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“RELIGION OF PEACE” Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep1138
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Coming up, Debbie and I are geared up for a top-notch Friday roundup.
We're going to talk about the religion of peace, so as Debbie sometimes calls it, the religion of pieces.
Anyway, it's the increasing presence and influence of Muslims in the West, the massacre of Christians in Syria and other countries, whether Sidney Sweeney really has good genes, illegals and the left's virtue signaling, and a very peculiar dark heart that Brian Kohberger drew on a piece of paper during his sentencing.
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Guys, Debbie and I are here and ready to roll on a Friday roundup.
And honey, you are looking smashing as always.
And no, it's just that I had just got my hair done.
You got your hair done, but it looks great.
Yep.
It looks super good.
Thank you.
Yeah, I was going for a little bit lighter look, you know, on the hair to hide the grays a little more.
Well, your hair has a it has such a like a subtle combination of like reds and browns.
And now you have a like a slightly blondish streak.
Uh-oh.
But I think you're still more on the brown side.
Yeah, I didn't want to go blonde, but I wanted to go a little lighter, just not blonde.
Yeah, you don't mean that blondes have more fun?
Not necessarily.
Necessarily, I guess.
Yeah.
All right, let's talk about this.
There's a new poll, a survey from Pew Research.
And Pew Research, you know, leans to the left.
But these findings are so startling that they're really worth reflecting on because we tend to believe, and this is all really foundational to the whole progressive idea, right?
That, hey, you conservatives are all the old people.
You're dying out.
The future belongs to us.
You know, Obama, the arc of history bends in our direction.
Well, take a look at this.
Basically, if you look at the shift from 2023 to 2025, so just really in two years, you find that among the older people, you have a tilt, a slight tilt, toward the Democrats.
So older people, by the way, are fairly evenly divided.
They were leaning a little bit more Republican, at least the men.
And now they are, it's kind of very evenly balanced.
So that's interesting.
The Democrats have been gaining, although very modestly, for older people over 65 men, D plus six, and women, D plus two.
Okay, but now contrast this with 18 to 29, which is the youngest cohort.
In 2023, the Democrats were dominant among men and women.
They had 62% of men and they had 65% of women.
So young people were like in the Democratic camp.
There's been a shift, R plus 44.
And among women, R plus 14.
So among younger people, even women have swung to the right.
Now, in 2025, the Democrats still have a majority among women.
They're a 58 and women are 37% on the Republican side.
But look at men.
Leaning Democratic, 34%.
Leaning Republican, 52%.
So the notable shift here, I mean, there is a shift that is more pronounced among men in all demographics, all cohorts.
But what we see is younger men and younger women moving right, but young men moving even more to the right.
And how do you, I mean, I find this very encouraging and very positive.
And I've seen a hint of it myself in the sense that I notice that young right-wingers even look back at our generation, which is boomer generation.
You know, I'm at the end of boomer, you're at the beginning of Generation X, I guess.
But they see us as like not sufficiently conservative.
In fact, they know, right?
I mean, we're pleased to hear it.
We're Actually, moderates, as it turns out.
Well, we're not, but I think what it is, is that these young people have become so embittered against the establishment, against the powers that be.
They are so they feel the pinch of economic policies and the attack on men in general.
The attack on men on white men in particular.
This DEI has become so epidemic.
And I think also what happened is, you know, when I was in college, I saw the universities as run by these muddle-headed liberals.
Some of them were older, classical liberals, but they were kind of weak.
And then I saw these aggressive young activists coming up, and the struggle was between those groups.
But I got along pretty well with both groups.
Maybe surprisingly enough, I think these young people today, especially young men, they see the universities run by this twisted, woke matriarchy with a retinue of, you know, just amoral, emasculated men who are like viciously trampling on their chances to get into grad school, get good jobs, get promotions that demonizes them, makes their life miserable on campus.
So they want to like strike out at these people, humiliate them, degrade them, ruin them.
And I think that in some ways they're right.
The universities have gone so far that I don't even know if they can be salvaged in their current form.
Yeah, probably not.
But this is good because this is the result, right?
This is what happens.
The result?
I mean, I think that if these numbers are right, and there's no reason to think they're not, it portends a political earthquake.
I mean, it portends the fact that as the boomers fade out, you're going to see American politics move sharply right.
You're going to have a far right keeping its eye on the normal right.
I mean, these are people, you know, we saw a glimpse of this even with Trump, where when the Epstein issue came up, or even on immigration, these are people who like they move in and they start bashing Trump from the right.
You're not doing enough.
Yeah, you've sealed the border.
Big deal.
Where are the deportations?
Or their view is, you promised us the Epstein names.
Give us the Epstein names.
And if one of the Trump cabinet people goes, well, you know, we're reviewing the names.
These people go nuts.
And they go, why are you reviewing the names?
We don't need to have you, Pam Bondi, screen the names for us.
Give us the names.
We will figure it out.
