Jocko Willink is back on the show to talk about the recent Supreme Court ruling in the case of Black Lives Matter v. Rice. Plus, a new segment called "The Wine of the Day" and a special guest appearance by Jocko himself.
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00:05:00.000The United States is often called the Great Melting Pot, but it's a country that's struggled with race relations throughout its history, and still does today.
00:09:51.000I guess the question of the day... You've seen the video I uploaded this morning, but I do want to ask you guys, before we move on, I do want your opinion on what happened with Atlanta and Officer Rolf over there.
00:10:02.000Going into election, we might actually be doing just Good Morning Mug Club, because a lot of you people have been tuning in watching Good Morning Mug Club, and we'll be doing the streams for all the debates, all the town halls, which are like two or three hours.
00:10:13.000So I want to know if you guys think that's a good plan, where we go doing Good Morning Mug Club more often, Monday through Thursday, and instead of doing the Thursday show at night, we can actually prepare to do the live debate fact check streams.
00:10:23.000Let us know, because we're surprised at the people who tune in to Good Morning Mug Club.
00:13:18.000Oh, okay, so at that point, like, maybe y'all, like, there was a switch, like the South and the North, and then they moved... Like, no, it was actually white people who elected a black president.
00:13:36.000Y'all wanna talk about, nah, I'm a free woman, I'm a free, strong, black woman out here now, and I am making millions of dollars, and white motherfuckers have a problem with that shit?
00:15:05.000You're saying the police are, y'all don't want to have guns, y'all don't want cops, y'all don't want to have cases, and they can't choke a motherf***er?
00:18:29.000Finally, by the way, before we move on to some of the more serious news in Jocko Willink, wages for Chinese trolls have dropped by 60%.
00:18:37.000The standard pay was $0.50 before, and now it's been cut to as little as $0.20, so this news obviously is being monitored closely and has caused serious concern for Taiwanese orcs, so they're not happy about it.
00:19:18.000Uh, so, the man arrested, uh, by the way, for, let's, have you guys seen this, this, this was a clip that did go viral while we're talking about all the stuff that's been going on.
00:19:26.000This man, uh, not trigger, I hate the now re-appropriated trigger, trigger warning means like a trigger warning, you might have PTSD because someone put male or female on your, your test.
00:19:38.000No, this is an actual warning for people who might be underage, like, who might be watching.
00:19:43.000Though, in retrospect, that should have been before the lady was masturbating in front of her law enforcement officers.
00:19:47.000Well, you know, better late than never.
00:19:49.000I was focusing on getting in character.
00:19:52.000So, um, if you haven't seen this, this is a video that actually took place in New York City of a man knocking out a, uh, elderly, very old woman.
00:20:30.000So let's say you're there on the street, and let's say that's your grandma, right?
00:20:34.000And people die all the time from getting hit in the head.
00:20:36.000That's why I support some kind of actual physical submission, whether it's a neck restraint or something that doesn't involve striking somebody forcefully.
00:22:05.000So the cop, Garrett Rolfe from Atlanta, and I did a video on this this morning, I had to get it out of my system, was charged with felony murder.
00:22:14.000Felony murder, we went through this before, obviously you saw the clip where the man resisted arrest, beat the hell out of two cops, stole the taser, pointed it at them.
00:22:20.000Here's the thing, is felony murder, can you explain felony murder to people who don't know Bill and don't get too legal easy?
00:22:26.000Sure, there's murder where you're trying to... Sure, you want the stupid explanation?
00:22:32.000Murders, you obviously cause someone to die, and you've either intended that or there's different levels of, you know, the intent or whether you knew it was going to happen.
00:22:40.000And a felony murder is just someone died while you were committing a felony.
00:22:45.000So like an armed robbery, you're robbing a bank, and maybe you went in and didn't mean to shoot, but then someone dies, that would be a felony murder.
00:22:50.000Sure, even if they died of a heart attack.
00:24:48.000charged with aggravated assault of Miss Pilgrim and this is for appointing a taser at Mrs.
00:24:56.000Pilgrim and he was looking as many of you all know on the Georgia law a taser is considered as a deadly weapon
00:25:03.000Oh So the taser was actually aimed and fired at the officer no,
00:25:08.000so let me get this straight it's it's It's a deadly, it's only a deadly weapon if, well it's not, it is if a cop uses it but it's not if it's aimed at a cop, particularly if it's stolen.
