Anti-Israel Campus Protests Overpower Democratic Party (Ep. 115) - Counter Thought

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8th May 2024

Anti-Israel Campus Protests Overpower Democratic Party (Ep. 115)

Anti-Israel protests on college campuses have continued for 3 weeks due to weak leadership. The Democratic Party and college administrators have caved to protesters and are being overpowered.

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In the three weeks of the

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anti-Israel

anti-Jew protests across the country.

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There have been a total of 2500 arrests

across 50 campuses.

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These protests are steamrolling

the Democratic Party,

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and it's because of a lack of leadership.

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Welcome to Counter Thought.

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It's been a minute since the last episode,

but I'm back and ready

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to tackle this craziness

that is going on in our country.

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Regarding the anti-Israel anti-Jewish

protests across our college campuses.

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As I said in the opening, as of this

recording, there have been around

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2500 arrests across 50

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different campuses in the United States.

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Now, you may remember going back

all the way to April 17th.

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That is when the protests first began

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on Columbia University in New York City,

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and from Columbia, it spread to George

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Washington, to NYU, to Ivy League

schools, to schools across the

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the Midwest

and the South and the West Coast.

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UCLA, USC, Southern Cal, UT, Austin,

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Vanderbilt, the University of Florida,

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my alma mater, George Washington

University in Washington, DC.

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They have all experienced

and or are currently experiencing

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these protests against Israel.

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And when I say against Israel,

it's I'm not talking about just

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the state of Israel.

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I am talking about

it is encompassing of Jews as a whole

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because because that is

what is being, protested.

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That is the that is what is included

in the chants and the literature.

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That's being the pamphlets

that's being handed out.

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Everything that is being shared, put on,

posters and everything at these protests,

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they're not protesting the Israel state

because as a, as a state,

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they are protesting

against the Jewish people.

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You know, Jews are a culture

and a race in a country.

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Right?

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Two 2500 arrests in these three weeks.

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And it comes from a lack of leadership,

in my opinion,

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these protests are steamrolling.

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They are annihilating

the Democratic Party, more than likely,

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it's going to sink

Joe Biden and his reelection campaign.

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Now, I was not alive

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for the protests of the Vietnam War.

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Going back, I believe it's to the 68 1968

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Democratic National Convention.

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But I've heard stories about it.

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There's obviously footage

of it, videos, images.

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And a lot of pundits are saying

that this could be Joe Biden's Vietnam,

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that he he cannot appease both sides.

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You have these anti-Israel protesters,

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which we'll get into more details

about them here in a second.

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They are the radicals.

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He doesn't want to lose them

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because they are, he believes,

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and his advisors believe, a key piece

to winning a state of Michigan.

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Dearborn, Michigan specifically.

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A lot of Palestinians live there.

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But he

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also doesn't want to lose the Democrat

Jewish vote.

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And the Democratic Party as a whole

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by giving in to these protesters.

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So he wants to please

the protesters, please the radicals,

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while also trying to please

the rest of his party

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who support Israel.

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And Biden has it's

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like a miscalculation,

a severe miscalculation.

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And this doesn't just roll up to Biden.

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This goes to the college campuses.

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It goes to the culture.

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It goes to the Department of Education

and their leadership.

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It goes to local city officials and

their leadership or lack of leadership.

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So this is not just a Biden problem.

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These protests are not just a Biden

problem.

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Does it ultimately reflect upon him

because he is the

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the leader of their party as the president

of the United States? Yes.

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But the leadership,

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the lack of leadership exists at multiple,

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multiple levels.

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So these protests,

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these protests, the lot you'll hear

you've heard a lot of this, right?

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This has been going on for three weeks.

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You hear about, oh, we have free speech.

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And, you know, we're on a college campus,

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you know, private university

code of conduct, student code of conduct.

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All we're doing protesters,

protesters say all we're doing

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is exercising our free speech.

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Well, that is not entirely true.

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Yes, you have free speech in this country

in yes.

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Hate's hate speech, quote unquote.

