The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1347 - Leftist Activist Threatens To Murder Government Officials, Immediately Regrets It
Episode Date: April 15, 2024Today on the Matt Walsh Show, as Iran launched an attack on Israel over the weekend, anti-American left wing activists in our own country have become more and more emboldened. One activist even threat...ened to murder her city council if they didn't call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Though she became a lot less bold when they put her in handcuffs. Also, a proposed change in California will make it a felony for pedophiles to purchase children to abuse. Isn't that already a felony? Not in California, apparently. And Bill Maher makes an argument for abortion that shocks and horrifies his audience. It's a deranged argument, but it's also honest. Which is more than we can say for most pro-abortion people. Ep.1347 - - - DailyWire+: Upgrade to your BRAND NEW 2nd Generation Jeremy’s Razor here: https://bit.ly/3VPYOTo Get 35% off your DailyWire+ Membership here: https://bit.ly/4akO7wC Get your Matt Walsh flannel here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj - - - Today’s Sponsors: PureTalk - Get 50% off your first month when you make the switch! https://www.puretalk.com/Walsh PreBorn! - Help save babies from abortion: https://preborn.com/Matt Courage Under Fire - Join me at the Courage Under Fire Gala! Use code DAILYWIRE for exclusive access to your tickets at http://www.courageunderfiregala.org - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Today in the Matwale show is Iran launched an attack on Israel over the weekend.
Anti-American left-wing activists in our own country have become more and more emboldened.
One activist even threatened to murder her entire city council if they didn't call for a ceasefire and guys.
though she became a lot less bold when they put her in handcuffs.
Also, a proposed change in California will make it a felony for pedophiles to purchase children to abuse.
Isn't that already a felony?
Well, not in California, apparently.
And Bill Maher makes an argument for abortion that shocks and horrifies his audience.
It's a deranged argument, but it's also honest, which is more than we can say for most pro-abortion people in their arguments.
All that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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slash walsh. It's difficult to predict exactly what World War III might look like.
But this weekend, we got a preview of how a lot of people will react if and when it does
break out. And what we saw wasn't exactly encouraging. It was sort of like a scene out of Dr. Strange
Love crossed with some parts of dumb and dumber, with grainy videos of drone swarms added in,
playing out all over the country. This was a spectacle that unless you were glued to cable
news or social media over the weekend, you might have missed. And if so, consider yourself
lucky. As you've probably seen by now, Iran launched a swarm of drones and missiles towards Israel
on Saturday. And for several hours, as the attack unfolded, there was pandemonium online. There were
reports of huge explosions in Tehran suggesting Israel had already launched a massive counterattack. That
wasn't true. There were Austin Powers, steamroller memes mocking the extraordinarily slow travel time
of the Iranian drones, which apparently take several hours to make the trip to Israel. And there were even
dramatic photos of flight tracking radar data of a so-called doomsday plane leaving Israel, supposedly
carrying Israel's cabinet away from a potentially catastrophic attack, which also wasn't true.
It was all a very strange mixture of false information and hysteria.
Now, not to be outdone, there was also evidently pandemonium in the White House.
First, reporters said that Joe Biden would interrupt his vacation, imagine that, on the beach,
to address the nation.
And it's a big deal when Joe Biden does something like that, because normally it takes
the release of a special counsel report proving that he's completely demented.
but in this case they said he was going to address the nation.
And then the White House announced that actually Joe Biden's not going to address the nation after all.
He's not going to say anything.
And they called a lid for the day and that was it.
So we really had no guidance whatsoever from our supposed commander-in-chief as any of this was going on.
And that was a deliberate choice.
Turns out that as this attack on Israel was unfolding, the White House had a pretty good idea of what was coming and how it was going to play out.
And that's because for about two weeks, Iran had been promising to retaliate against Israel for its military strike in Damascus on April 1st, which killed several Iranian military commanders.
And Iran says that the commanders were inside an embassy, but they also concede, according to New York Times, that they were talking about military strategy for the war in Gaza.
Quote, a member of the Revolutionary Guards, which oversees the Quds Force, told the times that the strike had targeted a meeting in which Iranian intelligence officials and Palestinian militants were discussing the war.
war in Gaza. Among them were leaders of Palestinian Islamic jihad, a group armed and funded by
Iran. Well, embassies aren't generally the place for strategic conversations like that. You kind of
forfeit diplomatic protections when you use the building for military purposes. But in any event,
Iran maintained that the Israeli strike was unlawful and they vowed a response. But here's the thing.
They apparently cleared that military response with Western powers. As the Jerusalem Post reports,
quote, Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic
source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that the U.S. conveyed to Iran via Ankara that its operation
must be, quote, within certain limits.
That means that the White House, I guess, greenlit some sort of Iranian military response.
And it seems like a pretty big story.
But as of now, we don't know what exactly those limits might have been or whether Iran
complied with them. But let's assume the story is accurate. The upshot is that for now, Iran's
response, rubber-stamped by the White House, reportedly, doesn't appear to have done a significant amount
of damage. Right now, Israel says that with the help from the United States, Britain, and apparently
several Middle Eastern countries, including Jordan, it intercepted 99% of the drone and missile
launches from Iran, which is not entirely surprising since the drones were traveling at slow speeds.
At the same time, some ballistic missiles did land in Israel, particularly around a military base, causing some damage.
The reports of several injuries, including a seven-year-old girl who was seriously hurt by missile fragments.
That's where things stand now, but of course, further escalation is possible.
It's difficult to say what will happen next.
What we do know is that the response in this country has been pretty revealing.
It tells us a lot about the priorities of our leaders and the level of insanity that normal, level-headed people are up against.
For example, the Seattle Police Department announced yesterday afternoon on social media that, quote,
SPD is closely monitoring the conflict between Israel and Iran.
Now, this is a city where everyone's high out of their minds all the time.
People are afraid to walk alone after dark or even in daylight.
But don't worry, residents and vagrants of Seattle.