00:25:18.000Is there a property rights argument there?
00:25:25.000I mean, here, this is one of those fundamental issues.
00:25:28.000When you're making an argument, considering what are the other positions you've taken, and in this particular instance, there's no question that the allegations of even people that are within the political party represented the other folks who are the candidates against him, other folks who are in that department saying, Wait a minute, you literally have just said this, and not just said it once, right?
00:25:47.000Maybe he was going to go, oh, two weeks ago I was wrong when I said it three times at the same time.
00:26:28.000And if it's not even, even can cause serious bodily injury incapacitation, why give it to police officers at all?
00:26:38.000And by the way, this is something people, he stole after, and one of the officers has a concussion by the way, the guy who was spiked on his head, concussion, stole it, then aimed at the cop.
00:26:46.000This is one thing, the media was watching CNN today, they still keep saying unarmed.
00:27:02.000And was obviously very close that he thought he could, you know, take some shooting lessons, asshole.
00:27:07.000But he was close enough that he thought he could hit the officer, and what do you think happens if this weapon, which is designed to incapacitate, goes into it, and then he has access to, oh, congratulations, a utility belt of deadly weapons.
00:27:17.000This is, this is, and I said this this morning, I'm sorry, you cannot at this point be neutral.
00:27:23.000Neutral is, people have said silence is racist.
00:27:25.000No, at this point, when people say you can save one life, like, oh, if we could save one George Floyd, you can save one life right now!
00:27:33.000There's a man there who even if he didn't think did his job to the best of his abilities, I don't think that he should, I don't even think that he should be suspended with pay.
00:28:01.000It would have been nice if we could have known beforehand this would happen to someone like a David Dorn, right, who we lost and we never get back, an actual hero.
00:28:08.000If it saves one life, it's very rare that we have the opportunity, we have that long of a fuse to save a life.
00:28:48.000Do you know that an officer is actually 18 times more likely to be shot by a black criminal during apprehension than to shoot an unarmed black man?
00:28:56.000Since you're using the racial crime statistics, it does matter.
00:29:15.000By the way, the DA's being investigated for funneling $140,000 to supplement his salary, facing all these allegations of sexual harassment.
00:29:22.000And he has a pretty tough primary challenge, I think a runoff, right?
00:29:24.000Yeah, it's actually moved on to a runoff.
00:29:26.000Bill, so like, this charge doesn't seem to make any sense to anybody that's outside looking in, right?
00:29:31.000He rushed it before the investigation was over, and it doesn't seem like it's felony murder no matter how you slice it.
00:29:37.000How in the world could he justify a charge like that?
00:29:40.000Well, universally being reviled for having moved too quickly and even to set a standard
00:29:44.000where if you're going to make a charge now and the charge isn't going to work out, you're
00:29:49.000either going to end up with someone who there was no, you know, whether you believe there's
00:29:53.000justice or not, you're not going to get, you're not going to have any version of justice when
00:29:56.000you overcharge someone and you rush to judgment.
00:29:59.000And so that's the question is being raised right now is, was this politically motivated
00:30:03.000to come out ahead of time, do it before all the facts were known, before the investigating
00:30:07.000body was done to use very aggressively.
00:30:09.000Even the New York Times today, they're legal experts.
00:30:11.000We're talking about, wait a minute, this is way faster than it should have ever been considered in this moment.
00:30:18.000And look, I understand that there's a lot happening in the city, but essentially what you're saying is, well, sometimes we're going to rush and just rush to misjudgment because people are screaming.
00:31:14.000And we have the Change My Minds coming up actually next week, specifically on America Isn't Racist, and we actually had some great conversations.
00:31:20.000Surprisingly, a lot of black people who sat down, and black liberals who didn't agree with me, but we actually sat down and found some common ground.
00:31:26.000We disagreed on the whole idea of some of the protests and the kneeling, but also I was enlightened.
00:31:31.000There were some new things that I learned about the black community, and they learned some things about the white community, namely that we're not good dancers.
00:32:05.000I would love to start just a GoFundMe for all these officers who are walking so they can have some place to go to.
00:32:10.000I can't do it, but what we will do is create some merch, I think, either with David Dorn or something, and all proceeds from the merch will go You can't say, not all black people, which is correct, and then say but all cops.
