Kanye West Is Igniting Pop Culture Christian Conservatism, Making Christian Conservatives Cooler
Kanye West Is Igniting Pop Culture Christian Conservatism, Making Christian Conservatives Cooler. Kanye's new album is called Jesus Is King and is,as Kanye explains it, preaching the gospel.Since coming out as a MAGA hat wearing Trump supporter West has moved to holding 'Sunday Services' and even got other celebrities involved, notably Sia. While Kim Kardashian's involvement is obvious for many reasons, Sia was surprising.West has a massive and loyal fanbase and is likely now expanding into areas people never thought possible. Young christian conservatives are likely now going to be introduced to his music and become fans. But West is doing all this at great risk.He has been smeared, insulted, defamed, ever since coming out in support of Donald Trump. In spite of all that he has remained vigilant in fighting for he things is right.In another major announcement sure to rally Trump supporters and republicans, Kanye announced that his Yeezy's line of shoes and clothing will be made in the USA.If you thought the economy alone was enough to get Trump reelected what do you think a major influential celebrity's endorsement is going to do?
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The album itself is very overtly religious, and West himself says he is now in the service of God.
This is going to have a massive and profound effect on politics in this country.
Not only is Kanye West a MAGA hat-wearing Trump supporter, he's announced he's going to be making his Yeezys here in the United States, and his new album, as he says it, is preaching the gospel in service to God.
Dare I say it, based on what we've seen from Kim Kardashian, Sia, and Kanye, it looks like he's creating a very Christian pop culture force, as some have described it.
Now I want to start with this story.
I want to go through the implications of Kanye West coming out He's preaching the gospel.
It's going to reignite Christianity.
It's going to make it popular because he's got a ton of fans.
But I want to start with this story.
Kanye West says supporting Trump is God's practical joke to all liberals.
I must admit I laughed.
I laughed a lot when I heard him say that.
Now there's a lot to go through and there's a lot to talk about in terms of religion in this country and how Kanye West is going to impact 2020 in support of Trump and how he may be this ace in the hole for conservatives because not only does Trump have The booming economy and the analytics showing he's going to win.
But Kanye West, man, love him or hate him, the dude's got power and influence.
And he is going to bring a ton of his younger fans to the side, wherever it might be.
The first step in making someone, a young person, get up and vote, it's celebrity, it's pop culture, it's being cool.
And I'm going to say it, man.
Conservatives are just not cool.
I'm not trying to be mean, but let's be real.
For the longest time, pop culture has always been on the left.
All of the cool punk, punk rock stuff and celebrity, it's always anti-Trump.
But now you have, not just a pop culture force, but quite possibly one of the most influential, if not the most influential, celebrity musician right now.
You can argue about Lady Gaga and whoever else, there are people with more followers than him, but Kanye West influence, okay?
Meeting with Trump, sparking these controversies, controversies, and a national and a worldwide trend with this new album, it's gonna have an impact.
So let's read this story.
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Kanye West says supporting Trump is God's practical joke to all liberals.
Kanye West.
So they just reiterate the title.
He says, This shows you that God is hilarious.
God has got a sense of humor.
Liberals love art, right?
And now I am unquestionably, undoubtedly the greatest human artist of all time.
It's just not even a question anymore at this point.
It's just a fact, right?
West told Apple Music's Zane Lowe on Beats 1 in an interview released Thursday.
So for the greatest artist in human existence, to put a red hat on was God's practical joke on all liberals like, no, not Kanye, he continued.
He used himself as an example of someone saying something that, culturally, they're not supposed to say.
I gotta hand it to Kanye West, man.
That is a whole new level of narcissism.
I'm not trying to be mean, but come on.
The greatest artist in human existence?
Bold statement.
But then to come out and say it's God's joke with them saying, no, not Kanye.
Dude's got confidence.
And I'll say this, man.
I am a secular liberal type, but I'm moderate.
I did grow up Catholic for a little bit, and then moved away, and I am not overly theistic in any way.
But here's the thing.
We had a period in this country where Christian conservatives were very, very powerful, and they had a lot of say.
And that's kind of changed now.
Trump isn't this overtly religious person, for the most part.
We're at a point now where pop culture and media is very much against this Christian norm.
It's shifted greatly.
Kanye's kind of pushing back on that.
So I'll say this, man.
And I mean this is true for any religion.
Okay?
You have a right to practice what you believe without being insulted or smeared.
We can argue ideas.
You know, someone can criticize your idea.
I think, you know, if you want to have a belief structure or whatever, that's your right in this country.
This country was founded partly on freedom of religion.
It takes a lot of guts to do what Kanye West is doing, to come out and push back on the major left-wing establishment.
Because as much as the left doesn't want to admit how much power they have, they look to the government and say the Republicans control everything.
Okay, that's true.
But culturally, and politics is downstream from culture, the establishment is overly left-wing and moving further and further left.
Kanye West, dare I say it, is making Christian conservatism cool.
And that's not my opinion.
I'm not saying I think it's cool, necessarily.
I have respect for him for being brave.
But think about it, man.
All these young people who are not politically initiated, who respect and look up to Kanye West for all of his faults, whatever you may think of him.
The dude's accomplished a lot of things.
He's a celebrity.
You've got the Kardashians.
They are a political powerhouse.
A cultural powerhouse.
And you're going to have these young people listening to what Kanye has to say.
That is power and influence.
I do think there's a lot that Kanye's doing that's going to be a big positive, a massive positive force on society.
And I can't speak to everything he's done, but I will stress one point, as he talks about in an interview, it's going viral right now, he talks about the culture in hip-hop to do illegal things, to go to jail and things like that, then call for prison reform, and he's like, nah.
I grew up on the south side of Chicago.
I don't think it's always about race.
I think it's about class.
But having someone like Kanye, who's going to have influence in an area like mine, telling people to be responsible, to do good, that's going to have a profound and positive impact.
Because I know a lot of people who are young and lost.
And if Kanye can only bring about some simple mentality and culture, that's fine.
Where it's like, be responsible to yourself.
I'm not a big fan of Christianity, okay?
Because I, you know, look, I grew up Democrat and all that stuff.
But I think, you know, Kanye's being brave right now and he's doing something that takes a lot of, uh, a lot of boldness.
But this is going to have a huge impact, a huge, huge impact on politics.
Check this out.
This is from NBC News.
Kanye West's new album, Jesus is King, wants to make faith a pop culture force.
It is not hyperbole to call West a genius.
With his Sunday services and Jesus is King, West is once again testing the boundaries of his talent.
And when he started doing these Sunday services, I said I have tremendous respect for what he's doing because it used to be the norm in this country that you were a Christian.
Not so much anymore, okay?
It kind of is, but we're seeing this.
Check this out.
In U.S., decline of Christianity continues at a rapid pace.
An update on America's changing religious landscape.
I think too many people focus on the negatives and ignore the positives.
When I was younger, when I was in grade school, I was Christian.
I was Catholic.
And then once I got a little older, like, you know, 12 or 13, I went to public school.
And then just kind of got away from all of that.
Immediately was exposed to this world outside of religion and said, hey, you know, I became very far left, kind of angry.
And then I met someone who kind of gave me this formative moment.
It was a punk rock secular type who said the story of Jesus was a cool story.
It was just a guy who traveled around trying to help people.
And he's like, when you get rid of everything else, like you got a good story there, we should be nice to each other.
And that made me realize I made a bunch of assumptions about religion.
Made me a bit more moderate.
And what I started to realize as I got older is The truth is, there's a lot of really important things within religion, and many of them.
As the ancient one said in the Doctor Strange film, when looking at these books, everybody is seeing a part of the picture but not the whole.
I think the important thing we can do as a culture is recognize a lot of really important ideas came out of religion, and a lot of bad ideas did too, and we've done a really good job of reforming and getting rid of the bad ideas.
And now we're at a point where We've retained mostly the good ones, and I'll give you one specific example that I love, and it's Blackstone's formulation.
This is the idea that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent person suffer.
It is the basis of our innocent-until-proven-guilty legal system.
And many people believe it dates back to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible, the story of Lot, that God would not destroy these towns if but one righteous person was among them.
Admittedly, there's a bunch of bad ideas.
But through this, we've kept many of the good ones.
Okay?
So there were ideas in the past, and I'm glad they exist today.
But I think many people in this country assume only the worst about religions.
And they say, get rid of all of it, simply because it has bad ideas.
I say, whoa, slow down a bit.
I used to think that too, until I met some people who told me some really interesting things, and there are some good ideas that need to be protected that exist within this.
It's not black or white.
Kanye West has done something pretty crazy.
Check out this story.
In May, Sia, the uber talented but famously enigmatic pop singer and songwriter, walked on stage wearing a hoodie and no makeup and belted out a gospel rendition of her hit, Elastic Heart.
The seemingly impromptu performance was backed by a gospel choir and was incredibly powerful.
The performance was tweeted by Kim Kardashian West, who said,
there wasn't a dry eye in the room.
The setting, an early iteration of Kanye West's Sunday service.
And I got to admit, this tweet is beautiful.
The people singing, there's unity, it's positive.
Sia is a pop singer.
I actually really love the song Elastic Heart.
To see this, it actually makes me feel really good because it's a positive thing, not a negative thing.
And I think if more people can come together like this, to see these celebrities now meeting in a church group, I actually really, really like that idea.
There's a complicated relationship between the left and the right when it comes to religion.
But I think if we just try and talk about not hating each other and talk about, you know, what I was saying, the story of Jesus being a dude who wanted to love everybody and bring people together, man, you got a great story.
