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April 25, 2018 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 145 - Too Much Winning…Can’t Go On…

Kanye West turns his conservative Republican talk up to 11; our conservative Republican president has made even the socialist president of France love us; and a new study shows global warming alarmism is largely nonsense. Then, Hotep Jesus comes on the show to discuss trolling white liberals at Starbucks. TL;DR: Conservatives are finally winning the culture! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Kanye West turns the MAGA up to 11.
Our conservative Republican president has made even the socialist president of France love us, and a new study shows global warming alarmism is largely nonsense.
Then, Hotep Jesus, Brian Sharp, comes on the show to discuss trolling white liberals at Starbucks.
The too-long-didn't-read is the conservatives are finally winning the culture.
I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles show.
I can't take it.
I can't take it.
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I'm coming, Elizabeth.
There is too much winning.
Mr.
President, I wish I had believed you.
I'm sorry I didn't believe you when you said that we would get sick and tired of winning.
I don't know how much more my body can take.
I'm going into shock.
I'm starting to freeze up a little bit.
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What did I tell you yesterday?
What did I tell you?
You know, yesterday was all death and destruction and old people dying and that poor baby Alfie being murdered by the UK government and the socialist bureaucrats of the UK healthcare system.
Then genocide.
That's how we rounded out the show yesterday.
A little depressing.
But today...
Oh, today is the exact opposite of yesterday.
Kanye West is sounding like a rock-ribbed conservative.
This guy is not just throwing out hints.
I can't wait to tell you about it.
I'm going to save that toward the middle of the show.
That's going to be like the real delicious part of the show.
But also, let's not forget, Donald Trump has made French socialists love America.
And also, just a little extra bit here, doctors are advising men to stare at boobs to improve their health.
This is an actual news story going around today.
Then, science deals another crushing blow to lefties' global warming alarmism, and if that last one weren't a sign against the apocalypse, I would think that this is the apocalypse.
Right?
If it weren't...
If that last great news item didn't say explicitly that the world is not ending right now, I would think the world is ending.
The French like us for some reason.
They love Trump.
The biggest pop culture star in the entire world just loves Trump and wears MAGA hats and things like that.
Too good.
Let's start with global warming.
This is the easiest way to dive into it.
Let's just dip our toes into that not very warm water.
So a new study in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate has concluded, quote, Future warming is likely to be substantially lower than the central computer model simulated level projected by the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and highly unlikely to exceed that level.
For comment, we turn now to former Vice President Al Gore.
And we have to kill him while we all have the chance.
I'm cereal!
And I'm saying it, I'm totally cereal, but everyone just keeps digging!
Detect my Man Bear Pig and Man Bear Pig leaves nobody alive!
I'm super cereal!
Nobody will listen to me with cereal!
And someday, when the world is rid of Man Bear Pig, everyone will say, Thank you, Al Gore!
You're super awesome!
The end.
Interesting.
I hadn't considered that perspective.
I don't know that that day is going to be coming anytime soon.
Because, you know, there are, of course, there are lots of studies, the alarmists' studies, and these studies show how the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow proves that global warming is going to kill us all in the next five minutes.
The trouble is, if you're going to predict the end of the world, you have to be right.
If you keep predicting the end of the world, it doesn't happen.
You're going to look foolish.
Not coincidentally or providentially, perhaps.
Earth Day was just on Sunday, April 22nd.
Earth Day has been around now for 48 years, almost half a century.
So it's kind of fun to look back in 1970, the first Earth Day ever.
Let's see some of the predictions they made.
Let's see if they came true.
48 years ago, on the very first Earth Day...
Harvard biologist George Wald said, quote, civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against the problems facing mankind.
And by the way, when they say immediate action, they try to put it in this language that it's, look, this is just science.
This is just science.
This isn't partisan.
This isn't conservative or liberal or Republican or Democrat.
It's just science.
As though there were scientific politics.
There isn't a scientific politics.
As though scientists have anything to do with politics.
As if they have any expertise.
They don't.
Maybe they have some expertise in one field.
Apparently this guy didn't have much expertise in his own field.
But that doesn't mean you have expertise in any field.
