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WAIT: VIOLA DAVIS' "THE WOMAN KING" WAS PRO-SLAVERY?! | Louder with Crowder

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	Duncan Jert takes it right, Duncan Jert, I found out, Duncan Jert,
	hold it right there.
	Computer, give him one, Mr. Duncan is,
	my own money's bothering me, I have one,
	where is he?
	Give him a couch or a TV.
	A bird or a bird, how do you know she's a bird?
	Hey, we're about to get to the show and there's a lot to talk about.
	Trevor Noah, we're going to talk about Dahomey Tribe.
	There's a woman king.
	Hopefully I have that correctly.
	But I just want to let you know, I will be in Oklahoma City, Saturday, October 4th.
	Two shows, 6 p.m., 845 p.m.
	For tickets, you can go to BrickTownComedy.com slash events.
	And really quickly, I just wanted to bring awareness to this.
	They have no idea that I'll be doing this.
	The people who run these clubs across the country, and it's a lot of fun.
	Dave and I will be doing the big theaters.
	You can go to lightoffcreditor.com slash tour.
	You know, 5,000 seats.
	It's a lot of fun, but there is something to be said for an intimate comedy club setting, and Dave and I often do these clubs in particular.
	The people who run these have made up their mind that they will not kowtow to the leftist rage mob.
	Now they have liberals, just so you know, if you go and look at their bookings, but they also have people on the right side of the spectrum, and it's something that they've consciously Decided to do.
	It's a rarity and honestly, it's allowed me to sort of fall back in love with, you know, the bell that I brought to the ball.
	That's how I started in my teenage years.
	Dave has obviously been doing it for a very long time, but it was nerve-wracking.
	To go out there and have someone record you at a comedy club and decide that they want to cancel you for a joke out of context.
	So it is nice to have some allies in the industry, and it's a lot of fun to be able to go and actually have an intimate setting.
	Far fewer tickets, so get them now.
	They'll probably be sold out by the time you're listening to this.
	If you're on audio, I apologize.
	It's uploaded a little bit later, but if you're watching live, October 8th, Oklahoma City, 6 p.m., 845 p.m.
	You know what?
	Go to these clubs there, whether me, Dave, whether we're performing or not.
	You want to support some businesses that you know don't hate you and won't sucker punch you?
	Well, you know what?
	They're good people and they'll never sing their praises from the rooftop, so I wanted to do it for them.
	Thanks.
	See you in Oklahoma City.
	Hey guys.
	Whistleblower22 here.
	So, long sleeves.
	Why does Steven Crowder wear them so often?
	Well, I've put all the clues together, and the only possible answer is... Steven Crowder has twig arms.
	I was able to find this in an archived bullet post.
	Overwhelming.
	Finally, I have concrete confirmation on social media by that kind of black dude on the show.
	My mother is Japanese and my father is Chinese.
	If you are interested in Japanese...
	Finally, I have concrete confirmation on social media by that kind of black dude on the show.
	Looks like his days of owning the libs are at an end now that everybody knows he's a bathing male.
	If you like this, subscribe and bookmark my bit chute for when this gets taken down.
	You can also check out my Patreon from the link in the description below to help me move out.
	out. Till next time, Whistleblower out.
	Outro Music.
	Thank you, Cypher!
	Ooh, that is delicious, Toolman!
	You're right.
	That Ecuadorian honey is nice.
	Yeah, dude.
	He brought it in today.
	No, it's not Ecuadorian.
	It's local, but I can't say where.
	And why the hell did you bring it to me?
	You replaced the local honey that I use to support a mama with a different?
	You just were basically saying my honey sucks.
	With a better local honey.
	You're off by a continent.
	We are off the beam already.
	Glad to be with you.
	Busy, busy week.
	Busy weekend.
	A lot has happened.
	My question to you, right off the bat, is who do you think is going to replace Trevor Noah?
	Right?
	He's retiring.
	Okay.
	I know many of you don't care, but some people do.
	That's going to transition into The Woman King.
	Everyone's talking about it, but they're missing a few key points here.
	A lot of people, and Oliver did a segment on this with museums about how, you know, the British colonialists, right, they have items from like Peru or items from Africa, artifacts, and that sort of appropriation, we need to give them back.
	But I also want to know, what happened with the Peruvians?
	And the people that they conquered.
	Have they preserved all of their artifacts?
	And that brought me to the Woman King, where, of course, slavery is a blight.
	Slavery is awful.
	It's a stain throughout human history.
	But there are more slaves now than ever in recorded history.
	And the Woman King just ignores the fact that the Dahomeys, some of the biggest slave traders, slave owners, throughout the history of mankind.
	I don't know how that ties into a woke agenda here.
	This is the thing is, if you actually want to look at the scales of economy, the United States was not built off the backs of slavery.
	We've heard that a lot.
	Other continents were, and still are.
	Not saying that there's a moral equivalence.
	Hey, yeah, but, but, yeah, but!
	Also, Washington Post is the enemy of the people.
	Just to be clear, they have a new poll out that says you're racist.
	MAGA Republicans are racist, and they employ some intellectual fallacies with their buddies in a polling firm.
	Really silly questions, like, are you not not racist?
	That kind of stuff.
	So we'll talk about that.
	Just, I was watching this, I was reading this poll on Washington Post, and I saw it, you know, regurgitated in the media, and went, are they serious with this?
	But this is the goal, right?
	They want to silence you.
	They say, well, hold on a second, not all Republicans, just MAGA Republicans.
	Right.
	Well, the biggest bills that Joe Biden has been involved with this administration that have been passed, not one Republican voted for it.
	Not one.
	That includes the wimpified RINOs.
	So who are they working with?
	When they say, hey, the extremists are just the people who won't work with me, no one will.
	Many Democrats won't work with them on these radical agendas.
	So, that and more.
	But first, Gerald A., how are you?
	I'm well, how are you, sir?
	I'm good.
	Yeah?
	Yeah, it's been a busy weekend.
	Yeah.
	You got sick?
	I did.
	It wasn't the COVID.
	No?
	Not that I know of.
	How are you sure?
	Well, you know what?
	I'm just fine, so maybe it was.
	He was like one of those gourds, the pumpkins with the bumps on them.
	It freaks me out.
	It's the monkeypox edition for the holidays.
	You guys can comment below.
	What are those pumpkins that I'm thinking of?
	I don't know if it's a squash.
	Are they gourds with all the bumps?
	I think so.
	But I saw one that looked like a pumpkin.
	Gourds are usually longer, right?
	Bad timing.
	Yeah.
	I don't know what I call them.
	I know what I do with them, but I don't know what I call them.
	Who had sex with a gourd?
	Me.
	Questions need to be answered.
	I guess you'd have to ask that Norwegian techno music festival.
	Nary an answer to be found.
	You should see their salt lamp.
	Also, you know him, you love him.
	Fastest man on his feet.
	Quickest wit in the West.
	You can follow him on the Twitter and Instagram.
	Dave Landa, how are you?
	Ahoy, good.
	Yourself?
	I'm good.
	Oh, you have a Wu-Tang shirt, right?
	I do.
	I went to the Wu-Tang Nas concert.
	That's Nas, not Lil Nas.
	How was he allowed to do that?
	I don't know, but I'm sure Nas is pissed.
	Yes, I've got to imagine.
	Oh, great.
	This guy injects his own blood into Nikes.
	Yes.
	Well, they're limited edition.
	Well, yes, because Nike told them to stop.
	Yes.
	You can't just buy our sneakers, pour a vial of your own blood in them, and call them limited.
	This is illegal.
	Why?
	Yeah, only children's blood belong on our shoes.
	Yes, and it is dangerous!
	And then Apple said, hold my beer.
	All right.
	Before we get to our entertainment minute, we talk about The Woman King.
	Friday, September 30th, we didn't have a show obviously, Nancy Pelosi had this to say about sending immigrants to sanctuary cities.
	Titties.
	We have a shortage of workers in our country, and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying, why are you shipping these immigrants up north?
	We need them to pick the crops down here.
	Wow.
	You know when you talk about the race from the left, the bigotry of soft expectations?
	Yeah.
	That's just good old bigotry bigotry.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's straight up.
	She spoke to zero farmers to get that quote, by the way.
	That was her.
	Slave traders.
	You know how many people said that?
	They're like, why are you letting him go up north?
	Can you imagine if Donald Trump said that Unbelievable.
	No, but seriously, can you imagine if Donald Trump, can you imagine if Greg Abbott, can you imagine if anyone on the right said that?
	For crying out loud, we got in trouble because we said that black farmers receiving these giant government subsidies would have spinners on their John Deere.
	People are like, how dare you?
	She just said that!
	Latinos—Latinx, sorry, because she's an asshole—that they're needed for picking!
	Not a joke.
	Yeah, not at all.
	Somehow when you mix Botox and Oxycontin, it just produces that.
	Yes!
	No, she's a teetotaler, haven't you heard?
	Oh, right, right.
	Yes.
