In this episode, Dana delves into the complexities of Tourette’s Syndrome awareness raised at the BAFTA awards, focusing on a controversial outburst that sparked celebrity reactions. The podcast explores the sensitive balance of understanding medical conditions and the heightened scrutiny in public platforms. Dana shares various perspectives, highlighting the nuances that accompany living with Tourette’s and the reason for public awareness campaigns that promote deeper empathy and comprehension.
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Oh, I got something. I don’t think I can say it, though. Weighing it over my head right now. Do I say this or not? Is that what she wants to do? Because he’s married. I don’t think anybody wants to jump on that landmine with you, girl. No one wants to cover you. Get out of my shot. She just seems like a barrel of monkeys. That one. Yeah. She’s not a person that I would get along with, I don’t think. You know how you can look at people and watch their behaviors and watch them speak and you know whether or not you’re going to get along with them? I’m really good at that. I’ve never been wrong. I would not get along with this chick. She’s somebody I would have bullied in school just because she needed it, right? She is like the bully that wants to bully other people until she meets a meaner bully. That’s what she seems like. That was the governor’s thing that they were doing, the Democrat… governor’s dinner or whatever what is that gonna that’s just so lame that’s your thing i mean i don’t know maybe go workshop some ideas other than that one maybe go workshop how you’re going to bail out california because it’s in the red because of the disastrous high-speed rail that cost hundreds of billions of dollars now the money’s gone and nobody knows where it’s going and california democrats with gavin newsom are trying to stop any inquiry into discovering where that money went and they’re trying to make it a law to where you can’t ask for transparency transparency about it. I’m not even kidding you. That’s an actual bill that’s in their legislation right now. It is actually in their capital right now. Not kidding. Maybe that’s something that you should be focusing on. Did you have to bring a whiteboard though? Was it that difficult? Did you have to bring the whiteboard? Did you write on the whiteboard yourself? Because I feel like she didn’t. She had an aide do it for her. I need you to write blank Trump on this. That’s totally something. What’s her name? Katie? Porter. Oh, of course it is. Katie Porter. She’s a big, tall, stout of a woman, isn’t she? Katie Porter. Goodness. But not in a good way, right? More like an old-timey icebox way. Like that. Just going to sit here and be mean for the remainder of the hour. I’m not a big, I never watched the BAFTAs. I just usually see the photos later in like the Daily Mail. You know, I just, I look at the gowns. I don’t ever really watch them. That’s the British Film and Television Awards. So there was something that happened last night at the BAFTAs, Cain. And the host is Alan Cumming, who’s been in a ton. You’ll know him if you’ve seen him. He’s been in a ton of different films. And they had the Prince and Princess of Wales there, Cain. All of the dignitaries were there, sitting in the audience. And the Prince of Wales himself also made a presentation there. It was very nice, wasn’t it? It was almost Queen’s English. That’s fancy. Or King’s English. I don’t even know how you would say that now. But also what they did at the BAFTAs is they’ve, they had a, you know, they do like different charitable things. So this one they were doing, raising awareness for Tourette’s. Tourette’s Syndrome. And that’s where Long story short, you have an inability to control your brain from or your mouth from verbalizing things that pop into your brain and you just can’t. And there’s the thing. It’s a it’s a it’s a thing. And I think a lot of people. I think everybody thinks it’s, I don’t know. There’s different severities of it, apparently. And they had a gentleman at the BAFTAs with them yesterday. He was a, quote, I swear, is the organization. The guy’s name is John Davidson. And, you know, what triggers Tourette’s is apparently like stress, excitement, things like that, right? And you’re at the Baptist, so you’re sitting there in the audience and there’s all these celebrities and loud music and, you know, bright lights. And, you know, that could be something that triggers those symptoms for people that deal with Tourette’s. And for that gentleman, John Davidson, it apparently absolutely happened to him last night. So… um, how to start this. So John Davidson is sitting in the audience and they have different presenters that are coming up on stage. And who was it? Michael B. Jordan. And who was the other guy that they had? Oh, uh, Delroy, Delroy Lindo. So it was Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo. And they were presenting an award. And John Davidson was, Well, he had already had a couple outbursts that night and he had another one. He shouted a racial slur. It was it was the word that comes after the letter M and the alphabet came.
