Do Black Women Have to Save the Police? - Will & Amala Live

hello everybody welcome to the news network today we are doing a special show uh a year later from the the george floyd riots and we get to talk to business owners that were affected by the looting and burning that occurred but this business owner has a very special and interesting story he was running a restaurant that was burned down during these riots but he didn't have the reaction that you would expect mr islam here tell me about the reaction that you had to your restaurant being burned down hello i am mr islam i was very glad when my restaurant got burned down there's nothing i like more than social justice so when my restaurant got burnt down i was incredibly happy about it black live murals black lives matter murals everywhere there's somebody stealing from you right now he ate my beans he you know he probably needed it more than i did so it's oh it's totally fine i didn't need that money or my personal belongings it's fine you know i'm going to call the police sir no i don't seriously police are racist okay we don't need the police are you sure i mean you just got a significant amount of items stolen from you you know all in the name of justice and seat a quick opening for you guys today i know you guys love the improv skits you don't even have to tell us you don't even have to go down below and leave a comment saying that you love our openings because we know that you love them now the story that this opening was inspired by is one out of fox news i'm going to read the headline for you guys minneapolis business owner who cheered rioters burning down restaurant has van stolen and new business robbed i mean it's almost not funny but it's a little funny i'll go i'll go into the background with this man his name is rauel islam i think that's how you pronounce it he was a business owner in minneapolis and he'd set up shop across town a year ago as the george floyd riots were going out after his death now his business of course was burned down but what he decided to do in response to that was put out a facebook post that said let my business burn justice needs to be served is that the reaction that you guys would have to your business being burned down by blm riders well it doesn't make any sense if this guy considers himself a anti-racist anti-establishment leftist then why would he want his business to burn his business didn't do anything wrong why so obviously this man is delusional i mean the the logic it is very much devoid of logic but i guess a lot of leftists hold the sentiment that people are angry and they're taking to the streets and if i if if my business is taken out as a piece of that then i'm okay with it because people need to display their anger like i get it you're saying conservative businesses like maybe you're like okay all white businesses are all conservative businesses need to be burned down but to wish it upon your own business it's a testament to the cognitive dissonance of the left don't you think taylor i do think it's here speaking of this mug i just stole i don't like it i don't like it no i wouldn't like it but apparently he does like it it feels good to be virtuous so good that uh you it feels better or it feels so good that losing your business isn't even that bad having it burned down like the level of uh religious fervor that it takes to you know i don't know receive so much gratification from being woke um is pretty astonishing it's nearly commendable and so what has happened uh after this is that he had gotten a food truck all set up and was running his business differently now that truck was stolen it had tons and tons of supplies in catering utilities in the truck that was taken as well as all of his financial papers and listings taken it also had keys to his business they took the keys went into his business and stole more money from him this is just like that um activist councilman in atlanta who wanted to defund the police and then he got his car he got carjacked by 10 year olds like you are advocating for the policies that create chaos and disorder in your city and then it comes to bite you and it's pretty much poetic justice not social justice but just doubling down you're doubling down on the things that you said which you have to at least commend him for that that he sees what happened to his business and then sees what happens to his business his new food truck again he continues to double down and that's at least commendable that he's standing up for the things that he believes in even if it is brain dead and makes no sense yeah the statement that he put out after his truck being stolen is that he will not press charges if the van is returned he said if you need food i will give you food for all your life you will have it you need a job to rent a house i'll give you a job come work with us and solve the problem this is what we have to do you have a that's commendable you have a city full of lawlessness or you left give keep giving people free stuff then of course this is the way they're going to act ah i i just it's incredibly obvious it's wild and i for him to have this sort of temperament around it after twice having your business ruined how do you think like at what point does it get bad enough for you to wake up because this attitude and you see it reflected in like major cities across america they all have district attorneys who are refusing to prosecute crime and letting people go and we're just lowering the bar for like what is expected social like acceptable behavior in society and we're making it less and less uh punishable to commit crimes and what do you think is going to happen that's not being nice that's not being compassionate what about the unintended victims of the you know rampant violence and and crime in your cities what about the store owners who who aren't as woke as you and who are losing their businesses because of crime you know um someone at prageru chris his uh family has a coffee shop in san francisco and they're not only suffering from lockdowns and stuff but also rampant crime because it's and people are big companies like target closed early on the 4th of july weekend all over san francisco because in anticipation of anarchy it's like this is not how you have as a successful society it's degenerate it's state-sanctioned