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French Students Wild in the Streets | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas · DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

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I don't know what's going on here. I don't see
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us on the thing. I see us on Rumble. I see 20
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people on Rumble. I see 20 people on YouTube.
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All right. So good morning, everyone. That could
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totally happen. All right, it's Friday, October
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2nd, 2026. This is DeProgram with Ted Rall and
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Jamarl Thomas. It's Friday. Thank you so much for
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joining us. Okay, so a little housekeeping to
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do. But first, let's talk about what we're going
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to be talking about today. So, main topics.
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Christa Pike is, of course, the... now she was the
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murderer, but now she's the victim of attempted
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murder, not once but twice, by the state of Tennessee.
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After these idiots tried to kill her, she's
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now in critical condition, and they're desperately
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trying to save her life. Man, some people just
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can't decide what they want to do. We'll be
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talking about the implications for the
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death penalty. Big story. Pardon?
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Why? Yeah, I know. They should just let her go.
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They should throw her
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out the window or whatever, right? If they're
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going to be consistent. I guess one thing
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is, so they tried to kill her. It didn't work the
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second time. And then they were like, okay, let's
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get her to the hospital to save her life. Now
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we're desperately trying to save her life. Well,
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we'll get into the insanity. Okay, France is,
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of course, the big story today. Basically, France,
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as happens every few years, French cities are
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on fire. This time it's the kids are at it. They're
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running wild in the street, to quote an old 1960s
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movie. Trump has what arguably might be one of
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the worst approval ratings on any single issue
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in the history of modern polling. He has now...
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disapproval on cost of living is now at 82 percent.
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That is worse than George
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W. Bush at the absolute... 82 percent of Americans
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disapprove of his handling of the economy. Now,
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that's where it was possible to get to. That's
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worse. I know. I didn't think it was possible
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either. AP says they've never seen anything like
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it before. Richard Nixon didn't have such low
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approval ratings about Watergate. George W. Bush
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never hit those numbers for Iraq. This
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is pretty bad. Listen, 10 percent of the people think
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the economy is great. I don't know where they're
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living. Yeah, I want to borrow money. That's what
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I want to do. Zero percent interest. I wonder
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if they have a second address in Tel Aviv. Some
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of them, probably. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, I just
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want to do the rundown. The metrics say that
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we're supposed to tell the stories up front,
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so that's why I'm doing this. Okay, so the
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U.S. Supreme Court is going to consider whether
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or not immigrants who are subject
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to deportation can be held in jail indefinitely.
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Never mind the Constitution. They're
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going to try to... Right now the Supreme Court says,
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yeah, we're thinking about it until June.
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So at least anyone who's cold, chilling
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in the lockup right now, is going to stay there
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until June. So anyway, those are the topics. All
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right. We have a lot to talk about. We have an
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hour to talk about them. And so here's... we're
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doing things a little bit differently this week.
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So today we're going to make this a one-hour
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show. We're going to end at 10 because we have
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to tape the premium episode for you. Very generous
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YouTube and Rumble supporters who have become
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supporters of the show. We're taping that. It's
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going to be exclusive for you guys. That's about
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artificial intelligence. So we're closing out
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here at 10 o'clock Eastern. And then DMZ is
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at 11. That's live with Scott Stantis and guest
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Nick Anderson. But tomorrow morning, we have
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Murtaza Hussain from Drop Site News, who is going to
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join us for an interview to talk about the
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U.S. massacre of those school
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kids in the early days of the U.S.-Israeli invasion
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of Iran. That is going to be at 9:00 a.m. Eastern
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time. We're going to do a whole supplemental
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show. The interview is at 9:30 if you don't have
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time to come in at the beginning. We'll be
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wrapping it up at 10 o'clock tomorrow. That's
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a Saturday show. You heard it right. So please
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it's not too late to get in on time, under
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the wire, for the AI show. Okay, I had a lot of
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explaining to do. I probably forgot a few things.
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Ted, real quick, on my end, because a lot of
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people asked me about that Bible study stream. Yeah,
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I was going to ask you. I'm planning on doing the
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first one today at 2 p.m. Mountain Time. Are you...
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So that's... Eastern. I don't know how it's
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going to be. I have a topic I picked out. I have no
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idea what y'all want me to talk about. Well,
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if you still want me to come along, I'll join
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for the ride. Oh, yeah. No, 100%. The topic is
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how the modern state of Israel is an imposter.
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It is Antichrist and has no reason at all to
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exist. It needs to be destroyed. You're going
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to have to make a shorter title, but that one's
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going to do well. Well, the title is going to
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be "Fuck Israel." Well, it tends to do well. Well,
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don't make fun. Don't do fun. You can put
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"Israel is evil." That would be better. Evil
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Israel. Or Israel, for example, or something.
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I don't know. Anyway. All right. So there's lots
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of DeProgram and DeProgram-related stuff
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today and tomorrow. So we're keeping you guys
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busy. Don't forget Robby's show at 4 p.m. Eastern.
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Robby, is that going to be on YouTube as well?
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It's only going to be on YouTube. I have decided
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to give Rumble the middle finger. I'm not going
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to give them inventory for free. Okay. Okay.
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YouTube only, 4 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. Mountain.
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You know how to do the adjustments elsewhere.
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Okay. What do we want to talk about first? Sounds
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like you were chomping at the bit to talk about
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Christa Pike, but we could do anything.
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I guess all of those are interesting stories.
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The Christa Pike thing just seems outrageous.
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It smacks of dishonesty. You know what
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it is? It's... I told y'all about the
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story of... When I was in Iceland, when my wife
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and I were getting married at the time, well,
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ex-wife, and the duck, or the swan, ate a baby
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duck, and everybody freaks out. And as I pointed
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out to her, I was like, dude, there's a hamburger
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joint down the street that is full of people.
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There's a famous hamburger joint that's
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this tiny little hole in the wall that does a huge
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amount of business. The food is great. They have
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no issue eating the hamburger, but they take
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issue with the duck going after... the
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swan going after the duck. It feels like that.
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It's like the state says, we want to kill this
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person. That's what we as the state want to do.
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But we want to do it in a way that's kind of
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polite. And if you kill her certain ways, it's
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unseemly. And so we don't want an unseemly killing.
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We want a killing that is sanitized. And so let's
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use drugs in order to kill this person. And then
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when the drugs do something that they don't
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necessarily expect, and the person is on the brink
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of death, they're like, oh my God, we have to
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save her life. We wanted to kill you the way
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we wanted to kill you, not the way you're dying
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now. Even the way she requested to die, right?
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She wanted... she requested the firing
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squad, which we know from Gary Gilmore in Utah
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has been used in the United States.
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It's certainly more effective than lethal injection.
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It's probably quicker. And there's
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been a lot of... there's been a lot of
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botched lethal injection executions.
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There's been where people...
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We were sold this as the person just
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goes to sleep and they never wake up. Okay, but
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we now know that's not true. People who've
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gone through it said that they were basically
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screaming inside, and they couldn't express
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themselves. But basically, it's
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kind of like that scene in The Serpent and the
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Rainbow, where the guy's being buried alive,
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and he just... he can't express himself.
