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Allowing Angry Mobs to Perfect the Art Was a Really Bad Idea · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day
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and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show, Tuesday morning, seventh day
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of November. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me. A couple of weeks
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away from Thanksgiving, now, a couple of weeks away. Happening fast,
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man, it's happening fast. We're on that really rapid downhill, like on
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a bike with no brakes. Man, We're going downhill fast into the holidays.
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But here we go. All right, I want to talk a little
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bit about a trend that is growing now in the country, and I think
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that it is safe to say that it started. I mean, it's something
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that's been going on for a while, but the trend of all of this
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has led to a bigger problem that we're currently experiencing. I know I'm speaking
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in real at this point. Let me just dive into this, but go
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back to the point where rowdy, out of control protests that featured violent acts
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was encouraged. And I'm not just talking about just allowed to happen. I'm
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talking about when violent acts were encouraged to take place at protests under the guise
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of them being peaceful protests. I'm talking about businesses being destroyed, businesses being
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burned down. This sort of thing has happened obviously in the past. I
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can reference specific points in my lifetime when I saw them happen and I thought,
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oh my gosh, this is bad, this is horrible, and it's
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one of those things where you think you sort of get fight, well you
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don't, sort of. You get very frustrated when you realize the long term
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effect of something that happens, even in these isolated situations. Think back to
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the Rodney King riots that happened and how completely out of control things got.
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People were angry, people were upset. A certain amount of people I think
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understood a little bit the anger and frustration that people felt. But ultimately,
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the actions of people that were carrying out violent acts and committing violent crimes in
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the process that they're protesting were looked down upon. It wasn't looked at as,
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oh my gosh, this is a positive thing, not as a consensus,
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not as a whole. There were some, I think that saw it
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that way, But this was something that happened at a point in my life
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when I wasn't fully following politics and things, so you could certainly correct me
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if I'm wrong, but my understanding at the time from people that I talked
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with on both sides of the hour, this is horrible. This is something
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that shouldn't happen. Over time, it started to become something where violence and
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violent rhetoric even was encouraged, and it was done in the name of scare
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tactics. We'll jump ahead, and I know we're skipping some incidents, but
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I want to jump ahead to the twenty twenty election, or we could even
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jump to the twenty post twenty sixteen election and go into the inauguration point.
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As people protested the presidency of Donald Trump when he was sworn in, we
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could go to that. Remember that became a thing. I don't know how
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many of those got overly violent, but they were protests that were being done
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in the name of really registering voters for next time and also making a wrong
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statement. Right, it was all that, but that's fine, make your
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strong statement without getting violent, without getting out of control. Twenty twenty was
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out of control, and we saw it happen some before twenty twenty, but
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we know what was going on. During COVID. We were all told stay
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inside, shelter in place, don't get out in the community. Don't get
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out in public. There's a risk that you're gonna kill grandma. That was
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one of the things the narratives that was pushed. If you get out in
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the community, if you get out in public with COVID going on, you're
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gonna put lives at risk. You're going to endanger the lives of fellow citizens.
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And that's what you'll do if you get out in public in any capacity.
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And then people said, well, wait a minute, there are people
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out protesting right now. They're protesting a number of things that all sort of
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tie into Black Lives Matter and tie into the election. And then this s
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eatement came out. Well that's different. I mean people have to get out
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and protest that they're not really putting anybody in danger. These large groups of
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people all conglomerated together right up around each other, shouting and screaming, sometimes
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not even wearing masks as you were telling us to wear masks. Is okay,
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Well, yeah, that's fine, there's no danger. There should have
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been a clue to us, by the way, that should have been I
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know it was for some I remember discussing that on the show. I remember
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saying wait a minute, This should be an indicator of how serious they really
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think all of this really is. But we were told they have to be
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able to get out and do that. They've got to be able to get
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out in protest. The people that are going to go protest, they need
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to do that. They need to be out setting cars on fire, they
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need to be burning down buildings. They need to be destroying businesses and neighborhoods
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and putting people's livelihoods at stake. It's not like we were already in the
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midst of this horrific pandemic that was already putting lives and livelihoods at stake.