We talked about that yesterday and about what G.K. Chesterton said about the problem of expertise.
So 15 to 30 years, unless immediate action is taken, which really means unless we do all the public policies that the left has wanted for 100 years.
But okay, so that action wasn't taken and it looks like we're okay.
Looks like we made it.
The New York Times, though, in 1970, that first Earth Day, predicted the extinction of the human race.
That's a modest prediction.
Did it happen?
No.
The thing is, if you predict death, eventually you'll be right.
It's actually a safe bet in the long run.
As John Maynard Cain said, in the long run, we're all dead.
But they haven't been right so far.
They're still holding out hope.
The biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted in 1970 that 100 to 200 million people per year would starve to death from overpopulation during the 1970s.
100 to 200 million people per year did that.
A lot of terrible things happened in the 70s, but I don't think that was one of them.
He predicted that 4 billion people would die in what he called the great die-off of the 1980s.
Didn't happen.
Actually, everyone had a lot more food and had a much better life, and the economy around the world soared.
It was really nice.
Dennis Hayes, a co-organizer of Earth Day, said in 1970, it was already too late to avoid mass starvation.
Probably the greatest public health crisis in America right now is obesity.
He said in 1970, it's too late, we're all going to starve.
The trouble around the world is that everybody is too fat.
He could not have been more wrong.
Peter Gunter said by the year 2000, the entire world outside the West would be in starvation.
And I guess the entire world outside the West is now trying to enter the West for other reasons, not for starvation.
So maybe that complicates things, but it is not the case.
That's not true at all.
Hundreds and hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty just in China alone over the last 30 years.
Just did not happen.
Life magazine reported that scientists would now know in 1970 that by 1980, city dwellers would have to wear gas masks They would have to, they couldn't, the pollution would be so awful, they'd have to wear gas masks everywhere.
Not even, not just those things that certain people wear on airplanes, you know, the little, the little filter, but just actual gas masks.
Don't remember that happening.
They said by 1985, all around the world, air pollution would have reduced the sunlight to the earth by 50%, by a full half.
The ecologist Kenneth Watt Predicted that we would run out of oil by 2000.
Not only have we not run out of oil, we're going to start drilling for even more oil in all those places that Democrats won't let us drill.
We're going to Anwar.
We're going to drill, baby, drill.
We're going to get that delicious dinosaur juice out of the ground, and we're going to keep driving our cars, and it'll be just great.
They also predicted, this was Kenneth Watt, the ecologist in 1970, predicted an impending ice age, how quickly things change.
And what it's all based on, by the way, They say, if present trends continue, da-da-da-da-da.
If trends continue, da-da-da-da-da.
But the trouble is none of these models are ever right.
Very few of them predict anything at all, and in the long run, none of them have predicted much at all.
If trends continue, but the trends don't continue.
We're in a dynamic space.
Politics is dynamic.
The climate is a chaotic environment.
You know, you could say this with presidential elections.
You see this all the time.
Some party wins an election and they say, oh my, the other party is over.
The other party, it's over.
They should just forget about their party.
They should dissolve because it's over.
If the present trends continue, their party's over.
But trends don't continue because we're people.
Politics is the affairs of men and it changes all the time.
And it's in the present and it can change on a dime in ways that we can't predict.
As Donald Rumsfeld said, there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.
Things that you know you know, and things that you know that you don't know, and things that you just don't know.
And that's a much truer view of the world.
We just can't predict these things.
The egghead experts want to say that I can tell you what the velocity of the unladen swallow will be in 2078.
They don't.
They just don't know.
We have to get to even better scientific news, and then, of course, to Kanye.
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Hey, speaking of, by the way, this is a perfect segue.
Speaking of the boudoir, in other scientific news, according to scientists published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the British Medical Journal, and How Men Age, scientists have concluded there are about six proven ways to live longer, to have better health, and some of the top ways to do that are Stare at boobs, have a lot of sex, and don't worry about working out too much.
I have known this intuitively my whole life.
I feel like maybe I'm some sort of savant, some rain man of men's health, because I tell you, I didn't have to read that in a scientific study, but this is true now, because apparently staring at boobs, if you're a man, makes you happier, and that's the power of positive thinking.
