Who loves the riots？ Who loves calling you “racist？” I'll show you.
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Who loves the Riots and who loves calling them racist? I ll tell you who I think is to blame for the riots in America, and how Donald Trump is reacting to them, including video from a witness in one of the riot hotspots in Los Angeles.
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Hello, Rebels. Today, I give you an update on the riots in America that I think are coordinated.
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I don't think they're organic or spontaneous. And we go into depth about how Donald Trump
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almost alone is reacting to them. Lots of video clips, lots of interesting ideas,
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including from Joel Pollack, who's in one of the riot hotspots of L.A.
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Tonight, who loves the riots and who loves calling you racist? I'll show you. It's June 2nd,
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and this is the Ezra Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon
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consumer I know? There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have
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to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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So much is going on these days. The world is changing. At least it seems that way. It's hard
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to tell. Is the world changing more than it usually does? Or is it just our perception based on the
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media and especially social media? The riots across America do feel unprecedented, at least in our
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generation. The looting in Manhattan seems particularly unusual. New York City, one of the best police
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forces in the world, I think. It's rare that they lose control of the streets like this, but they are
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not being backed by their mayor or their governor. Andrew Cuomo botched the coronavirus pandemic.
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He has by far the largest death toll in America, and it was precisely because he ordered seniors'
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homes to take in contagious patients. He literally sent six people, sorry, sick people into seniors'
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homes. In fact, he made it illegal for them to be turned away. But he's seen as a counterweight to
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Trump, so the media hailed him, including his brother, Chris Cuomo, who works for CNN.
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At first, I enjoyed their brotherly banter. In the early days, I thought it was pretty funny.
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I called mom. I called mom just before I came on this show. By the way, she said I was her favorite.
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She never said that. Good news is, she said you were her second favorite.
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Second favorite son, Christopher. No. We both know neither of us are mom's first or second favorite
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in the family. I can't believe you're lying to my audience. You've blown the credibility
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the entire interview. I should have ended it before. Second favorite son. Listen to the words.
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Listen to the words. Politicians are very tricky. That stuff was funny, but after Andrew Cuomo's
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decision led directly to the death of thousands of New Yorkers, that Cuomo Brothers Ringling Circus
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was a bit less funny. Still, the governor was the anti-Trump, so he'll be fine in the media.
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Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, briefly ran for Democrat president, too, but never cracked
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one percent in the polls. So he quit in humiliation, and he spent the pandemic writing a series of
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bizarre tweets all targeting New York's Jewish community for special enforcement. There was
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no gatherings order. Really? He just wouldn't stop talking about the Jews and how he was threatening
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to send police to arrest the Jews. I guess the Jews are the big crime problem in New York City.
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So Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo, they both despise Donald Trump, but neither is particularly
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good at doing their own jobs. But that suits the purposes of the media party. Even if the bad news
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on the virus or the riots is created by Democrat mayors and Democrat police chiefs and Democrat
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governors in Democrat states, it redounds to the discredit of Donald Trump as president.
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Trump has almost begged Democrat governors to call in the National Guard to put down the riots,
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but they don't want to do so. It's against their ideology to begin with. They don't believe in
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cracking down on crime. And it's against their political interests right now. They would literally
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rather see their own cities burn than see Trump reelected. And they think national chaos hurts
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Trump more than it hurts them. After all, that's sort of the package when it comes to blue states and
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blue cities. Reminder, here's Philadelphia's liberal mayor cheering about declaring the city a
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sanctuary city. That means a place that will not deport illegal immigrants, even criminals.
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Yeah, lawlessness and disorder isn't regarded as a bug with these guys. It's a feature. It's
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a campaign promise. I saw this very sad news clip about riots and looting in Los Angeles,
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City of Angels. It made me sad, but really, didn't California vote for precisely this? Sanctuary
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cities where the law is not upheld, banning firearms for law-abiding citizens,
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anti-capitalist ideology, and racial grievances.
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I'm Jonathan Vigliotti in Southern California, the site of some of the worst looting in America.
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This is a sushi store here. You can see the chairs were thrown around, even the computers ripped off.
