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00:01:53.000Okay, we're gonna get to everything that is happening in domestic American politics, including the burning of more major American cities.
00:02:00.000As we continue to back the narrative that America is systemically racist and evil, and then watch as people burn down large American cities and small American cities.
00:02:07.000Kenosha is a town of about 100,000 people.
00:02:10.000But here is your quick Hurricane Laura update.
00:02:12.000According to Weather.com, at this hour, Hurricane Laura has now moved inland across Louisiana with damaging winds, flooding rain, and tornadoes after Category 4 landfall.
00:02:20.000This is wind gusts of up to 100 to 135 miles per hour being recorded in southwestern Louisiana.
00:02:26.000According to Weather.com, Hurricane Laura made landfall early Thursday morning and is now tracking northward across western Louisiana with threats of destructive winds, flooding, rainfall, storm surges, and tornadoes.
00:02:36.000Laura made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana at 1 a.m.
00:02:39.000Central Time as a strong Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds.
00:02:43.000This is the first Category 4 landfalling hurricane on record, according to the NOAA.
00:02:48.000Laura is now tracking through western Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane this morning, which is certainly better than a Category 4.
00:02:54.000The hurricane's winds will slowly weaken as it moves further inland toward Arkansas today.
00:02:59.000The winds have knocked out power to more than 600,000 homes and businesses in southeast Texas and Louisiana.
00:03:04.000There was extensive wind damage in Lake Charles, Louisiana, including numerous shattered windows and downtown skyscrapers.
00:03:35.000If you are in the path of this thing and they're telling you to get out of the way, then get out of the way because you don't want to be in the way of this one.
00:03:40.000Okay, meanwhile, the country continues to burn and it continues to burn because there is a narrative and the narrative must be purveyed at all costs.
00:03:48.000It is a narrative pushed by the media.
00:03:49.000It's a narrative pushed by the Democratic Party.
00:03:51.000It is a narrative that America is systemically racist and that every incident caught on film of a white police officer in an altercation with a black citizen stems from America's terrible history of racism.
00:04:04.000This is all rooted in a certain ideology.
00:04:05.000It's an ideology I talk about as disintegrationism in my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, which is now more relevant than ever, unfortunately.
00:04:12.000The philosophy of disintegrationism says that we don't actually share any values.
00:04:15.000All we are are a series of competing interests, a series of competing tribal interests who are unified because we are basically locked in this prison together.
00:04:22.000And therefore, whoever has the power is the person who makes the rules.
00:04:26.000And the only way to rest the power is to use whatever means are at your disposal.
00:04:31.000And we are seeing this take place on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:04:34.000We're seeing this take place in the streets of Minneapolis.
00:04:37.000We're seeing this take place in the halls of power politically and in corporate America.
00:04:42.000And we're seeing the media egg it all on because the media like the narrative.
00:04:44.000The media believe the narrative that America is systemically racist and systemically evil.
00:04:48.000And so they are not going to be concerned with any of the facts of any given situation.
00:05:00.000It now turns out that they found on the floorboards of the car where he was reaching in when he was shot, Jacob Blake, this is the 29-year-old black man who was shot by the police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after the police were called because of a domestic disturbance.
00:05:11.000This is a man who had an open warrant for domestic violence and sexual assault.
00:05:57.000There's an open arrest warrant for a man with a history of violence with police, domestic violence, and sexual assault.
00:06:03.000They actively attempt to arrest him peacefully.
00:06:05.000He resists arrest, throws them off, disobeys orders, goes to the front of his car, reaches inside, and then they found a knife on the floorboards.
00:06:16.000It's amazing, we constantly hear these stories from black parents, particularly in the media, talking about how they have to give the talk to their kids, you know, obey the police because you never know what the police are gonna do.
00:06:24.000First of all, my understanding is that every single person who drives, like when you get your driver's license, you have this particular talk, like in driver's training, they literally tell you, put your hands to 10 and two, obey the orders of the police, don't reach for the glove box.
00:06:36.000I had this talk with my parents and it's not race-based, it's a don't upset the police situation because you don't want the police to shoot you.
00:06:43.000Okay, you're not supposed to reach for the glove box no matter what your race is.
00:06:46.000Unless you are telling the police what exactly is in the glove box, you're supposed to be very careful about how you interact with police in all circumstances.
00:06:53.000But if you're going to name a situation in which the talk didn't work, you cannot name Jacob Blake as such a situation.
00:06:59.000The man disobeyed every single order, he actively resisted arrest, he reached into his car, Into a place the cops apparently could not see.
00:07:17.000So this is a textbook example of a non-prosecutable shooting by a police officer.
00:07:23.000According to the new reports from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Wisconsin Department of Justice Wednesday evening named the officer who shot Jacob Blake and provided additional information about the shooting.
00:07:32.000Blake had a knife on the driver's side floorboard.
00:08:04.000Jacob Blake had knife in car, but was otherwise unarmed, Wisconsin DOJ says, as it releases name of Kenosha officer who shot him in the back.
00:08:13.000Well, he had a knife in the car, but otherwise he was unarmed.
00:08:15.000Well, you know, that night at the theater for Abraham Lincoln, it was, I mean, aside from the shooting, it was otherwise a fairly decent night.
00:08:40.000The headline is so dedicated to the narrative that Jacob Blake was wrongfully shot that they are going to actively downplay one of the key factors in him being shot.
00:08:48.000Namely, disobeying the police and apparently going for a weapon on the driver's side floorboard of the car.