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Is is free speech.

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But the legality or what

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is what the illegal acts

that they're committing

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which has led to these 2500 arrests again

across 50 campuses,

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is title six of the Civil Rights Act,

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which says that these colleges

and universities

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cannot allow a group of individuals

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based on race, ethnicity, religion

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to be, basically discriminated against

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on the college campuses.

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Whether you are a private university

or a public university.

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And when this all began back

in Columbia, Columbia initially

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initially tried to get control of this

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started on April 17th.

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An anti-Israel protest

since then again have spread nationwide.

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But initially

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Columbia authorized the NYPD,

the New York Police Department

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to restore order.

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The next day, on April 18th,

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in more than 100 protesters were arrested.

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You've seen pictures

of all of these encampments

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across the universities again,

my University of Florida, my alma mater,

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they have had,

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and, well, DeSantis and Ben Sasse, the

president of the University of Florida,

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and then DeSantis

across the entire state of Florida

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for all the state universities, said that

we're not going to allow this to happen.

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They saw what was going on

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at these first few universities, campuses,

especially Columbia,

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and they went ahead and said, no, like,

this is not going to happen.

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You can protest,

you have your rights of free speech.

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But once you start to violate,

like the occupation of a public space

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such as the quad

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on a campus,

and you create these encampments with your

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tents and create little tent cities

and everything with your water.

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I mean, these people are going

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are committing like they don't want

they're don't plan to leave at all.

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These protesters,

they have tents and little canopies

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set up with, you know, the plastic tables,

the with the collapsible tables.

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And they have water

and they have little charging station.

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I mean, these people,

they're funded, right?

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They're organized

and they don't plan on leaving.

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They're going to force the police

to to arrest them and remove them.

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And then it

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is incumbent upon the officials,

like the university

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presidents and the administrators

and chancellors and whoever,

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to actually enforce

and keep them off of their campus,

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because, again,

they are in violation of title

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six of the Civil Rights Act.

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But those initial arrests at Columbia

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that really sparked the spread of

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of these protests

across different college campuses.

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We saw an uprising at UT Austin.

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We saw UCLA that had,

I believe, the first instance of violence.

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That was like an overnight,

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overnight scrum and people

being, fireworks getting shot off.

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And I believe someone was tased and,

you know, hit with pieces of plywood

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that were part of these encampments

and everything else you maybe seen had

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maybe seen videos of individuals

running with as foolish as they look,

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stupid as they look with bike

helmets on and, and one of those big,

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like, brute trash cans that were sliced

to create a plastic shield

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and they're trying to run through

and get away from the cops.

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And then there's this one,

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this one

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video clip of a cop just basically doing

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a standard push. Just

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and knocks the protester

right down to the ground because he's

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so weak and feeble and off balance,

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and then dragging him back

down to the ground to arrest him.

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But these protests spread,

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and initially Columbia again

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had NYPD come in, but then they didn't do

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much of anything.

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They caved in.

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Some of these protests

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have led to these colleges, again,

this lack of leadership,

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such as the University

of Southern California

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and now Columbia the other day announced

that they were joining the University

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of Southern California and canceling

their commencements, their graduations.

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Why these presidents, these

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chancellors, the administrators

of a lot of these colleges

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and universities are caving to

and negotiating with these protesters.

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And some of them are students, and

a lot of them are professional agitators.

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Why they are even,

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giving them

any kind of leverage is beyond me.

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I do not understand what they are doing

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is a lack of leadership.

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They these administrators,

the people in charge,

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they have a weak spine.

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And these they are allowing

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they're canceling these graduations,

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something for years,

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you know, working up to this

for four years for that class.

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And again, this is 24, 20, 24.

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So four years ago,

these kids were graduating high school

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when the pandemic.

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Right. And we saw the videos

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because these the schools

were not allowing in high school.

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They were not allowing, you know,

like the big regular commencements

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and graduation.

