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00:05:29.000We weren't planning on doing this, but I think, like a lot of you, I was staying glued to the screen.
00:05:35.000I'm going to have some drinking game rules and try and make this as fun as possible while our country is at the worst point in our history.
00:05:43.000It's glued to the screen, or computer, you know.
00:06:32.000By the way, warning, this is going to be PG-13, if not a strong R, because we'll be live fact-checking CNN and we can't guarantee that people don't swear or Chris Cuomo won't shit his pants.
00:07:40.000I didn't know those things could explode.
00:07:43.000As much as we talked about the optics, as much as we talked about the optics of the guys protesting the state capitol in Michigan with AR-15s, and I think there might have been some others, and as far as I remember, not a single crime was committed.
00:07:55.000Outside of the crime, of course, of exercising your rights as an American to protest.
00:08:12.000So when people... I'll tell you what, the argument is done now where they say, oh, can you believe, if that was a white person, they wouldn't have reacted the same way.
00:08:19.000They only shoot them when they're black.
00:08:21.000Now, obviously, most people there are black today, but we do see a lot of white Antifa folks joining in as well.
00:08:26.000Right now, people are being told to stand down.
00:08:28.000The National Guard yesterday tucked tail and ran.
00:08:30.000Do you think because they don't have more firepower than these people?
00:08:51.000If they were kicking over barricades on their way to the state capitol with their weapons there, it would have been a completely different situation.
00:08:58.000I mean, that's not even the most egregious thing that's happening, but just kicking over the barricades and having a weapon, I'd be like, alright, these guys mean business.
00:09:11.000And people are tweeting out there, I can't believe that police officers are here for this protest when they weren't here for this other one.
00:09:16.000I'm like, it's because you tend to burn shit down when you guys get together.
00:09:50.000But I tell you what, though, my heart was breaking.
00:09:53.000Like, one thing I think people sometimes miss is in order to try and convey this to you so that you guys emotionally connect, you know, I'm a pretty sensitive guy.
00:10:00.000I feel things deeply, and this is so upsetting to me because I think of the young kids who are being, when people talk about the new normal, you have kids being raised who think this is the new normal.
00:10:10.000We'll have my dad in here who was raised in Detroit and watched the tanks go down Cadgew Road.
00:10:13.000This is going to make Detroit look like child's play.
00:10:16.000But I was watching last night, my heart was broken, but there was a point Like I said, PG-13, our rating tonight, because I have to quote what these people are... Remember, these people, protesters, what we're talking about, not gonna be hung on that.
00:10:32.000And not there, but he was talking with all of his reporters.
00:10:34.000I don't know if you guys... And I was laughing so hard, I thought I would need a ventilator.
00:10:38.000Or at least a CPAP so we had a pressurized environment.
00:10:42.000One of you could tell me that I had the Ricardo Montalban going on here.
00:10:46.000And so Chris Cuomo, this is an exact quote from Chris Cuomo, not exact quote but this
00:10:51.000is to the, it's pretty close to exact.
00:10:53.000He said, now, there are some people out there who are agitated.
00:10:58.000Yes, there are some people who might be bad actors.
00:11:00.000But, by and large, these protests are peaceful.
00:11:03.000And he showed some footage from, I don't know, it might have been Brooklyn, but from clearly earlier in the day, because this was at 10 o'clock at night, yeah.
00:11:59.000And he's crying, and there's tear gas, and he's like, well, you know, this has been largely peaceful, and then... And then Chris Cuomo goes, I swear to you, he goes, get behind the police line, keep your team safe, get behind the police line, and he turns to the camera, he goes, now, and this isn't really necessarily related, it's just I think that it adds to the tone of this, he goes, For some of you out there wondering how can they keep their composure, these people in the field, let me tell you, as someone who's done that before, these people have a lot of experience and they process situations like this, they process danger differently than the rest of us do.
00:13:30.000It's a little on the nose for postmodern art.
00:13:33.000Not only is this called a protest alongside the COVID protests, the lockdown protests, the COVID protests and the lockdown protests were called dangerous.
00:14:03.000What was so funny was Chris Cuomo said the same thing.
00:14:05.000This is bizarre because these people are out there making their voices heard wearing masks.
00:14:12.000to uh ostensibly protect themselves from the coronavirus.
00:14:15.000Stuff that doesn't protect you according to the CDC and they wear their masks and then they pull them down but like literally when his reporter was there he's like the guy was sitting there and he was saying like you know north side 313 and he was like fuck you to the female reporter Ken, sorry, this is what's going on right now.
00:14:33.000And by the way, if there isn't the biggest surge in coronavirus in Minneapolis within the next two weeks, and I don't mean an uptick, I mean a bigger infection rate than at any point, than at Wuhan in the lab, if there is not a crazy uptick in coronavirus within the next two weeks, the entire quarantine was a sham, okay?
00:15:04.000So these are not people who are the epitome of health or in a healthy situation where they can practice proper social distancing guidelines.
00:15:10.000But of course, we want them to be heard, unlike the business owners who are losing their livelihoods and peacefully protesting.
00:17:32.000Every single person here said, There's some information that we don't know, which we now have from the autopsy.
00:17:36.000We said there's some information we don't know.
00:17:38.000It's odd to me that we have 20 different angles of these seconds of this altercation, but no footage whatsoever of what led to the man being on the ground.
00:17:46.000But we all said one thing that doesn't change is that police officer Clearly should have taken, Derek Chauvin should have taken his knee off the man's neck when he wasn't moving after two minutes.
00:17:58.000And there were other police officers there saying, hey turn him over, hey he's not moving.
00:18:01.000We were very clear that that was wrong and at the very least seems like manslaughter.
00:18:05.000Now we see from the autopsy report There was no asphyxiation, there was no strangulation, there was no damage to the spine at all.
00:18:12.000The guy had a heart condition, the guy had high blood pressure, likely had a panic attack, and they're saying was likely on drugs.
00:18:17.000Now that doesn't change the fact that the police officer was wrong.
00:18:23.000A justifiable reason to handcuff him and put him on the ground?
00:18:33.000We need better standards for police officers.
00:18:37.000I don't want anyone, male, female, lesbian, straight, I don't know, I've only largely met lesbian female officers, but I know that not all of them shop at Orbis on their off time.
00:18:48.000If you can't meet the PT requirements, and if you can't subdue a perp... On your own.
00:18:53.000On your own, who's combative, who is resisting arrest, and do it, by the way, in review, every single month, not once a year, I don't think that you should be on the front lines.
00:19:03.000I also don't think that the women who I see on the front lines right now who look like Dark Helmet because they have the riot gear on and they can barely keep themselves from teetering over and getting shoved in the police line, I don't think that they should be there.
00:19:14.000I think you should have the biggest, strongest, most capable people there.
00:19:41.000Very, very different from, again, trying to lock down people from operating their own private business.
00:19:46.000It is within the government's legitimate purview to ensure that people's rights are not being trampled by a violent mob.
00:19:52.000That's almost the only reason for government.
00:19:55.000The only reason for government Effectively, or the primary reason of government, I should say, the reason it exists is to protect its citizens from threats, from violent threats, both exterior or here in the United States.
00:20:08.000And so Donald Trump needs to react swiftly with whatever force is most effective to put an end to it and then contrast that with Barack Obama and Ferguson and Baltimore that went on for God knows how long, like forever.
00:20:20.000Yeah, they didn't do anything about it.
00:20:30.000I mean, unless you think a lack of a police presence, when there's some studies that show that sometimes that mobs and riots tend to fizzle out when they don't have an enemy to go after, right?
00:21:12.000There might be some exceptions today, but yesterday it started out as violent riots and they tried to make it seem as though these were peaceful protests all night long until Chris Cuomo could not cut to a scene that wasn't a crazy chaotic riotous mess.
00:21:29.000Where his own reporters were in danger.
00:21:31.000And let me be really clear about something else, too.
00:21:33.000And we know now that the reason they spray-painted and broke through the CNN building in Atlanta was because there's a police precinct in the CNN building.
00:22:07.000But if you are home, or if you are in your place of work right now, as a lot of people are, they can't get out because they're stuck downtown, and people break in through the door, you absolutely have the right to defend yourself.
00:22:17.000And I don't care if that's comfortable.
00:22:19.000Hey, I'll let you know, if I were living downtown and someone busted through my door, my business, absolutely, absolutely, I would have a, I do have a loaded firearm by my bedside.
00:22:32.000Here's one thing, when we talk about, people get really upset when they see people with rifles out there.
00:22:35.000And yes, like we talked about with Lansing, I thought that was just, these were guys who were, it was bad optics, they were trying to play tough guy, they weren't really accomplishing anything.
00:23:38.000I'm not saying go out and be a vigilante, but I don't know when in this country we decided to sympathize with people who burned down people's stuff and then vilify the folks who want to protect their stuff who committed no crime.
00:23:48.000And don't act like you're seeking justice.
00:24:32.000Well, Maxine Waters actually said that there are several, she said, well, there are cops out there who just, you know, I think he probably woke up that morning and said, oh, I'm going to get me one today.
00:25:12.000Basically, anytime they try to empathize with these people or even imply that they are peaceful or protesters instead of using the word riots or try and blame Donald Trump or racist America, you guys take a drink.
00:25:22.000And I'm not going to lie, right now I'm cheating.
00:25:23.000I'm having a little bit of water because I took a nap earlier.
00:28:23.000Everyone out there right now, if you're listening, I know a lot of people are listening when you're on the road or if you are at work, get home.
00:28:29.000Unlike the COVID, this is a legitimate reason to stay home right now.
00:30:26.000The National Guard will probably stand guard at some of those entrances, exits, and shut down those freeways, so that's not a place that protesters should go.
00:30:56.000When people talk about white supremacists, are you aware of like if you're talking about groups and gatherings the biggest white supremacist gathering that you can really think of like when you talk let's talk about charlotte you're talking about people who are actually white supremacists they're not the entire day hundreds yeah tops and that they really try hard it's really tough to recruit a white supremacist in 2020
00:31:20.000So the idea that white supremacists could be out there spearheading, it's like, listen guys, that may or may not be true, that there might be some bad actors who are in there to make it look worse, but white supremacists aren't in there punching cops in the nuts and trying to murder Breitbart reporters.
