Speaker 1: Let's talk about luxurious victim wood. Weird phrase. It was
Speaker 1: just scanning Facebook, and back in the days when I
Speaker 1: used to work intermittently in Hollywood's everybody became Facebook friends.
Speaker 1: And this is a person I had business discussions with,
Speaker 1: and she, at this business meeting with a couple of us,
Speaker 1: announced herself to be a Champagne socialist. I thought that
Speaker 1: was really interesting. I said, it's cool that you admit that.
Speaker 1: She because I totally admit it. I'm a Champagne socialist.
Speaker 1: And I said, why don't you just give it all
Speaker 1: away and give it to the poor. She said, well,
Speaker 1: then I wouldn't be able to help them, Okay, except
Speaker 1: you have skills and connections in Hollywood. Yeah. But you
Speaker 1: know what, I work hard as an advocate for people.
Speaker 1: So it's really important that I play hard, which is
Speaker 1: why my husband and I are going to Tahiti for
Speaker 1: three weeks. Let's talk about luxurious victimhood. With the help
Speaker 1: of God Almighty, Thank you Lord.
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Speaker 1: Todd Herman Today is the day the Lord has made,
Speaker 1: and these are the times in which God has decided
Speaker 1: we shall live. You don't know what you have until
Speaker 1: you're around people who have nothing. And when you examine
Speaker 1: the form of victimhood we're going to talk about today
Speaker 1: and some of the symptoms there. And there's some actors
Speaker 1: that come in under this heading of luxurious victimhood. One
Speaker 1: of the actors we'll talk about today are smuggles, which
Speaker 1: is a phrase I've invented for liberals who find themselves
Speaker 1: in the unique position of being entirely unaffected from any
Speaker 1: policy for which they advocate, and they have this form
Speaker 1: of luxurious victimhood by attaching themselves to the people we
Speaker 1: sort of talked about yesterday, the reverse Olensky tactic. Pick victim,
Speaker 1: venerate them, make them the binary decision between moral goodness
Speaker 1: and moral badness. So the anointed, the venerated victim groups,
Speaker 1: they're this binary. You are on the good side or
Speaker 1: the bad side. So the case of immigration, if you
Speaker 1: do not see any nuance in the immigration discussion, it's
Speaker 1: simply bad because orange man or brown people. Then you
Speaker 1: are standing with people in a form of luxurious victimhood.
Speaker 1: And there are people who are not going to be deported.
Speaker 1: They're clearly United States citizens, sometimes four generations, five generations.
Speaker 1: And the luxury of attaching yourselves to the venerated and
Speaker 1: anointed new victim class is enjoining that you get to
Speaker 1: have your victimhood, but you get to have your luxury.
Speaker 1: Like this person in Hollywood who got to have her socialism,
Speaker 1: and she and her husband got to maintain what at
Speaker 1: the time, and I imagine it's more now worth three houses,
Speaker 1: two two in Socow, one in San Diego, one in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And I know that because she and her
Speaker 1: husband mentioned that every time they talked trying to decide
Speaker 1: which house to spend the weekend, and both of them
Speaker 1: are on the beach. It was just such a hard decision.
Speaker 1: There's a video of a young woman, and let's let's
Speaker 1: not do the thing where we're going to look at
Speaker 1: her and think stupid. Let's do something else. Let's think
Speaker 1: about how attractive luxurious victimhood is. When you've never really
Speaker 1: been around anybody who has nothing, or you've never really
Speaker 1: thought about what it is to have true meaning in
Speaker 1: your life, you look at life as this is I'm
Speaker 1: here and then I die and I'm gone and nothing
Speaker 1: is remembered. So this is it. This is all it
Speaker 1: will ever mean. So let's look at that from that perspective.
Speaker 1: But then let's look at this with a critical, critical eye.
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's wind back a bit. What's the closest
Speaker 1: you've come to meeting someone with nothing? And I mean nothing?
Speaker 1: So because of places I've worked and things have done,
Speaker 1: I got to know people who lived and slept in
Speaker 1: parks or are sometimes in junk cars, and had a
Speaker 1: guy teach me the hierarchy of homelessness. He had reached
Speaker 1: the point there. He was an urban outdoor enthusiasts, is
Speaker 1: what he called himself, a very clever guy named Dan.
Speaker 1: He said, I'll never be a rubber bum. It's a
Speaker 1: rubber bum, Dan, It's someone who sleeps in a junk car.
