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Amber Rose Announced Her Support for Trump. Some Republicans Don’t Want It??

Republicans fight over whether model Amber Rose should be allowed to voice her support for Trump at the RNC, details continue to emerge about the Trump assassination attempt and its perpetrator, and how far is too far when it comes to holding people accountable for publicly wishing the shooter had succeeded?

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Duration:: 1h 42m
Broadcast on:: 18 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

This episode is brought to you by Snapple. Want to know another Snapple fact? The first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, a duck, and a rooster. Ridiculous! Check out Snapple.com to find ridiculously flavored Snapple near you. [Music] Hi everybody, welcome to the show! Happy Wednesday! We have much to discuss today and I'm not joking. The amount of tabs that are open on my computer right now is ridiculous, okay? We're going to be talking about Amber Rose, who spoke at the RNC and it created a lot of controversy. She's sort of come out as a conservative recently and announced her support and endorsement of Donald Trump and now the hatred that she's getting is not necessarily from the left, and I don't know what they want to call it hatred, I'll call it criticism. She's getting a lot of criticism from the right saying that she's not necessarily actually a conservative and she most certainly should not be speaking at the Republican National Convention. We're going to respond to that and break it down a little bit. We also had people at the different face other than Christian at the Republican National Convention and that created quite a bit of turmoil as well. What's going on? Why are we gatekeeping conservatism? We're going to break that down, okay? Plus, we're circling back on the Destiny story. Destiny has been openly disgusting and vile when it comes to what happened at the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, really calling out the guy who lost his life, the former firefighter and saying, "If any of you conservatives lost your life there, I'd be making fun of you the next day." Now he's getting a lot of backlash for that and it's actually going to affect his pockets. We'll give you the update there. Tenacious D has canceled their tour, had all these problems after speaking out about the assassination attempt, basically insinuating that the shooter should not have missed. We will go there. And to top it all off, we have updates on the shooter and just all the different, ignorant things that took place within the Secret Service, within law enforcement, when it came to identifying the shooter, knowing who he was prior to the shooting taking place and having nothing done about it. Frankly, Shaleen Woodley is now under fire for reposting Melania Trump's statement about Trump and the assassination attempt. An actress in Hollywood who's conservative, maybe? Shocker. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Guys, before we get into all that, we have Taylor in Nashville. The horror. Yeah, the writers of America, the TV show, are throwing everything that they possibly can at us. Seems like the last couple of weeks and we're doing our best to keep up with it, so let's get into it. It is something to keep up with, indeed, my goodness, guys, the news is getting crazier and crazier and crazier. And here I thought we were in a little bit of a lull period, you know, not too much was going on. But let's jump straight into the Republican National Convention and hear a little bit from Amber Rose. For those of you who don't know who Amber Rose is, she was a rapper slash video vixen. Her claim to fame, if we even want to call it that, was sort of being associated with all these different rappers, dating them with Khalifa as one of them. She has a child by Wiz Khalifa. So that's a little bit of her background. And for much of her time on this earth, she was a leftist supporting left leaning causes. She famously put together something called a slut lock where women openly took to the streets marching down and calling themselves sluts in this act of sexual liberation. Now recently, she's endorsed Donald Trump, sort of said, you know what, I know I did the slut walk, but I feel like I could use my powers for better in this world. And maybe that's something that I want to distance myself from now. And has found herself in the conservative realm. Now I'm going to play a little clip of her speech at the Republican National Convention. And before we get into it, let me tell you this. Amber Rose has nearly 30 million followers across all her platforms, just to give you a little bit of a scope of how large this woman is, how large her influence is. And out of those 30 million people, you'd imagine that a lot of them are within the black community, which here in the US, a really big voter base that historically has voted Democrat. So when we're asking ourselves why is somebody like Amber Rose going to be speaking at the Republican National Convention, even if you don't think that she's a proper representative of Republicanism, there's a little bit of an answer as to why. Now let's hear from her and let her speak for herself. My entire family is racially diverse, and I believe the left-wing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist. My father said, "No, he's not Amber. What are you talking about?" And when I insisted, he said, "Prove it." So to prove my father wrong, I did my research and looked into all things Donald Trump. People have to do their research. I watched all the rallies, and I started meeting so many of you, his red hat wearing supporters. I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don't care if you're black, white, gay, or straight, it's all love. And that's when it hit me. These are my people. This is where I belong. So I let go of my fear of judgment, of being misunderstood, of getting attacked by the left, and I put the red hat on too. Thank you. Love you, too. I never felt more free and more love for my country than I do now. I want to thank my father, who's in the audience tonight, for opening my eyes. He served over 20 years in the U.S. military. Thank you for your service, Dad. Yes, yes. I love you, Dad. I love you. I love you so much. Thank you. When I met the President and Melania for the first time, he was kind and generous and funny as hell. Very funny. The first lady was gracious and smart with a smile that will brighten up any room. If you're watching this tonight, you know our country is in trouble, just like me. When you go to the store, buy food for your family, you're shocked. When you fill up your gas tank, you're pissed. I know I am. And when you turn on the news, you are just exhausted. Inflation is out of control. And you know in your heart, it was not like this under Donald Trump. Pause. I don't even know if we need to watch much more. Let's leave that there. Okay. Now ask yourself, what is the Republican National Convention for? Is to get everybody together of all different backgrounds, creeds, but you know, all different stuff going on and to have them under the Republican tent. Okay. And Amber Rose is now one of those people with, again, 30 million followers, probably more than that across all of her platforms. So doesn't it sort of make sense to give her a spot to talk about this revelation that she's had that made her change course, especially when you know that Trump has his supporters, the people who already support Trump are not going anywhere. In fact, they've been reinforced in their support with everything that's gone on recently. Who is it that maybe needs a little bit of influencing the people sitting on the fence, the people who have historically been left, the people who have been told all their lives that because you're black, you should be left and have celebrities within black culture who are also telling them, because you're black, this is what you should do. Don't you think Amber Rose, somebody who has convinced herself of that narrative, despite what her parents told her, despite maybe the information that existed outside, if she had done a little bit of research, she'd gone through that change. Don't you think maybe she has something to say? And I see a lot of you agreeing in the comments down below and, you know, thank you for that. Thank you for being able to see why somebody like her may be a good speech at the Republican National Convention. When Amber Rose goes to speak, it's not an endorsement of every single thing that Amber Rose believes and every single claim that she puts out into the ether. It's just for her to tell her story about how she realized maybe leftism and the slut walk and all this other stuff that she was doing was not for her. And maybe the 30 million people who follow her that have not probably been open to that message are now going to get that message because of their relationship with Amber Rose and they now have something to associate her with. So a lot of people were saying this is disgusting. I can't believe she's speaking at the RNC. They should not have given her a primetime spot like this. In fact, a notable commentator who you guys all know, Matt Walsh, ended up taking to Twitter and posting this, the RNC gives a primetime speaking slot to a pro-abortion feminist and self-proclaimed slut with a face tattoo whose only claim to fame is having sex with rappers. An embarrassment, not a single voter will be mobilized by this person. And I just don't know, I just don't know if you're in your right mind how you come to this conclusion. She's somebody who openly has endorsed Donald Trump. She has more followers than Matt Walsh. Honestly, I think she has more followers than if you combined all of the daily wire personalities together and she won't mobilize a single voter. She with that speech didn't wake up a single person who's maybe feeling the same way that she's feeling, but doesn't know whether or not it's safe to say that they're feeling that way or to openly espouse their support for a candidate that for a long time was told, you know, he's racist. He's homophobic. He's all these things. Don't you think it's helpful to have somebody in the community that Amber Rose is a part of come forward and say, well, you know what, I thought the same things. I thought he was homophobic. I thought he was racist. I had to grapple with these internal feelings that I had about the state of our country, but I had nowhere to go because I was told I had nowhere to go and I couldn't say these things out loud. Don't you think it's powerful to have that person say those things out loud? And while she might not be the typical cookie cutter Republican that you see and that you hear from, it does that make her message less valuable? I don't think anybody listened to Amber Rose and thought, well, suddenly I need to be a pro-abortion because she's pro-abortion. She's a self-proclaimed slut. So maybe I need to rethink that position. She's not influencing people down the path that she's leaving. She's in fact doing the opposite. So I cannot see how somebody watched this and did not think that this was a win. And if we're constantly concerning ourselves with the past of others or even the present, as I believe she has in OnlyFans too this day, I don't know how much progress you're going to make because the people you need to reach or the people who need their minds changed, not the people who are already on your team. So make it make sense. And a lot of these people who are criticizing the RNC for having Amber Rose up to speak are people who on a daily basis are criticizing woke leftism and telling woke leftists, at least through the camera, that you guys are dumb, you're brainwashed, you're indoctrinated, you need to think more like me. And as soon as they do, they ask, well, why did the RNC give her a prime-time spot? You mean the audience that you claim to be trying to reach? She's now capable of doing that and you want to cut her off at the knees so she's not able to speak, makes no sense. I'm going to be honest. And to me, a right-leaning person, I'm not even, you know, a part of this whole entire camp, but Amber Rose is more than welcome. In fact, anytime she wants to come on this channel, to talk about what led to her changing her mind and to give people a different perspective as to how that happens, she is welcome. She can have a prime-time spot any day of the week. Because it's a powerful message, whether or not you like who she is or not. I don't know how much else you can say on the matter. Amber Rose, you are welcome anytime, despite what other people are saying. We asked you guys to chime in here. We said, "Did Republicans make a mistake allowing Amber Rose to speak at the RNC? Looks like 72% are saying no, 11% saying yes, and the rest