00:32:13.000And when people say like, oh, I tweeted out today, I said, you know what?
00:32:17.000The government does not have the right to tell you to shut down a private business.
00:32:20.000The government does have the right to use force to prevent a mob from violently infringing upon the rights of other American citizens.
00:32:30.000And someone said, well a bunch of people are saying, well I guess it's almost like protesting not getting a haircut is not as severe as protesting the violent murder of a person at the hands of the cop.
00:32:50.000I want to be really clear about that, okay?
00:32:52.000And they were protesting, by the way, and this is how you know it's a protest, they were protesting the governments who had removed their rights.
00:33:01.000To practice at their private business.
00:33:03.000In this scenario, we have people who were not killed or assaulted by police officers who are destroying people's shit who have nothing to do with what happened with George Floyd.
00:33:14.000So, yeah, I absolutely think it's more legitimate if someone says, hey, my restaurant's shut down and I might be arrested if I go to church on Sunday in California.
00:33:23.000But we have to understand people who have turned over a cop car and stolen some LG TVs from the Target and AutoZone?
00:33:30.000Which, by the way, I don't know what's going on with O'Reilly's, but I'd watch your back!
00:33:39.000That we were able to pivot this quickly from COVID, which is the biggest story for months, the only story for months, just shows that we're really, really, really held down by our white guilt.
00:33:49.000The whole country is just like, all right, well, now this is the only thing we can talk about.
00:33:54.000Don't you remember the COVID protesters from the lockdown?
00:33:56.000It's like, well, they just don't care about their country.
00:34:00.000They didn't say, hey, we need to hear the voice of these people who are suffering through unemployment that's greater than at any point during the Great Depression, increased suicide, people who don't have the ability to provide for their families.
00:34:12.000It wasn't, we really need to sit down and understand the voice of the unheard.
00:34:15.000By the way, the unheard who elected Donald Trump, and you can plan on seeing that again after this, especially if his response is actually swift and forceful.
00:34:24.000And I want to be really clear about that.
00:36:24.000The reason people were upset was not because he was peacefully protesting, but because he was doing it on a platform where he was paid millions of dollars, and he should have been doing his job.
00:37:13.000So, I wanted to go to Reg, the bandit here, and by the way, the promo code is STAYSAFE.
00:37:20.000You get $20 off, but the hashtag is CrowderRiotStream out there, and we're going to be watching CNN and covering this for you.
00:37:27.000We have kept tabs on all of these groups, and it is so impossible for white supremacists in this country to mobilize and trick every major city.
00:39:34.000It was, in Cleveland, fires and other blocking heroes, first responders from getting in, the people they were praising only a week ago?
00:39:43.000Yeah, so we have that, and we've also had a pretty violent attack on cops in Chicago, which I was thinking probably was going to be the next hotbed is we haven't seen much go down in Chicago, but you've got Trump Tower there.
00:39:57.000And so it just, it just seems like that's to be expected that, you know, things are going to get ugly there tonight.
00:40:02.000I was going to say you're a brilliant man with a mental level IQ, but it doesn't necessarily take a mental level IQ to know that Chicago is going to suck.
00:40:09.000I think I could have figured that one out.
00:40:56.000The one thing too that the media has taught us is that the most effective way to be heard is to violate your neighbor's rights and even commit rapes.
00:41:47.000Everyone, including the president, I don't know a single white person who was not disgusted by what happened with George Floyd and the officer.
00:41:57.000And now they're going, yeah, but you know what?
00:42:12.000And I want to be clear, Black Lives Matter is inherently a racial issue because it made it that way, but their allies are showing up, a lot of white people there as well, and we're not talking about black officers, but when the media paints this as a racial issue, and they, effectively, they're saying, look at all these buildings being bombed, look at all of these neighborhoods being absolutely destroyed and ransacked, this is because black people want to be heard.
00:42:32.000When the media says that, you have young people watching the TV right between dragon tails going, huh, mom, That reporter who's clearly authoritative, because I see the lower, I see the CNN chyron, said that black people commit acts of violence to be heard.
00:42:48.000Is that what, because I'm not, that seems mean, mom.
00:42:53.000Well, and you're going to tell a lot of people that if you are grieved and you have some kind of issue with the government or somebody around you, that this is the way that you get your point across.
00:44:07.000When I now go to Baltimore, instead of, like I once felt, as though it looked like somebody vomited a city, Now when I'm there, I go, did I just step into Road to Eldorado?
00:44:21.000I thought this flight was to Baltimore, and I ended up in Beirut, I believe.
00:44:30.000When I go to Baltimore now, post-riot, it feels like I was taken through the screen like that Take On Me video, and I'm now in a parallel world.
00:46:52.000Can we bring up the picture of the CNN building?
00:46:56.000It looked like, you know when you're a kid and they let you paint the walls because they're about to repaint a new business?
00:47:00.000It looked like that, only of course it wasn't voluntary.
00:47:05.000Why is CNN going to those boring parts of the protest?
00:47:09.000They want to highlight this mundane little carpool.
00:47:12.000Well the thing is, not too long after, there were no boring areas of protest.
00:47:17.000I think we have a little bit, we have a clip of how it progressed last night, which is what we'll see tonight, but this is again from last night.
00:50:31.000This is an angry, this is a violent mob.
00:50:32.000Police are well within their authority to arrest anybody who's around an explosion and not leaving or not, you know what, snitching.
00:50:41.000I know it's not as serious as California where we wanted people to snitch on people who weren't six feet apart, right, and they wanted to pay American citizens to do that.
00:50:48.000But if right now you are crowding police officers and you are around arsonry, if that's a word.
00:51:16.000These people who are being affected by this, meaning the businesses, meaning the people who live in these cities, meaning the officers who had nothing to do with what happened with George Floyd.
00:51:24.000They could be at home avoiding COVID, right?
00:52:00.000While we're talking about people not having faith in their institutions of justice, they're not having faith in their police force because of corruption, what do you think happens when the police can't protect their citizens tonight?
00:52:11.000Because they're basically forced to stand down by spineless mayors.
00:52:14.000What do you think happens, not to the people who want to commit violent crimes, but the rest of American citizens?
00:53:17.000You basically just became everything that you hate.
00:53:19.000I'm sorry, and maybe if you want to fire rubber bullets first to see if that works, that's fine with me, but at some point you have to go to live ammo and say, you have started to cross a line that you cannot cross.
00:53:27.000Well, and am I supposed to, if I'm standing inside a building and you break the windows, am I supposed to assume that that's the last thing you're going to do?
00:53:45.000If you punch somebody on the street, so of course if you mug somebody, you hold a gun to them, if you hold a knife to their throat, if you commit arson, if you play the knockout game, you forfeit your right to live, you deserve to die.
00:53:58.000Now, I don't want you to die, but you have committed an action where for you to get what you have earned at that point, anytime you put another human being in a situation where they have To make a judgment call between their life, or their family's life, or yours, you forfeit your right to live.
00:54:17.000And what do you think is going to happen?
00:54:19.000How many articles, I don't know if Reg the Beast can pull this up, some article from Slate or HuffPo when they were talking about Second Amendment protests, and people were like, you don't need these kinds of guns, call the cops.
00:54:35.000You, today, or for the last four days, have created more racists than ever in the history, well, in my generation in this country, and you've created more gun owners.
00:54:53.000Okay, so you have ten, and you have a hundred people outside your store, breaking into it, looting, trying to burn it down, trying to drag you out and beat you because you happen to be white in the wrong neighborhood or Korean in the LA riots, right?
00:56:04.000When we go to commercial, when they go to commercial, sorry I'm saying that, they are showing a clip or a promo for a video that they're doing.
00:56:10.000It's called, I think, Dying in America, Dying Black in America, I Can't Breathe, Dying Black in America, something like that.
00:56:17.000No, no, it's about, you know, cop, you know, things.
00:56:20.000You tweeted something else about this.
00:56:22.000How many white people as opposed to black people get shot by police officers every year, right?
00:56:26.000And it was something like 300 and something white people.
00:56:29.000You're actually more likely to be shot as an unarmed white person.
00:56:32.000Right, and so in 2016, and I forget the guy's name, I'll pull it up here in a second, there was a guy who was pinned down by two police officers, a white guy in 2016, and that's probably the reason we didn't see anything about this.
00:57:44.000It's not acceptable behavior to say we're the only ones being targeted when the stats show that that's not true, and then we have an exact apples-to-apples comparison Shitty things happen to everybody, regardless of race.
00:58:03.000But these people protesting, and that means black, brown, white, have nothing to do with George Floyd.
00:58:11.000And they have nothing... The people whose stuff they're burning down have even less to do with it.
00:58:17.000Some of these people put their life savings... There was a guy, I think, in Minneapolis yelling at them because he put his life savings into opening this bar and this restaurant.
01:01:19.000You know, in the streets of Los Angeles 30 years ago... Where were you when business owners who just wanted to be able to put food on the table peacefully protested?
01:01:28.000Not much has happened since then to really change... Not much has happened to Kamala Harris since Rodney King?
01:02:09.000She said there wasn't as much justice there as for George Floyd, whereas the man was fired, divorced, and charged with third degree murder?
01:02:17.000How is that not in some form of justice?
01:05:21.000And some of them were conflicted about it.
01:05:24.000I heard audio recording, which you wouldn't think existed, of actually video recording, which was surprisingly 4K, of John Adams saying, I fear that we may have had a poor misguided view of this deep.
01:07:02.000You know, when people were protesting the closing of their business and she actually came on CNN and said, well, this is what you get when you take away business owners' rights to be able to make a living.
01:09:53.000If I get banned for this tonight, I couldn't care less because I don't want to see more dead Americans who aren't committing violent crimes.
01:10:01.000I don't want to see officers... By the way, do you have any idea what black officers in Detroit go through?
01:10:07.000They have to go into the station and they have to go back home in unmarked vehicles because of the violence that they have to experience.
01:10:28.000And because I'm sure they also have, I'm sure that all of these officers, most of them think that Chauvin, I keep forgetting, George Floyd, what was the name of the officer?
01:10:45.000I was about to say, what do you think is going to happen, too, for police officers?
01:10:49.000If they understand that they're not going to be backed up, if the public can do stuff like this to them and they basically just become the targets and the human walls to protect businesses, do you think there's going to be a lot of people signing up to be a cop when you're vilified in public and people spew obscenities at you just because you're protecting the rule of law?