Speaker 1: Why would you never be a rubber bum because rubber
Speaker 1: bum is the last step to street bum. I'm never
Speaker 1: going to become a rubber bum. And he taught me
Speaker 1: this overnight when we were out playing guitar in the park,
Speaker 1: my brother Matthew and I. And it was years later
Speaker 1: that I ran into Dan, bleeding from a huge gash
Speaker 1: in his forehead. Having soiled himself trying to sleep with
Speaker 1: his back against the buildings so he could see people
Speaker 1: coming to kick him in the face. Did nothing what
Speaker 1: Dan owned Dan war and praise God, I had the
Speaker 1: time and the resources to take him to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Praise God. That's God gave me the resources to give
Speaker 1: them money to try to fix him up physically. So
Speaker 1: let's think about the last time you knew someone with nothing,
Speaker 1: Because a lot of these people don't, so they take
Speaker 1: all what they want to feel. They want to feel
Speaker 1: their aligned with the venerated victim group. They don't want
Speaker 1: to know the victims. They don't want to have any nuance.
Speaker 1: They don't want to admit the fact that victimize people
Speaker 1: are victimized. They don't want to admit the fact that
Speaker 1: bad people use emotions like theirs to satan, to animate
Speaker 1: them to advocate for policies of division and hatreds and
Speaker 1: distortion and destruction. So I'll show you this tattooed young
Speaker 1: woman here in just a quick quick second. I had
Speaker 1: a friend of mine who was victimized by and we
Speaker 1: don't even I don't think we know what it is
Speaker 1: or what it was, but here are the symptoms. Is
Speaker 1: leaning over to pick up her grand baby was incredibly painful,
Speaker 1: this general sense of always being exhausted, of always being sore,
Speaker 1: and she'd had what's the thing you get when you
Speaker 1: have a tick lime disease, and for maybe he lime
Speaker 1: disease is back, or you know, maybe it's it's not
Speaker 1: being fully handled. And I know that's a very difficult
Speaker 1: thing to handle. So she's a very very dear, very
Speaker 1: close friend. She and her husband's and they came down
Speaker 1: to Mexico with me. Now she's not in the new
Speaker 1: tissue basing stage building stage from Renew Healthcare. She's not
Speaker 1: there yet, but got the most encouraging report from her
Speaker 1: last night. She went and walked forty four straight blocks
Speaker 1: on concrete and then went home and was on her
Speaker 1: feet for another six or eight hours for their Independence
Speaker 1: Day event. They have this beautiful, beautiful home God's bestowed
Speaker 1: upon them, and she woke up the next day without
Speaker 1: any ill effects. She didn't feel any pain, any exhaustion.
Speaker 1: And this is the first time in years this has happened,
Speaker 1: and it's the result of the ethically gathered stem cells
Speaker 1: from umbilical cords. At Renew Healthcare. They do things down
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Speaker 1: not be victimized by the lives of the American Medical
Speaker 1: industrial associations. Renew dot healthcare. All right, So setting a stage,
Speaker 1: The reason I grabbed this is because it made a
Speaker 1: ton of imprints online, got very popular. And let's again
Speaker 1: imagine the people you've met who have nothing. Okay, the
Speaker 1: closest if you've ever met someone with nothing, get as
Speaker 1: close as you can. And let's watch this.
Speaker 3: Our country is going to s and I'm making tuna
Speaker 3: salad right now, tuna salad. Our country is going to
Speaker 3: I live miles miles from one concentration camp and I'm
Speaker 3: making tuna.
Speaker 1: Salad quick video, tens of thousands of views. So let's review.
Speaker 1: You can afford glasses that look like fashion lenses. You
Speaker 1: can afford tattoos, you can afford piercings that doesn't look
Speaker 1: like a rundown hotel to me or whether motel nor
Speaker 1: does it look like a trailer. You can afford an iPhone,
Speaker 1: I'm presuming that's an iPhone. You can afford internet access.
Speaker 1: Your hair looks styled, your teeth look white. You don't
Speaker 1: look like you've got scurvy sores. Your face looks well cleansed,
Speaker 1: your skin well cared for. You don't look sun burnt
Speaker 1: or sun leathered. You don't look famished. And incidentally, go
Speaker 1: meet someone who has nothing and complain about your two
Speaker 1: I invite you to do that. I invite you to
Speaker 1: do that. Years ago, I was headed into the gym
Speaker 1: and I came upon. I stopped to get gas and
Speaker 1: some caffeine, and there was a woman there on this
Speaker 1: one hundred and some degree day and she had nothing.
