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They're harping on the idea that these three homicides weren't intentional. It was an accident, a terrible mistake, they say again and again and again. As far as we know, that's true, that, that Harjin or Singh didn't commit murder, you know, in the sense that he didn't do this in order to kill people, as far as we know. But at the same time, it's fairly apparent that his actions, as depicted in the footage from his cab, led to the deaths of three people. I mean, that's unmistakable. And also that his actions were insanely reckless. Making a U turn on the highway from the right lane is the kind of thing that's basically guaranteed to kill people. And if you want to have an ordered, functioning society, then people who engage in extremely reckless behavior like this to the point that they wipe out entire families belong in prison for as long as possible. If you valued the lives of American citizens, that wouldn't be a controversial statement, but apparently it's controversial in this case. Now, for their part, a group called United Sikhs, which says it's affiliated with the United nations, posted this message. We are saddened by the loss of life and the tragic accident that occurred in Florida on August 12th. We grieve with the families impacted and offer our condolences. We are also in touch with the family of the accused Arjinder Singh, and are advocating for equity and that the law must be appropriately and uniformly applied and those threatening and spewing discriminatory rhetoric and disinformation must be held to account. We call on everyone to come together in times of tragedy and rather than exploit them for political grandstanding and furthering personal agendas. So the United Sikhs are calling for equity. And they say that if you're saying mean words online about Harjinder Singh, then you're the one who needs to be held to account. They don't say that Harjinder Singh should be held to account for killing three people. Instead, you need to suffer because of your speech. The problem isn't that he killed three people. It's that you are upset about that and saying mean things about him in response to it. That is the overwhelming response from this community at the moment. That's what they're saying in their statements, the videos, petitions. It's worth mentioning that there is a counter petition on Change.org entitled Deport Supporters of Harjender Singh's commutation. So I want to saying that if you, if you're a foreign national and you think it's okay for foreign nationals to kill Americans on the roadway, then you should be deported, which I totally agree with. And that one only has around 16,000 supporters, so we got to get those numbers up. In any event, what you also may have noticed about this petition and these videos is that they bear a very strong resemblance to the Carmelo Anthony Fundraiser on GiveSendGo for stabbing a white athlete at a track meet. Carmelo Anthony has now raised more than half a million dollars. As we previously previously discussed, many of the comments were explicitly anti white in nature. Here's just a quick refresher of the comments on Camelo's Give Send Go quote, these white people can die mad like they ancestors did. Another quote says, these crackers need to understand that we are not our ancestors and they will reap what they sow. I hope the knife made a full recovery. Another one said, quote, white people have put so much evil in the earth, you have the right to protect yourself. Carmelo quote, I love when we stand up for each other. And on and on and on. We've seen similar levels of tribalism with the outpouring of support in the Somali community for Colonel Ibrahim Dairy. As we previously discussed, the Somali Community center wrote a letter of support for Diari even after he was convicted for abducting and sexually assaulting a child. And then on top of that, prosecutors reported that Somalis were threatening to kill the mother of the victim. Now, they're not doing any of this because they think Diary is a good person or because he was wrongfully convicted or any of that. They're doing that because he's Somali and so are they, and that's what matters to them. Now, the people in the video about Harjinder saying that we played earlier to give them some credit, weren't quite this explicit, but the thrust of their argument was the same, which is we stand up for our own. That's why there's a petition with millions of signatures and dozens of impassioned on camera pleas on behalf of a truck driver who just killed three Americans. Now, they're not worried about the specifics of US sentencing law or how this case will turn out or road safety. They don't care about the possibility that other foreign truck drivers will kill more Americans in the future. They don't value American lives the same way they value the lives of their own people. That's very clear and Therefore, whatever punishment is imposed on Harjit or Singh, in their view, is too severe. Now, the only conclusion we can draw from the cases of Carmelo Anthony and Harjinder Singh and dozens like it is that again, tribalism is a basic fact of human nature. What American leaders call bigotry and white supremacy is practiced all over the world, all the time, in service of other ethnicities and national identities. And more importantly, it's practiced by tens of millions of people who we've allowed into this