Ep. 1654 - The Media Is Outraged That You’re Outraged By The Murder Of An Innocent White Woman
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media have finally taken notice of the brutal killing of a white woman by a black man in Charlotte. But to them, the real outrage is that conservatives are upset about it. Also, there's a growing movement to abolish property taxes. And yet a shocking number of tax paying Americans seem to be opposed to the idea. And Rand Paul cites the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" in an effort to explain why we shouldn’t blow up drug cartel boats. There are a bunch of reasons why that argument isn’t compelling, starting with the fact that the book, despite being force-fed to every American child for decades, isn't very good.
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Today, Matt Wall show, the media have finally taken notice of the brutal killing of a white woman by a black man in Charlotte, but to them, the real outrage is that conservatives are upset about it.
That's what they're upset about.
Also, there's a growing movement to abolish property taxes, and yet a shocking number of taxpaying Americans seem to be opposed to this idea somehow.
And Rand Paul cites the book to kill a mockingbird in an effort to explain why we shouldn't blow up drug cartels.
There are a bunch of reasons why that argument isn't compelling, starting with the fact that the book, despite being force fed to every American child for decades, isn't very good.
All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Yesterday we talked at great length about the horrific killing of Irena Zarutska, the 23 year old Ukrainian refugee who was savagely stabbed to death on a train in Charlotte by DeCarlos Brown, an evil psychotic criminal barbarian with a lengthy rap sheet.
Now, to uh review, if you're uh not familiar yet, Irina was on her way home from a shift at the pizza place where she worked.
She boarded the light rail car and sat down in front of Brown without a single word exchange between them.
Uh a few minutes into the ride, Brown pulled out a knife, stood up, and began butchering Irina to death without warning.
And then he proceeded to walk around the train, leaving a trail of blood behind him.
Nobody attempted to intervene at any point.
Uh, we now know that Brown has been arrested 14 times, uh, or had been arrested 14 times before this awful crime was committed.
So this is his 15th arrest.
The criminal justice system, which has no interest in dispensing justice to criminals, uh, which should be its one and only job, had 14 chances to get this creature off the street.
They could have permanently removed him from society after the third arrest, or the fourth, or the seventh or the tenth.
But instead they gave him 14 chances.
Even after he committed armed robbery, after he committed assault, uh, after he committed more than a dozen other crimes.
The system simply churned him back out, waited for him to get arrested again, and then churned him out again, like some kind of demonic merry-go-round ride.
This is a huge national story.
A young woman lost her life in one of the most heinous ways imaginable.
It is everything that George Floyd was purported to be, but never actually was.
Floyd's death never really mattered that much.
He was a violent career criminal who contributed nothing of value to society, and then he overdosed.
Irena, on the other hand, is an actual innocent victim of brutal interracial violence.
Her death is a major scandal.
It is the direct result of deep and widespread systemic failure and corruption.
She should have the murals and the streets named after her.
The judges and city officials who let her kill her loose on the street should all get the Derek Chauvin treatment.
Instead, up to the point when we filmed the show yesterday, Irina's case, far from being treated like any kind of national scandal, was completely ignored by the national media.
None of the major media outlets had said a word about it.
CNN MSMBC hadn't spent even 30 seconds of airtime reporting on it.
The New York Times, Washington Post hadn't dedicated five sentences of coverage to it.
It was a total media blackout.
Made all the more infuriating by how utterly disgustingly predictable it was.
But these days, of course, the media, well, they don't lead the conversation as much as they wish they could and as much as they used to.
The conversation happens without them until they're forced to chime in for fear of being reduced to even greater irrelevance.
So over the past 24 hours, since our episode aired, finally some of the major corporate media outlets uh decided to acknowledge this case as as uh as we had left them no choice but to acknowledge it.
And their spin is exactly what you would expect.
To the media, the story is not the murder itself, but rather the fact that conservatives are talking about the murder.
It isn't that a black criminal butchered an innocent white woman, but that we have noticed that this happened.
There are now headlines like this one from Politico.
Ukrainian refugee killed in North Carolina, it gets dragged into political messaging war.
President Donald Trump and MAGA allies are using the killing of Arena Zarutska to attack Democrats.
Yes, you see, Democrats are really the victims here.
A young woman bled to death in public, but the real concern is that Democrats are being attacked by conservative pundits on social media.
I mean, they're the ones.
That's the that's the horrifying tragedy that we should all be weeping over.
Uh Axios had a similar spin.
Headline stabbing video fuels MAGA's crime message.
Now they're right, of course, the stabbing video does fuel our crime message, and that's because our crime message is that crime is bad.
And people who commit crimes should go to prison and not be permitted to stab women to death on the train or anywhere else.
In the same way, you could say that a video of a house fire fuels our firefighting message, which is that it's bad for houses to burn down, and we should put out the fires rather than allowing them to engulf entire neighborhoods.
You know, our messages tend to be pretty simple in that way.
But there is one part of this absurd Axios piece that warrants uh special mention.
I'll read it here, quote.
MAG influencers are drawing repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime and accuse mainstream media of undercovering shocking cases.
Shocking video of the fatal August 22nd knife attack on 23-year-old Irina Zarutzka on a light rail card in Charlotte, North Carolina dominated weekend conversations on Trump-friendly social media.
The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte's light rail, has become a big accelerant in these cases.
The video is easily shared or leaked and can instantly pollinate across social media, a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.
Crime stats can be manipulated in many ways.
I mean, you can show decreases in violent crimes simply by uh not reporting the crime or not charging the criminals.
If a city decides to pretend that vast categories of crime aren't crimes anymore, or to pretend they're not happening, then crime statistically will go down.
It's not hard to make a city safer on the stat sheet, but making it safer on the light rail car, however, is a different matter.
You know, a city can be safe on a sheet of paper, but not safe on the street or the sidewalk or at the gas station or on public transportation, and so on.
The videos break through the false narratives and the juked crime stats by showing us what's actually happening.