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That's... I guess that's better for
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the people who are watching, but it's still horrible.
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And for the people who are watching,
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I don't know. Look, I'm with you. It's
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very psychological, right? In the
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United States, it's... well, we...
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I'm a carnivore. I eat all sorts of meats,
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right? And I see a cow in a pasture.
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Oh, that's such a cute cow. Would I kill that cow?
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No. But will I eat that cow after someone else
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does? Yes. Am I a hypocrite? Yes, I am.
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And we think, oh, horses. Oh, that
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would be... The French eat horses. What's with
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that? Only a bad man would eat a horse,
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but obviously a cow, that's not a problem.
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And a pig, man, that's delicious. And then
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there's... and then
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the stories, when the first stories came
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out, supposedly, the lies about
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Haitians eating cats and dogs in Springfield,
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Ohio. Again, it was kind of like, we eat cats and
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dogs. They eat... someone eats cats and dogs, and
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some people do eat cats and dogs. And it's
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but, again, the animal shelters are killing
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cats and dogs every day by the thousands, by the
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tens of thousands, and we're totally okay with
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that. And the way they kill them isn't fun either
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for the cats or the dogs. They
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usually put them in vacuum chambers, and
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their internal organs explode. So,
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that's the typical way they do it. So,
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the point is, we're ridiculous,
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and we're just wallowing in our psychoses here.
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And I love the fact... I did like
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the fact that the idiot governor of Tennessee
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did acknowledge that this makes the state... this
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does not reflect well on the state of Tennessee
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or the people of Tennessee. I'm like, no, it
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doesn't. It makes you look mean. It makes you
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look incompetent, and it makes you look stupid.
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And you know why? If you're going to
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kill somebody, kill somebody. How hard is it,
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really? We kill people accidentally all the time.
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All the time. But for them, again, they just
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want it sanitized. They want to make it look
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as if we're doing something, but we're not really
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doing something. This happened, but she
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just drifts off to sleep. That's all there is.
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And it's not horrible and everything.
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It's like, dude, a firing squad or a guillotine
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would do the job, and it would do the job cleanly.
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If you're going to have a murder, have a murder.
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Do it. The same people who complain about
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this would say, look at the Afghans, the way
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they stone people to death. That's horrible.
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It works. I've been there. Well, it's also ecologically
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sound. There's no waste product. That's
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a problem with the firing squads, that you have
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lead from the bullets. So if you care about the
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environment, then the guillotine is going to
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be the best way to go. Yeah, either one, because
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it's reusable resources, no pollution. I like about
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the stoning, I will say it's a slow way to die.
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What I like about it is the fact... I'm against
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the death penalty because I don't trust the state
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to do this. But what I liked about
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it was the fact that it is a public, societal
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thing. The whole community gathers. They
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participate, and they watch. So everyone owns it.
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You know what I mean? It's not... there's
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no pretense, like in a firing squad, where one
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member of the shooting squad
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has a blank, and they can convince themselves
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they weren't the one who killed her.
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I like the fact that it's real.
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It's... and also, there's the last-second
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opportunity for the family of the victim to
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say, oh, I don't want this to have to be
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carried out. They can do that. Under
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Sharia law, if there's about to be a
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stoning, the person's like, well, I'm the
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murder victim's
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husband, and I think this person should
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walk, or something else. I want this person
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to work at my farm for five years, or whatever.
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Then that's what happens. Again, it's not the state
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doing it. It's not civil servants. It's someone
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who actually has skin in the game. Well, you
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don't have the mullahs. It's the state doing it.
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We do it. It's the same thing.
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The state... we're a representative government,
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right? So the state is doing this in representation
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of the population of Tennessee, or the population
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of whatever particular thing. Whether they want
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it or not, right? Whether they want it or not.
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Sometimes the murder victim's relatives don't
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want it. True. No, I accept that. But it's being
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done in the name of the state every bit as much
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as when they're stoning somebody, it's being
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done in the name of the state of sorts.
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You can say family, but ultimately you're talking
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about a societal reason for why we have criminal
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justice, so we don't have vigilantes and everything
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else. I guess I'm saying it's kind of the same
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thing. It's very similar. I guess the thing is,
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if you're going to do it, do it, which is, I
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think, your point. I think we're all on the same
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page about that, right? Yeah, you can't turn
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away from it, right? You can't just look at it
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and be like, okay, the state's killing people.
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It shouldn't be done in private. Honestly, it
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should not be done in private. And even for the
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witnesses, it's so... the way they do it is so
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ridiculous. They
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step behind a screen to administer the shot.
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Then they pull the screen away, like, ta-da! And then, well,
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wait, there's more. It's...
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By the way, one detail that I heard this morning:
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apparently they tried repeatedly to stab her,
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and they couldn't find a vein. It wasn't just
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twice. They tried over and over. She was trying
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to guide them and say, listen, I've always had
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trouble with veins.
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They probably missed a vein. That's probably what happened
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here. But apparently, at one
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point, a reporter observed that the needle
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was bent from them stabbing her so many times.
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I'm like, okay, you guys are idiots.
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It's sort of like one time
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my cat Clovis, when my kid was young, younger,
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he killed a... he half-killed a vole. The
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vole was struggling, and I was like, okay, let me
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show you. This is what we have to do. And I smashed
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it to death with a rock in one blow. And I'm like,
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you can't fuck up in a situation like this. You can't
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hesitate. It has to be done, and
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it has to be done in one fell swoop. And it's
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like, more pain. Otherwise, it's just wrong. It's
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even worse. It's not a good situation. This
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animal is not going to make it. You're just
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ending something that's... you're just making something
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happen. Less, in that case, you're going to end
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this up. Right? Yeah, yeah. Right. And in their case,
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not being able to find a vein. And by the way,
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that's not always easy. For me, I have a hard time.
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They have a hard time sticking me. A lot
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of people have that problem. Yeah, yeah. And they
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have a hard time. It doesn't surprise
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me. This comes up in death penalty, in capital
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punishment, a lot. And I imagine,
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there is a well-documented
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physiological response to stress, which is
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dehydration. Have you ever noticed when you're...
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if you get really bad news, you'll
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start to feel really, really thirsty, right? Like,
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if you lose your job or something like that, you
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just do. And it's because all of the...
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it's a fact, right? Oh, I'm not
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saying you're wrong. I just haven't... I just never
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heard of that. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm
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just... yeah, yeah. But I'm just saying. So the
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point is that I would imagine there's no
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more stressful situation than to know
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that you're facing... you're going to... you're
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facing execution, particularly after
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the hours of delays that were entailed
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on Tuesday, right? So they... so,
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she, of course, she was probably also really dehydrated.
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And it's harder if you're dehydrated, for the
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veins don't plump up if you're not properly hydrated.
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So there's a whole bunch of things here that
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just don't work. But the thing
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is, look, I think this is an important moment,
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aside from just the stupidity of the Tennessee
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government. I think this is going to be a
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watershed moment in capital punishment in the
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United States. I think this is going to be a tipping
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point. I think this is going to be the beginning
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of the end for the death penalty in the U.S.