People live longer, they report lower levels of stress, all these sort of things, and having lots of sex, I guess, is I don't think I need to convince anybody that that's going to put you into better health, you know, have you feeling very good.
And what was the final one?
I'm sorry, I was thinking about boobs and I totally forgot.
Oh yeah, and not working out too much.
That's the other one.
So you get to stare at boobs, have a lot of sex, and don't work out.
Because there's something so not conservative about working out a lot, about going to the gym, and you're like a man, and you're worrying about, you're checking out your abs in the mirror, and you're like a little...
Soy boy.
I don't know how else to put it.
Real men don't care about that that much.
They want to sit around and not have to go preen and go jogging.
No man should ever jog.
And they just want to smoke cigars and eat pizza and hang out and read and be a cool guy.
So, all excellent news.
I was skeptical of science when they said that the world was going to end in the 1970s, but I think science is getting much, much better because they're telling us that Al Gore is a dummy and everything that we know about what makes us happy is true.
Ha ha ha.
A good day for science.
Way, way, way too much winning.
And the real winning here, or the real hashtag winning, is cultural.
I like the science stuff too.
It's all culture.
Conservatives are finally winning the culture.
This brings us to Yeezy, Kanye West.
So Kanye West has been tweeting these great things out.
It sounds like he's a conservative Republican.
He starts out and he just tweets, decentralize.
Okay.
Alright.
Yeah, I agree.
We should decentralize.
We should have more local government, more local control.
Then he tweets, you don't have to agree with Trump, but the mob can't make me not love him.
We are both dragon energy.
He is my brother.
I love everyone.
I don't agree with everything anyone does.
That's what makes us individuals.
And we have the right to independent thought.
So at this point, I'm actually just a Kanye West fan.
I don't really like his music that much, but I've become a Kanye West fan.
So, at this point now, the media are saying he's insane.
They say, oh, he's crazy.
Oh, he's this, he's that.
Then he tweets out a picture of him wearing the MAGA hat.
Because he's just playing around, right?
He's just like giving you little hints.
Oh, yeah, I like Trump personally.
Then he's wearing that MAGA hat.
And the media go crazy.
And they say, they're actually reporting that Kanye West is mentally ill.
Because they're so in their own silo, they're so in their own little bubble, they don't realize that half the country voted for Donald Trump.
But they don't know any of those people.
They don't know anyone who voted for Donald Trump.
So the only thing that this could mean is that Kanye West has lost his mind.
Kim Kardashian, to her credit, tweeted out and said...
Mental health is a serious issue, and you shouldn't be bandying around these smears and allegations so carelessly.
My husband isn't crazy, basically.
Or he's no crazier than he ever was.
He's no crazier than he used to be.
This has been building for a few days.
Kanye West tweeted out a video of Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, who's not a right-winger or a left-winger, but he likes Trump and he kind of understands Trump.
So Kanye West tweets out not just a video of Scott Adams, but a video of him watching Scott Adams.
And this is really important because it's involving you in his realization.
It's involving you in his participation in something conservative.
It's not just a random tweet and you can say, oh, he didn't do that.
It's bringing you right into his living room, right onto his computer.
And this was really shocking.
I mean, this is so...
Good.
This all started when he said that he likes the way Candace Owens thinks.
Friend of the show, Red Pill Black, Candace Owens.
So, how should conservatives react to this?
I know Ben has been urging caution.
He says, don't, we shouldn't embrace these celebrities.
We don't, we're not fans of Kanye West.
We're not, yeah, you know, and he says crazy things.
We shouldn't embrace him.
I don't disagree with the premises here that we don't always agree with Kanye West and we don't really like his music that much and we don't have to pretend that he's some great political savant or philosopher.
But we should embrace what Kanye West is doing right now.
We have to do it.
We have to take the wins when we can get them.
We should not be borrowing problems from tomorrow.
This is what the culture is.
Politics happens now.
It happens now in time and space.
A lot of times conservatives won't take yes for an answer.
Say, no, I don't think so.
Do I like Kanye West's music?