Speaker 1: She had to close on her back, and she'd been
Speaker 1: dropped off there by a man, someone she only knew
Speaker 1: his first name. And I went into the store and
Speaker 1: I brought her some Gatorway, but she had nothing. And
Speaker 1: I'm saying it was one hundred and one degrees on concrete.
Speaker 1: And if you've never seen someone take a thirty two
Speaker 1: ounce Gatorade and suck it down because they know if
Speaker 1: they don't. They're going to die. And this luxury, luxurious
Speaker 1: victimhood this lady's displaying, this young woman. You can multiply
Speaker 1: that up the chain to people who can afford their
Speaker 1: victimhood by attaching themselves to the venerated groups. Now let's
Speaker 1: extend this just a little bit more. My wife and
Speaker 1: I before we were married, we lived in Utah and
Speaker 1: she taught with a lady named Kathy. And I've always
Speaker 1: been well since my dad introduced me to Native American culture.
Speaker 1: My dad loved, fascinated with Native American culture, and that
Speaker 1: made sense because actually when he grew up in Spokane Valley,
Speaker 1: there were still people living the traditional way, and I
Speaker 1: mean in tpies and the sheriff still rode a horse.
Speaker 1: I have a picture of my dad in a ditch
Speaker 1: that they were digging the road. It's called Bowtish Road.
Speaker 1: And anybody who lives in this bolcano, everever literaer will
Speaker 1: know Boutish in the valley. That was the ditch prior
Speaker 1: to there being a road, long before it ever having
Speaker 1: been contemplated to have been paved. And my dad is
Speaker 1: a little boy in the ditch, and I think he's
Speaker 1: on some form of toy like bicycle or something, but
Speaker 1: I know he's in the ditch and it's a picture
Speaker 1: of his father and grandfather greeting the sheriff on his
Speaker 1: horse with his sidearm, a six shooter. So my dad
Speaker 1: grew up seeing people in these traditional ways, met some
Speaker 1: of them, and he gave me this love of this
Speaker 1: The first real book I ever read in my life,
Speaker 1: real book was Burying My Heart at Wounded Knee, and
Speaker 1: I was in fourth grade. So when you've met people
Speaker 1: who have nothing, and you recognize this, and you see
Speaker 1: these sort of venerated victim groups, and you see this
Speaker 1: tattooed woman and you see her talking about her tuna
Speaker 1: cat or she has to eat this tuna, and she's
Speaker 1: attached themselves to this victims group. These are the venerated
Speaker 1: victim groups. It rings really, really false when you've encountered
Speaker 1: people whose lives have nothing. So my wife and I
Speaker 1: we were talking about my fascination with Native Americans. It
Speaker 1: turned in Kathy was I think three quarter and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember. I believe she was Cherokee, and we
Speaker 1: were at our house that my wife had purchased, and
Speaker 1: she was my girlfriend at the time, and I had
Speaker 1: no ability to buy a house. Only by the grace
Speaker 1: of God with my beloved wife do I have that.
Speaker 1: And Kathy didn't know I had this fascination. And we
Speaker 1: talked about internment camps because we had driven up to
Speaker 1: some of the interment camps where they kept Japanese people.
Speaker 1: And we were just having this discussion and Kathy said,
Speaker 1: I don't talk about it a lot, but I had
Speaker 1: to go to an Indian school. Okay, I know about
Speaker 1: those And she said, no, you don't. No, you've read
Speaker 1: about them, but you don't know about them. And this
Speaker 1: is one of the things that we conservatives never discussed
Speaker 1: because we pretend racism doesn't happen and never has. We
Speaker 1: don't talk about the nuanced facts of American history because
Speaker 1: we want to hide that from people. So we have
Speaker 1: doctorated out of society, you know, us as Christians and such,
Speaker 1: we don't like, we don't like to talk about the
Speaker 1: reality of what has been. So there is schools and
Speaker 1: they were called Indian schools. And in those schools, kids
Speaker 1: were shamed out of ever being Indian, beaten out of
Speaker 1: being Indian, beginning with We're going to go ahead and
Speaker 1: shave your head for you, and we're going to go
Speaker 1: ahead and ban your speaking of your native tongue, and
Speaker 1: we're going to go ahead and teach you that your
Speaker 1: parents are trash, and we're going to force you to
Speaker 1: say these things in the name of Jesus. So what
Speaker 1: Kathy said is no, you've read about him, you don't
Speaker 1: know them. And she was kind enough to share what
Speaker 1: it was to have nothing. You know what, she had
Speaker 1: three dresses, oh end, a hair brush, that's it. Everything
Speaker 1: else was taken from her. She didn't have parents. Her
Speaker 1: brothers were sent to a different Indian school for boys.
