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Putting Politics Before Heritage? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Thursday morning, twenty fifth day of April. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining
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me. After a crazy day of university protests about Israel. I'm sure we
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can only expect more of this as time goes on, but yesterday was pretty
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wild starting just protests popping up in places. This isn't organized or anything.
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Is that there's nothing orchestrated. There's certainly nothing suspicious at all about the way
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they just kind of all popped up in places. And if you think they're
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not dangerous, you're kidding yourself. If you think there's no potential, you're
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kidding yourself. It's there. I got a few questions about this, and
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I know this is something we're going to be dealing with leading up to the
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election. I'm always suspicious of things when we have sort of these organized protests
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that pop up, and some of them don't claim to be organized. In
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fact, they deny any sort of organization. But when we would hear stories,
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and I know people say, oh, that's conspiracy theory stuff. But
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when we hear stories or when we heard stories, I guess in the past,
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especially in twenty twenty. Isn't it wild that these protests kind of happen
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election years. I know there's a few here and there outside of that,
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but overall, the ones that seem to be coordinated seem to happen around election
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years. I heard stories about people, Sorry, just to deviate for a
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minute, but I heard story worries about people at a few places, some
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even one story about this happening here in Columbus with the protesting that happened back
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in twenty twenty. And it's always depending on the media outlet. They'll shoot
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it from an angle where it looks like there's maybe like a thousand people there,
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and then you get another person's view of it the same shot, and
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you go, there's like eight people here, but they've got it set up
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where it just kind of looks staggered and it looks like there's more. Peat
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doesn't like there's thousands, but it might look like there's one hundred. And
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then you go, well, there's eight people in this shot. They're just
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standing in a way where it kind of looked maybe one's wearing a T shirt
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with a guy's face. No, not that far. That would be good
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though. If you wear a shirt, hold up a sign that has a
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picture of a crowd of people behind you. Maybe I don't know they could
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do that. Maybe that's what they're doing all the time game day. You
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know. Maybe it's not really that many people at game day holding up signs.
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But I hear these stories about people that show up at these protests a
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number of places where, oh, that's where there's people walking around with voter
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registration clipboards. That couldn't possibly be going on. Could it people walking around
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trying to get people to register to vote in the upcoming election. No one
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would ever do that under the guise of it being some sort of protest.
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No one would ever do that. I heard it was happening in Columbus from
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someone firsthand. They saw it. They actually got approached, Hey are you
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registered to vote? This was back in twenty twenty. Are you in the
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system or you registered to vote? Has anybody mailed you a ballot yet?
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I don't know. I don't know what all the questions were. I know
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it was about getting people registered to vote sometimes, and here we are on
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college campuses, places where there might be people who haven't voted an election yet.
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There may be some who've already voted, they're already registered, and they're
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getting, you know, very fired up about whatever they're passionate about, which
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apparently is hating Jews, something that hasn't been cool in a really long time.
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I mean, you got to go way back for a time when that
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was so cool. It's sarcasm, and the closest thing to anything cool about
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it is never It's never been cool to just run around hating the Jewish people,
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hating Israel, hating the Jewish people. That's never been a thing.
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Now, there were groups of people who thought it was cool. They were
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you know, Nazis, and go really far back, go back to Pharaoh
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and the Egyptians, right, you can go way back. This is not
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something that's brand new. But we've kind of looked at bigotry and hate here
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through very specific colored glasses in America and we've said this is not okay.
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We're not going to allow this on our soil. We're not let anybody be
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hateful like this. Sure, we might let people gather and riot and burn
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things down, set police cars on fire, destroy businesses in some cases,
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take human lives, and we're not going to say anything about it. I
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mean, if somebody dies trying to defend their property or their business, or
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you know, maybe ex police officers and Missouri trying to defend the property of
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their friends and loved ones. And then they die. Oh that's just the
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cost of having our protest, the cost of our voices being heard. Right,
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we don't have we have no avoid the voiceless riots. That's what they're
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doing. They want to have a voice, they want to be heard.