00:08:55.000Okay, so we don't actually know whether he had the knife before that.
00:08:57.000Either he was already walking with the knife and reaching into the car, in which case, still a good shoot.
00:09:01.000Or, he was reaching into the car for the knife, in which case, still a good shoot.
00:09:04.000And by the way, even if there had not been a knife there, when you disobey the cops and you do the specific thing they tell you not to do in the talk, then why are we acting as though this is unjustified?
00:09:20.000So naturally, the Democratic governor of Wisconsin completely failed in his duty to protect the city of Kenosha over the past 72 hours.
00:09:28.000The city of Kenosha burned again last night.
00:09:31.000And over the past 72 hours, we saw this horrible situation where a 17-year-old man, and you are a man by law, you can be tried as a man by law, a 17-year-old man shot three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:09:41.000And the media jumped on this story, not just because there was shooting.
00:09:44.000It was really not just because there was shooting, because there have been shootings at other Black Lives Matter protests and riots and lootings.
00:09:51.000In fact, last count, I think over 30 people have been shot in these various riots and lootings.
00:09:56.000But this one obviously drew national attention because in this particular case, it was a white 17-year-old who shot apparently three other white people, by the way.
00:10:02.000I mean, that's sort of worthwhile mentioning.
00:10:04.000So the three people he shot were white.
00:10:06.000So the media jumped on this particular incident specifically because these were quote-unquote armed militia members who had arrived in Kenosha, Wisconsin in order to defend private property.
00:10:16.000And the person who did the shooting is a guy named Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:10:19.000He's 17 years old and he traveled from Illinois in order to defend private property.
00:10:23.000So many things can be true here at once.
00:10:26.000One, you probably, if you're not an agent for a business in the state of Wisconsin, you cannot just go and defend somebody else's property.
00:10:34.000The way, like, if you're hired as a security guard, you can defend the property and you have all the rights of the owner with regard to the property.
00:10:39.000If you're not an agent of the owner, then you don't have the same rights to protect the owner's property.
00:10:43.000Two, you're allowed to protect your own life.
00:11:11.000And the answer as to why this is happening is because Governor Tony Evers, who is a horrible governor, decided he was not going to call in the National Guard sufficient to quash the rioting and the looting and the violence.
00:11:20.000Because, in the view of so many Democratic mayors and governors of cities, they've decided that it's worthwhile to give people space to let things burn.
00:11:27.000In the famous words of the former Baltimore mayor during the Baltimore riots in 2015.
00:11:51.000When that doesn't happen, you know what happens?
00:11:53.000People start to defend other people's property.
00:11:55.000People start to move in and they start to confront people who are committing active violence and looting.
00:12:00.000In fact, you know the single best example of how violence in communities rises when you remove law enforcement.
00:12:08.000That's what's been happening in these high crime areas.
00:12:10.000A lot of people ask, why is there this great differential in murder rates between blacks and blacks and between whites and whites, for example?
00:12:16.000The murder rate in the black community is about nine times higher, somewhere between seven and nine times higher than in the white community has been for generations at this point.
00:12:23.000Well, the original reason, Thomas Sowell points out, is because white communities basically said to black communities, you're on your own.
00:12:28.000We're not gonna give you police resources.
00:12:30.000And thus, what you ended up with is what you have everywhere, where there is no centralized authority that ensures law and order and support for property rights.
00:12:37.000What you end up with is people gathering to defend themselves and defend their properties and the property of their friends against other human beings.
00:12:44.000Where the mob rules, chaos reigns, as I pointed out yesterday.
00:12:47.000Well, the mob ruled in Wisconsin and chaos reigned in Wisconsin.
00:12:50.000And so it is a perfectly predictable response that you're going to get people who, in vigilante fashion, decide that they're going to go out and protect the private property.
00:13:23.000Senator Chris Murphy, that disgusting human being, in order to generate more of a narrative, Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut, he tweeted out, That is 100% not what happened.
00:13:45.000Doesn't mean the 17 year old should have been out there.
00:13:47.000But this kid, this person, I'm going to call him a man, he's 17 years old.
00:13:50.000He is not going to, this young man, he is not going to be prosecuted for first degree murder because it's an unsustainable charge, nor was he out there willy nilly shooting That is not what happened.
00:13:58.000And if you believe the media telling you this, it's because they are lying to you, and they think you are stupid, and you don't have eyes in your head, or a prefrontal cortex that is operational.
00:14:06.000We're gonna get to the specific facts of the case.
00:14:08.000I know we're not supposed to talk specific facts of cases anymore.
00:14:11.000We're just supposed to be bullied into believing who is the villain, and who is the hero, and who is the criminal, and who is the non-criminal in these particular situations.
00:14:18.000We're supposed to just believe that on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, that the officers in the Breonna Taylor killing need to be rounded up and they need to be prosecuted, despite the fact that there is no criminal law basis for their prosecution.
00:14:30.000We're supposed to believe that the officers in the Jacob Blake shooting need to be rounded up and prosecuted and put in jail for life, despite the fact that there is no sustainable prosecutorial case against them.
00:14:39.000Hell, we're supposed to believe that the officer in the Michael Brown shooting is guilty, even though there were two separate state prosecutors and an Obama DOJ investigation that found that the shooting was justified.
00:14:48.000You're just supposed to believe the narrative.
00:14:50.000And if you look at the facts, this apparently makes you racially insensitive.
00:14:53.000Because the overall narrative must be supported.