Your police department is closely monitoring a conflict 7,000 miles away from your city.
Now, that announcement on social media came with a link.
to the Seattle police blotter and the slightly longer explanation raises more questions than it answers.
Here's what it says.
Quote, the Seattle Police Department is closely monitoring the conflict between Israel and Iran
and are working with local and federal agencies to ensure the safety of Seattle community members.
As a precaution, we will proactively increase patrols around infrastructures and sensitive areas.
SPD's community liaisons are working with community leaders as a prevention measure.
Currently, there are no specific or credible threats.
As always, SPD is committed to the safety of Seattle community members.
So what are they concerned about exactly?
Are they concerned that Iran might attack Seattle next?
And given how long it took Iran to get drones to Israel, I guess we can expect the attack
on Seattle to happen sometime in the year 2027 or something.
Or not at all, because there is, of course, absolutely no reason why any government official
in Seattle, much less law enforcement of visuals, should be concerning themselves with a war
halfway across the world.
That's what's happening.
Elsewhere on social media, immediately after this attack commenced, activists and the pundit class
divided themselves up into teams.
And it was, you know, it's disconcerting to watch, but it's exactly what you expect.
On one side, you had the Nothing Ever Happens crowd who dismissed this attack as yet another
non-event.
on another side, there were some sober, serious commentators.
They were a distinct minority, but you know, you have some of them sometimes.
And on the much larger third side, you had people treating this like a sporting event, basically.
And as usual, when you're dealing with a sport, some people inevitably take it far too personally.
They turn these events into their identity.
They lose all perspective.
They become determined to make the events in the Middle East about themselves.
and they become very confused, even threatening, when other people don't agree with them.
And for most people in this camp, they kept their frustrations on social media, but this phenomenon
is not remotely limited to social media.
There are now an increasing number of activists who are willing to appear in public and act
on this insanity.
Of course, a few weeks ago, as we all recall, an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force set himself
on fire outside of the Israeli embassy in Washington.
He was screaming free Palestine as he killed himself.
And then on Friday, there was a slightly less dramatic act of protest that took place at a city council meeting in Bakersfield, California.
This is a woman named Reedy Patel, who was apparently born and raised in Bakersfield, according to one of her online biographies.
And she stood up at this meeting to urge the city council to endorse a ceasefire in Gaza.
Now, as you may know, geographically here, Gaza is also many thousands of miles away from Bakersfield.
and the city council in Bakersfield is precisely no ability to influence the government of Israel or any other country.
The Bakersfield City Council has no one involved in the conflict in the Middle East is looking to Bakersfield for their guidance on this.
Their authority is, you know, mostly about fixing potholes and things like that in their own town.
But that didn't stop Patel, who has a degree in neuroscience somehow, by the way.
It didn't stop her from stepping up to the podium and saying this. Watch.
Hi there. My name is Rudy Patel. I'm here to speak in support of the city council introducing a ceasefire resolution, specifically the one United Liberation Front has drafted.
I don't have faith that you'll do this. You guys are all horrible human beings and Jesus probably would have killed you himself.
And the thing is, though, it's very clear to me as in someone who's been an organizer for the past couple of years.
that none of you care because you guys don't care about anything happening in Palestine
or any other country where oppression occurs because you don't care about the oppression occurring here.
And I understand that you guys are all horrible people, but the thing is, 2,300 people being evicted in the last year, those are votes.
And you guys, those are votes to win here in Bakersfield.
And while you guys parade Gandhi around, as a Hindu holiday called Jaitra Navratri, his starts off this week,
I remind you that these holidays that we practice, that other people in the Global South practice
believe in violent revolution against their oppressors.
And I hope one day somebody brings the guillotine and kills all of you.
Okay.
Now, so ceasefire resolution she wants from the Bakersfield City Council, which, I mean, who knows?
Maybe that's what the Middle East is missing.
Maybe that's why there's been centuries of conflict is just that they're waiting for
Bakersfield. Maybe the resolution for Bakersfield comes in and that'll solve it. Who knows?
But so far in that clip, she stopped short of saying that she's going to kill the mayor of
Bakersfield or any, you know, or any of the city council members herself. She kind of stops
short of that. She just says that Jesus would have killed them and that other people should
kill them. So she's walking right up to the line but isn't quite crossing it, at least not
not clearly. But that's not the interesting part of what she says in the clip. I mean,
it's crazy, but it's not interesting. The interesting thing is how she ties the number of evictions
in Bakersfield to what's happening in Gaza. This would have been a great moment for Rita Patel
to go into detail about the homeless problem in California, what solutions she might have,
what she wants the city council to do that they're not doing to address the problem. That's a topic
that would actually have direct ramifications for the lives of Americans in her own community.
But instead, here's what she says next. Watch.
And so there's no need to continue. In the last five years, I've attended city council meetings.
There's never been metal detectors. There's never been more cops. The only reason you're doing it
is because people actually don't care if you guys don't like them. And they're actually
resisting so you want to criminalize them. So regardless of whether you elect,
people in the office, they'll back stab you, they'll let you die. And for that reason, you
guys want to criminalize us with metal detectors. We'll see you at your house. We'll murder you.
Next speaker, please. Lanz, followed by Kev, followed by Valeria. Ms. Patel?