are just wanting to see the results of the poll, but a clear majority, at least of the viewers of this show, which I'm encouraged by, and not altogether surprised by, are in favor of allowing her to speak, which is great. It's also worth mentioning that, you know, we're calling it a prime-time slot. These are eight-minute slots, and you have like dozens and dozens and dozens of speakers over the course of the conference. So it's not as though this is like a keynote address. It's meant to show. This is, you know, the RNC is meant to show. This is our platform. This is who we are. This is what we're standing for in this election, and this is who's welcome. This is who's represented underneath this umbrella, and yeah, even though I am the conservative Christian that is at the bottom of the funnel, you've got certain Christians down here. You've got, well, Christians down here, conservatives here, Republicans here, and then like moderate centrists, common-sense folks who are, you know, somewhere in the middle, and theoretically, not even theoretically, literally, the smartest strategy is to appeal to as many people as possible, and not to gatekeep and exclude as many, all those people who don't meet your soul criterion. And so even as a conservative Christian, which I sort of even, you know, we don't love the labels on this channel, but I welcome her in the scope of this political landscape that we are engaging in right now. So one last thought, I think it's worth mentioning too that, you know, people invoke her stance on the slut walk. She reacted to a video not too recently a couple of weeks ago in which she basically disavowed the slut walk by saying she hasn't done it since 2018, and then she thinks that now there's better things that she can be doing for women, and also mentioned that the purpose of those were to fundraise for women who had been victims of sexual assault. So a lot of details there that I think are relevant. Yeah. Yeah, 100%. And now what's happening is people are screenshotting the conservatives who are upset at Ambrose's slot at the RNC and left-leaning people are using it to like paint a whole caricature of conservatives yet again. Here is somebody sharing Matt Walsh's original tweet and saying this is what they think about Ambrose. And to that, I'm like, who is they? Not me, baby. She's welcome. I don't know what all these other people are talking about. I don't know what all these other people are talking about. Anybody who has changed their mind is willing to come forward and admit it, which we are at a deficit of in today's society is more than welcome to have a slot to talk about those things. Now people are also upset about, I want to pronounce this woman's right name, right? Her meat Dylan, I think is her name. She's an American lawyer, and she was given a slot at the RNC to speak. And she ended up saying some sort of a prayer. Now she's a Sikh, a Punjabi Sikh, I believe is how she was raised. Now, here's a video of that, here's a video of a woman's response. And mind you, I'm seeing a lot of conflicted messaging on this. There are plenty of conservatives who support this woman being able to speak at the RNC. I want to make that very clear, but I am going to call out the ones who don't. Listen to what she says, Wahi Guru, whatever Wahi Guru, she says it right there. Some people are like, Oh, but she's we're all we all. She's talking about our God. She's talking about the real God, the one true God, Wahi Guru, are you retarded? Are you serious? Are you just a fine a freaking demon? Oh, no, what's she's talking about? People, how did people not boo her off the stage? No, I can't sometimes I watch videos and I'm like, these people can vote. They go to the battle box. Oh, my gosh. Sorry, the battle box as Joe Biden would say, these people can bounce. Okay, here's a little, just a little crash course, y'all. We have a separation of church in state, okay? We also have freedom to practice your religion in this country, meaning, you know, whatever religion you practice, you are, you are free to do that outside of it infringing on other people's rights and their livelihoods, okay? And under the Republican umbrella lives a ton of different religions and a ton of different people who practice different things, okay, but they all come together around election time to vote for the candidate that they feel best suits this country. And in this case, the Republican National Convention, it is Donald Trump. Now, I come as somebody who doesn't practice any religion. I'd prefer that none of this, you know, be taking place of anything and we can just come and talk about our political issues and move on down the line and get to work on what we're actually supposed to be working on, but I'm not upset that she decided to practice her own religion and it's crazy to me because these people aren't invited to the Republican National Convention for no reason. It's because they are getting things done. It's because they are good representatives of some part of the message that they are trying to push forward at the Republican National Convention. And this idea that everybody needs to be a 100% perfect representation of a Republican, even though we have no idea what that means, what a 100% perfect representation of it is, it's ridiculous, okay? If you're getting something done and they feel you're worthy of a slot to speak, you're worthy of a slot to speak. And that's really the end of it. Now, vocal distance ended up writing this whole, like, list of things that this woman has achieved, who is now being called out for doing this, uh, seek prayer and I'll just read a few of them. She filed lawsuits to stop the stay at home order during COVID, something that we were all fighting against, uh, she sued Antifa on behalf of Andy No when he was assaulted. She sued to stop Hawaii's COVID quarantine orders. She was a legal advisor on Trump's 2020 campaign. She served as chair of the San Francisco Republican Party. She is the co-chair of women for Trump. She represented South Bay United Pentecostal Church and other churches when Gavin Newsom shut down churches during COVID. So she was representing Christian churches to keep them open during COVID. And now because she decided to practice her religion, their conservatives and Christians in particular coming after her and saying that she has no right to do this at the Republican National Convention. Meanwhile, she's spending her whole career defending y'all and trying to help you out on all the different issues with her expertise as a lawyer. Police make it make sense. The math isn't math. And I don't even need to go on to, to list all of the other accomplishments and things that she has, she has worked on to support your personal values. So if you felt some type of way about this, I'm urging you reconsider, reconsider. I don't think she was trying to indoctrinate you into believing in her one true God by, by saying the things that she said, okay? If anything, what I think maybe she would have been attempting to do is practice her own religion alongside showing other Sikhs that it is something that you're capable of doing whilst being registered as Republican, which is a lot of what underpins Amber Rose's placement in the RNC. These are untapped markets or at least markets that haven't been tapped properly, okay? And they're trying to show that, hey, you can be a Republican and believe what you want to believe as far as your religion. You can be a Republican even though you've been convinced your whole life that that's something that you're not allowed to be, that we're racist, that we're homophobic, all these different things. And maybe people will see that and go, oh, you know, that is something I could consider. And I am feeling this way about inflation, about immigration and all these different issues. And wow, it's cool to know that that's something that I'm capable of because so many people have been telling me otherwise, and you know what, we should just let it be. We should let that happen because it is needed. It is needed. And this is not me saying, oh, we need diversity quotas and we need to get a person from this, that and the other group to represent themselves at the Republican National Convention, I'm saying if somebody has something valuable to offer and there's something that's blinding us from being able to recognize that value, we need to take the blinders off and recognize the value that they have. If I thought Amber Rose wasn't going to achieve anything, okay, then why would Amber Rose be given a slot? If I thought this American lawyer hadn't done anything for Republicans, okay, then why was she given a slot? We can actually find valid reasons for them being a part of this. Give me a break, y'all. Give me a break. And we ask you guys this one too. Did Republicans make a mistake letting Harvey Dillon pray a seek prayer at the RNC? Yes, 22% no, 56% and the remaining 22% are so results. So not strongly, but y'all are still in favor of allowing her to do that. And with you all, again, as a Christian, this isn't church, it's national electoral politics. And what this is about coalition building. And I think Trump is wisely broadening the tent as much as he can. And even in his policy positions and his affiliations, he's clearly trying to take more centrist common sense approaches, maybe some that are more incremental, like for a stance on abortion, for example, which in principle, I probably disagree with and yet I can see the value in taking that position, just given the practical world in which we live, that's going to take away a major talking point from Democrats trying to fight against you, trying to fear monger people and they're not being able to vote. And the net result is if you elected, you get a Supreme Court, as we already have, that overturned Roe versus Wade, and you can make more progress toward or against abortion, I should say, across the board, once you actually get elected. But that's the best the point. You have to get elected. And if we are gatekeeping and narrowing the tent and making it smaller and smaller, you're not going to be able to do that. And so it's just a very backwards to be excluding people who are trying to help you win. And it's just not realistic. Nobody agrees with 100% of all the different, you know, issues on any given side. For the most part, you can always find something where there's going to be a little bit of back and forth and a little bit of disagree with it. So to exclude everybody, because they don't agree on one thing, especially the people who were saying Amber Rose is an atheist, she shouldn't be allowed. That is ridiculous given what our politics is supposed to be, which is wholly separated from your religious beliefs, whatever they may be. So to criticize her for not having religious beliefs is just insane to me, guys. It's insane. So yeah, I had to go for comfort by girl Amber Rose in a good way and defend her placement there because what? What? Okay. Now something I won't defend, but I am going to sort of have to, to a certain extent, is what's happening in the wake of people making comments about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. And one of those people is Destiny. I'm going to roll back the clip of what he said about the firefighter Corey, who lost his life in Butler, Pennsylvania at the Trump rally. Fuck it. Fuck the dude. The firefighter guy. Fuck Trump. Fuck the people that support him. I just want you to know, okay, just in case you're confused or it seems like I'm, you don't whatever, if one of you were in the crowd and you're a conservative fan of mine and you end up, you know, getting blown away or whatever the fuck, I'm making fun of you the next day on Twitter. I am 100. Okay. Awful. Vile. Disgusting. I'll say it again. Awful. Vile. Disgusting. I would not want to be around a person with this set of beliefs. I do not want to associate with a person who has this set of beliefs. But in the wake of this, a lot of people were calling out Destiny and specifically tagging Elon Musk and saying, do you think this is advertiser friendly rhetoric and language to be used on your platform? Elon Musk ended up responding and saying, no, I do not think that this is advertiser friendly content that should be on X and Destiny was subsequently paused for ad revenue for what he said. Now, I can see if specific advertisers were coming and saying, I don't want to be placed on this sort of content. And that's what a lot of the social media sites do is they have a list of different forms of content. It could be adult content, hateful and derogatory, controversial issues, all these different categories that content falls into and advertisers can sort of pick and choose where they'd like to be placed. It seems as though in this case, he just got reported to somebody like Elon Musk and Elon didn't like what Destiny