	She doesn't touch a drop.
	I love how she, like, pauses at the end, shaking her head, like, right?
	Yeah?
	Right, guys?
	Why is no one clapping at my terrible statement?
	Why are all your heads doing this?
	What does this mean?
	No, that's what they said.
	It's time to wrap up, is that what that means?
	Where's my martini?
	My speechwriter's crying.
	They're needed for picking.
	Hey, Latinos, and this is, by the way, why you see these unbelievable gains made with the Latino community, also the fact that they want children on puberty blockers and a lot of Latino Catholics not really on board with that, but because this is what they think of you.
	If you're Latino, you're watching this, Latina, Latino, Hispanic, whatever term you want to use.
	I'm not going to use Latinx.
	You can use Latinx if you want to.
	I don't want to.
	Comment below.
	Have you known that this is what they always think? And I genuinely don't think that. Here's
	the thing. I genuinely don't think that of Hispanic people, that, ah, they're only good
	for picking. They're only good for manual labor. I don't think that at all. That's not something
	that would even enter my thought process. Sure, a disproportionate number of them do,
	but I've always been under the impression that's because many of them are first-generation
	immigrants. They come here, then they work up, just like the Irish-Americans, just like
	Italian-Americans, just like many Jewish-Americans. You have different generations of immigrants,
	and then they end up running their own stores, right? Bodegas, very common in New York City,
	and they give their children a leg up because these are the opportunities they have when they
	come to this country. I never thought...
	And this is how you know the left does not believe in class mobility.
	They believe that you are set.
	In Stone, you have concrete, you come here as a picker, your kids will be a picker, you're Latino, you're Hispanic, therefore you work manual labor out there in the fields.
	It's just not something that any of us here believe, and you know she does!
	Anyway, that's all I have to say about that.
	Well yeah, they're running out of cards to play.
	Right.
	Now they're just saying how they feel.
	Right.
	And it's okay because nobody ever calls them out on it.
	It's like, oh this is fine, we can just say this, and people will be like, But they won't say anything.
	They say it in the software where they say, hey, you know, Republicans don't care about you black voters.
	What do they mean?
	We'll offer you EBT.
	We'll create a greater social safety net because you need that, right?
	We want to pay you if you're a single mother, right, per child.
	You need that.
	You get it.
	We get it.
	It's the unwritten rule, right?
	Black people, you need us, the Democrat Party, because this is how we see you.
	They don't often say it blatantly, but you see it play out through policies.
	And now with Hispanics, she just said it.
	But they're supposed to stay with the Medellin cartels and make the cocaine.
	Right.
	Right?
	Who's gonna put the heads on turtles?
	Huh?
	What?
	How do you send a message if they're up north?
	I need another lift.
	Which I'm not- that- I have many complaints with Nancy Pelosi.
	The lift job, not chief amongst them.
	No.
	Good work.
	No, there's two decent things about her.
	Yes.
	Your boobs are huge.
	Sometimes when you start in pottery, like you start with the clay, you're out to make like a beautiful vase, and sometimes it's just- it just ends up being a pot.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the rest of the vase is a mess.
	Yes.
	And you give the kid a C-minus.
	Yes.
	I'm really just hoping that she stops getting... Like, I'm kind of hoping that AOC... You saw her speak at that church.
	Maybe you guys can bring it up.
	She spoke at that church and she was a little bit nipply out.
	What?
	I don't think that AOC is an unattractive woman.
	I think she can be a pretty woman.
	Okay.
	I can't wait for the day that You know, Father Time just pulls the ripcord and... Because I want... Because I... Right now I just... I just hate her insides.
	I want to be able to despise all of her equally.
	Yeah, she just has the eyes where you feel like one day you'd wake up and be like, where's my penis?
	Right.
	And then she'd be holding it.
	Yes.
	Throwing it out a car window.
	But I want to be able to despise all of her, not just her inner ugliness.
	Eventually.
	Oh, it will come out.
	It will happen.
	She'll hit the wall.
	Father Time is undefeated.
	All right, that brings us to this week's Entertainment Minute.
	So again, my question is, why do you think late night is tanking?
	Uh, we kind of know this, David, having worked, uh, in this, uh... Before I go to the time to close, Trevor Noah, of course, is announcing that he's, uh, leaving, uh, The Daily Show.
	Oh, I think we have a clip.
	Here we go.
	Trevor Noah leaving.
	It has been seven years since we started The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
	Yeah, this week is our anniversary.
	And... And I realized that after the seven years, um, my time is up.
	I, uh...
	Yeah, but in the most beautiful way, honestly.
	And I want to say thank you to the audience for an amazing seven years.
	It's been wild.
	It's been too wild.
	Seven years of bleeding them dry.
	It's been seven years since the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
	Because everyone's like, oh, the Daily Show?
	Where's Jon Stewart?
	Oh, you mean you.
	You're the underperforming one.
	Alright.
	Who do you think is going to take over?
	Well, that's my question to everyone else out there.
	Who do you think is going to take over and why do you think Late Night is taking over?
	I don't know that anyone's going to take over.
	I think they might just do away with the Daily Show or have some new kind of incarnation.
	I think Roy Wood Jr.
	is great, honestly.
	He's good on the show.
	Yeah, I have heard whispers, though.
	Bill Kilmer?
	Yes.
	Frank Stallone?
	Hello, welcome to the daily Stephen Hawking's computer. Yes, it would be funny
	Yes.
	Jordan Peterson?
	The kids from Make-A-Wish?
	Nobody!
	Perhaps just a stomach cancer?
	It's the adorable blanket boy?
	Yes.
	What?
	Look, I'm not the one who's doing the hiring.
	The point is there are a lot of possibilities if the hurdle to clear is just funnier.
	No, we're just looking for funnier.
	Yes.
	We're just looking for funnier.
	The world is your oyster.
	Yes, exactly.
	Also could be replaced by an oyster.
	Yes.
	An old pair of shoes.
	Yes.
	They also might just run a Bluoyster called Best Of Hits.
	Yeah.
	The point is, there are a lot of possibilities.
	Just be open-minded, Comedy Central.
	Now, for people who don't know, The Daily Show, at its peak, averaged about 2.5 million nightly viewers with Jon Stewart.
	Which is great.
	They lost about two-thirds of the audience in their Trevor Noah, with some episodes as low as 400,000.
	Now, I also understand a lot of them come through plays with clips online, so the whole sort of ecosystem has changed.
	That being said, people aren't watching the whole show.
	You've heard me talk about with this show, we always go by the number per, show per show numbers.
	Right.
	And we have, that never includes the bits that you guys can go and subscribe on YouTube, Crowder Bits, or the Instagram videos, right?
	It's how many people are tuning into the full hour show or Mug Club, you know, two hour show.
	Those numbers are really, really bad with Trevor Noah, because the retention isn't good.
	Which means you can kind of trick someone with a clickbait title, but if they're not sticking around, it's also hard to get sponsorships in front of them.
	And Trevor Noah has been bad for business.
	And I would argue because he's unfunny and untalented.
	Been bad for a long time, too.
	Yes.
	I never understood the hiring.
	No.
	And some people like him.
	I don't know who.
	Oh, you're right, I do.
	Yes, you do.
	I take it back.
	Yes.
	When he's like, I would like to thank the audience, I'm like, the people you paid to come in and you told them when to laugh and when to clap?
	Those guys?
	Yeah, thank the signer!
	I was going to use that here.
	Thank the crowd animator.
	You should be the highest paid person on that set.
	I was going to use a card term on my comment, then I realized how inappropriate it would have been.
	That saved your life there.
	The warm-up act is just a car wreck with small children.
	That's how they warm people up.
	They're like, yeah, there we go, let's set the stage.
	So this is why I think that late night is tanking, by the way.
	This is from a New York Post article.
	They said people were still joking about Trump.
	So Jimmy Kimmel.
	This is one of his most recent quotes.
	Trump's ranking on the Forbes wealthiest list would be his inmate number as well.
	Stephen Colbert.
	Again, some of these are recent jokes.
	Called Trump a horny cockatoo.
	Jimmy Fallon.
	Maybe Trump should help out with Ukraine since he's had so many affairs with foreigners.
	Like, this is the problem.
	It became a comedy witch hunt with Donald Trump, unfortunately.
	And they used to say, like, there's nothing funny about the Obama administration.
	All of a sudden they couldn't make fun of those in power.
	Then Donald Trump.
	And now they have nothing to address?
	With Joe Biden, you have nothing to address.
	With Kamala Harris, nothing to address.
	With Pelosi, AOC, I mean, for crying out loud, it's just, it's intellectually dishonest.
	I know we get flack for making fun of Donald Trump sometimes, or for making fun of some people on the right, but this is a comedy show.
	Well, that's what you're supposed to do, and these guys got lazy.
	They thought, oh, I can just bash Trump forever, and people were just like, yay, that's still not funny.
	Right.
	You're still not doing your job.
	There's Iranian sketch shows doing stuff on.