00:32:18.000be there soon. And of course, thin blue line from Black Rifle Coffee is there. They've
00:32:22.000had it for a long time that goes supporting law enforcement officials. So and that's not
00:32:26.000a commercial. I'll talk about it later. But that is if you want to support police officers,
00:32:29.000because listen, you can't say not all black people, which is correct. And then say, but
00:32:34.000all cops. Yeah, you just can't do that because there are a lot of great police officers out
00:32:39.000there. And I don't know. And I'm a fan of the chokeholds of the neck restraint, because
00:32:43.000I'd rather someone go unconscious and be cuffed without any kind of permanent damage than
00:32:47.000and someone have to go to a gun or a taser.
00:33:19.000Like Steven Seagal and his under siege, Eugene LaBelle.
00:33:22.000He tried to punch me in the little sisters and I choked him and I guess he didn't go to the bathroom because then he went, I never go to the bathroom.
00:33:33.000What concerns me is folks not thinking about what is the logical conclusion of all this.
00:33:38.000If we're at a place where there's an attack, there's an officer, officers are hurt, a taser's taken, a taser's pointed, and at any of those moments, essentially what you said by having the felony murder charge and saying that one of those acts was a felony, is you're saying you shouldn't have done any of those acts.
00:33:53.000And what that means is, okay, fine, just say, in that moment, we just let this guy go.
00:33:57.000But you have to create a rule that applies to all interactions with officers.
00:34:00.000So in a moment when an officer has a suspected DOI, someone who chose to be in their vehicle, right, and was operating their vehicle in a dangerous way, in a way that we all as a nation agree is wrong, drunk driving.
00:34:11.000He didn't, by the way, the media report is, oh, he pulled into, like, he pulled into the expectant mother's spot.
00:36:03.000If you don't step in now when the wolves are at the door, expect us to love you and pray for you from afar, but we're gonna go lock, lock, lock, lock, bolt.
00:36:28.000Let's go into the executive order on chokeholds, which of course no one in this administration actually know what they are, and we'll talk with Jock Long about it, but here's what he says.
00:36:33.000As part of this new credentialing process, choke calls will be banned except if an officer's life is at risk.
00:36:52.000So then in this scenario, in Atlanta, the officers couldn't have used a choke hold because they weren't even under threat of bodily injury, according to the DA.
00:37:01.000That's the craziest part about it is you have to ignore all of the physical attack and they call it tussling, right?
00:37:13.000You have to ignore the reality of the situation and the facts that are shown on video to say that there wasn't a threat of physical violence in that moment.
00:38:54.000And the heart starts slowing down its pulse.
00:38:57.000It starts slowing down the blood needed.
00:38:58.000Effectively, a chokehold is one of the very few kinds of techniques that you can use, whereas a pain hold, a submission, sometimes the damage is already being done.
00:39:05.000When someone feels it, if they're on PCP, they have no idea.
00:39:08.000A chokehold, a vascular neck restraint, effectively puts your body into standby mode so that it prevents damage.
00:39:16.000For someone of decent health, and by the way, that's the same reason you can't use tranquilizer guns, because we don't know what drugs are in these people.
00:39:24.000But for someone who doesn't have a serious condition, and even with people who have more serious conditions, a vascular neck restraint is undoubtedly more safe than a punch, a strike, a baton, a taser if they have a pacemaker, a tranquilizer.
00:39:36.000Your body goes, wait a second, I'm not gonna get blood.
00:39:39.000I don't want actual drowning to happen where there's brain damage, so let's shut everything down
00:39:44.000so that there's as little blood flow and as little oxygen in the blood necessary
00:40:25.000And I know that they're trained athletes, but I put this on Twitter, and I think we'll have Jocko Willink, we've had Chael Sloan, we've had Daniel Cormier.
00:40:50.000Studies show that proper choke hold taught to police rarely ever fatal, rarely even serious injuries.
00:40:55.000As a matter of fact, according to the Police Brutality Database run by Fatal Encounters, a pro-police reform organization, less than 1% of people die from any form of asphyxiation while under any type of restraint during police encounters.
00:41:15.000Tasers are significantly more dangerous than chokeholds.
00:41:17.000And I understand, listen, but these are unpleasant scenarios.
00:41:20.000What you have to do is pick an option that keeps people as safe as possible, both the perp and the police officer.
00:41:27.000And there is, right now, an actual technique available that can be used to render someone entirely incapacitated without electrocuting their heart or rattling their brain around in their skull.
00:42:24.000If you hold it, they go out, cuff them, you're done.