had to say and ended up pausing his ad revenue. I don't know that I support that. You know, considering what he said was not illegal, it was just a horrible opinion. But you know, horrible in whose eyes who gets to make these judgments, I can say outright, I think that statement is vile and disgusting. Do I think ad revenue that he would get from advertisers that would be willing to be placed on his content should be taken away? In my opinion, no, it's not a power that I would wield. I wouldn't want to have to make these judgments, especially when the thing that was said was not necessarily an illegal thing to say, you know, he didn't violate any law in saying what he said. It makes him disgusting, but not much more than that. Now if advertisers came and said, you know, I don't want to be placed on his content after what he said, that's a different thing. But to like be the middle man in that that can affect somebody's income and to snatch that away from them because they said something you don't like, even if it was vile, is not something that I recommend. And we've been talking for a long time, Elon Musk included about censorship and about deplatforming people or effect affecting their income or stopping their income based on things they say. But now that we're in the little, you know, the powerhouse of the cell, the mitochondria, we are, we are wielding that power over people and making these decisions. I don't know. I think if you're going to hold that belief, you better exercise the things that you are preaching because when it comes to affect you, it's a whole different story than when you have the power and you can use it on other people. Again, it doesn't excuse what Destiny said, but it's not for me, not a good precedent to set. No, he deserves backlash and that's, that's, I think what you're going to get, what he got plenty of on Twitter and he's been taking the task since then by many upon it. And I think that's a good thing. But yeah, if you're going to espouse free speech, absolutism, then you want to come down on the side of free speech as much as possible. Now, demonetization is that censorship, not necessarily, but it's tantamount to it in a way if there's, this is someone's livelihood and they are giving commentary and you're, you're making it not possible for them to monetize on your platform. I mean, that's definitely a step in the direction of censorship and, you know, we, we spent so much time during COVID and in BLM talking about what constitutes hate speech, what constitutes misinformation, who gets to be the arbiter of that. And if you're all the sudden, on the other side, like you said, with the power in your hand to decide what constitutes hate speech, what constitutes something that is tolerable or acceptable on your platform, then, you know, it's a difficult position to be in. But I agree that you should always want to err on the side of free speech and let people give the just and deserve it push back. And I support amplifying him and saying, wow, I can't believe this guy said this on my platform. I disagree. I'm not endorsing this. And maybe, yeah, we're going to call this attention to our advertisers and if they want to opt out, they can, but going beyond that just feels a little bit much to me as well. Yeah. And I see a lot of you commenting. You have freedom of speech, but you don't have freedom from consequences. You know, he has to be held accountable for the things that he's saying. And I totally understand that this is the way that you would run a platform. What I am saying is how I would run a platform. I don't know that I would swing the hammer on somebody who's done something like this in my personal opinion. X has every right to do what they want to do. Advertisers have every right to do what they want to do. All of these big tech platforms have every right to do what they want to do. And we've gone through the whole section 230 debate and how it works being a public forum and whether or not these are public squares. And, and interestingly enough, I mean, Elon was one of the people who talked about this idea of big tech being a public square and how these platforms operate. So it's interesting to watch this swing in the other direction. All I'm saying is what I would do. And he deserves, you know, criticism for the things that he's saying and he deserves to be brought to task for them. But I don't know that I would stop ad revenue if there were advertisers that wanted to be on his page. Now it hasn't just affected his ex platform. He's also apparently been banned on kick. He was reportedly banned for disrespecting the innocent firefighter who was killed during Donald Trump's rally. And here it is. Oops. Something went wrong. We can't find the page that you are looking for. So that's a deep platforming. How do you guys feel about that? Do you guys support it? Because he said something you don't like. And should we just do this for everybody who says anything of this nature about anyone? Now, I can come forward and say, I would never say anything like this about anybody. A right, left, center. I don't care. I'm not wishing death upon people. I'm not making fun of people who have lost their lives. It makes no sense to me to be that kind of person. But I do understand that there are people like that. And I don't know that they should be banned from platforms for saying those sorts of things. And if anything, I want those people to be able to say what they want so we can call it out and criticize it and say how bad this is and show people what bad ideas look like when they're set out loud and show people what the proper response is to horrible and vile things that have been said. Because if you constantly just ban and deplatform these people who are saying horrible things, they'll find somewhere to congregate and share these ideas. And it actually creates, for lack of a better word, a pipeline to radicalization. And I'm not saying that's what's going to happen in Destiny's case. He's quite a prominent figure. I'm talking about on a lesser level as we're seeing in the wake of this assassination attempt. A lot of people are getting fired and having all these different problems arise. Now that leads us to our next story with Tenacious D. We ran this clip the other day. And I'll let you hear it. They bring up the Trump assassination attempt. Have a good day and have a good day and have a good day and have a good day. Don't miss Trump next time. Okay. So if you didn't hear that, Jack Black asked him to make a wish and to that he responded, "Don't miss Trump next time." And that was Kyle Gas, who is a part of Tenacious D. Now, this video circulated everywhere and people were yelling at them on social media saying what a disgusting thing to say, this is absolutely awful. They were calling up the concert venues of where they're going to play next and saying, "I can't believe he said this. This is awful. You need to cancel their shows, all this different stuff." Then it was announced that Tenacious D was canceling the rest of their tour, which they were supposed to hit several different sites on this tour, canceled. Okay. Then Kyle Gas and Jack Black both decided to apologize. We'll read the apologies. Kyle says, "The line I improvised on stage Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous, and a terrible mistake. I don't condone violence of any kind, any form against anyone. What happened was a tragedy, and I'm incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgment. I profoundly apologize to those I've let down, and I truly regret any pain that I've caused." Okay? That was his apology. We'll go ahead and read Jack Black's. He says it was blindsided about what was said at the show on Sunday. "I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form. After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative plans are on hold. I'm grateful to the fans for their support and understanding." Okay. So, tours canceled. They also got dropped by their talent agency for the inappropriate shooting remarks, and presumably because the talent agency was getting so overwhelmed with calls and complaints and all these different things, they were like, "Oh shit, this is horrible. Let's go ahead and cut ties with these people." I understand wanting people to be held accountable for their statements, wanting people to be brought to task for horrible things that they say, and I will be the first to say. The people who say this assassination attempt, they wish it was successful. I wish more people died, blah, blah, blah. Awful human beings, awful thoughts, awful, awful, awful, awful. How much punishment do you want to dole out to those individuals? Some of you will say, "Take it as far as you can go." I just want people to recognize and be able to change course, right? Because despite what you may want or I don't know, we are living amongst everybody, right? Okay? So, I want the proper amount of accountability to where real recognition happens and a real change of course happens and a real understanding of maybe why that was not the best thing to say and a real change mind takes place. I don't know that just completely crushing people in the wake of this is the best thing to do. In fact, I think in a lot of ways, it reinforces the initial belief that they had and makes them feel it even more so. So, it's looking an awful lot like we're stepping into dangerous territory of them. Now we have some sort of power over what people do and we know how to like weaponize large groups of people and get them to a desired result without really thinking too far ahead about what that desired result really brings for us. And we see that in these large cases, like what's happening with destiny and tenacious D, which I think a lot of people maybe feel a little less sympathy for because these are big people. They are probably millionaires. They have plenty of money. They have these long-standing careers. Does it all change when you see this happen to normal people? A woman at Home Depot made a Facebook post about the assassination attempt wanting it to be successful and she was confronted by a guy who presumably found out where she worked and knew what area she was in and showed up to her work at Home Depot to confront her. Are you Darcy Walden? Yeah? I thought it was Walden, yeah. Okay, from Kayuga. And you think that the shooter should have been a better shot? Is that what you posted on Facebook? Yeah. I am at work. You think that the shooter should have been a shooter, huh? I am at work. Yeah. I think that's pretty messed up. Pretty anti-American if you ask me. As a veteran, I'm disgusted. What have you provided to this country? Huh? I'm sorry. This is ridiculous. You are ridiculous. And I'm making you famous. Okay. So there's the video. You know, you just got to catch that. Home Depot said, "Hi, this individual's comments don't reflect the Home Depot or our values. We can confirm that she no longer works at Home Depot." You got like a minimum wage worker who's going to work every day at Home Depot who does need to contribute to society. Well, let me make that clear, right? Okay. If all these people get fired from every single job that they go and take because they made a horrible comment on the internet about President Trump and the assassination, you have a ton of people who are not contributing to society. So is the goal here to get every single person who's making comments like this, who is working jobs and probably low paying jobs and through those jobs paying taxes to your country to get them fired? Probably not. And this is like an older woman. I don't know like how valuable she is out there on the job market and she's working as a cashier at Home Depot. So when we like zoom out and we're looking at like Tenacious D and Destiny, okay, there's a lot, lack of sympathy, Destiny is a really successful streamer, Tenacious D and really successful group with long careers, tons of money, whatever. Does it all change your mind when somebody is like a minimum wage worker who's old and obviously said something horrible, but my goodness, does she need to be fired from her job? It's too much for me. And we've spent all this time criticizing leftists for utilizing their power and this like authoritarian way to get everybody like fired and deplatform and all this stuff. And then now that we have the capability of doing it, we're doing the same thing to other people. And like Libs of TikTok is like going crazy doing this stuff like sharing everything you do. I don't know like who she feels like in this moment doing this, but just getting person after person fired, fired, fired, fired, fired. What is the end goal that these people can just no longer contribute to society in any way, shape or form because they have some bad ideas? Probably not, right? So maybe we need to chill the fuck out, okay? Just maybe. Oh, my goodness. I