anarchy yeah the government allows it to happen the government encourages people to do it they're so worried about covid but oh no it's fine if everyone goes out and riots and protests without your mask on but we better lock down if even one person over the age of 80 dies you know so the government allows it to happen they don't actually care about normal working class people and with this i mean this guy even the people who it affects don't seem to even care where are people who have any sort of semblance of reality to say enough is enough right just to say this is not right and it's happened to me now twice and somebody needs to take a stand and fix this because again we're not fixing it we're accommodating it it's what's happening in san francisco it's what's happening across california we're now allowing people to go into businesses and shoplift whatever they want so long as it's what less than 950 dollars so now you have businesses even big chain corporations that are shutting down their different franchises you have normal mom-and-pop shots shops that are shutting down or having to move their businesses and with that when the property is stolen guess what prices go up because they have to be able to recoup the the losses of you going in and shoplifting from their business now we got a super chat by somebody by the name of plane genius saying look up the paradox of tolerance the left loves tolerance but they are ruining america just to feel good and not producing anything for the stimi i don't know what uh remember love everyone with those little emojis at the end it's exactly what's happening they're using virtue and gaining virtue points as if that's going to make up for the the degradation of our society and all the crime that's happening people who are being hurt stolen from cheated robbed killed and it doesn't matter because we did the right thing and and we are we are saving people with this virtue it usually doesn't affect the elites the elites can say whatever they want and tell you that this is the way that america should be this is the way society goes but don't actually care about the lower classes they just pretend to care if they cared about the lower classes they would care about exploiting people in china for their sweatshops for their cell phones and everything else they would care about human rights violations in south america and other places around the world but they don't care about these things you can have someone at an elite corporation say they care about climate change or that they care about black lives matter it's very cool like this is the wokeness that is cool in a place like brooklyn or san francisco but wokeness is not cool around the world it's only to these people who actually are not affected by these things the elite classes and they they always feel the need not only do they always feel the need to weigh in on these things but they're pressured to weigh in it's like if you get a platform now for any reason whether that's dancing lip singing uh acting it doesn't matter what you're famous for you now have yeah like the girls on tick tock you shouldn't be famous for that well there are plenty of people who are famous i'm just saying you shouldn't and and with that comes a political platform where you get to espouse your political views even doesn't matter how misinformed they are to millions of people even though again you will not be affected by it look at all the celebrities coming out after the george floyd uh incident and saying we need to defund the police we need to reform the police system we need to abolish the police system some celebrities said those are the same celebrities that are living in their ivory towers surrounded by their own uh paid security forces and living in gated communities where they will never feel an ounce of the political legislation that they speak about and that they endorse listen they have their own private jets they have their own private restaurants you can get into their own private hotels their own private cities they live in all sorts of places that you don't go and then they claim about injustice they know nothing about the struggles of the working-class person mark zuckerberg i mean he came from his dad was a dentist and all like and very well-off so many of these people who are elitist were very well off and opposed to like andrew carnegie who's an elitist he worked in a gin mill at the age of 13 years old right so you now have elites in this country who are incredibly out of touch with reality and out of touch with normal working hard-class americans so you've created this divide between the rich and the poor and even rich and middle class that they're being fooled you're being fooled by these these rich elites but everybody's an intellectual as as tom soul would say it used to be that meteorologists were the only people who got paid to lie and now intellectuals get to do the same and what they do is they don't have any accountability because if you're an intellectual and you make a statement or you endorse a piece of legislation or policy and it fails nobody cares because all you did was give a verbal endorsement of it all you did was influence millions of people to do the same and and when that uh policy or that legislation or that idea does destabilize the society who cares because you're not affected by it yeah and like the the irony of the fact that they support policies that create anarchy or they support policies like lockdowns and persuade everyone else to go out there and advocate for these and then it ends up harming small businesses and make shutting them down and then that what does that do it strengthens the big chains and the other ones that they're supposedly critical of big business but it ends up strengthening all the the big businesses that can actually survive that same thing with minimum wage they want to raise the minimum wage and then what happens the small businesses can't afford to the the big ones can can absorb that wage hike or the artificial hike but the small ones can't compete and then you end up shutting down some smaller businesses and then you have more bigger businesses and then you're just perpetuating the problems that you're claiming to be against what amazes me is how much big big businesses are even being impacted like this look at how many of