I mean, it's one thing to hear that a city has X number of murders, it's another thing to see what that means, to see how these murders are happening and where they're happening and who they're happening to and who they're being committed by.
And that's why all the security cameras and body uh police uh body cams are becoming a major problem on the left, especially because of that last point, who the crimes are being committed by.
Don't be surprised when there's a major push to get rid of the cameras, uh, you know, all these security cameras and everything in the name of privacy.
I mean, as we talked about many times, we've already seen the beginnings of this process with police body cams.
The left-wing race hustlers demanded the body cams, and the body cams proceeded to annihilate all of their narratives about police brutality, and now they're not so hot on body cams anymore.
A similar thing will happen and is already happening, or rather beginning to happen anyway, with security cameras.
Uh, and uh here's a story on that note out of Canada.
Watch this.
So Hamilton man has been ordered by the city to take down the security cameras on the outside of his home.
Even though he says a lot of the videos have been used to help with police investigations.
Sean Cowan has more.
I have one on the other side.
I have one there.
I have one there, one there, one there.
Dan Miles says he has ten security cameras outside his home on McNabb Street North Downtown Hamilton.
And he says he needs them.
Because we had a lot of attempted break-inters into our home and other homes around us.
Miles has posted videos of break-ins online.
He also says police have asked him for his videos over the years to help with investigations.
We reached out to Hamilton Police and they say they can't confirm the use of Dan Miles' videos, but told CHCH News they often work with homeowners, businesses, and drivers to get footage.
CHCH has used videos for miles like this one seen here, showing the moments before a fatal crash two years ago at Barton and McNabb.
These cameras are imperative to our neighborhood watch.
They're imperative to the safety of our community.
But last week, Miles received an order to comply with the city's fortification bylaw, asking him to remove his cameras.
The bylaw says homeowners are not permitted to view or listen beyond the perimeters of their own property.
A notice from bylaw, I thought, how could this be?
Everybody has ring doorbell cameras pointed at the street and city property, and my neighbours have cameras pointed at my house, and we all...
The city of Hamilton has confirmed the order to remove the cameras to CHCH News.
Okay, so this guy has 10 cameras.
And why does he have 10 cameras?
It's not because he's paranoid, but because of a rash of attempted break-ins at his house.
So now he's got a camera to cover every single angle of his house.
The cameras have been used not only to protect himself against burglary and other crimes, but to help solve and prevent crimes in the neighborhood.
Thank you.
So all of that you would think is good.
The only thing that's not good is that he needs the cameras in the first place.
The fact that he needs 10 cameras is the bad part.
But the fact that the cameras have been effective, that's good.
You would think.
Well, now his local city school marm bureaucratic tyrants are telling him to take the cameras down because of privacy concerns.
But we all know the real concern.
It's that the cameras are not only documenting crime, but they're documenting who is actually committing most of the crime.
And that's the thing we aren't supposed to notice.
You see, the noticing, it's the noticing that is the problem.
And that's certainly what CNN is worried about, as we can see here.
Watch.
Certain people have been looking for an opportunity to find a case like this.
They've been looking for opportunities to make this some sort of reciprocal George Floyd situation.
And that's the part that I think he's almost giving away the game.
And it's sad to see a lot of people going along with it.
You know, let me just say a couple of things.
One is, what happened to that young woman was horrible.
And it's everybody's nightmare.
You're in any public space, subway, whatever, that something bad is going to happen to you or somebody you care about.
So it does strike a chord.
We don't know why that man did what he did.
And for Charlie Kirk to say, we know he did it because she's white, when there's no evidence of that, it's just pure race mongering, hate mongering.
It's wrong.
Then he says that if something like that had happened the other way, there would be sweeping changes imposed on society.
Where is the George Floyd policing act?
It didn't pass.
Really, over the weekend, Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, other Trump-aligned figures succeeded in making this senseless death a symbol of big city crime.
We heard President Trump asked about it yesterday when he was heading home from New York City.
He didn't seem to know much about it.
He said he would get briefed.
And then today, Trump did know all about it.
That's exactly what has happened here.
This story has trickled up from local news to social media and now to the president's attention.
And it's being used, as you said, Brianna, as a political symbol, with MAGA media calling for more forceful punishments and more incarceration.
I have to say, some of the replies to Musk, some of the comments around this story are baldly racist, stoking fear of African-Americans because this man attacked a white woman.
The open racism on sites like X today, it's eye-popping.
So the narrative we hear from the media is exactly what you would expect.
They are infinitely more outraged at the alleged racially charged.
charged language of conservative pundits than they are at the actual butchery of an innocent woman by a 14-time career felon on public transportation.
They are not angry that this woman was killed.
I mean, they couldn't care less.
They wouldn't even be talking about it if they if they had their way.
Instead, they're outraged by the racism, quote unquote, of conservatives who have noticed that the murders are happening.
And then we hear from Van Jones that, you know, we can't say for sure whether that black criminal killed Irina because she was white.
Can't say that for sure.
So just to review, the media can say for sure that it's racist to say mean things about a black guy who killed a white woman, but they can't say for sure that it's racist for a black guy to actually kill a white woman.
So the murder is not racist necessarily, but the commentary about the murder, well, that is racist.
That's what these despicable snakes are actually claiming.
Keep in mind, this is coming from the same person.
This is coming from all the same people who declared from the first moment that the George Floyd footage went viral, that it was a racist hate crime.
There was nothing in that video, if you recall, not a single thing that indicated any kind of racial motivation whatsoever.
And yet when a black suspect ODs while being detained by a white cop, it's a racist killing.
Automatically.
Automatically, it's a racist killing.
When a black criminal slaughters a white woman on the train, it's a mental health episode.
This is what these soulless goblins expect us to believe.
Hey, Van, uh listen, here's here's what here's what we know, okay?
Here's what we know.
Statistically, a white person is 30 times more likely to be killed by a black person than the other way around.
We know that.
That's just true.
