Happy Friday, guys! Today I’m reacting to this week’s top stories, starting with “Morton’s” trending #2 on Twitter nationally from angry backlash after the restaurant asked for people harassing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to be civil. Plus Macy Gray bows to the mob, NPR complains about the WNBA wage gap, and more.
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guys we don't use a teleprompter on this
show you know it but we do have a a a
big man i will say in this country who's
carrying quite a big position of power
who uses a teleprompter but somehow
can't do it properly and if anything
even more so than being funny it's sad
it is sad we won't name him by name i
think you guys know who i'm talking
about we're going to move on here today
we have plenty of stories to cover as it
is fun friday and we're going to be
doing a week in review taylor's here
yo yo yo
sorry you caught me uh looking at the
chat for a second oh good so we're gonna
be covering several things that have
been popping up in the news today uh
some of which are trending on twitter
morton steakhouse which i never thought
i'd be talking about on this show is
trending because brett kavanaugh tried
to sit and have a meal there and to no
avail because leftist activists had to
come and confront him about his abortion
views which is great then we have macy
gray
who is
harikari essentially and apologized to
the woke mob for making statements about
a woman being a woman
from there we're gonna get into the aclu
claiming that kids can transition
at any point you know you're never too
young we'll talk about men being able to
breastfeed and lastly brittany greiner
who is now uh well imprisoned and has
been imprisoned in
russia but first i need to fix my
headphones that are on the ground here
let's go
so story number one morton steakhouse
like i said never thought i'd be talking
about this on today's show here's the
headline out of the hill morton's
condemns abortion rights protesters for
dish for disrupting kavanaugh's freedom
to eat
dinner we'd like to think we all have
the freedom to eat dinner right we can
go out uh we can go sit down with our
families we can go to the movies we can
go to the park we can go to sports
events we can go anywhere we'd like to
and hopefully not be met with a group of
angry protesters out for your blood and
your condemnation but that doesn't seem
to be the case for justice kavanaugh
morton steakhouse if you guys are
unfamiliar it's a very popular uh
steakhouse franchise i think across the
united states we separate we have
several here in california and brett
kavanaugh went there we'll read the
article here supreme court justice brett
kavanaugh one of the conservative
justices who voted to overturn roe v
wade last month was forced to exit
through a back door on of morton's
steakhouse in downtown washington dc by
protesters who had learned he was there
protested gap protesters gathered
outside the steakhouse on wednesday
night upon learning that kavanaugh was
inside and called the restaurant's
manager demanding that the justice be
kicked out according to politico's
daniel lippman imagine the sense of
entitlement you must have
to see somebody else eating at a
restaurant hear that they're there you
get up you show up and you call the
manager and tell them that they should
be kicked out
a a paying patron
a respectful patron meneyad who's just
sitting trying to enjoy a meal and you
come and tell them that they should be
kicked out but that's not the end of it
morton's condemned the actions of the
protesters luckily writing to politico
honorable supreme court justice
kavanaugh
and all of our other patrons at the
restaurant were unduly harassed by
unruly protesters while eating dinner at
our morton's restaurant politics
regardless of your side of views should
not trample the freedom at play of the
right to congregate and eat dinner the
statement continued there is a time and
place for everything disturbing the
dinner of all of our customers was an
act of selfishness and void of decency
kavanaugh was ultimately forced to leave
through the back door exit after
protests built outside the main door of
morton so you have all these people
coming at you imagine how fearful you
might be as an individual that you are
sitting on what is a normal day
trying to have dinner and groups of
people come and are screaming at you for
your political beliefs and he's no
stranger to this we all know brett
kavanaugh had somebody show up at his
house where he and his family live
armed ready to kill him
ready to assassinate him for his
political beliefs
man this man has been through the ringer
i must say the sexual assault
allegations which we both know
you know looked very very fraudulent the
attempted assassination all of the other
protests that have been sued in the wake
of him being uh placed on the supreme
court and now getting kicked out of a
steakhouse while trying to eat dinner
and i know i'm gonna hear people say oh
it's just dinner it's just dinner who
cares it's not that big of a deal
it's not just dinner you know it's you
leading your normal life it's you being
protected
in this country
even though you have differing political
perspectives it is wild to me that
anybody could look at this and and say
this is the right thing this is a good
thing that these people did and they can
brush it off luckily morton steakhouse
did not they put out that statement
which i commend them for because it'd be
very easy to look at the situation and
all the angry screaming people who are
coming at your your restaurant your
business and go oh i'm so sorry i'm so
sorry we should have kicked him out we
should have done something sooner we
should have pandered to the unpaying
entitled protesters who show up outside
of our restaurant to have somebody a
patron kicked out
how ridiculous do you have to be but
that's where we're at right now and
that's
what what i really think is the the
underlying truth here is we've
emboldened them to be like this we
really have the woke left has been
taught that if we scream loud enough if
we are aggressive as we possibly can be
people are going to apologize and we're
going to get to a story of apology later
on in the show today but that's what
they've learned i get aggressive i
scream i shout i call out companies i
call the manager i make myself seen not
only do i make myself seen but i block
other people from being able to leave to
live their lives
in ways like getting dinner