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So these kids were having their

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their own little graduations,

like in their neighborhood,

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doing their little graduation

parades, maybe sitting in a car,

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standing up up there on the front

lawn of their of their house with signs

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in their cap and gown on, and, you know,

just trying to make the best of it.

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And then now, four years later,

these same students who didn't

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have a high school graduation in many,

many of these states

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are now at some of these colleges

and universities like California, New York

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are not having a college graduation.

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And one of the girls I saw a TikTok,

she's, you know, complaining about this.

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You go to the University

of Southern California.

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She's like, what in the world?

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Like, this is ridiculous.

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I worked for years for this moment

in college.

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Graduation and actual ceremony

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might not mean a lot to you,

but it means a lot to a lot of people.

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I participated in my undergraduate,

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graduation ceremony

at the University of Florida.

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One of my favorite pictures from college

is when I'm going

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across the stage, and I'm pointing up

to where I know my family is,

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and they took a picture

on the big jumbotron

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within the basketball arena, the Odom,

and you can see

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me, like, smiling and pointing up to them

like, I think that's pretty cool.

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But this girl's like, you know, what am I

supposed to do in my comment to her?

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I mean, she doesn't know who I am, right?

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But just on TikTok, my comment to her was

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do not emulate

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the leadership

that you are seeing at your university.

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At the University of Southern California.

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These protesters, these agitators,

they are defacing property

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like a George Washington wrapping up

the statue of George Washington

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in a in a casita and everything,

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right, defacing it, spray painting it.

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They are breaking the law, right?

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Title six with these encampments,

screaming out at Jewish students

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and not allowing them to

to go to their classes or,

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not imitating.

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I can't think of the word, I'm

just blanking on it.

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But anyway,

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you know,

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taking over the administrative building,

that one office at Columbia University

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and then using a chain and don't listen

to the media who sides with these people.

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I saw a tweet by one

by one media member saying,

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oh, look, the,

Mayor Eric Adams or the New York City

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commissioner was holding up this bike

chain, and it's just a bike chain,

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and they actually sell it,

you know, on Columbia's campus.

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You can just buy it. Look, it's

right here.

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And you attach the PDF.

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And this was a bald faced lie,

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because if you click the link

that was included on the tweet on X,

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the post on X,

maybe they're thinking you're stupid.

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Click the link.

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It's a PDF and it shows

all the bike locks that you locks

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in, like your basic little rope chain.

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None of

those items on the approved public safety,

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which is the argument they are making

and issued by the University,

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was on that PDF.

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The chain that we use being held up

was like a big quarter

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inch to 3/8 inch thick link chain,

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something that you would have to go to

like a Home Depot or elsewhere to buy,

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you know, this commercial industrial grade

chain.

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This is not something

that was pre-approved,

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that you can just go

buy it from the school store.

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So the media who are encouraging

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and support this behavior, these protests,

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do not believe them.

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They are gaslighting you

and lying to your face about

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what is actually going on.

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But this lack of leadership,

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I mean, breaking into a building arrested,

right?

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These encampments

trespassing, arrest them, agitating

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the Jewish students

as they're going to class or physically

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not allowing them to go to certain parts

of campus, which we have seen

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that is illegal.

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So these 2500 arrested

probably should be more

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in these 2500 arrests shouldn't have been

happening in weeks two and week three.

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They should have been happening

in week one.

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You are allowed

by the First Amendment to protest,

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but as soon as you break the law,

the chancellors, the presidents,

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these administrators,

the police departments, the campus

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police departments,

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they should have been

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arresting these individuals

and not giving them any kind of leverage.

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Negotiation,

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negotiation.

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They're wanting these these protesters

are wanting the universities to

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or they are demanding divestment

from, affiliations with companies

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who are affiliation

or affiliated with this, with Israel.

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Right. Like what kind of leverage?

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Who are you?

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Right.

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These people think so much of themselves,

but they have

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should have no influence

on anything that is going on

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in Israel

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through these colleges and universities.

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Like, oh, you think you're doing something

so great over here.