country. Our immigration system for decades has denied the basic fundamental reality of tribalism, but the truth is simply undeniable at this point. People who want to survive, who value their own culture and civilization, will defend and prioritize their own, often to the detriment of everybody else. They will be unapologetic and relentless in their defense of their own interests. Period. They will prioritize their own. And as a general rule, I don't blame them for it. Now, I don't think you should defend murderers and people who kill the innocent, but the general idea of prioritizing your own people and defending their interests, that makes sense. That's what you should do. And if there's any lesson we can draw from all this, it's that if we want to survive, Americans have no choice but to adopt the very same attitude. Now, let's get to our five headlines. More than 90% of Americans don't get enough fruits, vegetables and fiber in their diet. We're all basically walking nutritional disasters. That's where bouts of nature supplements come in. These aren't your typical synthetic vitamins with names you can't pronounce. 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So that would mean he was bench pressing 135 pounds. And for those who aren't familiar, just so you know, 135 pounds for a bench press is, is a very small amount of weight. I mean, it'd be one thing if you're doing it for reps, if you're doing it to warm up or something like that, but maxing out at 135 and you need help from two spotters is a, is, is a very sad state of affairs. It's, it's weak for a grown man. Now a lot of people are focusing on the fact that Mamdani is such a puny, weak, pathetic, sad little man. They're saying that any man who maxes out at 135 should be legally barred from running for office. And I agree with all that. Of course, I mean, that's true. I mean arguably you shouldn't be allowed to vote as a man if you can't bench press more than 135 pounds. I've said before that voting should require like a, a quick test in civics and there should be other requirements as well. You know, you're a tax paying citizens citizen, you're not on any entitlements, you know, all those things. But maybe, maybe a quick, maybe you should have a bench press there in the, just outside the, outside the voting booth. But I think the greater point here is again how out of touch the Democrat party is. And you really couldn't think of a better way to encapsulate and illustrate the party's problem with men than the video that I just played. And it's because here it's not just that Mandani has the physical fitness of a toothpick. That's not just it. It's not just that he would, he would lose an arm wrestling match against my five year old daughter. That's not, that's not the point. I mean, that's part of the point, but that's not the whole point. It's that this video exists at all. I mean, if you can't put up real weight, if you can't, if you, you know, if you, if you're not very, you don't, if you don't have a lot of upper body strength and so you can't bench press very much. Well, okay, why would you do this on camera? Why would you. The only reason a bench press on camera, especially as a politician, is if you're trying to impress the voters, particularly men, that's the only reason to do it. There's no other reason to do it. But if you can't throw up real weight then, then why do would be like if you just decided randomly to take a geography quiz on camera and then it turns out that you can't even point to North America on a map. Why, why you could just not do that and nobody would know why highlight that fact about yourself doesn't make any sense. And the answer is that Democrats are so out of touch with men that they don't even know that this qualified. They don't know what qualifies as an impressive bench press. Like, they're so out of touch with men that they don't. They're so clueless about the culture of young men that they think 135 pounds will impress them. So it's kind of the, you know, it's the equivalent of, we've played before the, the photos and videos of politicians, usually Democrat politicians. I think some Republicans have done this where they're, they're trying to appeal to male voters. So they take a picture of themselves standing over a grill, except you can tell the grill isn't even turned on. I think there was that one. Who was it? Chuck Schumer, I think, who had raw beef patties on a, on a grill that was not turned on and there was cheese already on them. So he's making a cheeseburger with raw patties. Again, so out of touch with men that they, they don't even know how to fake it. That's what's so amazing about it. Like, I would have had more, I, I think I would have had more respect for mom Donnie if he staged a photo of himself benching what looked like £225. But it turned out that the, the weight plates were, were fake. You know, that there was, it was like there's helium. They were, they were balloons. I think I'd have more respect for that because at least it would show that you're in touch with men enough to know what would impress them. So it at least shows that much. It's like if Chuck Schumer had staged a photo where he's standing over a grill with what looks like perfectly grilled chicken breast. And maybe it's fake because maybe someone else did it, but he took credit. If I didn't know it was fake, I'd be impressed because chicken breast is one of the hardest