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And here we have a jewelry store. So across the street, we've got the Patagonia. What you're
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seeing is people of all ages, all backgrounds, helping themselves, using Black Lives Matters as
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the reason it is throughout Santa Monica. So wait, guys, why are you doing this? Are you part of
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Black Lives Matters? Or are you just surfers? What do you do, guys?
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Eventually, police moved in. Santa Monica officials say there were 400 arrests and claim 95% were
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outsiders. Police Chief Cynthia Renault says the looters took advantage of the peaceful protesters.
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There are opportunists. The National Guard helped control the crowds. There was also
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common ground. But it can't undo the damage done. Dr. Alice Sun and Daniel Sholand run sunny optometry.
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The couple saw their business ransacked on the eve of finally reopening their doors. COVID had kept
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their patients away for nearly three months. Never in a million years did we think it would happen to
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us. There are life savings in here that just got destroyed. Yeah, sorry. I feel terrible for those
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people, but I think that's what they voted for. It's not particularly an American phenomenon in
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general. It's a blue state, Democrat state phenomenon. There have been some moments like
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that in places like Dallas. And I saw about 30 seconds of that sort of thing in Salt Lake City,
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Utah. But it's pretty much the Democrat-run cities. Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C.,
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LA. Not a lot of riots in South Dakota or Wyoming. I wouldn't try rioting in most parts of Texas either.
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I don't know if you remember the attempted mass shooting in the Texas church that was stopped by
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one of the congregants who was actually a firearms instructor. But if you look at the security camera
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footage, you can see several other congregants who were just a few seconds behind that one hero,
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all pulling their guns out of their holsters, pockets, and purses at the same time too.
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That can't happen in a state without the right to carry firearms. So those Democrat states,
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they won't let you protect yourself. They won't protect you either, like in Minneapolis,
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where the mayor actually ordered police to retreat and surrender and give up their police station. And
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they refuse to allow Trump to send in reinforcements like the National Guard. They
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really do want the world to burn. Washington, D.C. is a unique situation because it's in a unique
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jurisdiction. It's not part of a state. It's called the District of Columbia. It has a left-wing
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Democrat mayor, of course. But there are lots of local police forces that work together, including
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the Secret Service and the Capitol Hill Police. And yesterday, they put on a bit of a show of force.
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There's a park right across the street from the White House called Lafayette Park.
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That's the site of so much rioting two nights ago. Just arson, riot, assault, complete anarchy.
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Yesterday afternoon, the president literally walked out the front gates of the White House and walked
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on the street to the nearby church that had been vandalized and attempted to be torched by the mob.
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Trump was on the street. He wasn't hiding away. He wasn't in a bulletproof vehicle. He was showing
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he was boss. And he held up a Bible. Why? Well, lots of reasons. One is because the rule of the mob,
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the law, the jungle, chaos, anarchy, whatever. That's not America's creed. It's not how America
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works. It's not what America is built on. Books and laws and moral codes. Not the lack thereof.
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Trump has said many sympathetic things about the killing of George Floyd. Sympathetic towards George
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Floyd, of course. The black man in Minneapolis. I don't think there's a single person in all of
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America, in any party, of any ideological stripe, who supports the killing of that man. I just haven't
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seen one. And I don't think there's a single person in all of America, except Democrats in the media
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party who say that these riots and the looting is anything to do with racial justice or even
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that one particular killing. Certainly, George Floyd's brother doesn't support the riots.
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It's a lot of us. It's a lot of us. And we're still going to do this peacefully.
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Because that's when we're going to get them, because we're going to fool them.
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They think we're going to do this. They think we're going to do something,
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and we're going to switch it on them. Let's switch it up, y'all. Let's switch it up.
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Yeah. Amen. Do this peacefully, please. But Justin Trudeau thinks this is the time to give us racial
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lessons. That's right. The prime minister who has worn blackface so many times that he's lost count.
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He says that we're racist too, and we have so much to learn. Learn from him, I presume,
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because whenever he condemns Canada, he never includes himself in that. He's the solution.
