DeputyDane Morning Show
DeputyDane Morning Show
#DDMS Episode 38: Free Speech, Cancel Culture, and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
The growing political divide in America has reached a breaking point. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, it's time to address how our inability to engage in respectful dialogue is tearing the fabric of our society apart.
For years, I've kept silent about politics on my social platforms. As a law enforcement officer, I've seen firsthand how expressing certain viewpoints leads to immediate backlash—accusations of racism, bigotry, and calls for cancellation. My own TikTok account with 600,000 followers was taken down simply because I wear a badge and wasn't afraid to respond to those attacking me.
What's most disturbing in the aftermath of Kirk's assassination is watching people celebrate the death of someone they disagreed with. Even more troubling are the blatant mischaracterizations of his statements. Despite following his content for years, I never witnessed the hateful rhetoric he's accused of spreading. Yes, he held strong Christian beliefs, but I observed him engaging respectfully with people across the political and identity spectrum.
We've created a culture where nuanced conversation is impossible. People retreat to their echo chambers where opposing viewpoints are demonized rather than engaged with. The hypocrisy is striking—those who cheered when conservatives were deplatformed now cry foul when facing similar treatment themselves.
As a nation, we must learn to talk to one another again. We need to listen to opposing viewpoints without immediately resorting to name-calling or violence. "When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues."
My commitment moving forward is to be more vocal, not because I have all the answers, but because staying silent while watching our country tear itself apart is no longer an option. Join me as we explore how to bridge these divides through conversation before it's too late.
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Speaker 2:Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Deputy Dane Morning Show. I appreciate all y'all for being here. We got some stuff to get into. I really don't know what we're going to get into, but we'll get into something.
Speaker 1:Sit back. Oh yep, there's the sirens. I think we're all going to be detained. Sit back and enjoy the show.
Speaker 2:Good morning everybody. Well, we're back at it. I know it's been a while and I know I promised some of you that I'd be making episodes and it's just had a whole lot going on. So here we are, we're getting back to it. I think it's time that we really start to push. A lot of people know the assassination with Charlie Kirk has happened and it's been an awful, awful deal, man. It's been terrible. So, with that being said, I think it's time that we just get back into it. I think it's really going to give me a push, unfortunately, unfortunately, to just push back going and bringing up stuff that I don't know. I'm tired of it.
Speaker 2:For a long time, if any of you guys have followed me on TikTok, you've known that I've kept myself silent on politics. I stay out of politics because, no matter what, someone's going to be unhappy with what you say on politics. Now, with that being said, I am a cop in the United States, so it should be pretty obvious which side I'm leaning. You have one politician that supported groups that said defund the police, and you have one politician that gives a lot of love and respect for men and women in military and law enforcement. So it should be pretty obvious to me what I am, but I guess some people just want me to say it. I don't know, but I guess let's just say it I am a Republican. I don't really think I'm one way leaning or the other. Um, I've always been. I like to look at both sides. Um, I don't think there's a hundred percent right in anything, whether it be religion, whether it be politics. I think you have to be able to step back and look at all sides. But now's, when shit's going to get real, um, for a long time I haven't been able to say anything because automatically, if you say anything against the left, you're deemed a racist, a bigot and a Nazi and hated on. So all these people have come after me. I've even had cancel culture happen to me, where they took my main account down and be for real, they took it down because I'm a cop.
Speaker 2:You have the leftist party that has no problem crying and getting people canceled. And when I say leftist, let me explain. If there are people that are democratic that listen to me, I don't. I mean, I appreciate you, I appreciate everybody. We need everybody to make this world go around and there's been such a divide between the left, the right, the center, and we've got to stop pushing extremists. We are going to tear apart this country if we don't stop. So, with that being said, there's a lot on the left If you sorry, I'm trying to get back into the use of this there's a lot on the left that if you say anything, they get louder, they get madder and they just start calling you names.