the different walgreens and cvs change now now victoria's secret as well have had to shut down because of the shoplifting and the accommodation of this sort of reckless crime but we're not we're not doing anything to fix that we're just going to allow it to keep happening honestly we're probably going to legalize more more criminal actions instead when we we talk about police and we talk about crime we are talking about how we can reform our our police forces and our police departments here's an article out of vice news and the title is do black women have to save the police too it's an interesting interesting way that they form that grammatically do black women have to save the police too i'm unaware of what else black women are saving in america do you guys know i don't know i don't know i don't spend my days saving anything that i know of other than what we say on this podcast money on college tuition that's very true but now what vice is reporting is that black women are extremely if not more capable of running police departments than any other demographic in the nation because they are caring and nurturing and less likely to use their weapons now they reference six women who are now running as who are now working as police chiefs in different departments across the nation and saying that we know all too well that policing is a male-dominated field but we absolutely have our place in this field too says one of the police chiefs in fact they're saying that we should incentivize black women being police chiefs is a vice article this is a vice article and this is just some op-ed by some person or what it is and it talks about how police departments are actively looking for more black women to be a part of policing because they feel the need that if you are going to police a community you should look like the police you should look like the community that you're policing how about if you're going to police a community you should be effective at your job in creating a safe environment for people to live and work and conduct business and go to school and feel safe to live outside their homes like when we went to uh watts in south central l.a they were the police were telling us that the gangs have are controlling this uh the area so much so that the people who live there do not feel safe to come outside their homes they'd rather call in sick than ask a gang member who's parked in their driveway and blocking them um then to ask them to move and soft policing is creating problems and i don't care what color the leadership of the police is or what the police officers are you need effective policing to establish a baseline of safety in a community before you can have any sort of improvement the gang members in watts don't care what color you are gang members and watts see a white police officer roll up and a black police officer roll up and they're still going to shoot each other they're still going to sell drugs to each other it's not they're not committing crimes because of the color of the skin of the police officers you have to be brain dead to think that that's actually the case they don't care they're going to continue to do horrible bad things no matter what color the police officers are right if you are affirmative action hiring these people in and they're not as good at their job you're just hiring them in because of the color of their skin then you're going to be even worse off and this again brings up the argument of critical race theory ideology like this and this this thinking when it comes to diversity hiring and diversity quotas is a remnant of crt i can't say that enough and when you implement this sort of equity hiring where you are trying your best to get black females in leadership positions in the police you are actively uh you are actively ignoring people who are capable of doing these jobs just for the virtue signaling of being able to hire a black woman when we all know that black females are not are not the ones who are most likely to sign up to be a police chief or or to even be a police officer so what you're doing now is ignoring hundreds of thousands of applicants who are qualified to do policing who are qualified to be police chiefs who have tenure in in the police force and you are ignoring them and overlooking them just so you can find a black female to say you know what our our our police department is being run by a black female thanks guys i would be interested to know the people in these police departments who are actually asking for more black women to be police chiefs because the policemen who i've talked to i mean these are just normal run of the day guys running the beat i mean they don't want this i mean they don't care they're like whatever if they're qualified it doesn't matter but they're not like actively pushing for it so who are the people in charge of these police forces that are making these kinds of decisions why is it that the police are like overwhelmingly conservative but then the people in charge are on the left is the same with the military the military is largely conservative largely christian and then you have these people in charge of the military the elite people who are on the left that seems to be the case in like every single old american institution in this country that they are being completely taken over by the left even though the constituents or the people who make up that population are conservative right and this this article goes on to talk about different people who were killed by the police and just again we we talk about journalistic integrity a lot on this show and there seems to be none uh in this country anymore aside from a few a few sources but let's look at this part of the article where they talk about uh mikaya bryant being shot and killed by police four months later sixteen-year-old mikaya bryant died at the hands of police during a family altercation that's how that's how they explain the death of mikaya bryant so what benjamin would call journalism right right frame it is just so dishonest it's dishonest because if anybody is familiar with mckay bryant and her her death at the hands of police she had a knife in her hands and was going to stab another young woman either in the head or the throat who knows because a brave police officer in a matter of 13 seconds arrived at the scene got out