meats to grill. It's very finicky. It's like very easy to overdo it and you end up with dried out chicken. So it's a, it's a really hard thing to do. Well. And even if I found out that the picture was fake, I would at least know that Chuck Schumer or his team, I would at least know that even if he doesn't, doesn't have the grill skills, that there's a certain level of awareness, at least that's commendable. As opposed to these pictures of guys grilling like frozen hamburger patties, which is, it's almost impossible to screw that up. They still find a way to screw it up. But frozen hamburger patties on a grill, that's, that's the 135 pound bench press of the outdoor grilling world. So that's the point here. These people are totally out of touch. They're, they're so clueless about men, about masculinity and male culture that they don't even know how to pander to men successfully. And so that's the, that's the entire problem that men, that Democrats have with men sort of encapsulated right there. All right. Moving on to another story related to this same guy, unfortunately, the New York Post reports Democratic mayoral front runner Zoran Mamdani and his comrades at the Democratic Socialists of America want to wipe out the enforcement of all misdemeanor offenses, the Post has learned in its most recent platform. The group blasts policing and attention as instruments of class war designed to guarantee the domination of the working class and demands an end to what it calls the criminalization of working class survival. According to the National Party's latest platform, for all the working class to achieve collective liberation, we must constrain, diminish and abolish the carceral forces of the state from prisons and police themselves to their manifestations in all forms throughout society. On the campaign trail, Mandani has repeatedly called for the police to stop focusing on what he refers to as non serious crimes. He said in a campaign video posted to X on Wednesday that police have a critical role to play. But right now we're relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net, which is preventing them from doing their actual jobs. Now, obviously it's insane to end the enforcement of misdemeanors. I don't think I need to explain why that's a problem. And keep in mind, when we talk about misdemeanors, we're not talking about jaywalking, okay? Even though I think the laws against jaywalking also should be enforced. But we're talking about things like theft, shoplifting, assault. These are, these are all, these all can be and very often are misdemeanors. Disorderly conduct, you know, disturbing the peace, harassment, again, these are often misdemeanors. So in other words, most of the uncivilized criminal behavior that makes living in a big city these days so miserable are misdemeanors. Most of the bad behavior that can negatively impact your daily life, especially if you live in one of these places, are, are misdemeanors. So if you end enforcement of those crimes, you get even more of that and your daily life becomes all the more miserable. Because the idea is, well, they're just misdemeanors. I mean, they're not really affecting people's lives that much. Now again, if you're living in one of these places, most of the stuff that makes your life miserable, that's misdemeanors. It's just, it's a whole bunch of it. It's a whole lot of people doing this stuff all the time. So if anything, it should go the other way. I mean, if it were up to me, I would make. I would make all shoplifting a felony. I would make all drunk and disorderly conduct a felony. I would make it a felony every time some drugged out vagrant starts disturbing or threatening normal people on the subway or on the sidewalk. I'd make all that stuff felonies if it was up to me. So in a way, I guess I'd also end the enforcement of misdemeanors, but only because I'd be turning all them into felonies. But Mamdani wants to go the other way, which as we've established is completely insane. But what I really want to focus on is this part. Reading it again. It says in its most reading platform, the group blasts policing and attention as instruments of class warfare designed to guarantee the domination of the working class. The criminalization of working class survival for all the working class. To achieve collective liberation, we must constrain, diminish and abolish the carceral forces of the state from prisons that police themselves to their manifestations in all forms throughout society. So working class, right, that's the, that's the refrain. The refrain. This is being done for the working class. And that's the most ridiculous part about it. Because they want to have less law and order. No law and order. And they frame it as a pro working class position. It's for the sake of the working class. And when you enforce the law, in particular, when you enforce these supposedly non serious, the laws against these supposedly non serious crimes, which are often quite serious. That this is a criminalization of the working class, that's the, that's the claim. But exactly the opposite is true. The left's pro crime policies are not, are not enacted for the sake of the working class. They are an attack on the working class. Because the working class are the ones who, who suffer the most. They, they do. They're the ones who take the brunt of these kinds of crimes. Because when we say. And this is an important