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Oh, yeah.
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That one. That one. Again, he’s got serious Tourette’s, like he’s had it his whole life. This is what happened. Now it is censored, but this is cut 28.
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Now, Delroy Lindo, by the way, is like, stop for a beat. And that man was like, this show’s got to go on and just kept going. I got to give him a lot of credit because that because Michael B. Jordan, you can tell that through him. He’s like the hell he looked over. I don’t know if everyone was aware that this guy was there. And that they, not even just that he was there, I don’t know if everyone, unless they had said something about it from the stage, I don’t know if all of the people who were there at at the awards, knew that they were doing this spotlight with Tourette’s awareness. Now, Alan Cumming, who is very gracious, and I don’t agree with Alan Cumming on a lot of stuff. I don’t. Very politically, we’re different. But he is a very compassionate person. He’s a big animal guy, and he was very compassionate with this. And do we have this, too? Because he went up on stage and had said… You know, guys, he said it’s he explained that this man has he addressed it on stage. He thanked the audience and he said, look, you know, we were doing Tourette’s awareness. And he said this guy’s had had had has had symptoms for most of his life. His symptoms began when he was 12. And he explained the story on stage. He said, you know, he had ticks and uncontrollable outbursts and it involved a lot of cursing. And he said that this is something that he’s been dealing with since he was a kid. And at some point there were there he had said blank you shouted blank you when some directors went up to go accept something for something else. He told someone else to shut the front door, but not in those words a lot. And when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, they were up there for best visual effects and that that went to Avatar Fire and Ash. And he said, he told the audience, he said, quote, you may have noticed some strong language in the background. He said, this can be part of how Tourette’s shows up for some people as the film explores the experience. And so there was a portion of a documentary that they were also discussing. And so I think for some of the people, it wasn’t until Cumming was explaining it that they understood what was happening. And he said, thank you so much for understanding and creating a respectful space for everyone. And the guy that is, um, Who was there, this John Davidson, it’s this organization and it’s this film called I Swear. And it features one of the guys who was in Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power. And he plays John Davidson and he goes through this. And it was based on, they had a BBC documentary called John’s Not Mad. And that was showcasing when he met the queen, he basically yelled right at her, like, go, like, blank you. Blank the queen is what he said to her when he met her. And it’s something that he just he can’t help. And he’s been very consistent. I mean, his whole entire life. I mean, it is what it is. So it’s a very interesting thing. Now, let me let me ask you this first and then I’ll go to the next thing. Is that is that something for which you think there should be understanding in a situation like this?
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Of course. Do you think so? Of course I think there should be understanding. I think there should be understanding even if the dude didn’t have Tourette’s in a certain way. But this is definitely a medical condition. And this guy, like you said, I mean, if he’s going to do it to the queen, he’s going to do it to anybody.