00:14:56.000And if the facts are not sufficient to sustain the narrative, you just ignore the facts on the ground.
00:15:00.000So, because the media wish to ignore the rioting and the looting, because the media are rooting, in many ways, for the rioting and the looting, many in the media are interested in sustaining the rationale behind the rioting and the looting.
00:15:11.000Because of- we're gonna see this, okay?
00:15:13.000Because of all of that, you end up with more rioting, you end up with more looting, you end up with more violence, and you end up with a false narrative that the violence began in Kenosha, Wisconsin when the armed militia arrived.
00:15:24.000Which is the same thing, basically, as saying that when the federal troops arrived in Portland, the violence began on a timeline basis.
00:17:46.000He'll probably get convicted of the gun charge.
00:17:48.000This is not a first-degree murder case.
00:17:50.000There's no legal standard by which you can claim, based on the available footage, beyond a reasonable doubt that this is a first-degree murder case.
00:17:56.000Here is how the media covered it, however.
00:17:57.000AP, a white 17-year-old police admirer was arrested Wednesday after two people were shot to death during a third straight night of protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake.
00:18:06.000Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch, Illinois, about 15 miles from Kenosha, was taken into custody in Illinois on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide in the attack Tuesday that was largely captured on cell phone video.
00:18:16.000The shooting left a third person wounded.
00:18:18.000I just killed somebody, the gunman carrying a semi-automatic rifle could be heard saying at one point.
00:18:23.000Okay, it takes until paragraph 18 Paragraph 18 of this story to explain what exactly happened here.
00:18:32.000Apparently, what actually happened here is that he was attacked twice.
00:18:41.000So let's go through the cell phone video.
00:18:42.000By the way, this is not my account of what happened that night.
00:18:44.000This is now the account of the New York Times.
00:18:47.000A person named Christian Trebert is the visual investigations guy at the New York Times.
00:18:52.000And he used to work for the I believe the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
00:18:59.000But in any case, he actually traced the movements of this person.
00:19:04.000So, the night began for Kyle Rittenhouse explaining to various members of conservative media, who were on the ground there doing the actual coverage, why he was there.
00:19:11.000So here's the 17-year-old guy explaining that not only is he there to protect private property, he's also a trained EMT, so he's there to provide medical attention to people.
00:19:18.000By the way, in the early hours of this particular riot, he provided medical attention to the rioters and the looters.
00:19:24.000Hey, that is not a white supremacist out to shoot rioters and looters.
00:19:57.000Okay, at one point, Rittenhouse walks up to a police vehicle with a rifle slung and he talks with the police officers and one tosses a water bottle to them.
00:20:05.000This has been used as evidence that the police officers are in league with these guys, okay?
00:20:09.000These guys are not violating the law at this point.
00:20:11.000If you're over the age of 18, you're allowed to publicly carry in Wisconsin for virtually any reason.
00:20:17.000Okay, so it only starts to become a crime if you wrongfully use the gun.
00:20:21.000Okay, so what happens, according to Christian Treber, is that Rittenhouse eventually leaves the car dealership that he is defending, and he's barred by the police from returning at that point because he has crossed the line.
00:20:31.000And then there were six separate live streams.
00:20:34.000So there were two separate shooting incidents, one about a minute and a half earlier than the other.
00:20:39.000So in the first, you can see Rittenhouse, he's being chased into a parking lot.
00:20:42.000Okay, while he's being pursued, this is according to the New York Times, while he is being pursued, an unknown gunman fires the first shot into the air.
00:22:10.000Now he's running away from a mob that is attempting to do him harm.
00:22:13.000How do we know they're attempting to do him harm?
00:22:15.000Because he falls down and one of them shouts, get his ass!
00:22:18.000At which point a man jumps on him with a skateboard and tries to club him with the skateboard.
00:22:23.000At this point, Rittenhouse shoots the guy who's trying to club him with a skateboard, and there's another man who's approaching him with a pistol.
00:22:28.000Now, we don't know if this guy with the pistol is the one who originally fired the shot in the air at the incident a minute and a half earlier.
00:22:34.000Okay, and here is what it looked like when he shot two other people.
00:23:32.000By the way, lots of criminals don't get shot by the cops.
00:23:35.000People pointed out that the shooter in Charleston, the horrible, racist shooting of the terrorist attack on the black church in Charleston, that shooter was captured alive by the cops.
00:23:45.000Right, because he didn't try to shoot the cops.
00:24:16.000The only way you get a first-degree murder conviction is if he was threatening somebody with the gun before somebody tried to jump him or something.
00:24:29.000We'll get to their backgrounds in just one second because it does add some context to what exactly happened.
00:24:33.000We'll get to more of this in just one second first.
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00:25:43.000Okay, so who are the people who are actually shot and you know, doing the reporting that the mainstream media will not do?
00:25:48.000The first guy who was shot, the one who died.
00:25:50.000And there's a Daily Caller reporter on scene who took off his shirt, tried to turn and cut the guy's head.
00:25:55.000The media, by the way, really downplayed the fact that there was a right-wing reporter trying to help a protester slash rioter slash looter who was threatening the teen shooter.
00:27:00.000The second person who was shot is a person named Anthony Huber, shot and killed.
00:27:03.000He was filmed chasing down the teen and hitting him when he was on the ground with a skateboard.
00:27:07.000He has a criminal history including charges of battery and repeat domestic abuse.
00:27:10.000And the third person who was shot and survived is a person named Gage Grosskreutz, who is 26, a member of the People's Revolution Movement.