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So let's just kind of break a couple things down. Because when people say
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it's not organized, and I say, well, what about stories of little
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civil unrest breaks out? Vehicle shows up, people are being handed signs out
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of the back of a van. Eye witnesses to this happening in a few
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places around the country. Can't tell you how many of those stories are true.
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I can just tell you that, you know, there were reports of
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that in Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse, that that whole situation. I mean,
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there have been a number of reports of this happening. They show up,
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they've got signs ready to go, They've got in some cases black clothing for
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some people. I know some of these are probably urban myth. Some of
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them, people will say, and they had photos. I've seen photos of
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some of these trucks. You can't tell me that it doesn't happen. I
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mean, you'd be foolish not to. If this was your game, if
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this was your long con right, and you're going to try to convince people
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that civil unrest is the way to get things done, then you'd be a
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fool not to partake in that. I mean, if they're not doing it,
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they're missing out on a great opportunity. So when they seem to be
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so organized and people show up with a registration, clipboards or iPads or whatever
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they use now they used to use clipboards, Now they probably just have iPads.
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I don't know. With all the protesting and civil unrest might not be
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a good idea. I have electronics out, might have it stolen from you.
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Then what are you going to do when you have to go to some
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elderly person's house and get them to sign your iPads so you can cast a
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vote for him? What are you going to do when that happens? Don't
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want want to have your eye. We have people admitting to doing that,
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admitting to it in Texas, you can't say that didn't happen. People were
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actually charged with that. Anyway, The point is we have to acknowledge the
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fact that this is just another part of the political game. This is one
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of the cogs in the wheel, and it's one of the cogs in the
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wheel for the left. My question though, is, and I've talked about
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this before, I've got friends that are themselves. They would argue that on
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most issues in politics, because of their faith, they would really probably more
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align with the right, with conservatives, with Republicans, they would probably more
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align with the right. But they're also really big supporters of all things environmental,
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and they think that we're in this crisis, this climate crisis, and
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I don't know, I guess they believe the twelve to twenty years we're going
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to all die thing that we keep getting told every twelve to twenty years.
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I mean, it kind of starts over and resets, but they believe that,
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and that's fine. I'm not you believe what you want to believe.
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Following up on yesterday, you be you whatever you want to do. I'm
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not someone who feels like I need to try to change people's opinions in my
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daily life. Maybe a little bit on this show. I think there's elements
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that, but I think most of the listeners here probably have their opinions already,
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maybe agree with me on at least a certain amount of them, but
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overall, probably not changing anyone's mind here. But my point that I'm just
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trying to make is if you would probably vote most of the time on conservative
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issues, if you're someone who says abortion it's not a good thing, that's
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bad. You believe in overall free markets, You think people should, you
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know, have the ability to work hard and have rewards for working hard,
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and you believe that in principle, and you believe most of the conservative things,
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most of the things that would qualify you as a conservative. But the
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environment is the only thing that you go to vote on. That's the thing
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that motivates you to show up at the polls. You're willing to put everything
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else aside for the sake of the environment. And that ties into a little
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bit of the message we've had this week about if you're putting your politics ahead
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of your religion and your faith, you're doing it wrong. Okay, I
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will say that to someone, but you know, they can still do whatever
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they want to do. It's not my place to tell them that they should
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be doing it differently. I guess I've got questions for some of my friends
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in the Jewish community, because I do know some that are staunch Democrats,
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have always voted Democrats, still plan to vote Democrat, but don't seem to
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be aware of the fact that we have members of Congress that are Democrats that
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are encouraging and at times participating in some of these protests that are anti Israel.
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These are the same people who are often concerned about their own synagogue.
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They say, Oh, someone put a flyer on a card and had a
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swastika on it, and that's happened at our church or our synagogue, and
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they say, well, we got to be careful, we got to be
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careful just leaving the building. They've got security, they've got armed guards protecting
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synagogues around the country anyway, and that's a horrible way to have to function.
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It's terrible. I mean, that is terrible. But the concern about
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that is always, oh, it's one of these far right Nazi people,
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one of these nut jobs clinging to their guns, one of these militia guys.