Ms. Patel, that was a threat, what you said at the end. And so the officers are going to
escort you out and take care of that. Now, you can kind of tell,
from the total lack of reaction right after the death threat that nobody really pays attention
in these city council meetings. You'd expect at least one person who's paying attention to, you know,
gasp, like it should be kind of a shocking thing to hear. But nobody's really watching. It takes them a few
sense of delayed reaction to it. Fortunately, the internet got a hold of the clip and everyone was able to see
the humor in this moment as unsettling as it is. But still, it's kind of incredible how she
threatens to murder the entire city council in such a casual kind of like, oh, by the way,
sort of tone. She notices her time is running out and so she just drops the, oh yeah, well,
I'm also going to murder the city council at their homes. Have a nice evening. And of course,
the irony in that in the second clip is that she's speaking in protest of metal detectors at
city council meetings. She's upset that they're setting up metal detectors because she's saying
that we're not a threat to you. They're not necessarily.
to have the metal detectors, and she's going to prove metal detectors aren't necessary
by murdering the people who requested them. So that's the logic here. Now, a couple of years ago,
you'd expect someone like Reedy Patel to probably get away with all that. After all,
leftist activists have torched small businesses and churches with impunity in the past few years,
and the only response by Democrats has been to cheer them on. And that's probably what Patel
expected to happen. In fact, you could tell that she was just, she was just, she was
getting her stuff in her purse and she was just going to walk out. She didn't think there was any
issue. But she was surprised when they stopped her and said, oh, by the way, I said, you threaten
to kill government officials right in front of everybody? You're going to be arrested for that?
She was surprised. She had no idea. And she wasn't. She seemed legitimately shocked to discover
that openly threatening to commit first-degree homicide against government officials is a crime.
She was also deleted from the website of the activist group where she worked on environmental
mental issues, so she's apparently lost her job as well. And Patel now faces several counts of making
terroristic threats. And when she appeared in court shortly afterwards, suddenly her demeanor had
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A deputy public defender entered not guilty pleas on Patel's behalf to eight counts of threatening
a public official and 10 counts of making terroristic threats. She's due back in court later this month.
Not so, not so confident now, is she? And I know, look, I know they enter the,
they're not guilty plea. I mean, it's a public defender. It's what they're going to do.
That's a tough case. That's going to be a tough one to, I mean, she's on video. She says,
and I quote, we're going to come to your house and murder you. That's as explicit as you could
possibly be with a threat. Now, it's not hard to watch that footage and wonder what would happen
if we decided to enforce the law against all of these unhinged left-wing activists who think
they can commit crimes with impunity. Would all of them buckle as easily as,
as this deranged Indian American woman did, probably.
The disturbing part, obviously,
is that we're importing a lot of people into this country
who openly despise us to the point of using violent threats
to get what they want.
Instead of discouraging conduct like Patels,
we're doing everything we can to get more of it.
Last week, I spoke at length
about the Death to America chance
that broke out at a rally in Dearborn, Michigan.
And if you didn't see that as a reminder,
here's what that looked like.
Malcolm Xed.
And I quote, we live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this earth.
It's not genocide Joe that has to go. It's the entire system that has to go.
Any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen and would support it,
such a system does not deserve to exist on God's earth.
And so when these fools ask us if Israel has the right to exist,
The chant death to Israel has become the most logical chant shouted across the world today.
So these, of course, are people who voluntarily live in the country that they say is the rottenist on the planet.
They're agitating for the murder of Americans and Jews.
To the extent any of these people are non-citizens, which quite likely describes many of them,
they should be removed from this country immediately.
But that won't happen because Michigan's top Democrats endorse all this.
They've refused to condemn those chance.
In fact, Rashida Talib just snapped at a Fox News reporter who dared to ask her whether she condemned those chance.
Let's watch that again.
Congresswoman Talib.
I don't talk to Fox News.
At a rally in your district, people were chanting death to America.
Do you condemn?
Do you condemn chance of death to America?
I don't talk to people that use racist tropes.
Why can't you just say whether or not you condemn people chanting death?
Why are you afraid to talk to Fox?
Is not, not, listen, using racist tropes towards my community is what Fox
tunes is about, and I don't talk to Fox News.
Is death to America racist?
Is chanting death to America racist?
I'm talking about your guys racist tropes.
You know, you guys are, you guys know exactly what you do.
I know you're Islamophobic, but you guys got to go deal with it on your own self.
You're not going to use me.
So it's using a racist trope.
to air footage of a large crowd in Dearborn, Michigan, saying death to America and death to Israel at the International Al-Quds Day rally.
So if we, once again, it's the crime of noticing.
So if you notice that this is happening, then you are racist just for noticing it.
That's according to Rashida Taleb.
And apparently the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, who has refused to take questions about the incident, airing footage of what the diverse residents of Dearborn are doing is Islamophobia, apparently.
which if you read between the lines,
is quite an omission by Rashida Taleb.
She's saying that death to Israel and death to America
is what a core teaching of Islam is what she's claiming?
Because if you criticize the chance,
then you're criticizing Islamophobic is what she's saying.
That might not be what she meant to say,
but it is, of course, the implication.
Because what she could have said was,
no, everyone should criticize people to say death to America.
That's not Islamophobic, because that's not what Islam is about.
those people are not with us, they're not part of us. I condemn that. I condemn what they said.
I mean, she could have said that, but she didn't. What's become clear, even as Democrats like Rashida Taleb, want to pretend otherwise, is that the rally in Dearborn is just one part of a much larger picture.
So here, for example, is footage from a Teamsters conference in Chicago on Saturday, which was obtained by the free press.
This is the largest private sector union in the country. Hundreds of activists attended.
and they were quickly told how to chant death to Israel
and death to America in Farsi.
Watch.
I'm going to teach you a chant in Persian that you can use
if you ever encounter those Zionist priests,
whether they be Iranian or whatever, all right?
Now, I don't drink margaritas,
but we all know what a margarita is.
We all know what a bar is.
So you're going to say marg barb.
Marg bar.
Marg bar Israel.
Marg bar, Israel.
Mar-Bar Israel
Mar-Bar-Israel
Mar-Bar-Israel
Mar-Bar-Israel
Thank you.
What does that mean?
So, it has two meanings,
depending on the message.
It can mean death to or down with.
So, can we get a Mar-Bar-A-A-A-R-A-Mri-A.
Yes, again.
Mar-Bar-A-A-Mrika.
Mar-Bar-A-A-A-Mrika.
Mar-Bar-A-A-Mrika.
Thank you.