Speaker 1: She didn't have brothers, She had nothing. Guess what. She
Speaker 1: wasn't victim. She was about as joyful a person as
Speaker 1: ever known. And I still remember her last name. Great teacher,
Speaker 1: my wife is and was a brilliant teacher. Made sense
Speaker 1: that they become friends. So let's think again, and let's
Speaker 1: watch this one more time. But but but let's let's
Speaker 1: think like our our long I mean, we haven't talked
Speaker 1: to this lady since we left Utah, but let's think
Speaker 1: like Kathy. Okay, when this lady gets to the point
Speaker 1: about what she say, she lives next to some camps.
Speaker 3: Our country is going to and I'm making tuna salad
Speaker 3: right now, Tuna salad. Our country is going to I
Speaker 3: live miles miles from one concentration camp, and I'm making
Speaker 3: tuna salad.
Speaker 1: On the nights where Kathy was allowed to eat. I
Speaker 1: bet you would have taken the tuna salad. Oh, and
Speaker 1: then concentration camps. Can we talk about that if you
Speaker 1: ever met anybody who's been in one, I mean an
Speaker 1: actual concentration camp, not a deportation camp, which have existed
Speaker 1: in America since America. These people are not being exterminated.
Speaker 1: Praise God. There's no gas chambers, there's no work will
Speaker 1: set you free. And yeah, I've met someone. I've met
Speaker 1: a couple of people who were in the death camps,
Speaker 1: and you know what, they weren't victims, not a one
Speaker 1: of them. So this luxurious victimhood, it extends into political leaders,
Speaker 1: people like Karen Bass, who is a full on Castro
Speaker 1: socialist who is connected to and helped push actual it's
Speaker 1: just hilarious, actual, violent, murderous instruction in our country. And
Speaker 1: she gets to be a victim of sorts, living in luxury,
Speaker 1: practicing luxurious victimhood. And I'll show you some of her
Speaker 1: latest exploits in a second, and a luxury comes at
Speaker 1: the cost, and your retirement comes at the cost. So
Speaker 1: your retirement, if you're going to want to retire, it's
Speaker 1: just got tons more complicated tons because President Trump has
Speaker 1: made the unbelievably disappointing decision to sign an executive order
Speaker 1: waiving the magic executive pen allowing private equity into For
Speaker 1: one case, private equity is almost completely across the board
Speaker 1: overvalued by forty to sixty percent, and the big companies
Speaker 1: like Blackrock have been trying to dump their junk on
Speaker 1: us forever, the junk that they understand their private equity
Speaker 1: investments to be. And President Trump, in doing this is
Speaker 1: going to allow them to now go sell to Fidelity
Speaker 1: and Schwab and all these other retail outfits, as the
Speaker 1: figurehead would say, these roll ups of private equity deals.
Speaker 1: And this is just like the housing market guys, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, much more importantly in Zach Abraham's opinion, So
Speaker 1: you need to get You have to attend Zach's free
Speaker 1: live webinar coming up on the twenty fourth of this month.
Speaker 1: He will I guarant you talk about this because guess
Speaker 1: what once these things are in the hedge. Once these
Speaker 1: these hedge funds and black rocking those are done dumping
Speaker 1: their junk, the value of those companies is going to
Speaker 1: reflect reality, and people's retirement accounts can drop forty to
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Speaker 1: investments of all risk and are not guaranteed past performance,
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Speaker 1: to two Chris Bray, and we'll get to some of
Speaker 1: his work here in a second. He lives in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and he wrote a piece called The Great Relearning, and
Speaker 1: some notes from other places. We'll get to that. This
Speaker 1: is a woman practicing luxurious victimhood. She's attached herself to
Speaker 1: every venerated victim group. No nuance. It is the binary
Speaker 1: moral standard for Americans. You're with the new victims or
Speaker 1: you're not. There is no buyer, there is no nuance,
Speaker 1: no que questions. All in immigration enforcement is wrong when
Speaker 1: Trump does it. All of it's right when Biden does
Speaker 1: here she is obstructing federal immigration enforcement agents. Karen bass
Speaker 1: I am my comments as they need to leave, and
Speaker 1: they need to leave right now.