Speaker 2:Um, it's a crazy time that, like I have to be, like I don't want to say who I am supporting because I don't want to be canceled because I didn't say who I was. I didn't push politics on anybody. I didn't push who I was. I didn't push politics on anybody. I didn't push negativity on anybody.
Speaker 2:I was a smartass when people would call me out on stuff on TikTok. Yeah, I did that. I had an account of 600,000 followers on TikTok To me. I worked hard for that. I put countless hours building that channel up, just to get taken down because I put on a badge and there's people that don't like people that put on a badge.
Speaker 2:Our country is going down the toilet bowl and I don't even know. I think it's just time for me to speak my mind. I've kept it kind of where. I just don't say a whole lot on it, but I think it's time that's over. That's over. We have been pushing for too long that this country. Now, if you're the bad guy, you're the good guy. If you're the good guy, you're the bad guy. You need to question everything If it has to do with cops. Don't get me wrong. You should, you should. But it's getting to the point now that you're believing murderers over the cops just because of a narrative.
Speaker 2:I got canceled because I put a badge on and I'm a smartass. That's why I got canceled. I worked a lot of hours for that account and to see cancel culture come around and they don't like cancel culture coming around I'm loving it. I am. I don't believe we should push towards cancel culture. But I'm not going to lie. I 100% love watching these people that have no problem canceling other people because of opinions now get canceled. And now the left is like oh, that's not right. I am on the small scale of things with my account, but it got taken down because people don't like cops on the left. That's why they report me for nonsense, stuff that I wasn't doing in the algorithms and everything on TikTok. It doesn't take time to look into it.
Speaker 2:Just the other day I was doing a live and I got a three day ban for dangerous weapons, which I don't ever show, but because obviously I'm a cop, you know that I have them but I don't ever show them and I got banned for it. But the funny thing was I appealed the ban and then what TikTok says, you know, goes to a whole bunch of stuff about unsafe manners of firearms, explosive, blah, blah blah. But it does deem it okay if it's safe for appropriate settings, including professional contact, such as military and police, recreational events, such as shooting ranges and hunting, education forums and fictional settings. So I have firearms around me but I never show them. It's implied I have them, but I got a three-day ban because of it. A three-day ban because I have firearms on me, even though TikTok deemed it okay. And what it was is.
Speaker 2:We've been gaining more and more views on the lives. Then you get more and more people that don't like you. Well, if you're smart, ass back to them, they don't like that. They want to be able to call you names and you can't say anything back. Well, I've been saying stuff back and they don't like that. So I get taken down. Repeal it Obviously, don't win the appeal and I'm still here dealing with the nonsense of it. Um, but that's neither here nor there, my main account.
Speaker 2:I raised a lot of money for good causes. I did supplement some of my income. I'm not going to lie. I've always been a hundred percent honest. I don't ask people to gift. I don't ask people to do that. If you do it, I appreciate it more than anybody will ever know, but I don't do it for that.
Speaker 2:What I deal with on a daily basis is some terrible, terrible stuff, and it's how I get through it that I use to just center myself. Making other people laugh is my guilty pleasure, I would say. It makes me see the good in life. Making people laugh makes me see people happy. You can't even turn on the internet now without seeing Charlie Kirk being assassinated and people rejoicing of it, or people fighting it, or politics left or right. You can't do anything. You can't scroll social media without someone saying something nasty or posting stuff that someone else said nasty. But to be able to see laughter and smiles and know that I'm making people happy makes my day. It does. Life is a mindset and it just kills me. I don't know. We've gone down the rabbit hole here. But let's bring up the Charlie Kirk deal.
Speaker 2:Charlie Kirk was assassinated in front of his family and in front of the nation for what he said, for what he said. And then the unfortunate thing is a lot of the stuff that people are saying he said, he never said, and now they're reaping the repercussions of making up bullshit. Look at Stephen King. Stephen King even said it. Let's let me pull up what Stephen King tweeted. So it was a tribute to Charlie Kirk. And Stephen King tweeted Can you imagine like what kind of world we're in? That we are now to the point where, like, we're not even like. And he said this and put in front of a whole crew. Now it's like he tweeted. He tweeted he advocated for stoning gays to death, just saying Charlie Kirk had never said that. Charlie Kirk had never said stoning gays to death.