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We doubled down on it in the name of getting rid of Donald Trump.
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That's what they wanted to do at all costs. And they wanted to scare
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people and intimidate them. So they let the riots and protest I'm sorry,
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peaceful protests aka riots. They let them get absolutely out of control in the
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name of intimidation, in the name of scaring people into thinking, oh my
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gosh, what's going to happen next? What exactly is coming for all of
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us? Where is this all going? That's what they did. They tried
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to scare us. They wanted us to be intimidated. They encouraged young people
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to get involved. They wanted more and more people to participate. They wanted
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people to make the mobs grow, because the more people there were, the
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scarier it would be. They when they thought, oh, my gosh,
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Rovy Wade maybe getting overturned. We've got this leak that has come out.
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And the leak was out, and they said, oh, people need to
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start showing up at the homes of Supreme Court justices. Let's make sure that
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we let everybody know where they live. Here's the dosing of their addresses.
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Let's have people show up there. And they did. In one case,
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someone wanted to kill a sitting Supreme Court justice. We had folks at the
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Capitol building chasing around members, at least one member of the Senate chasing her
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into the bathroom, Kirsten Cinema, because she wouldn't vote the way that people
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wanted them to vote. Things got out of control, and they were encouraged
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to get out of control. And what's happened is over the past few years,
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it's calmed down quite a bit, hasn't it. We're not an election
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year. We saw a little bit of that in the midterms. You know,
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we saw some of those things happening, but it wasn't quite in full
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force. Is it coming again? Could be same guys running for president.
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We know they're trying to get him out of there using every means necessary,
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and I don't think they would pull any punches this time. They felt like
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he was a absolute danger before. He's more of a danger to them now
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because now people realize how bad the master, how horrible of a mistake it
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was to put Joe Biden in office. I think a lot of people are
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realizing that. There's still some that don't see it that way. There's some
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that say anything is better than Donald Trump. He's the worst person ever.
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There's a lot of people that have come around on that. They're just saying,
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look, I don't necessarily like him, but I'd like to have some
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money in the bank. I'd like to be able to afford groceries. I'd
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like to think that Christmas is something that's tainable for me and my family this
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year. I'd like to think that at some point we'll be able to go
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on vacation again. I'd like to think that buying and selling a home would
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be nice in my life, or you know, purchasing a new vehicle that
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doesn't involve a battery that uses far more gallons of gasoline, more gallons of
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oil and fuel in general than any car that's currently on the road. Maybe
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not any car. There's probably some guzzling. My truck uses a lot of
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gas. I wish it used the less. I'd drive it a whole lot
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more. But people would like to experience those things again. They'd like things
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to get back to normal. But keep in mind, we were told by
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a member of the House of Representatives, aoc right, Alexandria Occasio Cortes.
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Whatever her nickname used to be, Lexi Cortes. I think she used to
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have some cool name, and then they made it very you know, gave
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her all the extra names in there, made it longer and made it sound
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more serious. Was it Alley? It was something like that. So she
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said that all the protests and riots and things, and just because Trump lost
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doesn't mean it's time for everything to calm down. There's no more brunches.
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You can't go back to life, you can't go back to having Sunday brunches.
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You have to keep the revolution moving. We have to keep the protesting
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going. We have to stay active and stay on top of things. We
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have to continue to push forward to get our agenda out there. And what's
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it led to? What's it led to? Now? We now have an
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upstart group of college students that are protesting to end Israel and to exterminate the
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Jews. We're seeing that popping up at college campuses and in cities and near
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the White House. People are protesting their bloody hands on the entrance way to
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the White House. This is what it has led to. We have a
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growing community of people that are calling for the extermination of Israel, the nation,
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and the extermination of the Jews. The anti Semitic rhetoric has grown and
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it's got out of control, and they're getting more and more support in our
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country and all sorts of places around the world. But I want to specifically
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address here because now when you see these protests and you see this anger in
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vitriol and hate, and you look at it and you say, how did
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we get to this? That's how? This is a progressive thing that has
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built. That's a double meaning there on that that's built for years to the
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point where we've encouraged people to get to this point, we've said when people
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throw molotov cocktails at police cars, that's not violence. Violence is when you
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hurt a person, burning up a police car and destroying it, not really
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paying attention to anybody's editor or not. I guess that's not violence. There's
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nothing violent about burning down a building. How's that violent. It's just going
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to come out of insurance. It's not going to hurt the people who own
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the building. It's just that insurance will cover. It's no big deal when
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we steal, when we loot, when we pillage businesses, it's just going
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to be insurance doesn't affect the people who own the businesses. It does.