No.
Do I have to like Kanye West's music?
No, but he's doing something good.
Give him credit for it.
This is the biggest pop culture figure in the world, maybe other than Donald Trump, and he's embracing Donald Trump.
He's wearing the MAGA hat.
That's a big win.
Take it.
Don't say, no, he didn't do it on my terms.
We're not winning the culture on my terms.
Who cares?
Doesn't matter.
We're winning.
This is a wonderful thing.
Because politics is downstream of culture, as Andrew Breitbart was fond of saying.
And politics is about people.
Aristotle said, the thing that makes human beings human beings is politics.
Man is the political animal.
Politics is the affairs of men.
And all the good politicians are people people.
You've got to be a people person.
You've got to like people.
And you see this in all of our presidents.
All of our successful presidents, certainly, they really like people.
They like being around people.
You see that with Bill Clinton, like, hey, honey, I really like people probably a little too much.
But everyone is a people person.
I got in trouble on Twitter when that little dog was killed on United Airlines.
Someone said, you're not a people person, or you're not a dog person, are you, Michael?
I said, no, I'm a people person.
Donald Trump is a people person.
Kanye West, same thing.
This brings us to the President of France.
Before I can get to that, we've got to talk about Ring.
Because, you know, I'm a people person.
I like a lot of people, but I don't like people who try to rob my house or hurt my family.
Those are people I don't like, which is why Ring is a great product.
Ring is so helpful.
Ring has this video doorbell.
I've talked to you about them before.
They connect right to your cell phone.
These guys have totally changed the home security game with a doorbell.
Who would have thought?
So I'm going to play a little clip that they sent over.
But, you know, this is like the Jetsons kind of technology.
You go, all your cool friends have this now.
It installs very easily.
You click, and you can just see whoever is at the door right from your phone, anywhere you are at work or on the beach or wherever, and you can talk to them back and forth.
It uploads everything to the cloud.
Alright, I'm going to play this clip, then we'll talk about it a little bit more.
So, a crazy looking guy walks up to a home.
The first thing you hear is him kicking in the door, and then the homeowner catches him.
Hello?
Hey.
Are you okay?
Leave my house or I'm calling the police.
Okay, what you need to do...
Hey, leave my house.
Stop.
Now, or I'm calling the police.
Why would you tell me that?
Because you're trying to push my door in.
Leave now.
We're all about to smash what's in there.
I'm calling the police.
Okay.
I am the police.
Something tells me that guy's not the police.
I don't know what it is about him.
So Ring, in the old days, there was Neighborhood Watch, which isn't very effective.
And, you know, you'd go, you could get into a very dangerous situation.
Ring makes this very easy.
It is the 21st century.
It is unbelievably inexpensive.
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So you say, watch out for this crazy person.
I don't think he's with the police.
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Okay, back to people people.
Donald Trump is a people person.
That's a great thing for the conservative movement.
It's a great thing for the culture.
Sometimes conservatives are a little detached from people.
Trump doesn't have that.
And look how it's paying off.
Here he is with the president of France.
Mr.
President, they're all saying what a great relationship we have.
And they're actually correct.
It's not fake news.
Finally, it's not fake news.
So it's a great honor, great honor that you're here.
But we do have a very special relationship.
In fact, I'll get that in a piece of dandruff.
We have to make him perfect.
He is perfect.
So it is really great to be with you and you're a special friend.
Thank you.
I like him a lot.
Ha ha ha.
I can tell.
You're a people person, Donald.
And people like him.
Everyone's trying to figure out, they say, why does Emmanuel Macaroon, that delicious French cookie, why does he like Donald Trump so much?
And I think he just likes him, basically.
I guess it's advantageous in a way.
I don't know that it's terribly politically advantageous for him to be nice to Trump.
I think they just like each other.
They get along.
That's a good thing.
Americans hate the French, and the French hate the Americans, but we're getting along.
Great.
That's a great thing.
It is the power of culture.
And speaking of winning the culture, how important this is, I sat down yesterday with Brian Sharp, who goes by Hotep Jesus, because Hotep trolled white liberals at Starbucks.