Speaker 2:The one thing I've watched and I've gone down a rabbit hole with Charlie Kirk. I've always followed well, not always, I mean. Obviously he was a baby at one point and I wasn't Ilie kirk for the last several years and I love watching his videos. I didn't always agree with charlie kirk. We didn't have a hundred percent the same beliefs. But I there's a lot I did believe with him. But seeing these people say that these hateful, hateful, hateful things about him and that he was pushing hate rhetoric, fucking floors me. I've been watching a lot of these people going around like just doing like interviews Well, what do you think about it? And people are like well, his hate rhetoric was just too much and he was a hateful person spreading lies and racism and anti-gays and all this stuff. I have not seen that Iays and all this stuff. I have not seen that. I've gone through this stuff. Now here's the downside about it.
Speaker 2:Charlie Kirk was a religious man. He was strong as Christian faith, but I had watched him talk to gays. I have watched him talk to transgendered. I have watched him talk to many black people. He was actually one of the people running a black leadership group, but yet you're going to tell me he's racist. And as for gays, I watched one where there's a guy comes up as a kid Really, nowadays I'm getting old. This kid comes up and says I'm a gay conservative and starts I'm a gay conservative Christian, starts I'm a gay conservative Christian. And Charlie has a little bit of a talk with him. But he said to this homosexual gay whatever you can't, everything's going to offend people nowadays. He says to this person let's take the first part out of that. No one needs to know what you do at home in bed. You are a conservative Christian. Now there's no point that he said and we need to stone you to death. There's no point where he said, oh, you're going to hell. He was obviously strong in his beliefs.
Speaker 2:But one thing that I liked about Charlie Kirk is you have a lot of these people and I've dealt with them where they push their religion too hard to the point where they start telling people they're going to hell and they're this and they're judging which. That's one of the things I thought you weren't supposed to do is judge. Charlie Kirk was accepting. I don't know where these people are coming with this. Hey, I don't know what wool is being pulled over their eyes, or maybe pulled over my eyes, I don't know. I have looked at both sides. I have looked at.
Speaker 2:Maybe there's more into this that I'm not getting Sorry, by the way, I'm getting over. I've been sick, so I've been trying to figure this out and nowhere have I seen that he was hateful, that he was spreading racism and homophobia. Did he have his beliefs? Yes, but I never saw him judge. I never saw him say, oh, that's it, you're done Now. Did he get ever? There was times that he got a little heated and got in debate with people but that happens in debate. But I never saw him get just out and out hateful with people as they're getting hateful with him. It floors me, I don't know. I even have family members that try to say, oh no, he is hateful, and I go well, tell me where. And then they go. Well, they said this. I'm like no, he never said that, that, you're just reading what the media tells you. He said and I just don't know where we have gone so far and how we've gotten to where we've gotten that people just jump into this hatred, just so much. I don't get it. It just I don't know.
Speaker 2:And then people start losing their jobs. They start getting fired from corporations. They start getting fired from corporations. They start getting fired from being teachers and they start getting fired from hell. Jimmy Kimmel on TV and I. So here's the deal. I'm not a big cancel culture person. I don't like cancel culture. I think it's the deal. I'm not a big cancel culture person. I don't like cancel culture.
Speaker 2:I think it's absolutely ridiculous, um, but when you say hateful things about someone dying and rejoice in it, it's just evil, pure evil, evil. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't know, um, but just to be happy they died, I to be happy, he has been killed and assassinated. Whether you agreed with what he had to say or didn't agree, how in the fuck can you sit there and watch this man get shot? Now I? There's conspiracy theories. He got shot from the front, the back or either way. We know he got hit in the neck. We know that for a fact. I don't know the rest of it. There's a lot of conspiracy theories. I don't want to go down that rabbit hole until everything's done.