and if i do that enough and if i'm super
aggressive about it guess what they're
gonna pander to me and they will cave
they will cave to what i do and that's
their tactic day in and day out let's be
aggressive as possible so that we can
get people to bend to whatever illogical
irrational
non-based and reality whim that we have
on any given day so
even kavanaugh like if i was justice
kavanaugh i know there's there's fear
for for one safety and things like that
if they were able to keep
the the people outside of morton's i
would have just sat there
cut the stake
ate it and just looked them i would
honestly be like excuse me manager can i
sit right right by the window out the
front where all those people are if they
had security of course i'm not trying to
get myself killed but if they had
security you know
you have something to say i'm going to
continue eating my food i'm going to
continue eating my food in fact can i
get dessert as well let's bring out
another course let's bring out another
drink and i would sit there and i would
have those people waste their time waste
their energy waste their screaming waste
their stupid signs that they bring
to these protests that they do and i
would just revel
revel in the fact that these people are
willing to waste so much energy to
disrupt your dinner
dang i'm just saying thug life omelet i
see the sunglasses coming down right
there just ready to drop that on them
that's how i feel about it i love that
that's how i feel about it that's how
you should confront people like this
because as as loud as they're going to
be they're cowards
they truly are cowards as emboldened as
they feel
cowards and the the worst thing that you
can do when confronted with angry
cowards like this is coward
in your own way and and let them know
that they've caused you discomfort
because now all these people are going
to go through twitter and actually look
at what people are saying in regard to
this it's ridiculous all these people
are like yay yeah force him out of his
restaurant make him leave who cares that
he doesn't get dessert let's
let's read some of these
this is jessica kirsten she says just a
thought i'd rather be forced to leave
mortons for being harassed than forced
to have a baby after being raped by my
uncle
i just can't deal with the amount of
stupidity that is expressed on the app
that is twitter and now elon musk's deal
of buying it has apparently fallen
through so we're gonna have to deal with
a lot more of it while not having our
voice to respond to it but
again i don't need to get into what the
overturning of roe versus wade means
i'll simply say it goes back to your
states and most people especially those
who have been raped and are seeking an
abortion are going to be able to get
their abortion whether it be in their
state or another so that's off the table
but look how comfortable people are
with ruining the livelihoods of others
that should be a very scary thing to
hear
because that means that no matter what
happens to you you know the most
atrocious heinous crime can be committed
against you and they'll look at you and
go
well what's your political beliefs
it's
honestly tantamount to what women used
to complain about after sexual assault
allegations when they go what are you
wearing
is that not the same thing when you
watch somebody who is having a crime
committed against him not in this case
we can talk about harassment we could
talk about possibly stalking as a crime
there and then they go what are your
political beliefs then did you deserve
it because you you are a conservative on
the supreme court did you deserve it
because you think that men are men and
women are women
did you deserve it because you voted for
donald trump in the last election
that is exactly what it is so to all the
leftists who cry about oh what was she
wearing you're doing the exact same
thing you're doing the exact same thing
let's read another tweet here
i heard kavanaugh had to endure a back
alley abortion no sorry he had to walk
into a back alley in dc after eating a
steak dinner at 200
per plate mortons boo effing who
next one
what did brett kavanaugh and his
right-wing supreme court pals think
their lives would be like after they
criminally assaulted 200 million
american women did they think people
would just smile at them in restaurants
also goodbye mortons for aggressively
taking kavanaugh's side
aggressively
to go hey guys regardless of political
beliefs can you not harass somebody in
our restaurant that's aggressively
taking kavanaugh's side
is it
no of course it is not of course it is
not and criminally assaulting 200
million american women
give me a break
give me a break is this the twisted
reality that some people live in yes
and i can't imagine what your day to day
must look like if this is the reality
that you live in
they would be so uncomfortable with this
if this was anybody on their side having
to endure these types of attacks this
type of stalking this type of harassment
they would be crying and screaming and
talking about how we need justice they
would build a thousand non-profit
organizations that are fighting for this
one singular person screaming say their
name
but when it happens to somebody that
they disagree with oh it's totally fine
it's totally fine let's read one more
here justice brett kavanaugh was forced
to exit morrison rorton's restaurant
through a backdoor after protesters show
up sadly kavanaugh could not have
dessert because of kavanaugh because of
kavanaugh a sexual predator
women no longer have rights over their
own bodies f kavanaugh's wants and
feelings
you heard it here first folks 6 000
likes on that if you disagree with
somebody politically
who cares about your wants who cares
about your feelings you are completely
dehumanized you are no longer a human
and you don't deserve the value that
comes along with having a human life you
don't deserve dignity you don't deserve
compassion and at the very least you
don't deserve to sit in a space that you
are paying to sit at without being
bothered by
ignorant
ignorant protesters and this is where
we're at and it's no surprise you know
i i'll tell you a story from my time on
the left i don't know if i'll get into
specifics because it might give away the
organization that i was working for but
when i was in florida working for a
left-leaning organization as a youth
organizer there was an incident that
made a lot of headline news in the state
of florida and i believe even nationally