of his car and took care of a suspect who was going to kill another young girl you know these are the same people say that michael brown had his hands up and said don't uh hands up don't shoot right same types of people who would perpetuate that lie and it's sad to see this sort of reporting because what it does is it scares it scares young black people especially young black males into being afraid of police officers when there is no data to support that police officers present a viable threat to any black man uh unless he's committing a crime or doing something illegal or evading arrest or or brandishing a weapon or threatening another police officer and that should be the only the only uh necessary requirements for being scared of the police is you committing crime uh threatening a police officer being armed or evading arrest and just for the record amelia did a full breakdown of the mikaya bryant situation on a pretty viral video um and i can post that link in the comments if you are so interested yeah check it out if you're unfamiliar with that case so yeah uh the only reform being made to the criminal justice system right now is apparently hiring more black women to the police force because we need to feel represented when i get pulled over by a police officer it better be a black female or i'm going to be really angry same i i only want arrested i only want to be arrested by black females now this leads us into our next story because things like this come out because people on the left are so worried about racism and you guys have seen this stream multiple times i'm assuming you know that on the on the right that is not the case conservatives are not extremely worried about racism we don't see racism as a barrier to completing your civic duty and being an active citizen in this nation but this is an article out of usa today so a new hidden common ground survey by public agenda in usa today shows stark partisan differences over whether racism is a barrier to participation in the political process and whether addressing racism requires systemic change now of course the majority of dems and left-leaning people said that racism is a barrier to this sort of civic duty this sort of work and that we do have a systemic problem in this nation that is to the tune of 88 of people who were surveyed so 88 of left-leaning individuals were left identifying individuals said that systemic racism is a major problem in this country this is also what independents said independence and non-affiliated people 67 of independents and non-affiliated people said they also believe uh that racism is a major issue and on the right with republicans 46 percent of conservatives said that they also believe in the systemic racism is an issue in this country which i was shocked by yeah that's too many republicans yeah i think so too many that's more than i would expect what about you taylor um i think across the board it's it's not it's not based in reality and i was just googled who said this quote it's joseph goebbels but he said uh if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth and he would know better than anyone because he was nazi's propaganda leader but uh you know this whole lie of systemic racism has been repeated so much and so often at every level of society then people just buy into it because i you know i don't know what the appeal is it feels good you want to be on the right side of people who are victimized or whatever um so you they push this narrative and people just run with it and buy into it and there's this huge false sense that is just not based in fact or reality and we repeat the statistics over and over again but like people would sooner just believe a narrative than look at factual reality and i mean it's a sad state of our country today would you rather be called racist or anti-racist it's like a very obvious question you obviously oh you mean like any person i'm only a person would be called manchester united yes i don't want to say no i'm saying like but you also even if you don't want to be called an antares you don't want to be called a racist right so people will say anything to say they are against systemic racism they are against institutional uh racism just so that people won't call them racist they will admit anything because being called racist is like it's the worst thing in this country to be called nowadays if you're called a racist then you're basically a conservative and then you're basically ostracized from so many different things so no one wants to be called a racist so they're going to all say the systemic racism is true because it's either that or get called a racist and there is no in between what's interesting to me and what has come out in this article is that if you frame the question differently people respond differently and the percentages change vastly according to how the question is asked so here's uh here's a way that they ask the question all americans have an equal opportunity to participate regardless of race so it's essentially asking the same question does race place a barrier in you participating in this country as a citizen and you doing your civic duty but here's how they answered now republicans when asked this question people on the right conservatives said 80 percent yes everybody has an equal opportunity in this country regardless of race so we got a much higher uh differential on this answer here democrats uh and left leaning people 42 said yes which does not stand by the previous question the previous statistics given there and with independents and non-affiliated people 54 of people said yes i i don't trust these surveys first of all they'll ask you like uh you know is are conservatives racist or does cilantro taste like soap and then you have to like choose one thing and like very awkwardly worded these types of surveys like all the polls that were for like the elections like you never believed the polls i never well of course yeah no look at look at how wrong yeah exactly it was so last election so i don't know how much i trust this poll all i'm saying is these are very basic yes or no questions and they surveyed the same number of people with each question so that being said the the skew and the answers is is really interesting yeah there's clearly a difference in how left-handed people respond to this