In 2019, there were about 560,000 violent interrational incidents between blacks and whites.
470,000 of them were black on white.
That's 85%.
85%.
240 black people were killed by whites, 560 white people were killed by blacks.
And this is all in despite of the fact that white people make up 60% of the population, blacks are 13%.
Just by raw numbers, not even per capita, but raw numbers.
There are more black interracial killers than white.
That is extraordinary.
That's that's like impossible.
That should be impossible.
There are 171 million more white people in the country, and yet there are more black interracial killers.
By raw numbers.
That kind of disparity should be impossible.
Again, and yet it's real, it's happening.
Per capita, the situation is even more dire.
Black people, young black males in particular, are an order of magnitude more violent and more likely to commit crimes than any other group in the country.
Black men are five or six percent of the population.
They commit the majority of murders in the country.
That makes black males in America more dangerous than perhaps any other demographic in the entire world, let alone in this country.
And we know all this despite the efforts by the FBI and every other institution to hide and bury racial crime statistics.
Imagine how much worse it really is.
Imagine how grisly it would look if they let us see the whole picture instead of just pieces of it.
But we can see enough to know without any doubt whatsoever that the violent crime epidemic is driven by one demographic to an overwhelmingly disproportionate degree.
And all of that has happened while you, Van and your propagandist cohorts have spent years claiming that the reality is exactly the opposite of this.
You didn't just deny that this is happening, you have the gall to claim that the opposite is happening.
You paint a picture of a country where black people walk around in fear, trembling in fear of white violence, where black people are constantly tired and exhausted by the brutality inflicted upon them by the villainous whites.
But those of us who you condemn as racists.
No, we're the ones who are tired.
We are tired of not being able to walk down the streets in our own cities.
We are tired of losing good productive citizens at the hands of violent degenerates who contribute nothing of value to society whatsoever.
We are tired of the total lack of accountability and responsibility.
We are tired of a system that prioritizes the restoration and rehabilitation of violent psychopaths over the protection of innocent, law-abiding people.
And we are tired of pretending that all of this isn't happening.
And we're just not going to pretend anymore.
It's that simple.
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Well, there's a growing movement, uh, the media tells us anyway against property taxes.
And CNN reports with real estate prices climbing and household budgets under strain, a once fringe push to eliminate property taxes is drawing uh new energy and the backing of high-profile conservative figures.
Republican Firebrand Representative Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia recently argued for making it a national priority.
Billionaire Elon Musk has likened property taxes to a de facto lease from the government that should be abolished.
And in Florida, Governor Rod Santos, a once impossible future presidential contender, has vowed to move his state in that direction.
Sand has said if you own your home to truly own it, you have to own it free and clear of the government.
For decades, property taxes have underwritten the basic functions of local governments, schools, parks, roads, police, fire departments, trash collection.
But as some values have surged, as home values have surged, rather, tax bills have ballooned in tandem, fueling what David Schleiker, a Yale professor of local government, described as a property tax revolt, shaking cities and states alike.
Schleiger said there's a really big trend that's below the radar because it doesn't involve President Trump, but it doesn't need fireworks to announce itself.
It's already changing our relationship with government and how schools work and property uh markets.
The frustration is cutting across partisan lines.
Last year, voters in nine states approved reparendums to cap or curb rising assessments from tying bills to inflation in Georgia to New Mexico and Colorado expanding tax exemptions for veterans who own homes there.
So Florida's considering abolishing property taxes.
Through other states have had proposals like this discussed.
I'm not sure if it's mentioned in the article, but Wyoming, North Dakota, I think have had proposals like this.
In Florida, they have no income tax.
So Florida, if they go this route would have neither income nor property tax, which is amazing.
It's incredible.
If not for the climate, if not for the fact that it's uh just disgustingly humid and hot year-round, you you would you'd almost want to live there.
That's the that's the one that's the one thing that Florida doesn't have going for it.
And it's to me, it's a deal breaker.
But um that is, I mean, that would be amazing.
And before we get into it to property taxes specifically, uh, and I I know maybe when you I don't talk about tax policy very often on this show, and I think that it just it feels very boring, even as I say it, when I just saying the word, let's talk about property taxes.
It's uh I'm like almost in boring myself.
But it is really, it is extremely important, obviously.
And we should all be able to agree before we get into the discussion about whether property tax should be abolished.
We should be able to agree, should, that taxing both property and income is obscene, just egregious.
And yet that's the case in like 40 or 41 states in the union.
Now, if you want to make the argument, well, we can't abolish both.
If you want to make the argument that, no, well, Florida can't do that because they don't have an income tax either.
I don't agree with that argument, and I'll explain why in a second.
But that's one thing.
It's another thing to uh to to be in favor of both of these kinds of taxes.
I mean, there are only eight or nine states that have no income tax.
Uh, Florida is one of them, Tennessee has no income tax, New Hampshire, you know, five five or six others.
Um, right now, all states have property taxes.
So, in the vast majority of states, they tax you on your income and your property.
And they have sales tax.
So most states have income property and sales tax.
I know I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but this is we take it for granted, because it's it's the it's the situation that most people were born into.
But it is really crazy.
It really is.
They tax your wages and then tax them again when you spend the wages, and then tax your property in perpetuity.
They tax everything.
It's a machine gun style taxation, spraying taxes all over the place.
That's to say nothing of all the other taxes, and then of course the federal taxes.
For most Americans, every dollar they earn is taxed like 10 different times.
In one form or another.
I mean, you could just think about this.
If you live in, let's say you live in uh, you know, we'll take one of the worst one of the one of the um worse examples.
But if you if you live in New York, and you earn, say, 150K a year, you get your paycheck on a Friday, uh, and then let's say on your way home from work, you stop and get a week's worth of groceries.
Well, how many times do you get taxed during that process?
Well, just during the process of getting paid and then go spending and going to spend some of that money on groceries.
Well, your paycheck is taxed by the feds.
That's about 20 to 25% out the window.
Then New York State comes in, takes another 6% or more.