Just release the information.
Be transparent.
So this is the kind of voice of the kind of, in a way, the hard right.
And while we're sympathetic to that group, I think it's probably accurate to say that we are not in that group.
I know.
Right?
So, and maybe you're even in it even less than I am, right?
Because I think you're more of a traditional Republican, and you understand, I think, the flaws of the old Paul Ryan Romney model.
So I'm not, you know, there's no way.
I'm not that.
You're not that at all.
No, no, no.
But I'm also not, I'm also not hardcore MAGA.
You know, like, I wouldn't call myself MAGA.
I am a supporter of Trump.
I'm supportive of his policies.
But I wouldn't go as far as to say that I'm MAGA.
Why is that?
Now, how do you, what is your idea of MAGA that differs from traditional Republicans?
I think because I really do like the Republican Party, and I think the Republican Party is a good party.
You know, it's got really good bones.
And I think building up the party is the important thing because I fear that the MAGA movement will go away when Trump is no longer president.
And so I want to make sure that the Republican Party has that MAGA spirit, but not necessarily MAGA.
Yeah, I know what you're saying.
There is certainly a faction of MAGA that's like, we're not really Republican.
You know, we are actually members of this non-existent, but nevertheless, you know, imaginative new party called MAGA, and we have no real loyalty to the Republican Party.
And I think what you're saying, which I agree with, by the way, is that, first of all, the Republican Party has a spectacular, remarkable track record in history, right?
We're a party rooted in all the right ideals.
And this goes back to the second half of the 19th century.
The Democratic Party is responsible for a lot of the evils in American society and culture.
Still to this day.
Still to this day.
And American politics has fought team against team.
So there really is no way to fix the country by creating some other party.
Yeah, the only other party that I would like to see created is on the left.
Right.
You're saying to divide the left, right?
To create a wedge.
Exactly.
So maybe if they had a true Communist Party, it would be good.
That's absolutely right.
Yeah.
Well, that true Communist Party is the Democrat.
So if the Democrats that are not communists, they're left, but they're not socialist communist left.
They maybe can form their own party.
And so they can divide their own people that way.
You know, it is they are struggling over, I think, this issue.
Their identity?
Well, in a way, I think Mom Dani, even though he's just running for mayor of New York, and, you know, it's just one office by itself.
And even if he wins, there's a limit to what he can do.
Somebody was asking me in my locals QA, you know, what is how's Mom Dani going to be different from, let's say, Brandon Johnson in Chicago or, you know, Betelgeuse before him or a lot of these other mayors in left-wing cities, London Breed in San Francisco or the Karen Bass in L.A. And I said, you know, I don't think he's going to be different at all.
All these people are the same ilk.
But rhetorically, he goes further than they do.
They won't even talk about like nationalizing businesses or seizing private property or taking over people's apartments.
This dude will do that.
He goes there.
But probably in terms of actual governance, it'll be the same.
But the point I'm getting at is that you're saying that the Democratic Party, they're going to have to decide what to do about this movement because, you know, talk about up-and-coming young people.
Up and coming young people are more Karen Bass and Mamdani than they are even Schumer and any traditional Democrat.
Yeah.
No, I think they could very well be in trouble if this is the case.
Now, with Mandani, I'm not really liking the fact that he, well, he's very far left, but he's also Islamic.
And more than likely, he's a radical Islamic.
That combination, I think, makes him a little bit more toxic than, say, even somebody in Chicago, than Betelgeuse or the new guy.
No, I mean, this guy is the actual physical realization of the theme in my book, The Enemy at Home, which was very controversial at the time.
And it shows us really how even the conservative understanding has shifted.
So I publish a book basically saying that it's not just a clash of civilizations between us and them, but that the us is divided into a right and a left.
And our left wing has more in common with, and strangely enough, will ally with radical Muslims against the right.
That's exactly what's happened.
And not only that, a guy like Mamdani, a part of him is basically Islamic and Islamist.
And another part of him is classic anti-colonial Obama left.
And notice how seamlessly those two things go together.
But they do.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, right?
Isn't that?
Yeah, but even more than that, because look, you know, the United States was allied with.
I mean, David Horowitz would talk about this all the time.
No, but what I'm saying is, like, look at World War II, honey.
You know, the United States is allied with Stalin, right?
But were we Stalinists?
No.
We were just the enemy of our enemy, which the enemy was, of course, the Nazis.
We were able to ally with Stalin temporarily.
But notice with Mamdani, it's not like you have two completely disparate elements.
They seem to blend.
They seem to harmonize.
I'm sure Mom Dani doesn't get up in the morning and go, is this the left-wing part of me or the Islamist part of me?
Because one and the same.
They're one and the same.
I think that's the point.
That's the point I'm trying to make.
All right.
Let's talk about, let's talk about Islam and the West, because one of the phenomena, we see it here in Texas, but it's happening in other parts of the country, is we're seeing Muslims, many of whom had initially moved into cities, now moving into suburbs.