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It just went... a lot of people just weren't
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comfortable with executing a woman at all. Hadn't
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been done in over 200 years. A lot of people
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weren't comfortable with the fact that she had
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apparently really redeemed herself, and they were
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going to kill her anyway. A lot of people didn't
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like the fact that, if she were sentenced
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today under the same exact circumstances, she
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would not have received the death penalty. So
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with all those things, and then it went this
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way, I think it's just going to be... I'm not saying,
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oh, tomorrow Texas and Florida are going
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to stop killing people, but it's the beginning
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of the end. I don't know. I don't know.
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And I got to be honest, I'm not even sure if
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I'm against... I'm against the death penalty in
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principle, but I know me. If it was a family
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member, somebody I cared about, hell, if it was
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my dog, I would want the death penalty for it.
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If someone killed my cat and I killed them, I
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think that I should... I would hope
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that it... it should be illegal, but I hope that a
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juror would let me go. If someone killed your
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mom, Jamarl, and you killed them, and I was on
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your jury, you'd walk. I'd nullify it. But the
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point is, I think, I'm not saying murder should
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be legal. I'm just saying that the death...
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look. I'm against the death penalty because the
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state should set a high example, not a low example.
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And what's a lower example than murder? So the
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state shouldn't be murdering anyone. There's
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no deterrent effect, and there's no societal safety
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effect, because it's not like people are escaping
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from prison every day, right? So we know
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how to keep people behind bars. So,
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in fact, we're better at it than any other country
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in the world. So that's not a problem. Well, so
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I think for me, that's it. I'm not saying that
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these people don't deserve to die. Of course,
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lots of people, a lot of people who haven't committed
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a crime, deserve to die. But
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it's like, that's not the point here. It's just
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that, yeah. But we're not done. I have a question
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for you, Ted. Right? The point...
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that's the point in the way that you look
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at it. There are other people who look at it
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as, these people are horrible people. They need
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to die. I guess I look at it as the state can
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fuck stuff up. And that's my difficulty.
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One out of eight people who've been sentenced
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to the death penalty have been found to be innocent,
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right? So that's a problem. Yeah, it's that part.
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Those are bad numbers. I have a question for
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you, Ted. As you all know, I have a sister. Her
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name is Molly. She was into drugs, like almost
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all my family was. I'm the only one that wasn't.
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The only one out of eight kids who never got
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into that crap was me, because it just scared the
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hell out of me. I just saw what it did. My sister,
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Molly, she owed money to her drug dealer. He
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raped her. He cut her throat three times and
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left her to die in a ditch. I want his head on
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a plate for justice. If you killed him, I don't
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really have a problem with that. I can't kill
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him because our legal system says it is not the
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purview of me as an individual. The state is
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the sword of justice. Vigilantism is illegal
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in this country. If I sent this guy to go meet
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Jesus, I'm the murderer. Okay. So I have a question
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for you. If you were on a... if you're on a jury,
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and I made this case, that I was at her funeral,
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listened to her two-year-old daughter say, why
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can't my mommy come home? And I want his head.
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You would vote to acquit this man. Not
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acquitting. You would vote to spare his life?
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I'd send him to prison, likely, for the rest
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of his life. Why? Because, for one thing,
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because it's not really a great idea to have
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a guy like that walking around society, first
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and foremost. If he's not breathing anymore,
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he's not walking around, by definition. Wait,
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what do you mean? Okay, sure. If you execute
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him, he's done. Okay, but okay, so
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this is the agent of the... So, in other words,
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you're saying, why shouldn't we have the state
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kill him? Correct. Because the state shouldn't
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behave the way he did. That's why. But he didn't.
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The state is acting as arbiter of justice, restitution
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on my behalf and behalf of her children. There's
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a difference between someone running someone
21:24
over with their car, or cutting someone's throat
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and letting them die in a ditch, and then demanding
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justice for that act. There's a difference between
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justice and murder. Those are totally... Look,
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I completely understand why you
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would want the state to kill that guy. I totally
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understand why you...
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Look, I want lots of people dead.
21:46
I personally think everyone involved with killing
21:48
those Iranian schoolchildren should be killed.
21:50
They don't... they shouldn't. It's
21:53
an affront to society that we have to share air
21:56
with them on this planet. But the thing is,
21:59
if we're going to have a society that purports to
22:02
have law and order, the order part
22:07
is what's missing here. It's not order to say,
22:10
okay, killing is the worst thing that a
22:13
person can do to another person, and therefore
22:16
we're going to do that back to them? That's
22:20
not justice. That's schoolkids in a schoolyard.
22:23
Eye for an eye is Old Testament justice, but
22:27
it's not modern justice. It's not civilized.
22:30
If we want to have an uncivilized system
22:35
just based on vengeance, okay, we can do
22:38
that. But that's just not the system we have,
22:40
or that we purport to have. It's not a system
22:42
that I would want to have. If we can
22:45
have... look, I think the Sharia system is better.
22:48
You don't have years and years of delays. Justice
22:51
is meted out. It's much... and truly, the
22:55
people who are aggrieved have a voice in this.
22:58
The people... look, all of society suffered,
23:02
and everybody who knew Robby's sister suffered
23:05
when she was horribly, gruesomely murdered and
23:08
raped, right? But no one suffered more than Robby
23:12
and his immediate family, and her immediate closest
23:14
people. Those people should have a vote.
23:17
They get the majority vote as to whether
23:20
this asshole lives or dies, in my opinion. But that's not
23:23
our system. I know, but the state... okay, I
23:28
guess I don't get it. Justice is determined...
23:30
justice is not a fixed concept. It's kind of like
23:33
a triangle. You can have billions, millions, infinite
23:36
looks of triangles. Justice can be all
23:39
sorts of things. In the case that Robby... I got to
23:41
be honest, I would want his head also. Me too. On
23:45
the jury, I would vote to send him to hell.
23:48
Certainly, if the death penalty were on,
23:51
were available, and I were on that jury, I
23:53
would follow the judge's instructions and vote
23:55
for the death penalty as well. I just don't think
23:58
that... I do not think that the government
24:02
should be in the position of murdering people.
24:04
And secondly, I don't think that the government
24:07
can do a good job at adjudicating these things,
24:10
because we've already determined that they can't.
24:12
They're not good at it. Before Trump's
24:15
postmaster came along,
24:18
the post office was able to deliver 999 out of 1,000 pieces
24:22
of mail without any problem. Okay, well, that's
24:25
pretty good. But when you're only able to adjudicate
24:29
seven out of eight death penalty cases correctly,
24:32
that's not good. You need a higher reliability
24:36
rate on that than you need on mail delivery.
24:39
No, I agree. That's the part that I agree with.
24:41
The vengeance part, I will send people to hell
24:45
in a heartbeat. I understand the vengeance part.