And in fact, many people on the left like to cite Jesus as an example of why the corporatist Republicans are bad.
And I'm like, that's, yeah, it is easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter heaven.
I believe there's a lot of really interesting points in religion the left could actually get behind.
I'm not saying religion should be the uniting factor but I do want to point out that I think it is good that most of us simmer down to the best of our abilities and I hope seeing these pop stars Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Sia come together with a church group can bring people together so we're not just assuming there's an other who hates us because we're focusing on the negative all the time.
But more importantly than this, so the reason I highlight this is because you have celebrities now with Kanye West, okay?
Think about this.
It's not just Kanye West coming out as a Trump supporter and doing these Sunday services.
It is Sia.
Now of course you got Kim Kardashian.
She's married to Kanye West and her family, they're gonna come out in this way.
But now having Sia as well.
This is back in May.
I think, don't be surprised if you see many more celebrities start talking about faith and start being open about how they really feel and sort of crack, you know, showing us a crack in that foundation of this system where people are scared to speak up.
In a really, really interesting article in Vice.
So I do want to highlight this, right?
The reason I highlighted the Pew thing is that Christianity is on a rapid decline.
I think Kanye West might reignite this.
I mean, people look up to that dude, right?
Check this out.
A story from Vice asks about Kanye West, you know, him being Christian now.
And there's a quote from a faith leader who says this.
If you want to do anything with black people in this country, you still have to go to or go through a black church.
Dr. J. Paul Hines, an assistant professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, tells Vice, The political election season is warming up again, and you're going to see politicians in the churches again because it's the main avenue by which you reach the African American community.
Bill Maher the other day did a segment where he pleaded with Democrats not to go crazy.
In it he said Beto O'Rourke wants to tax the church if they don't agree to perform same-sex marriages.
What Bill Maher said was he also wants to tax churches, but he's not running for president.
And he said verbatim, do you think that's going to go over well in a black church?
And the answer, well, I'm not going to tell you what the answer is, but that's Bill Maher's point.
But here we can see from a Princeton professor, if you want to do anything with black people in this country, you still have to go to or through a black church.
Kanye West is sort of dominating the space.
Not only is he saying it's a joke that he's wearing that MAGA cap all in for Trump, he's now hosting Sunday services.
I got a lot of respect for him because while I think there are a lot of bad ideas in religion that I'm scared by, I think for a lot of communities that have no leadership, like my community, and I'm not talking about racial communities, I was in a mixed neighborhood, we could really use leaders of any sort to come in and say, you know, be responsible, be respectful, do good, and preach good.
There are a lot of bad people who take religion in dark places, and we've seen it around the world, and it's scary.
We gotta push back on the bad ideas.
And we can't just say literally every idea is bad.
Not every iteration of every idea is bad, and that goes for social justice too.
This idea that we can create a more equitable and equal future, it's possible and it exists, but there are bad people who are at the reins, and they're pushing forth this fake version of what we're truly talking about.
When we talk about equality and social justice, we're really just talking about justice and equal rights and opportunity.
Instead, you have people who are pushing cancel culture, who are telling you to bend the knee, and then who would—you know, they smeared Kanye West like crazy for coming out and talking about how he supported the president.
But listen.
It is not just that Kanye West is doing this religious stuff.
He's going to make Yeezys in America.
This dude, I don't know what happened with Kanye West.
It must have been Candace Owens, maybe.
He put out that tweet one time where he said he loves what she's saying, and I do respect a lot of what Candace Owens says.
Granted, I've directly criticized her in full segments where I talked about, you know, she mentioned something about burning the flag, and I totally disagree.
But I think she makes a really good point that I empathize with.
When, you know, she as a black woman feels from these progressives they're telling her what she can or can't do, I don't have the same level of, you know, bigotry or whatever pointed at me, because I will totally accept that some people might just think I'm straight white.
A lot of people don't.
But what bothers me is when I'm told by the wealthy white progressives how I'm supposed to feel and how I'm supposed to behave, and my response is, who are you to tell me?
You don't know what my life was like.
And I can only imagine it is substantially more extreme for Kanye and for Candace Owens because they're straight up not white, right?
So to clarify, the idea of passing.
Yeah, some people might look at me and say, this guy's white.
A lot of people don't.
So I have like this mixed experience, and I'm sick and tired of being told what I'm supposed to do, who I'm supposed to support, and then being insulted simply because I tell you you can't control me.
And that's what Kanye West is saying.
And to me that means a lot.
I'm grateful to see somebody saying something like that.
Though, we disagree politically.
Right?
I agree with making stuff in the US though.
So this is huge.
Kanye West, whether or not he's the greatest artist of all time, he's got 30 million followers.
Check this out.
He's got this tweet.
Jesus is King is the tweet.
Midnight.
And it says, every hour, Salah, follow God, closed on Sunday, on God, everything we need, water, God is, hands on, use the gospel, Jesus is Lord.
These are the songs.
Jesus is Lord is one of the songs.
The album is called Jesus is King.
It's got 75,000 retweets.
Only 10,000 replies.
Dude, people love this guy.
He's got nearly 29.2 million followers.
How many of those people do you think are secular?
Well, if we go by the Pew data...
30 or so percent, maybe a little less.
Yeah, 35% maybe.
These are people who are uninitiated, don't know a whole lot, but respect Kanye, are going to follow that.
That's going to have a huge impact.
And then when Kanye comes out and says, bring the industry back to the U.S.
for Azizis, man, that's huge.
And that's a conservative Trump kind of narrative.
So Kanye was really inspired by Trump.
And I got to say, this is good.
I'm not going to talk about whether or not Everyone should or shouldn't be Christian or whether or not it's good.
You know, I'm not going to tell you that I think it's good or bad that Kanye West is preaching religion.
That's on him.
That's on you guys.
I fully respect your right to believe whatever your religion and to practice, but I will stress that Kanye West is going to, he's probably going to shift that trend around and make and convert many, many people.
Possibly one of the most powerful Preaching, you know, preachers on the planet today.
Kanye West.
But it's not just that.
He's bringing it back to the United States.
Check this out.
They say...
With the release of Jesus is King, less than 12 hours away, Kanye West is making the promo rounds, which included a visit with Zane Lowe in Wyoming this week.
Currently premiering on Beats 1 Radio, the interview has thus far seen West share his views on everything from banning premarital lovemaking amongst those who worked on the new album, to his journey from purveyor of high fashion to one of Christianity.
He also touched on Yeezy footwear and apparel manufacturing and why moving production to America is a priority.
He said, for me, as a founder, it's really important to bring these jobs back to America.
West said, within the next two years, he plans to make Yeezys and injection-molded shoes in U.S.
factories as well as hire workers through prison reform systems.
You know, one of the things that I agree with Kanye on is prison reform.
I think we need more criminal justice reform.
I am not a fan of private prisons.
I'm willing to listen to arguments, but as of now, I'm very opposed to them.
And I think we need a total reform of the system.
So I'm with Kanye on that one.
I'm with Kanye on doing these factories here in the U.S.
Right now, what we're seeing with Kanye West and the moves he's making, they're all positive ones.
Having Sia sing a song, there's nothing negative there.
That's happy.
That's bringing people together.
That's community building.
Launching production in the United States?
Amazing.
It's going to be great for the economy.
It's going to be good for America.
So right now, I want to make sure we make this clear.
There are good and bad things about every idea, okay?
And you can rag on Kanye.
You can call him crazy.
You can say whatever you want.
But what he's doing right now isn't hurting people.
What he's doing right now has been positive.
And so I'm down with that.
That's great.
Right on, man.
Do your thing.
I respect tremendously that Kanye is willing to stand up for what he believes in.
Say, if I want to do this, I can do it.
You can't stop me.
I'm like, right on, man.
If you want to have a church service, yeah, man, go do it.
And I want to make sure you can do it safely.
I want to make sure all of your friends can come, and you can sing, and you can talk about, you know, for the most part, whatever you want to talk about.
I believe in free speech, freedom of religion, and even sometimes for ideas I don't like.
Now I'll be real, right?
There are a lot of groups that I really, really, really don't like.
You know who I'm talking about, okay?
Well, they have a right to free speech too, and I don't want to be there in any way for them, but they do have a right to go and speak, you know, and do their thing.
Fine.
You go do it over there, I'll avoid you.
What Kanye is doing is nowhere near that, and in fact, a lot of what Kanye is saying, especially this article right here, I'm totally down with.
In which case, I really like the idea that he's bringing people together, and I hope what he does has a bigger, more positive impact on this country.
Now, I'm going to cite one last thing, because what I'm talking about here is Kanye West being an ace in the hole for conservatives.
Rasmussen is typically considered biased in favor of Trump, but they say in August, Trump's support up this week among black voters.
Whether or not you trust Rasmussen, Zogby said something similar.
A lot of people are saying it's not true.
The left counters this point.
It's fine.
Ignore this then.
Ignore Rasmussen.
What do you think is going to happen when Kanye West comes out and says, go vote for Trump?
There are going to be a lot of people.
A lot of people in the black community who probably didn't vote before, who are gonna be like, yo, Kanye's the man.
And they'll go do it.
There are a lot of people who don't like Kanye, don't like Trump, and I respect their opinions as well.
I'm just trying to highlight the influence of Kanye West.
This is gonna be huge, man.
It already is.
And I gotta end just by pointing out this.
This is hilarious.
I'm sorry.
It's funny, okay?
I think you guys know this is funny too.
That he said he's the greatest artist in human existence, so putting on a red hat was God's practical joke on all liberals.