this made news a person from my
organization a man
found out that a a certain conservative
uh public servant was going to be going
to the movies with her family and she
went to the movies with her family her
husband and her children to see mr
rogers the mr rogers movie
and what did they do
he
and his cohort showed up followed her in
and harassed her while she was trying to
go to the movies and everybody at the
organization that i was working for
cheered this on i mean in lock step and
this is the exact same thing that has
happened in this situation and it's
because this culture is being bred with
the ideology that if somebody disagrees
with you they don't deserve comfort and
in fact if you can be the one if you can
be the person to bring them that
discomfort better for you you can go
home and pat yourself on the back after
doing it and it's disgusting it truly is
i cannot imagine
disliking somebody so much that i feel
the need to not only use my own time to
find out where they are but once i do go
where they are harass them scream at
them while they are just trying to live
their lives but are we surprised by this
when we have videos like this samantha
bee a very popular leftist who has her
own talk show and this is what she's
able to say live on air i can't describe
how painful it is to be here now in a
place where the supreme court has the
power to erase 50 years of
constitutional law make no mistake this
is not where it ends conservatives will
not rest until they have come for all of
our rights everything we have fought for
could be lost unless we take it back
it's not just about voting in november
it's about doing everything in our power
to protect and help vulnerable people
access abortion across state lines and
we have to raise hell in our cities in
washington in every restaurant just as
alito eats at for the rest of his life
because if republicans have made our
lives hell it's time to return the favor
again for the rest of his life and this
very specific in every restaurant i
wonder who they were inspired by
possibly could it have been that they
watched this samantha bee and they just
parroted everything that she's saying
and follow it in lockstep in their own
livelihoods in their own lives go to
every restaurant for the rest of his
life
can you imagine
you know i feel pity for people who are
like this how tortured of a soul you
must be to allow your whole life to be
dictated and scribed out by what other
people are doing with theirs by what
peop by who people that you don't even
like
are doing
if you didn't like somebody i imagine
you'd want to be as far away from them
as possible but instead what these
people want to do is find every place
that they go to and be right there shame
on the people who do this shame on them
and you know they probably won't live to
regret it because they their their minds
aren't open enough to even to even form
a thought
about how distasteful it is to do
something like that
but alas here we are i'm glad that
mortens as as hopefully a franchise has
stood up and said this is not acceptable
whatsoever
and
in a time where this is being
really brushed off and if not brushed
off encouraged what do you think is the
is the end goal here what do you think
this ends as because if it starts with
harassing people at movie theaters with
going to the restaurants that they're
eating at with following them when
they're in when they're with their
families does it maybe lead to
the crazies that we see who go armed to
to places like justice kavanaugh's house
where his family and his children live
isn't that
the the the ideology itself that that
practice coming to full fruition isn't
that how it ends
especially if we're encouraging it and
telling people that they're doing a good
thing
by harassing other people
i have a feeling that people will be
pretty inspired by that and they'll go
okay well we got the restaurant how can
we do more
what's next
but we're the ones who incite violence
right
we're the ones who when when we say
fight like hell but do it peacefully
we're the ones inciting violence we're
in fact
insurrectionists we're in fact a threat
to democracy i can't think of a bigger
threat to democracy
than having your politicians public
officials supreme court justices not be
able to lead their normal lives
because of fear that they will be
attacked and harassed like this that
seems like a threat to democracy but is
cnn msnbc abc are they going to run the
story like that
no no they won't they'll cheer it on
and it's training people too too
our leaders are saying we resolve our
differences not through working within
the system through legitimate means not
through winning the argument by forming
better uh lines of reasoning than uh
than our opponents it's no we bully
people into submission we shame people
we uh it's it's steps away from violence
and it's not surprising that we do get
the the crazy people who who do push
over the edge like the guy who showed up
at brett kavanaugh's family home and uh
with a with a rifle and said i'm here to
kill him um but that's that's not i mean
that's a horrible thing that is a threat
to democracy but even more so is the
collapse of
the mechanisms by which we resolve our
differences and if we
descend into a place where we are
bullying each other and it's a fight for
power in that way
that is how democracy collapses and we
thought we looked earlier this week i
think yesterday's episode at some
political ads and just we were lamenting
at the state of politics in america that
it's become this this uh theater and
this caricaturization of one another but
another layer of that is
uh we're losing our sense of like
lowercase l liberalism which is like
using free speech to discuss differences
and uh using representative government
and and your system of checks and
balances and working within that to
establish laws and govern yourself and
instead it's it's becoming mob rule and
it's looking more like this uh you know
if you don't get your way then go out
and shame people go out and bully them
go out and bully politicians and and uh
it's it's not a healthy direction that
we're headed in no not at all and and
and
to your point there yeah you can tell
their goal is not discussion
and there will be some people say well
we just wanted to talk to him we just
showed up to the steakhouse in order to
talk to him how else are we going to air
our grievances you didn't show up to
talk you showed up to to get somebody to
submit to you that's all that you want