Speaker 2: They need to unaccepted.
Speaker 1: Who do you speak on the phone? Wow? The head
Speaker 1: of Customs she spoke with. And it is unprecedented than
Speaker 1: anything like this would go on in Los Angeles. And
Speaker 1: this is at MacArthur Park, which is beautiful. I mean,
Speaker 1: the trees are beautiful. Have you been to MacArthur Park?
Speaker 1: I mentioned in regard to luxurious victimhood, I mentioned smuggrels.
Speaker 1: So if you're a smuggrel, and I know smuggralism in Seattle,
Speaker 1: and it's a phrase invented. It means people. It means
Speaker 1: liberals who are uniquely unaffected by the policies they promote.
Speaker 1: So let me give you an example of smuggle them.
Speaker 1: So you're smugglel You own a three story, four story
Speaker 1: condo in West Seattle's strictly across the street from the beach.
Speaker 1: And that portion of Seattle has hired private security because
Speaker 1: there's been gang shootings and there's been people sleeping in
Speaker 1: the beach. So that's over. That's god. Now they don't
Speaker 1: allow that there anymore. From the fourth floor, you can
Speaker 1: see all of Elliott Bay, you can see downtown Seattle.
Speaker 1: You can even see out to the Olympic Peninsula. From
Speaker 1: your luxury condo, you either uber in to Seattle or
Speaker 1: you uber up to a train station, and at that
Speaker 1: train station, then you pop into a train and in
Speaker 1: ten minutes fifteen minutes you pull up next to you're
Speaker 1: downtown workplace. Now, factually speaking, Amazon and Microsofts and companies
Speaker 1: like that have divested of downtown real estate. So maybe
Speaker 1: your train rides a little longer, maybe it's thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: or maybe you've just rented out that condo or airbnbat
Speaker 1: it or vrbo'ed and bought another. You in the train
Speaker 1: go past some wilderness area and there's the canopy of
Speaker 1: the trees, and yet maybe you can see, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: some cars down there, and maybe they should clean that up,
Speaker 1: and ecologically that looks really bad and oh gosh, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe that's getting into the water table. And so that
Speaker 1: kind of that thought kind of fleetingly comes to you
Speaker 1: as you're on your phone and you're working or playing
Speaker 1: your games or whatever, and you go through downtown Seattle
Speaker 1: and yeah, there's some graffiti and such and maybe the
Speaker 1: hillside around the hospital there where the train goes, maybe
Speaker 1: that looks a little CD, but you don't really see it.
Speaker 1: You're not affected by it's not going to harm you.
Speaker 1: You go from a secure area in a secured building
Speaker 1: with private security guarding it, to a secure area in
Speaker 1: a secured building with private security guarding it, and then
Speaker 1: you go and vote for more money for homelessness because
Speaker 1: they have been in the Settle Area, the Venerated Victim
Speaker 1: Group for years. They are the binary measure of human morality.
Speaker 1: You either want money for homelessness or you are an
Speaker 1: evil person who hates homeless people and wants to eat them. Now,
Speaker 1: if you ever have that train stop, say there's an
Speaker 1: emergency and they have to take you off that train,
Speaker 1: and you get out of the train around that wilderness
Speaker 1: area talked about the tree canopies, you're going to smell
Speaker 1: pardon my language, piss and the other stuff. And it
Speaker 1: is ripe, and you can tell right away. It's the
Speaker 1: scent of sugar and flavored alcohols. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever seen heroin feces, but it's a special
Speaker 1: brand of gross. And if you have to walk down
Speaker 1: that hill to get to an uber. Since the train
Speaker 1: is elevated, you're going to end up walking through places
Speaker 1: where people are sleeping in their own defecation, with stolen
Speaker 1: propane tanks all over the place, which is a massive
Speaker 1: fire hazard, and it is in fact nearly blown up bridges.
Speaker 1: You're going to see all this stuff and it is
Speaker 1: never going to come to you that I funded that,
Speaker 1: because you're going to pop back up on the train
Speaker 1: or get in the uber and go to work and think, Bam,
Speaker 1: we're not funding this enough. Because you've never talked to
Speaker 1: a person. How did you get here? How is it
Speaker 1: that you live this way? And if you've never had
Speaker 1: the conversation I had with a Dan Rickard, Yeah I
Speaker 1: remember Dan's name. You'll never know. You'll think, And when
Speaker 1: you are part of the smuggrel class, the less thinking
Speaker 1: you do, the better. They don't want you to think.