Talk about getting in there and subverting the culture.
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Again, none of that matters.
Kanye West is wearing a MAGA hat.
Kanye West is tweeting Republican propaganda for the last three days.
Get the Leftist Here's Tumblr as soon as possible.
I won't even keep talking.
Go do it right now or else you're going to drown.
We'll be right back.
Okay, I sat down with Hotep yesterday.
He offered excellent insight on this exact question, on this exact question of the culture.
It's absolutely hilarious.
Here's Hotep.
Brian Sharp, Hotep Jesus, thank you for being here.
Thank you for having me.
Hotep, I gotta tell you, I had to pay every single penny for this delicious Starbucks.
You have managed to find a way through that system and collect your reparations for Starbucks.
I should say, before we talk about it, I don't think anyone who's watching has not seen this video, but just in case someone missed it somehow, this is...
The greatest troll of the year, at least.
Here is Hotep Jesus getting Starbucks reparations justice.
We about to go inside, get my free coffee.
Y'all ready?
Y'all ready?
How you doing?
Good, how are you?
All right, I heard y'all was racist, so I came to get my free coffee.
I saw that.
Yeah, I heard you guys don't like black people, so I wanted to get my Starbucks reparations voucher.
What's that?
Is that a real thing?
It's a real thing.
I mean, I'll give it to you.
I saw that on my Twitter last night.
I was like...
Yeah, I need a free coffee.
I'll give you a free coffee.
That's what I'm talking about.
This is justice.
Where was Arizona?
Where was it?
Philly.
Philly?
What?
Are you serious?
Reparations, man.
Gotta get my reparations for being black in America.
Black Lives Matter.
Do you have any flavors in it?
We got caramel, hazelnut.
I'll take caramel.
What's your name?
I appreciate you.
Amanda?
Amanda, you are a great.
Is it?
I wish you the best.
Thank you.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
You got to get your free coffee out here, man.
You got to get your Starbucks reparations, man.
Huh?
Yeah.
This is how we do, man.
Black lives matter, baby.
All right.
Hotep, to begin, what gave you this brilliant idea?
Man, I don't know.
It was like a gift from God.
As soon as the whole Starbucks thing happened, you know, I had this idea.
I was like, if I go anywhere near a Starbucks, I'm going to claim a free coffee and I'm going to live stream it while I do it.
And I just happened to be there with the fam and I look up and there's a Starbucks and I'm like, should I do it?
Should I not do it?
it.
I'm like, you know how we get down.
So I just went ahead and did it, man.
Had to make it happen.
You know, if if you if you identify as black, you could go in there and you should be able to get your drinks for free.
Well, that's kind of what I wonder, because I am of Sicilian descent, which is fairly swarthy.
Like, I don't know if it quite qualifies, but I got to say, man, from one troll to another, it was just brilliant.
It was so good.
And it gets to a very important point, which is I try not to delve too much into identity politics or demographics or whatever.
But if there is one demographic group that really just drives me up a wall, it is the white liberal because they are the most moralizing, preening, usually privileged group of people in the entire country.
And you totally turn them on their head.
You totally mock them just perfectly.
Did you expect that reaction when you went in there?
Absolutely.
When I first had the idea, I knew the reaction I was going to get.
And I knew I was going to get people in the right upset too.
So I was like, that was more reason to do it.
But you're right.
Liberals, they complain about everything.
And I'm like, you guys literally have the most power.
You guys have all the media outlets.
I can't get a job unless I'm a liberal.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like, conservatives are blocked out of everything.
And these people are complaining, like, what are you complaining about people silencing you when you guys own all the media networks?
You guys are literally the journalists typing the article about being silenced on a mainstream outlet.
And I'm like, I can't even get on there.
That's right.
I mean, obviously, in America, the privileged culture is the left-wing culture.
They run popular culture in Hollywood and New York.
They run the corporate culture.
They run the campuses.
They run education, really, from kindergarten all the way up through graduate school.
And yet, they always pretend that they're fighting against...
The man, you know, as though the man were conservative.
And that obviously isn't the case.
We know Barack Obama's IRS targeted conservative groups.
We know Hollywood regularly blackballs conservative groups.