01:11:06.000There's so many more good cops than bad cops out there, but you're painting everybody with this.
01:11:10.000You're doing exactly what you tell us not to do.
01:11:27.000You see, they try to say that Donald Trump was racist because if they try and breach the gates at the White House, they will be met by vicious dogs.
01:12:06.000If you want to have a little bit of a contrast from what you're seeing on CNN, we have a clip of what happens when you try to defend yourself.
01:12:15.000Driving through here, you can see Old guy, pull out a bow and arrow and try to defend himself against some protest.
01:13:18.000But it's not going to be as polished as usual.
01:13:22.000Just like the Mug Club Quarantine Month, This is going to be a moment that we will look back on for the rest of our lives, right?
01:13:28.000This is a historic moment in the United States, unfortunately a terrible historic moment, and we want to be here to experience this with you.
01:13:35.000I really do think that the media is doing a disservice.
01:13:38.000They are not doing their job as journalists, and so unfortunately me, a late-night and now morning host comic, we have to do this job for you.
01:13:45.000So we don't necessarily have everything working on the technical side of the studio, but bear with us.
01:14:29.000So is every single conservative that I know.
01:14:33.000But if you are not horrified by seeing a woman dragged and beaten potentially within an inch of her life by an angry mob, You're a horrible person.
01:14:48.000If you watch that clip and you see anything other than lawlessness and beating on a helpless individual, I don't care if she's a police officer.
01:14:58.000And that's also why I don't think that woman should be there in the front lines.
01:15:00.000Not because I'm sexist, but because I think that a big reason we have the police force, a big reason that we have a military force, kind of like if you look at every society since the beginning of time, was to protect their women and children.
01:15:11.000Now if that woman can meet the PT requirements, well, you know what?
01:15:15.000The PT requirements should require that she's able to handle a hostile combatant.
01:15:47.000Women out there, if you're at home, let's say your husband's on a business trip, let's say maybe you're, and these are a lot of women out there, I got some tweets, people saying, oh, my husband's gone and I'm terrified and I live in downtown.
01:15:56.000You absolutely should have a loaded firearm in every area of your house so that you don't get caught flat-footed.
01:16:02.000Women, I want to see more headlines that read, women fends off would-be rapist or intruder with Walther firearm at home, a wonderful sponsor of ours, by the way, instead of woman raped and left for dead.
01:21:21.000And, uh, there was a server who, for some reason, I think his name was Dominic, always thought my dad, because my dad would, like, be an extra, and when we were young, we would be extras in films.
01:22:03.000And he goes, okay, we have, and he pulls out his list in this tray.
01:22:06.000He's like, but we have some in the back that's not on there.
01:22:08.000We have Tabasco, Tabasco Chipotle, Tabasco Southern Louisiana, Louisiana, Dave's Insanity, Frank's Red Hot, and he was going through and he goes, Hass in the Tub, And then he goes with another one.
01:22:23.000He's like, uh, Chipotle cherry, ass in space.
01:26:24.000We think it sounds silly, but this is very important that you people understand why.
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01:26:31.000The reason they're talking about helmets and putting the visors down right now is because they need to fill airspace without acknowledging what we just saw, which was a dumpster fire, and people getting maced, and violent crimes being committed.
01:26:57.000But when this has been going on now for 48 hours and we just saw a dumpster fire and
01:27:01.000they're saying it was largely peaceful, can we say they're lying?
01:27:05.000Can we say that there's proactively a dishonest agenda at Plaker?
01:27:09.000They're trying to make it seem like, so the juxtaposition is, everything was fine until the cops showed up and started being bullies and now there's violence and it's the cops' fault.
01:27:17.000That's exactly the picture that they are trying to paint in each one of these protests, so to speak.
01:27:23.000Yeah, because right now we need to know about their visors.
01:27:28.000Listen, our reporter on the ground, can you tell us yet have the riot police put their visors from their helmets down?
01:27:35.000They were peaceful here for 14 minutes, Don.
01:27:38.000Important to note, 14 minutes, and of course after that the inevitable occurred where they took a shit in a TJ Maxx and then lit it on fire.
01:30:19.000The Nashville courthouse is on fire, guys.
01:30:22.000Well, and it is odd that CNN is focusing on the people they have in Los Angeles right now where the sun isn't down, but they've moved away from the people they have in New York City.
01:30:37.000Reg, I want to be fair and balanced here.
01:30:40.000Is there any area where it seems like today, or certainly where the sun has gone down, that has been peaceful throughout the entirety of the protests?
01:30:48.000Are there any examples of that, where yesterday through today, are there any cities in the United States that come to mind where the protests have been continually and entirely peaceful?
01:33:16.000They were Acme bricks though, so... How funny would it be if they legally purchased bricks to then throw at other businesses that sell bricks?
01:33:23.000It's like, all right, we're going to buy bricks, and then we're going to throw them at Home Depot.
01:33:27.000It's like, why don't we just steal the bricks from Lowe's?
01:38:17.000We've had the UFC heavyweight champion on the show, the world's strongest man on the show, and then we've had the UFC welterweight champion on the show, boxing world champions on the show.
01:38:26.000They would tell you immediately, with a mob like this, it doesn't matter if you're Superman.
01:38:31.000It doesn't even matter if you have a gun and you get swarmed.
01:38:34.000Do not try and play tough guy and go down there.
01:39:10.000Okay, let's go to some questions and then I will, once they go to their commercial break, let's take a break so that I can go evacuate my bladder.
01:40:29.000The onus isn't on me to take into account that I have insurance and everything that I've built might only take six months, especially after we have the worst unemployment in the country and insurance companies aren't necessarily eager to pay out.
01:40:40.000We talk about that a whole lot, by the way.
01:40:44.000Yeah, what do you think State Farm says about, oh, it's only just property damage?
01:40:47.000Or what about the local mom-and-pop insurance company that's trying to make it, that now has to pay out tens of millions of dollars in claims because you guys acted a fool and burned stuff down that was insured by them?
01:40:58.000Well, first I would say just send them a link to ladderwithcreditor.com or my Twitter timeline so you can see that it's not just property damage.
01:41:06.000The issues that we just brought up, obviously.
01:41:08.000And these are businesses where the owner is sitting at home usually thinking, I don't know when I'm going to be able to open, or what my staff's going to look like in the next few weeks.
01:41:15.000And then all of a sudden, they don't have a location anymore.
01:41:18.000So now that date got pushed off even further.
01:41:21.000And of course, when this was going on, the lockdowns, we said, guys, I don't think you're going to like how this ends with the mental health issues here.
01:43:36.000Well, I mean, yeah, so we basically had this entire societal anxiety that's been created over the last few months, and of course it's gonna be directed at something.
01:43:44.000And it just became this, because you can't, like, throw COVID in the volcano.
01:43:49.000So they just have to figure out some other thing to do.
01:44:11.000The difference that we are seeing tonight versus previous nights, Governor Tim Walz specifically said he did not want to see the 48 hours of anarchy that had played out over the course of the previous two days.
01:45:49.000If I was a governor in a state that was out of control like this, California, obviously Minneapolis, all these different places, Monday morning at 9 a.m.
01:46:15.000And not that I have any association with them, but if we're talking about fairness, if the Proud Boys aren't completely exonerated after tonight for getting into some fisticuffs, people want to talk about injustice?
01:46:30.000And I'm not saying that either is right, but I'm saying, can we agree that burning down an auto zone and lighting dumpster fires and assaulting female police officers is worse than a bar fight?
01:46:40.000Proud Boys was trending earlier today on Twitter and they were trying to say that the Proud Boys were infiltrating the protest and causing this.
01:49:13.000Anytime they empathize with these protesters, call them protesters, call it peaceful, or try to blame Donald Trump or society at large for these hooligans, you guys have to drink, and I apologize.
01:49:25.000I've subjected you to alcohol poisoning.
01:49:27.000There's a guy in a MAGA hat that just gets swarmed by a crowd here.
01:49:30.000I don't know if we can bring that video up, but he gets just beaten by this crowd.
01:50:00.000Or is this guy who just said, when we've seen images of buildings being burned, when we've seen images of businesses being looted, Isn't that the same guy who just said it was largely peaceful?
01:52:02.000You people who say that and who condemned them, not a single violent crime committed by those protesters.
01:52:10.000And I don't think they should have showed up to the Capitol with AR-15s because I didn't think the optics were good and I didn't think that it accomplished much.
01:52:31.000Now, there's maybe a varying degree from seconds, minutes, to a couple of hours.
01:52:36.000You heard it from CNN, the most has been three hours before it devolves into violence.
01:52:41.000At what point do you say, hmm, the second we show up they have pallets of bricks encouraging us to launch them at cops.
01:52:49.000So at that point are we supposed to believe that the pallets of bricks, until someone picks one up and whips it at a cop, that they showed up with peace in mind?
01:52:57.000No one believes you anymore, CNN, and they shouldn't.
01:53:01.000Don't blame the rhetoric of President Trump for calling you fake news when people no longer believe you.
01:53:06.000Don't blame the rhetoric of President Trump when he says we need justice for George Floyd and when the looting starts, the shooting starts.
01:53:13.000And people, I understand why people are upset, and they're attributing it to, obviously, to someone who was a supporter of segregation.
01:53:21.000It's not even close to what we're just watching tonight.
01:53:25.000The dishonesty, the lies, and I will tell you this, last night it was funny because Chris Cuomo was still trying to keep it alive, that, oh, it's been peaceful, and then he went to his own reporters where it was all violent.
01:53:34.000But now the violence has escalated so quickly, they're contradicting what they told- just rewind this, I don't know if you can rewind live on YouTube, rewind this 30 minutes, they were just saying it was peaceful.
01:53:42.000Those guys were carrying a canoe, by the way, into the protest.
01:53:45.000Well, that's because canoes are still legal in Michigan.
01:53:48.000Well, if they had a motor on it, that would be a problem.
01:56:13.000And people really need to understand that this is our grief being exploited and if we really want to make sure we're getting police reform, that we are setting the course for action in regards to
01:56:29.000achieving justice for George Floyd, we have to come together. I'm surprised. We have to
01:56:33.000prioritize our safety and protect one another.