No, not Kanye.
It's funny, man.
Listen.
I think, um, I'm down to be friends, you know, with a lot of people, a lot of people disagree with, um, or I should say friendly.
I'm not gonna hang out with a lot of, you know, with these people.
I'm not gonna hang out with Kanye West, but I got no problem shaking his hand and saying, you know, I respect you standing up for what you believe in, and, um, you know, we'll, I'll see you at the ballot box.
We'll see what happens.
Final thought to wrap all this up.
If you thought Trump was going to win just based off of economics, you gotta factor in this rising pop culture Christianity.
Starting factories in the U.S., creating his gear.
Kanye West is doing what many conservatives have talked about for the past few months about creating culture.
Kanye West does that.
Well, congratulations.
One of the most prolific, famous, and liked entertainers in the world is on the conservative side now.
And it's opening the door for other people to come out.
This might be taken over.
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We live in trying times.
Great struggle between the progressives in this country who want to make the world a better place and the group they're supposed to be helping.
Why are Latinos having to come out and tell woke white progressives to stop anglicizing their culture?
It's almost like the woke white progressives are the racist ones.
Here's the story.
It's an opinion piece from USA Today.
Progressives, Hispanics are not Latinx.
Stop trying to anglicize our Spanish language.
Not only that, but Latinx sounds like Kleenex, and I don't think that's, like, a positive connotation.
The other issue I have is, how are you supposed to speak a gendered language if you replace everything with an O?
Are you gonna call your dog a perex?
Like, that doesn't make any sense.
They're only changing the word, and here's the best part.
First, I saw this story because it was shared on Facebook by some of my Hispanic friends who are like, stop doing this to us!
It's kind of this cultural imperialism, right?
That's what it's called.
And these woke progressives believe that they should have their view on culture injected into other cultures while simultaneously arguing against imperialism and for multiculturalism.
No, I must stop you right now, woke progressive left.
Listen, I'll read the story.
But if you go around as a woke white person telling Hispanic people to change their language, that is not multiculturalism.
It is quite literally monoculturalism because you are forcing other cultures to bend to your perspective.
In a true multicultural society, you will have Latinos, you will have Hispanic speakers, and their culture will not be changed by you.
It's really funny how it's kind of like, it's projection.
You know, they often say that these people project on other people and I think it's fair to say that's true.
I've noticed that many of the woke white people that I know are extremely racist.
And I don't mean in the sense that, like, being woke itself is racist.
I mean they're literally racists, okay?
Like, I talked to some of these snooty elite people and they're, like, talking about minority communities as though they're stupid poor people who can't help themselves.
Like, they're literally racist.
They actually believe they are superior.
And that they're guilty about it, so they do things like this.
Okay.
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When Yale professor Sydney Dupree and her colleague analyzed more than two decades worth of political speeches and conducted experiments searching for bias when communicating with racial minorities, they were surprised by what they discovered.
According to their report, published this year in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, conservatives generally addressed whites and minorities similarly.
But liberals were likelier to modify their speech and patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent.
It is so annoying when I tell my friends.
You know, I got into an argument with a friend recently.
Who is a progressive white, upper class, and they're trying to tell me how I should think about racism.
And I'm like, dude, listen, okay?
Listen.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
And they always say to me, Tim, you're passing, therefore you're... No, no, no, no, no, no.
Full stop.
You have no idea what my experiences are.
I grew up on the South Side.
The whole community was various races.
We dealt with some stuff, man.
You can't come and tell me... That's what they do!
It is the most annoying and frustrating thing.
Talk to Candace Owens about it, okay?
Because she knows better than I do.
It is true that sometimes people will see me and just assume I'm white.
But I typically find in these communities that's not the case.
They typically assume I'm Latino and I'm not.
I'm Korean and white.
So I understand the concept of passing.
The problem is these people twist it and they ruin it, to say the least.
Let's read on.
Do precaution that although liberals might be well-intentioned and see themselves as
allies, they could be unwittingly contributing to racial division by dumbing down their language.
In light of minorities understandably feeling marginalized, journalists, corporations, and
politicians would be wise to heed the professor's warning.
Instead, they are ignoring it.
One of the most notable examples of corporate America and politicians changing how they
speak to ingratiate themselves with minorities—no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's to ingratiate themselves with the woke left.
Because listen, the woke left in this country is about 30%.
Sort of.
Okay, let me back up.
White liberals in this country are shy of 30%.
Of that, most of them just say, whatever you say.
Don't know much about anything, and I'm just going to follow through.
But the progressive activists are 8% of this country, which means they're a larger portion of the liberals as a whole.
Those people are loud.
They're squeaky wheels, they're getting all the grease, and so you see Elizabeth Warren and Beto O'Rourke doing all these things, and then you have confused Latinos and Hispanic individuals in this country, saying, what is Latinx?
You sound like you're blowing your nose!
But they're not saying it to you, because Latinos make up what, like 13 to 14% of the country?
Progressive liberals, well actually, of them, of that group, you break out how many are progressives, and it's actually relatively small.
But Beto O'Rourke is trying to get votes from white people.
He's not talking to Latinos, okay?
One of the most notable examples of corporate America and politicians changing how they speak to ingratiate themselves is Latinx.
What began in the 2000s among activists has now gained currency among marketers, media personalities, and progressives.
The intentions behind Latinx may be benign, but as the son of immigrants who grew up in a community with English-only ordinances, I am among the many Americans who considered an absurd anglicization of a language that generations struggled to conserve.
And there it is!
You see what's happening?
Beto, Warren, these other people who say Latinx, they're not talking to the Latino community.
They're talking to the progressive community, which is overwhelmingly white.
And there it is.
They want their One of the most commonly spoken languages in the world, Spanish.
community, the second most commonly spoken, is it second?
Okay, no, maybe it's the third.
Spanish, I think, might be, no, no, no, it might be second now. One of the most commonly
spoken languages in the world, Spanish. And these white progressives in the US think they're
being progressive by telling a minority in this country, here's what you must say, or
here's the right way to say it.
But it's really just a bunch of white people talking to white people.
And that's what's really, really funny about all of this.
They act like, you know, they're so, so similar to the white nationals in so many ways.
Progressives argue that Latinx fixes the gendered nature of Spanish, which they maintain is unfair to women and excludes individuals who do not identify as male or female.
It is true that nouns are gendered in Spanish, but it is unclear what, if any, problem this poses to Americans.
English is not grammatically gendered.
Latinos is inclusive in both languages, and substitutes like Latin and Hispanic can adequately describe the population that is Latino and non-binary.
Taken to its logical conclusion, a push for gender-neutral Spanish nouns requires dismantling a language spoken by 572 million people across the world.
Full stop.
It's not just that, okay?
Think about, there's an argument that in Spanish they say todos, meaning everybody, right?
So you've got the Biden campaign.
Todos con Biden.
Whoa, whoa, Biden.
You said todos.
That's a male word.
Are you saying only all of the men with Biden?
Why didn't you say todos y todas?
Which todas is all the women with an A. It's because the language in a sense is technically, you could argue, favoring women.
Now hear me out.
There was this big thing that happened a while ago, I don't know much about it because it was told to me by an Argentinian friend, that the prime, premier, prime minister, president or whatever of Argentina said todos y todas, which means everyone and every woman.
And apparently that was considered controversial because todos is the word that means everyone, And it's male, but it does include females.
Think about what that means.
It means you have one word that means everyone, and another word that means only women.
There is no word for only men.
The argument they're presenting, in my opinion, is actually a matriarchal... is that there's a matriarchy.
Why do women get special qualifiers to talk about them, but not the men?
Right?
Well, they argue the inverse.
They say TOTOS is masculine, and they just lump the women in with it.
That means you can describe all people with one word, or all women, but not all men.
So essentially, the controversy, I guess, again, I don't know much about the story, I'm not from Argentina, was that She essentially said, everyone and all of the women.
It's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You already said everyone.
So now they want to get rid of the, oh, so what would you say?
Toedexes?
Like, Toedexes con Biden.
No, you can't do that.
And therein lies the big problem with this.
Now, I'll stop right here.
I know a little bit of Spanish.
I used to know a lot more because I grew up in a Spanish-speaking area on the south side of Chicago.
But, hey, don't take it from me.
I saw this from some of my South Side Chicago friends posting on Facebook complaining that these woke white people are trying to tell them.
The other thing I want to point out, too, is that the people I know from my community, because it was very, very Hispanic, they're very Christian.
They're not super conservative.
They're fairly moderate because they are very Christian.
And this bothers them.
And I'll tell you what, man, if anything is going to get them to vote for Trump, it's going to be this.
It's going to be when Biden and Warren say, Totexes!
And they're going to be like, What did you just say?
Imagine if like, I know it's not perfect, because English isn't gendered,
but imagine instead of saying everyone, they said every person.
You'd be like, oh, that sounds kind of weird.
But the thing about the X is that they're not saying people.
What if they said like, you know, the pueblos or whatever, you know, the people.
You don't understand what that meant.
So, when Trudeau says, people kind, those are words.
What if Trudeau says, X kind?
You'd be like, I don't know this.
Well, X is inclusive of all species.
You'd be like, what, X kind?
Like, what does that mean?
What if someone said, welcome every X?
You'd be like, every X?
What does that mean?
Is the X a reference to women?
It is, right?
No.
Everybody has an X, so I guess that's the point.
I have no idea what they're doing.
They write, Some maintain that Spanish is insufficiently woke.
Marketers are now targeting Latinx consumers.