24:48
The liability of it is the issue. Because, again,
24:50
if I'm that one guy who's innocent, and for whatever
24:53
particular reason, you ended up in the wrong
24:57
place at the particular wrong time, and you get
25:00
railroaded because a detective believed that
25:03
you were guilty and did everything in his power
25:05
to effectively prosecute you. Or was just trying
25:07
to close a file. Yeah, I'm trying to close a
25:09
file. I'm ignoring evidence. This guy obviously
25:12
is guilty. We're covering for someone who is
25:15
protected, or whatever. And by the way, I'll give
25:18
you an example. Well, it's a bad example. What's
25:22
the whole Tyrion Lannister argument, right? No,
25:24
when Tywin wanted Tyrion's head. That's
25:28
an example to Ted's case about the state weaponizing
25:33
something for a vendetta, or for whatever else.
25:36
Listen, I get it. It happens. And that's why every
25:39
day we talk on the show about how the state sucks,
25:41
right? And that's why execution should
25:43
be handled... it should be handled by the county,
25:45
not the state, not the federal government. It should
25:47
be handled by the local government. We mean
25:52
the government. That's a stand-in for the
25:54
government. Well, in this case,
25:57
it's the governor of Tennessee. I don't know
25:59
what county this happened in, but it should be
26:00
up to the county seat, because they're going to
26:02
be more efficient. If you're
26:05
going to do this, it has to be public. It has
26:07
to be a government. It's very corrupt, though.
26:09
The issue is two parts. One, that they fuck it
26:15
up in regards to the case. It's not about handling
26:17
the execution. The issue with the death penalty
26:19
is the fact that they often get it wrong.
26:22
If you are one guy who is getting
26:25
executed, that is fucking outrageous,
26:29
especially if you're innocent. It's that part.
26:32
It's not the execution part. Again, for me, Robby,
26:36
I would agree with you. My cousin, something
26:38
like that happened with her. She was dating a
26:40
guy. The guy was violent. He beat her to within
26:44
an inch of her life, stabbed her multiple times.
26:47
There was blood throughout the entire house.
26:49
Her kid was back in the bedroom as all of this
26:52
was effectively taking place. I would have no
26:55
issue putting the guy on the death penalty. We
26:59
don't disagree on this. I'm not saying they don't
27:02
deserve it. They deserve it. Yeah, the issue
27:04
is, do they get it right? And the fact is, they
27:07
often get it wrong. What is that program?
27:11
The organization that deals with death penalty
27:14
cases, where they're taking them back to court
27:16
in order to get the people off? The Innocence
27:17
Project. Innocence Project, yeah. Think of the
27:20
number of people that they were able to get off.
27:22
Hundreds. And by the way, nobody who's in favor
27:24
of capital punishment can point to a single
27:26
case where the Innocence Project got it wrong
27:28
and actually the person was guilty. These were
27:31
all hundreds of people who were going to be killed
27:34
by the state. And it's like... Yeah.
27:37
So for me, it's complicated. Again, if it was
27:40
my family member. Not to mention also, let me
27:42
put it this way. Also, if we didn't live under
27:43
capitalism, and where all death penalty... where
27:46
all criminal defendants could avail themselves
27:49
of a high-quality attorney with the same level
27:53
of skill and access to resources as
27:57
the prosecution, oh, I'd have a different opinion.
28:00
But most people can't afford
28:03
good legal, proper legal defense. A lot of murder
28:06
defendants are poor.
28:09
They get a public defender who's overworked and maybe
28:12
not that great to begin with. And
28:14
there are all these
28:17
cases of people who were sentenced to death by judges
28:19
who were sleeping through half the trial, literally.
28:22
So it's like, I just can't abide that.
28:26
People get railroaded all the time.
28:29
Yeah. No, the same government can't
28:31
be trusted not to blow up Iranian schools. Right.
28:34
Well, this whole conversation
28:38
about life. Right.
28:41
Again, from my point of view, it doesn't matter when we're talking
28:43
about foreign policy. We've got a lot to talk
28:45
about, and we have a short time to do it. So
28:47
let's get through some comments, and we can move
28:49
on. Sorry. Annie, since it's only on YouTube,
28:53
Robby needs to be careful. A lot of channels
28:55
get strikes and demonetized if the masters don't
28:58
like the topic. That we know. That topic would
29:01
be good, and I think that topic would do well.
29:05
RACL, have you guys seen Ted's doppelganger?
29:07
There's this guy who posts political short
29:09
videos. Took me a while to realize it wasn't
29:11
Ted. Hawk Podcasts. Somebody took your identity.
29:15
I'll find them, and I will execute them. Okay.
29:20
If you're PW Walker, if you're going to execute,
29:23
make it quick and clean. If you can't, then you
29:25
shouldn't be an executioner. For me, this is
29:27
just another example of the systemic incompetence
29:30
we've tolerated for too long, right? Was it
29:32
Anne Boleyn who... didn't she have
29:35
an executioner, an expert executioner, brought
29:38
in from France to make sure that they did a good
29:40
job? Yeah, her sister. Well, the sister got
29:43
away, but yeah, Anne, yeah. Thanks for the buck.
29:49
Robby, what do you think of the
29:51
Islamic law that allows the family of a murderer
29:53
to forgive the murderer? Too prone to abuse? Too
29:57
much pressure? Or righteous? It's based
30:01
off of the Mosaic Law. So back in the Old Testament,
30:05
and a lot of the judges, there was what was called
30:08
cities of refuge. And what a city of refuge was
30:11
is that if you killed someone by accident, there's
30:14
a difference between manslaughter and murder,
30:15
then you were able to go to a city of refuge.
30:19
And so long as you stayed there, the family member
30:21
is not allowed to have any... they cannot retaliate
30:23
against you at all. And the same thing went for
30:26
murder, if you're able to get there. And basically,
30:30
it was like an amnesty zone. Think about how
30:33
now we have sanctuary cities. That's what the
30:35
concept comes from. What was the purpose of it?
30:38
Well, because there was no central government
30:40
back then. So basically, it was truly a federal
30:44
system. So each tribe was governed by its own
30:48
self-government. But why have a sanctuary zone
30:51
is my question. Because governments get things
30:53
wrong. And also, passions get inflamed. So that's
30:57
the whole point. Wait, but what stopped a murderer
30:59
from going to a sanctuary zone? Because if you
31:02
did, then the... so you mean the avenger? So
31:06
what would happen is that if someone went there
31:09
and they killed someone in a sanctuary city,
31:11
he would be taken out and stoned right there
31:12
at the gates of the city as a murderer. No, what
31:16
I mean is, say, for example, like you were pointing
31:18
out the accidental deaths. Say, for example, somebody
31:21
murdered someone, and then they fled to the sanctuary
31:23
city. Yeah. Oh, they would still be... Okay. The
31:26
people in the city would kill the person who
31:28
did the murder. No. So long as you were there.
31:32
Why did society allow there to be a sanctuary
31:35
zone for murderers? Well, to your case, there
31:39
are times where the family gets it wrong. There
31:42
are times when the government gets it wrong.
31:43
And so then how do you adjudicate this? That's
31:46
not adjudicating it based on that. That's just
31:49
adjudicating it on how quick your legs will carry
31:51
you, right? Correct. And how do they know they
31:53
got it wrong? Well, I say, for example... So
31:57
it's just a safety valve, really, right? Yes.
