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00:00:51.000It's an incredible, incredible country.
00:00:52.000It's an incredible country because basically, you can never underestimate the power of the American people to make somebody extraordinarily wealthy.
00:01:00.000If you are, let's say, a mediocre quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, you know, somebody who didn't kneel for the anthem and who took the Niners to the Super Bowl is, you know, good for one season, basically.
00:01:10.000And then you started to fall apart because people sort of figured out your bag of tricks and sort of figured you out as a quarterback.
00:01:15.000And soon you found yourself backing up the immortal Blaine Gabbard in San Francisco.
00:01:19.000And you were on bench and you started thinking about things.
00:01:22.000And soon you were kneeling for the national anthem while maintaining at the same time, you were not protesting the American flag or America more deeply.
00:01:29.000You were really just protesting police brutality, right?
00:01:32.000That's all it was about, about police brutality.
00:01:34.000And it turns out that that was not the most popular thing to do because people don't like when people kneel for the national anthem or kneel for the American flag.
00:01:41.000And also people didn't quite believe you when you said it was all about police brutality.
00:01:44.000After all, you were wearing like Marxist t-shirts and you had socks with pictures of cops as pigs on them.
00:01:50.000And overall, you just didn't seem like that great a dude.
00:01:52.000The good news is that in America, this racist hellscape, this evil, racist hellscape of America, you can make millions of dollars by calling America an evil, racist hellscape.
00:02:06.000In today's day and age, you can be Robin DiAngelo and write an awful, crap book about how all of America, except for you, is filled with white people who are deeply white supremacists, but you've internalized your own white supremacy, and so you can now lecture all of us.
00:02:17.000You can be made a millionaire on the back of diversity classes.
00:02:19.000You can be Sarai Rao, and you can give lessons to woke white ladies about how America is evil, and they are evil, and you can charge them thousands of dollars for the privilege.
00:03:04.000These are back-to-back on Colin Kaepernick's Twitter account.
00:03:06.000Tweet number one comes out July 4th, 2020.
00:03:09.000Quote, Black people have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized, and terrorized by America for centuries and are expected to join your commemoration of independence while you enslaved our ancestors.
00:03:18.000We reject your celebration of white supremacy and look forward to liberation for all.
00:03:23.000Okay, now, let's be quite frank about this.
00:03:26.000Colin Kaepernick does not seem particularly victimized in the United States.
00:03:29.000He seems like he's pretty much enjoying the fruits of freedom.
00:03:32.000How do I know he's enjoying the fruits of freedom and liberation?
00:03:34.000Because the very next tweet on his account, quote, I am excited for this partnership with Disney across all of its platforms to elevate black and brown directors, creators, storytellers, and producers.
00:03:43.000I look forward to sharing culturally impactful and inspiring projects.
00:03:51.000And as soon as you can make a buck off wokeness, you'll make a buck off wokeness because bucks are all that matters.
00:03:56.000According to ESPN.com, Colin Kaepernick will be featured in an exclusive docuseries produced by ESPN Films as part of its first look deal with the Walt Disney Company.
00:04:05.000The deal between Kaepernick's production arm, Raw Vision Media, and Disney was announced on Monday.
00:04:09.000The partnership will focus on telling scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice, and the quest for equity.
00:04:15.000It will also provide a platform to showcase the work of minority directors and producers.
00:04:19.000I am excited to announce this historic partnership with Disney, said Kaepernick.
00:04:23.000Despite being exiled from the NFL since the 2016 season, when he took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality, Kaepernick still wants to play.
00:04:37.000Kaepernick had the opportunity to try out for teams last year.
00:04:39.000He completely and purposefully botched it.
00:04:41.000It was perfectly obvious that that's what he was doing.
00:04:43.000He has no intention of ever getting back on the field because now he's a civil rights leader.
00:04:47.000Because as a man who has suffered deeply from his race in this country by becoming extraordinarily rich and powerful off the back of calling America a racist hellscape, he has no intention of playing in the NFL again.
00:04:59.000Instead, he's going to become the face of the Nike campaign, right?
00:05:02.000He's the face of the Nike campaign as of 2018.
00:05:04.000And now, he's got the NFL commissioner apologizing to him.
00:05:07.000He's got Roger Goodell saying that he's going to be the face of social justice in the NFL.
00:05:12.000Kaepernick will work closely with The Undefeated, which is expanding its portfolio across Disney to develop stories from the perspectives of black and brown communities.
00:05:20.000His deal with the Walt Disney Company will extend across all Disney platforms, including Walt Disney TV, ESPN, Hulu, Pixar, and The Undefeated.
00:05:27.000I very much look forward to the new Pixar movie about Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the flag before being tackled because he couldn't make a secondary read.
00:05:36.000During this unprecedented time, said Bob Iger, Disney's Executive Chairman, the Walt Disney Company remains committed to creating diverse and inclusive content that resonates and matters.
00:05:45.000Colin's experience gives him a unique perspective on the intersection of sports, culture, and race, which will undoubtedly create compelling stories that will educate, enlighten, and entertain.