01:56:53.000When you combine this with what we just saw with women being dragged out and beaten, female cops and men being chased down by people, both black and white, who are effectively acting like a pack of rabid wolves, and then you see this ablaze.
01:58:10.000Do you mean restoring hope like before this pandemic with the greatest economy that we
01:58:15.000had ever seen and race relations at their best, by the way?
01:58:18.000Black Americans said that race relations had improved under Donald Trump.
01:58:22.000Maybe we can bring that up, Reg, if you can find that source.
01:58:25.000I don't know if it was a Gallup poll, but black Americans said that they thought race relations were better today than 10 years ago before the COVID pandemic.
01:58:33.000So do you mean restore hope like that?
01:59:02.000It's worse than war in many ways because there aren't the same rules of engagement.
01:59:05.000Right, yeah, and so some kid who may be in a different city is watching this on TV and going, that looks like the car my dad drives off to work to.
01:59:13.000Or mom and dad going out to do their job may be vilified in the media because somebody attacks them and they defend themselves and all of a sudden your life is ruined because of that, right?
01:59:22.000And I'm not saying that's what happened with the cop here, but I'm saying that could very well happen now, right?
01:59:26.000A cop defends himself instead of letting the woman be dragged off to be beaten and God knows what, shoots a protester.
01:59:32.000Do you think that the remaining very small portion of actual white supremacists in this country—when I say very small, I mean because they elected Barack Obama, let's be really clear.
01:59:43.000Do you think they're watching this right now going, you know?
02:00:07.000What do you think you're accomplishing?
02:00:09.000What do you think is being accomplished right now?
02:00:11.000Everyone other than these rioters and their supporters in a complicit media is looking upon this in horror.
02:00:19.000And if it were McDonald's, if Donald Trump were McDonald's, you could just watch it tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, more billions served.
02:00:28.000And I'm not saying that it's worth it.
02:00:32.000I'm not saying that that's a good thing.
02:00:34.000I'm saying that you folks out here, and by that I mean everyone who's taking part in this chaos and this crime, you are going to make not only race relations worse, you are going to ensure that Donald Trump is re-elected.
02:00:49.000Yeah, and by the way, Steven, at least they went to the Nordstrom.
02:00:51.000I don't know if that's the rack or if that's the actual Nordstrom, but they got their clothes.
02:03:27.000I mean, he thought I was still retarded, but he saw that there was maybe some hope that I wouldn't be a hobo on the street, in that I saw the irony as a very young kid.
02:03:37.000The local news, CBC, was covering it, and there was a riot, and this guy smashed, someone had smashed a window to a Levi's store.
02:04:39.000By the way, just so you know, one of the reasons again that we're doing this is Vice thought it was a great time to put out an article like this.
02:04:45.000It says, Far-right extremists are hoping to turn the George Floyd protest into a new civil floor.
02:05:26.000What we need to do is come to terms with understanding that people are going through a great period of pain and frustration, and we need to find a narrative that finds an opportunity to have progress.
02:06:50.000Well, just so you know, in Chicago, they're raiding the Nike store, so they wouldn't go after the Adidas store in L.A., so the people in Chicago, in solidarity, went after Nike and or Nike if it's Canadian.
02:07:08.000You know, like, that's the sign that even in a looting kind of spree, like, if your store remains untouched, you probably ought to go to a different business or a product line.
02:07:15.000When they loot Nike, Adidas, Ross, and Marshall... If New Balance gets hit before you... But you're in the clear, Reebok!
02:09:58.000But people are like, cops do this shit, and then you wonder why people are upset.
02:10:01.000Well, the cops, they were trying to create a perimeter, and people were closing in.
02:10:04.000And, really, your grievance is primarily with the horse.
02:10:07.000Because the horse just went into, and you could see the horse, like, stumbling, and falling around, and I was going like, honestly, that's always what worries me about horse patrol, because...
02:10:46.000And that could just, it could just as easily be, you know, a six-year-old boy with blonde hair who probably hit him with a stick or something.
02:10:52.000But the point is, that can happen with an animal.
02:10:54.000He has some recall, and then all of a sudden Don Lemon has you in a lower third as though you're a member of the Klan.
02:11:53.000You have a personal responsibility in situations like this, and you can't just claim innocence like, I was standing there minding my own... No, you were at a riot that police were trying to secure, and something bad happened to you.
02:12:05.000You're not You don't show up at a Klan rally, and then people are like, what are you doing?
02:12:11.000People were walking, I like masks, I don't know.
02:13:17.000Why don't they just, I would just love for them, because they asked people at all the protests and they were cutting hairs, why aren't you wearing masks?
02:14:18.000Well, media's changing so much, but let's assume that it was kind of as stagnant as it had been for the last several decades, is that all of this, if not, and this is why I'm grateful for the platform that we have, and that's why we fight, and we've gotten litigious in maintaining it, is could you imagine if people looked back, and it was taught in school, and the history books talked about this as though it was some kind of a civil rights uprising?
02:20:27.000Yeah, you know, and we're doing the chats exclusively from the Mug Club.
02:20:30.000We're not really doing this to... Yes, we are.
02:20:32.000Generate new sign-ups, of course, but we don't make any money off of YouTube and we're trying to do the job that journalists are not doing.
02:20:39.000Let's go to CNN really quickly and see what's happening.
02:20:42.000...often the way these things work is when I kettle it in and then start making arrests.
02:20:47.000I want to talk to this young man. Patrick Smith, come here, sir.
02:20:50.000Patrick Smith? That was an early UFC fighter.
02:20:52.000Everybody back up and let us build a barricade.
02:26:01.000Of course, a gross lack of understanding as to constitutional rights or history here in the United States, but I really appreciate that he tried.
02:26:16.000By the way, he made no discernible points in the entire tirade.
02:26:20.000I can laugh at the fact that he said he was the best and most articulate and that he didn't make any sense at all!
02:26:25.000This is just a crazy person just got on the mic.
02:26:29.000Miguel, if I may, I commend you because that is the difference between rioters and protestors.
02:26:37.000The guy just said that this is what they have to do to make their voices heard.
02:26:42.000He was saying it was a peaceful protest, but then this has to happen, effectively.
02:26:46.000So in other words, if Don Lemon says, that's a peaceful protester, well then, just tear gas all of them!
02:26:53.000If that's the best you have to offer, and he's encouraging, if not committing acts of violence, but taking part and condoning it, well, you know, send in the guards!
02:27:04.000You had a chance to make your voice heard.
02:28:09.000Now, if you wanted some context for Ilhan Omar, you know, talking about the peaceful protests and everything, just, I believe yesterday, her daughter was retweeting Antifa and They were requesting supplies for the riots, including hockey sticks.
02:28:26.000Now, is this the daughter that she had with her brother?
02:28:33.000But again, you think, what would happen... I was chatting with some of the Blaze folk, and they were saying, what would happen if Donald Trump Jr.
02:28:41.000was, you know, retweeting people asking for hockey sticks to beat people with?
02:28:46.000You know, it's... Or if he married Ivanka.
02:29:16.000I have yet to see them cover the man with the MAGA hat or, like, the scene that is all over social media of cops being dragged on the ground, that lady police officer, in Chicago.
02:29:53.000At what point is it no longer a protest?
02:29:55.000They vandalized a bank, threw an M-80 at a police officer, stabbed a horse, beat a lady, and raped a Z. We don't know the gender yet, but these protesters still do feel like they're a voice of the underclass, and we need to hear... At what point do you switch that chyron from protesters to Violent, thug, assholes.
02:30:23.000If it's a Bank of America, I might show up there.
02:30:27.000It really does depend on the bank, I do believe.
02:30:30.000Also, if there's... I know they don't really have them stateside, but if there's a Sprint customer service center down there... A couple of Molotov cocktails never hurt anybody.
02:30:40.000It's the Roman soldiers with their shields and swords banging on the ground, or the cops with their Trek bicycles hanging them on the ground.
02:30:54.000Well, the problem is, if they say that these people have responsibility for their actions, then they're automatically lumped in with white supremacists.
02:31:01.000Because that's a racist thing to say, is that these people actually have control over what they're doing.
02:31:08.000Whenever we need insight as to what white supremacists would say, we go to audio.
02:33:53.000Let's see if we can get that, let's make that happen there, Gibbon, later on.
02:33:57.000Reg the Bandit, Reg the Beast, is there anything that we've missed here thus far?
02:34:02.000So one thing I think is interesting from the mainstream media is that they're not reporting on the death toll, which is something that they seem very interested in as of late.
02:34:15.000Yeah, but as far as I can count with the protests, we have four people killed since this weekend.
02:34:23.000We have a woman who was found dead in her car in Minneapolis.
02:34:27.000Second, we have a protester killed in Detroit who was not shot by law enforcement, but by someone else at a protest.
02:34:33.000Third, we have an officer who was killed in Oakland, California.
02:38:20.000Okay, so apparently my producer just told me that we have... I was supposed to have my Little Orphan Annie decoder ring with me because he was saying Very important.
02:38:30.000Mrs. Dickinson has found one of those LARP-y West Coast protests, which I was supposed to interpret as though we have a new clip.
02:41:45.000By the way, when he said what he said about the slave thing, he goes, do you guys know when you freed the slaves, you sent those assholes to us?
02:42:09.000Thank God that I... No, it was Muhammad Ali.
02:42:12.000He said, thank God my ancestors got on that boat.
02:42:14.000And then Richard Pryor talked about going to the motherland and how terrible it was, and how grateful he was to be in the United States of America.
02:42:22.000Well, that's how they want to frame it now, right?
02:42:23.000They want to frame it as though loving America is racist, because that means you love a bygone era where black people were barred from enjoying the entirety of rights that white people did.
02:42:33.000What people mean when they say they miss is they miss people actually treating other people as human beings, and most white people back then, that's why we had the civil rights.
02:42:41.000Here's one thing people don't understand.
02:42:43.000Look at women getting the right to vote.
02:42:46.000Obviously they deserve the right to vote.
02:42:47.000Look at black people getting the vote.
02:42:49.000Obviously that was the right thing to do.
02:42:52.000But look at any other government throughout the history of mankind who was the world's greatest superpower.
02:42:58.000If one group of people is in power, they typically clamor for it, and they don't willingly have a vote with the people in power granting power to the underclass.