	I mean, come on.
	Clearly.
	And that's just security camera footage.
	And this is the first time also they're talking about canceling SNL.
	Actually talking about canceling it.
	It's too expensive.
	It's too expensive and here's what happens.
	The ecosystem has changed.
	And this is why we've talked about there are only five companies that really control all of media.
	YouTube.
	I've been around here since 2006.
	My brother was one of the first partners, I believe, in 2006 or 2007.
	I did non-political videos in 2007.
	And the first were 2008, 2009, if I'm not mistaken.
	But back then, everyone could post something.
	The whole idea was, hey, there are no more gatekeepers.
	When I was at Fox News, I've talked about this, they actually removed my own guest segments that I would upload to my channel because it's a fad.
	So now they go, oh wait a second, we're behind the eight ball and we can't compete on this playing field.
	So they spend a bunch of money on YouTube so that they can dictate what the advertiser-friendly guidelines need to be.
	And that's the problem that you're seeing right now with Trevor Noah.
	It just doesn't work.
	And with SNL, all the best sketch people, the people who are really good at impressions, the people who are really good comedians, guess what?
	They can't afford the pay cut to go to SNL.
	It's not like it used to be.
	No, it's very cheap.
	Very low to write.
	Well, especially the amount of stuff that you have to turn around.
	It's like, why would you need 40 sketch pitches?
	Right.
	And they're not getting the best of the best.
	Once upon a time, this was the big show, so you had the Martin Shorts, you had the Bill Murrays, you had the Norm MacDonalds, you had the Dennis Millers, you had the Adam Sanders, Mike Myers, Dana Carveys.
	Now, those people will not be going to SNL, and the problem is they still have these giant, bloated corporate business models.
	They have to sustain that.
	And it's just not.
	And then you combine that with the downgrade to someone who's physically painfully unfunny, like I feel it on my insides when I watch Trevor Noah.
	Like you have to watch it from between your fingers.
	Yeah.
	And it's just a recipe for disaster.
	So it's actually now we thank him, though we see him as a worthy adversary.
	Apparently not as much as we had hoped.
	Trevor Noah, time to close.
	Why didn't they get an American to host?
	And again, Comedy Central tried, and those people also declined.
	So once more, a job Americans rejected is now being done by an immigrant.
	Laughter and applause Time to close
	Endings and beginnings Are ending and beginning now
	Awesome!
	Now I can show my dick to strangers at night.
	Like, you're looking cute, Mr. President.
	Donald Trump, does he remind you a little bit of Egyptian leaders?
	You were using racism to be entertaining.
	Maybe Aboriginal women do special things, like jump on top of you and just be like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	I know that it's time for things to close.
	I know that it's time for things to close.
	I'm going to go.
	Trevor Noah is now a senior fellow at the Harvard Institute.
	Oh, come on.
	They can't all go there.
	Well, apparently they can.
	Yes, they can.
	How much you want to bet they had a conversation with Trevor like, Trevor, look, obviously we're going to fire you.
	You know why you're here.
	Or you can resign.
	And he's like, it's ending in the most beautiful way.
	Right.
	I don't understand this.
	Is that with four audience members going, what?
	What?
	Huh?
	Oh.
	He said there'd be free chicken.
	Right.
	What?
	No chicken!
	Oh, it's Trevor.
	Hey, who's that guy?
	It's like Pagoda and what's his name in Bobble Rocket.
	Who is that man?
	What?
	That's Trevor Noah, man.
	Come on.
	Where's Craig Kilbourne?
	Right.
	Uh, I think Token Allen, by the way, found some pictures there of the AOC.
	Oh yeah, speaking of people that we can be making fun of instead.
	The great Nipley one.
	Right.
	So this is AOC, a Facebook paid ad.
	Oh, this is from a while ago?
	I'm gonna have to zoom this bad boy in.
	Yes.
	Yes, please do.
	Yeah.
	Oh.
	Did you see that?
	She reviewed this and said yes.
	That's a pretty bad.
	Run that.
	She's running that as an advertisement.
	That was extra.
	Not even attractive.
	She picked that.
	You're not the best.
	I gotta be honest.
	I don't think there's anything wrong with them.
	I'm not saying there's anything wrong.
	I'm not saying that I wouldn't sample.
	Stop it.
	By the way, also, we have a clip.
	This is why a lot of women wear sweaters in church.
	It's just an idea.
	AOC was raising money for, I believe, like, one of those left-leaning churches.
	Do you have that clip?
	Is it with her in the taupe dress?
	Uh, I think this is taupe, yeah.
	First Baptist Church in Corona.
	Could be.
	You could call it sand sable.
	We don't need to be sticklers.
	You colorblind as well?
	No.
	Beige.
	I just don't know.
	Beige is fine.
	Nude.
	Let's see it.
	There it is.
	Oh my lord, I take it back.
	And Tokunawa told me, I don't think this is the nipple video at the church.
	I'm like, how could that be anything other than the nipple video at the church?
	Do you think a room full of politicians are even listening to a word of this?
	That's not at a church.
	There was a different video at a church.
	It's about raising money for a church, I think.
	Keep in mind, I'm watching a small monitor and I can see the tea saucer nipples.
	And I just want to know, like, she's wearing a bra.
	How does that happen?
	How do you miss that?
	Do they have... are the bras ribbed?
	It can happen.
	Yes, I think so.
	They've got to be.
	It can happen through...
	Yes.
	Women you can comment below.
	That seems pretty obvious.
	Seems like you wouldn't miss it.
	And then she's of course running it as an advertisement on Facebook.
	It's rare.
	She's saying exclusively, use the nipple pictures.
	Hey look, I've had mine poked through a Christmas sweater.
	Well, yes, that's because you're only wearing a Christmas sweater.
	That's true.
	And I don't know how you do that.
	And I've also cut a hole.
	And Dave, that wasn't your nipple.
	No.
	And those are pants.
	And that was a public stall.
	By the way, it's a live show Monday through Thursday at 10 a.m.
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	Yeah.
	$69.
	Okay.
	Yeah, man.
	Yeah, man.
	Oh, yeah.
	So, I think, have we gotten that all out of our system?
	I think so.
	Sure.
	The AOC thing?
	Okay.
	I mean, yeah, I guess.
	I can't believe that... Oh, boy.
	Well, it's back again.
	That's not a flattering picture.
	Again, I don't think it's fair to say, because I don't like her, that she's not pretty in many ways.
	I don't think she's an unattractive woman.
	I think that's fine.
	I'm just saying that's not a test.
	I'm waiting for that biological clock to stop working and then I can be disgusted with everything.
	What is she, Brazilian?
	Is it just literally going to be one day to the next?
	What are you talking about Brazilians?
	You meant to say Polish or Italian women.
	It's like 36.
	Brazilian women are the same way.
	What?
	Let's just admonish him.
	He is wrong about that.
	Brazilian women are known as the most... He just picked the most beautiful woman on the planet.
	Yeah, that's not true.
	How about that when they get old?
	Yeah, what do you want to pick next?
	Argentina because they only have all the Miss Universe titles under their name for crying out loud?
	When they're young, yes.
	Gross!
	Do you know how I know you're gay?
	How?
	Like that.
	Brazilian women are gorgeous.
	Yes.
	I do admit that... Until... Well, until one day they're the gypsy from thinner.
	See?
	There you go.
	That's my point.
	And you guys admonished me.
	See?
	See?
	That's what I'm saying!
	I'm just saying.
	Okay.
	I know exactly who you are.
	Don't let me laugh, because I have to introduce the slavery in Woman King, and I don't want people to see me laughing when I'm talking about slavery, because slavery's not funny.
	No.
	It's the movie you're laughing at.
	But the gypsy in Thinner is.
	So, you all know about the Woman King.
	None of you like it.
	All right.
	We've established that.
	Not a clue.
	But here's the thing.
	Not just because it's woke and not because it's this, you know, sort of feminist tale and... Okay, we'll do a review of Hocus Pocus 2 tomorrow.
	Hey, there's a drag show in it.
	What?
	Yes.
	They tried to check every woke box on Hocus... And the first one was a steaming pile of dog crap, so the sequel is even worse.
	I mean, that's a feat!
	I have a friend in it.
	Dude, I'm sorry.
	I've been in a ton of crap as well, so don't.
	You ever see Greek on ABC Family?
	Oh yeah, you were in that.
	It's crap.
	Now, so it's the woman king.
	Now this film of course tells the story of the uh, the uh, ago- agoji?
	I believe.
	The agoji It's this all-female fighting unit in the African Kingdom, and by the way, this sort of spreads across different countries, just to be clear, so we'll be talking about the tribes.
	So, lest you try and, you know, lawyer us on this, I understand that it's not just based on geographical borders, but the tribes specifically, or the people, the Dahomey.
	So, here's just sort of for people who don't know what the film is all about.
	When it rains, our ancestors weep for the pain we have felt in the dark halls of ships bound for distant shores.
	When the wind blows, our ancestors push us to march into battle against those who enslave us.