00:27:16.000He was filmed chasing after the teen with a pistol.
00:27:18.000And we shot at close range in the upper arm, and he has a criminal record as well, including being intoxicated and armed with a gun.
00:27:23.000So there are all your facts, all of your facts, most of which you will not receive from the mainstream media except for that one late-breaking but good thorough report from the New York Times.
00:27:32.000So the story you've been told is that this kid was a deranged white supremacist militia member who went out looking for blood.
00:27:39.000There is little to no evidence that that is the case.
00:27:41.000It's going to be very difficult to sustain a first-degree murder charge against this person.
00:27:45.000Now, meanwhile, the danger levels were rising in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:27:50.000There's tape of one of the people who is one of the rioters and looters encouraging the BLM crowd to head on off to people's homes and harass them at their homes and businesses, which is always a great look.
00:28:02.000Nobody that way is giving us problems!
00:28:26.000Let's go over where the police are, where the man is.
00:29:17.000Your media who are actively rooting for rioting and looting and justifying rioting and looting and excusing it and proclaiming that anyone who opposes rioting and looting is opposed to black lives and all of this bullcrap.
00:30:41.000The vice president is saying, quote, we will have law and order on the streets of America, future tense, we will have it, but this is Trump's America.
00:30:52.000I mean, he has been now in power, it is as if the vice president and the president are talking as if they are just observers to what is going on, as if they are running to unseat the sitting president and vice president.
00:31:12.000Their vision for America is the rioting and the looting?
00:31:14.000When Trump sent in federal forces to try and stop this stuff in Chicago and in Portland, Anderson Cooper and the rest of the CNN jackasses were sitting around talking about how he was a fascist.
00:31:23.000Jake Tapper, who's normally much better than this, but Jake Tapper yesterday was like, look at these RNC people.
00:31:28.000They're dehumanizing the rioters and looters.
00:31:42.000Okay, you should be treated with disdain if you are rioting and if you are looting.
00:31:48.000And no, I'm not talking about protesters here.
00:31:50.000The media does this fun little trick where if you specifically say that you think that rioting and looting is inhumane behavior and should not be humanized, That if you say that, then you are somehow dehumanizing protesters.
00:32:01.000And if you keep treating them as the same group, then you are actually doing a disservice to the protesters, of course.
00:32:06.000But here is Jake Tapper saying it's very bad that Republicans keep using this, you know, inflammatory language about people who are burning crap and trying to kill people.
00:32:13.000Jake is better than this, and I'm shocked at him, frankly.
00:32:16.000We've known that this was going to break throughout the night, and I wondered if that was going to temper at all some of the language we have heard from Republican officials talking about the mob, talking about these protesters in very dehumanizing ways.
00:32:34.000This individual, if he is guilty, he is responsible for his crimes.
00:32:38.000Not any of the individuals he supports, including President Trump.
00:32:41.000But the idea that a supporter of President Trump is accused of killing protesters last night... Okay, what?
00:32:50.000Okay, first of all, you may want to actually include the facts of the case there, Jake.
00:32:53.000It turns out that by video, the guy is probably defending himself.
00:32:57.000It's going to be very difficult to sustain a first-degree murder charge in that particular case.
00:33:03.000And then to suggest, how dare people use dehumanizing language about a mob of people who are attempting to burn businesses and loot things and be the world's worst humans?
00:33:10.000I don't know how to read the media treatment of this other than they are rooting for the rioters and looters.
00:33:18.000I mean, there was an ABC News reporter last night who's like, well, Trump, you know, he keeps doing this thing where he leans into law and order.
00:33:34.000Silence from the president on this shooting of Jacob Blake.
00:33:37.000He was briefed on it days ago, but so far has not made any public comments.
00:33:41.000Instead, what we are seeing from the president is him leaning into his law and order message, saying that the governor of Wisconsin should call in the National Guard to help with the racial unrest and the violence in his state.
00:33:52.000And that does serve as a sharp contrast to what his rival, Joe Biden, is saying.
00:33:57.000It draws a sharp contrast because Biden is so sympathetic and empathetic.
00:34:00.000By the way, we're going to get to Joe Biden in just a second.
00:34:02.000Who continues to throw fuel on the fire.
00:34:03.000I understand that yesterday he made a statement where he, in very measured terms, says that it's unnecessary to engage in rioting and looting, and then proceeded to justify basically every element of the rioting and looting.
00:34:12.000He just said, don't be so pissed off, vote for me.
00:34:14.000This is the blackmail game that the Democrats are playing.
00:34:22.000And by the way, the only way to heal this, the system works.
00:34:24.000If you just vote for us, you just vote for us.
00:34:26.000And then you don't have to riot and loot.
00:34:27.000Because all your problems will be solved.
00:34:30.000Okay, American voters should not acquiesce to this game of extortion, where Democratic politicians essentially pat on the head rioters and looters for months on end in places like Portland and Seattle and Chicago and New York and Washington D.C.
00:35:07.000I mean, there are situations where you're walking with your kids, and somebody comes up to you, and maybe they're carrying a gun, maybe they're not, and they seem to be threatening you.
00:35:15.000Well, you better know your rights and you better know how to use the gun because there are two things that could go wrong there.
00:35:19.000One, something bad could happen to you.
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00:36:04.000And we're going to get more into The insane push by the media to ratchet up racial tension, the inability of Joe Biden to ratchet down or the unwillingness of Joe Biden to ratchet down such tension will get into the NBA, essentially posturing and ending its season in order to accomplish some unspecified goal they have yet to name.