00:42:26.000So, here, and we're starting at the wrong place.
00:42:28.000When you talk about safety, you start with the officer's safety first and work from there.
00:42:32.000Obviously, you don't want anybody killed or damaged if they don't need to be if they're a perp, but the officer's safety is paramount first.
00:42:38.000They're the one going after the criminal.
00:42:41.000Their primary purpose, of course, is to serve and protect us.
00:42:44.000And so a guy driving, completely drunk off his ass or high as a kite, who's running out into civilization and can do any number of untold damage afterward, yes, the cops need to subdue that person.
00:43:25.000I'll tell you what, I don't plan on ever running for office, but if I do, I'm going to play that clip nonstop.
00:43:31.000And this is my Secretary of Defense, Billy Club Balls, Billy Club Balls, Billy Club Balls, Billy Club Balls, Australian Wine, and Gerald Morgan.
00:43:40.000Have you also seen that my legal secretary, lawyer, he's half Asian, so we're good, we're covered.
00:43:49.000You know what, we're going to take a quick break, I'm going to come back and show you what a chokehold, what a vascular neck restraint is like, and what it is not, on our very own audio way to anyone who wants to take part.
00:43:58.000Just a minute, we'll set up right here.
00:48:25.000So Wade, what I want to do is start applying it and I'm going to apply it.
00:48:28.000So my goal is not to make you go unconscious, but if it doesn't hurt, You know, you don't have to tap because it's not going to be painful if you do go out.
00:48:57.000Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to apply the pressure to the point that you could go unconscious, and you can tap, but I want you to tell me if it's because you can't breathe, okay?
00:49:51.000I felt it, and see, right away I kind of felt, okay, he's going out, and that happened, he came out, and by the way, that's not a seizure or anything, that's literally his body going, oh, power up from standby mode.
00:52:05.000To me, anything that has that flavor, it tastes like they cleaned up the bar at Sandals and put it in a cup.
00:52:12.000So, that being said, that's just personal, but I have heard that all the flavors are great, and people here who love that flavor know that it's the best.
00:52:19.000So, I'm looking forward to getting other flavors.
00:52:21.000Of course, you know him, you love him.
00:52:22.000He was on Joe Rogan's show recently, so a lot of people have been asking for him.
00:52:25.000You can follow him more at jacopodcast.com.
00:52:32.000Well, I just kind of filled you in on that, but I can rehash it if you like.
00:52:36.000You're going to send non-pina colada flavored energy.
00:52:39.000Yes, I'll send you the I'll send you the Psycho Citrus, it's kind of like a lemon-lime deal, or the DAC Savage, which is like a, what is it, cherry-vanilla, dark black cherry-vanilla?
00:52:56.000No, my favorite is actually Citrus Psycho, it's like a lemon-lime scenario.
00:53:00.000Do you find it difficult sometimes to have to keep track, like through your sort of Rolodex, of what the flavor actually is versus what the Jaco brand has to title it?
00:53:35.000So, Jaco, listen, it's no secret, obviously, that you were a Navy SEAL and you've trained with a lot of some of the most high-level operatives in the world, and you've been talking about police recently.
00:53:45.000And this is a hot topic right now, obviously, with police brutality versus training versus solutions.
00:53:50.000Some people are calling for defunding the police.
00:53:52.000The very first thing I said when this story came out, I think, where everyone agreed with George Floyd and Chauvin that it was I said we need better training first off.
00:54:00.000We can get to the unions in a little bit, but we need better training because a lot of these officers, they have to go to their tool belt, right?
00:54:05.000They get very little time in unarmed hand-to-hand combat training, and so it's hard to de-escalate if you have to go to a tool that escalates it.
00:54:13.000And of course, you've worked with these people more closely.
00:54:17.000Give us some insight here as to what you think some of the solutions may be, and what kind of training a police officer gets right now when they go out there into the field.
00:54:26.000So right now, they get a sustainment training for what they call defensive tactics or combatives and what those two things combine together.
00:54:34.000What they mean is how do you arrest somebody?
00:55:06.000So, you know, eight hours a week out of a 40-hour week, one day a week, maybe two hours a day, however you want to skin it, but you need to do this training all the time.
00:55:14.000You know, we used to spend 18 months in training preparing to go on deployment.
00:55:20.000And then we go into deployment for six months.
00:55:22.000And then we come back, we would train again.
00:55:24.000Police officers, they get this little tiny fraction of training.