Now, it's funny because when I saw the video, I just saw clips of it.
And we've now reached this period in politics, which is described by Poe's law, where you can no longer tell what is satire and what is reality.
Like, the American left has become a parody of itself.
Are you catching flack from conservatives who don't get the joke?
Oh, yeah.
I tricked Alex Jones.
Alex Jones was immediately upset.
But he gets upset a lot.
Yeah, I mean, it's really easy to make that guy upset.
But yeah, I mean, my mentions, my Instagram, Facebook, had people cursing me out like, oh, you N-words need free coffee and What is this?
You couldn't get your welfare check?
All this type of stuff.
And it's just funny to me.
But, you know, I kind of laugh it off.
But I expected that.
Well, this is one aspect where we have to criticize conservatives in the culture.
It's true that we get shut out of Hollywood and New York and all that.
But it's also because conservatives sometimes are a little bit Philistine.
Like, they don't grasp...
Performance art or aspects of the culture and they just don't get the joke sometimes.
And that's no good.
I think Norm MacDonald described Twitter as a great place to tell people that you don't like them very much.
There is a lot of anger on Twitter there.
But would you call this performance art?
Is this part of any broader project that you're working on?
You know, I never considered it performance art.
Laura Ingham referred to it as that.
I don't know.
Maybe it is.
I've got several clips where I've done short comedy sketches on my Instagram, but I didn't look at this as performance art.
I really looked at this like, I just want to make fun of people.
I just want to make fun of crybaby liberals and I want to troll people because it's ridiculous that It's come to this, that we're at a place where we're talking about racism in Starbucks.
And then when you go look at the guys, right, the guys who were actually arrested and they spoke out, they go, this isn't even about race.
So I'm like, all these people made all this fuss and the main people Well, that's the really funny part, because I think everybody knows that.
Does anybody actually think that Starbucks is racist?
Starbucks is one of the most, like, bleeding heart companies on planet Earth.
They're always virtue signaling.
They're always trying to do that.
And your video totally mocks that.
You go in and the words you use, this is Starbucks reparations, this is justice in 2018.
It is mocking that culture where everybody can be so happy that there is such little racial discrimination that you can kind of worry about these ridiculous things like coffee cups or something like that.
That's a wonderful thing.
Now, do you see, obviously in the video this comes up, the left doesn't seem to have much of a sense of humor anymore, and conservatives seem to have more of a sense of humor.
They still get angry on Twitter, but they seem to get the joke a little bit more.
Why do you think that is?
I think that conservatives are more down-to-earth.
You know, liberals are pretentious.
You know, they stay in their lofts in Midtown Manhattan.
Latte sipping, you know.
Yeah.
And they're completely detached from society.
All they know is...
It's so easy to troll them.
They were getting trolled by memes during the entire election.
And 4chan trolls them monthly.
And they always fall for it.
I'm like...
You know, like, how are you guys falling for this stuff?
Like, it just shows that they're not internet savvy.
They're not political savvy.
They're not people people.
You know what I mean?
That's the key, I think.
They're not people people.
Because a lot of studies from the election, they showed...
It wasn't that education level predicted who you were going to vote for.
It was the education level of people you knew.
If you interacted with different kinds of people and you were around guys who work blue collar jobs and people who were in management and educated people in this, if you knew a lot of different people, you were a little more relaxed about the election.
Maybe you like Trump a little bit more.
And if you were isolated and you were totally siloed and all you did is sip lattes on the Upper East Side or Upper West Side, then you couldn't imagine somebody not voting for Hillary Clinton.
It's really detached from society.
I have to ask one more question.
In response to the flare-up in Philadelphia, where the guys were arrested at Starbucks, Starbucks Starbucks has now closed thousands of stores for mandatory sensitivity training or unconscious bias training, which I've never really understood.
If it's an unconscious bias, how are you going to solve that?
That's unconscious, right?
How are you going to actually constantly be conscious of that?
That's a separate point.
Is it enough, or should they close all of their stores worldwide and just go out of business and leave it to Pete's Coffee and Dunkin' Donuts to take over the rest?