And they are building sometimes quite conspicuous mosques.
They like to have public calls to prayer.
They have public gatherings.
They've talked about creating their own apartment complexes and neighborhoods and cities.
And so this is a phenomenon that is unfamiliar to a lot of Americans.
But it's not new.
I've been, you know, I was very much on the front lines 10 years ago on talking about this.
But I mean, even 10 years ago is somewhat new, right?
It's new.
It's a decade ago.
Yeah, because we've had immigrants coming to this country.
We've had non-white immigrants coming to this country.
And it's not even like we haven't had ethnic neighborhoods, right?
We have Chinatown, you have little, you know, little Nigeria town, but typically those are inside of cities.
And so this Islamic phenomenon, we sometimes talk about it.
I think we're kind of on the same page, but we do disagree somewhat.
You find this phenomenon more disturbing than I do.
Now, why is that?
What is disturbing about it?
Well, first of all, if true, and again, you know, this is speculative, I guess.
But if they really, if this, if the majority of Muslims want to create a caliphate and they're going to the West in order to do this, because as you've seen, videos in Italy, you know, Milan, London, all these places that are Berlin that are full of Muslims that are doing the call to prayer in public.
They have what's called no-go zones, meaning you cannot go there unless you're Muslim.
If true.
They run for local office, a lot of Muslim mayors of British towns, for example.
Exactly.
And so if this, if indeed that is what they want and they really don't want to coexist, they really want to just dominate and make you the, you know, I guess you're subordinate to them, then I have a problem with that.
You know, the Chinatown, the Chinese in Chinatown aren't doing that.
Indians don't do that.
Hindus don't do that.
Jews don't do that.
Even Christians don't do that.
So again, it's problematic.
Even if it's just a small percentage of Muslims that do that, that's a lot of Muslims because as you know, there's a lot of Muslims.
They've created a very cohesive block.
And now people do say, by the way, that they're not the only ones who do this.
You know, Mormons have created a tribe.
Jews are to some degree a tribe.
Even Hindus are to some degree a tribe.
And by tribe, what I mean is they help each other.
You know, you'll have a guy who's, let's say, a Mormon, and we've known a few Mormons who are, by the way, great guys.
And we've had one, Jerry Molin, who is key to our earlier films.
But the way Mormons operate in Salt Lake City and other places is they, you know, I noticed that a Mormon guy is makes sure to have a Mormon lawyer.
And if he's looking for an accountant, it's going to be a Mormon accountant.
And so they keep the business and they keep the money in their own community.
So the Muslims are not unique.
But I think what you're saying is that quite above and beyond the normal tribalism of self-advancement, they have this sort of ambitious political agenda.
And they have warped like customs, like, for example, honor killings.
I mean, I don't want that coming to America.
It actually did.
You know, I'm following a case.
I haven't actually gone back to see what happened.
What the outcome is.
What the outcome is.
I know that it was like on day nine of deliberations, I think, or I don't even know.
This is the husband and wife who are accused of attempted murder on their own daughter.
Strangling the daughter or having a non-Muslim boyfriend, basically.
Yes.
And so I don't want that to become like normal here.
I just don't.
And I fear that this will become normal, the more Muslims that move here.
And the more Muslims that move here and don't want to assimilate, but rather want to keep their customs, want to keep their honor killings, want to keep, you know, Sharia.
I don't want that here.
No.
Yeah.
And do you think it is best stopped by stopping the immigration in the first place?
Or do you think it is best stopped?
Because once you let people...
They don't care about assimilation.
They assimilate in certain ways, but they're not interested in giving up their culture.
They are not interested in giving up their political.
Well, you don't have to give up your culture.
Just don't force me to be subordinate to your culture.
Don't force me to do that.
That's my fear.
I don't care if you're Italian and you come and you, ah, yamore.
I don't care.
You know, you have your family, you're a family.
You can speak Italian at home, serve pasta every day, no big deal.
Yeah, I may not eat your pasta, although I'd want to, but you know, we're holding back through great discipline.
Yeah.
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Continuing on this topic of Islam, we have been seeing some pretty disturbing reports of Christians being targeted, persecuted, killed, slaughtered in places like Syria.
And you told me not just Syria, but we know this is also going on in a number of countries in Africa.
The Congo.
African countries, by the way, are sometimes quite suspended.
They're like 50% Islamic and 50% Christian, but the Muslims are more violent and they're more militant.
Yeah, and it's in the fact that they are striking Christians.
Like, okay, so Pope Leo condemns brutal machete attack that killed 49 Christians during a prayer vigil in the Congo.
Think about that.
The so-called, and they call themselves the religion of peace is going after the real religion of peace.
I mean, while they are worshiping and praying and a machete.
Machete.
I mean, talk about barbaric, bloody.
Yes.
And the other thing about it is you can flip through the pages of major newspapers and not a word about it.