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What you were doing here in

America has no influence or should have no

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influence on what Israel is deciding

to do in their war against Hamas

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and the fact that these elite, these quote

unquote

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leaders are caving to these people

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is ridiculous.

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It is stupid, is idiotic.

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It is weak.

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Once these protesters

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have broken the law

or their student code of conduct,

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if they are a student,

they should be suspended or expelled.

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If they're not a student,

they're a professional agitator.

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They should be arrested.

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These protesters

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should not be given any kind of leverage

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with these colleges and universities

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should just be shut down.

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Why? Why try to placate the mob?

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You will never be able to placate a mob.

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And I've talked about these protests

going back all the way to October

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7th in episodes 96, 99,

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in episode 100, I believe.

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Also episode 98, so 96, 98, 99 and 100.

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I've talked about.

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Everything

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that is going on

with the anti-Israel movement

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here in the United States.

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And it's

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not just with Gen Z.

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They are being indoctrinated

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on these college campuses

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by people who are,

you know, older Gen Xers

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or maybe baby, baby boomers

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who were part of those protests

in the 60s,

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in the 70s.

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They are the ones leading this

indoctrination.

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And it's and it's ridiculous

to believe that

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in this day and age,

we have the most information

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at our fingertips in the palm of your

hand with your cell phone.

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More information.

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You're have access to more information

than at any time ever

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in the world.

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And these people, these protesters

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are believing

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false information

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and have these misguided morals

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and principles and values

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to where they are

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literally citing and supporting

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a terrorist group.

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And this terrorist group has affiliations

with these organizations

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that are funding a

a lot of these protests.

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And even people inside America.

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Like you hear George

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Soros, his name all the time.

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You're like justice for Palestine.

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These other groups,

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it's like they just want to see the world

or the United States burn.

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I think of that scene from,

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from the Batman movie

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with Joker.

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You know,

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that was played in that movie,

by Heath ledger.

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Rest in peace.

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Sometimes

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people just want to see the world

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burn. In that movie.

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The story was told of this.

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Like Ruby's

just being left in the in the forest,

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you know, like the

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the person not having

any kind of care about the rubies

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because they just wanted to see the world

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burn.

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Like it wasn't about money.

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They just wanted to see the destruction of

of the world.

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In this case, it'd be America.

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And I butchered that scene reference.

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So forgive me on that, but

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that is what I think

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part of what I think is going on here

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the destruction from America,

the destruction from within.

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And this isn't an isolated

this is an isolated to us

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people across the country,

other countries,

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our allies are seeing what is happening

here.

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Our adversaries is seeing

what is happening here.

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And how do you think

this reflects upon them?

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What kind of

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confidence can

they have in the United States of America

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when they see what is going on here

and us not being able

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to rein in the craziness

and the illegality of these protests

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that we have this,

this misguided rot within our country

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advocating for the death

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of an entire nation.

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What does that show to our allies?

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What does that show to our adversaries?

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It shows weakness, weak leadership,

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misguided, incorrect

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leadership on behalf of the presidents

and the chancellors of these universities,

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on behalf of the Department of Education,

funding should be pulled.

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Miguel Cardona, the Education Secretary,

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wrote a letter.

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Should have been more than a letter.

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It should be saying funds are going

to be removed and then watch how quickly,

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how quickly

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these, these colleges, these college

presidents and chancellors

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wake up

and and try to get control of what's

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going on on their campuses.

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This mob of

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anti-Israel protests

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cannot be pleased.

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You cannot placate them.

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This mob rule,

which we see from the extreme left,

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cannot be, cannot be.

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Please. We've seen this with George Floyd.

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And going back to the BLM riots of

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the summer of 2020,

supposed to be the summer of peace.

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Soft chop in Chazz Zone right up in,

I think it was Oregon

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in Portland,

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we saw, billions of dollars of damage

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from lighting businesses and other places

on fire during those protests,

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those summer protests

which were allowed throughout Covid.

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Right. So we can just see the activism

that is going on here.