00:36:23.000First, in case you haven't tuned in this week, the RNC has had some really good stuff In terms of production value, in terms of actual content, it completely outpaced the DNC.
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00:37:21.000So the narrative that has been promulgated, of course, the underlying narrative of America's systemically racist.
00:37:32.000Every iteration of a black person being shot is just another element.
00:37:35.000It's another brick in the wall for the case against America as an institution and as a system.
00:37:41.000This, by the way, is the open agenda of people like Ibram Kendi, who suggests that literally everything that goes wrong in America is due to America's systemic racism.
00:37:48.000And therefore, America's institutions must be pulled down from the top and from the root, must be just completely exploded.
00:37:54.000And if you don't do that, you're not anti-racist, which means you're a racist, because there are only two categories, racist and anti-racist, in Ibram Kendi's garbage view of the world.
00:38:02.000Well, this leads to some pretty predictable effect.
00:38:05.000People immediately jump on any incident without any evidence to immediately suggest that America is systemically racist, and then they go and they riot and they loot.
00:38:13.000So in Minneapolis, there was rioting and looting again in Minneapolis last night.
00:38:17.000There was looting in downtown Minneapolis.
00:38:19.000People were just breaking into stores in downtown Minneapolis.
00:38:47.000Hennepin County Sheriff Dave Hutchinson said we got cops all over the Twin Cities coming out here to maintain order because the citizens of Minneapolis and Hennepin County deserve to feel safe.
00:38:55.000Apparently they had to stop the light rail service on the blue and green lines.
00:38:58.000They stopped trains and buses to downtown Minneapolis.
00:39:01.000People gathered around the scene in the aftermath of the suicide and then they just started lying and said that he was shot by the police.
00:39:07.000They looted the target, which is a great way of protesting racial injustice is by stealing.
00:39:11.000That's definitely the best way to do this.
00:39:15.000Governor Tim Walz, of course, doing an amazing job.
00:39:17.000He said, Minneapolis, it's time to heal.
00:39:32.000So what exactly happened in this case?
00:39:34.000There's a suspect who was followed by police in connection to a deadly shooting that happened just hours before at a parking ramp downtown.
00:39:54.000Honestly, for the media, what's the difference?
00:39:56.000They won't cover the details of these shootings anyway.
00:39:58.000And when they do, it's always this post hoc rationalization whereby whatever the details of the case, the narrative has to be sustained.
00:40:04.000By the way, how bad do Minneapolis business owners have it right now?
00:40:08.000How badly do Minneapolis business owners have it right now?
00:40:10.000There's a story from the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
00:40:13.000In which they point out that business owners have been explicitly barred by the law from taking measures to protect their own businesses.
00:40:23.000According to Jeffrey Mitrat at the Star Tribune, quote, Minneapolis businesses fight ban on exterior shutters, owners wanting to protect their windows after riots face obstacle.
00:40:33.000Okay, so in other words, looters crash through windows and people started putting up exterior shutters on the outside of the building.
00:40:41.000But the city of Minneapolis has barred security shutters on business exteriors since 2004.
00:40:47.000Because they said that the external shutters cause visual blight, and they create the impression that an area is unsafe and troublesome.
00:40:54.000Well, you wouldn't want to create that impression.
00:40:55.000I mean, let the business owners suffer.
00:40:57.000But you don't want to create the impression that things are going badly in Minneapolis by allowing people to put up shutters.
00:41:02.000Instead, why don't you create the impression that things are going badly in Minneapolis by allowing rioters and looters to shatter all the windows?
00:41:58.000There were 61% of Americans said they approved of BLM, 36% disapprove.
00:42:04.000By the beginning of August, those numbers were back to 48-48.
00:42:09.000In the aftermath of what's happening in Kenosha and Minneapolis, I can guarantee you this is going to drop into negative territory, which is where it should be since the BLM movement has accomplished zero things.
00:42:19.000The one thing that anybody tried to accomplish was Senator Tim Scott pushing a police reform bill, which was immediately filibustered by the Democrats.
00:42:25.000What's the thing they've accomplished?
00:42:26.000Other than ratcheting up racial tensions across the country, and making excuses for rioters and looters, and fiery things happening to burst out at protests all over the country.
00:42:36.000Black or Hispanic approval of BLM remains high, but white approval has fallen and become net negative, which is not particularly shocking.
00:42:45.000The levels of black and Hispanic approval have remained pretty steady throughout.
00:42:50.000Well, it means that Joe Biden and the Democrats are starting to feel the pressure.
00:42:53.000They're starting to feel the pressure in places like Wisconsin.
00:42:56.000According to the New York Times, Wisconsin voters are looking at what's happening and they're saying, maybe I need to vote for Trump, so I'm not going to get blackmailed into supporting the very people who are trying to burn down my business.
00:43:06.000According to the New York Times, the politically calculated warnings of President Trump and the Republican Party about chaos enveloping America should Democrats win in November are reverberating among some people in Kenosha.
00:43:15.000First of all, I gotta love the New York Times coverage.
00:43:23.000You know how they would not be able to pounce or seize?
00:43:26.000If Democratic governors and mayors would shut this stuff down.
00:43:29.000But apparently, there are fears in the Democratic Party that rural areas of swing states like Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin aren't going to like all that much the Democratic penchant for making excuses for people who burn cities.
00:43:42.000And so Joe Biden had to release a statement yesterday.
00:43:43.000So finally, he releases an actual spoken statement.