00:05:53.000And we look forward to working with him on this important collaboration.
00:05:57.000The docuseries about Kaepernick's journey is the first project in development.
00:06:00.000It will include new interviews and other never-before-seen elements as part of the docuseries.
00:06:24.000In fact, she even tweeted out about it.
00:06:25.000Very excited I'll be serving as a producer on Kaepernick's docuseries as part of his production deal with ESPN Disney and content collaboration with The Undefeated.
00:06:32.000I consider it an honor to play any role in telling Colin's story.
00:06:54.000There's a little addition that could be made, theoretically.
00:06:58.000That little addition could be that the amount of time it takes to get from point A to point C, right there, that would be from a cause to a racket, tells you about the greatness of the cause.
00:07:10.000Meaning if it's a really great cause, it takes a while to go from being a cause to being a racket.
00:07:15.000Because people are actually motivated to make serious substantive change.
00:07:19.000A racket is just about making the bucks, right?
00:07:20.000And Colin Kaepernick making the money and doing docuseries about himself, the most narcissistic, solipsistic nonsense in the entire world.
00:07:30.000The quickness with which a movement goes from being a movement to being a racket demonstrates the seriousness of the business, of the cause in the first place.
00:07:39.000I do love the fact that capitalism has now figured out a way to churn out The America's Hellscape nonsense, for profit, like good for capitalism.
00:08:28.000He has sacrificed a backup slot on the San Francisco 49ers where he wasn't playing it down because he sucked so much the Blaine Gabbert was putting ahead of him.
00:08:36.000He sacrificed that rich, rewarding career for the awfulness of having to trot around America, talking about how evil America is, to the cheers of the And the unadulterated drooling of the media to an overall deal with Disney, one of the biggest companies on planet Earth, as well as millions of dollars from Nike to Neil.
00:09:21.000And I will admit to being somewhat amused.
00:09:24.000Because, again, half of the program here is about how capitalism is evil, and capitalism is terrible, and the only solution to all of this is Marxism, and remaking all of America's systems, and the systems of exploitation are really the problem here, and systemic racism is embedded in corporate America, and corporate America is like, here's a dollar.
00:09:50.000I'm noticing that the deep abiding belief system of Colin Kaepernick and Jemele Hill has not prohibited them from taking money from Walt Disney.
00:10:01.000I mean, really just incredibly well done.
00:10:03.000OK, we're going to get to more of how American capitalism can turn anything, can turn any cause into a profit-making enterprise, which is a Tribute to ingenuity.
00:10:14.000It's not a tribute to forethought because eventually you turn everything into an industry and then the industry takes over the business and wrecks you.
00:10:20.000But at least in the moment, you have to admire the ingenuity of turning a cause into a racket.
00:10:25.000We'll get into more of this in just one second.
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00:11:45.000OK, so it's not just a racket for Colin Kaepernick, obviously.
00:11:49.000Colin Kaepernick, I mean, Al Sharpton's been making a very lucrative living for literally decades at this point from being one of the West's worst race baiters and a guy who literally created out of whole cloth an accusation of rape against a person.
00:12:00.000But there's a whole diversity industry.
00:12:02.000Understand the diversity industry Meaning the people who come into your company and give you diversity training?
00:12:08.000That's people making money off dumb, okay?
00:12:10.000Because there's very little evidence to prove that this diversity training actively changes anything inside the culture of a company.
00:12:16.000Understand that diversity training was basically designed by corporations to pay off people, not to sue them.
00:12:23.000That's basically what it was designed to do.
00:12:25.000It was designed so that companies could point to their diversity training and then say, How could you say that we have a systemic problem of discrimination in the company when we paid?
00:12:33.000We paid Robin DiAngelo $16,000 to come and speak at our company.
00:12:37.000And you say we have a problem with racism?
00:12:39.000We have a full-on, week-long diversity training.
00:12:45.000You can't suggest that we have a systemic culture of discrimination when we are willing to pay this person who has no bona fides in ever accomplishing anything decent.
00:12:53.000To come and lecture you about your white privilege.
00:12:55.000Okay, so the city of Seattle is doing this right now.
00:12:58.000The city of Seattle has diversity trainers.
00:13:00.000I love that everything becomes an industry, right?
00:13:15.000You can take the worst idea and you can turn it into an entire billion dollar industry.
00:13:20.000Simply by blackmailing a few people with the possibility of lawsuits and then corporations are like, ah, I don't really want the lawsuit.
00:13:25.000I guess I'll just toss 10 grand at somebody to come and yell at us about the evils of white fragility or something.
00:13:32.000You can do the same thing, not just by threats of lawsuit.
00:13:35.000You can also do it by threats of boycott.
00:13:37.000You can go after corporations and you can say to them, if you don't, if you don't do X, Y, or Z and pay us money, well then we'll come after you.
00:13:43.000This was Al Sharpton's stock and trade.
00:13:45.000For years, Al Sharpton would basically go to corporations and he'd say, I'm going to accuse you of racial profiling, but a small donation to my National Action Network will demonstrate your good faith.
00:13:54.000This kind of stuff is super common in the United States.