can't. All right. We asked you guys in a poll here, should at home Depot have fired this cashier for her Facebook comments and 42% of you said, yes, 58% said no. So it looks like it's getting a little more close with, with this issue as opposed to the Ambrose stuff. But I agree, I mean, this, this guy went to her at her workplace and she responded in the way that you're supposed to at a workplace in a professional environment. She didn't bring those political opinions as far as we know into the workplace. She said, she said, I'm at work was her response and this is inappropriate essentially. So as far as I can tell, conducted herself professionally in that context. Do I disagree with her Facebook comments and other reprehensible and should she face social backlash for those comments? Sure. Yes. I think so. I think she shared more broadly on the internet. No, not necessarily. But this is it crazy that someone took that and then went with a cell phone and put it in her face at her workplace and then that someone else amplified that video and called for her employer to fire her publicly. Yeah. I think that's going a little too far. And I think something else that's lost in this conversation is like a sense of proportionality. Like if you are a person of influence or someone who has like authority or you're in the government or something like that and you're a representative of the government and you are expressing a wish that the president, the head of that government would have been killed or I guess a former president in this case. But even so, like something that would be so disruptive to our political process and you are in a government official saying something like that, which has been the case. There was a mayor in Pennsylvania who said he wished the shooter had better aim. There's been some other cabinet members, I believe in like the city of New York, state of New York who expressed similar things and that I'm like, okay, I can see some serious repercussions coming into play if you're active, if you're somebody, a public official and making comments like that. And I can see it if you are a celebrity or influencer like a Jack Black and or Tenacious D and at a concert venue, you bring that as a in your show, you bring that to bear and make that part of the experience you choose to insert that in. It deserves backlash. In that case, I think it was more the feedback loop of social backlash was intact and their management and others, the other venues that they were on to schedule on tour to make stops at started to look at the backlash and started to see their ticket sales declining and saying, okay, this is actually just the market is saying that it is not good to associate with its people based on what they've done. So, and that's their prerogative as a management team to drop them. That's their prerogative as venues to say we're backing out of this. And who knows whether Jack Black and Kyle are truly, you know, contrite or whatever, but at least they're taking the step that you ought to make in that situation. But all that to say, like, I think we just lose sight of proportionality and I in the in view of all this this morning, I was kind of stewing on it myself and just reflecting on it. And the concept of mercy came to my mind and I'll just read what I wrote, I said mercy is withholding punishment from someone even if they deserve it. It is not just it's better than just it humbles and heals. It demonstrates love and goodwill, it breaks the cycle of vengeance and polarization and it's Christians, who many of whom are being the most vengeful and the most combative with all this who should understand it better than anyone. And that's what is painful for me to watch is just the utter lack of of mercy because that's that is how we break this this cycle and that's not to say that you never hold people accountable. It's not to say that we don't uphold truth, you know, we speak truth and love, you know, we were committed to justice, but that also means that when we don't punish people and literally when we don't really need to, when we have the opportunity to call them to something higher and to call all of us to something higher and it's better to take that opportunity than it is to just take the opportunity for revenge. Yes. And there was an interesting comment here on YouTube by Black Bantha that says if your actions hurt my brand, you got to go and this is something that I was thinking about as well because we reacted to the n-word girl, Lily Gaddis and she had some job, I think, taking care of old people or whatever. And the job, the company got so many calls that they were like, we have to, we fire this girl, her words don't stand by our actions, we're a black owned business, all these different things. And when you're looking at like Home Depot firing this woman or, you know, all these different agencies dropping a tenacious D and the venues and all this stuff, there's an element of like, okay, yeah, once you get X amount of calls from people who are saying this is representative of your company and she's done this and she said that and you fire that person. You are hurting their brand, hurting their business and at some point they got to make the call to let you go. So that's what's happening when we post these videos out on the internet and we're boosting and boosting and trying to get these people fired and making this the goal. You can't necessarily blame Home Depot or, you know, the company that fired Lily Gaddis for doing these things, they got to do what they got to do at the end of the day, it's just to ask, should we be like going after somebody's company and, you know, dogging them and saying this person needs to be fired, this person needs to be fired. I just don't, I don't think so. And as far as the brand for like X and kick, the brand for X, at least as we knew it so far, was like free speech absolutism and wanting the, the website and the platform to be open to all commentary. So this is not necessarily on brand for them to be moving in this direction and that's a little bit of a different story there. Now, for the sake of time, we're gonna move on. I could talk more about this because it's just crazy. As technology develops, the barrier that technology once had between like us and our real world used to be like, I leave the fake world that's online and I step into my job at Home Depot and that's my real world. And I think that's why people have been emboldened to make such crazy heinous statements on the internet because they truly feel like there's the cutoff point of when I put my phone down, my real reality exists here and is not with what I say on Facebook. That does not exist anymore. Everything is like totally interconnected. Our, our cell phone is like another cell in our organism and like people are attached to what you say online and what you say online is really not that different from what you're saying out to people in public. And we're gonna see more and more of these stories, I think back and forth in all directions. It's just gonna be an outright war of leftist calling conservative people's jobs, conservatives calling leftist people's jobs and just battling back and forth to get people fired. And I don't know, guys, y'all, y'all want more unemployment in this country? Y'all want more people on their ass not working and not contributing? Well, we not, I think we need people contributing regardless, regardless of what their personal beliefs are, even if they're absolutely insane. Now, speaking of absolute insanity, we keep finding more and more out about this shooting and everything that happened. And Thomas Matthew Crooks and all the different people who knew about this kid before he was up there on that roof, taking his multiple shots at Donald Trump. We have now come to find that Thomas's parents actually called police on the day of his assassination and attempt to let them know that they didn't know where he was and that they were worried about him. Let's roll the clip and sorry for the blur. Rally shooter Thomas Crooks' parents were looking for him in the hours leading up to the shooting. We're now told they eventually called law enforcement to report that Crooks was missing and they were worried and they also were told those parents are now being cooperative. Now with authorities, but they gave them the heads up that something's going on with our son. We are worried. We don't know the texture or the details of their concerns. So in other words, well, were they worried that he had a gun? Were they worried? You know, what were they worried about? Were they worried that he was going to try to attempt to kill a sitting president and then go ahead and assassin, turn into an assassin and kill another person and injure two others? It was an attempted assassination on Trump, but he managed to murder anyway. Are we talking about that? What were they giving the cops a heads up about? This is the first time we are hearing this. We'll stay on the story and we will bring you the details updates as we get them. Crooks' parents were looking for him hours ahead of the assassination. Okay. Now what she says is really important that we don't know the details of this call. Obviously, there's a recording somewhere as all calls to the cops are recorded, presumably. And it could have just been like, hey, our 20 year old son is normally home at this time and he's not home and we don't know where he is and he's not answering his phone. And that could have been all they've known. And they maybe get his name and a little bit of basic information about him. And that's it. And I could see being in law enforcement, that being hard to put two and two together. If that's the basic information that you have from the call, the call could be even more. They could have said, we're scared he's going to do something or our firearm is missing because I believe the firearm was bought legally by his father. So who knows the details of this call and whether or not they alerted police to more information as to what his whereabouts could be or if they had any idea of what his whereabouts could be. But as you hear more about this, it's just like crazy that they weren't figuring out or putting the pieces together with this kid. But again, it could just be a hundred different people getting a hundred different pieces of information and they're never coming together to put it all put two and two together. But the parents made a call to police. They hadn't scoped out the roof that he was on. He climbed the ladder and was up on the roof. Police officer attempted to intercept what he was doing and then had a gun pointed at him and climbed back down the ladder. And then he was still able to take the shot. The Secret Service snipers who were on him had him like, you know, scoped out before he made the initial shot at President Trump were told not to take a shot at him and take him out. I guess I don't know because they didn't think he was a viable enough threat at the time. You had people in the crowd pointing at him saying this kid is on the roof. You had people who saw him going up to the roof. Apparently three hours before he even made the shot at Donald Trump. He was seen with some sort of tool that helps you with accuracy in shooting a firearm. What was that? Sorry. Rangefinder. Rangefinder. Three hours prior to taking the shot at Donald Trump, he was labeled on multiple occasions as a suspicious person when he was seen without his firearm near the rally. How is it possible that all these different moments took place and nobody put it together and nobody stopped this kid from doing, I shouldn't even say, Katie, he was 20 years old. Nobody stopped this guy from doing what he was doing. And now the Secret Service is saying the roof is too sloped. Meanwhile, if you look at the roof that he's on, it's okay. It's at an angle. Sure. But the roof that the snipers who took him out, the roof that they were almost more sloped than the roof that he was on, but it was a danger to Secret Service to go and scope out that roof. Okay, it seems like they're trying to cover their asses with what happened here. And that's the, that's like the innocent way of putting it. You guys messed up. You're trying to cover yourselves. Obviously, there's some other, you know, conspiracy theories and more suspicious interpretations of the response to this and just the lack of proper planning and preparation for a moment like this. There's a lot of things to be answered. And I don't know that we're going to get those answers. Now, hopefully we do. I mean, yeah, but just the facts that you laid out are just so extremely suspicious and you get into, oh, he was in a black rock commercial and there were shorts on the DJT stock before it happened. And who knows, you know, what, how much merit does have, but just looking at this. And this is all another thing we've