, Yep, it's

(01:56:54):
really sad. All right. I will see you all tomorrow. Tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be a little later than today, a little
later than today. Yeah, you're seeing the entire I'm just
looking the entire kind of right globally. Come out, you know,
from Nitagao to Barbis Johnson to Pierre Polivar, come out

(01:57:19):
and condemn the murder. This is how big Charlie was.
I mean he was a big deal. Uh that people
all over the world are commenting on this, not just
in America. I mean he he had a huge impact. Yeah,

(01:57:40):
I mean Obama has come out and condemned despicable this
despicable violence. And uh and uh you know so, I mean,
you know it's the right thing to do. I hope
everybody does it. Uh, there will be pe people don't
and and they are They are really nasty, evil people. Yeah,

(01:58:08):
there's uh all right, see tomorrow, bye everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
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