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It's painting these swastikas on things. And there's been documented cases of people
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putting swastikas on things, and then you find out later no they're not.
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They're actually you know, they're playing the anarchy game and really they're supporting people
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like Bernie Sanders. We've got some of those cases that it popped up in
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the asked. So if you're looking at this and you're saying, Okay,
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someone has put a swastika on a piece of paper and put it on someone's
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car, or they've painted it on someone's garage door or whatever it is,
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it's awful. No one should be subjected to that. No one should have
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to deal with that. No one should have to live their life in fear
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because of their faith or their nationality. No one should be forced to do
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that. Okay, we've been doing this for a long time. We've tried
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to get to a point where people should not be oppressed and harassed and mistreated
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for those reasons. So if you're concerned when the swastika shows up somewhere,
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it's painted on a wall somewhere, and they go, oh my gosh,
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we've got this rising sentiment of anti Semitism. It's happening, it's popping up.
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We need arm guards at the synagogue, we need to protect ourselves,
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and hey, I'm all, you want to protect yourself, Hey, I'm
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a two A guy. Someone you should be able to protect yourself. Someone
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should be able to be there to protect you whatever it is that you want.
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But this notion that it's only people on the far right that feel this
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way or have ever felt this way, this needs to be completely blown out
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of the water. Now. We need to basically take everything we've ever thought
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or assumed. And I'm speaking with my Jewish friends, and I have Jewish
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friends, and I know they can't wait to run in in November and vote
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for all of their favorite greatest hits Democrats. But you need to take a
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minute and just look at what's happening with these protests. What's being allowed to
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happen. And I'm not talking about just anything that's as far as it being
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something that falls under the First Amendment, that's great. I'm a one A
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guy as well. Okay, So if you want to have a peaceful protest
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without trying to scare and intimidate students on campus or people in a city,
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or people trying to go to their synagogue, but what are we protesting on
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us soil? It's one thing when there is a protest that says, hey,
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this person did something really bad to this person here on us soil,
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and there was a horrible way that it was handled. Whether it's a police
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officer that took a life, whether it is a politician who did something to
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oppress someone who was under there, I don't know, an intern. Whether
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it's you know, watching the documentary about the kids at Nickelodeon, you go
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on, my gosh, something terrible happened to someone else. We should protest
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in the name of whatever the cause is. And when we start looking at
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things like you say, Kyle Rittenhouse, and if you don't think that Kyle
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Rittenhouse was in the right to have a weapon and you want to have a
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protest about that, that's one thing you have a you have a clear goal
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of what you're what you're trying to accomplish. You see someone that's killed by
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police and you say this is because of their race, whether it was or
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not. People will say that and they'll say, well, we have you
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know these officers did this to this person. I want to go protest.
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I want to make sure that that person who died their voice gets heard,
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Okay, as an American, I want to make sure their voice gets heard.
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What are what are we protesting concerning Israel on US soil? What is
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the objective of the protests? What exactly are they trying to change? They're
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trying to, I guess, get more support of students on campuses, younger
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people, and say hey, this is a cause we need to be behind.
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This is something that we need to rally everybody behind. And then what
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are you going to do? What is the goal? You want more politicians
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in place that might have the same views as you and the squad, and
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you might want to say, hey, we want to shape legislation. We
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don't want the US to do any We don't want to be allies with Israel
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anymore. We want the US to be part of annihilating the Jews in Israel.
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We want to wipe it clean. I'm asking my Jewish friends, is
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that something that you're comfortable with? Is that something that you'd be comfortable knowing
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that voting Democrat may actually help that happen. I guess that's what I want
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to know. Is that something that you think that you going to the ballot
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and you casting a vote you would like to see play out? And if
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the answer is no, you have to rethink your plans for November, don't
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you. I mean, you don't have to, you can do whatever you
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want to do. But I know I would. I would be thinking,
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well, wait a minute, me, casting this vote may be detrimental to
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my people, This may be detrimental to a place that means something to me
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and my family history. I mean, at the very least, you have
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to take a moment and think about it, right, Because I'm telling you
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on these college campuses, this isn't just about people saying, you know,
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we support Palestine. Some are absolutely I know it's not cool to say,
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hey, some protesters are good people. You're not supposed to say that.