Senator Elizabeth Warren marked Hispanic Heritage Month by promising in English and Spanish to champion Latinx families.
Wow.
Thanks.
But marketing executives and politicians should understand that many of our families do not want to be called Latinx.
The fact that the word is controversial makes its usage especially strange, since modern social norms discourage applying loaded terms to minority groups.
You know what, man?
I'm curious.
There is a disparaging word for Koreans.
I have no problem saying it because it's my family.
I mean, you know, we've talked about this stuff.
I can't say it on YouTube, though.
Even in reference to myself.
But I was talking to a friend and I said, what if I told you from now on I want to be referred to by this word?
It's a very offensive slur for Korean people.
I was told, no way, I'm not going to say that, because someone else could hear and it would be offensive to them.
And I said, but what about Latinx?
What about, you know, Z-Zer?
That's offensive to people.
Well, that's different, they say.
Because that's trying to, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No.
You have to recognize that everything you say at any point could be offensive to somebody.
Now I understand, zee and zur is not intended to insult.
However, it doesn't matter what your intention is, it matters if someone is offended.
That's their argument, right?
And the proof is in the pudding.
You have the Netflix executive who got fired for describing the n-word.
We recently had a teacher, I don't have the story pulled up, you have to look into it because I didn't read most of it, I just saw the headline.
But something about a teacher saying, don't call me the n-word, and they got fired for saying the n-word!
There was one class where a professor was describing historical use of the word and said it.
Teacher got in trouble.
The point is, they don't care about context.
Okay, if that's the case, Latinx is offensive.
It's right here on USA Today.
They're telling it's offensive.
Therefore, Latinx is a slur.
Uh-oh.
YouTube's gonna ban me.
I said a naughty word.
At what point does YouTube determine enough people are offended by Latinx that this video gets banned?
You see the inherent problem with all of the speech policing?
I'll tell you what, man.
USA Today, Giancarlo Sopo, a contributor to a major national publication, has just said, do not call us this, okay?
From now on, anybody who says this is a bigot.
YouTube, I demand, no, no wait, stop, don't ban me.
But this is a really good point to bring up in the discussion about, you know, words and stuff, in that if the progressives, the small minority of this country, determine this is not offensive, Then everybody can use it.
I can say it.
I can say Latinx over and over and over again, even though they're offended by it.
Yep, even though it's offensive, belittling, and anglicizing their culture, which is cultural imperialism, don't matter.
Elizabeth Warren said so.
We're allowed to say it.
But I'll tell you what, I can't use a word historically used to disparage my community because it has been deemed by the progressives to be a no-no word.
Well, how is that fair?
Why can't I speak about this?
I can't, right?
You can easily look up.
There's like one word for Koreans, okay?
And I wonder why it's not fair that Latinos can be offended by this, but we're all allowed to say it.
And I can't say a word to describe You know, to talk about.
Listen, this word I'm talking about using about Koreans, I would like to say it in an educational context, to tell you what it is.
But I can't.
Because YouTube transcribes speech, it'll pop up in the text, YouTube will derank this, and all of these really bad things will happen.
Not Latinx, I assure you.
In fact, because I've said Latinx so many times, it's probably gonna run a bunch of ads for traditionally Hispanic, you know, items and stores and things like that.
Because that's fine.
Because the marketing companies, the progressives said so.
Well, we're only about a month away, two months away from 2020.
But this is the new decade!
Maybe it'll go away, I have no idea.
But I'll tell you this, Giancarlo, I'm really sorry.
I really doubt anything you say will change these people.
Because they are not Hispanic, for the most part.
They are mostly progressive, white individuals with college degrees making more than six figures, telling all of us, mixed race, minority, immigrant, what we should or shouldn't believe.
It's hilarious when they disparage Candace Owens.
How dare you argue that we must step back and listen to the minority communities, except her, except Kanye.
No, it doesn't work that way.
They don't actually care.
They're just racist, in my opinion.
They're bigoted racists, cultural imperialists, who believe they should be able to tell other communities what to believe and how to behave, and it's hilariously paradoxical.
Well, there you go.
I'll wrap it up there.
You get the point.
Look at this!
What happened to multiculturalism?
That's what I was saying!
Rather than making Latinos feel included, progressives are implying the way our families speak is fundamentally inadequate for the U.S.
and progressive American culture.
This is offensive to the 85% of Hispanics who, like my parents, speak Spanish to their children, and whose most treasured heirlooms are often family traditions and memories in Spanish.
Mine included the mellifluous sound of the baritone voice of my abuelo, mom's favorite boleros, and dad's military stories.
Bigot!
It's abuelex!
It's bolerexes!
Has their language joined the ranks of comedian Dave Chappelle?
The Betsy Ross flag and the interminable list of people and things that perturb our politically correct sensibilities?
This is a great article, by the way, man.
You know what?
The way I see it is, talk the way you want to talk.
I mean, for the most part.
You know, don't go around saying super offensive things.
And I do want to end...
By saying this.
An apology to the writer.
I pronounced your name incorrectly.
You can see it written here.
I said earlier Giancarlo Sopo.
Let me correct that.
To Giancarlex Sopex.
Thanks for... I'll see you guys at 1pm on this channel.
Thanks for hanging out.
A British 21-year-old solo female traveler has gone missing while visiting Cambodia.
And I want to start this video by saying I hope She is found safe.
I hope she was just lost.
But we're gonna get pretty serious.
We're gonna get rather pessimistic.
And I gotta say, it's getting harder and harder for me to have sympathy for a lot of these people.
There are a lot of YouTube channels about, you know, traveling the world, solo travelers.
There was one woman who went to Syria and Pakistan.
Forbes wrote an article.
The title was something like, Pakistan is a must-go for solo female travelers.
And I gotta say, I'm a bit offended by this, okay?
I want there to be more good in the world.
But I also recognize there's a lot of bad in the world.
And there are a lot of people who see these things online, these stories about these wonderful, beautiful trips, that don't put what's actually happening in context.
Whether or not someone has a security detail, whether or not someone even got vaccines and inoculations for the various parts of the world.
Yes, when I've traveled working for Vice, I had to get like four shots in one day to travel to certain parts of the world.
You can get diseases.
Vaccinate your kids, by the way.
So now we have the story of a British backpacker, 21, who went missing.
Well, it turns out she was Google searching solo female travel and all this stuff.
Listen, man, traveling is fun, alright?
And I would love it if everyone could do it, but there's so much fear around telling the truth.
When it comes to the differences in identity and feminism and sexism and all that stuff, that people are avoiding very serious and real questions.
They're not showing people what's actually going on.
And now we're getting story after story of backpackers and hikers being kidnapped or worse.
Listen.
This story is one of the potentially tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of solo travelers.
And it may be that overwhelmingly you will be safe and fine.
But the reason I do this, the reason I talk about these stories and highlight the real dangers... Okay, this woman is missing.
Is because we are inundated by stories about people who do these wonderful adventures with no repercussions.
And if that's the only thing we get in the news, you will end up with young women going online and searching for solo female travel because they saw a YouTube video and then thinking it is safe to travel alone in Cambodia.
It's not.
I've been around the world.
I've been in very dangerous places.
I am an adult man.
I can fight, I can defend myself, and even I had to take extreme security precautions in many of these countries.
Morocco was a hoot.
Egypt was scary.
In Egypt, we thought we were gonna... We thought bad stuff was gonna happen in Egypt.
In Brazil, I got... I had undercover cops detain me in a back room with no windows, and we thought we were gonna get beaten up.
Fortunately, They figured out who we were at the last minute and came in apologizing.
I don't know what they thought or what they were planning on doing to us, bringing us into this weird sh- It was like a building in the back, with no windows, and in order to get into it, you had to duck under some weird structure, and then go into this door, into this white room, which is a couch, and we were like, what is happening?
And they took our phones, they turned our phones, you know, they eventually gave our phones back.
But this stuff is real life, man, okay?
There are dirty cops, there are crooked cops, there are dirty soldiers, there are criminals, there are smugglers, there are drugs.
You cannot just go to Cambodia by yourself!
Man, this frustrates me to no end, okay?
When we would sit down in these meetings, we'd be like, hey, we were looking at going to Phnom Penh.
We're looking at going to, I believe that's where she was originally going.
We were looking at going to Cambodia and other countries, and we had to call a company and say, give us the intel in the area.
What's happening?
What we can expect?
What are the crime rates?
What areas should we avoid?
What can't we eat?
I kid you not, you need to learn when you're going to these places about what you can drink or eat.
It's not a game.
I got very, very sick in Brazil.
I got very, very sick in Turkey.
This is a reality.
Instead, you get these people looking at these videos that are edited to make everything... You know what, man?
YouTube has this habit.
People on YouTube, they love making these super happy travel videos where people are like, you know, they do these vlogs.
And it's a known fact now that most of these vlogs, they hide the negative.
Well, negativity is a real thing, man.
There's a balance in the universe.
You have people who make YouTube videos where they're like, everything is awesome!
And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, there's a video of them like pale face with dark rings around their eyes next to their girlfriend or boyfriend going, we just can't do this anymore.
You know, we can't take it.
And it's because these videos you watch online, they don't show you what's truly, it's not news, it's not journalism.
They're not sharing with you the truth.
They're sharing with you the highlight reel to make you think the world is magical.
And I hear you, man.
Like, I feel you.
The people who do this kind of content.
You know, the world is fairly boring in a lot of ways.
And in order to get people to watch, you need to inspire them and make them think, you know, they're seeing something magical.