learned is against the backdrop of there was a threat from Iran, apparently about an assassination attempt that was forthcoming. So this was supposedly a heightened level of security, which makes even less sense of the whole situation. And you have the secret service director apparently being told to be silent and hopefully we do get some answers. I know a house speaker, Mike Johnson just announced that they're going to do a house of representatives is going to have a special task force dedicated to an investigation into this. But it is so frustrating. Like we mentioned on the last show that every time something like this happens, whether it's Nashville or Vegas, you get an investigation, supposedly. And then you hear no information that ever reaches the public. And that is the most frustrating thing. And, you know, with that report that maybe the secret service lady, which I don't know how she still has a job, but that she's being told to be quiet and that if she wants to keep her job, like, it's just so sus and it just feels like we're never going to get answers. Maybe if the Republican side of things is the ones that are, you know, like, I think it was Don Jr's sitting there peering about this stuff and processing this information as well. So you got to think that people on the right side are very much trying to get to the facts and would publish them, but maybe it'll take a different election in order to get any kind of answers. Yeah, that's crazy. You would think, okay, if you have American lives lost and to these like horrible instances that Americans should be the first to know, not just because, like, they were the ones most impacted by it when we're talking about the Las Vegas shooting, when we're talking about this assassination attempt, when we're talking about what happened in Nashville and the lack of manifesto in that whole case, we should know these things so that we can see the warning signs of other people who are going to commit acts like this. And when we are at public events where something like this might take place, we can be the ones to alert law enforcement and to protect ourselves, protect our own backs, yet they will not give you the information. I think because they're scared of what the information tells you and they're scared it's going to create more problems for them. And I think more so than that, they're scared it's going to show how just completely incompetent they are in dealing with these issues in, you know, and passing competence could even be maliciousness when it comes to events like this. So yeah, ask yourself, when all these things happen, why do you never get to know what's going on? Why do they never tell you? Meanwhile, it's American lives loss. It's the citizens who are losing their lives and the powers that be are not letting you know why these things happen. And they're saying like, okay, this guy didn't have much social media presence. We couldn't get into his cell phone. Mm hmm. Okay. Yep. Yeah. What was the internet search history? I'm sure he had a computer of some sort. And he did. He write any sort of plan that you're telling me this guy went to go assassinate a president. And he didn't write anything to let you know why he didn't look at anything up. There were what like explosives in someplace, maybe a car I think that he had fact check me on that and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's right. And you're telling me he wasn't looking anything up. You just had it. Come on now. I don't really use it like his friends and family classmates, anything like that. We haven't heard anything about like his character or anything he said in recent weeks. It's just, it's just crickets and it's so crazy. It makes absolutely no sense. And it reminds you of like a little bit of like what happened after the Las Vegas shooting. They interviewed the brother of the Las Vegas shooter like one time, one time. And then it was like crickets from there and you never heard anything else. What? Please. Please. And I get this whole like, oh, we want, we don't want to bother the families. The families are largely not responsible for this. I want the information though. Somebody's interviewing them. Somebody's getting the information. So why don't we know more? I don't know why you wouldn't be forthcoming with that. Now the head of the Secret Service did speak. Did ABC News interview? We'll watch a little bit of that before we get into your guys's super chats. Actually, we have to talk about Shailene Woodley as well. So we'll do both of those things. The director of the United States Secret Service, Kimberly Cheeto speaks exclusively with ABC News, taking responsibility for that stunning breakdown in security. This is an event that should have never happened. Who is most responsible for this happening? What I would say is that the Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the former president. So the buck stops with you? The buck stops with me. I am the director of the Secret Service. It was unacceptable. And it's something that shouldn't happen again. Then this after Trump took to stage Saturday in front of thousands of people. Goodman Thomas Matthew Crook's winning the former president and three others before a Secret Service counter sniper took him out. I'm being told that the shooter was actually identified as a potential person of suspicion. Units started responding to seek that individual out. Unfortunately, with the rapid succession of how things unfolded, by the time that individual was eventually located, they were on the rooftop and were able to fire off at the former president. And she's using the word rapid, right? There were multiple identifications of this guy. I think the closest to the actual time of the shooting was like 26 minutes. 26 minutes, you had to have a unit respond and take care of this guy. ABC News now learning that heavily armed local police were actually stationed inside the building. The gunman climbed, but they missed him. This video showing a bystander pointing towards the building as police look onto the roof. But their town officials confirming that after they became aware of the threat, a local police officer climbed up to the roof and confronted Crook's but did not succeed in stopping him. What was your reaction when you saw the events unfold on Saturday? Shock and then concern, obviously, for the former president. News now trying to determine whether roof access had been properly locked down. The shooter climbing up seemingly unimpeded about 400 feet from the stage, with a direct line of sight on the former president. Should that roof have been secure, period? That building, in particular, has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there, that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building from inside. The legal says that secret service was responsible for the inner perimeter of the rally, which was the local police were responsible for the outer perimeter, where the gunman was located. In Washington, lawmakers demanding answers. Failure, failure, failure, failure. And there's just really no excuse for it. There's no excuse. I don't know if she's trying to come up with it. Here's your photo here. These are the snipers that took care of Thomas Crook's. Let's go ahead and look at that photo. Is that a sloped roof? Is that a sloped roof at its highest point, where the actual snipers are, who ended up taking the life of Crook's? So the sloped roof thing isn't checking out. Now mind you, I don't think we would be hearing 95% of this if we didn't have cell phones. And if we weren't on the ground filming these things, if X wasn't a platform that these videos were posted on as soon as this news broke. So had we not have this incident from multiple angles, videos of people alerting law enforcement, the interviews after of people saying, yeah, I saw that guy 30 minutes ago, I was trying to wave down Secret Service to get them up there on the roof. I saw him climb up on the roof. In fact, if we didn't have all these eyewitness accounts, an actual evidence that's been posted on the internet, they weren't able to scrub, we probably wouldn't be hearing 95% of this. They would just try to sweep it under the rug and say, you know what, this was a failure of Secret Service. I thought the guy and that makes us, that makes us heroes, doesn't it? Thank goodness for the fact that we have cameras in our pockets now, because wow, the different story that we would be being told, I can only imagine what that would be. Yeah. And how crazy is that it still feels like we have a JFK level of clarity about how this actually went down, even though we do have all of that footage and we're still trying to piece it all together and make sense of it, but somehow the authorities have made it. So we have very little to go on and very little cohesion to this narrative. So that is absolutely wild. But yeah, this woman needs to read extreme ownership by Jocko Willing. She said the words, the buck stops with me. So I guess maybe a little bit of credit there, but the way she tried to kind of make excuses and the way that she even hesitated to say that, yeah, I mean, it's the Secret Service's fault, I guess. No, this is an absolutely abysmal failure. To me, you allowed a person to shoot the president right there, bullstop. You need to resign, step down. You're the director of the Secret Service. This was a total failure and it happened on your watch and the people who were responsible for overseeing this mission in a more local sense are probably should have their heads roll as well. Figuratively, they should be fired to be clear, but that is not taking ownership. That's not taking responsibility. And even if she doesn't take the responsibility, she should be held accountable. Someone should be held accountable for this because this is as bad as you can possibly fail when it comes to being a Secret Service and having the mission of protecting the president. You don't get to allow someone to fire several rounds at a president, strike him and kill someone else and then walk away from it with your job. I'm sorry. That's just unacceptable. Yeah, yeah. Just about the worst you could possibly do outside of Trump, literally having his life taken. What crazy, oh my goodness. But now we're going to talk about a little bit of Hollywood news. The actress, Shailene Woodley, I'd call her an A-list actress. She's in big little lies, this spectacular now. You'll know her from the diversion series. If you're, you know, one of those YA young adult dystopian movie fans like me, the fault in our stars was a big movie for her adrift. The list goes on and on. She's catching heat on the internet now because she decided to repost Melania Trump's statement after Donald Trump was nearly assassinated. She posted it on her public Instagram story and people are so upset that she decided this was a statement worthy of post. Now in it, Melania Trump talks about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life. She talks about Donald's impact on her and her family that he's a man of character, that is funny and humorous, that he served America. And she spoke about the fact that this is about saving America. She didn't use her statement as a moment to spew vitriol towards the people she thought were responsible for the assassination attempt. She didn't use it as a moment to spew hatred towards her political opponents. None of that. She actually, in fact, spoke about the fact that love is what is needed in this moment. Unity is what is needed after this moment after. She attempted to take her husband's life. That's what she decided to put in this statement. And I urge you all to go and check it out and read it. It's not a very long one. And people decided for some reason, because it's coming from Melania Trump, that this is not an okay thing to post, that for some reason, Shailene Woodley should just keep her mouth shut and how dare she support the first lady, the former first lady, I should say. And I'll just read the last bit of Melania's statement and put it up here on the screen for you guys. And it says, "And let us remember that when the time comes to look beyond the left and the right, beyond the red and the blue, we all come from families with the passion to fight for a better life together while we are here in this earthly realm." Okay. What's wrong with that statement? She could have very well, I mean, think about you guys. I don't know if you guys are in relationships, you're married, you know, have a father of your child. Somebody tries to take the life of the father of your children, your husband. You'd be angry, you'd be pissed, you'd probably be wanting, wanting vengeance, you'd probably be wanting to hold the people accountable that you felt were responsible for this attack. And she decided to use this as a moment to speak beyond left and right, to speak beyond