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You see, we're the problem. We all watch in horror and consternation what's going on in the United
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States. It is a time to pull people together, but it is a time to listen. It is a time to learn
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what injustices continue despite progress over years and decades. But it is a time for us as Canadians
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to recognize that we too have our challenges, that black Canadians and racialized Canadians
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face discrimination as a lived reality every single day. There is systemic discrimination in Canada,
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which means our systems treat Canadians of color, Canadians who are racialized differently than they
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do others. Yeah, no thanks. Not sure I'm going to take a lecture on race from Trudeau or the rest of
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his cabinet that not only accepted his blackface repeatedly, but stayed silent as he fired the first
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Aboriginal justice minister in history because she didn't want to go along with his corrupt scheme
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on behalf of a Quebec corporate donor called SNC Lavalin. Canada has our problems. We have our
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coronavirus seniors homes too. Our prime minister is still laughably self-hiding. Our media is still
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laughably covering for him. Our country is blessed from being free of many of the racial legacies of
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the United States because we were part of the British Empire that abolished slavery centuries ago.
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We were the destination of the Underground Railroad for the U.S. slaves. We don't have
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national penance to do. But that makes it all the more perfect for Trudeau. To him,
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the perfect apology is one that he himself claims to have done nothing wrong personally, but he blames
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Canadians and others for some woke failure. And he offers himself up as the salvation.
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And the media party up here, bored to tears with Trudeau's two months of blather,
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they're only too happy to go along with it because really, it's all about bashing Trump, isn't it?
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One thing that people may want to consider is that, of course, wearing a mask is important, but shouting
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and making really loud sort of projections can potentially increase the risk. And so, you know,
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I might want to choose other means of showing or messaging, whether it be signage or making noise
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using other instruments, for example. It's just to consider that, you know, shouting and that type
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of behavior can potentially project more droplets. What a laugh. I can't believe she's still talking
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and that the media party still treats her seriously. Oh, sorry, that's probably racist to say too.
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Stay with us for an in-depth interview with Joel Pollack next.
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We have a great country. That's my thoughts. The greatest country in the world. Great.
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump standing in front of St. John's Church.
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He physically walked over to the church from the White House itself. He didn't drive over in his
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bulletproof limo, the Beast as its nickname. He walked over, flanked by lots of Secret Service and
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other police. A bold statement, I thought, that he was not going to concede the ground. As our next
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guest says, there's that leftist chance, whose streets? Our streets. Whose streets? Our streets.
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Well, Donald Trump answered that question and he held up a book. What was the symbolism
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of that book and the march? Well, joining us now to talk about it is our friend Joel Pollack,
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senior editor at large at Breitbart.com. Joel, great to see you again. What did you make of the
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symbology there, of the symbolism of the march, not the drive, and standing in front of a church holding
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up a Bible? What did that all mean? Well, it was electrifying and I think it'll be remembered as one
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of the most impressive moments of Donald Trump's presidency. In the face of all of the hostility,
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the protest, the unrest, he walked right out of the White House through Lafayette Park, which if you've
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been to the White House is where visitors and protesters typically stand when they want to take
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photographs. He walked right out through that park and then crossed the street and stood in front of
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the church, which had been burned partially by a mob rioting the night before, and he held the Bible.
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And in my mind, it was reminding the country what the source of our community really is.
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What is the source of our republic? It's a constitution, and it's also the Judeo-Christian
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idea of morality, the difference between right and wrong, that underlies that constitution. But even if
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you're not part of that Judeo-Christian tradition, you don't believe in any of that stuff, we're a
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civilization based on the word, based on a covenant at least among each other. And that's what he was
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doing. He was saying, this is what we're all about. It was almost one of those break the glass moments
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in case of social emergency. He rebooted the republic in a way. It felt like he was going back to the
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source code and saying to people, this is who we are. This is what we believe in. We are the people of
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the book. We're the people of many books, but ultimately we're the people founded on a belief
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that there is right and there is wrong, and our purpose on earth is to pursue the good. And it was such
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a powerful gesture. You see the opinion polls starting to come in about what people want to see done
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about the National Guard or the military. Overwhelmingly, the American people want the president to bring
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in the National Guard. There's also a majority of Americans and a plurality of Democrats who want
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the president to bring in the military. But you're not seeing that reflected in the media. Our media
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are 100 percent on the side of the protesters slash rioters, and they are quite happy to see
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unrest if they think it might help remove Donald Trump from office. Indeed, that's the tone of much of
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the commentary that wouldn't it be better if Donald Trump weren't president? Donald Trump is somehow
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to blame for this, even though this all started under Obama. Go back to Occupy Wall Street, go back
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to Trayvon Martin, go back to Black Lives Matter. It all started under Obama. But wouldn't it be great
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if Trump wasn't president? And can we blame him for this somehow? And by showing that he's taking
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decisive action, that he's willing to take responsibility for it, and by showing that he
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stands with the country's principles. I mean, they burned a church. You know, it's unbelievable.