In reality, I'll give you an example of like, so Casey Neistat, for instance.
If you're not familiar, probably THE vlogger, right?
Now, he doesn't do this.
I'm not criticizing him.
He does show an overly positive view of his vlogs and stuff, but he does show his work, he does talk about it, and I think what he does here in the US, it's okay.
But what he shows in his videos is that often he'll go outside, put the camera down, press record, walk back inside, then film himself walking out.
You see, the point is, Casey is making a show.
When you see a video of him walking out of his building and hopping on his board and riding away, it's because he set all of that up.
It wasn't a natural phenomenon.
It is a fictional edit.
He had to walk outside first.
So that little thing you didn't see, It's the little things we don't talk about when we travel the world, okay?
You know, when we make a documentary around, say, like, Thailand or something, we don't start the video by saying, okay, so here's who we called, here's what we did, because we're not doing a background on the process.
I think we should.
I aim to do that more.
It's part of what we're focusing on.
But for, you know, for Vice and for other outlets, they're trying to tell a story not about them, but about what's happening in, say, Cambodia.
People see these videos, they see this magical rainbow world, and they think, wow, Cambodia is so beautiful.
Yeah, it's called an advert, dude.
Somebody paid them to make a video to promote the tourist destination in a very dangerous place because they want money.
Now listen, I hope this young woman makes it out OK.
Let's read a little bit of the story, because I could rant on this for 800 years.
A 21-year-old British gap year student has disappeared while traveling alone through dense forests in Cambodia.
I am sorry, man.
At a certain point, I just don't have sympathy for some of these people.
But you know what?
I don't blame her.
She's young.
She was excited.
She wanted to travel.
I don't think there's any individual or person at fault.
I think her culture is at fault.
She was traveling alone through dense forests in Cambodia?
What did you think was gonna happen, man?
Amelia Bambridge from Worthington was traveling alone for the first time on the island of Koh Rong in the southwest of mainland Cambodia.
She was last seen at a party on Police Beach 40 minutes away from her hostel at 3 a.m.
on Wednesday.
The former Brighton, Hove and Sussex sixth form student was due to check out of her youth hostel at noon yesterday to leave the island later in the afternoon with a friend.
But her handbag, which had her purse, phone and bank cards in it, was found on the beach after a party on Wednesday night.
Her passport is still at the hostel, the Nest Beach Club said.
Okay.
I hope she simply tripped in the forest.
I hope she's lost, fell down, maybe she got hurt.
I don't want to wish harm on her, but it is substantially better that she's just got a broken ankle somewhere in the woods yelling for help.
But think about it.
She's 40 minutes away from her hostel.
Her purse and everything was left on the beach.
So did she just get up and walk away from her purse and no one was sitting there?
Listen.
You're on the beach with your belongings, especially in a foreign country.
You don't just leave your bag, get up, and walk away for whatever reason.
You have somebody watch it.
It's possible she was with somebody and they were watching it.
She never came back and they left.
I don't know.
But if she was with a friend, I guess she was traveling alone, they would have said, hey, she never came back and called the police right away.
That's not what happened, I guess.
I don't know.
It was found on the beach.
You know what that sounds like to me?
I hate to be a pessimist, man, because this story, you know, she's still missing, it's a relatively new story.
It sounds like she was taken, okay?
They left her stuff.
But you know, actually, let me walk that back a little bit.
I'd imagine if someone was taken, they'd take her stuff, too.
So I can't tell you.
I think we all just want to hope that she tripped in the woods, you know, sprained her ankle or something, and she'll be found safe and sound.
She has been declared officially missing by local authorities.
Worried mother, Linda Bambridge 52, is now taking an emergency flight to the island to join a search party of concerned locals and police.
You know... I'm just so frustrated, man.
We have so many millennials who were never disciplined.
They were never... I don't mean beaten.
I mean, like, discipline.
You know, stand at attention.
Understand the realities of the world.
Be responsible.
And so what happens is they think the world is theirs.
Everything belongs to them.
What's yours is mine.
They think they can just go to Cambodia.
Listen, man.
It may have been a... I don't know.
Cambodia has a giant jaguar or something just snatched her up and is taking her off into the wilderness.
I have no idea.
But it's crazy to me to think, you know, even in the US, you can go missing.
What makes you think you can travel alone through dense forests in Cambodia?
Where are your parents?
I guess I had the benefit of growing up on the south side of Chicago, where it was rough and tumble, where most of us were poor, a lot of people were on drugs.
And I've lived in these places and seen the dangers.
I've seen reality.
You know, gang fights, all that stuff.
And so I think, man, if it was that dangerous in a city, what must it be like in the middle of the woods?
Yeah, there's bears.
You get killed by a bear.
You can get bitten by a possum, get rabies or something.
But, man, I'll tell you what.
The most dangerous predator of them all.
Human beings.
So in the US, fortunately, we have a lot of laws and cultural standards.
And these things are, you know, to an extent, rare.
But guess what?
Some people break the law, they're criminals.
Now what makes you think you can go into the middle of the woods in Cambodia?
Man, I just don't understand, you know?
But I will say this.
There's, uh, these ideas, these passions, you know, this is a learning moment.
This young woman, everything she's done, I hope if, you know, I hope she's found safe.
And I hope after the fact, she starts speaking about, you know, the dangers.
And how, I think, you know, media and the internet, we want to tell everybody they can do whatever they want.
You know, we especially tell young women, like, you can travel the world solo and go to Syria and Pakistan.
I kid you not, they did that!
There's a harsh reality that people need to understand.
In the news business, we have to walk a very fine line because of legalities in the US.
But the truth is, and they'll tell you this, you know, if they trust you, you will not be allowed to do certain interviews if you're a man, and you will not be allowed to do certain interviews if you're a woman.
They are not going to send a woman to a football match in Algeria where women are banned.
You see the point?
Here's the problem.
If you tell a woman, you cannot do this job because you're a woman, guess what happens?
You get sued.
So what do you do?
And that's, that's, I'm basing that off a true story.
Look that up.
Vice, Algeria, woman, sue, sexism, all that stuff.
I'm not, it's not, it's not the exact same story.
I'm just making a point.
There are certain stories that I wasn't allowed to do because it involved women and tribes and traditional cultures in various parts of the world.
It's a reality.
Now, in entertainment and media, you are allowed to discriminate when casting.
But this was an interesting space, where they literally said, we cannot send a woman to do this story.
Okay, go take it up with the EEOC.
And then what ends up happening is, I'm in Egypt, and you have a 26-year-old Dutch woman I'll just call it gang assault.
In the middle of Tahrir Square.
White, blonde, what were they thinking?
So, you know, this young woman apparently, they say that she was Google searching solo female travel.
She spent the last year Googling solo female traveling, looking at pages and blogs and sorting out everything.
And you know what she was seeing?
She was seeing a highlight reel of positivity.
When you watch these videos of me traveling, you don't see the security guy on the other side of the camera.
You don't see the phone call we do with the international security firm that's monitoring various regions.
You don't hear the conversation where they say, our sources on the ground in Thailand say you're going to need body armor.
They don't hear that.
And then, I got a photo of me wearing body armor in Thailand.
I'll tell you why.
When I was there, somebody threw a grenade.
When I was there, somebody had, I believe, I can't remember which kind of rifle, but they put a shopping bag over a rifle, and they were walking in the middle of the street with a shopping bag, and they were shooting at each other.
One of the trucks we rode in that we checked out had blood splatter on the ground.
Because while they were riding in it, cheering for the government, it was a protest conflict, somebody chucked a grenade into it.
We needed to know all of that before going to Bangkok.
And Bangkok is a big tourist destination with a massive mall.
It's a massive city.
And I have friends who tell me, like, ooh, I'm going to go.
And I said, are you paying attention to the martial law and what's going on with the government and the king and all that?
And they're like, oh, I don't know.
Yeah, well, maybe you should.
Because you might find yourself in a very, very dangerous situation.
We went to one place where a giant scaffolding was just ripped.
They damaged the bottom of it.
The whole thing collapsed.
And you get these young people who are like, hey, I'm just going to go to rural Cambodia and trek through the woods.
Where are your parents?
A serious question.
Where are the parents?
I think so much of what we're seeing today, so much of these problems in the US, is that parents are not teaching their kids.
We got young men in crisis not going to school, staying at home.
Stop pampering your kids!
We got young women thinking they can go to rural Cambodia and trek through the woods by themselves.
You got people going to Morocco and other countries.
And they end up in, well their lives end.
And it's because no one, no one told them, stop.
The world does not belong to you.
There is danger, it is real, and you need to learn how to survive.
But I'll tell you what.
This story.
You may as well have told me this young woman walked straight into a fire.
Straight into a fire.
Can you walk through fire and be okay?
Yeah, depending on the fire.
But in this instance, it's like, the risk for danger is extremely high.
You googled some stuff online, and you thought, I'm gonna go do that.
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Where were your parents to say, listen, fire burns.
Do you know what you need to do if you find yourself in the middle of the woods?
I'll ask you this.
And you should really think about this.
Every one of you.
Ask yourself right now.
You find yourself alone in the middle of the woods.
What's the first thing you need?
Everyone gets it wrong.
The next question.
What's the second thing you need?
I want you to go and Google it.
So that you know.
You know exactly what you have to do if you find yourself with a broken leg in the middle of the woods.
Maybe that's what happened.
Maybe she fell down a hill.
Maybe she was going to take a leak or something.
Tripped, fell, hurt her foot, now she's stuck.
Okay.
What's the first thing you gotta do?
You need to look that up.