00:13:57.000So the city of Seattle is now paying diversity trainers, which is pretty spectacular.
00:14:03.000So according to Christopher Ruffo, who's the contributing editor of City Journal, he's gotten a hold of some of their diversity documents, and they are spectacular.
00:14:11.000Interrupting IRS and whiteness, the work of white accomplices, So, you have to practice self-talk that affirms our complicity in racism.
00:14:20.000They're going to train white people who work for the city of Seattle to practice self-talk affirming your complicity in racism.
00:14:26.000Racism is not our fault, but we are responsible.
00:14:32.000What trauma, patterns, or other unwell ways of being are you complicit in?
00:14:37.000Also, you have to cultivate networks of other white people who are practicing anti-racist accomplicehood so you can talk through your struggles in the work of undoing your own whiteness and showing up as allies and accomplices.
00:14:49.000This is all written in the diversity training.
00:14:56.000So what exactly does the work constitute according to these diversity trainers?
00:15:00.000The trainers ask white employees, according to Christopher Rubo, to quote, let go of comfort, guaranteed physical safety, control over the land, social status, and relationships with some other white people.
00:15:11.000Then there's a flow chart that outlines how white people cause harm to people of color.
00:15:16.000How do white people keep the system going?
00:15:18.000Well, the system co-ops us through socialization to cause harm to people of color and to each other, right?
00:15:24.000It's always the racist systems, the racist systems.
00:15:26.000Then you have a mindset and behaviors that justify why we are superior and have been wronged by people of color.
00:15:32.000Then our anger, self-righteousness, and defensiveness mask fear, shame, and guilt for the harm of our actions.
00:15:36.000Then we show up small and inauthentic, unable to see opportunities to contribute as allies and accomplices.
00:15:42.000And finally, we are unable to imagine a way forward that comes from the place of humanity and empowerment and the status quo.
00:15:48.000Okay, if all of this sounds like absolute drivel, that's because it's absolute drivel, and the city of Seattle is paying presumably tens of thousands of dollars for this cultish nonsense.
00:16:00.000Okay, that is not to say that the cause of racial sensitivity in America is a racket.
00:16:04.000This has nothing to do with racial sensitivity and everything to do with a group of people who are making a buck by claiming that America sucks.
00:16:11.000America's an evil, terrible place where people who stand for diversity can make tens of thousands of dollars by talking about how diversity is really important.
00:17:22.000We're gonna get to that in just one second.
00:17:24.000First, let us talk about the fact that everyone is moving their workout from the gym to home.
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00:19:10.000But it turns out that he has a relationship with Thomas Jefferson because he's a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson.
00:19:16.000And therefore, he has the authority to say it's time to take down the Thomas Jefferson memorial.
00:19:21.000He writes, I guess that's why my brother and I, the great-grandsons, took the Jefferson Memorial for granted.
00:19:46.000We had his ancestral home as a playground.
00:19:48.000It was where all of our great-grandparents and great-aunts and great-uncles were buried, and where one day we were told we would be buried, too.
00:19:53.000We didn't need the Jefferson Memorial.
00:20:10.000The way you can tell it's a shrine to freedom is because of all the text that is on the memorial.
00:20:13.000It's all phraseology from the Declaration of Independence talking about freedom.
00:20:16.000The great contradiction of Thomas Jefferson as a human being is that he was a man who held very high ideals but did not abide by them, which is a sin common to humanity.
00:20:24.000Doesn't mean that Jefferson didn't treat his slaves with unique evil.
00:20:29.000His treatment of Sally Hemings, I mean, he literally fathered children with his own slave and then kept them enslaved.
00:20:33.000You don't have to ignore any of that to recognize that, again, for the thousandth time, when you build monuments to people, you're not building monuments to their cruelty as a general rule.
00:20:42.000You're building monuments to the stuff they did that was good.
00:20:45.000You don't build a monument to someone because you believe everything they ever did was good.
00:20:48.000You build a monument to somebody because of the thing they did that was good.
00:20:53.000But according to this guy who no one cared about until five seconds ago when he claimed ancestry to Jefferson, which I assume is true, now he gets a piece in the New York Times talking about how it's time to take down the Jefferson Memorial.
00:21:03.000Well, I mean, he did do some to make those words come true.
00:21:06.000Namely, the founding of the United States that was instrumental in the tearing down of the institution of slavery in the United States.
00:21:11.000are created equal in the Declaration of Independence and yet never did much to make those words come true.
00:21:16.000Well, I mean, he did do some to make those words come true, namely the founding of the United States that was instrumental in the tearing down of the institution of slavery in the United States.
00:21:25.000The words he wrote in the Declaration of Independence were invoked not just by Abraham Lincoln to stop slavery in the United States, They were invoked by Frederick Douglass to question why the promises had not been extended to black Americans.
00:21:35.000They were invoked by Booker T. Washington.
00:21:36.000They were invoked by Martin Luther King Jr.
00:21:38.000The idea that he did nothing to end slavery is simply not true.
00:21:42.000He did nothing in his own life to end slavery with regard to himself.