02:43:08.000That's what's happened here in the United States.
02:43:12.000Women didn't have the right to vote, and then they got the vote.
02:43:53.000And this country was founded by people who said that it was a deep evil that would have to be corrected, and it took some time.
02:44:00.000Now, you guys are going to take some time to steal free shit.
02:44:03.000I get that's your civil rights fight here, but the point is, how can you not recognize that?
02:44:08.000There was a correction, and the people in power, this radically discriminatory system that was designed to keep people down, willingly had a vote, went through a legislative process to remove the boot of oppression.
02:45:29.000I mean that guy who was there, provided we don't have all the context, but assuming that that guy in a bloody pulp on the ground didn't commit a violent assault completely unprovoked against someone else.
02:45:38.000In other words, when people are beating him down, you, Forfeit your right to live?
02:45:42.000Because we don't know if that guy lives.
02:45:52.000What do you want to be heard when you are doing this?
02:45:55.000Do you really think that that clip is going to create fewer racists?
02:46:00.000And by the way, I think if I saw that clip, there were some white people who were also engaged in the beating, if I'm not mistaken.
02:46:04.000So again, but unfortunately, this has been inextricably tied to Black Lives Matter, which unfortunately has been inextricably tied to black Americans, and they do not represent all black Americans.
02:46:16.000Again, that couple that I met at Academy who were showing up to purchase weapons.
02:46:21.000I talked about George Floyd, and I said what we had all expressed on Thursday.
02:46:26.000And I said, and also, these riots are terrible, and they're not helping anyone be heard, and they're hurting people in the black community.
02:46:33.000And they said, yeah, that's exactly what we were saying today.
02:47:29.000Not only do we have Gerald, we have Wade, we have Garrett, we have Tim, we have Gibbon, we have everyone in this office, but we have Reg, who's on Skype, and these people are just... I'm so blessed to be able to work with them.
02:47:38.000But I understand that many of you don't have that.
02:47:41.000You can have those day-to-day interactions with people.
02:47:45.000If you see a black couple buying ammo right with you at Academy, strike up a conversation.
02:47:53.000You're at McDonald's, you're waiting in line?
02:48:08.000Hopefully it helps you to learn how to interact with people and get them to question or rationalize their own argument.
02:48:15.000And I will say, last night, if you guys were, you know, we had that thread going, Mike, Heart was broken.
02:48:21.000And I felt a little hopeless in the sense that I was going, oh my god, this is going to set back black Americans with race relations by years because I remember what happened with Baltimore and I thought we were getting past it.
02:48:33.000I don't know how we're going to convince a young generation where they grow up with this.
02:48:35.000This is their experience with sort of inter-race relations and what helped It was just that conversation with a couple at Academy.
02:48:45.000It was just that conversation, and we probably don't agree on a whole lot, but you know what?
02:48:49.000They'd run out of 9mm at Academy, I won't say the store that did have it, and I said, hey, there's a store about a mile and a half down the road, you know what I'm talking about.
02:49:11.000And that, I left that going, okay, you know what?
02:49:14.000There's a lot more common ground than Don Lemon wants you to believe.
02:49:17.000Which is odd, because Don Lemon, shouldn't you be advocating for the black community?
02:49:23.000If you want to carry the mantle here of being the voice for black Americans, as he did yesterday, with, these people need to be heard, shouldn't you be... Put it this way.
02:49:32.000As a Christian, I believe that we should do things that bring people toward the cross, and not at the cost of sacrificing truth.
02:49:41.000As a black person in the United States, Don Lemon, if you really believe there's discrimination, you really believe that white people are prejudice, and they have this misinformed view of black people, and I'm sure that there are quite a few of them, Shouldn't you only take actions that bring people toward the black community?
02:49:58.000that make people want to engage with the black community, instead of saying Black Lives Matter represents all black people, and by the way, they're burning down shit across the country.
02:50:29.000How do you think that guy feels, Don Lemon?
02:50:32.000Do you think he's more or less voiceless than the mob of tens of thousands of people who are beating folks to a pulp and burning shit down?
02:50:42.000The guy you just interviewed with triceratop horns or the black cop who hasn't... I haven't seen, and I've been watching this, I've had it on my television for 24 hours straight, I haven't seen a single black officer interviewed.
02:50:59.000And the thing that we want is we want people to come together, we want justice, and we want an opportunity to move forward.
02:51:05.000This does nothing but, like you said, set us back.
02:51:08.000Because now, I mean, if this goes on for two more days, one more day, tonight, whatever it may be, we're no longer talking about Floyd at all.
02:52:09.000We've lost our ideas, we've lost our religion, and so we have to go back to the only thing that most people think brings other people together is race.
02:52:17.000So we have to go back to tribalism, we have to go back to... That's the way people used to organize themselves, was based on race.
02:52:23.000It was the way societies were organized.
02:52:25.000But if we're able to appeal to a higher standard, if we're able to appeal to That's a really good point.
02:53:25.000You know, Wade says he's pretty sure he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're fucked.
02:53:32.000The police officer there just told us to stay behind him, and the reason why is just a snapshot of what we've been seeing from our vantage point.
02:53:42.000And again, we have not been all over the city of Los Angeles.
02:53:45.000No, you've tried to find the safest part so that you can show.
02:53:49.000We just saw cars that were hauled off that looked like a parody of a burned down car.
02:53:55.000It looked like, you know how you always, when you see in cartoons, you're like, wait, those are fish bones, and I see the skeleton in the head.
02:53:59.000You're like, I've never seen that in my life.
02:54:01.000That was the car equivalent of a cartoon fish skeleton.
02:54:06.000Like, I'm surprised that they weren't just hauling that car off, and someone hit a button in an anvil.
02:54:10.000And you're like, wow, we haven't been, it's just, I hate all the things.
02:54:19.000What law enforcement has been going through here beyond, you know, just trying to tell the press where to stand, you just saw us negotiate where we would be able to stand with, you know, really without being an impediment to the police or much of the danger to ourselves.
02:54:34.000Hey, Reg the Beast there, if you could, you don't have to come in, but if you could do a little digging at all, or give us some more info on that guy in Dallas, I would...
02:54:43.000I would love to see if that guy's okay, and gosh, I mean, anything, just pop in when you find it.
02:54:49.000Well, and one thing we need right now, you know, all those people out there, well, that's true, I should stop using song lyrics as my intro.
02:54:58.000That wasn't a song lyric, you just started talking.
02:55:33.000Okay, I do have an update on the guy who was attacked.
02:55:37.000So we actually have, that video is from our very own Elijah Schaefer at BlazeTV, who took the video in Dallas, and he has a picture of the critically injured man being tended to by volunteer medics.
02:55:52.000So apparently the guy is getting some Support.
02:57:48.000Where, um, obviously he used to be someone who, uh, you know, was pretty horrible, but seems to have... I mean, I want to say, like, Lennox Lewis is not... he's okay, I have nothing against the man, but I still want to make orphans of his children and stomp them in the testicles so that he can feel the pain I feel as a black man every day.
02:58:05.000Like, oh, have you not seen Lennox Lewis?
02:58:09.000And being black makes you feel like you've been racked?
02:58:12.000That guy's never experienced pain before.
02:59:39.000We're gonna be probably watching a little more CNN as it gets increasingly violent in the sense that we'll be maybe talking a little bit less showing you what they're highlighting here because The discrepancy is is it said it's unforgivable Yeah, it really is unforgivable.
02:59:54.000Yeah, absolutely Especially for the news organization that puts itself out there as being the most unbiased the most trustworthy Isn't the slogan just the facts?
03:01:49.000Well, you know what, that's a good question.
03:01:51.000I think time at a certain point, but I hate to say it, but time multiplied by violent response.
03:01:56.000I mean, here's the thing, once you've done this and it's been going on for days, It has to be met with violence on the other side, because this question is what everybody is asking, right?
03:02:08.000Well, okay, you burned down the Target, and then the Walmart, and the AutoZone, and the precinct, and now you've beaten people up, four people are dead.
03:02:18.000It's not stopping, so people are saying, when's it going to get to my neighborhood?
03:02:22.000Again, this goes back to the overall point.
03:02:25.000you forfeit your right to live when you do that. When people have to ask the question,
03:02:31.000after many people have said, well, you know what, they'll get it all out of their system.
03:02:34.000Well, you haven't yet. And there have been, frankly, already violent measures that have
03:02:38.000been taken, like deterring violent measures, tear gas, rubber bullets, flashbangs, on which
03:02:45.000Chris Cuomo is an expert because he's been in the field.
03:02:56.000And why would we ever indict police officers or civilians for responding with lethal force at this point?
03:03:05.000And if they want to fact check and ban this on social media, it's a genuine question.
03:03:10.000We've already done tear gas, rubber bullets, curfew, National Guard had to leave, you tried to break down a barricade to the White House, you've beaten people to death.
03:03:48.000Well, we're not going to let you do that, and that's not because we're racist, that's not why, and because I also don't support the answer to the people who want to break down the whole system.
03:04:43.000Because they're one of the biggest donors, of course, to the Democratic Party.
03:04:45.000So, if that's a start, I'd be on board with that.
03:04:48.000Get rid of the blue wall of silence, as people call it.
03:04:51.000Because I certainly think that a job like police, which is obviously funded by the taxpayer, requires more transparency and more ability to prune horrible employees.
03:05:25.000The system that apparently you want to destroy and rail against.
03:05:28.000Basically, we've got a bunch of... I was thinking like, maybe it'd be like a beat cop.
03:05:33.000Like a truancy officer, you know, with like the hat, and like Sean Connery, like in The Untouchables, who go like, he walk around and go like this, this is my beat.
03:05:39.000And I'd be like, nah, ain't no beat no more, motherfucker.
03:05:41.000And then, you know, that's like, I was hoping like that, but not like the cop, like the riots, and the bullets and shit.
03:05:49.000Well, look, I mean, they're basically just testing the defenses.
03:05:52.000And then Don Lemon would say, I'm the most articulate person he's interviewed.
03:05:55.000And by the way, one of their other reporters, and I think it was maybe Miguel Marquez, tweeted out, like, this is an absolutely amazing segment.
03:06:12.000I want to go to CNN right now, let's listen to it, and then Red's the Beast, I want to go to what now is most current on Twitter, that's what's happening, that's ignoring them.