and i can't imagine that anybody can
look at that and think that that's
effective if we show up and harass him
and stalk him that's going to get him to
change his mind he's going to go to work
the next day and go you know what i
really think we should we should rethink
that roe versus wade overturning opinion
that we all drafted guys i really think
we need to work on that because 20
people just showed outside the
restaurant that i was at and and tried
to harass me
very very effective and in that same
vein you saw the news today of the the
former japanese prime minister being
assassinated shot and killed
and you saw news publications i forget
the name of the specific news
publication go you know former prime
minister shinzo abe a hard conservative
and like really negative negative
attachments to the fact that this man
was a conservative and then they talk
about the fact that he's assassinated
you can tell in the subtext they're
saying oh well he's a horrible
conservative and he he deserved it
that's why he got what he got and that's
why he was assassinated
if you allow that culture to be fostered
the tweet was later deleted but if you
allow that
culture to be fostered and clearly
that's how people feel what do you think
that means for us
not good it was npr by the way npr
national public radio which we just
talked about earlier this week on the
show
npr
and and what do they directly uh sure
i'll read it
uh former japanese prime minister shinzo
abe a divisive arch conservative and his
one of his nation's most powerful and
influential figures has died after being
shot at during campaign speech a
divisive arch conservative a divisive
arch conservative you know what that
means they're saying he deserved it
it's essentially the subject that he
deserved it
is what they're saying and and they got
it got deleted obviously because there
was a bit of outrage attached to to
people who read that
but that's what they really think
they put it out there and even though
it's deleted now that's what they really
think guys so it's no surprise that
people are being confronted in in
restaurants and at the movie theater and
we have people like samantha bee saying
that they should not know peace and that
it's time to make their lives hell and
the worst thing that you can do as i
said before is submit the worst thing
that you can do is apologize and now
we're going to move on to a story where
somebody has done exactly that well not
exactly in a roundabout way done exactly
that macy gray
who you all know is
i don't know that you all know her
she it has been known to be quite the
leftist she did an interview
to talk
on piers morgan and the subject matter
of what it means to be a woman came up
and macy gray stated that even though we
have men going out and getting surgeries
and changing their parts and all these
things and then saying they're a woman
it does not make them a woman she said
i'm sorry that's how i feel it does not
make you a woman no matter what you do
to yourself no matter what you say it
does not make you a woman
after that was aired of course the woke
mob came four macy gray's throat
she didn't back down she got all the
hate messages she got the death threats
she went through what is the normal
the normal course for saying something
like that and in fact tweeted out all of
you coming on my page threatening me and
calling me names just because i said
something you don't agree with be
whatever you want to be and f off
is what she said in a poorly spelled
fill full of grammatical error message
on on twitter
but respect i read that and i said
respect 100 respect what you just did
there this is the
only really right answer when it comes
to people coming at you in this way but
alas it did not last long as macy gray
went on the today show and had this
conversation about the controversial
happenings
we're back with grammy winning singer
macy gray she came onto the music scene
more than two decades ago and now macy's
getting ready to drop her latest album
it is called the reset look at how just
like
sad scared defeated she looks
she is going to be performing one of the
songs off that album in just a few
minutes macy yeah it's good to see you
um i've actually felt i've seen a lot of
you in the past few days recently yeah
you were on the piers morgan show and
there was a question about trans women
and
this was what you said in part
as a woman just because you go change
your parts doesn't make you a woman if
you want me to call you a her i will
because that's what you want but that
doesn't make you a woman just because i
call you a her just because you've got a
surgery you can call yourself whatever
you want there was a wave of of backlash
that came as a result um just tell me
where you are right now on that
statement
well uh i never of course meant to hurt
anybody with with what i said i'm not
i'm actually a huge uh i think it takes
a lot of courage to be yourself to to go
out in the world and be honest about who
you are
and uh so i think anyone who is uh
in the lgbt community is a hero and sets
an example for us
you can just tell first of all she's not
said that i i take back the statements
that i made when i said them to pierce
morgan she still believes exactly what
she said but is now uncomfortable in
saying it because of the responses she's
gotten and probably because her entire
team has told her mesa you got to walk
this back you got an album coming out we
want people to buy it we don't need the
controversy we don't need people calling
you a transphobe we need to get you out
there and publicize you retracting this
statement in some way shape or form so
you can tell she still agrees with
exactly what she's what she said at
piers morgan
lgbt people are heroes
for what
for what you get an entire month out of
the year you're fully accepted legally
you're completely equal there's really
no more battle to be waged ahead other
than the fact that a lot of people are
pushing for kids to be able to
transition at this point so i don't know
exactly where that statement came from
other than we're just trying to placate
you know to
to make people
feel better about the entire situation
i'm so sorry do i accept people for
whatever sexuality they have and
whatever they want to be
trans when they're adults uh but
no you're not a hero i'm sorry i
i don't i don't be i'm not a hero just
because i was born a black female and
i'm accepting of that taylor's not a
hero because he is who taylor is