point. When we say working class, what do we mean? Well, what we should mean when we say that, we should be referring to people who work. Now when politicians use the, the term working class, they usually mean anyone who earns under a certain arbitrary income threshold. So whatever that income threshold is, everybody under that qualifies as working class and everybody above it is not working class. But, but that, that is not true, or at least that distinction makes no sense because not everybody under that income threshold actually works. And so when we say working class, we should be talking again. If you work for a living, you're working class by definition. You're, you're in the class of people where you have to work a job in order to survive. You go out every day and you work a job and, and you do this right? So if you're so rich that you don't have to work at all, then you're not working class. But on the other end of it, right, if you're a welfare queen and you don't have a job, you're not working class. If you rely on EBT to feed you, you're not working class. The, the cracked out vagrant on the subway is not working class. This is someone who does not work. How could you be working class if you don't work? So the people who are committing most of these crimes in the city are not working class. They don't work, they don't have jobs. The people who just walk in and casually shoplift from Walgreens, the people who have made it so that the shampoo at Walmart has to be locked behind glass, that's not working class. People have done that. Working class people have jobs, okay? So they'll go in and buy their own damn shampoo because you have a job and you can afford to buy shampoo. And also you're not going to risk your livelihood because you're a, you're a, an adult with a job. You probably have a family. You're not going to risk that for the sake of buying shampoo. The people, the people that are, that are doing that, but they're stealing shampoo, these are not working class people. These are people that don't have jobs. So the, the, the victims of these crimes are the working class. And once again, when I say working class, I mean it. You, you're a normal person, you work for a living. That, in my mind, that makes you work. I don't know how else, I, I don't know how else to define the term if that doesn't make you work and go. By definition, you're in the class of people where you work for a living. You're working class. Working class people are not shoplifting, okay? They're not randomly stealing, like, a bike that was. They're not doing that. They're not getting drunk and stumbling down the street and shouting at random people. They're not doing that. They're not doing the shoplifting. They do work at and. And also own the stores where the shoplifting is happening. Working class people are not harassing commuters on the train. They are the commuters on the train. Working class people are not mugging random pedestrians. They are the pedestrians. Working class people don't steal cars. They get their cars stolen and, and so on and so on. So strictly enforcing the law, restoring law and order, those are pro working class positions. That's what you do if you care about the working class and you do things that make their lives better and safer and easier. All right, let's. One other thing I want to mention. This is pretty funny. On Friday, ESPN tweeted a little collage that they had made. They were very proud of this collage. At least they were proud of it at first. And I'll put it up on the screen. You can see it there. The caption says, all the icons, all the moments, all of ESPN all in one place. And then you see the little collage, little illustrations of all the sports icons that you can find if you watch espn. And many people notice something strange about these sports icons that they put up on. On the. In their collage. Namely, there are a lot of women on this poster. There are three women right, right there, front and center in the poster. And then many more. Which is strange because with maybe one or two exceptions, every sports icon in the country is a man. Almost all the sports icons in history have been men. Most people can't even name more than, like, one or two female athletes. And yet it seems like half of this poster is comprised of women. There were some other commentators that saw this, this tweet from espn and they actually did the counting. And apparently there are 11 WNBA players on ESPN's sports icon poster. 11 of them. Guess how many NFL players. 10. So according to ESPN, the WNBA is more iconic and has more iconic players than the NFL. The NFL, by far the most popular league in the country, somehow has fewer icons than the wnba. Even though, like, a casual sports fan could probably name 15 NFL players that are currently playing pretty easily, if not more. How many WNBA players could a casual sports fan name? One Caitlin Clark. And that's pretty much it. And by the way, just to drive the point home, the NFL averages about 18 million viewers per game. The WNBA, on the other hand, right now getting record ratings. Record for. The WNBA gets about 600,000. So that's 18 million to 600,000. The WNBA, even in the. In the playoffs, they get about. And this again is a record, but they had 1.2, 1.3 million. NFL playoffs get 40 million. The Super bowl gets 130 million. And yet you'd never know that based on this ESPN ad. And that's just the