Um, so you're out like 30% right away.
And then you drive to the store and you buy groceries.
What is the sales tax in New York?
It's also ridiculously high.
What is it?
Like I think it depends on what part of New York New York you're in, but it's six, seven, eight percent.
So that same paycheck is taxed once for 25%, again for 6%, again for 8% on the amount you spend on groceries.
And if you got to stop for gas, God forbid, you get to pay taxes on that.
And since this is New York we're talking about, you'll probably get hit with tolls on the way home.
So that's more taxes.
Your paycheck has now been taxed like five times before you even make it home for dinner.
Why would anyone put up with this?
I mean, why why do millions of Americans put up with it?
Why do we all put up with it to some degree or another?
I mean, I don't live in New York and I never would live there, but I'm getting ripped off too.
I'm in a tax bracket now where I'm basically mugged at gunpoint every time I get paid.
So uh I'm getting scammed too.
We're all getting scammed.
It's highway robbery, and yet it's amazing that when some states consider dropping the property taxes, you have people.
I mean, I don't know what the polls are on this.
I'm sure people have I'm sure there have been some polls done on it.
If there haven't, then there will be.
But just looking anecdotally at the conversation online, it's pretty obvious that there are people, lots of people, actual American citizens who are opposed to getting rid of the property tax.
I've seen a lot of commentary about this proposal in Florida, and much of it is very critical.
And this is not just from government officials who are worried that they're gonna have less of your money to play with.
I mean, you understand where they're coming from.
I don't agree with it.
But at least you can understand on a uh kind of a self-interest level.
But have actual American citizens who are like, no, I want you to keep no, don't keep keep taxing, take take more of my money, please.
Now, yeah, I'm fully aware that a number of the people who are saying this, um, you know, it it's on property tax, you have people that don't own property, you have people that are all in favor of the income tax, and they don't really pay any income tax, they don't have an income, they're on entitlement.
So that explains some of it.
Also, I realize that, but even so, it's like it's like Stockholm syndrome.
You know, we're all getting taxed to death, we're getting taxed 10 ways to Sunday.
We pay dozens of taxes every single day.
And yet when a political leader actually suggests dropping one of the taxes, you have people saying, Oh no, don't do that.
Please, please keep stealing my money.
Again, I know a lot of them are saying, no, please keep stealing their money because I'm not paying anything.
But it's not just them.
I mean, there are people, it's like who pay taxes.
Like, no, no, keep keep, I want to keep stealing it.
It's pathetic.
It's like, it's like if you're you're kidnapped and you're locked in a basement and and you're beaten every day by your kidnapper, and then one day your kidnapper says he's gonna, he's gonna start beating you slightly less severely, and you object and demand that the beatings continue just as harshly as they've uh been happening.
It's uh it's like some very bizarre psychology at work here, like some kind of fetish or something.
I don't know if that's what's happening with tax people get a some kind of sexual thrill out of being scammed and robbed.
It's it's weird.
It's just bizarre to me.
Property taxes are in particular arguably the most egregious of all taxes.
It kind of uh if I'm it it it kind of amazes me that there's anyone who is not in favor of abolishing property taxes.
That's the kind of idea that the moment someone politician suggested, how is there not 100% agreement?
Yes, absolutely, please stop doing this to us.
How is there not a hundred percent agreement?
What is wrong with all these people?
The property tax is arguably even worse than the income tax, which is itself an abomination from the depths of hell.
But the property tax is even worse.
To tax property, not just tax it once at the point of purchase, but to tax it in perpetuity forever, every day, always forever.
That's just pure tyranny.
And and it it means that you never own your property.
It's it's never yours.
Nothing is yours.
That's what it means.
Um, you know, I was talking to my wife recently about uh, you know, let's come up with a five-year plan to pay off our mortgage.
And and uh I want to pay it off so we really own our our property because while you have a mortgage, it's like you don't really own your property yet.
Um the bank owns it.
But then of course I remember, well, yeah, but even if I pay off the mortgage, I still don't own it.
Even then I have to pay a substantial fee every year to the government.
You know, not to the mortgage company, but to the government for the right to continue living on my own land in my own home.
I I have to property tax, you you are paying rent to the government for the right to live in your own home on your own land.
Does that make sense?
Doesn't make sense to me.
These are what, you know, we would call what what we should call uh existence taxes.
Property taxes, income taxes are existence taxes.
You are taxed for existing.
Because owning property and earning a living are basic elements of existing for most people, or or at least they should be.
Uh the government is taxing you for simply existing and then also taxing you When you stop existing, you get taxed for existing and for ceasing to exist.
So I'm not against taxation in principle.
Yeah, we do need taxes in order to fund some kind of government, and you need uh a government to have a civilized society.
Sure.
But existence taxes, those I am opposed to in principle.
And they aren't necessary.
Like I don't care what anyone says.
Right?
You get rid of the income tax at both the state and federal level.
Uh you you can do that.
You we could have no income tax.
We could have no property tax.
And would that mean that nothing gets funded?
No, it wouldn't mean that.
It would just mean that you're relying on consumption taxes, sales tax, tourism, you know, taxes.
Um that's I mean, it is one of the things that makes it easier for Florida to do this because of all the tourism.
But um luxury taxes, and you combine that with deep meaningful spending cuts to get rid of all the billions and trillions of dollars that are wasted, and you could have a state, you could have a country where we have a government, we have a we have all the necessary public services, but nobody is taxed for existing.
That is possible.
Um, but it's never gonna happen.
I mean, it's like a utopian vision of uh society.
It feels utopian, it doesn't need to be.
Um it doesn't need to be, but it feels utopian because there to this point is not and maybe, maybe, maybe the the voices are growing a little bit louder, but there is not a real movement right now to get rid of these taxes.
There's not a real movement.
There's no there's no real outcry.
There's no real overwhelming outcry from the American people saying we are tired of being taxed for existing, you know, for the crime of existing.