00:21:46.000But the principles he established, which is the reason the monument's there, not for his personal life.
00:21:50.000The principles that he established were maybe the most important Most important philosophical brick hurled through the window of slavery in the United States.
00:22:02.000So to pretend that that makes no difference is simply ridiculous.
00:22:07.000He says, I'm the sixth generation great-grandson of a slave owner.
00:22:10.000My cousins from Sally Hemings' family are also the great-grandchildren of a slave owner.
00:22:13.000The difference is that our great-grandfather owned their great-grandmother.
00:22:18.000I will also point out that when he says that we should preserve Monticello, because you'll learn the history of Jefferson and Monticello, anytime he wants us to tear down Monticello, I don't know why the monument should stand at all.
00:22:28.000We are told by this guy, Lucian Trescott IV, that Jefferson never did anything to end slavery, so why do we even have a monument to him at Monticello?
00:22:40.000The bottom line is that once the door is open to people making a name for themselves off a particular point of view that happens to not like America, that door does not close for quite a while.
00:22:52.000Okay, so all of this, of course, is incredibly counterproductive.
00:22:57.000You would imagine that President Trump could take advantage of some of this.
00:23:00.000And in fact, the speech that he gave over the weekend at Mount Rushmore was quite good on this, right?
00:23:03.000He points out that the history of America is good, that our heroes are worth remembering, And that we should not be tearing down statues of Washington and Jefferson.
00:23:11.000At no point does he mention the Confederate flag.
00:23:13.000At no point does he mention Confederate generals.
00:23:16.000At no point does he get into sort of the dicier areas of racial controversy in the United States.
00:23:21.000He instead talks about the great universal principles upon which the United States was founded.
00:23:24.000So naturally that means within 48 hours, he's tweeting about stuff that completely undermines everything that he said at Mount Rushmore.
00:23:30.000Again, Trump without Twitter is somewhere near 50% in the approval ratings.
00:23:34.000Trump with Twitter is at 38% in the approval rating.
00:23:39.000Not only because it's bad for the country, but also on a personal survival level as a politician, it is bad for him.
00:23:44.000The president spent the last 48 hours tweeting about Bubba Wallace and NASCAR and renaming sports teams.
00:23:51.000He tweeted out, has Bubba Wallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers and officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, and were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out the whole thing was just another hoax?
00:24:01.000That and flag decision has caused lowest ratings ever.
00:24:03.000So there he is, defending the Confederate flag against the supposed predations of NASCAR, and going after Bubba Wallace in a controversy that ended two weeks ago, and in which it turns out that Bubba Wallace actually ended up making a pretty good statement about how he was happy that it didn't turn out to be a noose, and he was glad that people showed solidarity with him.
00:24:19.000Like, what is the president doing here?
00:24:20.000And the answer is, he's not doing anything.
00:24:32.000And they tweeted out the renaming of sports teams.
00:24:34.000They named teams out of strength, not weakness.
00:24:36.000But now the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians, two fabled sports franchises, look like they're going to be changing their names in order to be politically correct.
00:24:43.000Indians like Elizabeth Warren must be very angry right now.
00:24:46.000Okay, I'll admit that's funny, but it is also true.
00:24:48.000Is this like the message that you're going for?
00:24:51.000He goes to Mount Rushmore and he gives what should be a pretty easy unifying message.
00:24:54.000And then immediately he decides to jump into sort of hot topics of the day over on The View.
00:24:59.000And it's like, this is not, Not useful, not useful.
00:25:04.000Okay, meanwhile, there are actual serious issues going on in the country.
00:25:07.000And again, the president could be running against the left on these issues, particularly the crime surge.
00:25:12.000It turns out that the vast Black Lives Matter push to defund the police has some pretty damned horrific consequences all over the country in major cities.
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00:26:39.000Okay, meanwhile, it turns out that all of this, it's all fun and games until people start getting shot.
00:26:45.000So the whole sort of capitalization of the Black Lives Matter movement, the attempt to turn the cause into a business and then into a racket, The message still is promulgated.
00:27:00.000This is what I was saying before about the short-term interests of corporations not really meshing with their long-term interests.
00:27:06.000There's been a critique of the left and some of the populist right for a long time with regard to corporations.
00:27:09.000The corporations very often are looking at the bottom line for like the next two weeks, but they're not looking at the bottom line for the next 20 years because there's turnover of corporations.
00:27:18.000There are some studies that show that that is the case with regard to particular decisions.
00:27:22.000Overall, typically, people are kind of looking down the road at what's going on in the country.
00:27:26.000But there's one area where corporations are absolutely helpless when it comes to looking down the road, and that is when there is internal and external clamor about what corporations are doing.
00:27:34.000And that means that when corporations are assaulted from all sides about how they are, quote-unquote, sponsoring hate speech on Facebook, and so they pull their money because they're afraid of standing up for themselves.
00:27:43.000Or when they are told, just sponsor diversity training and we'll leave you alone.
00:27:47.000They think to themselves, okay, well, is the brand hit really worth it?
00:28:10.000Coca-Cola pull its ads from Facebook at the behest of left-wing social media pressure groups who are attempting to get Coca-Cola to disassociate from free speech platforms.