	When it thunders, our ancestors, the man we ripped the shackles of doubt from
	our minds and fight with courage.
	We fight not just for today, but for the future.
	Where you can enslave a record number of people there too.
	We are the spear of victory. We are the blade of freedom.
	I know it's a film, there's some creative license that's taken,
	but just so you know, statistically, most of those people there would have been slaves.
	Yes.
	Just to be clear.
	Just like I know you thought, you know, Beauty and the Beast was true to form, historically.
	No, no.
	Mary J. Blige, who folds into a bookcase, whatever the hell she is, an armoire, whatever she is.
	Yeah, yeah, armoire.
	Whatever they call it, like a powder, room powder.
	A buffet.
	Yes, exactly.
	She would have been, uh, she would have been a slave as well in the 1740s, for instance.
	Just to be clear.
	Hashtag OscarSoWhite.
	So, this has received rave reviews, of course, on Rotten Tomatoes.
	Right?
	94% from critics, 99% from audience, which...
	I'm willing to bet that they've changed the algorithm there with audience reviews.
	The New York Times praised the film in their review, saying, The women are their own greatest weapons.
	And among everything else it addresses, The Woman King is about strong, dynamic black women, their souls, minds, and bodies.
	Okay, first off, hit the like button if you can see where this is going.
	If you know the film is whitewashed, uh, if, I mean, and by the way, to say that this is offensive would be to say that, uh, Mr., was it Mr. Yunioshi and Breakfast at Tiffany's, was it maybe a little off color?
	Yes.
	So what you're saying is this was written by a guy whose last name ended in Berg?
	Possibly.
	Not Peter.
	Like Black Panther?
	Peter Berg didn't do Black Panther, did he?
	No, no.
	Peter Berg has done some decent stuff.
	Oh, he has.
	No, I'm just saying that it was quoted by a Jewish guy.
	Yes, I'm just intensely uncomfortable.
	I am too.
	I don't know where to go with this.
	You watched this movie as well, The Woman King.
	First off, women are their own greatest weapon.
	Okay.
	Now, let's get, maybe if you're talking about like women who own slaves, in the homie tribes by the way, maybe if that's what you're discussing, you mean like they're their own greatest weapon because they have like a mountain of slaves behind them, they have so many slaves it's like World War Z on the wall.
	Yeah.
	So this is the issue, slavery is bad, we all agree, okay?
	It's bad that the United States engaged in slavery.
	No one disagrees with that, just to be clear.
	Our primary problem is that there are more slaves today than ever in recorded history.
	That's a fact.
	And our problem is that we talk often in school about how the United States was built off the backs of slaves, but if you look at the numbers, it's really not true.
	You can go and search or go on Mug Club for the band segments.
	I don't think it's still on YouTube where we actually compare the development of the South with slavery versus the North.
	And slavery actually impeded progress, economic progress, in the United States.
	Because it turns out that a lot of slaves who are forced, not the most ingenious workers,
	right?
	These people don't have an incentive to work particularly hard.
	You look at the cotton gin, I believe that came from the North.
	There are a bunch of innovations that came from the North where there were people who
	were free who were working, right?
	Because of a voluntary exchange of goods and services.
	But if you look at a lot of these African nations, and certainly if you look at the
	Middle East, Asia, where there is still slavery, by the way, their economy required, the bedrock
	of the economy was slavery.
	As a matter of fact, if we didn't purchase slaves from them, they probably would have had no international trade of which to speak.
	Are you saying that it wasn't the colonial oppression?
	Not exactly.
	Okay, gotcha.
	Well, I don't know if the colonialism, I mean, I don't think it would have worked without slaves and black people, though, in America.
	I mean, that's the reality of that, too.
	Early on, yeah.
	I would argue that it impeded American development, because, again, if you look at the North, when they freed, you know, obviously they didn't have slaves far earlier than the South, they advanced far more rapidly economically.
	And if you look at these nations that are still slave nations, they don't tend to develop, they don't tend to innovate, because people are forced to go in and punch a clock, and they don't necessarily do the best work that they can.
	In other words, I can see both sides of that coin.
	No one is disagreeing that slavery was wrong and that slavery plays a role in American history.
	Why do we whitewash, though, slavery?
	If you want to help the world, let's not talk about puberty blockers for six-year-olds and calling CPS on the parents who don't administer them.
	Let's talk about slavery going on throughout the world.
	But to do that, you have to acknowledge the past.
	And you have to acknowledge the present, and you have to acknowledge that we committed an evil engaging in slavery, but we also eradicated one of the greatest evils in the Western world.
	So let's go through the claims, basically, and these are implicit in the film.
	So one of the premises, a claim first, is that the Dahomey tribe, I hope I'm saying that right, because I'm like, is that where homie came from?
	The homies?
	Like rolling with the homies?
	They were a decent people with a beautiful way of life, and they were these warrior kings.
	Sorry, queens.
	Well, female king.
	Woman king.
	Whatever.
	It's stupid.
	So, here's the truth.
	They were an incredibly barbaric tribe.
	Yeah.
	In a way that you can't fathom here in the Western world.
	And the actual Dahomey Kingdom was...
	They were an unbelievably big player in the slave trade.
	So here's according to National Geographic, not a right-wing propaganda rag.
	It's estimated that from the 1720s until 1852 when the British imposed a naval blockade, Dahomey's rulers sold hundreds of thousands of people from neighboring tribes and nations to the British, French, Portuguese, and others.
	Hundreds of thousands.
	Now, if someone sells you something, for example, that is faulty, let's say you buy a used car and it's defective, do you blame the person who purchased it?
	And I'm not comparing people to a core, I'm just using this as an analogy, just to be clear.
	Or do you blame the person who committed the wrong in lying in the sale?
	Why don't we blame the people, at least equally, if not, I would say, weigh it more on their side, who captured people, enslaved them, and sold them?
	As opposed to people who purchased them.
	I just think that we need to have an equal distribution of blame.
	So the Dahomey Tribe, by the way, they also instituted, not just slavery, large-scale human sacrifices.
	They saved the decapitated heads, genitals, of their enemies.
	And took them back to the villages with them.
	What do you do with those?
	I understand the heads, the skulls... You make a trophy case, stupid.
	Sun-dry them, jerky.
	I mean, some are bigger than others, right?
	Yeah.
	You put the big ones on the top.
	I don't understand.
	It's like, okay, yes.
	After I'm dead, you're gonna cut that off and take it back.
	What, you've never walked into my house, seen a rhino head next to my slave penis?
	Think about it.
	There was someone's job was to sift through the penises.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Like, which ones?
	No, no, no.
	That's a show penis.
	That's simply, that's a penis that goes in the middle.
	Very average penis.
	I'm a penis dermist.
	I'll stuff it and make it for your wall.
	This is a champion show penis.
	Don Len, let me look, let me look.
	That's an electric gun.
	I'll find the best one.
	That's a penis gun.
	So in the movie, Viola Davis' character begs King Gazo.
	I do like Viola Davis.
	To stop the slave trade and focus on palm oil, which is kind of just a funny sort of ultimatum.
	It's like, hmm, hundreds of thousands of slaves?
	Right.
	Palm oil.
	Hundreds of thousands of slaves?
	Palm oil.
	Ooh, tough choice.
	What is palm oil?
	It's oil from a palm.
	Oh, I got you.
	A naval blockade by the British in the 1850s, that's what forced Dahomey to move off the slave trade and focus on Pomo.
	Again, a big part of slavery being ended outside of the United States where there was, and there is an economic argument too, a lot of people will say if you look at Abraham Lincoln, he wasn't progressive by today's standards, but part of it was economically motivated, but there was a moral component to, we cannot have our constitution, and all men created equal, and have slavery.
	In a lot of other areas of the world, the only reason they stopped slavery was for economic reasons. It was the market that forced
	them to move to something else like palm oil. Yeah. And by the way, so they, they, they say, they
	talk a lot about freedom, like freedom, you know, we get to be our own people. We get to, no, no,
	no, no, no. They, they lived by the code slave or be enslaved. Right. Right. You either enslave
	somebody else or you're going to be enslaved by them. Right. That was how they lived their life.
	This was no beautiful let, let live kind of culture out there. Well, I think this is one of
	those things. And, and, uh, Jordan Peterson talks about this quite a bit, but we've discussed it quite
	a bit. You have no clue as to what human Right now, this is the most peaceful time.
	For example, people are furious with Ukraine.
	Uh, sorry, furious with Russia, with what they've done to Ukraine.
	Yeah.
	Pardon me.
	Why?
	Well, because they're being violent.
	They're being violent with a nation that most people would say, you know, they haven't been violent with them.
	Now, of course, there's a land dispute.
	We won't get into the micro-politics of it.
	That being said, at no point throughout human history would someone have said, hey, hold on a second, you're reprehensible.
	Why?
	Because you're trying to take over a nation for their resources.
	People would have said, oh, yeah, let the best country win.
	And by best, we do mean that might made right.