00:43:46.000He's released some written statements before, extraordinarily tepid.
00:43:49.000He released a spoken statement, the first minute of which was dedicated to suggesting that the police in the Jacob Blake shooting were actual racists who were murdering black people.
00:43:59.000I saw some more conciliatory types on the right being like, well, at least Biden put out a statement.
00:44:03.000I'm so glad he finally condemned the violence.
00:44:06.000OK, if the first minute of what you're saying is that America is so systemically racist and terrible that black people are being shot willy nilly by the cops.
00:44:13.000And then you say, you know, but violence is unnecessary.
00:44:17.000If you suggest that America is so inherently dangerous that black people are being systemically put under the knife, put under the boot of the jackbooted racist in charge of the police and the institutions of America, then when you buy it back five seconds later and you're like, well, yes, but if you elect me, then everything's better and the violence is unnecessary and it's not useful.
00:44:37.000Well, I have yet to see why, if you're a rioter and a looter, you would think that, considering that you've received nothing but downplaying of your violence and downplaying of your looting and warm coverage as protesters who are the best of America from many of America's chief political voices.
00:44:51.000Here is Joe Biden putting out a statement that is self-defeating and will accomplish nothing, but was cheered by the media as, well, now he's taking it seriously.
00:44:58.000Or is this just part of a tacit extortion scheme whereby Democrats basically suggest that if you elect them, they'll make the riots go away.
00:45:04.000But if you don't elect them, Then, you know, stuff happening in major cities.
00:45:06.000That's just the predictable result of an evil, evil America.
00:45:09.000What I saw in that video makes me sick.
00:45:13.000Once again, a black man, Jacob Blake, has been shot by the police in broad daylight with the whole world watching.
00:45:19.000You know, our hearts are with his family, especially his children.
00:47:26.000The Democratic agenda has now become extraordinarily clear, which is we will tepidly condemn violence from time to time, but we are not actually going to do anything to stop the violence in any real way.
00:47:36.000I mean, believe it or not, I'm not kidding you, the Virginia legislature Which is now a Democratic legislature.
00:47:43.000The Virginia legislature just passed a bill that would make it a misdemeanor.
00:47:50.000A misdemeanor to assault a police officer if the police officer was not hurt.
00:47:54.000This is in real time what the Virginia legislature is doing.
00:47:57.000The Virginia Senate, according to WSLS, passed a bill allowing assaulting a police officer to be considered a misdemeanor and removing a mandatory jail sentence.
00:48:19.000After all, you can just elect Democrats.
00:48:21.000By the way, Democrats have been running these cities for years, and I'm still seeing some looting and some violence and pretty significant levels of police interactions with the local population.
00:48:30.000So all this leads up to popular culture.
00:48:33.000So this message has now infused all aspects of our society, and you are not considered woke if you won't mirror the narrative of the day.
00:48:38.000And the narrative of the day is America is evil and systemically racist, and all bad and evil decisions by individuals are attributable to that evil American system.
00:48:45.000So all of this carries forward to the NBA.
00:48:47.000So the NBA is already having some pretty significant problems.
00:48:51.000The NBA didn't play for a while because of the pandemic.
00:48:54.000And then they created this bubble, which is a pretty smart idea, where they said, we're going to play all of our games in one place.
00:48:58.000But in order for you to watch the games, you have to swallow whole all the social justice crap that they're pushing, like America is systemically racist and evil.
00:49:05.000And listen, all these athletes have a right to speak.
00:49:07.000They're Americans, just like anybody else.
00:49:08.000That doesn't mean they know what the hell they're talking about or that what they're saying is good for the country.
00:49:12.000So, the NBA slathers its product in BLM messaging.
00:49:16.000I mean, they've got Black Lives Matter, huge emblazoned slogans, Bill de Blasio, Fifth Avenue style, on the sidelines of the games.
00:49:23.000They decide that all the players get to wear whatever social justice messaging, except for Free Hong Kong, they want to put on the back of their jerseys.
00:49:29.000So, you have Say His Name throwing up an alley-oop to equality.
00:49:34.000And there's been a thing inside the bubble.
00:49:36.000And Americans are not particularly interested.
00:49:40.000They drop because, number one, if there's no crowd and you're playing inside the bubble, it's not as exciting.
00:49:43.000But number two, because a lot of people like me, who are sort of casual NBA fans, like, I enjoy basketball.
00:49:48.000I'll watch it if it's on, but I'm not going to, like, go out of my way.
00:49:51.000It's not the center of my universe or anything.
00:49:53.000A lot of casual basketball fans are like, nope, not going to do it.
00:49:55.000And in fact, for other sports, where I'm much more passionate, I also wouldn't do it, right?
00:49:59.000When MLB started the season with the, we're gonna kneel at the beginning and hold a black cloth while Morgan Freeman reads a social justice message poetry.
00:50:12.000A lot of people felt that way about the NBA.
00:50:14.000You end up killing your market when you decide that you're going to specifically alienate one aspect of the market.
00:50:19.000And yes, people have differing political views in the United States, and typically when they watch sports, they don't expect to be hit with political views.
00:50:25.000There are plenty of things on TV you can watch if you want to be political.
00:50:28.000You can go watch Pod Save America if you disagree.
00:50:30.000There's plenty of stuff that you can watch, but mostly when people tune into sports, they're not particularly interested in the sporting product itself being slathered in this sort of stuff.
00:50:38.000I mean, this is perfectly obvious, and it's been obvious for a very long time.