Speaker 2:Unfortunately, this is going to be the next kennedy, in my opinion. I think we're going to have people 40 years down the road going well. I think there's actually a dude up on this knoll. It's going to be that, unfortunately, and I hate that. I hate it happened in general. But to see people rejoice is just disgusting. And now they're getting canceled. And then they're upset. They're getting canceled, now they're upset, they're getting fired. And then I was even talking to a family member recently very close to me, and they said they're losing their First Amendment rights. Now here's the deal. There has always been repercussions to what you post online Always. Now you've got to understand these corporations. They have to sit here and go yeah, that person works here. Now, if one of them stands up and goes, yeah, that person works here. But that's their belief and they do that off work. That's on them. That's cool. But there's a lot of them that say I can't have that. There's teachers being fired for this.
Speaker 2:I watched one. He's a counselor at Harvard. He was a counselor at Harvard, a mental health counselor at Harvard for students. Could you imagine if a conservative student went in there really distraught over witnessing Charlie Kirk being murdered? What would he be told? Would he get the proper help? Murdered, what would he be told? Would he get the proper help? Because this guy was stoked that Charlie Kirk was killed, he was happy and he had all these people try to hide behind it. Well, I mean, I'm not happy he died, but I'm glad he's not here. That is fucking awful. All because he said things that upset you. I don't get it. I don't. I don't get it. I don't. I don't see the hatefulness. And again, maybe the wolves pulled over my eyes, I don't know, but it's fucking mind blowing. But what kills me is the same people that are mad about cancel culture had no problem when cancel culture was going the other way. I mean, you have actresses like Gina Carino Look at the Dr Seuss books were taken down, mr Potato Head, because it had things to do with gender.
Speaker 2:Even the damn Harry Potter, jk Rowling was that her name A lot of her stuff got taken down. Baby it's cold outside was deemed a. I mean, I can see how it's like it can be deemed pretty bad, but I think we're looking. We're just looking for shit. We're looking for shit. You're going to say baby it's cold outside. Is that? Listen to some of this mumble rap, what they're saying? But that was canceled. How about the fact that we were taking down statues and stuff that have to do with our history? Is that not canceled? Yeah, they're no longer here, but you're taking down statues that have to do with our history and if we can't learn from our history, we're only deemed to do it again. Crazy. How about COVID? Covid's a big topic. On COVID, how many people got canceled because they wouldn't get a shot or they talked negative about COVID you couldn't say anything about like, oh no, I don't think I'm going to do it. You're supposed to be taken down If you want to talk about some of the stuff that's happened, trump was kicked off of fucking social media Kicked off.
Speaker 2:He couldn't even be on social media. I just don't get it. I don't understand how far we've gone. And then I don't know, because I'm looking at some of these far, far leftists like how are you so dumb? And I know they're looking at me the same way, and I'm not even a far right, I'm more like middle right, I would think Maybe I don't know. The more this shit happens, the more I'm going further right. I'll tell you that what am I not getting is where I'm at. What am I not understanding? That they can really look at me and go you are so stupid that you don't see this. Because I would love to know, I would love to have an articulate conversation with somebody where they could be like well, look at this Now did Charlie say some things that people could definitely get offended by 100%, but he was proving a point and it proves a point, one of the big ones that they called him racist for was because he said if he sees a black pilot, he is now wondering if that pilot is qualified to be a pilot.
Speaker 2:Now I can see how that's taken out of context. I mean it sounds bad. It does. But he's pushing that DEI. They were hiring people just because of their skin color, their sex and stuff like that. It's crazy. It floors me, because they're taking it as a concept. He's saying that he doesn't think black people can fly, which is fucking mind-blowing. Okay, mind-blowing that that's where they go with it. That's one I can see how they can portray that way Me. I think more literal what he's trying to say, not Me. I think more literal what he's trying to, not literal. I think more into what he's trying to say, because literal would be like he's saying black poop can't fly, which is fucking absurd, absurd. What he's saying is they are hiring people just on color of their skin and their sexuality or sexual organs, gender, whatever the fuck. Nowadays you don't even know. I don't even know what to call it anymore.