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That's not all, by the way. Here in Los Angeles, when the protest, quote unquote, was happening on
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Saturday, the protest at that point was completely inseparable from the looting and the rioting. There
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are protests where they've been separated at least by a street or two. But in the Saturday protest,
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there really was no separation. And the procession marched through a very Jewish area of Los Angeles
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and vandalized synagogues. And they wrote things like Free Palestine and F Israel on the side of
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Temple Beth Israel in the Fairfax area of Los Angeles. They ransacked kosher stores. They destroyed
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stores of people I know in the Jewish community. They destroyed stores over here in Santa Monica
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of minority-owned businesses, other people I know. They graffitied the public library. You know,
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it's unbelievable. It's not a war on racism. It's a war against civilization. And I have no patience
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anymore for the people who say, well, that's the rioters. Those are the looters. That's not part of
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the peaceful protest. I understand that subjectively, that is in terms of how they feel, most of the
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people who showed up to the protests believe they're doing the right thing. They feel good about
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it. They want to say something. But not every peaceful protest is lawful. The reason we ask people
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to apply for permits before they have a protest is so that it can be done safely. And if you're going
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to occupy a lot of space, you're going to take up a lot of space. You're going to have a march.
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You're going to disrupt traffic. You're going to inconvenience other people. We all live in a
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community. And you get to say whatever you want if you're by yourself on a sidewalk. But if you're
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going to bring a large group of people to say it in front of my lawn, we have to have some ground rules
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so that we can all go back to our lives. So we have this permitting process where you coordinate with
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local government and with the police to make sure everything is safe and everybody who wants to be
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heard can be heard. That's not going on. You just have people calling protests, showing up somewhere,
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and then they say peaceful protest, peaceful protest. But what they do is they're diverting
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law enforcement to protect them and their right to protest because they do have a right to protest,
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even though a bit of a stretch to say they can do it whenever and wherever they want. But anyway,
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they're diverting police resources while the looters go one block over and start ransacking the stores
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and fighting people and knocking people out, and in some cases shooting people.
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That's happened now a couple of times. So I have no patience for it because in the old days of
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community organizing, I mean, imagine that, organizing a protest. In the old days,
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you had responsibility for making sure that there was good behavior on the part of the participants.
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You also were there to ferret out any provocateurs who might have slipped in among the protests and might
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have tried to cause problems. That was part of what organizing a protest was about. Somehow our
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community organizers today lack that training. They don't have those skills or the will to do it.
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They just leave public order up to the police. Meanwhile, the looters come in convoys and they
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start smashing the plate glass of the store windows. I think that this is going to be
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in a sad way good for the president because we shouldn't have had to go through this.