On my phone, I have like five different survival guides.
Not because I ever expect to be lost out in the wilderness, but because I will be I don't want to swear.
I would be unhappy if I was forced to rely on anyone other than myself.
Responsibility starts with you.
And as they say, chance favors the prepared.
Or luck favors the prepared.
Okay?
You want to survive an accident.
Be it walking on a nature hike near your house.
You fall down.
You get lost.
What do you do?
But you know what we have now is the opposite of that.
These people These young people aren't bothering to Google search, I'm going to walk in the desert.
No, they watch this video where you see one person filming like they're holding their phone going like, everything's so great, you don't realize they got two security guys in front and a sound person in front.
It's a show, dude.
It's a show.
A lot of people travel solo.
And if they don't take precautions, they're buying lottery tickets every time.
And you can get away with it for a certain amount of time.
But the problem is you get these young people who see this Google solo female travel stuff and they're like, I'm gonna go literally hike in the woods in rural Cambodia by myself.
You get the point, man.
I'm done.
It's not the last story we're gonna hear about this.
Next segment's coming up at 4pm on the main channel.
I will see you all there.
Score one point for the angry leftists who have effectively shut down UK's first Chick-fil-A.
They've announced that they are closing after just eight days due to protests continuing last weekend, even after Chick-fil-A stated that it will be packing up its waffle fries and pickle slices in six months.
Well, there it is.
There have been many circumstances where Chick-fil-A has been blocked by protesters, or most recently, I think it was Toronto, The first Chick-fil-A opened up and protesters shut it down.
I would like to stress that I've stated this in the past.
This is the most important point.
If you want people to vote for the right, vote conservative, re-elect Trump.
I know this is the UK.
All you gotta do is go and block their chicken sandwich restaurant, because they will not understand anything you're talking about.
You will look insane, and they'll say, dude, it's a chicken shop.
I don't know what you're talking about.
The assumption that people know anything about this is absurd.
So what do you think happens?
The Chick-fil-A down the street from me, it is ridiculous.
It takes like a half an hour to get food.
It is so jam-packed all the time.
You know, I must admit, I absolutely love talking about the Chick-fil-A protest stuff, because it is the perfect example of how cancel culture insanity leads to Donald Trump.
Regular dude gets off work, he's tired, he's got sweat in the pits, and he's stressed out, and he's like, man, I would kill for a Chick-fil-A with pepper jack, you know, Chick-fil-A sauce, oh, it just sounds so delicious.
I'll get a milkshake, I'll get cookies and cream.
And he pulls up, and there's a bunch of angry people waving signs, and he goes, no!
I just want a chicken sandwich.
At the end of a hard day, to take that bag home, sit down with some friends and family, put my feet up and say, it was all worth it.
Let me tell you a story.
It's a story back to the depression.
I can't remember where it comes from, but it's about a man who made very, very little money.
And every day after work, he would go and buy a single rose.
And that rose was expensive.
It was kind of expensive relative to how much money he made.
It was about a quarter or more of the money he earned in the day.
And he would go home and put it on his table.
And one day, he was buying the rose, and the man said, you come here every day and buy a single rose, but surely it's too expensive, there's no work, you must save money, your family must be hurting.
And he said, the rose on my table every day is the only thing that makes all of this worth it.
So what do you think happens when you shut down that end-of-the-day sweet, delicious treat?
That Chick-fil-A sauce, that chicken that's spiced perfectly with those waffle fries that everybody loves, the most popular restaurant in this country.
What do you think happens when you shut it down?
Do you think you earn fans?
You're not stopping bigotry, you're stopping a chicken sandwich shop!
Let's read a little bit of this story here from Vice.
They say in mid-2011, Kim Kardashian was married to then-New Jersey Nets player Chris Humphries for all of 72 days.
In the summer of 2017, Anthony Scaramucci served as the White House Communications Director for 10 days.
But it took only 8 days for the first Chick-fil-A in the UK to announce that it would be closing at the end of its ultra-brief contract.
On October 10th, The Chick-fil-A opened at the Oracle Shopping Center in Reading, a town of more than 218,000 in southern England.
The restaurant was almost immediately protested by Reading Pride, an LGBTQ advocacy organization.
The chain's ethos and moral stance goes completely against our values, and that of the UK as we are a progressive country that has legalized Same-sex marriage, excuse me, for some years and continues to strive towards equality.
No.
No, I disagree with that assessment because you've got major protests right now in your country because the Muslim community is upset over LGBTQ teachings at these schools.
So you're not coming closer to equality.
It's actually getting worse.
And you've got feminists showing up and arguing with Muslims.
And it's all sorts of crazy.
Pick one.
I don't know who you're trying to protect here.
But this is a chicken sandwich shop!
You'd think you'd be more concerned about the people protesting your schools.
Alright.
No chicken for anybody.
Well, you know what?
Here's the tweet.
This Saturday in R.D.
Gook, reading UK, we'll be peacefully protesting Chick-fil-A outside the Broad Street Oracle Reading entrance from 11 a.m.
Meeting at 10 a.m.
the Blagrave for debrief and breakfast.
Say no to bigotry and hatred on your high street.
I'm really surprised that Chick-fil-A was willing to shut down.
It's not the first time they've faced protest.
I wonder what is particularly unique about the UK.
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They say, Chick-fil-A has been criticized for its anti-LGBT attitudes since CEO Dan Cathy talked to two news outlets about his opposition to same-sex marriage back in 2012.
We are very much supportive of the family, the biblical definition of the family unit, he told the Biblical Recorder.
Whoa, hold on!
So one guy, seven years ago, talked about supporting the family, and now you're trying to shut down every single Chick-fil-A.
First of all, I'm shocked Chick-fil-A shut down, like I said, but you're not winning.
You get this one UK, you get this one cancel culture, but Chick-fil-A is expanding like crazy.
It is delicious.
And you know what I do whenever I see these stories?
It makes me want to go get Chick-fil-A.
Now I'm sitting here thinking like, oh man, because you know what you can do?
You can actually get I like getting spicy chicken with, I think you can do pepper jack and Colby, and then I just get tons of Chick-fil-A sauce.
I don't do the fries though because it's too, you know, starchy, but the fries are delicious.
But I like getting, you know, like chicken strips.
So it's just like chicken upon chicken.
And as much as I do talk about the milkshakes, I don't do it.
Anyway, whenever I do a video like this, I love talking about what they sell because it's kind of the point, right?
Dude.
Every business has somebody who supports some kind of political message.
You just don't know about it.
So because one guy seven years ago said, here's what I believe, you're now like, it's like, this is it.
I love the meme where it's like, imagine 50 years from now where they mention that the LGBTQ community's arch rival was a chicken sandwich shop.
And people are going to be like, I don't quite understand.
And they're going to say, well, one guy at some point expressed his beliefs, and so they targeted the restaurants.
Dude, there are literally non-profits dedicated to Christian biblical family units.
You could actually go to a big building in like, Georgia, and stand in front of the actual building advocating for religious beliefs.
Instead, you're going to a chicken shop because of someone's passive actions.
And now all I can do is sit here and think about how hungry I am, and how I think- don't they have one with bacon on it?
There's like a bacon one?
Man.
Chick-fil-A is pretty good.
Every time I do videos about this, I'm willing to bet local Chick-fil-A, like, Chick-fil-A restaurants' sales go up.
So, actually, let me make that point.
Whenever these protests try and shut down Chick-fil-A, for one, they mostly fail, but then there's a bunch of YouTubers and articles, look it, Vice wrote about this!
A bunch of articles pop up advertising Chick-fil-A.
You could not ask for better press.
Oh, sure, you can rag on them, but I'll tell you what, check it out.
You wanna rag on Chick-fil-A, okay?
You wanna protest them?
Fine.
Who are you protesting for?
And who cares?
Average person doesn't care.
Average person likes Chick-fil-A.
Now get this.
How about all the Chick-fil-A restaurants in conservative Christian areas, where now people are gonna hear about this story and be like, we're getting Chick-fil-A tonight.
And they're gonna go to Chick-fil-A, and the manager's gonna be like, oh, Jim!
You don't come in that often, but I see you here tonight.
Big line.
And then the guy in the driveway is gonna be like, oh, yeah, protesters tried shutting down another Chick-fil-A, so we decided to go out and buy chicken sandwiches.
I'd be willing to bet there is a sales spike every time the protests happen.
I'd be willing to bet the sales spike will be larger now because they actually shut the shop down.
That's messed up.
You know what?
Here's the thing.
These Chick-fil-A restaurants, as far as I know, are franchises.
It's actually really cheap to launch your own franchise, but they have really strict rules.
So this is a decision of likely the individual who started the business.
Man, I don't know what you were thinking.
Because Chick-fil-A, it's like, they only allow individuals to own, like, one restaurant.
You have to be dedicated to it.
So here you have somebody who dedicated all this time and energy and investment into opening a shop, and now they're just caving after eight days?
To me, that's nuts.
You should not have done this.
I don't know what you think the issue is.
You think people are going to protest every single day?
They're not.
How, after eight days, are you shutting down?
For shame.
I mean that.
But you know what?
Hey.
UK, you do you!
I got a Chick-fil-A a couple blocks away, and I'm gonna go get me some chicken sandwiches after this.
I actually got a couple more segments to record for you, so there's your news.
Stick around.
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Rachel Maddow has gone rogue against NBC, and I'm surprised to say I'm definitely on her side.
She's calling out NBC for shielding Weinstein and Lauer.
And she reveals NBC is releasing all former employees from their NDAs in bombshell interview with Ronan Farrow.