Once again, everybody,
everybody in that room should be deported. I don't even care where they came from. Just deport them
somewhere. I don't care if they're citizens. I don't care. It doesn't matter. Just deport all
them. Get them out of the country. Or throw them in prison, you know, because that is a treasonous
behavior. So that and then deport them. I mean, we could talk about the order of events here.
Now, there are a lot of stock anti-union arguments. You hear a lot, and they're pretty much all valid.
Yes, unions reward inefficiency.
They protect incompetent employees while also siphoning money away from them.
They result in higher prices and worse products, worse teachers, worse infrastructure.
And these arguments are all familiar because they're true.
What's less well known is how many unions, including the largest one of the country,
are now openly preaching genocidal rhetoric against the United States and Israel.
I'm not talking about genocidal rhetoric in the abstract kind of leftist sentence.
You just heard it.
I'm talking about they're actually saying,
death to America. This is a threat that, unlike whatever's happening in the Middle East right now,
is already here. And instead of recognizing it, both parties seem completely uninterested in doing
anything about it. The Teamsters just donated $45,000 to the Republican National Committee as well as the
Democrats. Why did the Republicans accept that donation? Why haven't they returned it? Why is the
GOP courting the support of organized labor? Why aren't any Republicans calling out what the Teamsters
just did in Chicago? Like, why isn't that video everywhere? Those are all good questions.
Unless we want a lot more Reedy Patel showing up at city council meetings, it's not a rhetorical
question either. The next Reedy Patel might actually follow through on her threats.
And if so, she'll have a lot of accomplices. In 2020, we saw just how easy it was for a mob to
towards entire city blocks in the name of racial justice and BLM.
It's not especially difficult to imagine what mobs might, you know,
mobs motivated by outright genocide could be capable of.
And as drones get shot down over Jordan, this is the threat that's barreling towards America.
The choice is simple.
We can either get people like this out of the country or we can allow them to destroy it from
within.
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com slash math. Let's start with some news out of California because every time you think that the state
can't become any more of a godforsaken wasteland, it proves you wrong. So in California this week,
state lawmakers are going to begin debating a proposed change to state law. And this change would
make it a felony to purchase a child for sex. That's what the change would be. So after this change,
pedophiles who buy children to rape them will be charged with felonies. Now, if you're a normal
person and you hear this, you'll think to yourself, well, hang on a minute. What do you mean after a
change in a law that'll be, isn't that already a felony? Well, it's not, apparently. In California,
as of right now, and until this new law has passed, it is and has been only a misdemeanor to commit this
heinous act. And if you think that that's some kind of egregious, terrible oversight, like some
kind of mistake that they just forgot to, I don't know how that mistake could happen, but if you think
that's what it was, well, you should know that liberal groups in the state are actively opposing
this change. Here's the report from KCR in California Watch.
A lot of the survivors or lived experienced experts were saying, you've got to go after the buyer.
it's just a misdemeanor.
And I thought, there is no way if you buy.
I thought they were mistaken.
Opponents of this measure include several criminal justice reform groups,
including the Californians for Safety and Justice,
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights,
and the California Public Defenders Association.
That association in its opposition has said
that current law already addresses the issue.
It also said in part,
this bill punishes some defendants more harshly,
felony punishment and sex offender registration, even when those persons do not have the intent to have sex with a minor.
Similar proposals have been blocked at the state capitol since 2014, according to legislative documents.
We'll see what happens with this version of the bill when it has its first hearing next week.
Well, that's an exceedingly weak explanation for why they oppose it, but it isn't like there could be a strong explanation.
the reasoning is totally ridiculous.
And by the way, if this story feels like deja vu,
it's because you may recall a similar controversy last year in California over a similar issue.
And when I first heard this story, I had to go back and it's like, well, didn't we, didn't this, didn't we go through this already?
Well, in that case, this same lawmaker, Groves, tried to change the law to have child sex trafficking classified as a serious felony.
this was last year.
And that is, that is, so the, the sale of a child was to be classified as a felony.
And up until that point, that was a misdemeanor also.
And as you may or may not remember, Democrats in the state blocked that proposed law.
They shut it down until the public pressure became so much that they relented and then,
and then the law was passed.
So again, this is not, this was not some sort of oversight.
This was not some kind of weird glitch in the law, which would be already impossible to understand how that could happen.
But it wasn't even that.
This was, Democrats actively wanted it to be a misdemeanor.
And it would still be a misdemeanor, if not for public pressure and social media and everything.
People outside of California becoming aware of this and then they had to, because it was indefensible.
It's like no Democrat.
Now, the Democrats might want to shut that down as they did to keep child sex.
trafficking misdemeanor, but none of them want to get on TV and actually explain why they
wanted to be a misdemeanor. So when that became the situation, they'd have to actually explain
their decision. They said, well, never mind, we'll just change it. And so this is what they wanted.
They wanted these child sex traffickers, both the buyers and the sellers, to be given a slap on
the wrist. They want these people back out on the street. It's what they want, very clearly.
And there's obviously a certain self-serving nature to this.
You know, how many of the people speaking out against these laws to make child sex trafficking a felony are pedophiles themselves?
How many are just trying to protect themselves from going to prison?
We can't know for sure how many, but we can be sure that there's some of that going on at least.
And I think the rest of them, the ones opposing this, who are not themselves pedophiles,
however few may fall into that category.
They really do empathize more with monstrous criminals and predators than they do with victims.
It's as simple as that.
We have to understand how deep the spiritual sickness is with these people.
Their souls are twisted, like deformed.
Because for a spiritually healthy person, a normal person, when you hear about a child being prayed upon in this way,
you are filled with rage at the predators because your compassion for the child and your desire for
justice makes you furious. You have a furious wrathful anger at the predator and you want to see them
punish severely. You want to see them suffer. And that's out of love. Out of love do you desire
the suffering of these monsters? Out of love for the child. Out of love for the victim.
but these leftists who want to go easy on child rapists and murderers and all other types of scumbag criminals
they don't they just don't have that compassion and that love for the victims and for the innocent
I think even at some at some fundamental level they even they despise innocence you know it's
it's not a coincidence that the same side that wants to go easy on child rapists
also, this is also the side that endorses
the Holocaust of the unborn
in the womb. I mean, they really do.