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Joe Biden gave a speech Tuesday morning where he criticized the police. He condemned the violence,
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but he also criticized the police. He actually accused the police of escalating the tensions,
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which is nonsense, absolute nonsense. I mean, where I live, the police retreated on every front
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until the National Guard arrived. The police allowed the looting to happen. They did not want to be caught
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on camera, beating a protester or shooting someone. They did not want to give any opportunity for the
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protesters to catch them actually doing their jobs for which they will now be fired. And so the police
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retreated everywhere. So the idea that the police escalated the tensions is nonsense. It's an illusion
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that comes from the New York Times. The New York Times printed an article after Sunday's violence in which they said
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the police had, in a sense, instigated the violence because the police responded with force. They arrested
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people who did bad things. They arrested hundreds of people in Santa Monica, for example, as part of that
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unlawful protest because they wouldn't move and they were blocking a major intersection. Well, they didn't
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arrest the looters a couple blocks over. Maybe they should have arrested the looters instead of the protesters,
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but you can't really distinguish anymore when there's no organization. So I feel that the
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president will come out of this ahead. Joe Biden has taken the wrong tack. Biden's staff actually
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put together money to bail out some of the protesters who were arrested in Minneapolis,
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one of whom at least was looting a store. I don't know if that's directly one of the ones the Biden
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people bailed out, but a lot of these Hollywood celebrities and left-wing politicians have been
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bailing people out. And that's one of the people they sprung from jail evidently. So they're on the
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wrong side of this in the worst way. And the polling is about to hit them and they're going to try to
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backtrack on this. But what the real problem is here is that you've destroyed these retail businesses
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in inner cities, some of which took decades to begin a revival. And under Trump, we saw black
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unemployment dropped to the lowest level ever. Black unemployment, black people finding jobs,
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rising by the hundreds of thousands. And inner cities were coming back to life after the decay
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of the Great Recession, after the riots of the 1960s, from which they've never recovered really.
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And those retail businesses then had to stay out of business, had to stay closed for two months because
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of coronavirus. They just opened some of them, and now they've been destroyed. And people are not
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going to feel safe shopping there. And investors, business owners are not going to want to invest in
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neighborhoods, urban neighborhoods in general. I mean, we saw Manhattan. Union Square, which is
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pretty white in Manhattan, trashed last night. And it's just a complete disaster in black and Hispanic
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neighborhoods. Nobody is going to put up a store anymore when you know it can be attacked for no reason
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whatsoever. And I hope that's not true, but that's how it feels. So I think that it's possible, I hope it's not
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the case. But I think it's possible that the riots have set back the black community in the United
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States economically 20 years. I think that's the damage we've seen. And I blame the white left for
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it. If I can use a racial term, I blame the notion of white privilege and the white-dominated leadership
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of Antifa, which has been handing out bricks to black protesters. They've actually been caught on camera
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doing this, which has operated a highly sophisticated organization and which has only now been declared
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a domestic terrorist organization by the Department of Justice. But I blame them for promoting this idea
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that white privilege is the problem. You know, when you say that white privilege is the problem,
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the only people who can undo white privilege are white people. So you basically put white people
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in the driver's seat. So ironically, this whole idea of white privilege and white supremacy
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makes these white leftists more powerful within these movements that are supposedly
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representing the interests of blacks and minorities and so forth. And this self-indulgence of our
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elite, largely white elite, has destroyed the black community, has destroyed the economy
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in black neighborhoods. And yet it's covered all up in this veneer of social justice by our media.
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The only person standing for law and order in this country right now is President Donald Trump. And
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Americans are seeing that. And it's hitting home because people are starting to see what's happening
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in their neighborhoods. Here in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, boarded up stores. Businesses forced to close.
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People forced to stay home from work again. It was incredible to drive around yesterday afternoon
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and see how many businesses at once were boarding up their stores. So this is the failure of the left.
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It's a partnership that the left have with the media and the Democrats. They're determined to get
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rid of Donald Trump. They don't see that not only they're making his election or re-election more
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likely, but they're also hurting the people they claim to be helping. The devastation this has caused
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to the African-American community is right now incalculable and we'll only know maybe decades hence.
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That is so sad, Joel, but I can't disagree with a single word you've just said. I want to ask you about
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something. I saw a tweet by Bernard Carrick, the former police commissioner of New York City,
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or commissioner or the top cop basically of New York City. He's become a conservative pundit.
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And he showed a map of all the Antifa riots in America. And he basically said this is an enormous
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effort of organization, communication, planning, execution. He looked at it like a top cop would say,
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well, if I were to do that, I would need lieutenants and captains and logistics. Now,
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I don't know if it's quite that organized or if it's like birds going into formation somewhat
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instinctively. I mean, it may be in every community. Someone said, oh, tonight's the night.
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They went to some Facebook pages and Twitter pages and said, OK, we know what to do. We know the drill.