00:28:21.000And then Coca-Cola will have to move out of Atlanta because Coca-Cola is going to be in a city that has more crime.
00:28:45.000Well, that's true up until the point when the messages that the corporations themselves have been sponsoring end up destroying the system within which they operate.
00:28:52.000I will say that is clever on the part of some of the, quote, anti-racist crowd.
00:28:56.000I say, quote, anti-racist because their definition of anti-racism isn't anti-racism.
00:29:00.000It's a complete rewriting of the term, as we've talked about.
00:29:03.000It basically means tear down the system.
00:29:04.000Their idea is let's pressure corporations into basically adopting our sloganeering.
00:29:09.000And then we'll use that sloganeering to tear down the systems by which the corporations get to operate.
00:29:13.000In fact, by which all of American capitalism gets to operate.
00:29:16.000So all we have to do is pressure them on this one soft point, We'll stick the knife in right here, and then they will cave to us, and the air will go out of the balloon, and then we'll collapse the system around them because we'll actually turn them into a loudspeaker against the system that allows them to operate in free, unmitigated fashion.
00:29:31.000You can see this most clearly when it comes to crime.
00:29:33.000So, you've seen, you know, the white, woke left in these major cities across the country, basically caving to the defund the police movement.
00:29:39.000Because they figure, okay, well, you know what?
00:29:55.000Okay, now the system upon which you get to spend all of your time protesting because you live in a rich, secure, wonderful, free America, that starts to disappear too.
00:30:04.000Because the first predicate for a successful civilization is a certain sustainable level of law and order.
00:30:09.000And that is disappearing very, very quickly.
00:30:12.000The crime is surging in major cities around the United States, unfortunately.
00:30:16.000According to Michael Snyder at the Economic Collapse blog, he says, What we are witnessing all over the country right now is incredibly sad.
00:30:22.000In the aftermath of the tragic death of George Floyd, it would have been wonderful to see the entire nation unite behind an effort to make our society less violent, more just and peaceful.
00:30:29.000Instead, we've seen a tremendous explosion of violence and lawlessness that doesn't seem likely to end anytime soon.
00:30:34.000Violent crime rates are surging in major city after major city.
00:30:37.000The 4th of July weekend was particularly bad.
00:30:39.000At least 41 people were hit by gunfire in New York City during the holiday weekend.
00:30:43.000This continues a trend we have seen throughout the first half of 2020.
00:30:47.000According to figures released by the NYPD, for the first six months of this year, there were 176 murders, an increase of 23% on the 143 killed during the same period last year.
00:30:56.000The number of shooting victims has gone up 51%.
00:31:33.000Law enforcement in downtown Portland are under attack consistently from members of Antifa.
00:31:41.000And what we are watching right now is the collapse of law and order in major cities around the United States.
00:31:45.000And by the way, the people who are damaged most by this are black and brown people.
00:31:50.000According to Tom Winter, a reporter for NBC News, quote, every single person who has been shot in New York City this July, nearly 100 in total, has been a member of the minority community.
00:32:00.00097% of shooting victims in June were members of the city's minority communities, according to the NYPD.
00:32:05.000Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lepetri told reporters yesterday, all murder victims in June, all, were of the minority community.
00:32:13.000The city's spike in crime is now a bona fide trend.
00:32:15.000Homicides are up 27% year-to-date, are running 11.3% higher than they were five years ago.
00:32:21.00050% of the shootings have taken place in just 10 precincts.
00:32:23.000Those communities are being overrun by a small percentage of gang members who have little regard for their own life and no regard for their community.
00:32:30.000Chicago's recent crime-fighting success has cratered, a homicide rate that has risen 34% this year compared to last, for a total of 324 deaths.
00:32:39.000Over the last 28 days, compared to last year over the same period, homicides rose 83% in Chicago.
00:32:47.000And for this reason, you are seeing governors in red states starting to react.
00:32:53.000The Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has now deployed 1,000 National Guard troops to Atlanta after the violent weekend in Atlanta.
00:33:02.000Americans are more and more looking at leaving larger cities for suburban towns, because this is what happens.
00:33:06.000The white woke liberals, they go along with this stuff, but then, because the white woke liberals are rich enough to spend their days not worried about what happens to poorer people who are victimized by violence, when the violence reaches their front door, they're like, oh, you know what?
00:33:19.000According to The Hill, a perfect storm of factors make the decision to leave major cities like New York very obvious.
00:33:25.000Many are moving to small towns north of the five boroughs.
00:33:27.000Four upstate counties have seen an incredible surge in real estate demand, while the rest of the New York market is cratering.
00:33:32.000Oh, who could have perceived that all of the woke policies pursued by Black Lives Matter are counterproductively pushing people to leave these cities, and the people disproportionately who can afford to leave the cities, namely the people who are paying for the tax base in these cities.
00:33:49.000But don't worry, it's really all about the cause, guys.
00:33:59.000Really, seriously, how does this get justified is the big question.
