GREG GUTFELD: Excusing theft reduces the respect everyone has for private property

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Gutfeld: The Dems love taking your stuff

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld discusses Democrat’s ‘war on property’ and the California bill that could stop workers from confronting shoplifters.

For a leftist party that despises private property, the Dems really do love taking your stuff. 

They let cities burn and businesses close, then demand reparations. You already know the California bill that if signed into law, would make it a crime for employees to require their workers to stop shoplifters... We talked about it. It's another law that enables criminals while handcuffing their victims. And I don't mind the handcuffing if there's role-playing involved, but not at work if you're trying to do your job. I learned that the hard way with Larry Kudlow. He just went home with the key. 

It's hard to put those pants on. So as an employee, you got to take it as people ransack your workplace. When does it stop? When does this start including car dealerships or Tiffany's? Why is it just stuff that you can afford? And how far is too far?

 I can see two cellmates in prison. One is in for rape, the other for stopping a rape. The Soros-funded DAs-- they're just interchangeable. But if you work somewhere, there's a strong chance you kind of like where you work., even if you're Judge Jeanine's assistant. Poor thing. Maybe you manage the place. You might even own it. And imagine someone coming in and doing this, right? 

It's demoralizing. It's meant to be demoralizing-- to demoral, to remove any possibility of passing moral judgment on a protected class of criminals. They want us to feel like telling rioters to stop rioting is like telling them to stop singing Christmas carols. How heartless are you? So we're being told it's not worth it. It's just merch. 

But how is the store any different from your wallet or your purse? It's all the same universe. It's just how invested you are in that stuff. You're being told not to care. But ultimately, excusing theft reduces the respect everyone has for private property.

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It's why stealing a candy bar when you were a kid meant going to the police station and having your parents pick you up. It was to make sure you never forget the feeling of shame again. But that's been replaced with the law telling shoplifters they can only steal $900 bucks worth of stuff a pop. So we're the ones who now feel the shame. Today we're pushing the incentives in the opposite direction. That's because the left has a problem with limits. 

Debt limits

Term limits

Speed limits

Having no limits means criminal justice reform became a criminal protection plan. You want to stop carjacking? Don't go after the carjacker, go after the cars for not preventing car theft. They just thought writing Kia on it was deterrent enough, but apparently not. Why stop there? Was your house too easy to break into? What if when you defended yourself, you maimed the thug? If you were told not to do that, then you're the criminal. And then politicians can remind you it's not worth it while applauding your arrest. And they will because they know no limits. 

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Well, except when it comes to people who disagree with them, then they limit your speech or your right to run a business your way. This is crazy. It appears that women-only spas where women are naked may be forced to accept men who say they're women but still have their penises. Yeah, it's literally a d*** move. Yeah. You don't want to see a pair of testicles while having a hot stone massage? Too bad that's on you. The law says you don't own your business. We do.

So there's a new bill that would punish parents for misgendering their own children. Translation? Being accurate. Children aren't property, but they are your children. That's why you say these are my kids. Well, unless your baby mama is a stripper and your dad is Joe Biden, then it's 'I've never met those women and that children aren't mine.'

But when activists are told there are no limits to their demands, they can come for your kids, too. It's the same logic. Your family, like your business, is my business. It's about separating you from what is yours: property, family, your own store, even your right to self-defense. They'll take your guns, but they won't keep you safe. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I don't have to be. 

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Conspiracies are done in the dark. This isn't. Like a parade full of fat guys in thongs, twerking in front of kids. They really aren't trying to hide it anymore. But how funny, I never see this happen on Martha's Vineyard.