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So I don't know if he's right. If this is a masterminded nationwide plan or if it's more a
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bunch of known wolves, lone wolves say up time to time to mask up and get some weapons. I mean,
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I noticed that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had an Instagram post where she cautioned people to wear
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black clothing, cover their tattoos, hide their identities. That was crazy. I guess my question for
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you is, is this organized? Is there some mastermind or is it just like a counterculture that
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has muscle memory from the last time they protested?
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Well, I do think there's a lot of organization behind it. The media have been able to get away with
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the idea that this is not a real threat because there's no central organization and so forth. But
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I don't think that's true. The fact that they've been declared a terrorist organization gives the
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FBI new tools to investigate their finances. And I think that's really the key. You can't run this
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kind of organization without money. And some of them are trust fund babies who don't need money. But
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you've got to buy all of this equipment. You've got to invest in some of the technology they're using
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to communicate with one another. So follow the money. They're going to find the money trail.
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They're going to find out who's donating to this group or these organizations. They're going to find
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out where it's coming from. I'm imagining there'll be some domestic donations, maybe some crime involved.
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I would not be surprised if some of the money were coming from abroad. And I say that only because China
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has been trying very hard to hack into American system for quite some time. And if it turns out
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that it is some sort of foreign adversary that's funding some of this stuff for their own reasons,
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and why wouldn't they? Because China is obviously very excited about the unrest in the United States.
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They like taking the attention away from what they're doing to Hong Kong.
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I wouldn't be surprised. And I think it's going to become very interesting. I also think we will know.
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I think once the FBI has the tools it needs to treat this organization like the terror organization it is,
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I think we'll start to find out what the real story is.
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I'm very sad to see it. I mean, I don't know all of these communities, but I know a little bit of LA,
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and I know a little bit of New York, a little bit of Washington. And I mean, I'm up here in Toronto,
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Canada. There's an attempt at copycat riots up here, even though we have a totally different history.
00:29:32.000
As regards to blacks, we were the destination of the Underground Railroad. We were part of the
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British Empire when they outlawed slavery and sent their Navy to stop the slave ships.
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There's such an eagerness amongst the left in Canada to duplicate the protests and even the riots.
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There was a guitar store smashed and looted in Montreal. How that connects to a
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police issue in Minnesota is unknown to me. It makes me sad. It makes me scared. I can only
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imagine what it's like to be in these cities. I don't know. You've got an economic slowdown now.
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You've got racial grievances literally burning cities. Maybe this is someone hitting the panic
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button. We've got to do anything to dislodge Trump and chaos is the way. Glenn Beck would say this is
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the chaos strategy that they've been planning for years. Do you think this is witting or do you think
00:30:30.320
this is just... I don't know. I'm trying to make sense of what's going on. I think... I could only
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speculate, but there are some people I think who would like to see the world burn. Bill Maher himself on
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HBO said he'd like a recession to get rid of Trump. He was happy to have pain on tens of millions of
00:30:49.760
Americans if it meant Trump was out. Bill Maher is just a pundit. He's not an organizer or a billionaire
00:30:55.200
financier. I don't know. I wouldn't put this past a George Soros who has literally bankrolled civil wars
00:31:00.960
in other countries before. Yeah, I think there's something to that. I definitely think that the
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Democrats are trying to exploit it. There's no attempt at national unity coming together. I just
00:31:14.480
see that they're starting to fight amongst themselves. You have Andrew Cuomo, the governor
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of New York, who had time to go on CNN on Monday night, but not time to supervise his state where
00:31:23.680
Manhattan was ransacked by the mob. He's fighting now with Bill de Blasio, the Democrat socialist
00:31:29.520
governor or mayor of New York City. They hate each other anyway, but they can't even seem to pull it
00:31:33.440
together to save life, property, the economy of their state. I wouldn't put it past them. I do
00:31:39.680
think, though, that this is bigger than Trump. This is older than Trump. This has started a long time
00:31:43.520
ago. And you can go back to the 60s and all of that. But the person who—and I'm going to borrow
00:31:50.320
a phrase from Joe Biden here—Joe Biden attacked Trump and said that he's knocking down the guardrails
00:31:54.560
around our democracy. If you actually study Trump's record on the Constitution, Trump has followed the
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Constitution incredibly closely. There's only one case he's lost at the Supreme Court. He lost five
00:32:07.040
for a very close decision on whether he could ask about citizenship in the census. Everything else,
00:32:11.920
from the immigration policy to the border wall to you name it, Trump has won. Trump has operated
00:32:19.600
strictly within the constitutional limits. Unlike Obama, Obama simply decided to do whatever the heck
00:32:25.600
he wanted to do if Congress wouldn't bow to his will. And I can list so many examples from the Iran deal,
00:32:31.120
which never went to the Senate, and on and on and on. Obama did whatever he wanted to do,
00:32:37.520
even though he knew things were unconstitutional, like he created new immigration policy, the DAPA
00:32:41.680
program, even though he'd said 22 times he couldn't do it because it was against the Constitution.