Speaker 1: That's why the venerated victim groups are venerated. You either
Speaker 1: want money for homelessness or you hate them and you
Speaker 1: want to eat them. You either think all immigration raids
Speaker 1: are wrong, or you want to see all black and
Speaker 1: brown people tossed into the camps, the Holocaust camps as
Speaker 1: this lady, says young woman. So our friend Chris Bray,
Speaker 1: who lives in Los Angeles, wrote a piece called The
Speaker 1: Great Relearning and some Notes from other Places, and in
Speaker 1: it he talks about some history of MacArthur Park. Turns
Speaker 1: out there's some historical references to MacArthur Park and federal
Speaker 1: raids that somehow didn't make it in to the current
Speaker 1: efforts of the Mockingbird media to promote the venerated class,
Speaker 1: because the Mockingbird media enjoys what luxurious victimhood, because they're
Speaker 1: advocating for the little people. And this is a very
Speaker 1: vivid Alex put this together, combining a couple of things,
Speaker 1: and it's and look, images tell stories really well, there's
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Speaker 1: really committed Christian's like, wait, are we going to hell
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Speaker 1: we did. Chris Bray writing this great piece about the
Speaker 1: Great Relearning and some notes from other places. This is
Speaker 1: just a bit of Chris's piece. And again, if I
Speaker 1: could write like this, I'd be in big trouble because
Speaker 1: I'd stay at home writing all day. The Great Relearning
Speaker 1: and some notes from other places. This is about Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: but it's not about Los Angeles. This will make sense
Speaker 1: in a minute. See if this sounds familiar. MacArthur Park
Speaker 1: was controlled by gangs and drug dealers, full of open
Speaker 1: drug use and prostitution, filthy and unsafe for families. The
Speaker 1: disorder in the park bled into the surrounding neighborhoods. MS
Speaker 1: thirteen controlled the park, but other gangs fought for space
Speaker 1: to sell drugs in the area, which led to violence.
Speaker 1: One year, we had almost one hundred and six homicides
Speaker 1: in eight square miles, and LAPD captain said, does that
Speaker 1: sound familiar? Well, Chris decided to do the craziest, most
Speaker 1: irresponsible thing in the world. He looked back into the
Speaker 1: history of media coverage. So what we have here is
Speaker 1: a few minutes of an NPR piece from that time
Speaker 1: period two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, juxtaposed
Speaker 1: with images from today.
Speaker 4: Back in the time of mobsters like al Capone, the
Speaker 4: FBI made gang busting its number one priority. Now the
Speaker 4: FBI is focusing on gangs once again, street gangs such
Speaker 4: as MS thirteen, the Bloods, or the Crips in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: FBI agents are helping police put away gang leaders who
Speaker 4: in the past have been untouchable. As part of a
Speaker 4: series on the Gangs of La NPR's Mondally del Barco
Speaker 4: reports on how the FEDS have helped break the gang's
Speaker 4: hold on one neighborhood.
Speaker 1: What you see if you're watching the video version of
Speaker 1: the show, are people passed out, some of them probably dying,
Speaker 1: all of them. Drug adults in MacArthur Park, which you
Speaker 1: don't see, are the helpful drug salespeople who know they
Speaker 1: can go quick flip fence at al and heroin all
Speaker 1: day long there, because when those people aren't sleeping, they're stealing,
Speaker 1: and when they're not stealing, they're cashing checks that Mayor
Speaker 1: Bass gives them while she practices luxurious victimhood. While people
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles who continue to vote for this gets
Speaker 1: their dopamine hits or maybe it's seratonin off of their
Speaker 1: luxurious victimhood. I'm a good person, I know because with
Speaker 1: the venerated classes of people, I chance trans women are women.
Speaker 1: Therefore I am on the right side. I chant ice
Speaker 1: go home. Therefore I am on the right side. And
Speaker 1: I practice my luxurious victimhood from my condos, from my
Speaker 1: train rides, from my limo rides, from my high rises,
Speaker 1: and man, I attach myself to that. So that's how
Speaker 1: you can get these entertainers who from a fourteen fifteen
Speaker 1: story condo in downtown Hollywood that they get to you
Speaker 1: through through limos or above Hollywood or in Santa Monica,
Speaker 1: what have you. That's how they can sit up there
Speaker 1: and say I stand with them because of the reversal
Speaker 1: Alynsky tactic. Pick a victim group, venerate it, make it
Speaker 1: the binary moral standard by which people's goodness or badness
Speaker 1: is measured, and then match that with luxurious victimhood like
Speaker 1: the young woman forced to eat tune a salad. Poor thing.