They endorse
and quite passionately support
things like Drag Queen's Story Hour
and teaching kids about
all kinds of grotesque sexual
things in elementary schools. I mean, it's all
rapt. They despise innocence. They therefore
despise children, especially.
And you see that come
out in moments like this. All right, this is a story from a few weeks ago, but it's worth mentioning
because most people, I think, never heard about it. I didn't hear about it myself until this morning,
but it's especially relevant now in the wake of the Dexter Reed case with the BLM set trying to
have the officers in that case thrown in prison for an obviously totally justified police shooting
where the cops were being shot at by Dexter Reed, they returned fire, and he died. Well, on that note,
here's the New York Times. A New York State trooper was acquitted a man. A manned
manslaughter charges on Wednesday in the killing of an unarmed man in downtown Buffalo after a high-speed highway chase.
The trooper, Anthony Nigro IV, was found not guilty of first and second-degree manslaughter charges by Judge James Bargnessy of Erie County Court following a bench trial.
New York's Attorney General, Letitia James, charged Trooper Nigro last June in the fatal shooting of the man, James Huber, 38 of Northeast Pennsylvania.
Trooper Nigro, 40 of Eden, New York, had faced up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
Charles W. Murthy, the president of the New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association,
said in a statement that the union was pleased with the verdict. Mr. Murphy said,
quote, we commend the judge for his decision as it is clear the charges were not applicable to this case.
A spokeswoman for Ms. James, Letitia James, said in a statement that the office remains committed to conducting thorough and transparent investigations of
every case following the facts of pursuing justice.
The spokeswoman then continued,
we offer our sincerest condolences to Mr. Huber's loved ones.
Nicole Frye's, Hubert's sister, said,
my brother didn't deserve to die that way.
So the family's upset, as you'd expect.
Okay, well, so that's the case.
So this state trooper, Anthony Nigro,
was charged with first and second degree manslaughter, as you heard,
facing 25 years in prison,
just found not guilty in the shooting.
the suspect James Huber was pulled over after driving erratically and going over 100 miles an hour on the highway.
And in fact, he led the police on a high-speed chase.
And he then got off on the local roads and they called off the chase for some reason, I guess, because for safety, they didn't want to, you know, whatever the policy is.
But then he was pulled over anyway a short time after that.
and that's when, you know, Nigro pulled him over and the shooting occurred.
So let's go back to the body cam footage, which was released back in 2022.
We could see how this unfolded.
And so here's the footage along with an explanation of what you're seeing from the YouTube
channel Law and Crime Network.
Let's watch it.
A New York State Trooper of the Year is now charged with manslaughter after he allegedly
shot and killed an unarmed man who refused to get out of his vehicle.
What's up, Jones? I shot him. I got the camera. Law and Crime Network first brought you the story last year when body camera video was released of the February 12th, 2022 shooting. At the time, officials responded to a call for an erratic driver. Officials say the driver, 38-year-old James Huber, was speeding at more than 100 miles per hour along Interstate 90. When Huber crashed into a state police squad car and headed for downtown.
Buffalo, the search was called off. But Trooper Anthony Nigro the 4th later caught up with
Huber in the city's downtown. Body camera video shows Nigero approach Huber's vehicle telling him to get out.
Get the f*** out! Get out!
Next, Huber appears to reach for something in the center console of his vehicle.
Seconds later, Nigo opens fire.
Go away.
Dude, get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get the f***.
The vehicle then takes off and crashes on his vehicle.
side near a parking ring. Okay, so Huber was going 100 miles an hour. Cops tried to stop him.
He fled. Eventually he is stopped. Niagara approaches the vehicle. Guns already drawn. His guns already drawn,
which makes sense, given that they were just involved in a high-speed chase with this guy,
so they have reason to be very wary. And he tells Huber to get out of the car. He tells him
multiple times he refuses, doesn't comply. And then we can see in the video,
Huber turns and reaches for something in the center console, and that's when he gets himself shot.
And as you can see in the video, this is not subtle. This is not one of those things where he just
like kind of vaguely moves his arm and then the cop says he was reaching. This is not a gray area.
Like it's on the line. It could go away the way. This is he turns very deliberately,
very clearly turns away from the officer and reaches over. So obviously a justified shooting
by, by Nigro. In fact, it isn't just a justified.
shooting. I mean, you know, we should not be calling stuff like this merely justified.
We should be giving medals to cops like Niagara. We should be applauding and rewarding them for
their courage. Because, you know, simply walking up and approaching a vehicle with some erratic
lunatic behind the wheel, that takes real courage to do that. That's, that's, and look, I know that people
these days roll their eyes when we talk about cops being heroes and being courageous.
And not all of them are.
Obviously not.
They're bad cops.
And whenever I see a case of a bad cop doing something bad, I'm never hesitant to call it out.
I have no problem with that.
And if you watch this show, you know that.
But it's also true that it takes real bravery just to do some of the stuff that we can
consider normal for cops. And if you don't believe me, then I ask you, like, put yourself
in this same situation. A guy's been driving erratically. He's going 100 miles an hour.
The cops are chasing him. He's not pulling over. He's finally stopped. He's sitting in the
car. You're alone. You have your gun. That's all you have. Would you want to walk up to the car
in that case with that suspect inside, even with a gun. Would you want to do that? How much would I have
to pay you to walk up to that car in that situation? With that guy inside there, just involved in a
high-speed chase, 100 miles an hour, driving erratically, some lunatic behind the wheel,
you know, anything else about, like, how much would I have to pay you to approach that car and
try to, not even just approach it, but try to get that guy out of the car? Because, I mean, you could easily
die in the process. The guy behind the wheel, the suspect, if he has a weapon, which he very easily
could, it only takes him one second to pull it out and shoot you in the face, and you're dead.