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Yeah, well, okay. Well, it didn’t work that way. Jamie Foxx was very upset. He slammed the activist, the Tourette’s guy, and said, quote, out of all of the words you could have said, Tourette’s makes you say that? He goes, nah, he meant that blank, unacceptable. Jamie Foxx, my man, come on. Dude. Dude. I had a friend when I was in high school and going into college, and she had a brother that had Tourette’s, very severely had Tourette’s. He had some other issues too. And one of the things that she told me, she was like, everybody, you are taught manners. The way she explained it to me, and I don’t know if this is how everybody with Tourette’s, if they experience similar, but she said, you’re raised with manners and you’re raised with behaviors and you’re aware of that. And She was like, there is, you know, sometimes part of your brain that will just push whatever it can find out and you are defenseless from having it come out of your mouth is how she explained it to me. She’s like, even if you know it’s wrong, you cannot control it. She was like, that ability does not exist for you. And I think, you know, it sort of highlights the point as to why they needed to have this documentary. Right. I mean, it kind of highlights that point. And I I think people should be very cautious because and this guy left. No one asked him to leave. He was apparently so embarrassed and upset that he left. When he had a thing that was being shown there, he and he was some I read an article where it said like some of his friends were they were a little worried about how his triggers would be able to handle it. But I mean, it’s a real thing. And I think some people don’t think that or they think that you have a modicum of control over it. And look, I’m going to tell you. I mean, and maybe it’s anecdotal, but, you know, being at my friend’s house and watching her parents with her brother because she was one of four. And he was just I mean, the stuff that he would say was hysterical. But also you were like, you can’t just kids. But he has no ability to control it. It’s a really real thing. Um, so I wish Jamie Foxx would have a little, I think he needs to understand this more and have a little bit more grace. Now, the other aspect of this, let me pull this up because they think this was so BBC. So this is the other thing that’s fueling this. That’s feeding the fire. Um, the BBC, it was like a two hour thing. They had everything on delay and there was a filmmaker named a canola Davies who had an acceptance speech. And Davies said he said, quote, free Palestine at one point and an excerpt, any excerpt from his speech removed from broadcast for per variety. He was accepting the award for some film, blah, blah, blah. And it was about, of course, migration. And he said, you know, archive your loved ones, archive your stories and blah, blah, blah, free Palestine. And apparently a portion of that speech was cut out. Now, the BBC was saying, well, it’s because the live event was three hours and we had to reduce everything to two. And so… People were like, well, why was that cut out? But John Davidson slur was in because it was Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan from Sinners. Why did you have that slur in there? And then this out? Well, because they were literally presenting something and he interrupted. And this was at the end of. I mean, are you that seriously? Are you that much of a mental abortion that you struggle with understanding that? I just think people need to lighten the hell up. And you know what? Good on Alan Cumming for laying that all out like that. And saying, look, folks, this is what happened. And being very firm about it with an audience of entitled people. Good on him for doing that. But this is, I mean, Jamie Foxx, come on, he’s not a ridiculous dude. Jamie Foxx isn’t a ridiculous person. I just don’t think that he understands what it is. And I hope somebody tells him, this guy did not do that. He was horrified. I feel really badly for this guy. He left apparently in total shame and he was so upset. Now, how do you think that’s going to affect him? He’s probably going to be dealing with these symptoms like a million times over while his body kind of acclimates and gets to a state of homeostasis, for the lack of a better way to put it. So I hope… You know, I mean, it’s not like it’s Gavin Newsom. Do we have this audio? Yes, we do. It’s not. You tell me, is this Tourette’s, Kane? So this was Gavin Newsom doing an interview, giving an interview, doing or giving, giving an interview. OK, and he’s talking in Georgia and it is a black crowd, predominantly black American crowd. You tell me if this is Tourette’s. Oh, gosh.
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I’m not, you know, I’m not trying to impress you. I’m just trying to impress upon you. I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy. And, you know, and I’m not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. Guys, the average score is like 1024.
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Starts at like 1024 to 1028 is considered average. Okay, also, oh my gosh. He kept going. Do I, I know, it’s, okay, go ahead, go ahead. I can’t, it’s so hard. It’s so, this is.
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And I’m not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. But literally a 960 SAT guy, I cannot, you’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.
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It’s going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I’m Dan Morgan. I’m an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America’s largest injury law firm.
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That’s pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
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Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It’s actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on.
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Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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Sorry, I was briefly distracted by all the new Marco Rubio memes that were coming out. All right. So, oh my God, where are we at? Let’s see. Okay, this is the one I was going to tell you. Scientists discovered… Oh, wait. Do I want to do this one? Okay. This is the dinosaur from hell. It had a sword jutting from its head. Fossil hunters found what they think is the score of a lifetime. The skull of a supersized dinosaur from, quote, hell with a sword-like horn protruding from its head. Don’t tell me that it’s a sword protruding from its head if it’s just one of them dino bones coming out of its head. You guys are lame. This headline’s a horrible trick.