We are tired of getting taxed ten different times before we even make it home for dinner.
We're sick of it, we don't want to do it anymore.
There's not there's not any real outrage over that.
There should I know people always say, oh, there's too much outrage.
No, you know what?
I think there's not enough outrage.
That's what I actually think.
When I hear people say, Oh, enough of the outrage.
What do you mean?
Like that we have the opposite.
What the hell are you talking about?
You think we live in a society where there's too much outrage?
What what world are you living in?
How out of touch do you have to be if you think that our problem in society is that we're not outraged enough by things?
It is exactly the opposite.
Our problem is is a lack of outrage.
Our problem is um is is uh numbness.
Our problem is indifference.
Our problem is people are distracted and not paying attention and you know, easily uh anesthesized by by uh entertainment and all these different things.
And and and because of that, they aren't outraged by the things they really should be outraged by.
And one of them is that you were getting ripped off.
You are getting ripped off every single day.
You are having your money stolen from you, and it doesn't have to be this way.
I mean, you you you, your family is suffering because the government is taking this and they are just wasting it.
They're just burning it.
Or or and or will these are they're giving it to somebody else who doesn't deserve it, did not earn it, has no right to it.
Um, that is an outrage.
There should be outrage all across the land over that.
And I think there isn't.
All right, here's something uh I want to place a bit uh bit tough to watch.
Uh not nothing, nothing graphic is seen, but uh so more more tough to listen to.
But this is a report from the New York Post.
Uh listen.
This is a new one for me.
I've just been discharged from hospital.
Um, and um I was admitted unwell with sepsis of unknown cause.
Uh there were some complications of my um hospital treatment, and I lost both my legs below the knees.
This 49-year-old vascular surgeon was once named the bravest in Britain after he had to amputate both of his legs.
But now Neil Hopper, who performed hundreds of amputation operations of his own, has pleaded guilty to two fraud charges.
After he told insurers That his legs needed to be removed because of sepsis and not because of his self-inflicted injury.
According to reports from inside the courtroom, Hopper actually froze his own legs with ice and dry ice to ensure his legs would be removed.
In insurance claims totaling more than $625,000.
A friend of Hopper allegedly told him to milk the payout.
The now former surgeon spent some of the money on a $30,000 camper van and $340,000 on home improvements and a hot tub.
According to testimony laid out against Hopper in court, the surgeon wanted his legs to be chopped off because of an obsession with removing parts of his own body and a sexual interest in doing so.
In a disturbing twist to the story, the Welsh surgeon also admitted to possessing extreme pornography.
Investigators found that between 2018 and 2020, Hopper bought three videos from a now defunct webpage called the Unix Maker, an extreme body modification site, which showcased disturbing mutilation live streams and videos.
Hopper was reportedly identified during investigations into the website's creator, Marius Gusison.
Govsesin made over 400,000 by showing his website's roughly 22,000 subscribers, gruesome videos of him mutilating the bodies of apparently willing volunteers.
Alright, well, uh sorry I had to share that with you.
So this guy had both of his legs removed on purpose.
Obviously a very confused person.
I mean, you could even say that he's uh stumped.
You know, but you know, get but look, getting his legs removed, that was his uh that was I I will say that was his right.
And his left.
So he's got he's got one foot out the door and the other one too, you know.
So um, and he tried he tried to uh you know, he's in prison, as I mentioned, to tears in prison, but he tried to defend himself in court, but he uh you know he didn't have a leg to stand on, literally.
Okay, I was uh I'm just practicing my stand-up routine.
This is I'm gonna I'm gonna go on the road as a stand-up, as you can tell, I got a real talent, and I'm gonna go on the road, and it'll just be puns.
It'll just be puns about amputees.
That's the that'll be the whole that's the whole bit.
That's a real that's a killer act right there.
Anyway, all right.
Uh I did want to make what point did I want to make besides the the dad joke?
Um, well, the I mean, there's the obvious one, which is that you know, there is really zero difference.
Uh there is zero difference between this and transgenderism.
It's the same thing.
Um, except that we put people in jail for this, uh, and we condemn them.
We condemn this behavior.
There is no one saying that we should normalize it or affirm it, certainly, or take it seriously.
Um, but it's the same thing.
It's a very small minority of people who feel like they're in the wrong body, who feel like they'll be made whole, they'll be made complete through extreme body modification.
And who in many cases get a sexual thrill out of it.
Same idea, same concept.
It's body dysmorphia.
I mean, that that's what it is.
It belongs in the same bucket.
It's the same, it's this, it's the same psychiatric category.
It's the same, it is the same uh disorder just manifested in a in a slightly different way.
In fact, the only difference really is that this.
I mean, the case I we just I just played for you, this is less extreme.
That's the only difference.
The cutting off your legs to become an amputee is less extreme and by comparison, healthier.
So when people see this, they'll say, oh, slippery slope.
You know, first we allowed, first we normalized transgenderism.
And now we have this crazier thing that came along.
No, actually, no.
By all rights, if we were on a slippery slope, it should have been this was normalized first, and then you get to transgenderism.
I mean, this is still very extreme and very unhealthy, obviously, but by comparison, less so.
Why is that?
Well, for the pretty self-evident reason that a man who wishes to become legless can actually be legless.
You know, he goes through the body modification, and now he actually is the thing that he wanted to be.
The illness, the delusion is in the fact that he wanted it, right?
It's it's it's in the fact that he desired it.
The problem is that he desired to be this thing.
But he can actually be it.
When somebody says, Oh, I wish to have no legs, well, your answer to that is or should be, well, that that's a that's a bizarre thing to want.
You shouldn't want that.
But you wouldn't say, oh, well, that's impossible.
You can't be that.
And yet, on the other hand, a man who chops off body parts to become a woman isn't actually a woman after the extreme modification.
The disorder is both in the wanting, uh, you know, the wanting to become a woman, and in thinking that it's been done, that he actually has become a woman.
So it is deeply disordered on two levels rather than just one.