00:34:01.000Because when you see a tremendous uptick in violence, when you see people who are being shot, and in New York City, 100% members of minority communities, when you see that, how can you possibly justify causes like defund the police, or let's not talk about the problem of inner city violence, which, by the way, is what this is.
00:34:18.000I mean, we're watching in these cases minority on minority violence.
00:34:20.000This isn't white cops going into these inner cities and killing people.
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00:37:37.000There's some heartbreaking video that came out from Chicago, where an 11-year-old boy was murdered.
00:37:42.000And the grandfather was on TV, and he said, it seems like to many people, black lives matter only, they only matter when a cop pulls the trigger.
00:37:50.000Otherwise, you don't give two solid dams about it.
00:37:55.000Because the narrative is about the narrative.
00:37:57.000And the narrative is about tearing down the system.
00:37:59.000The narrative from the Black Lives Matter organization and from the media about Black Lives Matter is not just about police brutality.
00:38:05.000It's about The idea that America is systemically racist, that all problems that are experienced in the United States can be chalked up to the system itself, and that there is, we should just pay no attention to the far bigger problem, the far bigger threat to black life in the United States, because all violence in the United States is intraracial, virtually all, right?
00:38:38.000But we're not allowed to pay attention to that.
00:38:39.000If it's a black person killing another black person, and it doesn't matter if it's a kid, it doesn't matter.
00:38:44.000We're not going to know the name of this dead 11-year-old from the media.
00:38:47.000Because that 11-year-old doesn't matter.
00:38:49.000Tamir Rice matters because Tamir Rice was 12 years old and was shot by the police in disputed circumstances in which he was unfortunately killed in a horrific situation where he had sawed the front off of a BB gun so it looked like a regular gun and the cops mistook him.
00:39:01.000We all know that name because it's a terrible, terrible situation.
00:39:03.000No one is going to know the name of this 11-year-old because his death does not back the narrative that the greatest threat to black life in the United States is coming from white supremacists and evil white supremacist systems.
00:39:14.000Here is the grandfather of this 11-year-old.
00:39:16.000Everybody's just saying they're just tired, tired of the shootings in the community.
00:39:20.000Everybody's running around here thinking they're Uzi-toting, dope-sucking, psychopathic killer machines, and they're just destroying lives.
00:39:27.000But we're protesting for months, for weeks, saying Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter.
00:39:32.000If Black Lives Matter, it seems like only when a police officer shoot a black person.
00:39:38.000What about all the black-on-black crime that's happening in the community?
00:39:42.000Does he not have the credibility to say that?
00:39:44.000By the way, it was in Washington, D.C., not in Chicago.
00:39:47.000The 11-year-old boy was identified as Devon McNeil.
00:39:50.000You try to remember the name because the media don't care.
00:39:52.000The media are not going to pay any attention to Devon McNeil.
00:39:54.000Just as they've paid no attention to the literally dozens of young black kids who have probably been killed this year in major cities across the United States.
00:40:01.000I believe there were four or five killings of young black people across the United States on the July 4th weekend alone, none of them by cops.
00:40:09.000We saw the killings of two black miners in Seattle chop.
00:40:14.000The media narrative is that America is to blame for all of this and that personal responsibility at no level can be applied to a problem in which personal responsibility is required.
00:40:24.000Here's the grandfather saying you have a bunch of young people who are treating themselves as Uzi toting killing machines.
00:40:56.000The category all includes all, which would include black people, as well as white people, as well as Hispanic people.
00:41:01.000So all lives matter was just a recognition that black lives matter just the same way that all other lives matter.
00:41:07.000This was considered insufficiently woke because if you said all lives matter, what you were failing to recognize is the special threat that existed to black lives from the white system.
00:41:15.000Now, I do not actually believe that the cops pose a special threat to black lives in the United States because statistically speaking, they do not actually pose a greater threat to black lives in the United States.
00:41:25.000There is zero statistical evidence that police disproportionately shoot black people in the United States.
00:41:33.000But even assuming that you believe that there is racism, miasmatic systemic racism, and institutional racism brought to bear on Black people.
00:41:40.000So Black Lives Matter, you would think, would include all Black Lives Matter.
00:41:55.000So it matters when a black kid is shot by the cops, and it matters just as much when, as is far more common, a black kid is shot by another black person.
00:42:06.000So you can't say, so apparently the category Black Lives does not include all black lives, it only includes some black lives.
00:42:12.000And Don Lemon says this out loud, which is very, very wild, right?
00:42:16.000It's especially wild because he's lying in two ways.
00:42:18.000One, Black Lives Matter should include all black lives, obviously.
00:42:22.000And this is the discussion the media wish to avoid, obviously.
00:42:25.000If the media were going to discuss the priority of saving black lives, that would require them to talk about something beyond the evil of the cops.
00:42:31.000In fact, it would require more cops, not fewer cops.
00:42:34.000But the media don't want to talk about that, right?
00:42:36.000And so they would rather overtly say that not all black lives matter, right?
00:42:41.000They would rather say that than acknowledge the reality, which is that the solution to violence against black people is the same as the solution to violence against all people generally, which is you need more law enforcement, not less law enforcement.