00:50:40.000Again, doesn't mean athletes can't speak out.
00:50:42.000They can, but that also doesn't mean athletes know what they're talking about or that it is smart business to slather your product in this sort of stuff.
00:51:02.000And the ratings dropped something like 50%.
00:51:05.000Well now, LeBron James and the Lakers and the Clippers and the Milwaukee Bucks, basically, have decided that they're going to suspend the season completely.
00:51:13.000So according to CBS Sports, the Lakers and the Clippers pushed to end the season after the Jacob Blake shooting.
00:51:20.000The WNBA suspended all of its games yesterday.
00:51:22.000The MLB suspended a few of its games yesterday.
00:51:25.000Several of the leaders of the Lakers roster, along with some players from other teams, stayed up into the early morning hours to hash out their issues inside the bubble.
00:51:31.000As a result, there's optimism growing that players want to continue the playoffs, supposedly, but during a meeting Wednesday evening, the Lakers and Clippers were among the minority of teams pushing to end the season entirely.
00:51:41.000LeBron James said in the meeting he wants the team owners to be more involved and take action.
00:51:45.000So the Milwaukee Bucks walked out of their Game 5 against the Orlando Magic, and then the Orlando Magic walked out of the game.
00:51:51.000And then the Rockets and Thunder decided not to play.
00:51:53.000And then the Lakers and Trailblazers decided not to play.
00:51:55.000Okay, well, the background of this is a series of statements over the past 72 hours after the Jacob Blake shooting in which...
00:52:04.000Famous members of the NBA talked about how America was evil and terrible and black people live in abject fear of the police, which statistically speaking is not even close to true.
00:52:12.00081% of black Americans say they want the same number of cops or more cops in their communities.
00:52:16.000If you're talking about threats to black lives in the United States, the cops don't rank in the top 20 on that list.
00:52:23.000They're not the threat to black lives, at least not if those people are not committing crimes.
00:52:27.000If we're talking about innocent people who are not committing crimes, police are not really on that list.
00:52:31.000The police are the people who stand between law-abiding citizens and the criminals.
00:52:34.000They're putting their lives on the lines every day.
00:52:35.000Doesn't mean there aren't racist cops.
00:52:55.000LeBron James, just because the man is very famous and very wealthy and very good at basketball doesn't mean he knows what in the hell he is talking about.
00:53:02.000Here is LeBron James, this is in the last two days, suggesting that sometimes cops wake up in the morning and they just want to shoot black people.
00:53:13.000This is a crazy thing to say, that cops get up in the morning.
00:53:16.000By the way, in major cities across America, a majority of the police force is minority.
00:53:21.000LA, where he lives, is a majority-minority police force.
00:53:25.000Hey, here's LeBron James suggesting the cops get up in the morning, just like, I feel like shooting a black guy today, and that's the real danger to black Americans, says the billionaire athlete who gets to play a game dribbling a basketball for a living, for entertainment.
00:53:37.000I mean, look, all right, here's LeBron James.
00:53:41.000You have no idea how that cop that day left the house.
00:53:45.000You don't know if he woke up on the good side of the bed.
00:53:48.000You don't know if he woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
00:53:50.000You don't know if he had an argument at home with a significant other.
00:53:54.000You don't know if one of his kids said something crazy to him and he left the house steaming.
00:54:01.000Or maybe he just left the house saying that today is going to be the end for one of these black people.
00:54:29.000And it turns all black Americans into victims of the police, which is a lie.
00:54:32.000It suggests that the removal of the police is the solution, which is an even bigger lie.
00:54:36.000And it suggests that black people largely don't have agency in their own lives in the racist America that is, which is the biggest lie of all.
00:54:42.000Black Americans are the richest black people, ethnically speaking, on planet Earth.
00:54:46.000Black people who live in the United States.
00:54:48.000Black people can be successful in the United States.
00:54:50.000They are successful in the United States.
00:54:53.000The vast majority of black people are not living in abject poverty.
00:54:56.000The vast majority of black people make good decisions and get ahead in America.
00:55:00.000LeBron James is one of those people who has made those decisions in his personal life.
00:55:04.000And yet the idea is that he's living under the thumb of the white man in the United States?
00:55:28.000You're underperforming your contract pretty dramatically here, and you're being paid about five million bucks a year.
00:55:33.000And it seems like you have a pretty good life.
00:55:35.000And it seems like the vast majority of people in the United States, if they do not commit crimes, don't come into conflict with the police generally.
00:55:42.000Here is Doc Rivers suggesting that black people are the ones getting shot and getting killed for no reason because the country doesn't love black Americans.
00:55:50.000I'm gonna need like an iota of evidence that the country quote-unquote doesn't love black Americans.
00:57:21.000So people are comparing this to Muhammad Ali giving up boxing because he didn't want to go into the army.
00:57:26.000So I have my quibbles with the fact that the Nation of Islam was using Muhammad Ali as a prop at the time, and the Nation of Islam was run by...
00:57:35.000People who, by the way, murdered Malcolm X. In all likelihood.
00:57:37.000But in any case, putting aside the actual politics of what Muhammad Ali did, at least Muhammad Ali was quote-unquote boycotting the right people.
00:57:43.000He said, I don't want to go in the army because I don't want to fight the Viet Cong.
00:57:46.000OK, so he was taking an action that was directly correlated with the results he was seeking.
00:57:51.000What exactly did the NBA players... Who are they boycotting?
00:57:55.000Well, they're boycotting the audience.