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I don't know if you know how insurance works. That's exactly who it hurts,
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the people who have the insurance. You don't just file the claim and
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have zero kickback. And then what happens when businesses decide we're going to move
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on. We're not going to have a store in this town anymore. We're
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going to just pack up and leave. We'd like to think that people can
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continue to shop with us, but we're going to take it away. We
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don't want that to be an option anymore because we're tired of people stealing from
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us, and that's what's happening in parts of the country. Is it happening
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here locally, No, not in the Chattahoochee Valley. It's not happening here
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yet. Did we have protests during the twenty twenty election, Yes. Is
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it possible that we're going to see some of this rhetoric that's happening now,
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understand something the people. There are some of these protests that are peaceful.
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Okay, we went through this before, we went through this with Black Lives
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Matter. Some of those did keep peaceful protests. But one of the things
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that was the most difficult is when we saw violence being carried out, when
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we heard violent speech coming out. Okay, and there is such thing as
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violent speech. We talk about free speech, and we've talked about how you
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can't just say anything. There are words that are considered detrimental to the functional
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society that we try to live in. There's some things that we've declared we
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won't tolerate. You take former president's words out of context and you make it
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sound like he said something really hateful and really disgusting by chopping it up like
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in The Running Man, A right, Stephen King book and movie, You
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chop it up, make it sound worse than it is, and then you
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tell everybody, look, can you believe that he said this? Can you
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believe that he said these hateful things? And we say that's not We're not
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going to accept that. Why are we accepting what's happening now in the protests,
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Because even in cases where it's not necessarily violent, we had the news
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telling us that the twenty twenty Black Lives Matter protests, even while they're standing
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on a street corner fearing for their lives, as reporters going, these are
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peaceful. Yeah, there's like, there's a building over here on fire,
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and I just heard gunshots over there, and I just saw somebody run by
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with a bunch of masks and bulletproof armor on, and you a couple of
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pick axes. But I'm fine, this is all peaceful. There's a mob
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of people running around with torches. It's all fine. There's nothing going on
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here, nothing to see here. And now what we're seeing is protest signs
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that tell us they're holding up signs. I guess they're now trying to compare
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Israel to Nazi Germany. So not only are they angry protesters that are out
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of control. They're really really bad at history, really bad at it.
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Pick up a book, just thumb through it. You can find you can
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get a you can go through Wikipedia, and you can understand that is not
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But that's the nature of what we are now. Much like we've encouraged the
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violent protests over the years, especially here recently, we've also encouraged this false
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rhetoric, this silly rhetoric where anyone we don't like instantly becomes Hitler or becomes
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a Nazi. Anyone we don't like is a fascist Nazi Hitler man, right,
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anybody, if you don't like him, that's what you do, That's
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what we do. And we've allowed that to happen. Nobody stepped back and
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said, you do realize, even if you think they're on the trajectory for
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it, they're not even close, not even close to Hitler. Even if
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you can convince me that they're on that path, they're not even close.
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Like that should not be something that we say. But because we allow it
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to happen, we allow people to be called Hitler in Nazis and all these
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things. Now we've got people calling Israel Nazi Germany. They're comparing leadership in
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Israel to Hitler Hitler in Israel because we've allowed it to get to this,
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and it's growing, and the question becomes, what do we do because now
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you've even got some Democrats going, uh, it used to be on our
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side. Some of them, of course, still think this is on their
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side, but the ones in leadership that want to stay in leadership are saying,
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we're going to lose the Jewish Democrat vote. Jewish Democrats are starting to
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say that we're not going to stick by a party that's allowing this to happen.