and how right and left-leaning people think that if you have if you're a person of color then you're held back and if you're on the right then you believe america doesn't hold you back show me the law show me the policy show me how you're being held back show me anything and i'm actually working on something right now that is going to go over all the arguments that the left makes for systemic racism in america and debunking every single one of them and i stand by that there is there is no systemic racism in america unless you are counting that systemic racism that the left perpetuates by saying that you're black and you're oppressed and you're white and you're an oppressor that is the only systemic racism that is occurring right now and we are reverting back here's what i'll say about systemic racism in america it does exist and it is perpetuated by the elite leftists who push a false narrative of racism in the country that racialize our children that pit people um against one another on the basis of race that believe in race essentialism that is the systemic racism people who occupy every institution in academia in hollywood um the mainstream media they're pushing constantly this narrative of racism and that is a systemic problem so yeah six immigration racism exists it's this critical race theory stuff you're pushing everywhere and it's racializing every interaction it's this affirmative action stuff you're putting everywhere it's this false reality you're imposing through the through hollywood and having diversity quotas and movies and everything like that you're making everything racial and racist and so yeah they're systemic racism yep yeah you couldn't have said it better than that folks you really couldn't have but they would have you convinced that the systemic racism really exists on the conservative end of things and to that i say what right or privilege do white men have that i don't have in this country what opportunity that do they have that i don't have in this country and give me one example and people play devil's advocate in the chat right now you give me one example of systemic racism in america uh against people of color and then i will talk to you about that but i just don't see it me neither me neither will doesn't see it either yet we are constantly jumping through hoops to make black people and make people of color in this country feel better and while that's all great and dandy we are doing it at the detriment of our country's values we are doing it at the detriment of the civil rights movement and we are doing it at the detriment of every single citizen in this country which leads us into our next story nfl 2021 season will include black national anthem social justice messages again report how do we feel about this what's our initial reaction who cares stupid nfl who cares yeah well i can't i love the nfl i really do um scott here also loves it um but yeah i it's it's that this one hurts for me it's kind of like this is my will had his chipotle when they started doing uh drag queen burritos and uh for me it's the nfl going woke is just painful to watch it is painful and the black national anthem is made for one demographic of our community and that is black americans our national anthem the american national anthem which i don't even agree with it being called the black national anthem throw that out of the water it is we have an american national anthem and that is it uh and that does not alienate everybody anybody it is made for everybody in this country it is made regardless of your race it is made for you regardless of your faith it is made for you regardless of your sexual orientation it does not matter if you wanna you are an american citizen our national anthem is made for you to then add on this black national anthem made for one demographic subset of our of our nation is completely ridiculous it's a slap in the face to our actual true american national anthem it's a slap in the face to everybody who fought and died for that to be our anthem yeah they want to destroy what this country was founded on they want to destroy what this country is built on it's no longer any hiding it they're completely out in the open saying exactly what they want they want to change all the institutions that made america what it is and it's sad because when it's it's a pigeon hole too when you admit okay yeah sure let's put the black national anthem why would you need that do we need that because america's systemically racist do we need that because black people are alienated by our actual national anthem do we need that because black people are still experiencing the remnants of slavery in our country if you say that if you say yes we do need the black national anthem you're admitting to that and that is what the left wants you to do they want you to admit to the fact that america is racist so that they can start to take aim at our institutions to target them and to eventually either reform or completely abolish them and that is is their goal it's always been their goal they have no interest in actually taking the founding of our country and utilizing it in their practices and in their agenda they want to completely eliminate it and they do it in sneaky ways like saying you know what let's play the black national anthem for all of our black nfl players because who could possibly be against that who could possibly say oh no i don't believe that you should have your own national anthem well that's what we're saying on this program but there's a lot of people who would be way too scared to say that and that is how they pigeonhole you and trick you into to falling into their ideology the nfl is fine with uh spending 250 million dollars on fighting racism but when it comes to helping kids who are playing football not get concussions and have horrible brain injuries when they're older they don't give a crap they could care less they care about what you think about them they care about you thinking that they're so woke and that they actually want to help people but when it comes to actually helping people helping people with disabilities and stuff like that the nfl doesn't care at all they could care less if your son gets a concussion playing football and has horrible brain injuries later in his life they don't care about that what they care about is putting