00:55:27.000So that's what they need to start doing.
00:55:30.000And hopefully, if they do that, people become more comfortable.
00:55:34.000The more confident you are, the more comfortable you are handling people, the more capable you are of handling people, the more varying degrees you can use to apply force and get people under control.
00:55:46.000Because if you don't have the capability of getting someone under control with your hands, well, then you're using weapons.
00:55:52.000And if you fail with your first weapon, you're going to your second weapon, and usually for police officers, their second weapon is a pistol, and someone's getting killed.
00:56:22.000And then police officers, they don't have a season of training.
00:56:25.000With a short burst of performance, they have performance, performance, performance, with very little upkeep in training.
00:56:31.000And maybe that's an important component to this, is shifting that mindset.
00:56:34.000People are saying shifting the mindset to de-escalation, shifting the mindset to social workers instead of police.
00:56:39.000But we first maybe need to shift the mindset to understanding how intense this can be, and what the capabilities are, like you're saying, for output.
00:56:47.000Do you think it may be somewhere between what we have and what exists in the military, middle ground, but it should be closer to more training like a military operative?
00:56:56.000Not the same kind of missions, but the level of training.
00:57:00.000Yeah, it's definitely not the same kind of missions, but Yeah, we need to lean in that direction.
00:57:04.000The bottom line is the military is an extreme version of training, for sure, and they don't need that much training because they're working all the time.
00:57:11.000But to do basically zero training or 1% of your time training is totally ridiculous.
00:57:16.000Yeah, the Hodgetwins came in actually, and they were both Marines, and we took them to the range and said, we never fired a pistol!
00:57:23.000They gave us an M16 and said, aim it downrange.
00:57:26.000And they said, we never really had done hand-to-hand combat training.
00:57:28.000They said, it really varies in different branches of the military.
00:57:32.000And I'm sure you probably have a remark about the Marines since you're a Navy SEAL, right?
00:57:35.000Something like village people, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:57:38.000No, I would say the Marines are outstanding, and I work with the Marine Corps, and they're just some of the most professional people you could ever want to work with.
00:57:44.000So, let me ask you, speaking of escalating, the French, this brings us to the idea of chokeholds, because we don't want police officers right now, or a lot of people are calling for defunding.
00:57:55.000Okay, that's an extreme example, but it is the Black Lives Matter movement right now.
00:57:58.000Their leadership call is to totally abolish and defund the police.
00:59:30.000You and I, being Jiu Jitsu players, we've choked Thousands of people and been choked thousands of times and I've never been hurt from a chokehold I've never hurt someone from a chokehold ever thousands and thousands and thousands of repetitions and Here's the deal if I want to subdue you and I'm not allowed to choke you guess what I have to do I have to hit you I have to hit you in the head and I have to hit you in the head usually with an object and this is if I'm not shooting you right so I pull out my baton and I start hitting you in the head I have seen individuals take
01:00:03.000More, you know, four, five, eight shots to the head with batons or with weapon strikes and be perfectly fine and keep fun.
01:00:11.000Maybe not be perfectly fine, but they keep fighting.
01:00:13.000They keep fighting and finally you have to beat someone.
01:00:17.000I think Rodney King is a great example of that.
01:00:19.000Rodney King, a chokehold, would have been, would have been, there would have been no video, there would have been no riots, nothing.
01:00:24.000Somebody would have known what to do there, they would have gone and put Rodney King to sleep, cuffed him, put him in the back of the car, you'd have been fine.
01:00:30.000Instead, the only thing those cops knew how to do was hit him in the head.
01:00:33.000Well, hitting someone in the head, just like when you watch a boxing match, how often does someone in a boxing match actually get knocked out?
01:01:24.000A lot of people don't understand that.
01:01:26.000They don't understand the limit of tools.
01:01:28.000That's why we see so much damage in boxing, too, and it's because of the training where you're limited in your tools and you're hitting the head non-stop.
01:01:35.000And I think a lot of people don't... I mean, you just had Nancy Pelosi say that police chokeholds are a moderate... She said it was a lynching.
01:01:43.000How worrisome is that when you have elected officials go out who people believe are authoritative on the subject, basically accusing our police of using arguably, I'll leave some room here, arguably one of the most peaceful ways to end a physical altercation with a hate crime?
01:02:00.000Well, luckily she's not, doesn't sound like she's trying to stir anything up with that comparison.