00:42:53.000So Don Lemon doesn't want to say that.
00:42:54.000So what you're going to hear in this clip is Don Lemon explicitly say that if you say to somebody Black Lives Matter and they say back to you all Black Lives Matter, they're avoiding the point, which is police brutality.
00:43:16.000Okay, if you've been watching what's been going on in the United States, we've been told that if you loot a store, that is part of the Black Lives Matter movement because it is unbridled rage against the system.
00:44:19.000If it's just about police brutality, then what is this broader conversation that Don Lemon is promoting each and every night on his show?
00:44:26.000Why is it that the Black Lives Matter organization does not restrict itself to police brutality?
00:44:31.000As Terry Crews points out, the Black Lives Matter organization is a neo-Marxist organization that talks about restructuring systems, destroying, it says this on its website, destroying the atomic family and free Palestine.
00:44:41.000So they do not actually limit their priorities to Black Lives Matter.
00:44:45.000So what Don Lemon really means is that there's only one narrative he wants to promote.
00:44:48.000Any narrative that is consonant with the message that America is to blame for all evils, and that white supremacy is to blame for everything that happens in the United States, that's worth discussing.
00:44:57.000If a black person kills another black person in the inner city, then that does not matter to Don Lemon, apparently.
00:45:03.000He says you can form a committee to talk about that, except that black people are dying in real time in major cities around the United States at an extraordinary rate because of exactly the policies that are being pursued by people like Don Lemon on national television.
00:45:16.000So now it's a little relevant, is it not?
00:45:18.000Now would be a good time to discuss it.
00:45:22.000Hey, here is Don Lemon saying that when you say all black lives matter, you're neglecting that we're only talking about a certain subset of black lives, which should beg the question, or at least raise the question, Why?
00:45:32.000Here's Don Lemon, just, really, I mean, it's a clarifying and wonderful clip.
00:45:37.000The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality.
00:45:41.000If you want an all Black Lives Matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including, you know, black communities, then start that movement with that name.
00:45:51.000But that's not what Black Lives Matter is about.
00:46:41.000Okay, so now Black Lives Matter means whatever Don Lemon says Black Lives Matter means.
00:46:44.000It started off as police brutality, then it moved on to defund the police, then it moved on to tear down all the statues and implicate the entire American system, then it moved on to Independence Day and Mount Rushmore, and now Don Lemon's like, no, no, no, we were just talking about police brutality.
00:46:55.000Stop mentioning the fact that a disproportionate number of young black people are being killed by other young black people in inner cities, which, by the way, is a much larger threat to black life in the United States.
00:47:04.000By the way, his analogy completely failed.
00:47:06.000If you had, he suggests in that clip, that if you had a group called Cancer Matters, and then somebody else said HIV Matters, that that would be a change of topic.
00:47:14.000That's true, because what you're talking about, the noun there is cancer.
00:47:24.000The equivalent, if you're gonna make an analogy, would be, you start a group called Cancer Matters, and someone says, prostate cancer matters.
00:48:22.000All of these forces are coming together at the same time and making it very difficult.
00:48:28.000The ecosystem of public safety that isn't just law enforcement but is local, community-based, they too have really been hit hard by COVID and are now just kind of coming back online and getting their footing.
00:48:45.000By the way, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, her child was shot over the weekend.
00:48:50.000An eight-year-old child, we talked about it yesterday on the show, was shot to death because she has allowed the area around the Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks, a criminal, was shot by the police after grabbing a taser off a cop, shooting a cop, trying to shoot another cop with a taser, and then was shot.
00:49:01.000People have taken over that area near the Wendy's, and they've set up sort of a paramilitary zone, and somebody tried to drive through it with an eight-year-old child in the back, and people shot the kid to death.
00:49:09.000Now, Keisha Lance Bottoms, who's being vetted for VP in the Democratic Party, as she presides over a city in a state of collapse, she suggests that President Trump is to blame for the increased violence in her city.
00:49:21.000We talk about systemic racism and the trauma and anxiety and all these things that are happening in our communities.
00:51:31.000But when you make a prediction and then the prediction doesn't come true for like a full month, at a certain point you have to start wondering.
00:51:36.000Like there will come an expiration date.
00:51:37.000I think it's probably a week and a half away, where if the death rates have not skyrocketed, people are just going to be like, what was supposed to happen here?
00:51:45.000Because yesterday, reported number of deaths, 378 in the United States.
00:51:49.000Last month, last Monday, reported number of deaths in the United States, 366.
00:51:55.000Okay, so in other words, we've basically been flatlined.
00:53:43.000In some cases, you're seeing people double tested because those actually are reflected in places like Florida, apparently, is that if you get tested and you test positive, you test again to make sure it's not a false positive, for example, and both those cases get reported.
00:53:53.000But even with that said, there's obviously an uptick in number of cases.
00:53:56.000The question is, is it going to overwhelm the hospital system?
00:53:58.000And are people going into hospitals dying?
00:54:34.000We're not being overwhelmed in the state of Texas.
00:54:35.000Just last week, the heads of all the Texas major hospitals in Houston, they were saying we're not overwhelmed in the same way in the ICUs as New York.