NFL, by the way. They also left off a bunch of other iconic male athletes. Scotty Scheffler, the most dominant golfer in the last 20 or 30 years. I don't follow golf, but I know that at least he didn't make the cut. Couldn't find room for him in between all the WNBA players. They even put female sportscasters on this poster. An ESPN personality named Monica McNutt made the. Which, yes, is a funny name, but she made the poster. And in. In fairness, I will say. And I didn't even see this, and people are passing it around in reaction to this. I didn't. This was from last football season or, I don't know, back in the summer, but. So I didn't see this when it happened. But she. She did have an iconic moment, this sportscaster did last year or several months ago. Here it is. Watch this. Good morning. Good morning. How you doing? Feeling good, man. Excited, you know, flew here for this. I'm up, man. I'm up, though. Jeez. Well, it's. It's a blast for us to have you here. Thank you so much for joining us. All right, so the jersey. Let's get into it because obviously this tags the one Shador Sanders who balled out in his first. I'm sorry, I apologize. Yes. That was a. A woman who talks about sports for a living who thought that a Barry Sanders jersey was a Shador Sanders jersey. This is a sports journalist who apparently has never heard of Barry Sanders. Okay, that's. I'm trying to think of a. If you're not a football fan, I'm trying to think of a way to. A frame of reference. It. It'd be like if your heart surgeon couldn't tell the difference between a heart and your liver. Like, it's, It's. It's like that. And the consequences aren't quite as dire, but still, it's like that. Barry Sanders is one of the top five or 10 players of all time and in the NFL. And this woman who works in sports could not identify his jersey yet. She's an icon. She's an icon of sports. A legendary figure. More legendary than Barry Sanders himself, apparently. Now, hilariously enough, ESPN did end up deleting this post just simply because they got bullied for it, which is always fun. But the fact that it was ever made at all, the fact that it ever existed, only goes to show how absolutely determined these people are to feminize everything, you know. So this is another example. Anyone who says that Wokeness is dead, it's not. I wish it was, but it's not. And it can never be. As long as leftism exists, wokeness will exist because they're one in the same. And this also explains why, like, ESPN is probably the wokest company in all of media and entertainment. Uber, uber woke and, and not becoming any less so. Okay, they have not. Like if, if Wokeness died, ESPN did not get the memo because they're still leaning into this stuff. Absolutely. And why they say so woke? It's because they're trying to, to. They're, they're in the sports world and so they're trying to counteract the aggressive, unrelenting maleness of sports. Sports are a, an inherently masculine thing. And so that's what they're up against. Now. It's easy enough to feminize, you know, action films and superhero movies and so on. Those movies don't do well, but you can, you can make a movie with a female action hero who can beat up, you know, a bunch of male bad guys and all that kind of stuff. You can do that because it's all fake, but in sports it's different. And so like, no matter what they do, no matter how much they insist, we're just never going to live in a world where females are. The more, the more, the more are more dominant athletes or more iconic athletes where people are more interested in female sports than male sports? We're never going to live in that world. We can't live in it because this is just a biological reality. And that's the thing that ESPN is bumping up against. And so to compensate for that, they have to be even. 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I'll read some of the reporting from msn.com', students at the University of South Carolina were thrown into chaos on Sunday evening. Sirens blared, emergency alerts lit up phones, and terrified undergraduates barricaded themselves inside classrooms and dorms as armed police stormed the Thomas Cooper Library. For more than 90 minutes, fear gripped the campus. At about 6:30pm local time, the university issued a Carolina alert warning of an active shooter suspected to be near the campus library. The alert described the suspect as a white male, approximately 6ft tall, wearing black trousers. Students and staff were told to evacuate if safe, to do so, or to barricade themselves inside classrooms and dormitories. Panic spread quickly across the Columbia campus as police arrived and began a floor by floor search of the library. Now, while this was all going on, videos were widely circulating on social media of a guy walking casually around campus carrying an alleged rifle. I'm gonna put some of those videos up on the screen right now. You can see them right now. This terrifying footage went viral on X, thanks in large part to the efforts of Representative Nancy Mace, who wants to be the governor of South Carolina. And she was all over this thing. She was tweeting frantically about it. She repeatedly identified this guy as the suspected shooter. She posted a video of, of this kid along with this caption. Here's the alleged school shooter at USC Bologna. White male, black shorts, gray T shirt, backpack. And then again she tweeted, active shooter, University