	Throughout all of human history, this is really a very, very small window.
	In the realm of human history, where it's actually considered to be an anomaly, where it's not the norm.
	It has always been the norm.
	It has been the rule throughout all of human history.
	Pretty much no exceptions, to be clear.
	Here's another claim that they make.
	That the Dahomey in this film... I haven't seen it, just to be clear.
	Usually I can make it... I couldn't stomach it.
	No.
	I watched about ten minutes.
	I saw the trailer and I was like, nope!
	Right.
	I didn't know it existed.
	Yeah, I found out because I read articles, but the truth is I don't see trailers a lot anymore.
	I don't think of theatrical releases as big releases like I used to.
	Right.
	I thesaurused Woman King and it came up Queen.
	Yes!
	We have a word for it.
	You might actually be able to pull up the video that I did a long time ago.
	It was maybe like cultural appropriation.
	What's that Christmas play that the, is it Tseng Tzu?
	It's like, it's the Asian play, they always do it around Christmas, the Chinese play.
	Always.
	And there's a guy with the pom-pom on his head, this hilarious Chinese man.
	A Christmas story?
	Yeah.
	I can't remember what it was called, but they do it every year at Christmas.
	You guys can comment below.
	You probably know what I'm talking about.
	And this is an old video I did, I want to say in 2013, 2014, where I asked him, I said, well, why can't it be a woman king?
	This guy was out there promoting the play.
	And he goes, sorry, why can't it be a female emperor?
	He goes, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
	Oh, you mean Empress?
	I said, well, that's offensive.
	He's like, no, no, no, no, no.
	I'm dressed as emperor.
	I'm a man.
	His brain didn't even compute.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And now we're here!
	So, you're right, Queen.
	Johnny Boy said Crouching Tiger Hidden Christmas Tree?
	No, he's completely, he's just, stop it.
	That's, that seems offensive.
	That wasn't supposed to make air.
	It's actually a beautiful play.
	I just can't remember what the name of it.
	I don't know if I've ever heard of it.
	You'd know it if you saw it.
	They have the little pom-poms on the head and I know people say, that's, that's, that's denigrating though.
	I don't know what to call them.
	I don't know what the history is.
	It looks like a pom-pom on the head.
	Looks like a Kevin McCallister Christmas top hat.
	Christmas in the Bronx.
	Stop it.
	Alright, here's another claim that they make.
	Rush Hour 3 Christmas.
	That's it.
	So, here's another claim that they make in the film.
	That the Dahomey valiantly fought Western invaders trying to take their freedom.
	Of course that's untrue.
	Here's a clip.
	Fight or we die.
	Oh gosh.
	I have to see another leaping sword swipe.
	To be a warrior, you must kill your tears.
	We are the spear of victory!
	We are the blade of freedom!
	We are the home.
	Don't know.
	Little Lawrence of Alabia vibe.
	Now, here's... that would be bad enough if it was just inaccurate, right, where you were just sort of whitewashing.
	Okay, we know that everywhere, slavery existed everywhere.
	It's actually worse than that.
	Here's the truth.
	Not only were they not fighting off Western invaders who were trying to enslave them, the Agoge actually battled, they actually fought the French, who were actively trying to abolish slavery in the tribe.
	They were fighting to keep on enslaving people.
	Yes.
	And also, by the way, so the French were saying, we need to abolish slavery, okay?
	So the film doesn't really acknowledge that fully.
	Right.
	Also, unlike what you see in the film, the French wiped out the Goji in a matter of hours.
	Oh.
	So they're the, hold on.
	So it wasn't just a sneak attack bloodbath?
	With the giant John Woo jump leap.
	Like, by the way, you can't jump and you don't have leverage when you're in the air with a sword.
	You know what happens when you do that?
	You've never seen my style.
	Somebody just holds a spear up and says, thank you.
	Exactly.
	You're skewered.
	Good job.
	So wait a minute.
	They said that this is the most fearsome fighting female force in the world.
	Hours.
	Two hours or so?
	Oh no!
	We see you've set your Timex!
	All dead.
	So, yeah.
	They just hear a gun, they're like, we're going back.
	Alright, bye.
	And this is the issue here.
	There is a compulsion from the left.
	They view the world through the lens, again, of oppression.
	And so if you are an underdog, you must be morally correct.
	You must be in the moral, you must have the moral high ground, I should say.
	This is why you see them support Palestine.
	Regardless of where you line up with Israel-Palestine, None of us would deny that Palestine, even if you support, that there have been morally reprehensible actions taken.
	Certainly Hamas, right?
	If you certainly look at their charter and the eradication of Jews.
	If you look at, for example, Iran.
	If you look at, right now, when they still support a lot of nations where there are still slave trades, just to be clear.
	You look here, they say, well, hold on a second, this tribe, the Agoge, they must have been morally correct.
	Why?
	The truth is, they started from, they were wiped out in hours and worked backwards.
	How can we turn them into heroes?
	Oh, there were women.
	Let's look at the different groups of oppression, when the fact is, they were actually oppressing people by not only enslaving them, but fighting off the people who wanted to liberate those slaves to one degree or another.
	And the good news is, they lost in record time.
	Everything about this film is wrong.
	It's almost like Wakanda.
	It's not like Wakanda, this actually happened.
	No, that's what I mean.
	Wakanda, do you mean where the guy's on top of a Tesla with a spear?
	Pretty much.
	The story is just about as fake as my point.
	Well, it's an action movie.
	No, they're like, we have all the most brilliant technology and this magic and then he's on top of like an electric car with an invisibility cloak with a spear.
	Like, what is this?
	What is this?
	These elements don't add up.
	I don't care for a lot of those movies anyway.
	Yeah, I know.
	You're not a big fan of the metaverse?
	No.
	Only thing worse is DC.
	Here's another claim that they make in this film.
	That America is the country, and they don't say it directly, but again, it's sort of implied that the United States is a country that built itself on slavery, or certainly more so than other nations.
	Talk about being critical to a nation's economy.
	And their contributions weren't limited to the South.
	A little bit north in D.C., there's the White House.
	We built that.
	I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.
	Okay.
	And of course you've seen actors who've worked on this, if you look at the press junkets, where they constantly want to berate the United States, and we'll get to the Washington Post polls in a minute, for having taken part in slavery.
	Again, can we, can I say it any more clearly?
	Slavery bad.
	Glad!
	Glad we ended slavery!
	But here's the truth.
	The United States is not only not singularly unique in having engaged in slavery, but Africa was incredibly dependent.
	The United States wasn't entirely dependent on slavery.
	The United States would have become the United States anyway.
	Because how do you know?
	Because they were competing with other nations that also had slavery, just to be clear.
	So if you were to even that playing field, the United States would still have a leg up.
	Left the world's greatest superpower one century to become the only superpower the next century.
	Never happened before or since, just to be clear.
	But countries in Africa relied on the slave trade for economic growth.
	The Library of Congress, their website actually did show how African traders were major players, and the page has since been deleted.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, you have the Kingdom of Benin.
	I don't know, again, how we pronounce it.
	Sometimes you only read these words.
	I'm American.
	I'll say Benin.
	Benihana.
	Beninher.
	They sold slaves to European merchants for over 200 years.
	Places like Nigeria, they depended even more heavily on slavery.
	Here's from the History News Network.
	Many Nigerian middlemen began to depend totally on the slave trade and neglected every other business and occupation.
	And this is important, the historical context, because you often look And again, you'll have racists who look when they say, why is Africa such a... Why are almost all countries in Africa crap holes?
	Let's be clear.
	Racists will look and say, skin color.
	That's not what anyone here believes.
	You just look and say, well, maybe, hold on a second, that has something to do with modern Christendom?
	Because they focused exclusively on slavery at the cost of all other facets of industry.
	And historically, that is what has held these nations back.
	The result was that when the trade was abolished by England in 1807, these Nigerians began to protest.
	As years went by and the trade collapsed, such Nigerians lost their sources of income and became impoverished.
	And by the way, just to be clear while we're going back to the movie, the Dahomey King, they were one of the most powerful slave states.
	On the whole, what's known as a slave coast of West Africa.
	How is it possible?
	So, I mean, that makes a great point, right?
	You made it against the South as well, saying, look, slavery made you lazy.
	Slavery made you not innovate like the North had to innovate because they got rid of slavery and so therefore they had to get better at doing these things.
	The entire western coast of Africa essentially abandoned all of the natural resources that they say that Africa is blessed with, which it is, right?
	It's got incredible natural resources.
	It's a great old civilization.
	Exactly, right?
	So it has that, and they abandon all of that for the slaves.
	How is that the colonial oppression?
	It's people actually buying slaves from you.
	That's not being oppressed, that's actually engaging in commerce.
	Now, you're doing a very bad form of commerce, I get it.
	Of course.
	And then the colonial oppressors come and tell you to stop and focus on something else that'll be a lot more sustainable in the future, and also not, you know, slavery.
