which all other rights depend. if you can t defend yourself, te can t defend your family and your property, you don t have any rights at all. you re a l.. by definition. so you may be wondering in this moment of creeping authoritarianism, how is the right to self defense doing in our country? ou we can give some kind of long lecture, but instead, how about some examples? consider two shootings that took place at gas stations in the past year in the united states . the first shooting occurred around two p 2:0m.m on october a the state of missouri, a twentyo three year old felon called javon taylor with a long criminal record convictiontaylor armed robbery, for example, began threatening a female clerk, apparently becausn es st the gas station didn t carry the kind of cigars that he wanted. that s when an off firemanat sw called anthony santae, who was inside, decidehed to step in.or. he told javon taylor to leave ty the storloe. response to that, taylor began threatening h
like climate change, like equity versulis equity over equality. you know, they we re no longer e talking about hiring people re based on merit.t hiri we re not talking about hiringng people based on diversity. forget martin luther king s. we should judge people based on their you know, their character, their qualifications, their merit. we re not just we re now openly judging people on their race or their ch . sex, thi this is this is a terrible trend in this country. i think a lot of it descendses from this esg mentality that i the left has been ablemp to impose on us through control by these asset managers of american business, america s private sector. it must be weird to see it you happen in your world.worl so when yod.u were in college, c the radicaoll left was on collee campuses or at the sociology c department, at the state university oamr whatever , but they weren t running big companies. you certainly weren t asset manager. they, and you spent your life in this world. you must