of South Carolina, Columbia campus school library. White male, 6ft tall, black shorts, gray shirt. So like I said, she was all over this. And that makes sense. You know, it's important to get the word out, get the word out about a guy carrying a rifle on campus, a rifle that looks weirdly skinny and pointy. It appears that this rifle has a handle at the bottom and then kind of a flares out a little bit and then comes to a point, actually, the rifle looks almost exactly like an umbrella. Actually, turns out the rifle is an umbrella. The guy identified by Nancy Mace as the alleged shooter was carrying an umbrella. So it appears, and I don't think there's been official confirmation on this. The police looked into it. There was no, there was no shooter. So it was all a false alarm. And, and Nancy Mace and others on social media were identifying this guy as the shooter. It, it appears that the, the panic, the lockdown, the major police response, that all of that was actually a reaction to a guy holding an umbrella. Now here's that same kid later in the night showing off his umbrella. You can see it there. Sure enough, that's no rifle. Now, I know you might be thinking, well, this was a whole lot of chaos over an umbrella. And also you're probably thinking a lawmaker who wants to be governor just falsely accused a private citizen of being a mass shooter because he was carrying an umbrella. I mean, shouldn't there be some kind of accountability for that? Shouldn't she at least apologize for that, which she has not done? Well, to the latter point, I'll only say that, yes, Nancy Mace, her actions were. Were reckless, irrational, could have gotten somebody killed, but at least she managed to send multiple tweets in a row without posting a selfie. So look at the bright side. I mean, I would have expected all of Nancy's tweets about the alleged shooting to be accompanied by a picture of herself looking sad while showing off her cleavage. Instead, she went the entire night without posting a single selfie, as far as I know. So that's a personal record for Nancy, and we should congratulate her for it. Second, I think this whole story, just to get serious for a moment, provides us with a crucial opportunity to have a real conversation about common sense umbrella control. You know, the type of umbrella this kid was carrying around simply should not be permitted. That was a fully automatic assault umbrella. Now, how do we differentiate assault umbrellas from regular umbrellas? Well, obviously, assault umbrellas are the ones that look super scary. If people are scared of an umbrella, that means it's an assault umbrella umbrella. Even if the umbrella isn't used to physically assault anyone, it still assaults our feelings, our sense of security, our peace of mind. And this is why, as I've. As I've argued for years, every umbrella should have an old fashioned curved handle. It should look like the kind of umbrella that people might have used in the 18th century. I mean, after all, when our founding fathers gave us the right to carry umbrellas, they never imagined a world where these newfangled, modern, scary, all black umbrellas would exist. If an umbrella doesn't look like the kind of umbrella that Benjamin Franklin might have used, it doesn't belong on the street. Only trained professionals, people who use umbrellas as part of their job, should be allowed to use the kind of umbrella that the University of South Carolina student was carrying around. That kind of umbrella should be reserved for umbrella specialists. You know, like crossing guards, golf caddies, that sort of thing. Now, you can make the argument that no one should have an umbrella. Really? Why do you need one anyway? If it's raining, wear a raincoat, grab a poncho. Better just stay inside. I mean, frankly, I'm suspicious of anyone who feels the need to own an umbrella? I mean, you have a roof on your house. Why do you need to carry a little roof around with you? It's bizarre. If nobody owned an umbrella, we could avoid tens of thousands of umbrella related injuries annually. And according to some estimates, more than 89,000 facial lacerations and eye injuries every year because of umbrellas. That's not even counting the dozens of people who are comically blown away by the wind like cartoon characters because they were carrying umbrellas. And then it gets windy. And I know these statistics sound made up, and they are, but that's beside the point. What if they weren't made up? What if it were true that umbrellas kill more people every year than cancer and heart disease combined? That's a scary thought. And if we don't get our umbrella problem under control and enact some common sense regulations, that nightmare could soon become a reality. That's why, ultimately, I'm grateful for the work Nancy Mase has done to raise awareness about the threat of unregulated umbrellas. She never led the charge against gender ideology like she claims all the time. But on this issue, she is unquestionably the leader. And that is why, in honor of Nancy Mace, we must say that umbrellas are today canceled. I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. Hey there. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. And I'm Georgia Howe, and we're the hosts of Morning Wire. We bring you all the news you need to know in 15 minutes or less. Watch and listen to Morning Wire seven days a week, everywhere you get your podcasts.