	Also, it's why I walk back, 0% people got mad when I said, look, slavery was not based on race.
	It was based on Slavery was based on precedent.
	Precedence, I guess, in this case, because everyone else engaged in slavery.
	We thought, well, okay, to compete, slavery is a thing.
	Look at what happened in the slave coast.
	It was black people enslaving black people.
	You can look at what's happened in the Middle East.
	It's Middle Eastern people enslaving Middle Eastern people.
	You can look at what's happened in Asia.
	You have Asian people enslaving Asian people.
	It was just a matter of which people were available for purchase.
	To say that it's entirely racially motivated or ethnically motivated, like the Holocaust, where that was the express purpose, the eradication, right?
	We want to basically commit a genocide against the Jewish people.
	That's not what happened.
	People didn't say, hey, we're only going to enslave people of one particular race, because people of all different races were enslaved, depending on where they existed in the world, because slavery was the norm.
	Here's something else.
	All references available at latospeditor.com.
	I've said it several times, and it's one of those numbers that's so shocking, people say, that can't be right.
	Okay.
	During the entire Atlantic slave trade, there were about 13 million.
	I've seen numbers as low as 12 million, I've seen numbers as high as 15 million.
	13 million is the most accurate that I can find.
	That's how many slaves were sold.
	The entire Atlantic slave trade.
	Right now, on Earth, there are over 40 million slaves today.
	Jeez.
	And the reason that people, because what often happens is they break it apart.
	Those are sex slaves.
	That's just, that's a worse form of slavery.
	That's slavery.
	So if you look at some of these websites where they sort of tally up slavery, they separate them into different groups.
	Why?
	I have a hunch as to why.
	It's pretty hard to blame the United States singularly for all the evils of the world when today, the greatest evils that you blame America for in their past, they're still being committed today.
	By nations with many people who live there who you would claim are oppressed here in the United States.
	Let's be really honest about that.
	If you were to take people from any of these countries that still engage in slavery, bring
	them to the United States, we would say those are marginalized people.
	But in their home country, they still engage in slavery.
	Here we're blamed for marginalizing them from something that happened hundreds of years
	ago.
	I think that's why it's hard to get, but the number is 40 point something million, I think
	it's 40.2, 40.3 million slaves on earth today.
	You want to do something?
	You want to help the world?
	Don't go on TikTok and bitch about pronouns.
	Do something today.
	A lot of people say, what would I have done back then, during that point in history, right?
	If it was slavery here in the United States, what would I have done?
	I'd like to think that I would be someone who would have stood up and done something.
	I'd like to think that I would have been one of the Germans who would have stood up to the SS and done something.
	You can stand up today.
	More slaves than ever, and there are plenty of organizations that do a lot out there.
	Especially with sex slaves, with those people being trafficked.
	Yeah, if you get a sex slave, don't pay for it.
	Right.
	At least don't ask for a refund.
	Yeah.
	By the way, also, it's only a few years ago.
	A few years ago, Libyans were caught selling West Africans.
	Open-air slave auctions, just to be clear.
	That means out in the open.
	Oh lord.
	Like you, at a flea market.
	Only they were selling people!
	This is very, very recent.
	That's the issue.
	When they try and say conservatives are racist, people on the right are racist, that's this reactionary review that you'll see from a conservative in response to Woman King.
	No!
	No, it's about accuracy.
	Why aren't you talking about more slaves than ever in recorded history?
	How would I have been back then?
	How are you now?
	You're condemning the people now in this studio for saying, this is virtue-signaling bullshit, there are slaves now, and you want to accuse us of being racist for pointing it out while you push Afro-lesbian-centric propaganda.
	I may not be entirely right, but I'm in the ballpark.
	Anything?
	You guys can comment below.
	Did you know that?
	You know there are more slaves than ever?
	Right now?
	You know, there are more slaves than ever in recorded history.
	All right.
	We're going to be moving on to Washington Post.
	I think this is something while we're talking about, you know, racism and... Oh, Jesus, are you serious?
	Boy, I'll tell you, Korndorf, this show's so awful, it makes Cardi B seem bearable.
	Really?
	If I had a forklift.
	This show's so terrible, it has less to offer than Jimmy Kimmel!
	Really?
	What does that crying host have to offer?
	At least when I tune into that, I'm sure to see one wet p***y!
	Okay, guys.
	I don't know why we got the balcony.
	I apologize.
	Really, there was a lot of money put into that.
	Alright, hold on a second here.
	Gerald, you were about to say something.
	No?
	Thanks for throwing that to me.
	You were going to say something about... Guys, I'm gay.
	No, I'm not gay.
	That's what it was.
	I really do want to see.
	You brought this up earlier, the 99% rotten tomatoes.
	Do you think there is a way for them to massage that number?
	I understand the critics' scores are always... I've never seen a 99% audience score for anything.
	Well, but it's also audience and critics are so high.
	It's like, come on, guys.
	Well, if anything about an audience, it's that they always love stuff.
	Yes.
	It's very easy to get an audience today online to agree on something.
	Yeah.
	Especially something as polarizing as the Woman King.
	Read anything with comments.
	Yes.
	As a matter of fact, sometimes if you need to brighten your day, go check the YouTube.
	Yeah, just see how... Yeah, I think you guys are setting me up.
	It always leaves me with a smile on my face.
	No, it doesn't.
	While we're talking about racism, while we're talking about the accusations of racism, Washington Post They are now at this point, I would say, definitely diametrically opposed to the interests of the American people.
	What do I mean by that?
	Okay.
	So last week, and I wanted to make sure that I did some research, you know, crossed my T's, dotted my I's.
	Gosh, I have the hiccups today, and I don't know if you guys are going to give them to me.
	You have the hiccups?
	Yeah, I have horrible hiccups.
	Do your kids give them to you?
	Someone can scare me.
	It can happen that way.
	Yeah, just give me an auditing paper.
	The Washington Post.
	There's a columnist there, Jennifer Rubin, who wrote a piece.
	Now, this is an opinion piece, granted, but the opinion piece is based on a poll from an institution.
	And I'll get to that, but this is what happens.
	They say, well, this is opinion, but it's based on fact, right?
	I'm opining on something that we know is a fact.
	So it seems as though you've started with a baseline where Americans, MAGA Republicans, are racist.
	It's a really brilliant sort of sleight of hand trick.
	You're going, hold on a second, when you see this, where's the poll from?
	You're palming it.
	This is the name of the article.
	It's just how racist is the MAGA movement.
	This survey measures it.
	And to answer, it is exactly as stupid as you would assume.
	It is.
	Do me a favor, too, and researchers, pull up some of Jennifer Rubin's best tweets.
	If you don't know who this person is, She is no fan of anybody who is conservative, period.
	Whether you're a Donald Trump conservative or anybody else, it doesn't matter.
	And this is an opinion article, to be clear.
	But she will say, I'm an opinion journalist, I understand.
	But the poll is not.
	The poll, just so you know, Rubin's article, uses survey data from the Public Religion Research Institute, so PRRI.
	To prove that Republicans are racist.
	So it starts off with the foundation that obviously Republicans are racist, and then obviously MAGA Republicans are racist.
	So if they get you to buy that, then it's a lot easier to get you to buy another lie.
	Just like if they get you to buy the lie that the Dahomeys were fighting to try and... First off, that they were even remotely successful in fighting off the French.
	Beyond two hours, beyond a long lunch break, to try and free... No, in fact, they were fighting to maintain slavery.
	So if you believe, when I start off from the jumping off point, you're, Republicans are racist, then you get to say I'm writing an opinion as to ask, why are all Republicans racist?
	So just to be clear, the PRI, they describe themselves as, quote, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting independent research at the intersection of religion, culture, and public policy.
	Now, you should note they partner with the Atlantic, they partner with the Ropert Center at Cornell, and the Brookings Institute.
	So that should give you an idea as to where they line up.
	The survey asked for responses to 11 statements designed to measure racism.
	Okay.
	And basically, do you agree, do you disagree, right?
	This is how they conduct these polls.
	And the answers were used to create a structural racism score.
	Comment below right now before you actually watch and see where we're going.
	If you can tell where this is going.
	Don't take the test.
	So here are some examples of statements that are included to which people would, again, agree or disagree.
	And that tells you if you're racist or not.
	It's the Structural Racism Course.
	Basically, if you answer this question with agree or disagree, depending on the statement, you are, in fact, of course, a racist.
	So, here's a statement.
	Do you believe white Americans today are not responsible for discrimination against black people in the past?
	Logical fallacy alert!
	Just to be clear, that's called a negative question.
	Now, a negative question is a type of question where a no response indicates an affirmative answer and a yes indicates a negative answer.
	And common practice with polling, you're not supposed to use this unless you are intentionally being dishonest.
	So let's go back to this question.
	Do you believe white Americans today, today, white Americans today are not responsible for discrimination against black people in the past?
	The answer, if you're going to be accurate, is of course, agree.
	Yes.
	The question is not, were white Americans responsible for discrimination against black people in the past?