32:00
It's to give people some hope. Yeah. So that's
32:04
the whole point. Let's say, for example, JT,
32:07
if you and I were out, and we're out hunting
32:10
or something, and if you pulled a Dick Cheney
32:17
and you shot me by accident, instead of you going
32:20
to prison for manslaughter or murder, you could
32:23
go to a safe sanctuary and say, listen, I screwed
32:25
up. This has happened. And as long as you're
32:28
there, you cannot be held accountable. But how
32:30
do they know that I didn't pull that trigger
32:32
in malice? Yeah, because he just didn't like
32:35
the cut of your jib. How do they know that? Because
32:39
there was no trial. There was nothing that people
32:41
can be like, okay, well, they obviously got this
32:44
wrong. It's just... you get there, and you're
32:49
free and clear. Now, here's the thing. If you
32:51
leave, if you leave that city, well, why would you?
32:54
All bets are off. As long as you're there, you
32:57
cannot be touched. I'm trying to understand,
33:00
how do they know that the people... that
33:03
was unfair? Adjudicate. Again, let's say I did
33:06
it in malice, and I just tell them. So it's not
33:09
about unfairness, right? It's not about unfairness.
33:11
It's just more like, if you can get there, you're
33:13
good. It's capture the
33:16
flag. If you can get to the end zone,
33:19
you're good. Well, it's just... No, Ted, you're
33:22
French. No, one of the oldest traditions
33:26
in Christianity is seeking refuge in a church.
33:29
If you're in a church, you cannot be touched. The
33:31
state cannot get you. Right, right. That's what
33:33
the concept is, right? The French Foreign Legion.
33:36
Any legionnaires, anybody can go, criminals and
33:40
everybody else, right? That's the point. You come
33:43
out with citizenship. And so you go to the city,
33:46
you're able to get married, you have kids, you
33:47
can live your life. But if you leave, if you
33:50
leave, all bets are off. So that's the valve
33:54
between justice, revenge, and mercy. Is it La
33:56
Femme Nikita, or is it The Professional, where
33:59
it's a French film where a girl's a terrible
34:02
criminal? She's a teenage girl, and she kills
34:04
people with abandon. So they sentence her
34:06
to death, and then she... They give her a lethal
34:09
injection, and she wakes up, because they basically
34:11
faked her death. And they're like, according
34:13
to... they're like, officially, you're dead. Now
34:15
you're going to come work for us. Oh, he just clarified.
34:19
Sorry, but the family of the murdered person.
34:21
There's a Rumble video of the mother forgiving
34:23
the accused. In that case, I would say let him
34:25
go, because the person who... you agree with Sharia
34:30
law. So, yeah. Sharia, Sharia. No, there
34:36
are times where the state gets things wrong.
34:39
And ultimately, at the end of the day, the murder
34:41
victim can't speak. They have no voice, by definition.
34:43
They're gone. So that means the next of kin has
34:47
to speak for that person. But the family also
34:50
fucks it up. I've seen plenty of cases where
34:52
the family thinks it's one person, and it's not
34:54
that person. Yeah, I agree. And they're wrong.
34:56
And that's wrong. And that's where the... That's
34:59
why the state system is not trustworthy.
35:02
As long as the person's alive, right, appeals
35:05
are theoretically possible. The person could
35:07
be found... there could be new evidence that could
35:10
surface, and the person could be cleared and
35:12
released. You hear these terrible stories
35:14
about a dude serving 26 years in prison,
35:17
but it was 26 years. He wasn't killed, and at
35:22
the end of the 26 years, they were able to let
35:24
him out. You lose that option once you
35:26
kill them. Yeah. It's like the rape kit. We now
35:29
can study the semen at this particular level,
35:31
and we realize it wasn't this particular person,
35:33
but the technology didn't exist 20 years ago.
35:37
We've got to move on to that. We've got to move
35:38
on. It's a fascinating topic. By the way, Effie
35:41
said, no death penalty, because innocent
35:43
people get killed. Death is too quick. I want
35:45
them to suffer in prison and think about their
35:47
crimes. Effie also says, seems like American
35:50
Christians are the most bloodthirsty. And Makedem
35:53
says, sorry, I meant family of the murdered person,
35:55
right? We just talked about that. Okay, so I'm
35:58
sorry about keeping things moving so fast. France.
36:02
We got lots of stuff going on. So basically,
36:04
I didn't know this, but France has expanded their
36:08
school hours. They were always pretty long. I
36:11
spent one semester in French schools. But now
36:14
you go from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. What? So the students
36:21
are saying, between the long hours, huge classroom
36:26
sizes, 35 kids per class, teachers who are
36:30
inattentive. One thing that used to be a big
36:34
thing in French schools was equality.
36:36
You got the same education in a public school
36:39
in a poor neighborhood as you did
36:41
in a rich neighborhood. That is increasingly
36:44
not the case. Schools are starting to fall
36:46
apart in poor, more downtrodden towns.
36:50
And there is a lot of poverty in France. It's
36:52
not a country... it's not as bad as we are,
36:54
but it's still... it's a real problem.
36:57
So anyway, the French government is in full-on
37:02
crisis. And because it's France, the firefighters
37:05
and some police unions have also gone on strike
37:08
in solidarity with the students. And also, a bunch
37:12
of other public service workers' unions are walking
37:14
off the job. There's even a political party led
37:18
by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, La France Insoumise,
37:22
which is France Unbowed, also using this and
37:26
organizing it. Basically, schools are shutting
37:29
down. They're going to online instruction. Things
37:32
are on fire. One school was set on fire. Thousands
37:36
of students have been arrested by the French
37:39
police. They have a national police goon squad,
37:43
kind of like the equivalent of ICE. And those
37:46
people are overruling local police, who are in
37:50
solidarity with the students. The teachers' unions
37:53
are on strike, too. So it's a big
37:56
deal. This, ladies and gentlemen, is how it's
38:00
done. Good for them. Good for them. By the way,
38:05
I saw farmers spraying shit on the French. That
38:10
is so gross. God, man, I wish they found another
38:12
way to do that. That's so disgusting. Yeah, I
38:15
don't want to be around when that's happening.
38:17
I don't want to be around that. That's so gross.
38:19
But it's protests. And Lord knows they do it
38:22
well. They do it well. Yeah, it's a national
38:26
sport. 6 p.m. is insane. Yeah, it's insane. Yeah,
38:31
but good on them. So, but see, it's so
38:35
different. Even kids are in on the
38:39
protesting in France, where they are willing to
38:41
shut this stuff down. I'm curious, though, why are
38:43
so many other organizations working in line with
38:46
the students? That's the French way. That's really...
38:50
First, well, first of all, I would imagine
38:52
for the teachers, it's probably a no-brainer,
38:54
right? Because they're living under the same... they're
38:56
working under the same conditions as the students.
38:58
And hell, it's even worse for them, because
39:01
that's their entire lives, right? They're there
39:03
for 20, 30 years. The American issue, right?
39:06
How do you take a crappy school and make it a
39:09
better school when it's in a crappy neighborhood?
39:11
Well, the neighborhood has to be better. It can't
39:13
just be the school. The school is not magic.
39:15
In part, but that used to not be a problem.