03:08:45.000Our intention was to go through that crowd and collect as many of them as we could and infect them with the peace and positivity that we were roaming with that night.
03:08:53.000I don't think the looting and rioting is being done in George Floyd's name, like I said.
03:08:57.000What's being done in George Floyd's name is this type of gathering right now and we're going to try and keep this peace and the morale the way it is.
03:09:03.000Our goal tonight is to keep the energy high and the tension low.
03:09:07.000All right, really quickly, Reg the Beast, let's go to you, because you were saying, keep the peace up.
03:09:10.000In other words, there's this idea that there's a semblance of peace, there's continuity of peace, where it would be atypical of there to be anything other than peace, and that's what they just showed on CNN.
03:09:19.000If you were to watch CNN for the last 15 minutes, you would think, well, these are the protests.
03:09:23.000Now, keep in mind, they're going on across the country right now, and of course, this is trending on Twitter.
03:10:54.000We also have more footage from Dallas of people looting, breaking into a CVS, and then we've also got a clip of... Finally those bastards had to pay.
03:11:02.000They always tell you you're gonna get a discount on your coupon, and they print it out so they can circle the equator three times like an old comp USA.
03:11:27.000But this guy, but on CNN they just said they wanted to maintain the peace, so they want to maintain the... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:11:32.000By the way, it's also kind of funny that the CVS letters fell like it was like the Muppet Show, like an intro, like... Like Arthur, like, Hey, Arthur!
03:13:42.000I mean, it really is remarkable that they want to frame all of this through the prism entirely of race.
03:13:49.000And the reason that it is, is because they've tied Black Lives Matter to the black community, as though they are the ambassadors for the black community.
03:13:58.000And I understand that for a lot of people, they may be, but it's the same... Okay, let me kind of give you a...
03:14:04.000Okay, remember how we were planning on doing a Change My Mind, and we couldn't do it in a black neighborhood and at a black church?
03:14:12.000And the reason for it was we wanted to pick something, if I'm not mistaken, it was about transgenderism or something like that, because we wanted to show people that the black community is not BuzzFeed boldly black lesbians.
03:14:21.000There's a huge disconnect between black representatives in the media and the black community in the United States at large.
03:14:28.000Now, white privilege, I'm not saying that I represent the black community or fully understand them, but statistically, they tend to be overwhelmingly Christian.
03:14:35.000They tend to be involved with their churches.
03:14:37.000They tend to have a strong sense of community.
03:14:39.000They do tend to be more conservative as it relates to gender norms, black Americans.
03:14:43.000And they aren't really represented by the Kamala Harrises of the world, by the Don Lemons of the world.
03:14:47.000You really think Don Lemon would fare all that well in inner city Detroit?
03:14:58.000It's remarkable to me, but they want to tie Black Lives Matter, as though they speak for all black Americans, which in and of itself is racist.
03:15:06.000To view black people as a monolith, speaking of black people who view other blacks as a monolith, let's go to very tired Johnny Mathis.
03:20:43.000So what they did was they, uh, I don't know the exact sequence, but I believe the first solution was what they did was they put a chain into the hoop.
03:20:52.000So that when you shot the ball into the basket, you pulled the chain, you know, and it kind of flipped it out.
03:21:09.000They cut a small hole in the basket so they could poke it.
03:21:16.000You just missed it the mascot whatever it is there's a broken window people are coming in and out looting it but some guy walks up and half-heartedly throws the helmet at the other window like I want one more broken window it didn't break he's like well hell I'm going them on the way I'm making a judgment call
03:21:46.000funny would it be if we can't get out of it yet hit him in the back of the window
03:21:50.000and knocked him on concha be awesome and then don't really put it that'll really
03:21:54.000put a damper is it is all of the glass putting a damper on the protesters
03:21:59.000really or about this whole thing I don't know why these business owners feel it
03:22:04.000appropriate to put up bulletproof glass to cause the rebound with forces yeah
03:22:10.000It resulted in numerous, countless unnecessary...
03:23:02.000Or am I just one of the pawns in CNN's fake news strategy?
03:23:09.000So, I think what's interesting to me is that we are just getting that same standard shot from CNN of that one location, but at the White House, we just had rioters ripping away the steel barricades in front of the White House, and they have started deploying tear gas.
03:24:34.000If you watch CNN, everything is simmering down.
03:24:37.000Think of how uninformed, misinformed you would be if you watched CNN right now.
03:24:41.000And then, you would watch this all night, and then the next day, you would hear about police officers, let's say, firing into a crowd of people.
03:24:49.000You'd go, oh my god, I can't believe it!
03:24:51.000Like it's the park rangers in Elf in Central Park.
03:24:55.000Oh my God, how could they do that with the peaceful protesters because they never covered the dynamite being thrown, the arson, and the beatings of people, pulling of cops, White House.
03:25:05.000And that person would be able to say, I watched the news all night.
03:25:09.000I can't believe I didn't see any of this craziness.
03:25:11.000If you're going to cover anything, I understand you have an agenda and you're not going to cover the worst of the worst, but you're probably going to cover the White House.
03:25:18.000That's the focal point of the country.
03:25:44.000Well, and the other thing that occurs to me is that if we saw this in any other country, We would think, okay, this is going beyond protests.
03:25:58.000People are literally trying to break into the White House and do who knows what to the leader of the country.
03:26:04.000And so to me, I just think that's amazing that, you know, yes, CNN's covering these so-called protests, but They're not covering protesters trying to rioters, revolutionaries.
03:26:17.000They're covering groups of small people walking.
03:26:19.000And you know what's most concerning in that, Reg?
03:26:22.000Is a revolution without a mission statement.
03:26:25.000Or rather, the mission statement is just... Really, the reason for the revolution is to have a violent revolution until everything is gone.
03:26:35.000You have a guy who was... You're talking... This was, we thought, was a protest for justice, a riot for justice for George Floyd.
03:26:43.000And now the man has been charged with murder.
03:26:45.000And his wife divorced him and he lost his job.
03:26:47.000And they're going through an autopsy and a toxicology report and they're investigating the other three officers as requested by the president.
03:29:15.000I talked about it just a second ago, but literally there are protests in London at the United States Embassy and in Germany and Berlin and then also in Toronto.
03:29:24.000Why are they... So they too have a racist system?
03:29:26.000So they too are bored and have no control over their own ability to protest and riot or not?
03:29:37.000When I hear Brits, black British people, sort of trying to incorporate American Ebonics.
03:29:46.000Again, this is the result of identity politics of pigeon-holing people, right?
03:29:50.000Because you tell Ben Carson he's not black enough, you tell Colin Powell he's not black enough, you tell Condoleezza Rice he's not black enough, Kolein Noir he's not black enough, the Hodgkins, they're not black enough, right?
03:29:59.000Because they don't sound or act a certain way.
03:30:01.000And so then you have black people who have no relation to the American sort of post-slavery culture, the Industrial Revolution that took place after it, and they try to sound like... I mean, you have Drake.
03:30:14.000It couldn't be more disingenuous because these people are trying to identify with something with which they were never raised.
03:30:21.000I will tell you that's not what happens in Toronto.
03:30:24.000I will tell you that's not how people speak in the UK.
03:30:27.000But it is largely determined by pop culture, which is determined by Often white people, like you see here at CNN, or like you see at Records, and unfortunately people, both black and white, buy into it wholesale and then accuse their fellow Americans, or their fellow Englishmen, or their fellow Canadians, of not being authentically true to their race.
03:31:09.000So instead of focusing on what really should be the very fiber of somebody's being, which is their values, their ideas, as Wade was talking about, we tell them, you should look, act, and talk a certain way or we're going to accuse you of being inauthentic.
03:34:23.000And so he had to keep his identity protected until he effectively worked himself out of a job because he was so good they put all of his...
03:38:53.000I love these guys that, like, run out to the camera and then pivot beyond it, like, but first, like, getting a great shot of their face as they're committing a crime right before they go.
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03:44:41.000By the way, the most offensive thing that I've heard him say all night, these young people are stepping into the gap and doing what they should be doing.
03:44:48.000He just encouraged everybody to go, hey, tomorrow night, what are you guys doing?
03:48:01.000And there's this big fight right now over fake news, and there's this thing where Donald Trump gets vilified for saying, hey, you see all those guys back there?
03:49:27.000Many of our great American cities, smoke from police cars set on fire, from canisters launched into crowds of angry protesters, from buildings and businesses, and on and on, and torched by people who couldn't find another way to express themselves.
03:50:13.000Has there been a report that has come out that says that this was conclusively a racial profiling issue, that this was a racist white cop looking to kill a black man?
03:50:22.000Well, I know you're searching for some sort of definitive evidence, but the woman who owned the club that both of them, uh, where they worked, said That she knew someone whose best friend's brother's girlfriend's sister's boyfriend saw Derek Chauvin get a little bit testy with black people.
03:50:40.000I heard that from Ben Stein, actually.
03:50:44.000His now ex-wife looks like a person of color.
03:53:24.000So, okay, because you said this yesterday and you were all flippant, where I said, I sent out a message to you and some family members, I said, hey, stay home, stay safe, because this is going to make Detroit look like child's play.
03:53:34.000You said, well, that went on all summer, this is nothing.
03:53:37.000Do you think that overall, the grand scope of this, this is more severe?
03:53:43.000I don't know what criteria we're judging it by.
03:53:45.000Yeah, you know, it's bigger, it's across the country, but Detroit didn't have a unanimous Worldview on this thing.
03:53:51.000Everyone agrees this time that this is a bad cop.
03:54:31.000And your uncle's friend Lyle Reese's dad was shot in the glute and in the calf.
03:54:38.000who showed us his bullet holes. We were little kids. Oh, cool.
03:54:41.000How old were you when this happened in Detroit?
03:54:44.000Eight. Eight years old. You saw the tanks go down?
03:54:47.000Armored personnel carriers and tanks going down the main street near my house.
03:54:52.000We sat in the mailbox and cheered them going by, my brother and I. Well, I ask you this because you were obviously a part of the busing sort of integration that happened at that point, which I understand why people support it, but I also know that in practice it was a little more bumpy than people anticipated.
03:55:13.000What was the perception of people in Detroit when the riots happened?