00:32:45.920
So the guardrails were kicked out by Barack Obama. And the reason that's important, even though,
00:32:52.160
you know, obviously the left didn't start with Obama, but the reason it was important with Obama is that
00:32:57.200
Obama was our first African-American president. He was elected also during a moment of profound
00:33:02.080
economic and social crisis. He had the goodwill of the entire country behind him. And instead of
00:33:08.400
using that to build a foundation, Obama used it to divide the country further. He became a partisan
00:33:14.160
politician who used the White House and the federal budget to dole out patronage to Democratic clients,
00:33:20.800
to public sector unions, to big blue state governments. He never grew the economy rapidly,
00:33:26.400
told the rest of us we just had to get used to decline, never stood up to China. In other words,
00:33:32.160
he'd never developed an idea of the national interest. For Obama, it was always about the left's
00:33:37.360
interest. And he wasn't even that interested in that in a personal way because he's actually quite lazy.
00:33:43.920
He is an elitist who prefers his $15 million home on Martha's Vineyard to actually doing something
00:33:51.920
positive or difficult, maybe, but positive with his influence, with his career, with his record to
00:33:56.640
help American poverty or help the African-American community or whatever. He's just not doing it.
00:34:01.200
He's not there. He shows up in these moments of political crisis to utter a few cryptic words on
00:34:06.240
Twitter. That's it. So it was Obama who started breaking down these guardrails.
00:34:11.920
He trampled the Constitution. He backed the Occupy Wall Street movement. He fomented this
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ridiculous unrest in the Black Lives Matter uprising in 2014, which was all based on a lie.
00:34:22.800
Now you have a real case, something people should be outraged about, which is what happened
00:34:27.200
in Minneapolis. But Minneapolis is a left-wing city. It's a progressive blue city in a blue state.
00:34:33.840
This is a crisis of democratic governance, not small d, democratic, large d, democratic party.
00:34:39.680
And Obama's message is go out and vote. That's literally what his message is. We can make a
00:34:43.920
difference if we vote. He means vote for Democrats, the same people who caused the problem. And I'm not
00:34:48.880
saying these are easy problems to solve, but these are the people who've been in charge of these cities
00:34:52.720
for so long. So, you know, the guardrails of our democracy were kicked aside by the Obama administration.
00:35:02.080
And that in some ways, I believe, has led us to this point. It doesn't mean everything Obama did
00:35:07.040
was bad. It doesn't mean he can't have a positive contribution also. But the norm breaking began then.
00:35:13.280
And what Trump is doing is restoring norms. And to people who've been raised on the idea
00:35:17.920
of entitlement or that white privilege is the problem and all this nonsense,
00:35:21.200
fighting back is so strange and alien to them. Restoring, you know, I saw a report, you probably
00:35:30.640
are all over it already, but the Associated Press reported about an hour ago that Justin Trudeau was
00:35:35.920
asked about what's going on in the States. And he was silent for 21 seconds while he tried to find an
00:35:41.360
answer. And that to me says it all. Trump is the man of action. He walks across a park, holds up a Bible,
00:35:48.240
and sends in the National Guard. And Trudeau can't find words for 21 seconds. We have that problem
00:35:53.520
here. You know, they're calling Trump holding up a Bible a photo op. When Obama gave a speech about
00:35:59.520
race where he threw his grandmother under the bus to defend his racist pastor, they didn't call that
00:36:04.240
a photo op. They called it a speech on the par of Abraham Lincoln. Our media are turning us against
00:36:09.280
each other. And Trump is doing something to help solve that. You know, in a sense, he's occupying this
00:36:16.160
role. I'm borrowing from Victor Davis Hanson here, but it's almost like a Greek heroic role,
00:36:21.840
deeply unappreciated by his society, but performing a task only he can complete.