And that's why I've I've made this point uh about the slippery slope argument that you know, we talk about slippery slope, I've talked about it.
It's kind of a it's kind of a shorthand way of uh describing a certain sort of phenomenon, and there's a lot of truth to it.
But the the basic when we talk about slippery slope, all all we are all we're pointing out is that you know, someone that is that is that there's there's something that's being normalized or that we're being told we have to accept or tolerate, affirm, celebrate, welcome, whatever.
And there are there are arguments being made in favor of that thing, whatever it is.
And we when we make the slippery slope argument, all we're saying is that, well, okay, these arguments that you're making to defend, affirm, promote this thing, I could take those arguments intact.
I could take them totally whole and use them to also argue for X, Y, Z other thing, and these other things over here, you you you would even agree are bad.
So you're making an argument in support of something that you like, but I could take that exact argument and change nothing and use it logically to defend this other thing over here that even you that even you think is bad.
And um the point of that argument is is, you know, if the argument is true, if it's valid, which it almost is when conservatives make it, what it proves is that either the thing that they are promoting, the thing that they're arguing for is wrong, and or the arguments they're using are bad arguments.
Um and in the case of the left, it's well it's both.
They're using bad arguments uh and to promote a bad thing.
Or maybe it's not even a bad guy.
It's more like the thing they're arguing for is is bad.
The argument that they're using is the best one available, but it's uh terrible because it's arguing for a terrible thing.
So that's all that uh the slippery slope is is really proving.
What it but it what it doesn't necessarily mean is that um the next thing in line will be worse because what we haven't, you know, what it the slippery slope brings to mind this idea that, okay, well, we'll start with one kind of bad thing, and then because that's been normalized, we'll go to another thing that's a little bit worse, and then another thing that's a little bit worse than that, and another thing is a little bit worse than that, until we get all the way down the bottom slipper slope, and it's just total anarchy and chaos and and depravity.
Uh but what we find is that it doesn't usually work in that kind of really neat linear way.
That uh in all, and this is what the left does is they they go for the most extreme version of the thing, whatever it is.
They're gonna go for the most extreme version of it, and they're gonna and they're gonna try to get you on board to accept the most extreme version of it.
And then all that other stuff just comes in a bargain.
It's not like that's coming next, it's just that's all part of it.
That automatically, they they're they're sort of skipping ahead, right?
Um we've talked about this with uh with gay marriage, for example.
When people say that, oh, slippery slope, that it, you know, we accept gay marriage, the next thing you know, it's gonna be polygamy.
Well, polygamy is not nearly as bad as gay marriage.
Polygamy is a is a is a much less extreme thing.
In fact, polygamy has there's a lot of historical precedent to polygamy, polygamy makes it historically it made a certain kind of sense.
You had to populate the earth, you know, you had to populating society, populating civilization, and this was one way to do it.
So it's it's in accordance with nature in that it's it's it's uh it's productive, you know, it's reproductive, uh, procreative.
So it's still wrong, but it's not nearly as disordered or wrong as uh gay marriage.
So they went when it comes to marriage, when it comes to messing with the definition of marriage, they went for the most extreme version of that, which is two men getting quote unquote married.
And all the other stuff is just you kind of circle back and cover that later.
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now let's get to our daily cancellation After the Pentagon blew up a boat full of drug traffickers last week, J.D. Vance immediately celebrated the bombings on social media.
He wrote, quote, killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.
And then when someone suggested that the White House had committed a war crime, Vance replied simply, I don't give a sh what you call it.
Which is a great response.
As you can imagine, there were quite a few replies to uh JD Vance's post.
The vast majority were positive.
People are tired of seeing overdoses in their families and their communities.
They recognize that foreign drug traffickers operating international waters aren't entitled to any due process under our Constitution.
But not everybody was thrilled with Vance's reply.
In particular, a fellow member of the Republican Party, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, unloaded on J.D. Vance, and there's a specific portion of his reply that needs to be discussed at some length.
Here's what Rand Paul wrote, quote, JD uh don't give a shance, says killing people he accuses of a crime is the highest and best use of the military.
Did he ever read to kill a mockingbird?
Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial and representation?
What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.
Now, if you had to classify this form of argument, you'd call it an appeal to authority or an appeal to fiction, really.
And this is when to bolster your point, you cite some established expert or legal case or study or something like that.
But in this case, instead of citing anything with any substance whatsoever, Rand Paul cites to kill a mockingbird.
And he wonders whether J.D. Vance, the vice president of the United States, has ever read the book.
That's the kill shot in Rand Paul's foreign policy argument.
Now, just in case you're one of the ten people in the country who was not forced to read this book at some point in your life.
I should make it clear that to kill a mockingbird is a work of fiction, and it's written at a child's reading level.
Middle schoolers and high schoolers are the main audience, and even children when they're ordered to read this book, which nobody ever would have read it if not for the fact that everyone is forced to read it.
But even they generally understand that it was written by some random woman who invented a story in her head.
It's not a documentary, it's not a textbook on constitutional law.
It's certainly not a manual for how to approach drug cartels.
It's a dumb story, and not an especially well-written one either.
Now it's true that for generations, To Kill a Mockingbird has always had the full backing of every establishment institution in the country.
Every school and government relentlessly pushed the book on young people as soon as it was published in 1960.
It won a pull it's there within a year of its release.
A group of librarians in Britain declared that to kill a mockingbird was just as important as the Bible.
This book was force-fed on everyone, just like that U2 album that Apple installed on everybody's phone without their permission several years ago.
That doesn't mean that the book is any good.
And it certainly doesn't mean that the book is relevant to a foreign policy debate with J.D. Vance.
And that's why predictably, Rand Paul's post was mocked all over the internet.
Even people who like and respect Rand Paul, as I do, by the way, joined in on the fun because it was just too hard to resist.
For example, here's a post showing a scene from the movie 300 with the caption, uh, quote, disgusting.
Leonidas brutally executes Xerxes emissaries without trial.