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What if it’s a dragon and they think it’s a dinosaur?
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What if it’s just a giant narwhal that washed up and rotted weird? I don’t know. I’m just saying. Speaking of dinos, okay, now we’re going to do this one. This is an extremely rare fossilized anus that could reveal reptile evolution breakthrough.
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You sped right through that. I did.
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Fossilized what? The butt.
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Okay.
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particularly the brown-eyed girl that Van Morrison sang about. That song is great. I don’t know why you hate it, Cain, and old people. But they said that it’s rare to find soft tissue structures in the fossil record. That’s why this is such a breakthrough. So there, I got it out. DHS is reversing course on TSA pre-check suspension after confusion. Because, you know, we got a little bit of a lockdown, and at first everyone was saying that pre-check was going to shut down. DHS walked back its decision to suspend the pre-check program after sparking some confusions. That’s not done well. If you’re walking it back, I mean, you make a decision, you need to stick to the decision and you need to make sure that the decision you’re making is the right one so you don’t have to walk things back. Also, let’s see, bomb cyclone, blizzard. Hey, Steve, are you getting affected down in D.C.? ? That’s two inches too many. This is not winter anymore, guys. It is harassment. We are being harassed by nature. Bomb cyclone, blizzard. We’re going to talk about how Mamdani was begging for people to come shovel snow and nobody showed up. Crazy. Crazy. Something was making stone tools in China 600,000 years before Homo erectus showed up, according to a little study. I’m not saying that it’s aliens, but it might be aliens. Also coming up, I got to tell you about the spot that I found on the map because I have no life in Chile. That looks like a big alien face in a mountainside. It’s crazy. I’m going to show it to you coming up. Well, I’ll tell you about it. The folks who won’t make the program possible. It’s the people over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country. Patriot Mobile. wants to not only save you money, but they also want to make sure that you’re getting the best service possible, no matter where you are in the world, that you’re getting the absolute best service. And they’re making it to where you’re not having dropped calls. You’re not having just spots where you have no signal. They’re not just a wireless provider either. I mean, these are activists that are defending freedoms by funding Christian conservatives and the causes through their top tier service. They have service on all major U.S. networks. It’s prioritized premium nationwide coverage on the same or better than the big carriers. Fast speeds, 100% U.S.-based support. You’ve got unlimited data plans, a whole nine yards, and it’s easy to switch. Activate in minutes. Keep your phone, keep your number, or upgrade. I mean, there’s no hassle. And every time you use their service, you’re directly funding the things that you vote to protect. You’re not undermining yourself. And you know what? If you’ve canceled your television subscriptions or your network subscriptions elsewhere and you think that that’s going to be enough, what you spend on your cell phone service is so far above and beyond what you would spend on a Disney subscription. You need to actually go with the thing that is really funding your opposition. And that’s probably your big old progressive cell phone provider. So switch to Patriot Mobile today. And you can do that at PatriotMobile.com slash Dana. Call 972-PATRIOT. Use code Dana to get a free month of service. That’s PatriotMobile.com slash Dana 972 Patriot.
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Hey, how’s it going today? It’s going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I’m Dan Morgan. I’m an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan & Morgan, which is America’s largest injury law firm.
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That’s pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said $20 billion won. $20 billion is an insane number.
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Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It’s actually, I think, somewhere north, probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome.
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So how does someone get in contact with Morgan & Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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Probably the easiest way is dialing Pound Law. That’s Pound 529 from your cell phone. We are always open. Our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24-7-365. Wow.
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Dan Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, America’s large injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show.