	The answer everyone here would say, yeah, of course.
	Of course they were.
	But then if they say, do you believe that white Americans today are not responsible for discrimination against black people?
	Of course.
	Gerald's not responsible for what happened back during the slave trade.
	I've seen his time machine.
	Exactly, the DeLorean.
	Exactly.
	No one here, of course, would say, well yeah, of course, I agree, we're not responsible for discrimination against black people in the past.
	You've joined, by the way, answering for other people who've come before you, and then you've asked the question with a negative.
	So there's two tricks there designed to trip people up, and by the way, this is then used as though it is concrete data.
	Indicating that half of this country is racist.
	And you can bet your ass that you're going to have Jean-Pierre or you're going to have the White House use this as the backbone for some of their arguments.
	The alarming level of extremism!
	You don't think the FBI is glad to have this?
	I can't believe you start off, or not even start off, but wherever that question happens to reside in there, that you ask a question like that, and it's not just that question, it's the narrative that we see from the left continuously, is that white people today are responsible for the decisions made 150 to 200 years ago by other white people.
	It's like, that doesn't make any sense at all.
	Because if we could play that game, we could just rewind the tape a little bit further like you were saying and say, okay, well the black people that went and caught the slaves are then responsible as well.
	Well, you don't even need to rewind it further.
	You can just ask them in the present tense.
	That's true.
	Do you agree that slavery that goes on today in Africa and the Middle East and Asia is wrong?
	Does that make you racist?
	Because these tend to be people of a particular race in these countries, and it's not because of their race that they're employing slavery.
	It's because of their history.
	It's because of their values, which we don't share in the modern world.
	And you try and look at the modern world through the lens of the values that were created through the Judeo-Christian founding fathers and the documents therein, and then condemn them.
	It's a theoretical wormhole slave trade question.
	Yes.
	With the word not in it, which is always great in a question because that's meant to confuse you.
	Exactly.
	It's the event horizon of polls.
	Yes.
	I need a flow chart to see where I'm responsible.
	But they throw in the word not.
	That's what I hate about questions like that is because it's deliberately meant to confuse you.
	So you answer wrong.
	These are not people who are looking for an accurate assessment.
	These are people who are looking to manipulate.
	100%.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Look, it's very simple.
	This is how you would ask that question.
	Do you think that Americans engage in discrimination or bigotry in the past?
	Yes.
	Are you a bigot or are you prejudiced?
	Are you racist?
	No.
	There you go!
	That's a more accurate question as opposed to combining them into one and implying that, well, hold on a second, if you don't think that you're responsible for past racism, that makes you racist today.
	This is not someone who is seeking to get to the truth and that's why I always say, be very, very leery of polls.
	Right? You can't just argue from the position of most people think this.
	First off, that may not be the case. Second, you have to look at the kinds of questions that were
	asked. Here are other questions posed in the survey. Do you feel that the white people of
	tomorrow are responsible for the racism of today? I'd be willing to bet yes. Okay. I just want to
	Because of all the white guilt.
	I do not want to see what white people do tomorrow.
	Oh, that's rough.
	It's one of those, it's like Back to the Future 3 of slavery.
	They live in the sewers like Demolition Man.
	I'm thinking of Time Cop, that's right.
	Yeah, they're both good.
	Yes, they're both fantastic.
	Here's another question posed in the survey.
	White supremacy, a statement I should say, white supremacy is still a major problem in the United States today.
	Agree or disagree?
	First off, wrong.
	You've also added a quote, major.
	That's subjective.
	What do you mean, major problem?
	Do you mean, and this is, if we were to have a conversation, white supremacy, and this is why we do Change My Mind, where you can discuss these issues at length.
	Ironically for the left, they always say that they live in the nuance.
	Look at this poll here.
	The new answer is a major problem.
	Do you mean, for example, major in that are there any actual legal institutions that exist today that are allowed to discriminate, you know, aside from examples like affirmative action or racial or diversity quotas?
	No, it doesn't exist.
	So I wouldn't say it's a major problem in the United States today because it doesn't exist anywhere systemically.
	Now, if you say white supremacy is still a major problem in the U.S.
	today and you disagree, guess what?
	That goes on your structural racism score.
	Makes you a racist.
	Let me give you another question.
	Good luck in a not racist house.
	Yes!
	7.8%?
	What is it now?
	Oh, it's very low.
	Thanks, Joe Biden.
	Agree or disagree, if we truly want to repent of the history of racism in the United States, we must be willing to repair the damage it has done to generations of black Americans.
	Let me read that again because I know it's hard to say agree or disagree when it's filled to the brim with bullshit.
	If we truly want to repent of the history of racism in the United States, we must be willing to repair the damage it has done to generations of black Americans.
	Now, there are There's a litany of reasons that you could disagree with that statement.
	First off, repair the damage, but hold on a second, what do you mean, what damage?
	And then, how do you repair the damage?
	And what do you mean, repent?
	And the history of racism, how are we qualifying the history of racism?
	Which kind of racism?
	Are we just talking about slavery, which by the way still exists in the world?
	Are we also talking about what happened during World War II in the internment camps?
	Are we talking about what happened with Jewish Americans?
	By the way, we didn't treat them all that well, right, leading up until World War II, that's another thing that Americans don't necessarily talk about.
	We've made mistakes, but which kind of racism, and what kind of damage, to what level, to what degree of damage Needs to be repaired, and how do we repair it?
	So, I would just have to encapsulate that with... Disagree.
	Racist.
	And then you get it in the media.
	Then you get it in the Washington Post.
	Then it goes to the White House.
	Then it's used by the FBI, CIA, DOJ to put you on a list.
	So you should just say you're racist?
	Yes.
	I think that gets it over quickly.
	But yeah, no, it's not always just about black people.
	What about black people being racist to white people, right?
	What about white people being racist when it comes to Chinese Americans building the railroads out in California and on the West, right?
	There are so many examples that you just gave.
	What about black people being racist towards Chinese people?
	Or black people being racist towards other black people.
	What about Chinese being racist to Japanese and you're watching it and you're like, I don't know, what's a what's a?
	Right.
	It's like Clone Wars.
	When we tried to fix the problem of slavery, the problem that slavery created, of course there are better ways that we can look at problems sometimes.
	We don't always do the very best job of solving it, but one of the easiest things that we said was, okay, look, we just need to give everybody the same opportunity.
	The same opportunity, by the way, that we had when we came here from England.
	Right?
	That opportunity.
	No guarantee of success.
	If you work hard, you can make it.
	That took a little while.
	We are over a century beyond that, and we're still talking about trying to fix the problem, and the only way that people can say that we can fix that problem is by being racist today and creating a future problem.
	Right.
	So black people need to be preferenced over white people.
	Kamala Harris just the other day, I believe, said something about funding going for Hurricane Ian to communities of color first.
	Well I will say though, I do respect her because if she were being selfish, looking out for her own best interests, of course she won't see a dime.
	That's true.
	Well, both.
	Yes.
	I mean, if they were the ones hit first.
	But that's the solution.
	It's like, okay, so we just perpetuate the problem.
	But it was on the water.
	Right.
	And then eventually we have such a problem with white people, like a hundred years from now, white people will be like, well, slavery and racism and everything else led to me being oppressed.
	And now I need to oppress somebody else so that I can make the playing field level.
	Do you see this game ever ending?
	No, and that's the goal.
	And this is why I say they are diametrically opposed to the interests of all American people.
	Black, white, Johnny Mathis.
	Black, white, yellow, no one knows.
	We know.
	Jesus wasn't yellow.
	If you want, at the end of the segment, we can play the agree-disagree game with Jennifer Rubin's tweets.
	Oh, okay, yeah, we can do that.
	So let me first bring up, this is a structural racism score that they then use to say that you, as a MAGA Republican, are a racist.
	Uh, and by the way, the poll never actually uses the term MAGA.
	They just define it afterwards.
	They go, this must be a MAGA person.
	So, Republican really equals MAGA.
	So they have Republicans, 0.67.
	Again, on the structural racism score.
	Independent, 0.45.
	Democrat, 0.27.
	And by the way, they have structural racism scores by religious groups, white evangelical Protestants.
	0.64.
	White Latter-day Saints, 0.55.
	White Catholics, 0.55.
	White mainline Protestants, 0.55.
	And here's the thing, they say Rubin describes these people as the religious groups that make up the core of today's GOP and MAGA movement.
	Ah, so white Protestants, white evangelicals.
	I notice that they don't include black Protestants, which by the way is most black people.
	Just degrading on a curve.
	Yeah.
	These evil racist groups, this is something else that no one wants to bring up.
	Very generous, by the way, across the board.
	According to Philanthropy Roundtable, and there's also a great book I talked about by Brooks, Who Really Cares, evangelical Protestants and Mormons in particular are strong givers compared to Protestant affiliation.
	Both Catholic affiliation and Jewish affiliation reduce the scope of average giving when other influences are held constant.
	Finer-grained numbers from the PSID show that the faithful don't just give to religious causes.