Nobody's talking about a word on CNN, not a word on MSNBC.
It's almost as if if they don't cover it, it's not happening.
They're only talking about Gaza.
Right.
Gaza.
And they're not talking about the Christians that are being slaughtered in all these other places.
Even though these are civilians, right?
The big chant in Gaza is over civilians, right?
Civilians are starving.
By the way, did you see the article?
I think I saw this yesterday.
It was about the fact that the authorities in Gaza are complaining that they are being humiliated because food is being dropped by The Israelis by plane.
So they don't want these airdrops.
They're like, we don't want to be humiliated by having to go around looking for these bags of food that are being dropped out of the.
I mean, I'm sure the Israelis feel it's not exactly all that safe to be walking around where you have all these mines and booby traps set up all over the place, not to mention snipers.
And so the Israelis are like, okay, we can have food, but we're going to airdrop it.
Now, I think that that tells you, I mean, think about it.
If you and I were starving, are we going to take the position, listen, we're very humiliated that bags of food are being dropped from the sky.
We're not going to go get them and fetch them.
Come and put it into my hands.
Some homeless people act like that in America.
And we don't.
I mean, exactly.
Well, I mean, I mean, entitled is what we're doing.
The entitlementality.
You know, I don't know.
I don't know about the Gaza situation.
Now, Huckabee is supposed to be going to look into this, to see what's going on.
They're going to, to see, you know, are they really starving?
You know, what is the deal?
I saw Elizabeth Warren posted yesterday.
She said, well, because you know, they're masters of propaganda.
So it's.
Well, I mean, people fall for it because even though the New York Times corrected its image about the kid who had a physical deformity, they were claiming he was starving.
I then look, open up Axios and I see they're sharing the same photo.
Bernie Sanders was out on the Senate floor.
He had the same photo up there.
So they put out these lies.
And you remember when we drove by the border and we saw these beautiful homes and people just being free and all of that.
And it's like, oh, yeah, this is not something that you're going to see on TV.
We were driving through the West Bank.
Now, the West Bank is somewhat, you know, people talk about the occupied territories.
The West Bank is really a Judea and Samaria, but it is Palestinian territory.
It is controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
And to some degree, Hamas.
As you drive on the highway and look to your right, going north, you see these million-dollar mansions.
And we were like, who lives there?
And they were like, oh, no, that's not for Jews.
They're like, those are rich Palestinians.
And apparently, a lot of those rich Palestinians, some of these rich Palestinians are Palestinian.
Others are rich Palestinians from abroad.
They live in London.
They live in Qatar.
They live in Amman, but they have second homes or they build mansions in the middle of Israel.
I mean, it's very eerie to see.
And like you say, this is not the image that most people have of these people at all.
All right.
Let's talk about illegals.
And you gave me a couple of articles I'm going to pass over to you.
This is actually.
This is the census.
Oh, this is the Cincinnati issue, which we're going to come to next.
But hang on to those.
We were talking about illegals and we were making a point that connected the issue of illegals to virtue signaling.
What were you saying about it?
Well, I saw this video that it went viral of this girl.
She was in her workout.
She was in her Lululemons and her workout clothes.
And the ICE came and was taking some, I don't know if he was a construction worker.
I don't really know where he took him from, but he handcuffed him.
He was taking him into one of the vehicles.
And this woman was acting like a complete lunatic, yelling at the ICE guy, saying, you are, you're a criminal.
You're taking him for no good reason.
You know, so she was, she was basically advocating for this illegal.
And I, you know, I'm like, and it was, she wasn't the only one.
There were other older white women.
These are all white women.
Yeah, yeah.
Doing the same thing.
And I thought, why are they virtue signaling?
Like, what is the psychology of these people?
What is wrong with these people?
These are the first people that are going to get like, I hate to say it, but, you know.
Robbed, beaten, raped.
Yeah.
Well, look, I mean, I was saying this, and I want to kind of float this theory out there.
And that is this.
In a secular society, when people are not getting their moral compass from self-accountability.
And what I mean is normally, think about it.
And, you know, certainly when you have moral accountability, you're going to say, these are the rules, and I'm going to apply them to myself and see to what degree I have in my day lived up to my moral beliefs, right?
These are people who don't live up to their moral beliefs at all.
So they don't want to say things like, we have the Ten Commandments, which commandments have I violated today, because it's probably going to be like all 10.
So they, but their moral instinct hasn't gone away.
They still want to feel good about themselves, but they can't feel good about themselves based upon anything that they did because they are disgusting people.
And so what do they do?
They displace or transplant this moral instinct.
And so the beauty of virtue signaling is you don't have to actually do anything.
The beauty of virtue signaling is you have the moral indignation.
It's never applied to yourself.
It's applied to some third party who is not living up to their moral lights.
And so what you're doing is you're looking at illegals.
You're saying, I'm going to feel good about myself by taking the side of these underprivileged people.
Why?
Because I don't think they're going to rape me.