Credit where credit is due.
Rachel Maddow, excellent work.
I have been ridiculously critical of you, Rachel, because of the Russiagate stuff, capitalizing off a fringe conspiracy without evidence.
But this, this is good.
And when you do good, I will always praise good behavior.
In this instance, Rachel Maddow targeting her own company at great personal risk.
Actually, I should walk that back.
I think there's definitely risk.
You know, she's playing hardball.
But she's doing the right thing, and ultimately I think NBC will have no choice but to back down.
With her, as one of the most prominent, if not the most prominent MSNBC personality speaking up, maybe even one of the most prominent NBC personalities, she's very famous, she is putting her weight behind making this company do the right thing, and I have tremendous respect for that.
Because when you get a big player at a company, going to the bosses and say, I'll walk, you know, they're gonna be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's even worse, right?
So this has to do with Matt Lauer, Weinstein, and how we learned, thanks to Ronan Farrow's real journalism, that they were shielding these people.
There was an excellent report by Chris Hayes where he said, the path of least resistance is what most people take.
Don't do the story.
It's too hard.
There's too much to deal with.
Let's just take the easy route.
Don't call out these evil individuals and the things they're doing to women.
Let's take the easy way out.
In this instance, I must stress, Rachel Maddow is not taking the easy way out.
She's rocking the ship, and she's pushing back, and it could cause problems for her in the future.
But ultimately, I think she will earn some points on this one.
So let's read the story from the Daily Mail.
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Daily Mail reports Rachel Maddow has gone after NBC executives in light of claims by journalist Ronan Farrow that they blocked reporting on Harvey Weinstein and handed enhanced severance payouts to female employees in exchange for their silence about alleged harassment.
The presenter, 46, told viewers during the Friday edition of her Rachel Maddow show that she was disturbed by the allegations and that they have caused considerable anxiety for people working at the company.
Maddow works at NBC's sister network, MSNBC, and both are owned by NBCUniversal, which is headquartered at 30 Rock.
I love that show, by the way.
The allegations about the behavior of Harvey Weinstein and former NBC star Matt Lauer are gut-wrenching at baseline, no matter who you are or what your connection is to this story.
Now let me stop for a second and say this.
Innocent until proven guilty.
I believe at a certain point there is such a preponderance of evidence, we will lean one way.
With all of the accusations against Weinstein and Lauer, I lean towards, I don't believe in massive conspiracies between 30-plus accusers or whatever, right?
But, you know, it is possible, right?
We need evidence.
So it's important now that they do release the NDAs for all of these people who felt harassed, and we learn about why.
And I'll tell you this.
The worst thing you can do if you're innocent is pay out a settlement.
The worst thing you can do, because that is considered proof in the public.
If someone comes out, and you're at a company, and they accuse you of something, say, I will see you in court.
Unless you're guilty!
And you'll say, please don't say anything, how much money do you want?
Which leads me to believe it's likely these payouts are at least partly... They lend themselves to the idea that Lauer and Weinstein are guilty.
But here's the thing.
Settlements are cheaper than court.
Sometimes people say, fine, fine, I'll sign a check, go away.
That's a mistake.
It will come back to haunt you, as we're learning now.
She then took aim at the bosses from her sister network, saying, But accusations of people in positions of authority in this building may have been complicit in some way of shielding those guys from accountability.
Those accusations are very, very hard to stomach.
She added, The amount of consternation this has caused among the rank-and-file people who work here would be almost impossible for me to overstate.
I'll love this.
Excellent work, Rachel, for calling this out.
I may disagree with you on a lot of things, and I may have been critical of you in the past, but you do good, you get praise, and I'm loving what I'm hearing.
Check this out from MaddoBlog.
NBCUniversal offers to release any former NBC News employee who believes they cannot disclose their experience.
Yes.
Spot on.
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
It was Megyn Kelly, recently, who was on Tucker Carlson, I believe, and she said that NBC should do this, and I'll tell you what, man.
Megyn Kelly alone didn't have the weight, and she's not at the company anymore, so they probably said, we don't care what she says, but then Maddo came up right behind her and says, nah, nah, nah.
We're playing hardball.
And now NBC is like, uh-oh, and guess what?
We're going to learn about what really happened.
And I'll tell you, if it turns out some of these accusations are false, well, we've got evidence now, right?
Let's let these people speak up.
In reality, I think we're going to learn about how these major corporations have this elite club that if you're not in, you don't get special benefits, and they abuse people, they abuse their staff, and they do messed up stuff.
That's what they do.
The path of least resistance.
I gotta say, in this regard, Ronan Farrow, formerly of MSNBC, Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow, they're hitting home runs.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I gotta say, if transparency is good, let's learn about what they were doing, and I'm glad to see Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow stepping to the forefront and taking that lead, and backing up Megyn Kelly.
I mean, that's impressive.
That's the kind of bipartisanship we need in this country.
Taking down These massive, corporate, corrupt individuals playing cover for these sleazy dudes, playing games, and then Megyn Kelly, Rachel Maddow, side-by-side holding hands, charging forward.
I'm being kind of silly, but anyway, let's read more.
They say, on the program Maddow announced, NBCUniversal will release that, we read that, Maddow read out a statement from the media conglomerate which declared, Any former NBC News employee who believes that they cannot disclose their experience with harassment as a result of a confidentiality or non-disparagement provision in their separation agreement should contact, and we will release them from that perceived obligation.
NBC has been in the headlines in recent weeks following the release of Farrow's book Catch and Kill, in which he alleges the company stonewalled him from reporting on Harvey Weinstein while he was employed as a reporter at the network.
And not only that, I think it was Chris Hayes who pointed this out, that he leaves, then publishes this groundbreaking story showing, you know, Weinstein and all the accusations against him.
And the question is, you know, NBC tries denying, oh, we never told him he couldn't do this.
Oh, it's like, interesting.
Then why did he quit?
If he could do the story, why did he quit?
Why is this book coming out in this way?
And you know what?
Now you can see that these top personalities at MSNBC backing him up shows that there are a lot of principled people at MSNBC, shocking for me to say, but who are going to support him, and I'm glad to hear it.
Hold these people accountable, man.
I don't care if you're Trump, Maddow, Tucker, anybody.
If you're going to come out and you're going to say, we want to hold this person accountable, let's hear it out.
I want evidence.
Let's hear it out.
And that includes the impeachment inquiries, which shouldn't be in secret.
Matt Gaetz had a really good explanation of the problem going on here.
Selective leaks.
But look, Barr's going to investigate.
Come on, man.
If everybody wants to chill out, let's see what's really going on.
Let's see the evidence, and I'm glad.
Transparency, right?
They say.
The book also contained an allegation from a former NBC staffer who alleges network star Matt Lauer forced himself on her while they were on assignment together at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Now here's the important part.
Lauer denies this.
And apparently this woman also claimed that she was exchanging favors for career favors.
In which case, many people have challenged the allegation.
So if that's the case, let's get more information out there.
And Ronan Farrow's book showed that.
Where she said, you know, she claims wrongdoing, Lauer denies it, but then Lauer goes on to explain that it was a consensual affair that he shouldn't have done, and then the woman actually claims she was doing it for career benefits.
In which case, you've got to look into this story for yourself, but there's nuance in these circumstances.
So they're showing two of the executives here.
They say, afterward, Farrow appeared on Maddow's show for an interview, during which they discussed the nondisclosure agreement several female employees signed when parting the company after alleging misconduct.
Their payouts reportedly included larger than usual sums of money, known as enhanced severance.
And that's how you settle without settling.
Because when you settle, then you create a paper trail that the accusation was made, and it looks like you're guilty.
Deny it, but enhanced severance, and they get their money, and they get defense against you making these claims.
These women considered these to be payouts to silence them.
Executives involved told me they were payouts to silence them, Pharaoh's client.
Wow.
Executives involved told me they were payouts to silence them.
Props to the MSNBC staff to Maddow for holding their own accountable.
I'm really impressed.
It is so rare that someone is willing to call out their own people.
For real.
Nobody, you know, Trump recently said we got a wall in Colorado and then claimed it was a joke.
It's like, dude, there's no reason you can't just say, I meant Arizona.
Yeah, slip of the tongue.
That's no big deal.
Instead, all the Trump supporters saying he was making a joke.
It's like, listen, man, Come on.
He misspoke.
It's not a big deal.
And that's not the worst of it, but it's a point I want to make in a recent news story where it's like, if something happens bad on your side, just say it.
Because when you come out and admit it, you look like the bigger person.
So props to MSNBC for doing this.
I do try to keep these short, so I'll wrap it up.
Ronan went on Fox News!
This is incredible!
I'm so stoked by this.
I'm glad to see Ronan going on both of these channels.
We're having a shared reality once again, and it's shocking because Rachel and Chris Hayes are willing to call out their own network.
Well, that means we can finally move forward.
If we're all willing to point out the bad guys and say, you know, let's get some clarity on the matter.
I'm stoked.
This is good news.
This is a good day, huh?
I mean, we're learning about some bad stuff, but it's cool that Check this out.
That day, journalist Yashir Ali reported that an unnamed NBCUniversal executive said there's been no change in the network's executive leadership, quote, because Ronan behaves like a terrorist and we're not going to- What?
That is bold.
That is bold.
But Farrow hit back in an interview with Fox's Shannon Bream, stating, That's NBC executives, man.