So how much money would I have to pay you to approach the car under that circumstance?
I'll tell you this, for me, it would take a lot. It would take a lot of money. In fact,
I don't know if there's any amount that would be enough. But this is a lot of. But this is a
This is the kind of situation that cops are in, while getting paid a lot less than it would take for me or you probably to walk up to that car in that situation.
And that's only taking into account the physical risk.
The physical risk is already substantial.
And now we have to add another risk.
So put yourself in Niagara's shoes all over again.
The erratic suspect is pulled over.
You're walking up to the car.
He could be armed.
In fact, you have every reason to think that most of the reason.
likely he is, you know, because he's obviously already engaged and he's already seems to be
desperate to evade justice. And on top of that, so there's the physical risk, but on top of
that, you realize that if you don't walk the tight rope perfectly, right, in this life or death
situation, if you act a little too quickly, you'll go to jail forever. So this is the spot you're in.
If you're too slow, you die.
If you're a little too quick, prison forever.
So there's two different ways that your life could be over after this.
So I ask you again, how much would I have to pay you to approach the car in that situation?
I think for me, again, I mean, you could say $10 million.
You could offer me $10 million.
I wouldn't do it for $10 million.
$50 million.
I wouldn't do it because the risk is so high.
Like I might easily die or maybe even more so.
end up in prison. I don't want to risk that. I got a family. And then we added a third
situation because even if you do handle it perfectly, even if you're entirely by the book,
if you do everything exactly as you should, you might still be charged with a crime.
And then you're at the mercy of a judge or jury or both. And who knows what happens then?
It's at best a toss up. So that's what happened to Niagara. He did everything right. He did
everything by the book, totally perfectly blameless every step of the way. And they still arrested
him. They still tried to put him in jail. And so, I mean, you want me to hate cops? I just can't.
I mean, I think you're a fool. If you can't, you're, you are a moron. If you cannot recognize
the situation these guys are in. And also the fact that we still need people like to do these
kinds of jobs. I mean, you can't have someone driving down the highway at 100 miles an hour.
He's going to kill somebody.
We need people who will stop someone who's driving 100 miles an hour and being erratic on the highway.
Like, we need people in that role to stop people like that.
And I think we all, unless you're totally brain dead, you recognize that.
You recognize that we do, like, if you want to have a civilized society, you need laws.
And then if you want to have laws, you need law enforcement.
So unless you're completely brain dead, you recognize at least those two things.
If you don't recognize those two things, then I'm not interested in talking to you.
You're not a serious person.
We can't have a conversation anymore.
But if you recognize those two things, then it's like we need people to do this job,
but then we've now created a scenario where it's just it's a lose-lose every single day they're facing.
And in fact, a cop approaching a vehicle like that, that exact, and again, this is a, it's a relatively normal kind of situation for a cop to be in.
So I'm not even taking some extreme scenario.
This is just approaching a car where there's a guy that's been doing something erratic and dangerous.
Happens all the time.
Cities all across the country.
But a police officer approaching a vehicle like that in this environment is a person.
in a more difficult situation in that moment than you will ever be in your entire life.
Like you will probably never in your entire life be in a situation where both your life and your freedom simultaneously are on the line to that extent.
He's juggling more things with more at stake in that one single moment than you will probably ever have to in your whole entire life.
And he's doing it for like $85,000 a year.
He's getting paid what a Home Depot manager gets paid to do.
it. It's, it's, you know, it's not sustainable. It's just, it's not, we, the disincentives
are so incredibly high now for people to do this absolutely necessary job. It's just, it's not
a sustainable situation. And we hear so much about teachers and, oh, the teachers are
underpaid and, you know, the public school teachers, well, yeah, you know, you know, the public school teachers,
Well, you know, first of all, we don't need public school.
We could get rid of the entire public school system.
We'd be better off for it.
You can't get rid of police officers.
Get rid of police officers and society is gone.
You no longer have society.
You no longer have a civilized society without law enforcement.
It's impossible.
Get rid of public school and you can still have a society.
In fact, a more thriving society.
And on top of that, it's like, could you pay me a certain amount of money to teach social studies to sixth graders?
Sure.
I would, you know, that's, that's not something.
I mean, it's difficult.
I mean, there's difficulties with it.
But with these cops, I'm telling you, the situations they're in every day, you could not pay me any amount to be to put myself in that situation.
And all of that, the only time when I could be incentivized to be in a situation like that is if, is if my own life or my loved ones' lives are on the line, in which case you wouldn't need to pay me anything.
in which case, you know, but doing all that at the same time in service to a community of people,
most of them you don't even know and aren't related to you.
And on top of that, the community that hates you.
I mean, so it's just the more you think about it, the more, the more miserable it becomes for these guys.
Okay.
Quick report here from Deadline.
It says A24 is calling Civil War at a $25.7 million opening, largely fueled by Democrat and liberal moviegoers,
but with overperforming business in some red state regions like the South and Southwest.
So this is the report of the new movie Civil War opened at $25 million.
And pretty big hit at the box office.
Lots of reviews.
And if you're not familiar with the movie, it portrays a fictional scenario where a civil war has broken out in the United States, in the modern United States.
Lots of reviews saying that it's a disturbed.
being kind of terrifying glimpse in the near future. It's a warning, sort of a premonition of what's to
come. Now, I haven't seen the movie yet myself. I'll probably watch it, not in theaters, but I'm
interested to see it. And so I can't offer any analysis of the film or the quality of the film.
The claim is that this is a movie about a fictional civil war, and yet it's non-political.
That's what I'm reading anyway. It's a lot of the reviews are saying that.
supposedly the filmmaker didn't choose a side or paint one side as liberal and the other as conservative.
I find that extremely hard to believe, but who knows? Maybe it's true. I haven't seen it.
What I can say without having seen the film is that for all the talk about how this is a look into our future, it is almost certainly not that.