I don't think they're going to actually rob my neighborhood.
I live in a gated community.
I don't think they're going to take my job.
They're going to take some other farmer's job, some other agricultural worker's job, some other grocery guy's job.
And so the cost of these moral convictions that I have aren't falling on me.
They're falling on somebody else.
So, this, I think, is the psychology of these people.
It's really despicable.
But it is a way for them to pay nothing and feel like really good about themselves at the end of the day.
They can engage in major moral self-congratulation.
They can all go to their little wine and cheese parties and exchange among the, oh, you know, this terrible was having these illegals.
This is what I saw when I looked out of my window.
Oh, you won't believe what I saw.
You know, so this is the left.
I think this is their, this is the culture that they are creating among themselves.
All right, let's talk about these beatings in Cincinnati.
Did you see the police chief?
And, you know, she's trying to be even-handed, but according to her, what's happening is, well, first of all, she said she uses the word fight.
You have one group of people barbarically beating this couple, and the woman looks like she's been mutilated, but it's supposedly a fight.
Second of all, she's bashing social media, acting like you people are very irresponsible and sharing images of what happened, even though they're people on the scene.
They're taking actual videos which are accurately showing the barbaric beating.
I think she thinks like you're giving Cincinnati a bad name, and moreover, you're not showing the full picture, as if to say that, you know, there's some context that would change what you're seeing with your eyes.
You know, I mean, look, in the George Floyd video, we saw with our eyes.
You can make a judgment of what you saw.
And maybe there is some context, something that happened before, something that happened after, but it's not like your eyes, like what you see is inaccurate.
In fact, the opposite.
No, this, this is really, they arrested one guy, this black guy.
He was, he, I don't know if he's the one that, um, that actual, but he, here's a couple photos.
So, so this photos are, you have to turn your head away.
So the woman showed photos a couple of days ago, and she had a black eye, right?
Contusion in the eye, bloody, you know, big lip because of that.
I know that blood was coming out of her mouth when she was knocked to the ground.
And these people were kicking their heads.
Right.
And at first, I was like, you do know that you can murder.
I mean, you could murder these people.
Are they like such thugs that they don't care that they can?
Well, you know, look, I mean, these are, think of how somebody becomes like that, right?
You don't become like that overnight.
You don't become a barbarian overnight.
What happens is you get into fights at school, you beat up other kids, nothing happens to you.
This to me was a beatdown for white people.
Right.
This was an attack on white people.
You can't avoid the racial element of if you would look at it.
It looks to be only the only component to this was racial.
And not only that, but I think that, you know, when you see the police chain say, let's not politicize this.
Let's tamp it down.
All you have to do is say, what if it were racially the reverse?
Oh, yeah.
Right?
It would be a national catastrophe.
I am all for getting someone on a hate crime, but it better be even.
It better be even-handed.
Otherwise, we're not interested.
Yeah, this was a hate crime.
Right.
This was a hate crime 100%.
Right.
And the police chief was doing everything she could.
And by the way, you know, not to go into stereotypes, but she's your typical ponytailed, overweight white woman, obviously somewhat woke.
And her whole thing was like, let's not bring up the racial element.
We are conducting a thorough investigation.
And I'm listening to this and I'm like, again, if this were a bunch of white guys beating the heck out of a bunch of black guys, your tone would not be the same.
It would be completely different.
Yeah.
And so this is what, you know, when we talk about, we started out talking about young people and what makes them furious.
It's this kind of stuff.
It's the double standards that are embedded in our institutional practices.
Companies that basically say, you know, we're only going to hire a person of color for this position.
Or university scholarships where they're like, the first question is, explain how you, what diverse perspectives you bring to this, even though the position has nothing to do with bringing a diverse perspective per se.
It's a math scholarship, for example.
And so it's the criminal justice system, it's the education system, it's the hiring system.
I mean, this country has gone down this road ever.
You know, I think this, we have a generation that was a little bit woolly headed over.
I have a dream, you know, Martin Luther King, the March on Selma, blah, blah, blah.
And all of that was right up to a point.
But the laws were changed in the 1960s.
We didn't need 50 years of systematic racial one-sidedness.
And we see it even in small things, right?
You and I watch, you know, we're watching shows and they have a procession of advertising.
Have you ever seen a normal white family in an ad?
Have you ever seen a situation where a black person doesn't know how to use a product and the white person is explaining it to them?
It's always the opposite.
The white guy is really stupid.
What do I do with this detergent?
The black person's like, this is what you do.
This is how you.
The white person's like, oh, yes, wise black person.
You're showing us how we should get a better detergent.
I mean, it's just at some point, you know, we're both persons of color to, you know, and yet it's.
I'm more of color than you, by the way.
Not by outward appearances, but I think if you run your 23andMe, it may be true.
A lot of colors, a lot of colors.
Well, you just have a, you are basically drawn from the genetic stock of the entire planet.
I am.