red and blue and say, "You know what? We need to think about doing better for this country, for the American people." And all Shailene Woodley did was repost it. And now people are calling for her to lose her agents and not be a part of Hollywood. They're accusing her of going down some alt-right pipeline through her spirituality because Shailene Woodley is very publicly spoken about being quite a spiritual person. And she's just getting bullied on the internet for having posted what would be a very lovely message. If you took out to the name Melania Trump for some of these leftists who dislike her and switched it with any other name, people would be saying, "What a beautiful statement. What a call for unity in such divisive times, but because it's Melania Trump and they don't like Donald Trump and they have this Trump's arrangements syndrome, even in the wake of an assassination attempt, they're coming after Shailene Woodley." And this should not be a shock at all when it comes to Shailene Woodley. For those of you that don't know, she was previously engaged to Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers, the football player who was talking during COVID and criticizing all the different COVID reforms we had during the pandemic, said he wasn't going to get vaccinated and really rose to prominence with a few political statements during that time. She was engaged to that man. You don't think she would be engaged to somebody who shares similar values to her. And out of all the crazy values that you could hold and post publicly on social media, saying that this goes beyond left and right and beyond red and blue and that we need to think about our families is not the craziest, most conservative thing you could possibly think. It's literally just because the name Melania Trump is attached to the statement. And mind you, we haven't heard all that much from Melania Trump in her time as First Lady or prior to her time as First Lady. So this should really be a nothing burger. It should literally be nothing and it's not all surprising that Shae Lee Woodley shares the same sentiments as her former fiance and y'all are going to want to think about maybe the people that Shae Lee will be as closely associated with in Hollywood because they probably share some similar sentiments too, but y'all not ready for that conversation. And you're not ready for some of your heart throbs to actually turn out to have some values that you disagree with values like unity, I guess. So I don't even know what to say about this. Actually shout out to Shae Lee Woodley because I would imagine if you are a Hollywood A-list actress like she is, you would be a little cautious about sharing a statement like this. Even though it should be pretty benign and innocuous, it takes balls these days to take a statement from somebody with a Trump name and put it publicly on your social media. And maybe in the wake of this assassination attempt, she was so motivated by how crazy things are going out in the out in the world that this was her moment to truly dip her toe in the water of being forward about something she may or may not believe. And I say it may or may not because this is not even an endorsement of Donald Trump or conservatism or right-leaning values. That's just an endorsement of the statement that Melania Trump made, yet people are jumping leaps and bounds saying this makes her a conservative. Oh, I knew it. She's white. It's her white privilege speaking. This is why she's sharing a statement like this. I'll need to chill and pause for a moment. Look past the Melania Trump name that's in the header of this and read the statement. And you'll find that it's probably things that you agree with. If you're able to set yourself and your personal agenda aside for two seconds. So shout out to Shailene Woodley for doing something that in today's day and age is brave, although it shouldn't be brave. She's literally risking her career, risking future projects by posting a statement, posting words from somebody of great prominence in our society. That's where we live today. My goodness. Love it here. Yeah, I love it here. Hopefully this is like, you've seen Elon Musk now has in the wake of the assassination attempt come out and said, I'm full bore endorsing Trump and many other figures in Silicon Valley and public figures. And maybe that, Shailene Woodley, some of the energy we're seeing, it's taking some of the untouchableness out of being Amber Rose as well, being out of being a Trump supporter. And it's not even being a Trump supporter, just being able to say, I, given the binary choice essentially that we have in this election, I'm leaning toward this side and I'm not ashamed to say it. You know, hopefully that's more in the direction that we're going. And who knows, who knows, but good on Shailene, free free of my girl, Shailene, she. So true, so true, wow, oh my gosh, to be in Hollywood these days, rough, rough. I don't even want to speculate because you're not the same political beliefs as the people you hang out with, but I don't know, Shailene Woodley and Erin Rogers are spending an awful lot of time with the Homeboy and Miles Teller and Kaylee Teller, okay? And Kaylee Teller is best friends with little Miss Taylor Swift and they're all in part of the group. Your girl Taylor has managed to find some love for people that she probably, you know, vehemently disagrees with on a lot of these issues, or maybe not. Maybe she doesn't. I don't know if y'all ready, because I know y'all love that top-gun Maverick mustache on Miles Teller, but he spends an awful lot of time with Shailene Woodley. So at the very least, he's hanging out with people who may or may not be conservative, which is a huge no-no amongst woke leftists. So y'all aren't ready, there's so many people in Hollywood that you're not ready to hear, do not share your beliefs whatsoever, and they just cannot say it out loud. I've had, I've been out in LA and I don't know that you run into prominent people, you run into celebrities. I've had celebrities walk up to me who y'all would not want to hear are conservative and they are. I think the people watching would want to hear that, but I mean, the people, the leftists would not want to hear are conservative, just think. Yeah, and I think a lot of it's kind of in this gray area too. Like Taylor Swift, for example, okay, she said some certain things, she's been an activist for certain things, but she's got her like football, quintessential American, popular girl with the football guy, and it's very conservative looking relationship, even though he's a vaccine shill or whatever, I mean, it's a little more gray than you make it think. You always make it out to be like your, these like radical people on one side, or you have to be this radical Trump supporter on the other hand, I think a lot more people are more chill and are sympathetic to a lot of things that they're not allowed to say they're sympathetic to just because of the climate that they're in or because of management or because of the media or whatever. But again, hopefully that is diminishing and there's people are allowed to be a little more honest, right, like you guys think Travis Kelsey is a bleeding heart leftist. Please, please just listen to the guy, please, anyways, we're gonna get a new subject. It's here for you guys. All right, I know you all have been chomping at the bit to chime in on all of these five stories we have had today. Rida was our first one. He said he or she she says, sorry, I don't know, she gave a great speech because she talked to the core of ratchet culture, shout out to Amber Rose, she talked to the core of ratchet culture. I don't know what I heard her talk about anything like that, but I can see maybe what you mean. If you're talking about the demographic that she's reaching, ratchet culture is a funny way of putting it. That sounds like a TikTok trend, like ratchet core, ratchet core, yeah, so ratchet core. I'm game strong says, hey, hey, and Tae, have you all heard this new track? You missed that dropped by Tom Donald the day after Trump got shot, it is straight fire. By the way, when are we going to get an Amala Shapiro Tom McDonald and Trump track, I'll wait. Never. I'm not a fan of Tom McDonald. Yeah. You don't want to bring up Tom McDonald. He don't. He's not bad. I've never heard his stuff, but I know I like his music. I just don't like his music. He's fine. I'm sure he's a fine guy. I'm sure I'm sure his message is great. I just don't like the music, so not that he would ever ask me to make a track with him, but no. Christopher Alsene says that cringe moment when your typo riddled super check gets read verbatim. Also, how crazy would it be if New York and California flipped red in November because of amber? Yeah. I mean, that'd be interesting. That'd be a huge, that'd be a big swing if Amber grows to pull that off. I don't know if she's that influential, but she's definitely mobilizing at least a single voter as a Matt Walsh said she couldn't. That's just so crazy to me to see if you think that even if you really disliked her and disliked what she represents and disliked what she was, like she has 24 million followers and you think she won't mobilize a single voter, please come on, let's be logical. I can prep too says funny. It's not the mugshot or surviving this that makes him super relatable to black folk, but the level of importance he put on his shoes. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I keep seeing all these different and stereotypes because this is for a reason. I'll be the first to say that. All these people saying, Oh, with black people since now he's been arrested and convicted and shot at and he likes sneakers. Now black people are going to like him and I don't, uh, I'll reserve room for the fact that there will be a few black people who that definitely works on, but it is by no means representative of all black people. There you go. That infamous Fox News segment we reacted to black people love sneakers and Trump's a genius for putting his marketing out there. We're going to get the voting base from sneakers are going to get a swing the election, please. Grinch, speaking of that, tune into tomorrow's video where white men test their assumptions about black faces. Well, Hakka says, Hey guys, I love your balance to views. It truly frustrates me that a small group demands from everyone to respect their thoughts, beliefs and feelings, but are triggered at anything they do not like or agree with. Why? A hundred percent. There's a lot of people like that these days. Just more and more and they're like the most vocal and because they're the most vocal they become the most powerful, it's just tiring, it's exhausting, exhausting. Austin, Viribus Anita says traditional Catholic here, none of my favorite politicians share my faith. Who cares? They make the right decisions. God bless them. And you keep up the great work. Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah. I think people need to realize they're not supposed to. It's not just not works. It's not, you know, I'd rather none of it be involved in anything. If we could help it, non in government, it's just not supposed to be what happens. Casey says, I think the RNC having those controversial speakers was one of the best things they've done in years for inclusion. Best thing they've done in years for inclusion? Yeah. Depends on, I mean, that word has been so hijacked in modern meaning, like the, I'm sure you're not using it in the diversity, equity, inclusion sense of like, oh, it's so inclusive that these people are represented. But to make an actual coalition of people that represents, you know, different facets of American culture, I think that is actually what inclusion it should mean. Right. It only really exists because the criticism that the Republican Party receives. If the Republican Party was not repeatedly painted as like racist, homophobic, all these different things, like this whole like inclusion thing would not really be necessary. But because there's just this ever-present accusation, then it's like, okay, how else am I supposed to tell you that this is not an accurate characterization other than to show you that it's not an accurate characterization? So you actually end up not necessarily playing their games, but like having to disprove them by like ushering people out, which should not be necessary. But people lie, so true that joy says after July 13th, sticker mule CEO tweeted about how horrible our division is and that he supports Trump. So they're getting hate and losing a lot of business. So if anyone needs merch made, consider them. Okay. Very cool. I did not even know that. I've not heard of that company. Sticker mule. Yeah, I think it's like one of those, you upload your logo on the website and they can make different stuff, obviously stickers, but I