39:17
So, the way it would work is,
39:20
if a school needed more resources in, let's say,
39:23
a dangerous part of Marseille, that
39:25
neighborhood. First of all, one
39:27
thing that used to be was...
39:30
if you're a teacher in, say, LA Unified,
39:34
in, say, South Central, you... They probably
39:37
have a hard time recruiting good teachers, right?
39:40
They don't pay enough. And it's a
39:43
lot of nonsense. Your car gets vandalized while
39:47
you're at work, and you're just like, fuck this.
39:49
It's like, if you're a great teacher, you're
39:51
like, yeah, go work in Bel Air, right? Even if
39:54
you really care about helping kids, it just becomes
39:57
exhausting. In France, it doesn't work that way
40:00
at all. If you're a teacher, you work for the
40:02
French state, right? You don't work for a city.
40:04
And so they rotate you, and they're like, OK,
40:07
Professor Thomas, which are different schools.
40:10
Yeah. You're like, OK, you're in Marseille now.
40:12
In five years, we're going to move
40:14
you to Nice. Five years after that, we'll move
40:18
you to Paris, and so on. So they wrote... they keep
40:21
the... there's churn, which means that good teachers...
40:23
So every school has a chance at good teachers,
40:26
also at bad teachers, right? But the idea is
40:30
also, some schools... if you have a higher
40:33
cost of living in Paris than you do in the
40:35
French countryside, then obviously they pay those
40:38
teachers more when they're there. Similarly,
40:41
if the students have certain needs,
40:44
there's... let's say there's a migrant flow
40:46
of Algerians or Arabs in a certain area. They
40:50
have more French-as-a-second-language instruction
40:53
in those areas. So they are... the French Ministry
40:56
of Education is supposed to... their goal is to
40:59
try to have equal or needed resources in every
41:04
school, right? And obviously, they've been falling
41:07
down on the job, in part due to austerity,
41:10
right, under Emmanuel Macron, which is one of the
41:12
reasons overall that he's just unpopular.
41:16
His approval rating is Trumpian.
41:18
Is this an iteration of the Yellow Vests in just another
41:22
form? I think this is... Yellow Vests had a
41:26
more right-of-center and more rural character.
41:30
This is an older... right? This was guys
41:33
who looked like me running around and burning
41:36
shit. This is kids in cities, and
41:40
they're being organized by a far-left party. So
41:43
I think... So there's a direct analogy, which is,
41:47
we've had enough of this shit, and we're going
41:50
to break things and burn things. So this is populism.
41:53
This is the thing that we talk about on the show
41:56
with Robby all the time, the commonalities between
41:59
the populist left and the populist right. This
42:01
is more of the populist left raging right now
42:04
against the centrist, corporatist state. Well,
42:10
they've also damaged the state. Angela... oh
42:17
God, what is her name? Le Pen's party was the
42:19
one that seemingly won the most votes. Yeah.
42:22
Yeah. But what they ended up doing, if...
42:24
and you can correct me on this, Macron made it...
42:27
basically wouldn't necessarily accept the government
42:30
that was going to be brought in, either from
42:32
the far-left party, for that matter. It was going
42:34
to be Jean-Luc Mélenchon should be the prime
42:36
minister right now. And they wouldn't allow the
42:38
government to form, in which case they were able
42:40
to. It's like what happened in Romania. Yes.
42:43
Yeah, it's outrageous. It's wild. But Macron
42:45
did that. It was funny. When the election was
42:47
taking place, I forgot who I was talking to.
42:48
He was like, do you really believe Macron is
42:51
going to let that government form? Basically,
42:52
Macron is more powerful. It's not a real democracy.
42:56
It's not a real republic, if that's the case,
42:58
right? And that's the thing, too, right?
43:01
You think... as an arrogant fucker sitting in
43:04
Louis XVI's old palace in Paris,
43:07
that you can control things. Well, you
43:11
can put... you can put a pot on the pressure
43:13
cooker for a while, but it's going to blow eventually.
43:15
And this is what we're seeing. Do you think this
43:18
is going to cripple the government in a particular
43:19
way that's going to get gains? How would
43:21
they fix this issue? This works out. These things
43:24
happen periodically in France. Oh, by the way,
43:27
just one moment to interrupt. And
43:29
typically, the protests expand in their aims.
43:32
Yes. The French. It grows. That's right. And
43:36
especially with all the solidarity aspects to
43:38
this. So the French get spicy every now and then.
43:42
And basically, it always comes to an end in one
43:45
of two ways. Either they send in the riot police
43:48
and soldiers to violently crush the protests,
43:52
like we saw in May 1968 in Paris, or they capitulate,
43:57
or some combination of both. I suspect this time
44:01
they're going to capitulate. These are
44:03
students. These are kids, and nobody wants to
44:07
see kids massacred, right? So it's going to be...
44:10
I think they have no choice but to say,
44:13
look, we're going to pour some money. We'll send
44:16
less money to Ukraine, and we'll send, and we'll...
44:19
We'll start taking care of our kids and making
44:22
things right for the schools, and for the students,
44:24
and for the teachers. I think they will have
44:28
to. And they will. They're already
44:30
negotiating with student representatives who
44:33
are 15 years old, which is so cool. That
44:36
is wild. That is wild. Yeah, we don't do that.
44:42
No, we shouldn't. I look at that, and I think
44:43
to myself, that's amazing. That's solidarity.
44:45
It's so great. I'm jealous. I'm so jealous. And
44:49
they're learning this stuff early. This is what
44:51
political activism looks like, not the fucking
44:54
No Kings rallies. Yes, yes. And the idea that
44:59
all of these other organizations are joining
45:00
in with the students, in and of itself, is just
45:02
amazing. That's just amazing. That's a very French
45:04
thing. That's not an American thing. To me, when
45:09
the kids walk out because they're protesting
45:11
a genocide, nobody walks out with them. They're
45:13
by themselves. And because of that, they can
45:15
be isolated, beaten, maligned by the cops, and
45:17
all of this other stuff. That's not what's happening
45:20
here. Bark, bark, woof, bark. Please read my
45:23
previous message. Thank you. Robby, I don't
45:25
know what the previous message is. Can you elucidate
45:28
here? I have been looking for the previous message.
45:31
I've not found it, and I've asked him to please
45:32
drop it in the chat again, but he's not done
45:35
that yet. As soon as he does, I will feed it
45:38
to you. Thank you, Robby. Philip, Ted, serious
45:40
question. Is there... Is there a goal that children
45:45
in France with ADHD or Asperger's will delete
45:48
themselves? What? I don't know. I think it means
45:53
it's the government's goal. No, I don't
45:56
think so. I don't think they're trying to cause
45:59
suicidal ideation. No, I don't think
46:04
so. Matt, how can we get mass immigration of
46:07
French to America right now for protesting purposes?
46:12
It's kind of like, brothers, sisters, teach
46:16
us. Right. We sit at your knees. That is the
46:24
one job Americans will not do. That's right.