Right?
I am.
And I am not.
In fact, I am, there are not a lot of people in America who are racially unmixed.
I am one of those people.
Yeah, exactly.
I haven't done 23andMe, but I think if I did, it would come out 100%.
Well, Danielle did it, and she came out 50%.
Which shows that.
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Let's talk about this guy in New York with the AR-15.
Yeah.
I mean, it was a very disturbing sight, right?
You're looking at New York City.
In fact, a familiar part of New York City, eight blocks from where I used to live in New York City, right off Central Park.
This is 52nd and, you know, on the Upper East Side.
And you have this guy walking with an AR into a corporate building.
And what do we know about that?
Well, apparently, I don't know a whole lot, but what I do know is that he had a grievance with the NFL because in his head, he concocted the idea that he used to play for the NFL.
And did he?
No, it turns out he did not.
Yeah.
He played football in high school, but he did not play for the NFL.
And there is a, I'm not even sure what the initial, what the acronym is, for it's a brain injury that football players get from banging their heads so much.
Yeah.
CTE or something like that.
I don't know.
So what happened to him?
So anyway, so he claims that that's what he had thanks to the NFL.
Well, you know, obviously he was deranged because that's not the case.
Yeah.
And so, but he's deranged.
He's on medication for, I don't even know for what, but obviously his condition.
And he, yet he is given a license to carry a weapon from Nevada.
He's from Nevada.
He drives all the way from Nevada to New York.
Can you tell me he's like a security guard?
He's a security guard at a casino.
And he gets a mentally deranged person is able to get weapons.
And so he drives basically Nevada to New York.
Yes.
I mean, it's a little strange, right?
He drives to New York.
He parks.
He walks into the building.
And you said he knew exactly where to go.
He knew.
Well, yeah, yeah, he knew where to go.
So it was a targeted.
Well, it was to the NFL.
He knew the NFL was there.
I don't know that he knew what floor they were on or anything like that.
But what I was telling you, though, is it's interesting how, you know, we want to like say, oh, you know, this person, the AR-15s, that's the problem, all of that.
And I'm like, no, there should have been a guard with an AR-15 at the entrance.
Oh, you're saying it takes an AR-50.
To get an AR, to get someone with an AR-50.
I mean, I'm just saying.
Because if you have a guard with a normal revolver.
Yeah, he wouldn't be.
It's not an even revolution.
It's not an even fight, no.
And so if you have a guard with an AR-15, I know it's scary looking, and I know it's probably very third-world country-looking.
Right.
We're not used to people brandishing those kinds of guns.
No, but I do think that going forward, that might be something to consider.
You know, have guards that are, you know, at a movie theater, at a grocery store.
I don't know, just public places, you know.
I think some people would find it, at least initially, a disturbing because it somewhat militarizes our society.
It is, but we have gotten to a place where I think that there are just too many lunatics running around.
I'm not saying guns running around, if you notice.
It's lunatics who get a hold of guns.
But guns are guns that are easily available.
And so the marriage of guns and lunacy is definitely bad.
These people should be in an institution, and they're not.
So they're in society.
Therefore, we are in danger in public places because these people get these guns and they do these things.
I want to bring up something I don't think you know about, but I want to talk about it probably early next week.
So Trump signed an executive order, which in effect is reopen the asylums.
Because going back to the 1980s, the courts basically shut down the asylums, right?
They said that mental mental lunatics have civil rights too.
You cannot keep a lunatic in confinement against his or her will.
You have to let them go.
If they want to voluntarily turn themselves in, okay, but otherwise, no.
And obviously, these lunatics go out of the street.
I mean, the thing is, you know, the key part of being a lunatic is you don't know you're a lunatic.
Well, I've told you the story of when I was working for a language.
It was called Language USA.
And I did translating or interpreting rather.
And it was MHMR, which is, you know, it's a facility that houses people that have all kinds of Disabilities, one of which is mental, you know.
And I go there.
It was my, I don't, I was probably only there like three weeks, you know, as doing this.
And I go there.
And first of all, everybody in the waiting area is talking.
And, okay, this is many years.
This is like 20 years ago, right?
This is not when people had the headphones.
Oh, no, they're talking to themselves.
Right.
You know, and then I'm thinking, whoa, this is really weird.
So, okay.
So I go into the office, into the office, right, with the psychiatrist and the patient and the patient's mother.
The patient is probably in his mid-30s.
Yeah.
Okay.
And he speaks only Spanish.
So that's why I was there.
And so, you know, the psychiatrist is just, you know, like very nonchalant, making notes, doing all that.
And then he goes, so, you know, so how can I help you today?
And so the guy all of a sudden, and I had no idea that he was a lunatic.
I just thought he was a patient of his that getting under psychiatrist.
Maybe he had ADHD or something like that, you know, getting medication for that.
No, he goes, tell him that I'm going to kill him and then I'm going to kill you.
And I was like, I was hyperventilating, first of all, because that scared me.