	That's another lie.
	They just give to the church.
	By the way, the church does more charitable giving, and by the way, acts of service, than the government could ever hope to do, just to be clear.
	There is no larger charitable institution that exists, not just for Christians, than the American Evangelical Church, just to be clear.
	Hey, by the way, while we're talking about this, where are the international Islamic charity organizations for people who aren't Islamic?
	No?
	That's precluded from their faith.
	Might be why in a lot of Islamic nations they still engage in slavery.
	See?
	There's a tieback.
	So, not just religious causes, they are also more likely to give to secular causes than the non-religious.
	And to conclude the article, Rubin, using this poll, by the way, His polls from this organization claims that 85% of Republicans want to rewrite history of the Civil War and ignore the evil of slavery.
	What?
	Yes.
	In other words, if you say I'm not responsible for racism of the past, I'm responsible for my actions, she then concludes that you want to rewrite history.
	This is the goal.
	The goal is to fracture you.
	The goal is to make racism worse today than ever.
	Than ever.
	To create more racial tensions than ever so that you can be scapegoated.
	You can be blamed.
	You can be categorized as an extremist simply for saying, no, I don't think I'm responsible for something that happened hundreds of years ago.
	Here's actual text from... Well, your ancestors probably weren't even here, let's be honest.
	Right!
	For most white people.
	I mean, realistic.
	Mine weren't.
	Yeah.
	Again, we go through generations of immigrants.
	Where's the nuance?
	Here's actual text by the way from the survey.
	Americans are divided over whether they support or oppose efforts to preserve the legacy and history.
	Not the same thing.
	Legacy and history, not the same thing.
	You pair those together, you've just rendered the poll completely unusable.
	Efforts to preserve the legacy and history of the Confederacy through public memorials and statues in their community.
	51% supported, 46% opposed, 85% support from Republicans, Democrats 26% support, which is kind of funny because the Confederacy was made up of almost entirely Democrats, to be clear.
	I don't know if you know this.
	I don't know if you're history buffs out there, But while we're talking about the Civil War and the Confederacy, now, preserving the history means that Republicans are saying, even though we don't have a dog in that fight because we weren't the Confederates, that was you guys, saying, yeah, I don't think you should take down every single statue.
	Yeah, I don't think you should completely remove history.
	It is a part of our history.
	If you don't recognize history, you're doomed to repeat it.
	That says, no, you want to preserve the legacy because you support the Confederacy.
	Well, hold on a second.
	I believe that we should have World War... I believe we should have Holocaust museums.
	Monuments.
	I believe that we should recognize it.
	I believe that it should be mandatory teaching in schools so that we learn how evil human beings can truly be.
	It doesn't mean that I want to preserve the legacy of Hitler.
	Right.
	And the survey, by the way, again, never mentions rewriting the Civil War.
	Yeah.
	That's important.
	They go afterwards and say, well, that must be, you want to rewrite the Civil War.
	What?
	Yeah, well, and they're talking about the Confederacy.
	Like, you didn't mention the fighting that took place to actually free slaves.
	The white people who fought other white people to make sure that they couldn't have slaves.
	Just like the white people fought black people in Africa to make sure they stopped selling slaves.
	Who were enslaved by other black people.
	By other black people, yes.
	It seems like we've...
	I think we've done what we're supposed to do.
	That's actually a really good point.
	Again, we've talked about it.
	People said, I can't believe that you would say slavery isn't predicated on race.
	Okay.
	Again, just using the woman king as an example, when you're talking about the French going in and the Dahomey tribe, you have black people enslaving black people.
	Now you have different people enslaving people, members of different races all throughout history.
	But let's just use this as a very clear example.
	Black people enslaving black people, selling them.
	Okay.
	So they are selling them to either other black people or selling them to other white people.
	And yet people like the French go in and try and abolish slavery.
	So white people trying to abolish the practice of black people enslaving black people.
	Yeah.
	Same thing with the United States.
	White people fighting white people to say you can no longer enslave black people.
	And we ignore it.
	Black people enslave black people.
	White people fought white people to stop enslaving black people.
	We just say it's a black white thing.
	No, it's a human nature thing.
	That's all.
	It doesn't make it any less morally reprehensible.
	But to say that it's racially motivated.
	And this is what's so subversive about this too.
	It's not just you can't say something.
	Because it offends me.
	Right?
	That's what people talk about, cancel culture.
	It's worse than that.
	Hold on a second.
	You actually can't say that because you're simply reinforcing the power structures that be.
	The racism structural index score, whatever the hell they call it.
	You're actually doing harm to current black people by reinforcing racial structures that exist.
	So it's not you're saying something I don't like, but the very fact that you have the ability to say it is a byproduct of free speech from racist white founding fathers.
	So it's like two evils that you're committing.
	Think about that for a second.
	How can anyone have a conversation?
	And if that same logic were applied, you would have never had the Civil Rights Act.
	Because all great civil rights movements start through what?
	Speech.
	No matter how offensive it may be.
	Now, apparently the PRRI director, Robert P. Jones, doesn't have any problem with Rubin's characterization.
	This is what was said.
	While this result may seem surprising or even shocking to many white Christians... No, no, no.
	Inaccurate.
	It is because we do not know our own history.
	Yes, we do.
	If we take a clear-eyed look at our history, we see a widespread, centuries-long Christian defense of white supremacy.
	Let me ask you something.
	You're looking at a percentage because a lot of people were Christians, sure.
	That doesn't mean that it was a Christian defense of white supremacy, just to be clear.
	A lot of them were trying to defend slavery in spite of what would be Christian beliefs.
	How many Hindus abolished slavery because of the tenets of Hinduism?
	How many Muslims?
	abolished slavery because of, again, the fundamental values of Islam. There's still slavery that exists.
	There's still slavery that, by the way, exists in parts of India, and there's still slavery that exists in the Middle
	East.
	So, hey, can you find any other group of people who opposed slavery more than white Christians here in the United
	States?
	Sure, it's the largest percentage of the population.
	You're going to have Christians who were on the side of slavery, but the arguments used to abolish slavery were entirely biblically based on the moral component, not the economic component.
	The arguments used to preserve slavery from the so-called white Christians had to go outside the scope of the Bible, and they had to be entirely economically argued.
	Yeah, by the way, we have a Christian in the White House supposedly right now who's pro-abortion, which goes completely against what the Bible says.
	So it's just an example that Christians don't always stand up and say.
	And by the way, do you think William Wilberforce was an agnostic?
	Right.
	I've never heard of him, but no.
	Yeah, no.
	Fantastic guy.
	You should read up on him.
	I give a gander.
	He wanted more slaves.
	That's what it was.
	Yes, it was more slaves that Wilberforce wanted.
	How many slaves did Jesus have?
	Uh, you know, I don't know.
	One can never count.
	Yeah, in the 50s, right?
	He just had 12 losers who were sort of, you know, riding his coattails.
	I know, right?
	I'm sorry.
	I'm just saying, come on.
	Let's be honest.
	We all knew who was putting bread on the table there.
	I mean, he gave them five loaves!
	Yes, because the Bible says white people are supreme when it was talking about all Middle Eastern people and the chosen people being Jewish.
	And that's why the Jewish guy is saying that.
	Yes.
	And by the way, we don't mean Jewish like you think of them here in the United States.
	We mean Jewish who would look more like what you would picture a terrorist to look like.
	Yes.
	Middle Eastern, Mediterranean.
	Yeah, very Mediterranean.
	Bible, that white supremacist.
	I give to you my only son, this short brown man who's not very attractive.
	Have you read any of the book?
	Yeah.
	Very Middle Eastern.
	And by the way, I'm not saying he's not attractive because he's Middle Eastern.
	I'm saying he's not attractive because the Bible describes him as nothing special to see.
	Yes.
	Physically.
	So don't make it a racial argument, Washington Post or PRRI.
	That'll be the first time they defended Jesus.
	That'd be a win if we could get them to accidentally defend Jesus.
	I want to hear from you.
	Would you agree?
	Go look at the survey.
	Tell me how you would have answered this poll.
	Because I want you to not feel bad for answering accurately.
	That's the thing.
	I think too many people are timid with this at this point.
	And sometimes I want to be tactful because I don't want to turn off people who I could otherwise reach.
	No, no, no, no.
	Let your freak flag fly.
	Be honest about it.
	You cannot argue from a position of weakness.
	Oh, well, I don't think that I'm responsible for past slavery or racism, but let me listen.
	No, no, no, no.
	I don't need to listen to your argument that I am responsible.
	For acts of evil committed a hundred years ago.
	I don't need to listen to that.
	It is not accurate.
	It also won't allow us to have a productive conversation if it has any bearing on this conversation.
	Because we'll be in two different parallel lanes.
	We'll never actually intersect.
	You love that word, Afro-lesbian-centrics.
	By the way, we're going to play the Rubin game, I guess.
	We'll play that on Mug Club.
	We have a lot more to get to.
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