00:36:26.640
Yeah. You know what? I think you're right on that. I think Victor Davis Hanson's right on that.
00:36:30.720
And let me just say in closing, Joel, first of all, thank you for your time. I really much,
00:36:34.640
I really enjoyed your essay. Let me just put it on the screen for viewers. It's called
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Why Trump's Walk Across Lafayette Park, Holding Bible Aloft by St. John's Church,
00:36:44.160
were crucial. I really appreciated that essay. But let me just say a word in defense
00:36:50.320
of Justin Trudeau. And that's very rare for me. I think he was stoned.
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I think he's just on marijuana. Look, for two months, he's been self-quarantining for two months
00:37:03.920
at a house. Just no doctors or orders, no reason. Pandemic's over. Just for two months,
00:37:09.520
he's been in a house. So I think he just plays video games and smokes pot. And I know you're
00:37:15.120
probably thinking I'm joking and having a guffaw, but that's sort of what he's doing,
00:37:19.920
Joel. So don't be too mad at Justin Trudeau. I'm trying to be a lighthearted moment in a very
00:37:28.080
serious talk. By the way, you hear that sound? That sound is an emergency alert,
00:37:33.520
just to give you some idea of what it's like in LA right now. I don't know what the alert is,
00:37:38.640
but we get these little alerts every few hours telling us what the police are doing and
00:37:42.480
when the curfew is. It's terrible. Life in Los Angeles right now. It's terrible. Well,
00:37:47.840
listen, Joel, you've been generous with your time. I learned so much from you as I always do.
00:37:51.760
My comment about Trudeau is a half joke and it's half true. And I agree with you. Donald Trump is
00:37:59.920
a flawed man as are all Greek and biblical heroes. But I think he's absolutely fulfilling a crucial
00:38:07.440
role. I think he really is the essential man, the indispensable man. And I hope he
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succeeds because not just America turns on it. I think so much of the world does too.
00:38:17.920
Thanks, my friend. Good luck down there. Thank you.
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senior editor at largebreitbart.com. Stay with us for a minute.
00:38:33.520
Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about the Antifa riots. Jamie writes,
00:38:37.440
How do you get a pallet of bricks delivered during a lockdown? Yeah, good point. I mean,
00:38:42.160
just organized poof, 40 cities, same night, same tactics. Don't tell me that's organic.
00:38:49.760
Sherry writes, it's interesting to know that the worst of the protests and the most damaging chaos
00:38:54.000
are coming from Democrat controlled cities and states. There seems to be very little effort to
00:38:57.680
control the situation in these areas. They're the same politicians who enacted severe lockdown measures.
00:39:02.640
Hey, that's a good point. Same thing in Toronto, where I have the pleasure of talking to you from.
00:39:10.480
Boy, they were strict on that Trinity Bellwoods Park. They were bringing those little circles
00:39:14.800
where you had to stand $880 fines. But you want to march downtown and talk about racism in Minnesota?
00:39:23.200
Have at it. You know, as Teresa Tam says, just don't shout too loud. That's seriously with her advice.
00:39:28.880
Don writes, follow the money to where this movement is being organized and funded. It's time to clean
00:39:34.240
it out. Yeah, well, hopefully now that Trump has said he's going to treat them like a terrorist
00:39:39.280
organization, they can have new tools for tracing money, wiretaps, things of that sort. Of course,
00:39:44.720
it's a terrorist organization. It meets the definition. Violence and terror to extort a political
00:39:50.800
outcome. That's terrorism. Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here
00:39:56.080
at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.