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Welcome back to the program. A little Depeche Mode, which I have not seen Depeche Mode in yet, but I’m going to. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the bottom of this second hour, and I can see now why… uh tucker carlson who i’ve always been friendly with i mean i guess you could say you know we’re friends we’re not we’ve never been best friends we you know we the last time i texted we got into kind of a text argument um in october was the last time i talked to him because we were having a religious disagreement and known him for years and um i can see why he did this stunt last week when he went to the uh airport there in israel and wouldn’t leave the airport because the interview with Mike Huckabee did not go the way I think he thought it would. I guess he thought that Huckabee was just like this pushover. And Huckabee really set him straight on stuff, particularly he called Tucker Carlson out. And yes, when you have somebody on your program and they are saying absolutely false things and you do not check them, you are platforming that nonsense. You’re not only platforming it, you are laundering it through whatever credibility you have left. And by association, you’re vouching for it. That’s exactly what that is. So this is cut 14. Huckabee set him straight on one of the big ones. And this is probably why he wanted to take away from the interview. Watch.
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Can I ask you something? Yes. You platformed a guy. You had him on your show, Tony Aguilar. Don’t platform anyone. Well, you interviewed Tony Aguilar. Okay, you interviewed Tony Aguilar. who claimed that IDF soldiers killed a little boy in his presence. That didn’t happen. It did not happen. I don’t know if you know whether it happened or not. Well, I can tell you why I know it didn’t happen, because we found that little boy less than a week later.
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All right.
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I was involved, heavily involved, in helping to extricate him from Gaza. Four different countries were involved in getting he and his mother to safety, get them out of there. Tony Aguilar is a liar. Tony Aguilar claimed that he saw an IDF soldier shoot the little boy. He was fired from the GHF for cause, and he begged for his job back, and they wouldn’t give it back because they didn’t want him. And he told them that if they didn’t give his job back, that he would burn them down. Okay. So he goes out. Now, let me finish this because it’s important for you to understand. Right. So this guy then goes out and makes up this story that he witnessed IDF soldiers shooting a little boy.
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I don’t know that he made it up. He seemed to believe it to me. It’s possible he’s wrong. I’ve been wrong many times. Well, this is a little bit more than just missing a fact.
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I mean, are you wrong or are you lying out your ass? There’s kind of a difference. You know what I mean? I mean, there’s just who is it possible that he was wrong? I don’t know. Is it possible that he was lying out of his two cheeks? I mean, that’s just what it seems like. You know, he lied. He absolutely lied and you didn’t check it. I thought that’s what journalists do. Journalists, when someone spouts absolute nonsense on their program and you’re the host, it’s your creation. You’re sitting there across from them and you don’t check them. Well, there’s only one of two reasons why. Either because you’re culpable because you help them by laundering the story through whatever credibility you think you have left, i.e. vouching for them, or you are lazy and you didn’t do the legwork and you didn’t do any of the research and you got too used to being at Fox News where you have literally a handful of producers for every segment and they hand you a stack of papers. I’ve been in the studios millions of times. That’s how it works. They have great people that work there. They have a whole floor of people that are dedicated to researching stuff and writing their articles and doing all this stuff. And they funnel all of that and they hand all the information to their host. They’re no different from CNN or NBC or ABC. And so you didn’t do the legwork. You got used to having a whole team of people hand you everything to read. And you just read it. They load it in the prompter and you sit there and they even turn the prompter. You just literally regurgitate the words that you see in the monitor as you’re staring into the camera. So which is it? Because it’s one of those two. There’s not a third option. There is not a third option. Because you’re too damn old to be that naive. And you’re too damn old to be still learning on the job at this. So which is it? There’s just no excuse for it. There’s zero excuse for it. This is the type of stuff that we have literally marched in the streets to protest against legacy media, the same behavior that legacy media perpetuates. The same media that pulls this stuff, pulled it on the Tea Party, pulled it on conservatives, pulled this stuff on Trump voters. How are you any different when you’re behaving the same way? This, cut 15. This is another example where he insists that there are more Christians in Qatar than in Israel. Listen to this.
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countries. There’s almost no Christians in Qatar, for example, except those who live in the Christian ghetto, who are the service workers.