you have to do things to uh to
get the the label of being a hero uh and
coming out about your sexuality or
whatever your gender is is certainly not
something worthy of being called a hero
all of us with that you know
um
so i said some things uh that that uh
didn't go over well
but um my intention was never to to hurt
anybody i feel bad uh
that i did hurt some people
and and i think it's it's um
you know it's just about education it's
about conversation and and us getting to
a point where we
understand each other and and um
and and that that only happens with you
know i've learned a lot through this
so i think that that was one of the
reasons uh it might have happened just
it was a huge learning experience for me
and and uh
you know it's just sad when they start
saying they've learned something in the
experience what did you learn you
learned that there are probably hundreds
of thousands people who are
batshit crazy it's like i don't know
what else did you learn i don't know uh
what else you could have possibly
learned other than the fact that it's
not okay to accept reality anymore in
the united states of america
and i just have a compassion for for
you know what i i think you you you can
like i said in there you can call
yourself what like you
you whoever you believe you are and and
no one can dictate that for you or take
that away from you you know
i think life is an education process the
more you sit with people the more you
talk to people it changes your
perspective so has has your perspective
changed do you feel
i've learned so much and i think um
you know being a woman is a vibe and
it's something i'm i'm very proud of
and it's it's very precious to me and
and
i i think that if you
in your heart feel that that's what you
are then that's what you are regardless
of what anybody says
now she's not exactly wrong with the
statements she just made uh let's let's
walk this back first of all the
interview oh and macy did we did we
learn something today like she's a
kindergartner like she's
four years old did we did we learn that
that c comes after b and then and then d
after c macy can you now write the
alphabet out can you write that man can
be woman and woman can be man macy and
she's like uh i certainly learned a lot
that's honestly the best i don't know
what else you can i certainly learned a
lot about the bs that other people think
in in this life i've certainly learned a
lot but the condescending attitude
that these people come at you with
when
they need the lesson macy should be
turning back to her and being like did
you learn that women are typically born
with these parts and men are typically
born with these parts even though some
men want to you know adopt
women characteristics they can't be a
woman
that's how that exchange should have
gone but we're in clown world where
everything is upside down and right is
wrong and and wrong is right and black
is white and all these things and
instead we're watching the exact
opposite take place right in front of
our eyes but i will talk about something
that macy i think is absolutely right
about if somebody truly believes that
that that is what they are
then to themselves that is what they are
you're going to have a very hard time
convincing somebody of anything
different if that is who they truly deep
down believe themselves to be but does
that mean that they get to turn around
and make you submit to what they think
they are
no
no and that's exactly how i treat all of
this stuff you know you
yes if you're a grown adult and you want
to go get the surgery and do all that
by all means do that you want to call
yourself a woman by all means you do
that you want to change your pronouns by
all means you do that do not then turn
around and tell me i got to do it
because that's not how
life
works you can do anything to serve your
own self-image and and what you believe
and by golly if you believe that you're
a woman i imagine you're going to
believe you're a woman for quite some
time
but it is not my job to believe that
with you let's sear her closing
statement here well thanks you know what
i'm saying okay so um
but yeah i've i've learned a lot
absolutely and i'm glad i did well now i
know thank you for clearing that up
because i think people got confused and
people sometimes you realize that
through education you maybe you do you
feel differently about things
no baby
i didn't no she doesn't she doesn't you
know she got off she took that hot mic
off and she's like women are women i'm
so sorry i'm a woman
she's a woman the woman i just talked to
but
they're not i i'm i don't know how else
to how else to cut the cake for you
and it's just sad to see somebody just
like
shrivel into themselves
she speaks about you know it takes true
courage to be yourself
and it's courage that she was not able
to find in this moment which is really
sad to to
say that out loud on tv yet be doing the
exact opposite in this entire three
minute segment it is courageous to be
yourself you got to get through a lot of
roadblocks a lot of blinders a lot of
perceptions of what other people expect
from you and what other people want to
see from you and what other people's
visions of success are for you for you
to go you know what
no i'm going to do my own thing i'm
going to use my own perception i'm going
to use my own expectations of myself and
i'm going to truly be myself
and the fact that she couldn't do that
here and stand strong in it
is just real sad to me
yeah you're right it takes courage to
say two plus two is four when the whole
world is saying two plus two equals five
right and this this whole time we're
watching this it was i was just like
thinking this feels like a piece of
propaganda in a totalitarian state where
uh somebody you know violated the party
standards and said something they said
and said it's like okay well this is
your act of penance to get back into the
good graces and will have mercy on you
and not excommunicate you from the party
if you come back in and you're a public
figure so you have to correct what you
said and you know didn't isn't it nice
that you learned you know that we can
educate ourselves and come to a
different perspective and it's just it's
scary because if you're well once you
see it through that lens you can't unsee
uh just the way that our culture seems
to work these days which is
there is sort of this progressive
orthodoxy that you are so expected to
pay lip service to and subscribes to and
uh you know macy gray you can see like