an image out there for you to see right it's all virtue virtue virtue virtue virtue and what happens is is that actually causes tangible problems in our communities why is it that we are reverting back to the systemic racism in the jim crow of 1960 but selling it to people as if it is a positive and if it's good i saw a girl on tick tock the other day and this video had millions and millions of views uh hundreds of thousands of likes several comments of of support uh garnered by this video saying that you know what when we talk about segregation in school everybody says it's such a bad thing and this is a black female by the way saying you know what i don't think black schools or black pools or black grocery stores or black restaurants sounds bad at all i'd honestly think i i would accept that it seems like a safer space for me what what and how do you how do you hold those two ideological beliefs in the same breath that america systemically racist but jim crow doesn't sound all that bad after all can anybody explain that to me can anybody explain that to me it's it's the literal opposite of progress and yet it's what so many people are just passionately going out there advocating for and protesting like what are you even protesting right there's there's no laws that are holding you back there's it's all this you know false perception i think what makes me what saddens me about this case in particular but um it's really happening everywhere is the the the shared spaces are shrinking in our culture where you know like the classic like you can sit next to someone at a sports game where you're both fans of the same team and and they score and all of a sudden you're hugging and jumping up and down because you share that thing in common and now we're politicizing and racializing all of these what were formerly shared spaces and there's nowhere to go where you can like just connect with fellow americans on an american level and on a human level because everything's become infused with politics and i think that's what's so pernicious about what these companies what companies and what hollywood are are doing is they think they're just virtue signaling they think they're just uh going out there and being virtuous and saying well we're just doing the good thing isn't that good everybody but in reality you're leaving half of the country behind that sees through this and says you're you're just disparaging america and trying to paint america in a bad light and make people want to tear the country down and we don't believe in that we believe in our founding ideals and we're not going to play this game and uh it's i think they need to feel the heat of it we've seen nba ratings have tanked nfl ratings have tanked in the last few years and um i guess they just need to hurt and badly enough to have it turn around i don't know it's amazing but what point is that because like you said their viewership we keep asking ourselves that what point how come it's like it's saying how committed they are to being woke when you're watching your numbers go down and yet still doubling down on the virtue signaling is it a commitment to being woke or is it a commitment to not wanting to admit that you're wrong what which one is it i'm sure it's a vicious cycle yeah they're just entertaining yeah it starts with the wokeness and then you go yeah don't want it what are you gonna do go back after you've said america's racist like i don't know yeah and it's and that's why when we get on this program we try really hard not to be super angry and not to be malicious about the arguments that we make even though it can be extremely frustrating to have to face these things every single day because we truly want to understand what is the motivation here when when we always can come back with facts studies evidence that that disproves the argument that disproves the policy changes that disproves the solutions that they put forth and yet they just blatantly ignore what we have to say or don't even come to the table to hear it and that seems to be a one-sided problem on this front although i will state there are many conservatives who will not uh who will not talk to other leftists and don't want to hear what they have to say but we are not those conservatives we want to hear what you have to say and we want to understand where you're coming from uh but it's just so difficult sometimes it is very difficult it is now we got a little bit of push back on something that we said on the program yesterday and i pulled a comment it is a very long comment so it's uh wordy i'm going to try to read it maybe we'll break it down into segments and respond to it but yesterday at the end of the show we did a segment about the fact that several adults a large a large portion of adults in america no longer want to have children no longer want to create families and this is a pattern that has been exacerbated in uh recent decades and people were not a lot of people were not happy with the commentary that we gave because they felt as though we were pressuring them and saying that you episode until the last six minutes because you all completely lost me on the children part though i if if i have my reasons maybe i can't afford kids maybe i know i'd make a bad parent don't want to get married my career keeps me too busy having kids is not some duty that i owe to the world and who are you to tell someone what they need in their life do you want to go ahead and respond to that one section of the comment um i was troubleshooting so okay yeah so a couple of i would call them i don't know excuses reasons for not having children is i can't afford kids maybe i'd make a bad parent which are two things that are you can change in your life you can you can work to be able to afford kids you can work to make yourself a better parent if you are not leading a life that makes you want to be a role model whether that's just a role model in society or a role model for your children that's a problem if you view yourself as somebody who would be a bad parent that would be priority number one for me how can i make myself a better person so that if i were to ever influence anybody whether that's a friend a peer or my child i i would not be influencing them in a way that is bad or harmful he says maybe i don't want to get married or my career keeps me too