01:02:12.000Um, you know, if, if someone, if my, one of my kids or, or if me, if I was going to get arrested, I want to get arrested by people that know jujitsu because they're going to come in, they're gonna be able to do it with the minimum force required.
01:02:24.000If that's what you want police officers to do.
01:02:27.000And, and again, if you don't train people and you just have people learn to choke hold and that's it.
01:02:32.000You know, then you're not really, you're still not doing them justice.
01:02:35.000It's, we need to do a, you know, full systemic change in the way we're training our police officers.
01:02:40.000Police, being a police officer is a freaking hard job.
01:02:45.000And you don't know if you're gonna have, you don't know if the person you're pulling over is a mom that's with kids in the back going to soccer, or if that's a person with a pistol, or that's going to assault you and try and kill you.
01:03:58.000But when I look at a place like Chaz, and as a military officer I'd be curious as to your point of view, and people take over an American city, they're shaking down business owners, you have to present ID to come or leave in what's supposedly a free country, and they're protecting it with guns.
01:04:11.000I go, gosh, I'm not saying I would like, but I wouldn't be surprised if the citizens who live there and business owners try and take back their rights with guns.
01:04:20.000And I've never been afraid of that in my country, of that escalating.
01:04:24.000What do you think of where we are at large here and how it compares to like actual wars that you've been in?
01:04:30.000I think the major thing that you're lacking is any level of commitment from the people in there.
01:04:40.000It seems like kind of a cool, like, hey, you know, you want to tell that story over, you know, in a couple months, be like, oh yeah, I was in Chaz, and what was it called?
01:05:16.000I hope so, but I do worry when you have citizens who have effectively, you know, mayors and governors who haven't done anything.
01:05:22.000Do you have business owners or people who live there who didn't vote for this and they can't get to and from their houses or run their own businesses right now?
01:05:27.000That's got to be hell for those people.
01:05:29.000And it only takes one person to react, which, at this point, my point is, I don't think it's irrational for someone to react in a severe way who's living in this sort of occupied area right now.
01:06:52.000You want to put on a football, a lacrosse helmet, and comment like, you know, Yeah, I think you're right, until it becomes a mob of people and those individuals become afraid of speaking out.
01:09:45.000So we did have to pre-take the interview, as you know, and then, so there's one week we don't, but then we are going to talk about our first Chokeout stories, and of course to reiterate, the lady who modeled Aunt Jemima, if you want a fact check.
01:09:57.000It's just we couldn't not do the Aunt Jemima stuff, it's just too fun.
01:10:18.000The only people who do that are black people and those at the convent.
01:10:22.000So, Audio Wade, explain to people who don't, you know, by the way, everyone who hasn't ever been choked, everyone who's ever done jiu-jitsu, judo, grappling, has been choked many, many times.
01:10:31.000But usually people don't when it's the first time.
01:11:48.000Big Mug Club, big Change of Mind, and then a special announcement for a Thursday livestream.
01:11:53.000And of course, just so you know, we will be doing shows through the week of the 4th of July, and then it's our summer break until the first week of August.
01:12:02.000And that's just because we have a lot of stuff to do here behind the scenes.
01:12:05.000We do that for like two or three weeks at Christmas, and two or three weeks in the summer so that we can update everything, and some holes in the roof.
01:12:32.000Because I don't believe that any of our solutions right now in this country...
01:12:36.000And I haven't said this before, man, like, when people used to say, oh, Obama's ruined the country, I'd say, well, you know, listen, you get the next one, and you fight where you can, and this is a bad law, but we have a system of checks and balances.
01:12:47.000This is the first time that I've feared some kind of, like, legitimate civil uprising or civil war, because I think civil wars don't really look like—civil wars don't exactly look like people think they look.
01:12:57.000If it's your neighborhood and people are taking it over like Chaz or Chop, but I'm going to keep calling it Chaz because I want them to face the legal liability of declaring it an autonomous zone.
01:13:05.000If it's your neighborhood and you're going home, or like my wife right now who has some health issues and I need to be helping her, and you walk home and there are some Antifa guys with masks trying to shake you down to go into your house and you can't go in your house because they're taking this over, and you're like, oh, okay, let me get my wallet, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, click, open the door, reload, bang, bang, bang, bang.
01:13:26.000I'm not talking about going out hunting people, of course not.