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I’m sorry. I don’t want to argue with you. There are many more Christians in Qatar than there are in Israel. That’s not true. It actually is true. And I refer you to Wikipedia, Mr. Ambassador. Wikipedia. What? I refer you to the government of Qatar, the government of Israel. These are knowable facts. In Jordan, the numbers are down.
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In Syria, the numbers are down.
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In Lebanon, the numbers are down. There are about twice as many Christians.
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But they live in the enclave.
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They are not native Qataris. Okay, we’re mixing so many different categories here. I’m just saying, I get things wrong all the time. You’ve just gotten something wrong. No, he didn’t, though. There are many more Christians in Qatar than there are in Israel. Fact. How many? How many? Now you caught me. I don’t know. I can look at my phone, but I was just there and there’s many more, like whatever.
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Oh, wait a minute. Can you play 32 really quickly? Because that sounded very familiar.
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How many people live in Iran, by the way? I don’t know the population. At all? No, I don’t know the population. You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple? How many people live in Iran? 92 million. Okay. How could you not know that?
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How could Tucker not know how many Christians are actually in Qatar? I mean, he said he wants to buy a house there and he’s been positioning them as this great savior of Christendom. By the way, do you know why it’s not correct to say that there are more Christians living in Qatar than there are in Israel? Because Qatar, the entire Christian population is slave labor. Qatar, where he talks about purchasing a house, is one of the largest slaveholders in all of the world. One of the last places on earth that still actually actively practices slavery. All of their Christians are imported labor that work under threat of penalty. And you know what? What’s more, they’re not even allowed to leave their Christian ghettos to go and practice their faith. They’ll get whipped if they walked out with a cross necklace. They only have a couple of buildings that are not allowed to even say Christ, Christian, anything. They can’t even have a cross. They can’t even have an ichthus on the buildings outside. Icthus, ichthus. This is what an ichthus is. You can’t even have that on the outside of the building. You have to secretly, very quietly go in and pray by yourself and do your own thing. You’re not allowed to evangelize. You’re not allowed to proselytize. You’re not allowed to do any of that. So wait a minute. You’re saying that Qatar can hold slaves, Christian slaves, and that gives them the moral authority over Israel that has Christians that willingly and happily live there and actually participate in their government affairs? And you think that that’s a flex? Oh, dear heavens. But there’s more. I mean, oh, wait. Yes, there is more. You also have this 13, please cut 13.
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I wish that none of those people in Gaza had been killed after October 8th. Well, I say not none of them. I’m glad Mohamed Sinwar was killed. I’m glad that some of those warriors, the people who masterminded and carried out the atrocities like 14 year old Hamas operatives. How do you feel about their deaths? If they participated in that. then God help them. I’m telling you, Tucker.
SPEAKER 06 :
What does that mean, God help them?
SPEAKER 07 :
Are you happy? No, but I’m telling you that when someone commits the acts of atrocity and then they hold hostages, if these were your children being held hostage in Gaza… What would you do to get them out? I wouldn’t want to kill 14 year olds. I’ll tell you that. Let me ask you something. Would you do whatever it took to get your kids back if they were being tortured, raped, starved? I would not kill children, period.
SPEAKER 13 :
It’s not your decision.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m just telling you.