We are not headed towards a civil war, especially not one where Texas and California are on the same side, which apparently they are in this movie.
but no matter the sides, it's just not happening.
And I've always said this, that I think we are more divided now than we've ever been,
even more divided than we were in the 1850s in the lead up to the Civil War,
the actual Civil War.
So we are more divided than that.
I think that it's not hyperbole to say that.
But at the same time, probably a civil war has never been less likely than it is right now.
and the reason is that there are several reasons, many, you know, myriad reasons.
But the main reason is that fighting a civil war takes a certain commitment, a certain seriousness
of purpose, a certain sustained focus that I think we're just incapable of these days.
And I don't mean that as a lament.
I mean, I do lament the fact that we're unserious and not committed and not able to pay attention
to anything.
I lament that, but I don't lament that we're not going to fight a civil war.
I mean, that's good.
Civil war is a terrible thing.
So mainly I'm just observing the reality here.
It is what it is.
And, you know, there's obviously been a lot of analysis,
hundreds and hundreds of volumes of analysis about what led to the first Civil War,
the actual Civil War, the Civil War.
But the one factor that's usually missed, or at least not mentioned very often,
is that leaving aside the politics of it, back then, men were just cut from a different mold.
They fought and died for what they believed in.
They willingly accepted deprivation and suffering.
Especially on the Confederate side, many of the soldiers were marching in the battle long, long marches,
without shoes, without coats, without much food.
They were dying from disease and from exposure, not to mention from battle, from the violence in the battle.
and they fought on both sides out of a sense of honor.
And that kind of mentality just doesn't exist anymore.
We're distracted, we're overfed, we're way too comfortable.
We can't focus on one topic for more than 45 seconds.
Most people just want to scroll their phones and they want to binge whatever the latest show is on Netflix or HBO Max.
And yeah, we argue about all kinds of stuff on Twitter.
But the idea of actually putting your life on the line for any of this stuff is
absurd to most people. They would just never do it. So we are too lazy and uncommitted for a civil war,
is what I'm saying. So for that reason alone, it just won't happen. We're not, we are not the kind of
people who do that anymore. And unfortunately, not for good reasons. I mean, I'm not saying we're
not the kind of people who do that because we're so peaceful and united. I wish that was the reason,
But it's no, it's out of the, again, inability to focus, inability to take anything all that seriously.
Now, riots and civil unrest are a different matter.
The BLM riots of 2020, you know, that's kind of more our speed now.
And because that's something you can run out and you can participate in it.
And probably you'll suffer no consequence and you won't even get arrested.
And you're not really putting yourself in a whole lot.
of physical danger. It should be a dangerous thing to be involved in rioting, but it's not.
So you can run out and do it, and then you can be back home to watch Shogun on Hulu.
You know, and you're back in your air-conditioned house in the apartment or your mom's basement,
and that's more our speed. So I think that's what we can look for in the future,
just kind of more of what we've seen.
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There's been a lot of debate about abortion in this country recently, and for the past 50 years, of course,
and these debates tend to be, as you may have noticed, rather unproductive in your own life.
You may have been involved in or present for a hundred different arguments about abortion,
and yet most likely you've never seen a breakthrough.
You've never or rarely witnessed anybody changed their mind or even acknowledged that someone else has made a valid point.
It's like we're screaming at brick walls all the time.
And granted, every debate is like that these days, but abortion most of all, and one of the reasons for this dynamic, the reason why the debate seems so futile, is that one side of the discussion refuses to be honest about what they actually believe.
The so-called pro-choicers, quote-unquote, make a lot of arguments or statements they pretend are arguments, but they're unable to convince you with their arguments because they have not even convinced themselves.
They make weak, irrelevant arguments, and they, the smart ones anyway, among them, they know that the
arguments are weak and irrelevant. They say that the unborn child isn't a human being, but that's absurd,
and they know it. Of course, the unborn child is a human being. Like, what other species would it be?
Of course, it's a human. They say the woman has a right to do what she wants with her body,
but they, of course, realize that the body at issue here is the child, not the mothers.
They say that women have the right to choose, but they would be the first to admit that there are all
kinds of choices that they don't think a woman or a man should be allowed to make.
They're not really pro-choice because nobody is pro-choice. Nobody is in favor of all choices
generally. I'm in favor of choices. Well, what do you mean? It's like there are million choices
you think people shouldn't be allowed to make. So everyone knows that. Nobody thinks that choices
should be legal simply because they are choices. All of these arguments are incredibly stupid
and laughably weak, and the intelligent pro-abortion people understand that quite well.
But the weakness of these arguments doesn't bother them because none of these arguments have
anything to do with the actual reason why they support abortion. They do have reasons,
real reasons. It's just that they won't say them out loud most of the time. Now, every once in a while,
though, somebody on that side breaks the vow of silence and says out loud the things that they usually
only think but never articulate verbally.
That's what happened on Bill Maher show over the weekend,
when Marr himself,
during a conversation about abortion,
did the thing that people on his side almost never do.
He decided to be honest.
Listen.
Europe, for example, by comparison,
the 60 countries of Europe,
actually there are many countries in Europe
where it's completely illegal to have an abortion.
Poland, Malta, you know, a place like Andorra.
You know, so, and if you look at Germany and France
and countries of the world,
it can be 10, 12 weeks is the term limit that you're allowed to an abortion legally.
So America is not such an outlife. It does go to the states.
I think a lot of Americans on the left do think that this is somehow a really unique American problem
or an issue that only pertains to them in terms of the legality of abortions.
Actually comparative to Europe, it's not massively dissimilar.
But the thing that's crazy is at a time when America is facing so many huge geopolitical threats,
where there's a huge tech revolution going on,
where the economy is faced with all kinds of challenges.
The idea that you're fighting an election around this issue
seems to be, you know, just strange back to the 19th century.
None of you believe it's murder.
You know, that's why I don't understand the 15-week thing.
Or the Trump's plan is, let's leave it to the states.