01:13:29.000But is it really so outlandish to think that when people are being controlled by unelected mobs, in entire blocks, with guns, that they end up taking back their rights as American citizens with guns?
01:13:50.000I think that obviously we can't find our solutions through identifying through one's race.
01:13:56.000As a Christian, the only way we can solve our issues here is to stop looking at the color of one's skin, to stop looking at things that are superficial, and to start looking to God.
01:14:03.000And I think we do need to pray together.
01:14:04.000And I think it's really important, though, At this point for Christians to step up and instead of trying to... Where's the church?
01:14:13.000You have pastors right now who won't even host service in their own congregations while billions of dollars in damage have been caused in cities.
01:14:23.000It was 25 million in the first week in Minneapolis, right?
01:14:45.000No one mentions if the virus uptick, you know, and the death count hasn't gone up with it, so obviously some testing comes into account there.
01:15:18.000If you're a black man, you never kneel to another black man or a white man.
01:15:22.000If you're a white person, you don't kneel to... I have to list all the colors, otherwise people will say I'm singing with red, white, yellow, taupe... Your guess is as good as mine with the Dolezals and Boltons and Michael Jacksons.
01:15:37.000Include all the colors of the rainbow and even ones that people will technically try and hang me on because they're not colors, they're shades.
01:16:23.000And the reason we ended slavery was because we thought, we knew that it was irreconcilable with the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, with the idea that all men are created equal.
01:16:32.000From the very beginning, if you look at the writings of George Washington and Jefferson, they all had a problem with it.
01:16:36.000It was changing a process, stopping a train that was in motion, a locomotive from a very, very long time before it.
01:17:02.000Matter of fact, I know some people, they go, oh, in the Bible, you can read instances in the Bible, every instance you read where someone kneels to anyone other than God, including angels.
01:17:22.000We stand to honor the flag of the country, the only country in human history that was founded on the promise that we would never have to kneel to a man again.
01:17:33.000And it took us a while to make sure that happened with everybody.
01:17:38.000To end the slave trade, but the idea of kneeling before a human being is deeply anti-Christian, just as it is deeply anti-American.
01:17:47.000And for someone to try and re-appropriate something, could you imagine if we just said, well now I'm going to bend down and face Mecca five times a day, and I'm going to do it because I would like socialized healthcare.
01:17:59.000You can't just change something that symbolic and what it means because you have a grievance, no matter how legitimate it is.
01:19:04.000That's not a man who deserves to die, he's facing the death penalty!
01:19:06.000We have gotten so far off the beam in this country, I couldn't care less if someone wants to throw out a false accusation of kneeling, just like this, being a sign of white supremacy.
01:19:18.000Don't tell the Home Alone 2 DVD box set!
01:19:21.000And so we're at the point where, you know, I don't necessarily agree with what I do agree that this country needs healing, and the only way to heal is obviously through God and through our Christian principles, but I also think that there's a time where a shepherd needs to protect their flock.
01:19:34.000And Chas is a great example, and this officer is a great example.
01:19:37.000We can save lives now, and we can liberate people.
01:19:40.000And that's the promise of this country, and it's being infringed upon, and it is unbelievable to me that those in leadership, Republican and Democrat, aren't protecting the very rights upon which this country was founded.
01:19:50.000I'm trying to see what we have for next week.
01:20:14.000You have the right to do whatever it is that you wanted.
01:20:15.000If you want to kneel out of guilt, fine.
01:20:20.000Demanding that another man kneel is not just offensive as an American, because I don't want
01:20:29.000to be like Gerald in Murder, it's not just offensive to the American sensibilities. And
01:20:36.000by the way, if you're an edgy atheist in the comment section, that's totally fine.
01:20:39.000You enjoy the unalienable birth rights as protected by government, given by God.
01:20:46.000That's something a lot of people miss, too, right?
01:20:48.000The same reason that we don't kneel is because we recognize in this country that our rights are given to the only person to whom we kneel, which is God.
01:21:46.000In the continent of Africa, where you still have enslavement based on race, by the way, between tribes, where it still exists in the Middle East, where it still exists in Asia, based on where you're from.
01:21:55.000Slavery is still a thing and people do kneel and it's not a symbol of unity.
01:22:05.000If you kneel, Put on some shackles while you're at it.
01:22:09.000And if you're a leader who kneels, don't expect the vote of myself, and I can't speak for everyone here, but I'm pretty sure that you can expect to forego the vote of anyone here at Louder With Crowder.