think they do a lot of other stuff. Okay. Cool. Slap my smurf, sorry, I thought it said serve for something. Let destiny say it and let the public decide on their own to stop listening, just like how we ignore Disney and Marvel now. Same idea. Woke equals broke. Right. I agree. It's just like, okay, I'm not going to watch another destiny video. Not that I ever really was keeping up with destiny, but if he pops up and he was having an interesting debate or whatever, there you go, I don't no longer feel the need to do such a thing. That's like the power that we wield that doesn't need to completely crush somebody's platform. If there are people that wants to listen to him, I'd hope they'd be given the opportunity to do that and unfortunately some people are deciding that that's not the case. Yeah, we talk a lot about like engaging in conversation and good faith. And when you do stuff like he's doing now, it lifts you from the camp of being a good faith actor who can engage in intelligent discourse and entertain the opponents arguments seriously and represent them accurately and then give your best effort at giving a logical representation of your arguments, et cetera. You're not playing these games, you know, and trying to win through tricks or what underhanded methods, whatever. But when you start engaging in bad faith in your discourse, then immediately so many people are going to, you know, you're going to lose your credibility with so many people. Yeah. And that's like your number one thing to protect is my good faith persona. But what happens is some people lose that and then they only have their die hard bad faith followers who go with them who think the same way and then they just talk to those same followers over and over again and they can sustain a, you know, income stream, but they lose their relevance and aren't changing anyone's minds. Legitly spelunking says, "I've been meaning to say this for a while now, but your transitions from one topic to the next are always so smooth to Canada." I try. I don't really put too much thought into it, but I just hope that by the time, like what does Michael Scott say? I start a sentence and I have no idea where it's going. Just like that. That's how we do it. So I'm glad it's working out. I'm glad it's smooth. Speaking of smooth, Ash Roach, I just totally bungled the next, Ash Roach says, "Keep calling out Matt Walsh on Twitter, girl. He needs mental help. Won't let me say his whole name." Love you and all our tweets. I did it twice. I just had to. I don't know. I saw the Ambrose thinking I'm like, "What? What?" He's such a, like, a judgy figure, though, that I'm like, "I can't bother anymore." Maybe that was the last one. I don't know. Maybe something will happen and it'll get to me again and all respond to it, but he's just so judgy. I can't. I can't deal. It's like righteousness is just too much for me. I can't do it. Yeah. Does it sound because he's done so much on the gender front and has a lot of great critiques and he's really like, obviously, a clear thinker in a lot of ways and gifted rhetorically and can be effective in a lot of stuff, but when it's bad, it's like, "Man, that's rough. Makes it hard." But at the same time, he does represent, he's a thought leader for a slice of the coalition that is under this whole right side of the aisle for better or for worse. But I think it's important to have people engage in good faith with one another, and so I'm glad you are speaking in that way, even if it does test your patients. Another one here from Christopher Alsene says, "The Sikh woman deserves to be at the RNC because she is super American. She appreciates our religious freedom, which is as American as apple pie and hot dogs." Right. Okay. The RNC is for Americans who support Republican values, and that could be anybody. It could really, truly be anybody, so it's not necessarily about being inclusive or like meeting a diversity quota. It's about being honest, and the honest thing is that anybody can be a Republican, and then after admitting that, it's about who is best positioned to usher the cause forward, and that's how you make your choices, and these two choices that we want to run the show seem like good fits to me. Seems like it makes sense. Yeah, I just saw a poll this week that came out that said, I think by a two-thirds majority Americans agree that colorblindness is better than intersectionality when it comes to race. That rings so true. That is, the values are there, the sentiment is there, just let people be themselves. The diversity of America is there, and the values are there, so let's just be this. It's when we try to engineer all these things, and put in quotas, and try to force it, and say we need this kind of representation here and there, and force things, that it gets silly and messy, and we actually lose sight of the actual values and principles that make a cohesive society work in the first place when we try to make it about the representation first, or whatever. Random Thoughts says, "Hey, I've been watching for years, I've been joining the lives, and I've found such a sense of community here, nice to see people who think rationally." That's so great, I'm glad you found a little community here. Community can be hard to come by these days, and when we're supposed to be more connected than ever, it can be a really difficult thing to come by, so I'm glad that that's what you found on this channel. That's so awesome. I'd love to see that. There's a Patreon in the link, and I think you can join for as little as a dollar or even a free tier, I think. I think there's even a free tier on our Patreon now, so. Yeah, so you can just plug in the community more that way, and we have a Discord, I think it's a little inactive now, but you can check that out as well. I'll be posting more on Patreon, we're working on that. We're stepping up our game. We are stepping up our game, because we just have so many different spinning plates, we're going to add some more plates. Don't worry, guys. Zechariah says, "It's about holding the left to their own standards." Mm, see, that's one way you can look at something. I look at it more from the perspective of you're stooping to their same level, so do you want to stoop to the same level of the things that you're criticizing, probably not? Because then you're giving up your right to criticize, so when they become more powerful and they use that back against you, well, it's fair and square, it's even Steven, because they're doing what you do now, so never stoop, and it's hard not to stoop, especially when people who are willing to stoop are winning, but never stoop, because at the end of the day, even if you lose, even tegrity, tegrity matters. 100%. Tegrity farms. Lime into coconut says, "If religion should be separate from politics, wouldn't it be bad to devote RNC speaking time to a prayer from a particular religion?" The prayer doesn't negate what she's done, but I think there's room to critique it. Yeah, I don't know that they like, did they actually give her the spot and say this is specifically for prayer? Mind you, the RNC does it for Christian pastors and all this different. I'm pretty sure they bring up multiple religious figures because that's just what we do now. Now, in my ideal world, that would not be happening, but since it is happening, I don't know that there would be any religion that you would say would not be allowed to be practiced under this, at this convention, if you guys get what I mean. But it's not to say like, "Oh, we should just allow the one seek to do prayer." You know what I mean? Yeah. That's what I mean. All right. I was just reminded of another Michael Scott moment when he's got the IT guy who's a seek and he's wearing a turbanjo and he's like, "Everybody hide. This is happening. It's a terrace." Oh my gosh. And then the guy comes in and he's like, "Don't define me by my religion. I like to fix cars." And all this other stuff. And blah, blah, blah. Michael's like, "Okay. So we got one seek." Yes. I literally just watched that episode and I'm playing the other day. It was so hilarious. All right. So we have one seek. Too funny. They don't. Too funny. Okay. Slap my smurf again. It says, "For the Home Depot lady, the left set a standard and now it's being used against them. I think it's wrong, but they made the bed so sleep in it sadly." Good. I don't know. I don't know. If y'all be sleeping comfortably, it's not for me. It's not for me. I mean, the whole theme too of this Trump campaign right now and the RNC is Trump said it's about unity and uniting the country and all this and like, "How do you think you're going to achieve that?" If again, like Amla says, you used to their level and to the Christians even saying, talking about this stuff, Jesus is explicitly taught against the notion of justice that is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. He said, "If you're forced to carry a Romans bag for a mile, then carry it two miles. Turn the other cheek famously." Now, that portrays a very passive demeanor and people are like, "Well, how do you ever hold anyone accountable?" "Well, that's true." Jesus also turned over tables and held religious leaders of his day that were hypocritical to account and called them out and was very forceful in that, but you're not going to unite people. You're not going to change anyone's hearts or let alone their minds if you are always operating in that world of enchfulness. It's just not the way to unite people. Maggie Catherine says, "What Matt said about Amber, what's the point of this job if you don't believe people can change their beliefs? Why have a show, if not to influence?" You're right. Nobody, just overnight, goes like, "Oh, I believe in conservative values." People go on steps of a journey or whatever. I know a lot of people were saying, "She's doing a 50% discount on her OnlyFans. Did she go to the RNC and say that all young women should sign up for OnlyFans or did she go to the RNC and say, "I thought this way about Donald Trump and I changed my mind on Donald Trump. I don't know how we can't just compartmentalize different issues with different people." It's just a wholly separate thing from what she went there to do and what she did achieve because her speech was good. You could tell through her nervousness of going out there and speaking in public, she did a great job and it really resonated with a lot of people. I just don't know what the point is. There's different people in different journeys and it's just like there is a righteousness to the criticism of that could never be me. I don't understand her. She doesn't uphold all of my values and I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, okay. Very well could have been you, but it wasn't you. I mean, lucky you, that's so cool that you didn't have to go through a journey to find your proper set of beliefs and you're not still on that journey and you're wholly cemented and everything that's right and good and perfect, but other people go on journeys and it's very powerful to hear about those journeys so that we all feel less alone as we go through hours and that is hopefully what the RNC can stand by and that's why they brought her there. Yeah. Yeah. Timothy W says, why do JD Vance and Kamala both look like parents in a Disney channel, original movie? They really do. You could like swap them out for like the parents and Wizards of Waverly Place. That pretty much pretty much could be them. Casting, yeah. Timothy also says, it's absolutely wild that Victoria Secret Service wasn't even, there wasn't even a bare minimum for this event, BFFR. That what? Oh, yeah. I mean, it's just when you watch it, when you watch it all unfold, it just becomes less and less believable that this just all has happened. I think you just wanted to call on Victoria Secret Service again, but yeah, you just wanted to sneak that in there. I forgot about that. You call the Victoria Secret Service. Oh my goodness. Yeah. That was a good one. Pretty good. Night Owl says Vivek speech last night at the RNC was best in my humble opinion. I hope you guys react to it. Love the show. Off the check is. I didn't see his. I guess I'll clip from it and in typical Vivek fashion, yeah, he's, you know, just saying a lot of simple truisms about American values and stuff that he's very articulate, which by the way, Oh boy is a Hindu and he invokes God all the time and no one gives him any smoke ever. So where y'all at with that? If you're so been out of shape about our meat dealing, where's the smoke? Gabe Morgan says, Hey, Amala and Taylor breaking away from the terrifying state of our democracy right now. What's your favorite soda pop? PS love the vibes always. Coca-Cola. I'm going to have soda, it's going to be a Coca-Cola. Yeah, I I'm like, it's kind of depends on my mood, but generally speaking, I drink, I drink Coke