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We're going to stick by a party that's going to be critical of Israel
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of us. We're not going to do that. And they start to see
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some of those votes slip away. They start to realize this is not going
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to go well in this next election. So they have a problem they've got
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to figure out. It's already getting out of control. When you look at
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some of the latest poll numbers that say Trump is way ahead of Biden in
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most of the swing states, way ahead. It's not even close, which
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is why they know they have to get rid of Trump. It's why they
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have to get him out of the race. That's priority number one, and
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then they can start damage control on their own selves and try to figure out
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what they're going to do about this growing sentiment of people, this next wave
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of protests, and how do they make the protests favorable to them the way
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they did in twenty twenty. That's what they're going to try to figure out
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Morning Show right after the break. So what are your thoughts on sharing food?
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A new survey says that ten percent of respondents said that they feel strongly
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about not sharing the food that they're eating. People are especially orked when people
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help themselves to food off their plate. I mean, if you're offered it,
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that's one thing. Almost half of those surveys that it bothers them when
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people take something off their plate without asking. And how much do they hate
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other people sampling their food? Thirty percent said they would rather buy someone a
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separate meal than share theirs. Fifteen percent said they'd add an actual argument with
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someone who took food from them. When it comes to the foods that people
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are most reluctant to share, probably not a big surprise. Fries at the
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top of the list that seems like an easy one to share. I mean,
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I understand, but I mean that of all the foods, that's if
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someone wants a big cut out of my steak, that's more difficult. Or
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scooping out of, you know, my potatoes or whatever, that's a little
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different. Pizza's next on the list, ice cream and chocolate. When people
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say they least want to share their food with coworkers than friends and then siblings,
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that all sounds about right. A new survey found eighty four percent of
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gens and millennials have been ghosted by someone. Seventy five percent of the young
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adult surveyed said that it's acceptable to ghost others, even though maybe they've already
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been through it, even if it can hurt others. Two thirds of those
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who have been ghosted admitted to ghosting someone themselves, and they say that that
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now has a name reciprocal ghosting, so you can ghost someone back or whatever,
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just pay them back for it. Those who ghosts say they don't regret
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it as much as the relief of moving on. I guess eighty six percent
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of people, ninety one percent of women said that they felt relieved after they
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ghosted someone. Of all the pet piece people have when flying, Switching seats
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is moving up to the top of the list is worst offenses, and they
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say people I guess aren't necessarily booking a seat so that they can sit where
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you know, they choose when they're doing the booking. They just want to
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get on the plane and try to figure out the best seat that they want
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that's available. And apparently also people ask to swap so they can sit next
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to their travel companion. About half the travelers say it's not okay to switch
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seats at all. According to a poll from Kayak, fifty four percent approve
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switching seats, but only if you ask politely. No, that seems fair,
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they're just asking to switch. Sixty four percent said they would not allow
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sweet such seat switching if just because they claim their nervous flyers. Seventy seven
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percent said they wouldn't switch with someone if they simply just don't like their assigned
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seat. So here's the thing on the seat swapping. Okay, this is
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my just thoughts on this. I think that if you are somehow downgrading your
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seat while asking to switch, I think that seems reasonable. I think the
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person that's trying to switch, like if someone is sitting in between, like
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two burly guys. You know, I've sat between people on really long international
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flights. It's not fun. If you're very cramped and you're in a middle
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seat and you're asking someone else who maybe has a better seat, whether a
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window or an aisle seat, to switch with you. That's not reasonable.
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I don't think that's a fair request, you know, I don't think that's
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okay. I mean, you can ask, you certainly can ask, But
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I don't think you should be upset when someone says no, because you're then
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they and especially if they went to the trouble of picking the aisle or window
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seat for their trip and that's what they want, that's reasonable for them to
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say no. It isn't that a reasonable thing? Now? You can ask.
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Anybody should be able to ask, hey, do you mind? I
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want to sit with them? But we do have too many options now on
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pre planning the seats. You know, you get a chance just to pick
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whatever seat you want when you book the flight. That's an option for you.
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If you choose not to do it, you may get stuck with a
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bad seat. That's just the reality. That'll do it. For this Tuesday
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