Speaker 1: My heart bleeds. So Chris points out this was not
Speaker 1: the first time the FEDS have been involved in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and did you hear the way NPR reported it touting
Speaker 1: is zero torrance approach to migration. President Trump has loosed
Speaker 1: masked federal agents on American cities, taking migrants from arks,
Speaker 1: often in front of their families, to send them to
Speaker 1: internment camps. Some say remind them of Holocaust camps. I'm
Speaker 1: grim milestone. So Tom Holman went on the Mockingbird media,
Speaker 1: he's the borders are I hate that phrase, like what
Speaker 1: he's doing for the most part, And I want to
Speaker 1: go back. Can we go back real quick? I want
Speaker 1: to go back to our original luxurious victim. Okay, so
Speaker 1: here's our original luxurious victim.
Speaker 3: Our country is going to And I'm making tuna salad
Speaker 3: right now. Tuna salad. Our country is going to I
Speaker 3: live miles miles from a concentration camp and I'm making
Speaker 3: tuna salad.
Speaker 1: How often? How many takes do you think that took?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking two or three to look away from the
Speaker 1: camera and I'm making tuna effing salad the absence of
Speaker 1: self review. All right, So let's say let's look at
Speaker 1: this from a different perspective. Now, since we're examining luxuries victimhood,
Speaker 1: Let's say you're a kid. You were nine when you
Speaker 1: were brought across the border having been violated, I mean
Speaker 1: not a lot, but maybe sexually violated two or three
Speaker 1: times is all. And now you're here in a country
Speaker 1: where you speak almost none of the language, with people
Speaker 1: who are not your parents, and you find yourself living
Speaker 1: upstairs from I don't know. You pick your money laundering business,
Speaker 1: what's cash businesses? Restaurants, dry cleaners, payday loans, and you
Speaker 1: throughout the day either are involved in radically discounted labor,
Speaker 1: or maybe you get three hots and a cot, or
Speaker 1: maybe the worst well no not, maybe the more depraved
Speaker 1: instances of that were your body's being leased to men, okay,
Speaker 1: and you are fed just enough so that you don't
Speaker 1: die but they want you to remain skinny. And you're
Speaker 1: now ten and eve Ben put on these drugs so
Speaker 1: that they're more controllable. Or maybe you're fourteen or fifteen
Speaker 1: and this has just been the way, Or maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you're seventeen and you've been put into apartments and that
Speaker 1: apartment is for illegal immigrants, and you are told you
Speaker 1: will work at our restaurants and you will do that
Speaker 1: for a buck fifty an hour, or we will call
Speaker 1: the federal authorities and you will be taken and put
Speaker 1: into Guantanamo Bay. It seems bizarre to mention all that,
Speaker 1: because Republicans are very, very mean and they hate all
Speaker 1: the venerated victim groups. But it turns out that Tom
Speaker 1: Holman and his Departments Customer Border Patrol has found multiple
Speaker 1: businesses that do just this. And we've talked about this
Speaker 1: on the show. Businesses who purchase apartment buildings right next
Speaker 1: door to their restaurants or their gas stations or their
Speaker 1: gas station convenience store restaurants. They bring in illegal immigrants,
Speaker 1: They fire Americans, They bring in illegal immigrants, a lot
Speaker 1: of them juveniles, They put them in these apartments. They
Speaker 1: quote pay them a buck fifty two fifty, maybe four
Speaker 1: to fifty an hour, maybe even five fifty, but not
Speaker 1: the minimum wage, nowhere near it, no benefits, and they
Speaker 1: pack them four or five at a time into apartment
Speaker 1: buildings designed for two people. And you're here till you
Speaker 1: pay us off because we paid money they buy the people.
Speaker 1: There's a word for that. That word is slavery. But
Speaker 1: when you take a victim group and you venerate them
Speaker 1: and they become the binary measure for all human morality. Hey,
Speaker 1: are you in favor of immigration raids? Well, yeah, because
Speaker 1: ah can't. Nope. So Tom Holman went on Fox News
Speaker 1: and I want us to think about the luxurious victim
Speaker 1: tuna salad girl, and I want you to think like
Speaker 1: that child who's eleven or twelve and is used in
Speaker 1: any of those ways. And let's say you run across
Speaker 1: that video and she says her world's going to s
Speaker 1: and examine it from a point of view of someone
Speaker 1: who's being truly victimized, not in the luxury sense and
Speaker 1: not in a contact high sense. So Tom Holman went
Speaker 1: on the Fox News and he quoted a great big number,
Speaker 1: and I want you to hear that great big number
Speaker 1: a second, because it's an important number. This is a war, okay.