Hasn't he read To Kill a Mockingbird?
And then there's this one for the Lord of the Rings fans.
Quote, disgusting.
Aragorn brutally executes the mouth of Sauron without trial.
Has he read To Kill a Mockingbird?
And then one more, I mean, I think we basically get the idea.
Unbelievable.
Odysseus cold-heartedly kills the suitors without trial for making sure they're uh or making sure they're not mentally ill.
Has he read To Kill a Mockingbird?
And on and on and on.
Put simply, not many people were convinced by Rand Paul's attempt at an appeal to authority.
At the same time, there's an even more fundamental problem with Rand Paul's reasoning.
The problem isn't simply that to kill a mockingbird is a work of fiction that was written for middle schoolers.
I mean, by itself, that's pretty bad, obviously.
But even if you accept that fact, there are some other issues here.
In particular, to kill a mockingbird is a scam.
I mean, although the story is fictional, it's it's based on lies.
There are very relevant facts about the production of the novel and its aftermath that no one really talks about.
And the reason that no one talks about these facts is that they undercut the propaganda that the book is intended to convey, and the book is propaganda, which is why they feed it to force feed it to kids.
It's all it is all part of the effort to teach kids in school that America is a racist country with a racist past and all these terrible things, and this is what you should feel guilty about.
That's why that is that is the only reason.
It's not because the book is some great uh, you know, um novel, some great piece of art.
It is purely for that reason and no reason other than that.
You know, imagine if, say, someone as famous and widely read as George R. R. Martin released a new Game of Thrones book, and then collectively everyone just agreed to ignore it because it contradicted some political narrative from a previous book he wrote.
It seems hard to imagine something like that happening.
The sheer popularity of the author's existing books would make it seem impossible, in fact.
But that's that's what's happened with To Kill a Mockingbird.
And before we get into that, if you never read the book, here's just a quick plot summary, which uh I pulled from Wikipedia for the most part because it's been 25 years since I was forced to read it.
Um, or or maybe longer.
I don't even remember when exactly, but I do remember being given this infernal book.
Uh to Kill Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Great Depression.
A black man named Tom Robinson is accused of sexually assaulting a white woman.
Um Atticus Finch is the white lawyer played by Gregory Peck in the movie, of course, who has to defend Tom Robinson.
The whole town wants Tom to be lynched, because of course all the white people in Alabama are racists with low IQs and no capacity to engage in any kind of independent thought whatsoever, we're led to believe that in the South, this is how pretty much everyone uh was and how every lynching worked and how justice worked in the South.
But Anakin's, a man of great moral character, presents a defense.
He points out, for example, that Tom Robertson's left arm had been caught in a cotton gin, leaving him with a severe physical disability.
Specifically, his left arm was useless and also twelve inches shorter than his right arm, Atticus Finch being the clever attorney that he is, used this fact to demonstrate that Tom couldn't possibly have beaten the girl since she was mostly hit on the right side of her face.
Supposedly that makes some kind of sense, even though you know there are ways of beating someone on the other side of the face from where you're where your good hand is.
But any event, as the novel or Wikipedia summary continues, it emerges that the white girl had actually made sexual advances on the black man and that the white girl was beaten by her own father, meaning that there was no sexual assault of any Kind committed by Tom Robinson.
Yes, that's the twist.
The white girl is the sexual aggressor against the black man.
Bet you didn't see that coming, unless you were a smart kid in school and you knew that, well, like every book, like every book that deals with race, if we're reading it in school, the white person is always going to be the villain, every single one, every single book.
So if you were a smart kid in school, you would have picked up on that.
But they were certainly surprised back in the 1960s when they read this.
But then, despite that fact, the jury still convicts Tom Robinson anyway, and that's how racist white people are, as we all know.
And then for a good measure, the white people kill Tom Robinson at the end.
Supposedly he was escaping, but honestly, they probably just shot him because he's black.
And uh that's the gist.
So, you know, really, really bad white people doing really bad white people stuff.
That's the that's the book.
That's what the book's about.
Again, pretty much everyone's familiar with the broad outline.
Um, as a child, you probably, you know, at least pulled up the spark notes.
Uh what you're probably not familiar with, by contrast, is the backstory for how Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, came up with this plot.
And it turns out that in real life, Harper Lee's father was an attorney named A.C. Lee, and he mostly handled contractual disputes, wills, estates, that kind of thing.
Wasn't exactly a big trial attorney, but in December of 1919, several years before Harper Lee was born, A.C. E. Lee took on a criminal case.
This was the first and last criminal case that he would ever handle.
Here's a newspaper clipping describing the facts of the alleged crime.
Quote, aged uh Confederate veteran is killed in Monroe County, four Negroes charged with murder of Bill Northrop.
That's the headline.
And the article begins: News reached here today of the murder of Billy Northrop, an elderly f farmer and storekeeper living six miles from Lower Peachtree.
Now, back in the early 20th century, it wasn't particularly uncommon for inexperienced white attorneys to take on cases like this.
No one else really wanted to do it, so that's what A.C. Lee did, even though the facts were pretty dire from a legal perspective.
The article continues, quote, what is thought to be blood stains are visible on the overalls worn by Brown Ezell.
Mr. Northrop had only one arm and is believed he leaned down to get merchandise from under the counter.
He was struck over the head and shoulders with a piece of uh scantling with such forces as to fracture the skull and shoulder.
This occurrence on Friday night, over 150 dollars is thought to have been stolen.
$70 were recovered by one of the captured Negroes, and it is said that they had been spending money freely.
So the elderly white store owner with only one functioning arm is beaten to death in his own store, and the police later found blood stains on overalls worn by a black man named Brown Ezzelle, the father of Frankie Zell, who was also arrested for the murder.
So this is all sounding familiar, and to kill Mockingbird, the black suspect, Tom Robinson, only has one functioning arm.
That's a key piece of evidence that's supposed to convince the audience that he's a really sympathetic and innocent figure in the case.