46:28
Yeah, that's exactly right. By the way,
46:30
because the French also, they're taking risks
46:32
with their own salaries and everything else when
46:34
they do this. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They can
46:37
all be fired. Yeah. Well, not to mention,
46:39
the French riot police, they come loaded
46:43
for bear, and they don't fuck around. They're
46:45
there to shoot you and kill you. So,
46:49
they're total thugs. All right, new AP-NORC
46:52
poll. It says Americans' disapproval of the president
46:55
on cost of living and the economy is 82 percent disapprove,
46:59
17 percent approve. Robby, I'd like to meet
47:02
the 17 percent and borrow money from them. But anyway,
47:06
the new jobs numbers are out, really anemic,
47:09
28,000 new jobs created. I was listening to...
47:13
I love the reboot, even on NPR, which is supposedly
47:16
liberal. They're like, oh, well, these days it's
47:19
usually about 60, and that's pretty good. No.
47:22
Two to three hundred thousand is pretty good,
47:24
and that's what it used to be a few years
47:26
ago, and it ain't now. So anyway, the point is
47:30
that Trump has problems everywhere.
47:33
He's been reduced to going to campaign in
47:37
places like Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, all of which he
47:40
won by double digits in 2024, and now Republican
47:44
candidates are in trouble. It's going to be a
47:46
bloodbath in November for the Republicans. Blood
47:50
on the dance floor. By the way, there's a clip
47:52
that I put in. If Robby will put it up just to
47:54
show. This is what he has been... because he's
47:57
on the campaign trail, and it's clear that he
48:00
is not in his right mind. He's not there. Oh,
48:04
I believe that. This is kind of like
48:06
the right thing. I was reading a transcript of
48:08
that, and it was like, if you read it, it's...
48:11
yeah, it's unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead,
48:15
Robby. Rock and roll. These unbelievable machines,
48:20
led by the most incredible pilots in the world,
48:23
they unloaded every single bomb, went right down
48:27
air chutes into these drug factories, really. That's
48:31
what they were doing. They were nuclear and drug.
48:33
They were doing drugs, but they were doing the
48:35
nuclear. But these drug factories slash nuclear
48:37
factories were hit so hard. These unbelievable
48:42
machines, led by the most incredible pilots in
48:46
the world. He knows that there are two lies
48:49
that he's been running with to kill people: drugs
48:51
and nukes. And he's talking about attacking Iran.
48:54
He's conflating them. Yeah, he's fucking it up.
48:57
He can't remember whether it was drugs or nukes.
48:58
And then he says drugs, and he's stuck with it.
49:00
And so he's like, okay, drugs and nukes. They
49:01
were doing drugs and nukes. They were doing both.
49:03
He's like, whoa. So these incredible machines
49:06
attacked Iran because Iran was doing nukes
49:10
and drugs in the same factory. It's like, okay. And
49:13
also, that whole "incredible machines dropping
49:15
down the chute," that's, I think, an old
49:18
memory from Serbia, right? When... remember
49:21
those videos broke of, look how precise
49:24
our bombings, our bombs are. Of course, never mind
49:27
that the Chinese embassy is beneath them. Right.
49:30
Yeah, I think it's... look, the man is... he...
49:35
I'm not saying this
49:37
because I'm partisan. I hate both parties equally.
49:40
But I do. I swear to God, if there
49:45
is such a being, that I believe that he is...
49:49
he's suffering from dementia. But I think
49:52
he's senile. I think he's lost it. And I think
49:54
all you're seeing, that's what you're talking
49:56
about. All of these memories
50:00
are all coming, kind of floating together, and
50:02
it's a big hodgepodge, and he can't keep track
50:05
of anything, because he's lost his mind. Again,
50:08
the Time Life article points that out.
50:11
If you just read through the transcript, I haven't
50:12
even read all of it. Yeah, you get to the point
50:15
where you're just scared to keep reading.
50:17
Yeah, it's insane, right? And this guy is the
50:19
president of the U.S., and he's on the campaign
50:22
front. And what is wrong with us that we allow
50:24
this? I keep asking that question. I don't have
50:28
an answer for it entirely. I don't know if it's
50:30
the spectacle of it all. How come you can't even
50:33
get a Bernie Sanders to give a speech and
50:36
say the president is senile? Really, how
50:40
come you can't even get someone like that
50:42
to say that? You can't even get someone like
50:44
AOC to say that. People have started
50:47
saying it, especially after reading the
50:49
Time Life piece. And I don't know how people
50:51
aren't screaming it, considering Joe Biden was
50:53
president, and they kept screaming it that Joe
50:55
Biden was out of his mind. It's like, how are
50:58
they saying that? Okay, well, this is chickens
50:59
coming home to roost, Jamarl, right? Because,
51:02
as you and I talked about, I said this
51:04
at the time for four years. I was like, Democrats
51:06
will not have any standing to complain about
51:09
Trump should he lose his mind during his presidency,
51:12
because of the cover-up with Biden, and that's
51:15
where we are now. They can't say shit, and they
51:17
know it. Yep, you said... yeah, that's exactly
51:20
what you said. And maybe that's why they're not
51:23
screaming the president. They can't. He's clearly
51:26
senile. He's an 80-year-old man.
51:29
And it's not... look, this is no... He wasn't senile
51:31
10 years ago. He is now, though. But that's 10
51:33
years ago, right? Five years ago, I was a completely
51:37
different person. A year ago, I had sight in
51:39
both eyes, right? Sure. Ten years is a long time.
51:43
Trump is out of his mind. And what makes it worse,
51:46
right, in that video, he's on the campaign trail.
51:49
He's not even running. And no one in the national
51:51
media, by the way. Again, okay, I don't expect
51:54
Fox to say anything. But MS NOW, why don't they
51:57
say anything about it? Why can't you
52:00
get... why can't the Guardian
52:02
U.S. say it? Literally, that's what
52:05
that's what's crazy to me. Jacobin is not going
52:08
to publish a piece about the president being
52:09
senile. You see what I'm saying?
52:12
There's literally no resistance. No, there's
52:16
no left. There's no pushback at all.
52:21
At least when it was Biden, there were
52:23
right-wing media outlets constantly pushing
52:26
out clips and complaining about how
52:28
demented Biden was, and they were right.
52:33
And I kept saying so at the time. Yeah. Well, nobody
52:36
wanted to say it. Everybody hid it for Joe Biden,
52:39
and then left it to the right. But at least there was
52:42
someone to say it on this point. But now there's
52:44
no one to say it, right? And then there's no one
52:47
to say he's clearly out of his mind. He's clearly
52:51
out of his mind. It's actually terrifying. It's
52:55
terrifying. It's like, how does he run the
52:56
country? He can launch nuclear weapons. Yeah,
53:00
he has notes. They show him pictures of videos,
53:03
and apparently he takes those pictures thinking,
53:05
well, we're obviously winning the war. Why is
53:07
the media lying? He's out of his mind. Donald
53:12
Trump cannot keep his thoughts together when
53:14
he's giving his speeches. And I suspect, when
53:17
he's fallen asleep in the White House, imagine
53:19
for the moment if Joe Biden literally fell asleep
53:21
in the middle of a press conference, what would
53:24
they have said? This is happening repeatedly with Trump. Oh, here's
53:28
the bark, bark, woof, woof. Okay. Leonard Peltier
53:31
was imprisoned for 50 years for being framed
53:34
for the death of two FBI agents at Wounded
53:36
Knee, despite the advocacy of four presidents, two
53:39
popes, and the UN. Yeah, right. That's just another
53:44
example of how framings can... yeah, yeah, yeah.