the the
tension in her soul of like well i don't
want to completely sell myself out but i
know i need to
submit and you it's just like this
defeated uh feeling that she has which
is also by the way how people feel in
totalitarian societies
and that's kind of what it feels like
that's increasingly what we're living in
is this like soft totalitarianism where
you um you no longer think for yourself
and have courage to be an individual as
she says is what the heroic thing to do
is but the irony is as you so
brilliantly pointed out is she's doing
the opposite of that by affirming uh
what she knows to be untrue so it's just
a mess it really is a mess and yeah you
liken it to these totalitarian states
we've reacted to videos out of the
concentration camps for uyghur muslims
in the cc like in the ccp under the
chinese communist party and it's like
you can see it with your eyes that these
people are just shriveled uh had their
livelihoods stripped away from them have
everything that they believe stripped
away from them but the video goes well
look uh salem here is able to do
paintings while she's in in the camps
here while she's getting re-educated and
sam's i love painting yes it's it's so
great to be here and and look at all the
things that i've created oh oh well
marcos over here he does model
architecture look at all the art that
he's yes it's so great to be here and i
completely agree and i'm so happy that
they've done this to me because i've
learned so much
i've learned so much in the re-education
camp since i've been here
it's
through line and you have a spectrum of
okay it's not as severe to be macy gray
who's a popular musical artist who's on
the today show talking about it and it's
fairly severe to be at a literal
concentration camp under the chinese
communist party but the tune is the same
the tune is the same we just have to
progress from one state to the other
so you have to decide as an individual
yeah no i'm not gonna do that i'm not
gonna do that because giving away that
small piece of yourself is tantamount
doing the same on a much larger scale
and that's where it's headed if you
don't say something if you don't stand
up macy should have went on the today
show and be like no i didn't change my
mind at all nothing changed my mind and
you know i'm so glad she should have in
fact been like yeah i'm gonna come on
and apologize yeah put me on the show
and go no
absolutely not and i wanted to be on
this today show to say it so that
millions of people could hear me say
that i'm not taking those statements
back also buy my new album
and you know what people would have done
conservatives who don't even agree with
macy gray would have went and bought her
album
and said because you were courageous and
you stood up and you stood by your
beliefs i'm going to support you even
though i don't agree with you most of
the time that's what would happen but
instead we cower
instead we shrivel into ourselves and we
we round about apologize to the people
who
don't care if you live or die they do
not care macy gray could have gone on
the today show that day said those
things walked out and got hit by a bus
and the people who she just apologized
to would not care at all they would not
care at all
so it's a waste and in the meantime as
macy gray is walking back on her
definition of what it means to be a
biological woman or a biological man
fatherly
yeah the fatherly is the name of this
publication this magazine
why can't men breastfeed
fatherly if you remember them we've
covered them on the show today i mean uh
before is the exact same publication who
when pride month came around put out an
article saying
yes you should bring your child to the
pride parades even though they are going
to be sexual kinks and naked people and
all of these performative sexual acts
it's totally fine to bring your child in
fact you should encourage it to your
children fatherly
headquarters
is what said that and now they're
telling you
well why can't men breastfeed
why can't we take
the you know the role of a lactating
mother and instead call it a man why
can't that be a husband why can't that
be uh something that we we
we acknowledge as having the pronouns he
her i mean he him why why is that not
possible
and if we allow them to descend into
madness
they will descend into madness
and this isn't by the way this is
something that
got wind of because twitter put it in
their featured uh events of the day so
this is like anybody who's logged into
twitter just sees this fatherly article
right promoted and so there's the double
whammy of this
insanity that's bent on calling into
question
uh gender roles and sexuality and all
this stuff and then there's twitter
platforming it which now is
not going to be owned by elon musk as
far as we can tell so looks like we got
more of this to look forward to oh our
jobs aren't going anywhere anytime soon
the culture war continues we're going to
be here our last story of the day
is covering
brittany griner you know her or probably
don't know her because who watches the
wnba but
you know her now
you probably just heard of her because
she got arrested in russia on drug
charges
while she was there drug smuggling
charges i believe she had marijuana and
went to the airport uh and was arrested
in russia for breaking russian law now
she's been asking our president our
repeat the line president to bring her
back home
uh although griner has a history of
criticizing the u.s
saying the national anthem should not be
played
and has spent months protesting the
united states of america
the u.s sure comes in handy when you
need freedom doesn't it doesn't it but
while we're here we can criticize it and
and criticism is fine okay but sheer
outright hatred towards your country
uh is
maybe
something that she's going to reconsider
once her time is served because i
believe uh she is going to just be
serving time they're going to treat her
as if she
is
a russian person who broke russian law
even though you're an american turns out
your american protections
don't exactly follow you when you go to
other countries and it is smart to keep
up on the laws of the country that you
are in for you could face issues like
being arrested for drug smuggling in
russia
honestly i feel bad for her i feel bad
especially if it was just marijuana i'm
like oh i feel real bad for you but also
know
the rules of the country that you're in
this has happened before to
i believe several americans at this
point i think there was one in was it