Speaker 2:I got in trouble the other day for calling someone transsexual instead of transgender, and it's like man, I don't dude, I don't even know. Okay, back when I was growing up I didn't know if my dad was talking about. We got to go work on the truck. We got a tranny. I didn't know, you know, you just can't make jokes anymore. It's fucking mind-blowing to me. You know it, I don't know, I don't know, do I think tranny nowadays? Now that I look more at it, yeah, that's pretty insensitive. I guess transgendered is, I think, what they like to be called.
Speaker 2:But to me DEI was more racist than anything. Think about that. Charlie Kirk is saying I really have to wonder if a black pilot can fly as good as somebody else. And they took it and they ran with it. But think about if you were a black, african american, whatever you want to be, they want to be called. Nowadays, someone's gonna be offended, no matter what I say. Well, I'm not from africa, I'm black. Okay, if I say black, then they get. You know what I mean. Okay, I'm white, whatever, um, or cracker, whatever, I don't, don't care, it doesn't bother me, I don't take things so personal. I get called pig a lot, whatever.
Speaker 2:If you are hiring someone and if you are a black male or black female and you get hired during this, to me that's more racist. Now, I'm happy you got the job and I hope that you beat everybody in the process. But it would have me wondering like am I one of these guys that's just hired because they need somebody to be here, um, or did I really deserve this spot? To me it was saying hey, these people cannot do these jobs without getting um assistance, or get into college without getting a lower test score, and I think that's absurd. That is just saying that they don't have the ability to do it, and they do. Everyone does. I mean, there's a lot of black people, a lot smarter than I'll ever be, but you're, by putting these policies out there, are saying that they couldn't do it without the help, and I think that's absolutely absurd, just crazy.
Speaker 2:I don't know, maybe I'm racist because I don't know. I don't know. I'm not racist. I can tell you that I don't think I am. I'm sure somebody can look at some clip and go well, he said this. That was racist, okay, okay, I did not take what Charlie Kirk said as racism in any way. That's me. I'm white, I know I get white privilege, I get all this other privilege, I get all this stuff and blah, blah, blah. I know, I've heard it. I've heard it all, so that's just my opinion. I can't speak up for everybody, but see, that's even where I'm at now. I've got to even make excuses, like I know I'm not black, I am white.
Speaker 1:I have white privilege.
Speaker 2:I don't believe I have white privilege, but whatever it is, what it is, all right. So let's listen to some irony here. This is what I love.
Speaker 3:Twitter banned the president permanently.
Speaker 2:Oh damn, they took away his precious Well, Facebook upheld their ban of Donald Trump today for at least another six months.
Speaker 3:It is so funny to watch the Trump supporters and the Republicans melt down over Tucker Carlson getting fired from Fox News.
Speaker 2:Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
Speaker 3:Fox News media and Tucker Carlson have agreed at Fox News. Couldn't have happened to a better guy. Fox News media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. That's a view. Fox News has severed bow ties with Tucker Carlson after all these years they evaluated whether or not Trump's tweets violated Twitter policy. They said, no, we could just label it as incitement to violence.
Speaker 1:anyway, to get the job done, Donald Trump's Twitter account just got suspended.
Speaker 2:Now the first thing that we need to know is that this is very, very funny, and even with Twitter, you cannot find actual evidence of any direct government censorship of any lawful speech.
Speaker 1:Facebook's mark zuckerberg claims he was pressured by the white house to censor content related to covet 19 during the pandemic and direct.
Speaker 2:Listen to that. That's just a beginning of it. That's just it floors me. And then, now it comes around, they're like oh, we don't like this, no, we, oh, what fucking world are we in now? We all need to learn to be able to talk to one another. That's what Charlie did, is he talked to people. He talked, he listened when he could and he spoke what he felt.