If they're going to have racial bias training, they should just shut down the entire company because that's just ridiculous and it's stupid.
And then the people that they chose to be in charge of racial bias training, Eric Holder, NAACP and ADL, these people know nothing about Black people.
If we're going to have racial bias training, I would say that you'd have to have the locals in every city of every Starbucks come in and just kick it with the staff.
You know, like throw a party, throw a block party and have just the locals be invited and just let people interact and get to know each other.
So when you show up at the Starbucks, you know, Jessica behind the counter, you know, Amanda behind the counter and Amanda knows you.
You know what I mean?
You can't train people to not be racially biased, but you can bring them together in the same room and share coffee and share pizza and then people will work out those things themselves.
But you can't train people to not be...
Everybody is racially biased.
I'm racially biased towards black people and white people.
I treat them completely different.
I treat different economic levels of black people different.
I don't talk to my hood friends the same as I do my more affluent black friends.
And they don't enjoy the same type of entertainment.
You can't train that, right?
Like, you have to just learn that from being around a diverse group of people.
And liberals just aren't around a diverse group of people.
Like, I had an old boss.
Liberals help.
I couldn't stand her.
She wouldn't take the subway.
Of course.
Of course.
Like, I'm like, she's like, oh my God, you went down there?
I'm like, yeah, it's just the subway.
But these are the people that are trying to dictate what's right and wrong in society and tell me I'm wrong for my views.
But you don't want to come down in the subway and hang out with the common folk.
Well, it's because the They love humanity, but they hate humans.
They don't really like people that much.
And so it's such a good point about the localism of it all.
If there is some problem between groups of people in a community, the way you solve that is you get the groups of people talking together and spending time together and get to know each other.
You don't get some corrupt crony like Eric Holder to come in and lecture you on some academic talk.
Talk about racial biases or whatever.
That isn't going to solve anything.
It's so pointless.
It's just virtue signaling.
Yeah, I'm with you.
They have to shut the company down.
They're moving money around.
They're moving money around.
Let's be honest.
They're taking Starbucks liberal dollars and they're moving it into political pockets.
Eric Holder is going to get a check for that.
The NAACP is going to get a check for that and say, oh, this was for black people because the NAACP got a check, but NAACP doesn't do anything for black people.
And then the ADL gets their checks.
So it's just take liberals saying, hey, here's some money.
We're going to come together and we're going to brainwash these people with more liberal politics.
They're probably going to give them LGBT pamphlets.
Oh, they have to.
It's intersectional.
Yeah.
And gender, binary, cis, whatever vocabulary and dictionary they're out of.
You're describing my identity.
Thank you very much.
This is what they're going to do to these people.
They're going to just brainwash them with a whole bunch of nonsense.
And they're actually going to create People that are more retarded than usual.
I can't even use the word retarded.
That's very not allowed anymore, even though it just means slow.
But you're not allowed to say that.
You're going to probably get arrested by the thought police for that.
But it's true.
It's going to sow more rancor and more division.
That's all it does.
It literally just keeps dividing people by different categories.
Speaking of giving money to worthy causes, because giving money to Eric Holder is a very unworthy cause, but your videos are extremely entertaining.
So where can people find you?
Booksbybryan.com, B-R-Y-A-N, is the best way.
You can get my Twitter marketing book, shows you how I got on TV, how I got here on this lovely show.
And hotepnation.com to follow the movement.
Hotepnation.com.
Hotep Jesus, Brian Sharp, thank you for being here.
Very good to talk to you.
Very funny and some very good points you made.
Thank you.
Appreciate it, man.
Have a good one.
A much-needed day.
That was really good.
While we were watching that interview that I had done yesterday, I was just going through the Twitter feed.
And, you know, we just have the Republican president and the biggest pop star in the entire world.
They're just, like, tweeting love letters to each other right now.
Ah, that's pretty good.
Pretty good stuff.
Get your mailbag questions in.
I'm just going to be floating on a cloud for the rest of the day.
I think, no more work.
I'm just going to, not that I was planning on doing it anyway, just going to spark up a stogie, have a nice drink, put on my MAGA hat.
Ah, good stuff.
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