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We also saw the

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mob rule being applied as we crept towards

Election Day at the end of:

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because everybody knew there were

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business

owners and residents of these cities,

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especially the Democratic cities

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where these same protests had happened

in the months prior that summer.

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In 2020 for BLM,

they were boarding up their businesses

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in anticipation that if Trump won,

there were going to be protests

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and riots again in the streets

in response to a Trump victory.

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You don't think that mob rule

had a little bit

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of an influence on the election in 2020?

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Having making people scared

or keeping people allowing themselves

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to be scared of this mob,

this extreme left mob.

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Once you allowed these, once

you give control

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to the mob,

they are not going to relinquish it.

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Once they

know they can control your actions

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and influence your actions,

they are never going to give that up.

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And each time

one of these chancellors, these presidents

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of these universities, again,

this is now spread across

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at least 50 campuses in our country.

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Once you give any kind of leverage

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to these protesters, these agitators.

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They have you.

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2500 arrests

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in three weeks

across 50 different campuses,

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still waiting on Biden to come out

and make a strong stand,

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still waiting on these college

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presidents, still waiting

on the Department of Education

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to actually do something to put an end

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to the the illegal encampments

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and the agitation and the threats

made against the Jewish students.

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Everything that is illegal

should be stopped.

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You can protest, right?

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You have a right to free speech.

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But once you cross the crossed

the threshold and you do something illegal

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should be stopped

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individually and collectively.

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But because it hasn't,

and this has carried on for three weeks,

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three weeks,

and we still have university presidents

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and administrators meeting with these,

these protesters, these agitators

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giving them some type of leverage.

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It is just a continual display

of a continuous

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display of the lack of leadership.

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On the left,

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they created this problem.

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They are now exacerbating this problem,

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and they are trying to please both sides

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and stay committed to their, diversity,

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their equity, their inclusion,

their their victimhood mentality, their

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their allegiance to victimhood

and their intersectionality.

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They are consuming themselves

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because of everything

that they have created.

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And when the moment arrived, for them

to actually gain control and show a strong

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spine and leadership and get this under

control, they have failed.

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They are ruled by the mob.

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The left is ruled by the mob,

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and they are steamrolling

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the entire party

and could potentially steamroll

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Biden's reelection efforts.

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Now, I'm not opposed to that

because that would be a Trump victory,

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but I don't like what would be left

in the wake of this mob

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and you as an individual, as a voter,

as a citizen of the United States.

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Do not allow yourself to be influenced

by this mob rule.

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Believe.

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Stay true to your values

and your principles,

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and hopefully the leadership

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within the the Democratic left

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will gain control of this.

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And if not, the leaders

in the Republican Party,

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the governors, the other administrators

at the colleges, and in those red states,

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there is a true difference between how,

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colleges and universities and red states

are handling this versus blue states.

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And it is a clear depiction

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of leadership styles.

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So I hope

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I hope the left grows

the spine and gets control of these,

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of these protests and takes harsh action

against these protesters.

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And an arrest is not enough

because they're just being led right back,

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right back out onto the streets,

and then they're congregating again

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and creating their encampments again

on these college campuses.

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There needs to be more severe action

against these individuals

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when they break the law.

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It all goes back to leadership.

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The left has a severe problem

with leadership

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because they try to please everyone,

and you cannot do that.

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But do not allow yourself to be ruled

by the mob.

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Stay true to your principles

and your values and your convictions.

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A podcast conserving America's freedom, culture and values.

As a Conservative, I believe America needs to be restored to Conservative principles. This podcast is my dog in the fight.

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I was born and raised in Florida, and currently reside in Orlando! I grew up in a Christian household, and accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior when I was 8 years old then renewed my relationship with Him when I moved to Orlando almost 10 years ago. I am a 2x graduate of the University of Florida--there was never a question if I was going to attend anywhere else! I bleed Orange and Blue. Sports has always been a passion of mine, however, I made room for this podcast to be a new passion as I fight for the freedom, culture and values of America. I hope you enjoy!