Speaker 2:And so many people nowadays are not used to hearing the other side, the opposition, that they immediately turn into violence, they turn into name-calling, they turn into hatred. Where did we change that? We could have an agree to disagree, difference of opinions? Everyone's got an opinion, or opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. That's the things I grew up on. And nowadays, only one side's allowed to have an opinion and the other side's not even allowed to even consider having an opinion, whether deemed one thing or the other.
Speaker 2:Where are we going wrong? I don't know. If I keep going on it, then it's going to be like oh, he's ultra right, blah, blah, blah. No, I'm just common fucking sense. Where are we headed? We have got to learn to talk to one another. We've got to learn to be able to listen to the other side without calling them names, because if we don't, we are failed as a country, we are doomed as a country.
Speaker 2:Everyone's so quick to throw out fascism You're a fascist or you're a communist, or you're this or you're. Learn to talk, learn to listen. There's several times when I arrest somebody, I talk to them in my car and I learn things. And I'm not even saying I'm like, hey, you know, hey, joe, where's the drugs coming? He's like I ain't no rat cop, not talking like that. I'm talking like, hey, man, what's going on, what issues are you having? And I learn a lot. People make mistakes and then nowadays, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know where this country's headed.
Speaker 2:I think eventually fascism will catch up to this country due to the fact that everyone wants to point out fascism and it's going to happen, happen, and no one's going to see it happen, because everyone's already cried wolf and fascism so much over and over and over that they're not going to really know when a real fascist comes in. And you see, even I'm not going to say his name. You even see the shooter of Charlie Kirk. We'll just go with what they've said. The shooter, the assassin, grew up ultra-right with his family goes to college and gets indoctrinated, and then now is far left, even dating a trans person. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Where are we going wrong? What is going on? Can kids go to college anymore without being pushed one way or the other? There's a lot to learn, I don't know. But we've got to do better. We've got to listen to each other. We've got to learn to talk to each other. We've got to be better for each other. We've got to get rid of all this hate. One way or the other floors me, but I don't know. I think this is a good start.
Speaker 2:Um, kind of my reaction to everything going on. Um, I'm going to start posting more. I'm going to start posting more. I'm going to start doing more. I'm going to start advocating more, and I'm not going to hide who I am as much anymore.
Speaker 2:A lot of you that, if you followed me this long on this podcast, you've heard me say some outlandish shit and I'm sorry. It's just who I am, but I've hidden it back from other things so much. I don't talk politics and I still don't really want to talk politics. I am not the best person to talk politics with because I don't understand a lot of it. I understand some of it. I don't trust politicians. I'm not an ultra-Trumper, I'm not. Do I like a lot of his policies? Do I think he's better for the country than the last option? A hundred percent? But am I going to sit here and say, oh, I believe that he's 100% right? No, I don't. He says outlandish shit too. He does things I'm like oh, it's not right.
Speaker 2:I saw something on Fox News the other day that I was even like and like. I don't watch news, I watch a lot of YouTube, and lately I can't get on YouTube without it being all political and Charlie Kirk this or this and that. And I watched this one dude on Fox news that was saying and I don't know if it was, I don't know, but he's talking about euthanizing homeless. That's fucking wild to me. I don't even know. See, that's like if you're far right and you believe that, that's wild to me too, I don't, I don't, I don't agree with that. Do I agree there's an issue? Yeah, 100%, but that's a bit much. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Guys, all I got to say is we've got to learn to love one another. We've got to do better. I don't know. I don't know. We've got to learn to talk to one another. That being said, what happened to Charlie Curt? Awful. What happened to Irina Zerutska? I don't want to butcher her name. Awful, awful, zerutska. I don't want to butcher her name. Awful, awful, enough's enough. We have got to fix this country. We've got to learn to love one another or our country is doomed. It's doomed. I don't know. I don't know. We've got to learn to be able to talk to each other. That being said, guys, spread the love and positivity, love one another, for God's sake, and please stay safe. Have a great day, guys. You know I already downloaded this and moved it over to my podcasting thing, but I felt this needed to be added and we're going to end it with this. Take a second and listen.
Speaker 3:When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues. When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group. What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option.