NBC universal executives.
being called terrorists. We're living in a moment where our political leaders
have sometimes used authoritarian rhetoric to try and describe the press
as the enemy of the people. That's NBC News exec- NBC executives, man. NBC
Universal- Universal executives. So you know what, man? I'm all for transparency
and accountability and some honesty and I'm- and I'll wrap it up just by saying
props to Rachel Maddow for pointing the finger within her own network for the
wrongdoing they did.
I think she'll come out looking pretty good on this one, and I have respect for it.
I'll still criticize the years of the Russian nonsense and capitalizing on it.
You're not out of the woods on that one yet, but this is a move in the right direction, so my respect.
I got one more segment coming up in a few minutes.
Stick around, and I will see you shortly.
According to a new survey, majority of Americans want to change the First Amendment.
A study found that people want jail time for hate speech as they call for updates to 200-year-old law to reflect cultural norms of today.
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
I'd like to give this round of a special thanks to the Founding Fathers who gave us 200 plus years of expanding growth and prosperity, freedom, liberty for all, but now it's officially done.
And we can see that 50, what does it say, 54%?
No, 51% of Americans believe the First Amendment, adopted in 1791, should be updated to reflect the cultural norms of today.
Well, there you go.
It's been fun, guys.
Appreciate it.
You know, recently, a law was proposed in Boston that would affect, I believe, all... No, no, it was proposed in Massachusetts that would make the B-word a criminal offense to use disparagingly.
You would be fined and potentially face six months in jail time.
Well, I'll tell you what, man.
If you ever get to that point, I will walk around shouting those words relentlessly.
Now, listen.
There's a big difference between social acceptance, cultural norms, and trying to jail someone.
So when it comes to, like, the pronoun debate, my issue is not with individual respect.
I have absolutely no problem encouraging others to respect each other.
My problem is with the government trying to force me to do something.
Because perhaps you may have noticed, I'm a bit anti-authoritarian and quite contrarian sometimes.
So come and tell me to do it and I will say, no, you can't tell me what to do.
But now we can see, we're heading down a dangerous path.
It's been fun, you know?
But listen, you might be thinking, we'll never change the First Amendment, it'll never happen.
When we get to the point where these young, snowflake-y type individuals who are terrified of mean words become the overwhelming majority, yeah, you'll see these changes.
You want to talk about the amendments of the Constitution?
How about this one?
Government shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, the press, uh, pretty sure we got a ton of laws on what you can or can't say.
You can't incite people to violence.
Now here's the thing.
I agree with that.
Directing, giving instruction, or inflaming, I understand why we say you can't do that.
But in reality, we must accept that is in violation of the First Amendment.
Now, here's the thing.
The courts rule, Supreme Court essentially, it varies.
They basically say, well, the spirit of the First Amendment was meant to protect the right to expression.
Not the right to cause crimes and violate the law, or to encourage others to do so.
In which case, we don't think the Founding Fathers meant this.
Now we go to the Second Amendment.
Now things start getting interesting.
They say, the right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.
Well, define arms.
Define bear.
Define infringed.
Because now things start getting messy.
They've already banned a ton of arms.
So, yes, they've infringed.
I'm not an absolutist when it comes to the Constitution because I do believe there's a reasonable approach to trying to interpret what the Founding Fathers meant and what can protect our society.
So, having a bunch of people run around shrieking and inciting violence is a really, really bad thing for us.
And to that regard, yeah, I'm gonna have to go ahead and say having a bunch of people running around with, like, rocket launchers probably would be bad for us.
And so I can understand why we put limits on it.
I will also add, as well, Just for Beto O'Rourke who doesn't get this.
Did you know you can legally own a tank?
He said something like, you can't legally own a tank, you know, we have laws on that.
No, no, no, no, you're wrong.
You're wrong, bruv.
You can.
So anyway, the point I'm making...
You want to argue that we will always have free speech?
I'll tell you the answer is we're not going to if this trend continues.
Because while most of us can agree that don't incite to violence, that makes sense, it's against the law, that's not what the First Amendment meant, they're now saying the same thing, well, we'll hate speech at a time, you know, the colonizers and the imperialists, and so now they're trying to change it once again.
This is not for the betterment of society.
I will say, at the very least, I'm glad that it's a roadblock from stopping dictatorships and authoritarians from just imposing their will.
If it turns out that the majority of the people demand the change, I think it's a very devastating and dangerous change for our society, and we're getting to that point.
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In it, they talk about how, you know, they go through the basic numbers.
They say as far as punishment for hate crimes, some 54% of those Americans surveyed found they would prefer possible jail time, while another 46% shared they would want nothing more than a ticket or a fine.
But here's where it gets interesting, when you scroll down to look at what they wanted to restrict.
52% of survey takers wanted racists to be restricted.
50% wanted neo-Nazis restricted.
46% said radical Islam.
35% said Holocaust deniers.
20% of survey takers wanted anti-vaccine advocates restricted.
And 18% said climate change deniers.
The campaign for free speech determined that most don't actually understand what the First Amendment protects, after some 79% of respondents believed that the First Amendment allows anyone to say their opinion no matter what, and they are protected by law from any consequences of those thoughts or opinions.
Here's the thing.
You can see that there is no consensus on what should be restricted.
And that's why we decided, as a government, to back away and just allow people to say their opinions.
Because I'll tell you what, men.
If right now, 51% believe we should criminalize hate speech.
Okay.
What happens when 51% decides that we should criminalize you?
Your ideas.
The things you like.
What happens if all- I mean, look, you know what's really, really funny about all this?
Who's in control of the government right now?
The Republicans.
And they want to get rid of 1A and 2A at a time when Donald Trump is in the White House and is facing re-election by a landslide?
How- Absurd.
How woefully and terribly absurd.
They're saying, we don't like the evil orange man who's taken over our government, but we should give up our right to speech and our right to bear arms.
What?
Are you crazy?
Now should be the time you're advocating for those rights.
Of course, they like to simultaneously claim, the First Amendment, woo, protect the press.
Trump, how dare you?
At the same time, the First Amendment, oh, we shouldn't have free speech.
Okay, okay, okay.
They say according to Bob Lystad, Executive Director of the Campaign for Free Speech, the findings are frankly extraordinary.
Our free speech rights and our free press rights have evolved well over 200 years, and people now seem to be rethinking them, he explained to the Washington Free Beacon.
Lystad explained that hate speech was not defined in the survey, allowing respondents to draw their own conclusions by what it meant.
I think our findings are fueled in large part because of a rise of hate speech.
But traditionally, hate speech is protected in the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court has upheld that principle time and time again.
Lystedt and the group believe hate speech should be denounced, but don't believe censorship should be the solution.
Hate speech should be condemned, but legally.
The answer to speech we don't like is more speech, not censorship.
Our primary focus is education, and to help people better understand the First Amendment.
Free speech, free press, and why it's so vile to our democracy.
Now, the First Amendment is not free speech.
You may be saying, but Tim, it is.
No, listen.
The First Amendment is, I believe, five rights.
Freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, a right to regis of grievances, and what's the fifth one?
I always, I always, I had them all in my head, and I'm like, okay, now I gotta make sure I recite the five perfectly.
Someone comment for me, because regis of grievances, free press, free speech, free religion, and now I missed the other one!
Freedom of speech?
Whatever.
I'm not good at doing lists.
I'm terrible.
I am an imperfect person.
But you get the point.
The First Amendment protects a variety of rights, not just speech.
And too many people right now conflate free speech with the First Amendment, okay?
So, while I've made the point that no one can agree on what should be banned and how it should be banned, let me just stress, okay?
When people say, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences, they're saying literally nothing.
Because everything has consequences.
If I stood up right now, there would be a consequence.
My video would be strange and likely ruined.
Everything you do is a consequence.
My words right now, it's all consequence.
If I choose to eat chicken or eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, there will be a consequence to that.
Okay?
How much protein?
How many carbs?
Everything is a consequence.
They put off, you know what really, really bothers me is that ex-KCD comment, comic, you may have seen, where he's like, people, the First Amendment, they're showing you the door.
It's like the dude has no idea what he's talking about, and he pulled that one out of thin air, and it makes no sense because the First Amendment is not about free speech.
It is about a multitude of rights the government can't take away, they can't infringe upon.
But here's the reality, okay?
You can say what you want, and here's what they do.
Oh, it's so annoying.
In these forums, they'll be like, why are the right-wingers arguing for the right to incite violence?
It's like, nobody said that!
Never!
Like, some people, fine, I'll give you that, but it's like 10 people who are like, I'm an absolutist, and we should be allowed to do this.
No, you shouldn't.
And most conservatives are simply saying, let people have their opinions, even if their opinions are bad.
It's called freedom.
But they want to take that away.
So it's all just these false arguments.
But boy, I'll tell you what, man.
Look at the screen.
There you go.
We're here.
We are at the era now where 51% of Americans believe the First Amendment should be updated.
Now, but what does that really mean?
Let me walk something back to correct myself.
What does that really mean?
Okay.
Updated to reflect our society.
That could mean to improve speech.
But they do say, as far as punishment, 54% of those Americans surveyed found they would prefer possible jail time.
I'll tell you what, man.
We've already seen it, okay?
Whether you want to admit it or not, there have been people who have been locked up for rap lyrics in the United States.
Yup.
It's worse in the UK.
But it's happening here.
And, uh...
It'll get worse.
It will.
Everything we see is flowing in one direction.
So what can you expect?
Now, I will walk back, I guess.
You know, with my main channel video about Kanye West and conservative Christianity and things like that, Trump landslide, maybe people are finally fed up.
And maybe there's gonna be a big pushback and the pendulum's gonna swing back to the direction.