busy and i went back to the show and actually watched the segment where we talked about having children and why it is important and why it is not imperative but something that people should strive for and it was said that if you don't want to have children and you want to focus on your career and you want to focus on yourself sure that is absolutely fine that was said in the segment but don't tell other people that what you're doing is more fulfillment of was more fulfilling than having children having a family i feel like the only reason you write a comment like this is because you're insecure about how you really feel i think that if you wanted to have children you probably i feel like this person probably wants to have children going to be honest this problem person probably wants more money for children but they come out here and say this because they feel a little insecure about their own life right well i i mean that that could be the case and who knows but it's even if even if you don't want to have children everybody said that was fine nobody nobody was attacking you for not wanting to it's not you're not morally bad if you choose that way i mean there's a there's a degree to which it's like it's live your own life it's a free free country free world like uh we're not saying that you know every single person who chooses not to have kids is this is does so because of selfish reasons so you know we don't like hedging all of our words because you always have to hedge everything but just to be clear that's not what we're saying but we what we are doing generally is lamenting the collapse of enthusiasm for um family and well or the um rise of this new ideology that is me focused and and and is not willing to make the short-term sacrifice of you know of having children and and knowing what that'll do and that does cannot see through and cannot value the long-term fulfillment that comes from having children and admit that it is and it's a hard thing to admit not being married or not having kids if you are too valuing of your personal alone time that is a a selfish cause it is driven by a selfish nature and that is completely fine if that is who you are as a person but you can admit that that is that is what is going on now he ends his comment by saying i feel the opposite that there's a societal pressure like it's your duty to get married and start a family and you're not a real man if you don't to those people i say f you this is why like this guy's saying fu to us why don't we even respond to this guy's comment because i'm this was a comment that in particular had quite a few likes and many people echoed the sentiment in the comment section so i just wanted and he gave many many points through the duration of this comment uh but it's not really a big societal pressure although on the conservative side it is and it's rightfully so i'm the statistics show time and time again the studies show that uh having a family and having kids is better for your happiness it's better for society it's better for values and it's better for your country and it's not even societal pressure that we are pushing on you it is a biological incentive you have a biological pressure to procreate and it's okay to ignore that like we said time and time again um but be a rebel sort of get married and start a family that's the new you know cool rebellious thing to do yeah it's not it's not societal pressure it is literally your biology for both men and women to procreate and and have children and if you don't agree with that or you don't want to do that you can ignore your biology but that is what's happening yeah now we have one final still committed to his single life so he's still a bachelor uh not really no okay ladies oh will's looking i just it's a stupid comment like when you when you do this for long enough you understand that like so many people who agree with you aren't going to actually like so many of the things that you say and it's like that's just something that you have to deal with instead of making like i could come on here and make stuff that i think that every single person watching is going to like or you make things that you truly believe in so i mean this person it's one person coming out and saying this i saw there were other people saying this too but statistically obviously your life is better if you have children you have a family on average it's your life is going to be better you maybe you're a rare case okay everyone always likes to bring up a rare case of something with any sort of argument and use that like when we talk about abortion and someone says well what about rape and incest it's like you're using this rare case to try and justify not uh justify abortions right and so it's like people use those kind of things to justify their weird arguments which i don't really like so i just like responding to them because when you uh get pushed back i think it's i think it makes sense especially if that sentiment is echoed by a lot of people which this one kind of was i want to read real quick i think this is rach just misspelled but it said i got married and had a child at 20 earned my ba traveled around the world and now we are purchasing our first home purchasing our first home in california you really can't have it all winky face so there's an example of someone who got married had a kid young and is feeling fulfilled and we talked about this a lot of people put up a barrier to having children uh with the pure excuse that their children might not have the upbringing that every other child gets and i challenge you to find a person that had a hard childhood that says i would rather be dead than ever being born and i i think you'd be hard-pressed to find somebody who says that it's the same thing for abortion the same argument is that abortion should be legal because there are children who will lead inconvenient lives or they will have lives that are harder than other children and again find me a foster kid or an adopted child who says that they would rather be dead and i i you just can't it's just not the case of course if you're not in a position a parent and you know that you will be a bad parent i would suggest that you prioritize that in your life making yourself a better person making yourself a better role model not only for uh future possible future