SPEAKER 13 :
I’m going to interrupt because this is really pissing me off. Tucker Carlson has the attitude of someone of extreme privilege. He has never been in a position where that choice was made for him. What is so completely naive and inept is that he thinks that this is a choice that he can make. When you’re facing the barrel of a gun that’s held by a teenage terrorist member, someone who’s going to go and get coins in the martyrs fund for their family, that decision is not a decision you get to make. It is a decision that is being made for you by Hamas. It is a decision that is being made for you by the terrorists that recruit children. Terrorists you are an apologist for by repeating their propaganda as it pertains to Gaza. By repeating Aguilar’s propaganda, you’re actually helping make more child soldiers. So you’re telling me that if you and your family had Your home stormed by terrorists. And among them was a 16-year-old terrorist that was going to blow your child’s head off. That you wouldn’t act. You wouldn’t do anything to defend your family. Because that just makes you a horrible father on top of being a terrorist propagandist. It makes you a bad parent. It makes you a horrible steward of the lives that God has given you. It is not a decision that you make. Do you think it’s a decision that innocents make to have teenagers go and fight for terrorists? Who makes a decision like that for a child? Terrorists do. Stop assigning the guilt of terrorists to innocence. That’s like blaming innocent gun owners for the crimes of repeat illegal offenders. That is the same formulaic argument of gun controllers. Switch up the variables. This is not a decision that innocent people have made. It’s a decision that was made by terrorists and now You are being presented with life or death. What do you choose? That is the only decision you have at that point. So stop acting as though it’s somehow not noble or it is immoral to act to defend innocence against evil when that evil decision was made before you and predates your awareness of it. Sickening. But wait, there’s more. Cut 12, please.
SPEAKER 06 :
Abram’s descendants are the ones who have the right to have this land.
SPEAKER 13 :
Abram or Abraham? I just feel like if you’re going to lecture, you need to understand the actual correct names of the forefathers in the Bible. Go ahead. Sorry.
SPEAKER 06 :
Abram’s descendants are the ones who have the right to have this land, correct? Yes. Okay. Why don’t we do genetic testing on everybody in the land and find out who Abram’s descendants are? It’s really simple. We’ve cracked the human genome. We can do that. Why don’t we do that? Would you be against doing that? I have no idea what that would prove. I mean, maybe it would be. What do you mean? It would prove who Abram’s descendants are and who has a right to live here and who doesn’t, according to the theology that you yourself just explained. And so I’m very confused as to why we don’t do that. If you believe the theology that you’ve just explained to me. Would we do that all over the world? This is the only country in the world that you’ve said has this covenant with God. That this people have a moral and legal right to the land. What about people who convert to Judaism? Would they have a right? Well, you’ve just… you’ve just said i mean there are to judaism so you just told they can make aliyah they may not have you’ve just told me that it doesn’t matter you told me moments ago trying to keep track okay that it doesn’t matter whether or not you believe in god or whether or not you practice torah judaism or rabbinic judaism which is something else that i i don’t even know if we should i don’t even know what that means but it doesn’t matter whether you’re quote a religious jew or not what matters is that you are part of the jewish people to whom god gave this land that extends from the nile to the euphrates and so if you believe that wouldn’t you want to know with a burning passion who those people are and because of science we can now know who those people are how come tucker’s never asked people in gaza to take dna tests
SPEAKER 13 :
How come he’s never asked, quote unquote, Palestinian, which is, again, a made up name that was given by Hadrian to an area where this was after the second Judean uprising. And he decided to name the area after the Jewish people’s enemies that had already left 200 years before. And it was the seafaring people from Crete, the Philistines. How why does he ever why does he never ask them to take a DNA test? By the way, I don’t give a rat’s ass about a DNA test. I don’t care what Abraham’s descendants. I don’t care anything by that. Just by the land, just by the rule of conquer. It’s theirs. And they followed the mandate and they followed all the rules and they did everything that they were supposed to. And still the world, maybe except for the United States, refused to acknowledge it. So, no, it is their land. And it’s, by the way, people who have been there historically, supported by thousands of years of antiquity and actual historical documents, not Wikipedia, as Tucker cites, which is such an unreliable trash bag ghetto slop of nonsense that it’s not even admissible in a courtroom in the United States of America. That’s fact. So he’s actually talking about eugenics here. I don’t care. I don’t care about any of that. Law of Conquer. Also, they’ve been there. I mean, history supports it. We can talk more about it if you’d like, but why doesn’t he ever ask any of the quote unquote Palestinians to take DNA tests? Is it because he’s worried that it’ll all come back Jordanian? Million questions. This isn’t independent journalism. It’s bought and paid for, Qatari slop.
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