But in real life, the black suspects brutally murdered a white guy who had only one functioning arm.
So in other words, Harper Lee was inspired by true events, which you know you might have heard about that in school.
Except she was inspired to completely invert these true events and make it so that the sympathetic person with one functioning arm wasn't the white victim who was murdered, but instead was the black suspect.
It's a bit like writing a book based on the moon landing, except the entire mission control team at NASA is a bunch of DEI hires.
Which actually sounds familiar with some movies that have been made.
But things, things get even worse for uh uh to kill a mockingbird when you realize that the younger suspect confessed his role in the murder just before he was hanged.
So uh that was back when they used to, you know, hang criminals.
So we're not exactly talking about a frame job here.
This was not a case where Harper Lee's dad did anything heroic or impressive.
He took on a criminal case for the first time in his life.
He lost.
His client confessed and was executed, and that's what actually happened in Alabama when Harper Lee's father decided to take on a criminal case involving black defendants.
But of course, if Harper Lee had written that story, that actual story, she would not have won the policer.
And no child would have been forced to read her book.
In fact, they probably would have uh, you know, burned her book and made it a hate crime to read it.
I mean, the book would have been banned from schools, not made into mandated reading.
Now, you probably didn't know any of this.
It's not part of the mythology of the book that's taught to students in middle school.
It's not a part of the mythology of the of you know American history of the South.
Part of that mythology were every single white person in the South or a bunch of racist bigots and horrible people, and they were just killing black people randomly all the time.
Um neither is the fact that Harper Lee actually wrote a sequel of sorts many years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird.
The sequel, which maybe you heard of is of, is called Go Set a Watchman.
Um, and really, go set a watchman uh began as an early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, but it was released after the fact by Harper Lee in 2015, just a year before she died.
And in that book, Atticus Finch is not portrayed as some noble crusader who bravely wages war against all the southern racists.
Instead, very early on in the novel, Atticus is discovered in possession of a pantlet called the Black Plague, and he intends white supremacist meetings and introduces racist speakers.
He tells his daughter that blacks in the South uh aren't ready for civil rights, which is a direct quote from the book, quote, do you want your children going to a school that's been dragged down to accommodate Negro children?
Atticus also says, quote, what would happen if all the Negroes in the South were suddenly given full civil rights?
I'll tell you, there'd be another reconstruction.
Would you want your state government run by people who don't know how to run them?
Negroes down here are still in their childhood as a people.
They've made terrific progress in adapting themselves to white ways, but they're far from it yet.
And it goes on from there.
Uh, quote, all the Democratic Party has to do with Jefferson these days is put his picture up at banquets.
Jefferson believed full citizenship was a privilege to be earned by each man, that it was not something given lightly nor to be taken lightly.
A man couldn't vote simply because he was a man in Jefferson's eyes.
He had to be a responsible man.
I'd like very much to be left alone to manage my own affairs in a live and let live economy.
I'd like for my state to be left alone to keep house without advice from the NAACP, which knows next to nothing about its business and cares less.
So this is not exactly Gregory Peck's version of Atticus Finch.
This isn't the version you were forced to read in middle school.
Um he's a guy who rages against the Supreme Court for outlawing segregation, hates the NAACP, and thinks the civil rights movement is a fraud.
And then towards the end of the novel, when Atticus's daughter freaks out and says she wants to drive away from home, saying this isn't the same Atticus Finch that she thought she knew.
Her Uncle Jack slaps her across the face.
Um, and he tells her that she needs to start facing reality, quote, you have a tendency not to give anybody elbow room in your mind for their ideas, no matter how silly you think they are.
That's the message of the sequel of To Kill a Mockingbird, which again is more like a first draft of that book.
So to put it mildly, should be a pretty clear sign why no school assigns this book for children to read.
It's also pretty clear why when Ghost Set a Watchman was released, various news outlets wrote articles about how terrible it was and how it never should have been published because it destroys Harper Lee's so-called legacy or whatever.
Um, did you know about any of this?
Was Rand Paul familiar with the backstory here?
Probably not.
And if we're being honest, that's probably the most interesting part of To Kill a Mockingbird.
All historic context surrounding the book, from its origin story to its sequel, has been memory home.
Just read To Kill a Mockingbird, children are told.
It contains important life lessons, supposedly.
And then when some of those children go on to become U.S. Senators, they repeat the mantra.
When they're confronted with someone who doesn't believe in civil rights for foreign narco-terrorists who are not American citizens, the very first thing that comes to mind is not a rational argument.
It's not a clever retort.
Instead, they simply ask, as Rand Paul did, have you read To Kill a Mockingbird?
As if that should end the entire debate.
The better question for people like Rand Paul is have you read Go Set a Watchman?
Or did you skip that particular children's book?
And if so, please stop citing the prequel when the sequel is available.
I mean, there's a whole backstory within the Harper Lee metaverse that you really need to explore immediately.
It'll change your whole perspective, believe me.
Give Rand Paul a copy of Ghost Set a Watchman.
Who knows?
He might start uh calling for nuclear bombs to be dropped on drug cartels overnight.
As long as we're letting Harper Lee control our foreign policy from beyond the grave.
I mean, anything's possible.
Of course, for everyone else, people who prefer to address facts as they exist in the real world instead of children's literature from the 1960s.
Uh really, neither book is worth reading, and none of this matters.
In particular, To Kill a Mockingbird is not based in reality.
It's not an accurate reflection of life in Alabama during the Great Depression.
It's not even an accurate reflection of what Harper Lee's father experienced during the Great Depression.
It is instead a very heavily promoted piece of racial propaganda, one that's intended, as with every other piece of racial propaganda promoted by our establishment, to demonize white people and portray black criminals as sympathetic victims of circumstance.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a poorly written book whose history has been sanitized relentlessly in order to continue promoting that narrative.
And that is why To Kill a Mockingbird, a book that you've almost certainly been forced to read at one point in your life is today, very belatedly canceled.
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