children but for your community because if you be a bad parent i can nearly guarantee that you're a bad influence on anybody who is around you yeah right and i guess it's like if you're someone who doesn't want to have kids then maybe you don't have the values that are worth passing on to kids in the first place i don't want to say that blanket statement again but like um but also like yeah don't if you if you're watching this stream then more than likely you believe in the values that are worth passing on and are worth defending and don't let the idea that you know life might be hard for a short amount of time uh keep you from going going for it because those values are worth passing on and your kids will be better for we talked about this before the stream but like kids that are raised with good values but in difficult circumstances turn out to be pretty good usually they turn better than those who are raised with a silver spoon and have everything taken for granted so i would i don't like the argument that's like well we it'll it'll be hard to make ends meet if i have a kid it's like my parents had nothing when i was young too like it's that's just how it is but for a lot of people but it's it's having a kid who learns the value of money and learns the value and like if you're teaching those values you're going to raise good strong kids and we need more people to do that so anyway i think we've harped on that long enough we do we have last segment of the day i saw uh trending on twitter this morning was hashtag wednesday motivation so i figured we'd end the program on a high note something hopeful and i think my wednesday motivation is gonna echo a sentiment that i shared on the stream yesterday which is uh making friends and trying to influence people and being just a beacon of light for people who are in your life so wake up every day and you know there are things that you can control and we we as conservatives uh echo the sentiments of self-accountability and self-responsibility and that your actions can truly shape how your life turns out and how successful you are but there are things in this life that you cannot control and my grandmother always told me as a child that there will be many things in this world that you can control that happen to you on a day-to-day basis what you can control is is your reaction to them and your reaction to others and if that's something within your control in a moment that you feel as though control is lost or control is lacking then choose to be happy choose to be somebody who's hopeful choose to be somebody who's kind choose to be somebody who's caring and compassionate and that is my wednesday motivation for the day do you guys have anything you'd like to share that was very good thank you i think my grandmother actually thanks grandma but yeah she watches right yes she does okay good she's uh she's one cool lady so you just said that so that she would watch yeah i said that so she would my grandmother is going to see that that is the whenever i think about my grandmother i always think of great things and that's one of the one things the highest thing that pops into my mind is that statement right there it's good i think good things with my grandmother too you guys have anything for wednesday motivation well you go i was not prepared for this but when you as you're talking about your grandma um i had the um displeasure of going to my grandfather's funeral um what was that two weekends ago and um it i i had to speak and i of course i lost it in giving my speech but um my grandpa was a awesome guy um just super i gave three words he was humble gentle and good and uh he wasn't he was very unassuming person he lived a quiet life he built a house in it like back in the 60s and raised his family my mom and her sister in it and they lived in that same house until a couple years ago and they couldn't keep it up anymore and they just had this quaint quiet life he worked the same job for 40 years or something and you know i had a good retirement and was just like a good classic sort of uh american guy and i just uh there's something to be said though our culture these days does not value uh overwhelmingly just the living a good quiet life raising your family being responsible taking responsibility being a model citizen he the pastor complimented him for being like he was always just there at church and for 60 years he went to the same like little lutheran church in uh rural minnesota and uh anyway i just think there's definitely something to be said for um living a good life and when you um when you meet the end that people the way people talk about you this was an honorable person he was someone who contributed to community he raised his family well he didn't cause problems at the church he was somebody who was faithful who's someone who served like there's a lot to be said for that and and um if i can carry that legacy on then uh i'm i'm motivated to do so and i'd be living my life well so that's great that's good yeah taylor didn't have to share that but he did and that's very important that he did so thank you taylor thanks guys anything from you will for wednesday motivation my motivation for everyone is to be a warrior no matter what you're doing if you're a fry cook at mcdonald's make that job your you know your female dog and do it to the best of your abilities at all times and dominate the things in your life that you want to be better do not wait around for someone else to fix the things in your life that you see going wrong do not wait for things to just get better and react miraculously because that's the way the world should work and the world is unfair you make your life better you should be dominating your life at all points of it making it so that when something goes wrong you are fully prepared to handle that situation and to take risks and to make yourself a better man that is what life is about is going through hard situations and being prepared for them by making your life better not blaming the world or other people for your problems make your life better be the best person that you can be boom a hope sort yourself out that's exactly right clean your room a hopeful message to close out one day wednesday's stream thank you guys so much for watching if you like 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