53:49
FUCO: American society hates us Asperger's.
53:51
We're targeted always by bullies and narcissists.
53:54
I went to Christian high school and never got
53:56
any of that Christian love. I got bullied. Then
53:59
teachers humiliated me. FUCO: Christians, bigots,
54:03
and horrible people. Did they know that they had
54:06
Asperger's, or did they just think they were? They
54:09
must have known something was up, though, right?
54:11
I think my mom self-diagnosed with Asperger's
54:14
late in life, and she was like, oh,
54:17
I think... I read an article about it. She
54:19
was very excited. I think I know what's wrong
54:21
with me. Yeah, it's... yeah. Obviously, it's
54:25
pretty widespread, so you would think it wouldn't
54:28
be such a secret. All right, last but not least,
54:31
the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear
54:35
several cases about immigrants who are being
54:38
indefinitely held, subject to deportation. So what
54:42
this is about is not whether they're going to
54:44
be deported. It's just sort of like, can the
54:48
U.S. government keep an alleged immigrant in detention
54:53
indefinitely while their cases are adjudicated?
54:57
Under previous administrations of both political
55:00
parties, there would be a bond hearing, and you
55:03
had a chance to argue that you could or should
55:06
be released on bond pending the deportation hearings,
55:10
and you had to keep presenting yourself. I can
55:13
certainly see the argument of, well, we
55:15
don't want to release them because,
55:17
what if they run off? I'm sure some of them did.
55:21
But to me, this is dangerous, right?
55:24
The Constitution applies to everyone on U.S.
55:27
soil, whether they're a U.S. citizen, they're
55:30
a legal immigrant, or they're an illegal immigrant.
55:32
All the Bill of Rights apply to every single
55:35
human being breathing on our soil. To me, it's
55:40
very disturbing that the government argues that
55:42
they can hold people for days, weeks, months,
55:47
years at a time without bringing them up on any
55:49
charges in front of a court of law, for whatever
55:52
it is. I don't care what it is. We have
55:55
a right to a speedy trial. That's in the Constitution.
55:58
It's totally ignored. There are people sitting
56:00
in lockups like Rikers Island for months and
56:03
years at a time waiting for their quote-unquote
56:05
speedy trial. But this, to me, is just another
56:08
nail in the coffin of your right to a speedy
56:10
trial. If they can't bring you up before
56:13
a judge because, whatever, the court's too busy,
56:15
or the judge is taking a shit, or whatever the
56:17
fuck is going on, that's on them. They should
56:20
let you walk. They shouldn't just be
56:24
able to hold you forever. Well, there should
56:27
be due process, and it should be quick and speedy.
56:31
Hire more people. We have lots of unemployed
56:34
people who would love those jobs, right? And
56:37
by the way, that was always the thing at the
56:38
border, too. When they were talking about
56:40
not having enough judges, and not having
56:42
enough this, and not having enough that, it's
56:43
like, well, just hire more people. When they
56:47
want to, they hire, right? They're hiring thousands
56:49
of ICE goons. Well, and we spend billions on
56:52
war and killing people and giving to other countries.
56:55
It's like, yeah, if you need... Meaning, if your
56:57
government is designating a process because you
57:00
have a constitution that designates the process,
57:01
then the government doesn't pay for the process.
57:03
Like anybody else, if I want a haircut, I got to
57:06
pay my barber, right? Meaning, if I'm deciding
57:10
to grow an afro and I want it styled a particular
57:13
way, then I'm going to have to pay somebody to
57:14
do the particular style. Meaning, you got to pay
57:16
for the things that you are designating as
57:19
being important and as valuable, right? It's
57:22
not just, well, you do trial provision. That's what
57:25
you can always tell. You can tell Americans
57:26
don't care about kids or schools. How do we know?
57:29
Because they don't pay for them, right? We don't
57:31
pay teachers well. We don't
57:34
care about... we don't pay soldiers
57:37
well, but we pay defense
57:40
contractors well. Who do we care about? You can
57:43
always tell a society's priorities by
57:46
how they spend their money. By the way, it's China
57:48
National Day yesterday. And there was this
57:52
kind of conversation that came up on the show
57:53
today about China doing capitalism, and how China
57:56
does capitalism better than the capitalists.
57:59
And my thing was, yeah, they're right. Because
58:02
it's government supremacy over the private sector.
58:06
It's government supremacy. It's not that you
58:08
want to be China. It's more so that China has
58:10
been able to harness the best parts of it in
58:13
order to leverage for the society, which is what
58:16
they should be doing. Again, come here. Teach
58:20
us. Jeff Bezos may have a great idea for a company,
58:25
but if there's not workers, those workers aren't
58:27
educated, streets, clean air, all of that shit.
58:32
Jeff Bezos doesn't make billions of dollars.
58:34
And maybe there's a question of whether or not...
58:36
He might make more under a Chinese-style system.
58:39
He may make more. People will have more money
58:41
in their pockets and better products, I suppose.
58:43
That doesn't... for today. Get out of line, they're
58:45
going to chop his head off. That's the catch.
58:48
We got a paid comment real quick. We got a hit.
58:50
Do it. Paul Green, Dennis, thank you for the
58:54
two bucks. So, is the Donald doing the autopen
58:57
like Joe, or exactly? He's free-balling it. Okay.
59:04
And then he does what he does. One of
59:09
my favorite words. Yeah. Last one from JusticeQ2X.
59:14
The United States consumes roughly 30 percent of the
59:17
world's prescription opioids, while historically
59:20
consuming up to 80 percent or more of specific individual
59:23
medications like oxycodone and hydrocodone, which
59:27
is true. That's my argument. We are too drugged
59:32
up. Wait, wait. Just put that in context. We're
59:34
4 percent of the world's globe. That's right. 4 percent of
59:38
the globe is consuming 50 percent of the drugs.
59:40
Yeah, that's insane. That number sounds... oh, it's
59:44
insane. One out of 211 UN member states, or whatever.
59:49
Yeah, that's crazy. All right. So, all right, that's
59:53
the end for today. For today, sort of. It's... so,
59:57
we're going to... We're going to log off here and then
1:00:00
record something for you premium subscribers,
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1:00:22
going to become a regular thing. It's a one-off.
1:00:26
Murtaza Hussain from Drop Site News is going
1:00:29
to be joining us to talk about the massacre of
1:00:32
those 175 or so schoolkids in Iran at the early
1:00:37
part of the Iran war, and the whole report, and
1:00:40
what they found out about it. You're going to
1:00:43
want to not miss that. And that'll be live on
1:00:45
YouTube and Rumble. Anything I'm missing, Robby?
1:00:47
Nope, we're good. All right. Thanks, everyone.
1:00:52
Go to the StreamYard, and I'll see you in a minute.
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Okay, bye. All right, guys.