03:55:17.000Because even if it's not as bad at this point, and I think it could probably ultimately get worse long-term in scope, it's bigger now that it's international, do you think that had you not maybe become a Christian that it might have made you more racist?
03:55:42.000You know, you're a kid, you have these questions, right?
03:55:44.000And you know, you grow up and you have a different perspective, and of course, anyone of any faith knows that we're all You know, created in the image of God.
03:56:29.000So it's an excuse to, you know, yeah, you're right.
03:56:31.000It almost feels like there was some building, in other words, everything was based on a false premise with Mike Brown and Trayvon and Tamir Rice where they, you know, okay, let's go back through it.
03:56:54.000And it doesn't matter that Darren Wilson is specifically, from what I remember, requested to be in an area of town because he wanted to help serve the black community.
03:57:08.000Then you have Tamir Rice who, once the video came out, we found out it looked like he was aiming a gun at bystanders in the park where you couldn't really know at that point.
03:57:18.000And then you have this one where everyone, the president, everyone in this room, yourself included, Everyone who's really a regular guest on the show, who would be more conservative, pretty unanimous in the opinion that, hey, we need to wait for more information, but this portion that we know, with the knee and the neck after he went limp, this necessitates better training.
03:57:39.000Unfortunately, it seems like for the first time there, there were a little bit of building blocks done, because we've talked about this before with police unions, and unfortunately there is some, and most police officers obviously we know are great Americans, they do serve and protect, but there are some, just like teachers, who are not very good, who are often protected because of the unions that exist.
03:57:58.000some building blocks there. We were sort of building a wall, going, okay, we can all...
03:58:02.000This is one where it's not a lie, so we can all be allies, for lack of a better word,
03:58:07.000in wanting some kind of reform. And now I just feel like someone's knocking down the whole,
03:58:11.000you know, like your Star Wars Lego set, you know.
03:58:14.000Now we've definitely lost some momentum, but I think it's pointed out...
03:58:56.000Well, they're pretty stringent there when they actually apply their quality standards.
03:58:59.000And you know the firemen who are being blocked trying to go in and put out fires, the only weapon they have is one that is inextricably tied to racism.
03:59:42.000And for people who are obsessed with race, Don Lemon, that's all he's talked about, is seeing it through the prism of race.
03:59:49.000No mention of black police officers who are left out in the cold?
03:59:53.000It seems to me that, first off, as a black person, which Don Lemon is, second, as a person who obviously views everything through the lens of identity politics, that you would be interested, then someone who supports public sector unions, and then, of course, someone who's gay, who would love the police officer uniform in the village, the firefighter.
04:00:13.000You think you would be into at least, you know, the human interest story of finding, or not even finding, just acknowledging the black officers in front of him and talking about it and telling his story.
04:00:22.000Because we're talking about how important the story is to tell.
04:00:25.000I mean, you know you had friends who were Italian, who their father was a police officer, and worked with other black officers in Detroit.
04:00:31.000Well, most of the people in my community were City employees that had to still live within the bounds of the city, or they couldn't be employed by the city.
04:02:03.000But they dropped all the... In fact, a friend of mine, Mr. Petroni, was a sergeant who was a recruiter near the end of his career, and while he was a recruiter, they dropped every standard for height and weight and physical... Gosh.
04:02:27.000That is the mission statement of these protests.
04:02:30.000It's completely directionless aside from violence.
04:02:32.000They didn't show up to protest peacefully because who could you possibly throw your weight behind to support more effectively if your goal is to change what you believe is a perverted system?
04:02:45.000than a black man going into the police force to try and improve it for his community.
04:02:51.000Who else is taking a more proactive approach than, hey, you know what, man?
04:02:54.000I think the cops haven't given us a fair shake.
04:02:57.000I want to see them serve our community better.
04:03:00.000And so I'm going to go in and I'm going to make a difference.
04:03:04.000And instead, they're called Uncle Toms and race traitors.
04:03:08.000Well, they're not the ones grabbing the microphones.
04:03:10.000They're the ones who have a duty to fulfill, right?
04:03:15.000They have a job, they need to do it, and they're going to show up for it so they don't need the attention.
04:04:14.000Yeah, I don't know how many people, maybe Reg can bring it up.
04:04:18.000How many people died in the Detroit riots?
04:04:20.000It was a lot, because I think I misremembered how many people died in the Montreal ice storms, but I think it was like 20 something, like 26, and then a lot of people were in intensive care.
04:04:28.000Yeah, because that's the same thing, an ice storm.
04:04:29.000Well, no, I'm just saying, you know, I remember at one point I remembered it being like 200, but it was like 26, you know, more than COVID.
04:07:00.000I don't know if it's fully engulfed and I haven't confirmed it, but I saw some people on Twitter watching the show, did some research for us and said they found that on the local news up there, so it's crazy stuff.
04:07:10.000And it's escalating, that's the next step.
04:07:27.000I'm just saying that they interviewed, they gave Farrakhan a platform on CNN, and of course, Al Sharpton at MSNBC, and Jesse Jackson, and peddlers of hate for a very long time.
04:07:40.000This is also something to me, I mean, they're planning on arresting people who try to go to church in California.
04:07:46.000If there is, after this, if there is a single arrest at a church, Uh, you know what?
04:08:43.000They were talking about arresting people at one point in Michigan for doing small groups outside of church, to be clear, and fining them.
04:08:49.000You're talking about people who were fining folks in my home state of Michigan for going out into the lake by themselves because they happened to have a motor on their rowboat.
04:08:59.000Yeah, it was illegal in California to sing to a virtual church service.
04:10:11.000What's interesting is they will show the human interest stories.
04:10:14.000um that show the the exception to the rule right they'll show the human interest stories of someone who is maybe wrongfully maced or for example they've done this with covid where they show the human interest stories and i understand this because i will say this i've done this too but i do it to try and connect people with the human interest i've always said this in the foreground so that the factual information the data the empirical is in the background cnn often tries to put the human interest in the foreground so you don't see right to obfuscate the actual data and facts in the
04:10:43.000background. So right now they'll put someone they'll put someone forward with a human interest story who
04:10:47.000has been unfortunately and wrongfully victimized here. They'll try and put someone there who's
04:10:52.000out there trying to put out a peaceful protest but they won't show the human interest story of the
04:10:56.000guy who was beaten within an inch of his life. They won't show the human interest story of
04:10:59.000the woman who was dragged by her hair and kicked. Oh they got Starbucks.
04:11:48.000Can you count them on your hands and toes?
04:11:50.000But they want to do that so they can justify their position because they don't want you to understand the actual data that the average age of death with COVID is older than life expectancy.
04:12:16.000Turn into any of your local stations, wherever you are, you will see riots and violence and fires, and you will see the police having to escalate.
04:12:25.000They started with pushing people back like we saw.
04:12:28.000Pushing them... I mean, am I the only one who thinks that bicycle cops pushing people with their Gary Fishers is as...
04:12:40.000And then rubber bullets to the legs, and then flashbangs, and then tear gas, and then all of a sudden when they decide to react because they've had enough, it'll be considered a violation of, you know, the Geneva Convention.
04:12:51.000So they ignore this repeatedly, and then people are surprised.
04:12:58.000They're surprised when there's a rejection, when there's a rebellion.
04:13:01.000I don't know how they could understand the half of America that supports Donald Trump if this is what they actually believe.
04:13:07.000And I honestly am at a point, and maybe it's just because I'm tired now and we've been doing this for four and a half hours, where I don't know how much of it is them proactively lying or they're just, it's such a blind spot that they can't even comprehend why some Americans may not consider this peaceful or even remotely productive.
04:13:25.000They're in such a bubble they don't even know.
04:13:38.000So just like we don't paint everybody with the same brush with some of the instances we've seen with rioters or cops or anybody else, I do the same thing with CNN.
04:13:45.000I do think there are genuinely people there trying to do the job, but they do just get pushed a little further to the left every day.
04:14:11.000So it wasn't like you got converted from being conservative over to the left, but then there are people that actively lie and those are the ones that we tend to target.
04:14:19.000And we tend to say, nope, you guys are wrong.
04:14:21.000We're fact checking this, or we're just putting your words up on the screen and then showing somebody else a clip that explains it a little bit further.
04:14:27.000And we've had to do that over and over and over again.
04:14:29.000And the problem is, we will continue to have to do that as long as CNN goes out and reports stuff that's not accurate and says we're the most trusted name in journalism.
04:15:53.000Let's see if we can pull that up here in just a second.
04:15:56.000Governor of California basically taking away people's rights and essentially kind of siding with the, I don't know if you can see it there, millions of people are lifting their voices in anger, rightfully outraged at the systemic racism that persists in America.
04:16:22.000How do you build from smoldering rubble?
04:16:24.000You are actually, since you're using that analogy, you are actually worse off trying to build over smoldering rubble and embers than if there had been nothing.
04:17:29.000Last night, Eugene, Oregon, and Fort Wayne, Indiana.
04:17:33.000Just in the past few hours, Don, we've seen acts of vandalism in Dallas, Texas, Charleston, South Carolina, Oakland, California, Tampa Bay, Florida.
04:18:13.000And he goes, you know, I got in trouble for my last album saying that Uh, everyone who had AIDS, that AIDS was a gay disease.
04:18:22.000And according to the CDC, AIDS is primarily transferred from an infected seminal load in the, I mean, up the, and he goes, and let's be honest, that's something you have to kind of make an appointment for, folks.
04:18:37.000And then you have people who came out and said, this was a misrepresentation because there are plenty of straight celebrities who have AIDS.
04:19:07.000I heard that Kenison would do his best to try to get... I think he made an arrangement with the guy at the club that he would pay him if he could get everybody to leave.
04:19:17.000So like, by the end of the set, nobody else was sitting in there.
04:19:21.000He was like, I will pay you what you would pay me if I can make everybody leave.
04:23:50.000So they've talked about how most of these protests are peaceful and they've never mentioned Dallas and they've sort of pointed to Los Angeles and DC as exceptions to the rule.
04:24:00.000Would you say that Dallas was a protest that started off with the intent of being peaceful and it sort of got out of control?
04:24:06.000Or how do you think people came into this?