Like, I just couldn't even believe he was telling me this.
Yeah.
So then I, you know, carefully go to, and he wasn't phased at all.
The psychiatrist.
The psychiatrist was like, oh, okay, oh, I got to up this.
You know, like, I got to have his money.
I got to make a note of it.
I got to increase his medication.
And so I was just like, and I mean, and that was pretty much it.
He just kind of gave him, you know, a higher dosage of the medication he was on.
It was maybe anti-hallucinative or whatever, you know.
And he walks out with his mom, and I sit there and I couldn't move.
And the psychiatrist is like, what's wrong?
I said, well, first of all, I'm not getting in the elevator with that person.
I said, I am afraid of him.
Second of all, why isn't he in an institution?
And he laughed and said, exactly what you just said.
He goes, well, I'll tell you why not, because he doesn't meet the criteria.
He hasn't killed anybody.
He hasn't killed anyone.
He just talks about killing people and talk by itself is not enough.
It's not enough.
There's a criteria that everyone has to meet in order to be institutionalized.
And he didn't meet it.
How can he not meet it?
So this is maybe what Trump is trying to change with this executive order, namely the idea that you've got a lot of people.
And of course, we use this kind of loose language, right?
They're homeless, like as if they're searching for homes.
You're talking about people who are addicts, right?
Drug addicts, alcoholics.
Well, this person is schizophrenia.
Schizophrenics, and some of them extremely violent and dangerous.
Yes, yes.
As this guy was.
As this guy was.
And the question is: how is a society to deal with those people?
And so the assumption that you just let them roam the streets, drop into restaurants and pick, you know, food off your plate, which is what they do in LA and other places, totally unacceptable.
And so I'm glad to see this is something that for a long time people just felt like this is awful.
There's nothing we can do about it.
The courts have.
And Trump is like, guess what?
There is something.
Well, he wants to make America great again in a lot of ways.
And that means cleaning it up.
That's right.
Cleaning up the place.
All right.
Now, let's talk about our friend.
I shouldn't say our friend.
I'm speaking sarcastically, of course.
Oh, my goodness.
Let's talk about Brian Koberger and a very interesting thing that you told me about in his sentencing hearing.
So describe the scene.
Yeah.
Well, so apparently he drew this black heart on a piece of paper.
So he's sitting there and the victims are giving their victim in fact.
But he drew this before because he wasn't drawing as they were talking.
Oh, he had drawn it out.
He's already drawn it.
Yeah.
And it was just sitting there on the desk.
He wasn't looking at it at all.
He was looking at the people that were talking.
But apparently, at the end of the hearing, he turned it over and he did, he signed it or wrote something on the back and gave it to his attorney.
And she then like smiled at him, which.
So you described the scene to me and you're like, this is so inexplicably bizarre.
Bizarre.
Right?
What is he doing and what is she doing?
And truthfully, I don't know, but I was offering a theory and it's kind of worth considering.
And my theory was this: that Koberger has some kind of autistic or quasi-autistic personality.
And as a consequence of that, he is wired a little differently than everybody else.
He sits there lacking empathy and listening to all these people talk about how terrible he is.
And even though internally he doesn't know that what he did is barbaric, he does know that society thinks that because he's hearing it, right?
He cannot deny that that is how people see him.
Right.
And since he knows that, he sits down and says, well, what does that mean for me?
What does our society think about me?
They think I have a black heart.
They think that my heart is totally evil.
So I'm going to draw not my opinion of me, but their opinion of me, a black heart.
Right?
Or maybe he thinks he has a black heart.
Or maybe he thinks he has a black heart.
And then, because see, the behavior of his lawyer clearly is not autistic, right?
We have to explain.
Something's wrong with her.
Well, either wrong with her or something is going on in her head.
And what may be is that the reason she smiles.
I saw her smile at him many times.
Many times.
No, she's definitely kind of fond of him.
And she even puts her arm around him.
She's very strange.
But it could also be that she thinks that there is some moral recognition on his part in that image.
So it could be that she smiles at him as if to say, you know what?
Yes, this is a correct.
You have a black heart.
This is a correct description of what made you do those things.
And I'm glad that you acknowledge it in this.
I mean, this, I don't know if this is a correct interpretation.
I mean, I'm giving you, I'm not giving you like a psychiatrist interpreter.
I'm giving you, if I saw this as an image in a literary novel, that's how I would read it.
I would try to read it in terms of the symbolism of what you see and in terms of the interaction between an autistic person and a normal person.
And the normal person is like, why did he draw that?
Oh, I see.
He is at some level at least acknowledging here, maybe for the first time, I've got a black heart.
That's why I did these things.
Maybe.
Maybe.
All right.
Let's talk about, let's talk about Sidney Sweeney.
I was talking about it earlier.
Well, first of all, you had never heard of it.
I've never heard.
Well, I didn't know who she was.
I had no idea who she was.