like singapore or vietnam a young man
north korea
that's a different one the north korean
guy he stole a poster of some sort and
now is dead
because of of the way he was treated in
north korean prison i think there was
another kid who went to singapore broke
a law there and was
convicted of of charges and then
just beaten
with a stick i believe he was given
like six whippings and then the u.s had
to negotiate with the country to get it
down to four which still is uh quite the
beating i can't imagine having to
withstand that but
it's
it's a
it's a normal thing you know you gotta
you gotta first know what you're getting
into when you go to another country and
maybe be hyper vigilant about not
breaking the laws there and and two
maybe have a little bit more
appreciation for your country and i mean
as far as this goes
sure let the u.s help her and see if
they can help her out of this situation
i'm sure it was just an ignorant moment
where she didn't realize that
other countries were not going to be as
forgiving for her actions as the united
states was and if you can help somebody
who is a a prominent figure in the u.s
get out of a sticky situation in another
country i'm not going to to be angry if
they go and try to help her in this
situation
she's got a
young budding career in the wnba
um maybe
i don't know
and
uh yeah i'd
try maybe to help her out and see if you
can
can do anything about what is going on
with her but again
stupid stupid games will she stand for
the anthem at the next w do you even
play the anthem in wnba games that's a
question but will she is she going to
sing a different song if the u.s helps
her out if this whole sticky situation
she's in russia and she comes back or is
it still going to be the black lives
matter neil for the anthem i don't want
the anthem i hate the us type thing
because the u.s starts to look real good
when you go to any other country and i i
i can't stress that enough the the
criticism that we levy to our own
government will probably look a lot
smaller when you go to other countries
and see what is going on over there and
to see the the uh freedoms that can be
stripped from you at any given moment
this last uh tweet from npr
of course npr the highest wnba salary is
about
228 000 a year
on the nba question mark
over 45 million that stark pay and
equity has pushed many wnba players to
play overseas where they can earn
more
i don't know what you want me to say npr
once more than two people start watching
the wnba we can talk about ray i'm
actually surprised they make 228
thousand dollars a year i was shocked i
was shocked to see that i don't know
what i thought it was going to be but
definitely not 228 thousand good living
here that's good that's solid that's a
one percenter yeah you're a one
percenter in america you're making that
and you play for the wnba
once i don't know tell brittany grinder
to dunk when she dunks then we could
talk about maybe 200 she might be able
to know fairness i don't know there's a
couple nba wnba i know there's like
there's like two or three right
there's like two or three
or like dunking is the standard for the
that's the extent of my wnba knowledge
right there it's impressive i will say
for a woman be able to dunk considering
the distinct biological disadvantage for
men it is very impressive
okay so i don't want to discount that
what they're doing is you know uh an
athletic feat i'm just saying but and i
think it's interesting though that that
npr's
reaction to the spin that they put on
this news is it's the gender pay gaps
fault that britney has to play overseas
and so it's not her fault for breaking
the law breaking the law in another
country it's the gender pay gaps
it's like news stories only spin in one
direction for all of these outlets every
time it doesn't matter
what happens it's always
something that can make america look bad
look like it has systemic issues look
like there's systemic racism or sexism
or whatever and so whatever happens in
the world
let's spin it back toward
ways to denigrate the united states
absolutely and that's exactly what
they've done here no mention of the fact
that she was breaking the law
come on can't say she's forced to be in
the position that she's in she's a wnba
player okay she's not forced to be
anywhere she doesn't want to be they
make choices to do that and if you want
to go to another country to play to earn
more that's that's your choice nobody's
holding gun to your head to making you
do it so i don't know what this argument
is here
you get paid for what you the revenue
you bring in
so as soon as the wnba brings in
revenue
uh they'll probably get paid more
but at the moment 220 000 is pretty
sufficient
i think yeah that like that's uh
substantially more than the average
globally woman makes and you know in the
united states and especially black women
etc so i guess it's not one percent i
don't know what the one percent
technically the one percent margin is
but it's up there come on
how many of you guys are making 228 and
if you are good for you
the heck
great for you guys apparently kofi koi
says yeah she can dunk i think and then
uh 876 van red said barely get over the
hoop
so i don't know which one if she can
dunk very impressive uh if she can't
wnba here's my question so when she gets
out of this and uh comes back to the
united states will she be
more grateful having seen how
unjust or
strict russia and other countries can be
or will she be angry at the united
states for not resolving this issue more
quickly
oh i don't know because i don't yeah i
should honestly make that a poll i don't
know because i don't know
oh
man i'm tempted to be optimistic and and
say oh well everything she's gonna she's
gonna realize that the us has something
to offer and is is better uh
but the the leftist the old leftist in
me
makes me say that she's going to blame
it on somebody else she'll read the
headline of this npr article and then
she'll become a megan rappano talking
about how the
female players need to get paid more
i'm going to go with the latter she's
going to she's going gonna blame the u.s
she's gonna blame you all right i'm
putting a poll on the unapologetic
channel on youtube so if you guys want
to answer it that's where to go that's
where to go yeah if you guys are
watching on prageru right now go
subscribe to my channel ameleponobi
unapologetic and if you want to uh in in
interact with this poll give me your
answers go give it there yeah i'm i