You mean, so killing babies is okay,
in some states. I can respect the absolutist position. I really can. I scold the left on when
they say, oh, you know what? They just hate women. People who aren't pro-life, they
do pro-choice. They just, they don't hate women. They just made that up. They think it's murder.
And it kind of is. I'm just okay with that. I am. I mean, there's 8 billion people in the world.
I'm sorry, we won't miss you. That's my position.
on the...
It's quite harsh, Bill.
Yeah, exactly.
Is that not your position if you're pro-choice?
Isn't that mainly because you don't like children?
I mean...
No, no.
I mean, but if you are...
You said you're pro-choice.
That's your position, too.
Now, what Marr said there is horrendous.
I mean, it's truly barbaric and evil.
The idea that murder is okay
because we have a lot of people on Earth already
is the logic of a psychopath.
You're treating human beings like consumer products,
like objects whose individual value decreases if there's a surplus.
You're also making an argument that could just as easily justify the murder of any born person.
I mean, by Bill Maher's own logic, why should anyone care if someone walked up to Bill Maher
and put a bullet through his head?
There are 8 billion people on Earth.
We won't miss him.
In fact, arguably, his death would be less of a tragedy because at least he's already had a chance
to live for almost 70 years.
Isn't that enough time?
He had his chance.
human beings only become less productive and more of a burden as they age anyway.
What's the point of keeping elderly people around?
Well, they aren't contributing anything, and they won't contribute anything in the future.
And I've already had a chance to live for so many years.
I mean, this utilitarian argument for killing babies could not only apply to people of Mar's own age,
but would much more apply to his age demographic.
At least we can say that the child in the womb might go on to cure cancer if we give him the chance.
We already know that Marr didn't do that and never will.
So we don't, you know, why don't we just grab the hook and pull them off stage already?
Time's up, Bill.
You had your chance.
No reason why you should continue existing at this point.
What good does your existence really do for mankind?
Like, what difference does it make?
If you die tomorrow, it's not going to, it's not really going to affect anything.
Now, you might say that Bill Maher should be allowed to keep living and babies should be killed because Mar has a conscious self-love.
awareness that we assume very young babies in the womb don't possess. Now, let's accept that claim
for the sake of argument. Well, okay, so what? Who cares? Why should I care that Bill Maher is a
conscious being? If you kill him quickly, he's not going to suffer. His consciousness will just be
extinguished. I mean, by his own way of thinking, as an atheist, he'll just cease to have any
conscious experience at all. It'll just be it. He's not, if he's dead,
It's dead or alive.
If he's alive, if he's dead, he's not going to be around by his thinking.
He's not going to be around in his death to be troubled by it.
So who cares?
And anyway, it's going to happen anyway in the next several years.
So why shouldn't we speed up the process?
Why shouldn't we kill him now and just get it over with?
Before it becomes a burden on the health care system.
Dying slowly over the course of many years like most old people do in the modern age.
We have 8 billion people on Earth.
We have 8 billion other conscious agents.
What does this one little bucket of consciousness matter?
Why does Bill Maher matter? Why does anyone matter?
Why do you matter? Why do I?
Now, Mar's argument very quickly devolves into pure unadulterated nihilism, as you can see.
If the unborn child has no inherent meaning or value, then none of us do.
We are all only as valuable as we are useful to other people by that way of thinking.
And really, none of us are that useful.
you know, we might be useful to a comparatively few people, but if you died right this moment,
the vast majority of people on the planet would never know you existed, much less would they be
harmed by your absence? I know we'd like to think of the butterfly effect and everything
I do reverberates through the, yeah, but I mean, if you just cease to exist, like most,
almost everyone on the planet will never even know. They'll be perfectly fine. Even most of your
friends and acquaintances would move on very quickly and be perfectly happy without you around after a while.
Only your family and closest friends would really care. But that's a small handful of people compared
to the $8 billion on Earth. So comparatively speaking, comparatively speaking, basically nobody on
earth will care that you die or know that you ever lived. So if human life has no inherent value,
that it really has no value
on an individual basis, certainly.
Doesn't matter. You die, other people are born,
you're replaced, who cares?
Life and death are states of equal
meaninglessness.
This is where Mars pro-abortion argument leads.
And not by some extraordinary sort of tortured
extension of his underlying logic,
but simply by extension, by logical extension.
And it leads there naturally and quickly
and inevitably.
So the argument is very bad on moral grounds,
but it does have a certain logic to it.
And it is honest.
I mean, as long as you're willing to take it all the way,
and maybe Bill Maher would do that.
Maybe he would say, yeah, you know what?
No human's life is really all that meaningful.
It doesn't really matter.
Okay.
I mean, I think that's wrong, but at least that's consistent.
And it's honest.
And as disgusted as I am by Mar's claim, I at least respect that he's willing to say it out loud.
And that's more that could be said for the vast majority of pro-abortion people.
They all feel exactly as Bill Maher does.
Okay?
This is what they all believe.
The ones with IQs above room temperature anyway, they all realize that the personhood argument, the choice argument, the pro-lifers hate women's stuff, all of that is absurd.
It's totally meaningless.
Not only is it wrong, but it's also irrelevant.
Even if it was true, even if it was true that pro-lifers just hate women.
It's not, but who cares?
It's got nothing to do with the substance of the argument.
It's like, is abortion killing babies or not?
Isn't that the question here?
Well, they know that.
It's a smokescreen.
Their arguments are untrue, but it's beside the point.
Of course abortion violently kills a human life.
Of course it does.
Of course it's murder.
What else would it be?
and they're okay with it.
That's their real argument.
It's their only argument.
And it's the one argument they usually won't say out loud,
which makes all of our arguments about this topic pointless.
And that's why I'm not canceling Bill Maher,
even if his reason for supporting abortion is monstrously evil.
It may be that.
But again, it's honest.
Instead, all the other pro-abortion people who won't just come out and say this
are today canceled.
I'll do it for the show today.
Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.
Godspeed.