zero. Um, now it's so damn expensive these days. I remember used to be like $2.50 for a 12 pack for your fridge, and I can't bring myself to pay $10 for a 12 pack of zero anymore. It's crazy. So I get the, I've been getting the knockoff brand at like, I don't even know what it's called, like the Kroger soda, but you know what? It's good enough. Good enough. I forgot to work. Uh, Elmo George says, uh, the right is no different from the left. This week exposed the right to be hypocrites. Yeah, it's just like, uh, that's why it's like when you've even put people into camps of like the right, the left. It's just, you're bound to fall into these. You're just like them. They're just like you because nothing is like a monolith. There's so many different people within these two different groups who have totally different views and disagree with one another and disagree with the way they're going about things, which is why the, the future's label lists, I'm standing by it, the future and if we, if we become more enlightened than we are now, the future becomes a label list one where we're not so tribalistic because it doesn't work clearly because we're sitting here criticizing people who are apparently on the same side of us and they're criticizing the other people who are on the same side as them and it's not working. And it's also like, and we're a few months away from a huge, the, you know, it's not the most important election ever, like everyone always says, but a very important election. So there's an element of like, keep your eye on the ball here. Let's not, you know, let petty differences like ruin the momentum and, you know, interfere with your clear lead. Like if Republicans find a way to bungle this, it's inexcusable at this point. You've got the ability of Biden, you've got the assassination attempt, you have the horrible state of the country and the border and crime and all this stuff working in your favor and to throw that away. I mean, at the time of the place, you can still debate your positions, but like, let's, let's at least like get through this convention, get through the election and then okay, we can try to hash out some more differences, but don't fumble it. And people are acting like the radical left is already not in control of all the institutions like the elections already won. And that's, that's not the case, man, that you're still under the thumb of a lot of the stuff and until you're free and clear of it, you can't act like, you know, you can't lose vigilance. So. Anywho, um, Kelbir says Woodley always gets canceled because she dares to speak her mind, lefties hate her now, but she was a force at the Dakota access pipeline protests. It's wild. Oh, there you go. They are multifaceted and they share a whole ton of different beliefs. I'm wondering like what led her to share that I would love to know more, because I've always seen her as like a very like, she's like spiritual holistic. So I could see during like the COVID pandemic, how she would be very much against the medicalization of everything and people trying to get forced to get jabs and all that, although she didn't, I don't think publicly come out and say that, but she was with Aaron Rodgers at the time. So yeah, I could see that maybe being the straw that maybe broke the camel's back with her. But again, she could still have a ton of left leading beliefs and all that stuff and sure it's cool. Fine. Didn't I eventually in the lead draw the line at the back stuff or she spoke out against it? Uh, was it that or was it the trans stuff? She was talking about, I think she was talking about the separation of like women and being female. Uh, I think I'll have to remind myself, but we did it. Yeah, she's another hollywetter that isn't towing the line person burning rage says, I can appreciate her support of Trump, even if I disagree with 95% of her other actions and views. Oh, is that sorry? I was like, I can appreciate her support of Trump. Amber Rosas, even if I disagree with 95% of her other actions and views, yeah, that's exactly right. Exactly right. We don't have to agree with everybody on everything that they do. In fact, we might not like a lot of the stuff that they do. With Evangeline Lilly, she was saying that society is villainizing masculinity and applauding femininity in men. That's what she went viral for. Ant-man star. Yeah. So remember her from Lost originally, she was also in the Hobbit films, um, Destiny says, I work in marketing in the film industry and they're absolutely right about Hollywood. If it's not woke, you don't win awards, which, yeah, now it's like literally written into the rules of being considered for awards is you, you have to have like a woke bent in everything that you do. So not surprised by that at all. So if I was Shaelyn, would they be like, I think twice about sharing this story, it's gonna ruin my damn career, but she's kind of set a longstanding career. So hopefully she's still hanging out. I'm sure she'll be in big little lives in the next season, season three that they're working on. So yeah, the uncancelable status here for Sasha O'Neill says, hi guys, it's a subject of Last Live, but what are your thoughts on the elected VP for Trump? Personally, I think Tim Scott would make a better fit. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. We'll see. We spoke about it a little bit on yesterday's, I mean, like breaking on Monday. Yeah. On Mondays. Um, yeah. I mean, I'll have to see. I've seen some things from JD, JD Vans. I've seen some flopmen and drip drop in and all I don't know. I don't know. Can't speak to that. Well, the only thing that I've seen, I mean, there's certain like he's more interventionist economically than, I guess I would be a generally more interventionist in terms of like using the power of government to promote your values and agenda as opposed to like just breaking down the administrative state. But you know, in some sense, you have to assert something. So I don't know. I'm reserving judgment. Um, I know he's clearly a very intelligent person. You know, he wrote that very successful book. He'll be able to energy that was adapted into a movie and apparently is a very good debater and seems to be very high IQ guys. So I'm looking forward to the debate he'll have with Kamala for sure. Yeah. For show. So that we can, uh, what is it be unburdened by what has been? Yep. And be unburdened by what has been, uh, BJ 95 says, I feel mixed on the situation with Matt. I'm sort of strong fan of him and also trans anyway, the Amber story was relatable to me. I liked it. Uh, in my view, Matt's wording was more crass than usual. Yeah, the usual, I don't know about that. Yeah. I don't know. You know, all totally fine. You know, if you're a fan and everything, you know, they're going to be people that you like, people that you don't like, uh, within the space as far as their rhetoric. And I still agree with Matt Walsh on a lot of different stuff. This just particular issue, we did not see eye to eye on. And that's okay. It's okay to not see eye to eye on everything. Yeah. Nicodemus 1984 says great show as usual. Oh, thank you. Nicodemus. Bridget. Oh, a couple of follow ups here from, uh, Vijay on Mount Walsh, um, I think recent events have him more heated and disciplined to, or disinclined to trusting conversions. He reacted to a whatever podcast clip talking about how the only fans girls can change and be dignified. So he's going on a downward path. I have my own strong feelings about a different speaker who I absolutely distrust. Uh, and if true that Amber is still running and only fans that leaves a sense of insincerity, which doesn't help people can have a whole ton of different views. You can vote for Donald Trump and have an only fans. In fact, I've met many women who have only fans that are voting for Donald Trump's for Donald Trump. So I don't know that the two things are like mutually exclusive in any way. So there's, there's going to be a lot of different people. You guys are going to, there's going to be porn stars voting for Donald Trump. There's going to be dead, be dads voting for Donald Trump. There's going to be, yeah, trans people voting for Donald Trump, every, anybody who you can think of who might be doing something that you may dislike or whatever, there are going to be people voting for Donald Trump, because you can have views as to who should be the president that are wholly separate from any other action that you are, uh, committing to in life. And another thing, people can go back and forth and change their minds. You can support Donald Trump in this election cycle. And then four years from now, Amber Rose can be like, you know what, I changed my mind. I don't really like Donald Trump anymore. That's totally fine. You know, people go through. Social periods in life, they'll change their mind on an issue and move back on the issue. It's not to say that like saying that this is a good thing for now means that, oh, we endorse Amber Rose and she's never going to change her mind and she's a lifelong conservative and she's going to represent us for all time to come. And she's going to delete her only fans. It means none of that. Amber Rose is her, her person. You can trust her to be exactly who she's going to be and nothing more than that. It's just to talk about the things that are being said on their merit. Not beyond as to who she is or what she's going to do in life. And yeah, there's going to be a ton of people who are doing things that people don't like who are going to be voting for Donald Trump. Yeah. Yeah. So it's important to have nuance with this and not, you know, I think in Matt's later comments, he attempted to add some more context and clarify that like he's seen in the past conservatives have jumped on the bandwagon of different celebrities or people who have been, you know, said some things sympathetic to the right. And then all of a sudden they're this hero and then that person fails. I'm, I'm sure he was referring to Kanye and other examples similar to that. And that's a, that's a fair critique, but I think it's also, you know, the way he characterized the, the Amber situation also didn't seem quite as, as nuanced as that. So again, let's, I'm the ball here people. We got, you know, we, we, we, we, it's a critical, critically critical time. It's not, uh, you know, make unnecessary division. Right. Um, that doesn't mean you have to compromise. Uh, Mark Thomas, I think this is our last one that I see as says, hello, Amala, do you have any Patreon stuff, coverage or IRL events planned? I missed this entire stream for work, but wanted to reach out with the idea. There's going to be more Patreon content. I can give you that so far as in real life events, we have nothing, uh, planned, nothing on the docket thus far. We're just keeping the ball rolling with the content that we're constantly chugging out on this channel. So be on the lookout for more Patreon content. Most definitely. And we talked about doing some more like maybe like casual streams on an evening or weekend or something like that for more like, you know, chill, fun stuff and maybe that can be a Patreon thing. So stay tuned. Yeah. Sure. More is coming. We're brainstorming. And the last one I see here is Queen Eileen says, I like Matt Walsh and a lot of ways he is the male version of me, but I do disagree with him a lot. He lacks any grace. I'm proud of Amber Rose's growth. Yeah, it's cool. I liked it. I like to hear that. Not, not, not anything about Matt Walsh saying that they are proud of the, the growth and the change that people can make and yeah, I think we should all be mindful of the mistakes of our past, the mistakes of our present and the mistakes of our future, uh, which very much exists there. You are going to make mistakes in the future. We're going to make mistakes in the now, uh, and to just come so hard down on somebody who you think is making a mistake is just it's a little bit much, it's a little bit much. Guys, let's see. End of our show though. I love to hear your thoughts on everything we talked about, drop them in the comments down below. A lot of opinions all over the place today. So let me know how you feel. If you disagree with anything said during this show, do get out, but do so respectfully in the comments down below. And if you like this video, like, subscribe, click the notification bill to be notified every Sunday of our live. That's Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1 p.m. Pacific, 3 p.m. Central, 4 p.m. Eastern. Plus we post videos for you guys every single day. Tomorrow's video is a Jubilee reaction. It's a Jubilee reaction to three white men who are telling their assumptions about black men to their faces and judging whether or not those assumptions are correct. So it sparks an interesting conversation. 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