00:57:56.000And the audience is already largely signed off, so there's that.
00:57:59.000They're boycotting the owners who pay their salaries.
00:58:01.000Which makes no sense because the owners have, by the way, largely signed on to every demand they have ever made in terms of messaging on social justice and giving donations to various leftist organizations and all the rest.
00:58:12.000They're boycotting their own job, which doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:58:15.000I mean, I'm hearing a lot today about how LeBron James is making a sacrifice.
00:58:18.000Now, LeBron James is, quote-unquote, using his voice.
00:58:22.000The sacrifice that LeBron James is making is really the sacrifice of other players' careers, because LeBron James will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
00:58:29.000He's either the first or the second-best basketball player who has ever lived.
00:58:32.000He is going to make more money in the long run for the social justice activism that he is pursuing right now, as we saw from Colin Kaepernick.
00:58:37.000The people who are actually damaged inside the NBA, it's not LeBron James.
00:58:40.000LeBron James ain't taking the hit here.
00:58:42.000The person who's actually taking the hit here is the seventh man for the Milwaukee Bucks.
00:58:47.000It's the guy who's playing for the Orlando Magic way down there on the bench, who's playing on a one-year contract and needs to prove himself before his knees give out two years from now and he can't make money anymore.
00:58:55.000That's the one who's paying the price.
00:59:06.000I think it's the wrong thing because I think that he's propagating a very bad and nasty message about the country and about police officers.
00:59:12.000But the idea that he's undergoing some sort of massive sacrifice by walking out, and by forcing, by the way, all the other players to walk out, because that's really what he does.
00:59:19.000Now the idea is that if you don't want to walk out, if you don't want to end the NBA season, then you're some sort of traitor to the social justice cause.
00:59:25.000So you have to sacrifice your career so LeBron James can push a message that he finds to be important.
00:59:34.000The people who are going to pay, by the way, are the people in the NBA down the line who lose viewers, because a lot of casual NBA viewers are not coming back.
00:59:43.000Their statement was, quote, We stand with our players and the players of the NBA in their demand for justice and the end of racial violence.
00:59:52.000You mean just like every other sentient human being in the United States, you don't want racial violence?
00:59:56.000By the way, have they called for a single policy?
00:59:59.000The only thing that I've heard from LeBron James is he wants the officers arrested in Jacob Blake's case.
01:00:02.000And he wants the officers arrested in Breonna Taylor's case.
01:00:04.000Well, you know it's a way that justice doesn't work in the United States.
01:00:08.000LeBron James demands someone arrested and they're arrested.
01:00:11.000Or Oprah Winfrey puts up billboards, and therefore, officers get arrested.
01:00:14.000And if that's the way justice works in America, that ain't justice.
01:00:16.000That's mob justice, and it's disgusting.
01:00:18.000You don't arrest people based on people screaming that they should be arrested.
01:00:23.000That's, by the way, what LeBron James has been saying.
01:00:25.000Many of these public figures have been saying, we need these officers arrested.
01:00:29.000When Derek Chauvin got charged with third-degree murder, and then Keith Ellison elevated it to second-degree murder, the charge against Chauvin, which, by the way, is going to be very difficult to sustain in court by the autopsy reports and the reasonable doubt standard.
01:00:46.000It's going to be extraordinarily difficult to convict Derek Chauvin of second degree, or it would've been a little bit easier to go for third degree if you actually gave a crap about the law.
01:00:54.000All you care about is the virtue signaling.
01:00:56.000So the Lakers said 80% of NBA players are black men.
01:00:59.000Okay, by the way, if we're going to go by the diverse standard that population is supposed to be represented by percentage of demographic, then we should ask some questions about affirmative action in the NBA for people who are not black, presumably.
01:01:09.000That's the diversity standard, is it not?
01:01:11.000The end like I said, we cannot love them for the joy and entertainment they bring to the world, yet sit in silence and fail to use our platforms and resources to amplify their voices when they demand the justice and equality that America has promised us all, but denied black people for too long. In 2020 alone, we've been made to bear witness to the killings of numerous unarmed black men and women at the hands of police as well as private vigilantes. Brianna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmed Arbery, and now Jacob Blake.
01:03:16.000Or are we just supposed to scream at the wind?
01:03:18.000And then when somebody else screams at the wind and walks away from their job in the middle of a pandemic, by the way, I'm glad for the NBA players that they have the ability to walk away from their jobs in the middle of a pandemic where people are literally not allowed to work.
01:03:31.000And again, they have every right to, made their voices heard.
01:03:34.000And we have every right to say that their voices are making very little difference in actually obtaining solutions and a lot of difference in terms of propagating narratives that are simply untrue about the United States on a broad level.
01:04:05.000Especially if you're purveying the lie that America is a deeply evil and systemically racist place, and that every police incident is symptomatic of a deeper American evil that must be rooted out at the core.
01:04:18.000To which I think a lot of people are going to say, well, it seems like you're doing pretty well in this evil, terrible America, LeBron James.
01:04:24.000I'm glad that you have the temerity to speak up against systemic American racism in an awful, evil, unfree system in which you're worth a billion dollars, but you don't have the temerity to stand up to the evil Chinese government that is subjecting people to brutality, violence, cruelty, and tyranny in Hong Kong and domestically.
01:04:51.000The real RNC is what's happening in these major American cities where Democrats refuse to actually stop the violence and propagate American values instead of undermining them.
01:04:59.000We'll get to more of this later today with two additional hours of content.
01:05:01.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
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