think she's going to come back and
complain what do you think
uh knowing it's like the same way that
the news works in one direction i think
these people's brains work in one
direction and so um i would have to say
that she will be bitter at the united
states for not solving this earlier
and for having to create a systemic
sexism that made her go overseas to
pursue more income in the first place
right oh gosh
it's never ending ladies and gentlemen
now that twitter is not being bought by
elon musk has fallen through i wonder
why it's fallen through actually let's
check it out real quick and see if
there's any explanation i wonder if it's
because of all the bot accounts and
things like that let's see breaking news
from reuters breaking news
you guys know that fish from spongebob
okay let's let's see oh it just it
doesn't it's a gift
it doesn't even explain it looked like
one of those videos
i promise we're very prepared for the
show guys yeah we are okay elon musk the
chief executive officer of tesla and the
world's richest person said on friday he
was terminating his 44 billion deal to
buy twitter because the social media
company has breached multiple provisions
of the merger agreement twitter chairman
brett uh brett taylor
said on the micro blogging platform that
the board planned to pursue legal action
to enforce the merger agreement twitter
board is committed to closing the
transaction on the price and terms
agreed upon with mr musk and plans to
pursue legal action to enforce the
merger agreement we are confident we
will prevail in the delaware court of
chancery so wait
so elon musk is like okay i'm going to
buy twitter here's 44 billion dollars
let's write up the deal and everything
and then they write up the deal and he's
like well you're not
you're not holding to the provisions of
the deal i'm not going to buy twitter
anymore and now they're suing so that he
buys twitter
now they're going to try to force him to
buy twitter oh is that the case well the
market did kind of crash like shortly
after that offer that he made so i'm
sure their stock value went down
precipitously i'm reading that right
right the twitter board is committed to
closing the transaction on the price and
terms agreed upon with mr musk and plans
to pursue legal action to enforce the
merger
so now when they were like oh we don't
want elon buying twitter they're going
to pursue legal action and try to make
him buy it
interesting looks like it in a filing
mark's lawyer said twitter has failed to
refuse uh failed or refused to respond
to multiple requests for information on
fake or spam accounts so it was the spam
accounts that was a major problem on the
platform which is fundamental to the
company's business performance twitter
is a material breach of multiple
provisions of that agreement
appears to have made false and
misleading representations upon which mr
musk relied when entering into the
merger agreement
i mean interesting musk also said that
he was walking away because twitter
fired high-ranking executives and
one-third of the talent acquisition team
breaching twitter's obligation to
preserve substantially intact the
material components of its current
business organization so basically
he
goes to buy twitter they're like yeah we
have this many accounts they didn't
disclose how many of them are spam or
bot accounts and now they gutted the
major parts that helped the twitter team
work and then said here's the company
for you
buy it up from us uh
which would be a smart thing to back out
of that deal but if it now goes
to uh
court he might be forced
that will be very
interesting to see but yeah this was a
hope for us you know when we saw that
elon was deciding to buy twitter to the
tune of 44 billion dollars we cheered
because twitter
uh i'm sure you all know has so much
sway and influence over what people
think believe see read all these things
and if you give it to somebody who
actually values free speech and allows
it to be a truly open uh
open platform
for everybody to express their ideas
we have
not even an advantage we just have an
even playing field where we're able to
combat some of the stuff that we're
seeing right now and without that we are
we are functioning at a severe
disadvantage because they can quite
literally
frame out elections frame out the
headlines that you're reading and frame
your your total perception of what it
what it means to live in this country
and what's going on it's ridiculous
yeah for better or worse it is kind of
the de facto town square of a modern
society it's a digital message board
basically where people discuss and oh
well you i like i don't go to news sites
anymore i look i have my twitter feed
that's how we find stuff for the show
because it's the fastest place to get
breaking news and then you can follow
specific people that whose opinions you
trust and value and get those and then
you can see other things that are rising
in trends so it's an inherently useful
thing for a modern society um but the
problem is it's in the hands of leftist
activists who promote stuff like why
can't men breastfeed right uh every day
so
that is not good and then censor voices
that they don't like like jordan
peterson was just banned for dead naming
uh one actor actress celia dellen page
um
so
uh
we yeah we did cheer and that was that
was honestly one of the most hope
inspiring uh developments of the last
year or so
was elon musk acquiring twitter or the
prospect of that because that does
preserve if we can preserve free speech
if we can prefer the mec preserve the
mechanism by which we can uh determine
the truth and determine the right ideas
that we should be following as a society
then we have a chance but if speech is
controlled
that is very dangerous and this so this
uh i don't want elon musk to get screwed
over in this deal i hope he somehow ends
up with twitter uh and doesn't have to
pay an exorbitant amount then they've
resolved these differences but uh
uh or at the very least i was about to
say i hope twitter has learned their
lesson but there's no way they do
activists never learn so
ah and so
the battle
continues
and it has followed us to steakhouses
to
twitter
to
athletes that are
imprisoned in russia there are plenty of
things to talk about and with elon musk
not taking over twitter we will have
plenty more to talk about and go forth
with i hope you guys are settled in hope
you got your seat belts buckled
because the ride has just begun
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