Back to episode — Episode 2972 CWSA 09/28/25
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m. I mean, look at my face. I'm smug. Why don't they understand that if they just all gave their weapons away, there would be no violence? And look how smart I am. Can you tell how smart I am by my smug smile? Now, that's my reframe. The reframe is that the far left are nothing but just nothing but Dunning-Kruger sufferers. Nothing but. Now, are there also some Dunning-Kruger people on the right?…
← Previous segment →t women think that way, do they? Here, I'm just speculating. I can't read any minds. But if you're a 20-year-old attractive woman, you've seen a lot of videos where young women are stopped by the police and they act like they can resist arrest as much as they want and that they won't be beaten up and they look like they think they'll never go to jail. So is that part of the problem that protesters are often female and they just haven't been raised with the mindset that if you take one wrong step, you're in jail?
Let's see from the men. From the men, can you confirm that you've always been trained and or just knew that you were only one wrong step away from jail? It's not just me, right? I would think that's a male universal feeling because when you see a prison it's all men, right? And all day long all the stories that I read today, how many of them were about somebody had legal problems and was going to go to jail and they were all men. You know, there's this Lisa Monaco who popped up, but mostly it's men. You know, Obama might go to jail. Comey might go to jail. Brennan, Clapper, Schiff might go to jail. Right? You can't not notice that men are going to jail like crazy and it doesn't seem like women do. Right. I'm not saying they should or shouldn't. It just is what it feels like. Yeah. It makes me wonder.
Well, there's a story about a woman named Assata Shakur. Her first name is spelled A-S-S-A-T-A. And apparently she became some kind of a either a revolutionary fighter for justice or a cop killer. Apparently she was a little bit of both of those things. So she was involved with the execution of a cop. I don't think she pulled the trigger, but she was part of the group. So she went to jail and then she was broken out of jail. There was some massive jailbreak with help from the outside and they broke her out of jail some years ago in the 1970s it looks like it was and then she escaped to Cuba in 1979 where she recently died but the reason that it's a big story is how it's being treated in the news the left-leaning news and indeed the Chicago's teachers union say things like this. So this is the Chicago Teachers Union. Today, we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle.
Well, Community Notes on X decided that it needed to put a little context on that. So here's what was left out of the Chicago Teachers Union praise for her life and her work. Assata Shakur was convicted in 1977 of first-degree murder in the 73 killing of a New Jersey state trooper and sentenced to life plus 33 years on other charges. She escaped to Cuba in 79, has been a fugitive since listed on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list in 2013. So as others have pointed out, two movies on one screen. The same person. She's either being honored for her revolutionary fighting or she's a terrorist, most wanted terrorist. Same person.
Now, I will point out that if you are in favor of keeping revolutionary southern general statues, you would also be in favor of somewhat honoring people who might have owned slaves, might have killed some people, might have done some bad things back in the Civil War days. And you should at least be consistent. Now, I have said that if a significant number of black Americans find those statues offensive, that's a good enough reason to move them. I don't need a better reason. If some large percentage of a demographic group that is part of my American experience says these are just offensive and they have a good reason, you know, because it represented slavery or whatever, I would say, you know what, I'm not going to die on that hill. If that offends you and it offends you that much that you're willing to get active over it, yeah, I'm open to moving it somewhere, you know, maybe taking it out of the park, maybe adding a plaque that just puts it in proper context. So then you're not honoring them so much. You're just it's just history. So I think that's a perfectly reasonable debate and I would be pretty flexible about that because if I had something in my house, let's say a painting of let's say I really liked a painting that depicted something from the slavery era and I just thought it was great art. Had nothing political, nothing else. It was just great art. I put it on my wall and then my black and white friends look at it and go, Scott, do you know what this is about? And I'd be like, it's just great art. Don't worry about it. But let's say a number of people came to my house and they all said the same thing. This is really this is gross. You shouldn't have that on your wall. I would take it down. I'm not going to die on that hill and say, oh, but it's great art, so it shouldn't bother you. If it does bother you, that's a good enough reason. It does bother you, and you've got a good argument for it. It's not like you have no argument. I'd take it down. Same thing I do with the park.
So while I am not supporting anything about this particular cop killing terrorist lady, you can imagine that if you wait 50 years that the part about her killing a cop or being part of the people who killed the cop will be diminished over time much the way the southern general's exploits would be diminished over time. And people look at it differently. Now, I'm not telling you what you should or should not do with statues or what you should or should not do with this one thing. I'm just making a comparison. That's all. I just think it's interesting that people who have done terrible things can sometimes be rehabilitated over time. Now, I'm not saying that they deserve to be rehabilitated. I'm just saying it happens.
And I would like to add to this conversation the following when black America decided to honor George Floyd, there were a lot of white Americans who said, that's a terrible idea. You should not be honoring people who were career criminals and at the very least contributed to his own death by bad habits and bad decisions and all that. And I'm going to say again in my experience every person of every kind, black, white, old, young, just everybody, if they made the decisions that generally work in life, they usually did well. And if they make the kind of decisions that you just shake your head and say, well, that's a bad decision. If you keep making bad decisions, you're going to get a bad outcome. And there's no mystery to it whatsoever. So if you make bad decisions like honoring criminals, well, what do you think's going to happen? Like play that forward. What do you think's going to happen?
Now, I'm going to do something self-serving, but it's not why I'm doing it. If you wanted to make sure that your child
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or even yourself had the benefit of let's say good mentoring and good advice, good advice on how to be successful and what to avoid to avoid failure, you can do that. There are books. You don't need a human in your life if you read. You just need to be able to read. My books, I think, get very close to that. The ones I would recommend for anyone who wanted to turn somebody who was aimless and didn…
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