Speaker 1: It's a war for minds. It's a war for common sense.
Speaker 1: It's a war for decency. It's a war for what
Speaker 1: God would have us do with the least of these.
Speaker 1: It's not a shooting war for most of us. It
Speaker 1: is for many of us and what requires a crisp,
Speaker 1: clean mind. And look, my friends, Tim Krookshank, he knew
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Speaker 1: Homan went on Fox News and as you listen to this,
Speaker 1: imagine the kids that have been rescued and then they
Speaker 1: get to go watch TikTok and see tune a salad girl.
Speaker 5: Look, we're looking for over three hundred thousand missing children.
Speaker 5: We've already found ten thousand. Have you heard that anywhere? No,
Speaker 5: the media is simply not covering it. And look, this
Speaker 5: should be a nonpartisan issue. Arresting public safety threats and
Speaker 5: national security threats. Everybody be on the same page. On that,
Speaker 5: rescuing children. I mean, there should be a non partisan issue.
Speaker 5: Everybody should be in locks up on that. But they're
Speaker 5: not the media's line. The Democrats that are taking they
Speaker 5: don't want President to be successful. I got news for them,
Speaker 5: were being successful. Every every illegal alien, public safety threat
Speaker 5: we arrest makes us country safer. Every national security threat
Speaker 5: we take off the street and deport makes us safer.
Speaker 5: And we're rescuing thousands of children. The lives saved every
Speaker 5: day by ice, the lives saved every day by borg Drow.
Speaker 5: You are in the hundreds. So the only thing I
Speaker 5: can think of, Griff, if they hate President Trump more
Speaker 5: than they love their community, they.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's not do that mine every thing. Let's not
Speaker 1: us do that. If you are against mass deportations, you
Speaker 1: should have been against mass illegal immigration. Can't have one
Speaker 1: with that the other. And there's a reason Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: didn't do the luxury victim thing. God doesn't have luxury.
Speaker 1: He just is what he is. He is the way
Speaker 1: the truth in the life. He's always existed, always all exists.
Speaker 1: Jesus is the way the truth of life with God,
Speaker 1: the Father, that the triune Godhead has always existed and
Speaker 1: you could say, well, yeah, he lived in a luxury position.
Speaker 1: He's God, He's always existed. He has no pain. But no,
Speaker 1: he does. No. When Jesus sacrificed for a time his
Speaker 1: full deity to become fully God and fully human, he
Speaker 1: chose to come out of the Ultimate high Rise and
Speaker 1: to come down to earth, taking on human flesh with
Speaker 1: all of its needs. I mean, you know, baby Jesus
Speaker 1: wept because he was hungry, right or he was scared, callicky,
Speaker 1: Frustrated the Ultimate high Rise, he left it. He went
Speaker 1: down to street level, to dirt level, to a family
Speaker 1: where his lineage was questioned. Come on, you think that's true.
Speaker 1: That thing with marrying the angel.
Speaker 5: She was.
Speaker 1: He chose that. He chose the role of a servant.
Speaker 1: He chose to be the one who went to the
Speaker 1: cross when he could have been up in the Ultimate
Speaker 1: high Rise. He didn't choose luxurious victimhood, nor was he
Speaker 1: a victim. But look what they did to the flesh.
Speaker 1: He could have said, no, I don't care that, it's
Speaker 1: the law. I'm not gonna let you do that to me.
Speaker 1: Follow the law. Unless they told him to violate God's work,
Speaker 1: you could call Jesus the most venerated victim in history.
Speaker 1: You'd be wrong because he was the victim. That was
Speaker 1: God's plan. We don't venerate him betray and God had
Speaker 1: simply is love, kindness, patience, long suffering. It's not anything
Speaker 1: it can't be, and it came down to the ultimate
Speaker 1: high rise to be with us, to experience what the
Speaker 1: world would call actual victim wood. But God is an
Speaker 1: expert at taking bad and using it for good. This
Speaker 1: is the Todd Hermannshaw. Please go, be well, be strong,
Speaker 1: be kind, make a decision to walk with Christ. And
Speaker 1: if you give me while, I get to go home
Speaker 1: to my beloved wife.