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You're not allowed to say that, right. We know that those words will
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get miscontrued, misconstrued and twisted, and it will be all blown and then
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suddenly you're labeled an absolute Nazi racist. Some of the people are just saying,
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hey, I want to stand up for Palistin. I have friends,
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Palestinian friends. All they want to see is what's fair for Palestine. That's
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all they want. They're not calling for the elimination of the Jews. They're
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not yelling death to Israel, wipe them clean, blow them up, yay
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kidnapping and raping. They're not saying that. All they're saying is, hey,
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we'd like Palestine to get what's owed to Palestine. And there are people
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at these protests that are saying that, all right, that's a fair thing
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to say. I don't know why it's being said so much on US soil
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at college campuses other than hey, they're walking around trying to register people to
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vote. Keep it in mind, it's happening. That's what they want to
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do. That's the long game, that's the objective, that's what they would
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like to accomplish. This is about politics. It's always about politics, especially
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when there's nothing specifically in the US to change. It's not like the US
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can change rules in the US about the way Israel treats people who attack them.
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That's not something that we have the authority to do here. And people
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say, well, we can change the way we support them, or whether
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or not we send them money or send them support or any of that.
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And again, if that's what the goal is, and you yourself or one
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of the people that's been saying, ah my gosh, I'm so scared to
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go to my synagogue because I don't know what's going to happen because somebody said
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they saw swastika painted on the side of one of the cars, or they
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saw it stuck on something. You got to think about what's important to you.
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Israel important to you? Is the US relationship with Israel important to you?
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Might want to think about things, might want to give some of this
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just a second thought more than just the occasional You know, boy, I
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really want to support Israel, but I'm scared to do it because there's people
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protesting in the streets and threatening and making students. And that's the biggest thing
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that I hadn't gone into, the making students feel unsafe on campus. Imagine
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this happening to any other group, just about any other group. Imagine if
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the Asian students on campus didn't feel comfortable walking across campus because there were people
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protesting any Asian country. Imagine the flac that would come from that. Imagine
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the flat that came just from a former president referring to COVID as the China
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virus that makes Asian people uncomfortable. They're worried that people are going to do
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something to him, they might hurt them. His words, that's all he
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said. He called it the China virus, right, That's all he did.
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People lost their minds. I remember people losing them. Can you believe
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he's saying that, Yeah, I can this virus that came from China.
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Yes, I can believe that. Would be shocked if he was saying all
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of these Chinese Americans are at fault, that would be a problem. And
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I understand people are saying, hey, this makes Asian people feel uncomfortable.
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They don't want to be associated with this, and we shouldn't do that.
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Okay, Well where's that feeling? Where's that empathy right now? For our
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Jewish friends? Where where is that right now? On these campuses? Why
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aren't we seeing more people standing up to that, not talking about just peaceful
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stuff. But again, I don't know what the goal. I don't know
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other than shaping the election. I don't know what the endgame is. I
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don't know what they're hoping to accomplish except adding more members to the squad.
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year, but by the end of the year, maybe a like a January
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first wedding. Maybe you could get in there around Christmas time and enjoy a
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Swifty wedding at the castle up in Tennessee. I'm not familiar with this particular.
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I don't even know the song, to be honest, I'm aware Taylor
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Swift has songs, and she's got one something about shaking it off and you
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belong with Me. That's all that's all I got. And apparently love Story
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it's gonna be my new one. I bet that's a good one, all
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right. According to a new study, kids who set big goals for their
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future tend to achieve those goals when they get older. Adolescents who endorsed higher
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levels of prestige and education goals tended to have higher educational attainment, income,
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occupational creativity, occupational prestige, and job complexity after twelve years, according to
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Rodica Damien, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Houston. According
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to the research, the message seems to be that when kids dream big about
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doing well in school or being successful as an adult, they tend to accomplish
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those things. So manifesting your dreams apparently is has some real context to it,
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at least according to this study from the University of Houston. That'll do
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it for this Thursday edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons.
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