And you're like, oh, yeah, Sidney Sweeney.
I'm not saying that.
I mean, I'm not saying that, you know, look, I only knew about her because I knew she has stoked up a cultural reaction.
Now, there are Democrats, I will say, kind of later in the week, later this week, who have been backing off and saying, hey, listen, you know, we haven't been complaining about this ad.
In a sense, I think they've realized that this is backfiring on them big time.
They don't want to be in a situation where their idea of beauty is some trans female and then the right-wing idea of beauty is Sidney Sweeney.
I mean, they're going to lose that fight every time.
And it's kind of dawned on them that that doesn't make them look good.
So they're now acting like it isn't us who's objecting.
But the truth of it is, there are a lot of people who are objecting.
And they tend to be the big, fat, angry woman type, or the really the nose-ring blue-haired type, or the LGBTQ type.
I've seen about maybe a dozen videos of like, this is terrible.
One or two are actually from black women where they think this is some kind of statement of white supremacy.
Now, hey, if you showed them Beyoncé posing in exactly the same pose, they would have no problem with it.
You know, they would have no problem with the same kind of casual sort of sexuality type of pose.
But with Sidney Sweeney, you can't do it.
Yeah, yeah.
What do you make of all this?
Well, I mean, I don't know.
It kind of reminded me a little bit of when Brooke Shields did her Calvin Klein pants.
Oh, wow.
You're flashing back a good 30 years.
And I say this because I had to get those pants.
Okay.
And she's like 5'10.
I'm 5'1 on a good day.
Okay.
And so I get those pants.
Now, let me ask you: this is a bit of a quiz.
And you may conclude from this that I'm a bit of a perv, although I'm not.
No, no, no.
Here's the quiz.
What was the actual wording of the Brooke Shields ad for Jordash Jeans?
You remember?
Well, for Calvin Klein.
For Calvin Klein, sorry.
She did George Ash later.
Yeah.
This is the only thing that comes between my legs.
Okay, so you actually win.
I didn't know if you would remember it.
What comes between me and my Calvin?
Nothing.
Yeah, nothing.
And that was like, ah, it was like a shocker.
It was a shocker, but I didn't care.
I just wanted those jeans.
But it showed that the ad worked.
It worked.
Oh, absolutely.
It worked on you.
But it worked, except that I tried on those jeans and they were way too long.
Yeah.
Way too long.
They were like a foot too long.
Right.
And so then I was like, okay, well, maybe someday some retailer will make petite clothing.
Well, you know what's interesting is that, you know, it's interesting how a cultural context shapes how people respond to an ad.
So let's look at the Brooke Shields ad.
Nobody even noticed that said Brooke Shields is white.
That was taken for granted.
Of course, Brooks Shields is white.
What else would she be?
The fact that you have a white girl, like white bred, you know, a kind of all-American girl was accepted.
It was like, of course, what else would you have?
You know, this is America.
So you wouldn't expect to see like a Japanese girl any more than you'd expect to see, you know, an Asian Indian being a model in Japan.
You know?
So the only thing that people were found titillating was the idea of Brooke Shields, who had, by the way, been a child actress and was here exhibiting a sort of emerging sexuality, and the controversy was over that.
Now, interestingly, with Sidney Sweeney, it's not over that.
No.
It is over.
It is over her genes, which is to say, the pun on genes and genetics.
Yeah.
Right.
And I think they are implying that even though I think the ad guys were basically going for, hey, Sidney Sweeney looks good, she has good genes, they're implying that there's a white supremacist message in here.
Yeah, that, and also the other thing, too, is, you know, growing up loving Barbies, Barbies were blonde.
Barbies were very skinny.
And very skinny.
You know?
And so that was the ideal way a girl was supposed to look, right?
Right.
And nobody complained.
I mean, I guess they complained later, and now we don't have Barbies like that anymore, I don't think.
I don't know.
I haven't bought a Barbie in a while.
No, but you're right.
They have been doing some woke Barbies.
And not only that, but if you look at ads for like Calvin Klein just two years ago, I mean, they have like a 250-pound black woman.
All I care about is if Calvin Klein can have petite sizes.
Okay.
No, I know, but what I'm saying is, you know, an ad conveys these are the type of people we want to show you as wearing our products.
Right.
So if you look and you see some, you know, some trans person wearing these jeans, you're like, well, this must be jeans for trans people, right?
You, you're antagonized by it to a degree.
And also, you, the other thing you know is you know that they are conducting a cultural aggression against the idea of an American culture and an American standard.
I think if we just don't give them the attention, if we just ignore them, they'll go away.
No, no, I don't think so.
What?
Because that's your strategy in these things.
Your strategy is to look the other way, to pretend it doesn't exist.
My strategy is to bring out the political horse whip and to flay them because that's actually what they respond to.
Hi, Chico.
So here we see the difference between a traditional Republican and a MAGA conservative.
It's the horse whip.
Oh, no.
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