04:24:29.000and uh and they stole a fire extinguisher started throwing bottles and within 15 minutes they were going let's go this way they were telling people where where they should go to break stuff to start getting it started and within 25 minutes they had already broken fully into a cvs started looting the cvs cheering and so it was peaceful for approximately 14 minutes and 15 14 minutes and 59 seconds.
04:25:51.000Because someone had told me, and I don't have any of this verified, so I am going on your word here, and obviously trusting that you're giving me an accurate account, and I believe you are.
04:26:40.000But, you know, he started, he started, he basically, like, they came at him.
04:26:47.000I don't, I would say he was sort of defending himself.
04:26:50.000He, like, but he screamed and he ran at them as they kind of, like, started, like, attacking him.
04:26:56.000And then they grabbed his sword, started kicking him, hitting him on the head with a skateboard, and stoned him on the street until he was slumped over, unresponsive.
04:27:05.000People were laughing, saying to let him, just let him die.
04:27:32.000So on Twitter, there's some reports on Twitter that say that he's being tended to, that he's been taken to a hospital.
04:27:39.000There's also, and I don't know if you can confirm this for us or not, but there's a report that he stabbed somebody immediately prior to that scene where he's running around and you can see him go after a kid with a skateboard.
04:27:54.000So I did the whole police call and I had to, a guy did get caught on his hand, like a gash, but it wasn't, nobody was like legitimately stabbed and I had to go around to about 40 people and I had to confirm with them that he was not, that they were not stabbed because the police wanted to know who was injured.
04:28:15.000And besides the gash, there was nobody else seriously injured.
04:28:27.000Yeah, to be honest, you know, I've been up in Portland, I've been up in D.C., been in New York, everywhere where these events are going on.
04:29:29.000Yeah, it really is scary because, like I said, we've sort of been, I don't want to say duped, but we've been watching CNN and having our researcher bring in information from Twitter to contrast it.
04:29:38.000And only now, CNN, because everything is ablaze.
04:29:41.000I mean, I don't think that there's a place in any of these cities where they can point a camera and there won't be violence.
04:29:46.000But they haven't talked about Dallas at all.
04:29:49.000They've mainly been focusing on, I think, I don't know what's up right now.
04:30:32.000Sorry, we heard at Elijah Schaefer and then you froze.
04:30:34.000If you could just finish that because I want to make sure you get it in there.
04:30:37.000Yeah, so at Elijah Schaffer, that's E-L-I-J-A-H-S-C-H-A-F-F-E-R on Twitter, but also just make sure you gotta go subscribe to that YouTube channel.
04:30:47.000We have about a hundred protest videos and there's this full coverage, completely synopsis, with all unedited, uncut footage.
04:30:55.000It's gonna air on Monday at youtube.com slash Okay, absolutely, and I appreciate you doing the work that Don Lemon isn't doing.
04:31:04.000Does anyone else here... I want to just make sure that if anyone in this room has some questions because, you know, I thought this was going to be a bit... I thought I was going to see someone with a mustache in a kiddie pool with alligators, but that's next week.
04:31:45.000It really is like drinking from a fire hose.
04:31:46.000And so, we know that we can't count on places like CNN, and frankly, Fox News in a lot of ways, because most of it is just editorializing.
04:31:54.000And I say this, the irony's not lost on me, that I'm an entertainer, I editorialize, but I do need to rely on people who are hopefully providing accurate information, and it's becoming more and more difficult.
04:32:04.000So, Mr. Schaefer, thank you so much, brother, and please do be safe.
04:32:21.000Right after the machete gun thing happened, the protesters broke up and immediately went back to smashing windows, and they broke right into the American Prime Minister.
04:33:23.000I know you guys obviously want to get the story, but we are at a point, as you said, this is a different level, and I want to make sure... I don't want to make sure I'm not your dad, but I would like to know that you guys are safe, because the last thing I want to see is somebody else beaten within an inch of their life here at these protests.
04:33:40.000Um, and I know it's tough for me to say because we rely on you, but I also don't want to see you guys hurt, so do keep us posted, and I really appreciate you guys calling in.
04:34:18.000And keep in mind, I may even have seen this guy before, but my monitor's pretty small and it's a little bit grainy, so if I know him or should know him, please don't be offended.
04:34:25.000Everything's a little bit tough for me to hear and decipher.
04:34:29.000Contrasting what they're showing on scene, and though now, to be fair, it seems like they're showing a little bit more of the violence, that's just because it's at the point where it's totally undeniable.
04:34:51.000You get $20 off if you want to join Mug Club.
04:34:53.000We will not be doing a show Monday morning.
04:34:56.000We'll be back here Tuesday because, well, we've done four shows and some change here tonight.
04:35:04.000What's your major takeaway here tonight, Gerald?
04:35:07.000The major takeaway is something that we always knew is that CNN is not a very reliable place to get your news for this type of stuff.
04:35:13.000And quite frankly, neither is Twitter and neither is Facebook.
04:35:16.000You've got to confirm the information that you're getting online to really understand what's really going on.
04:35:22.000And I think the point that he made, and I don't know that I was willing to concede this until seeing this tonight, this is at a different level.
04:36:31.000And they should be more sensitive to their municipalities.
04:36:33.000So there can be an argument to be made in Los Angeles where they say, well, we believe that our Los Angeles County Police Department is corrupt.
04:36:39.000You know, kind of like Chicago, their police department in a lot of ways.
04:36:44.000But you tell me, what does the police department in Grand Rapids, how does looting in Grand Rapids have anything to do with what happened with Mr. Floyd?
04:36:58.000Yeah, well and how many more Reginald Dennys do we need to create?
04:37:01.000How many more collateral damage victims of this one crime that happened?
04:37:06.000How many more victims do you need to create before you'll feel like Justice has been served in your eyes.
04:37:10.000How many more people have to be beaten and stoned and stabbed and shot and dragged away
04:37:30.000I mean, it's in all, like you said, it's in all cities.
04:37:33.000It's just kind of shocking that it's still around.
04:37:35.000I don't think it was bubbling beneath the surface.
04:37:37.000I think there's bubbling beneath the surface obviously anytime there's injustice, but I don't think this is something necessarily coming to a head.
04:37:45.000I think a lot of this is, and I don't necessarily believe that George Soros has bust people into every single one of these places.
04:37:50.000Now I think that a lot of people are coming in from out of state, but I think the simplest explanation is usually the most likely, in that People see an opportunity to get free shit, and then they want to mask it under the guise of social activism.
04:38:04.000Because if this was really bubbling beneath the surface and people really wanted to affect change, this isn't how they would do it.
04:38:12.000Because it's not how change has ever been.
04:38:14.000It's not how change has ever been affected.
04:38:46.000Yeah, I think we're seeing that we have a large cultural anxiety that everyone's feeling, and it Obviously, for the last few months, it's been about COVID.
04:39:01.000Somebody's found some kind of way of being panicked about something.
04:39:04.000And this absolutely is a little bit easier to aim at one person, this event.
04:39:10.000And so now what we have is essentially People recognize that when somebody does something like this, there has to be punishment, and it's just that people don't know what to do with it.
04:39:23.000Because, again, you can't be satisfied with one person being fired.
04:39:28.000People recognize that there has to be some kind of justice or some kind of retaliation for this, but people don't know what the fair system for that is.
04:39:36.000People are confused as to what to do with that feeling of something wrong has happened.
04:39:40.000And then it's very easy to misguide them.
04:39:56.000You know, a lot of them are still under the impression that the cop just went out and killed a black person because he wanted to lynch one that day.
04:40:31.000I think that, first off, no individual is responsible for eroding institutions Spreading trust in institutions, I should say, where trust is not warranted.
04:40:41.000I think if nothing else tonight, and I know people are not, this is not going to be a popular opinion, people should have a lot of mistrust in some of the institutions out there.
04:41:16.000I think another example, and this is something that a lot of maybe conservatives might not like me for, but I understand the context, where people talk about back the blue, and we do support men and women in uniform, both soldiers, police officers, absolutely, but not blindly, and I think it's warranted to criticize cops who act outside of their purview, as we saw from everything that we know thus far, with Derek Chauvin, is that his name?
04:41:40.000These same people, the media, again an institution that you really can't trust, and that's not because of Donald Trump, it's, you know, believe your lying eyes and ears, they've told you that you don't need guns.
04:41:50.000That you don't need more than ten rounds.
04:41:52.000How often have you heard, like, why do you need... Joe Biden.
04:42:02.000You think you're gonna stand a chance in hell if these people try and loot your building?
04:42:06.000So, these institutions that you can't trust, like the media, they parrot these tropes, these lies that you should trust, these other, not necessarily institutions, but narratives that I think now people know they also can't trust.
04:42:26.000The National Guard can't protect Americans right now.
04:42:29.000The military can't go in and protect Americans.
04:42:32.000Something else, you know, when people say, They say, oh, hold on a second, you think that you, with your AR-15, you think you're going to take on the American military?
04:42:41.000Well, people thwarted them today with bricks.
04:42:45.000Because unless you want to have a nuclear wasteland, right, with a tyrannical government who's willing to eliminate all of their resources, guess what?
04:42:52.000Any kind of a civil war, and I'm not saying we're in a civil war right now, though I think these people are trying to instigate one, without a mission in mind, that's what's really scary.
04:43:10.000An armed population is a more civil population.
04:43:14.000I think there's a reason that a lot of these people are going into businesses where they know folks are not, especially when you talk about Dallas.
04:43:58.000And I think right now it's a little too late.
04:44:00.000I think right now in this specific scenario, unfortunately, it's too late.
04:44:03.000The cops have to do what the cops have to do.
04:44:06.000And I don't blame them, and I hope they act with as much restraint as they possibly can.
04:44:11.000But I think that we see this right now is not only is Donald Trump or conservatives, they're not the ones who are responsible for the erosion in institutions, it's the institutions themselves.
04:44:20.000And the most important, I guess the most glaring failure is the institution of media.
04:44:26.000These are the people who tell you, you don't need those guns.
04:44:30.000Well, I think tonight people who want to protect their families understand that they do need those guns.
04:44:44.000I'm seeing a lot of black officers and I'm seeing a lot of white faces out there.
04:44:48.000Almost everything that we have been told is a lie and the people who proactively peddle lies cannot then turn around and blame someone for pointing out that they are lying.
04:45:02.000Be that Donald Trump Or YouTube and Twitter trying to do it with everyone in this room.