00:54:42.000Also, worth noting that the hospitalizations today, right, hospitalizations are rising, but the outcome of hospitalizations has dramatically decreased in the United States.
00:54:51.000Dramatically decreased in the United States.
00:54:54.000If you look, for example, At the hospital census and the number of people who are dying.
00:54:59.000Deaths as a percentage of COVID hospitalizations from five to 12 days ago, excluding Florida.
00:55:04.000There's a good chart that I've seen on this.
00:55:06.000This chart shows that the deaths as a percentage of COVID hospitalizations from five to 12 days ago, which is usually the period, right?
00:55:11.000Get hospitalized, and then if you're gonna die, you're dead within five to 12 days in the hospital after you've gone on an ICU bed and on a ventilator or something.
00:55:18.000The deaths as a percentage of COVID hospitalizations from five to 12 days ago, in early April, Deaths as a percentage were pretty high, like really pretty high, like up to something like 15%, something like 15%.
00:55:36.000Now, or at least well above, I'm sorry, it's somewhere between 5% and 10%.
00:55:45.000It's very, very, like the vast, vast majority of people who are going into hospitals are not dying from this thing.
00:55:51.000And that is because large number of reduced severity hospitalizations.
00:55:54.000People are coming in, they have COVID, having a little bit of trouble breathing, but they're probably going to be okay.
00:55:58.000And we're putting them in the hospital just out of an abundance of caution.
00:56:01.000Patients are much more willing to seek treatment now because it was a while back that if you were going to get COVID, you just weren't going into the hospital because you were afraid that they were then going to put you in a vent and then you were going to never see your family again.
00:56:12.000So people were just staying home and then healing up at home.
00:56:14.000And fewer hospitalizations are becoming deaths than ever.
00:56:19.000But if you look at the chart from several months ago, as far as tests and hospitalizations and deaths, what you see is that the hospitalizations go like this.
00:56:28.000About two weeks later, the deaths go like that, right?
00:56:30.000They really parallel each other very strongly.
00:56:32.000Right now, what you're seeing in hospitalizations is this, right?
00:56:34.000It's rising and deaths are going like that.
00:56:39.000Maybe they start coupling again, but not clear that that is the case.
00:56:43.000Miami Dade's mayor says that actually, you know, you guys keep talking about the number of positive cases.
00:56:48.000He says, listen, the state's COVID counts might be underestimated by a factor of 10.
00:56:53.000So it is quite possible that we have 10 times the number of people with coronavirus out there in the state, which is both good news and bad news, right?
00:56:59.000It means the spread is basically uncontrolled.
00:57:01.000It also means that deaths have not risen.
00:57:02.000So that should be something that's actually worthy of celebrating.
00:57:07.000This is, by the way, what's happened in Sweden.
00:57:08.000There's been an uptick in number of tests and a real downtick in the number of deaths.
00:57:12.000The same thing is happening in Israel, where there's been an uptick in the number of tests and the deaths are basically stagnant.
00:57:17.000So, in a normal world, the media would be trumpeting this as some cautious optimism, right?
00:57:22.000They'd be saying, like, you should still be careful out there, wear a mask when you're out and about.
00:57:25.000But the fact that you're getting this thing means you're not dying.
00:57:28.000That's a very good piece of news, right?
00:57:30.000Instead, we are seeing people getting more alarmist about this thing when it seems like the virus is becoming less deadly, at least as a matter of treatment, and at least as a percentage of tests that are coming back positive.
00:57:39.000Here is the mayor of Miami pointing out that the number of cases might be way higher than we even know at this point.
00:57:46.000We did a medical study here in Miami-Dade two months ago, and we knew over 200,000 people had already tested positive.
00:57:53.000If we took the positive rate, if we put that out, 200,000 people would test positive to the antibody.
00:58:02.000So the official number that you see, especially in Miami-Dade, we have about 40,000.
00:58:08.000And I expect the same thing in the state of Florida.
00:58:12.000So the more testing you do, the more people you're going to find that have it.
00:58:16.000So again, at this point, I would think that the rule should actually be cautious optimism, not this extraordinary pessimism that's being pushed.
00:58:23.000It's also being pushed about the schools, right?
00:58:25.000There's this idea that if you open the schools, everyone's going to die.
00:58:30.000I mean, the American Academy of Pediatrics said you should basically open the schools at this point.
00:58:34.000My kids are not dying from this thing.
00:58:36.000The death rate for young children is lower for this than it is for the flu.
00:58:40.000And yet Florida is being batted about the ears because the Florida Education Commission required all Florida school districts to reopen campuses in August.
00:58:47.000Hey, Ron DeSantis points this out, and he's being ripped for it, right?
00:58:49.000He says the death rate for young people is near zero, but this means he doesn't care enough.
00:58:52.000So this has, once again, become our stupid, normal American conversation about how much you care, right?
00:58:57.000Not about the data, not about the facts, how much you care.
00:58:59.000Ron DeSantis points out the death rate is close to zero for young people, and he gets ripped for it, obviously.
00:59:05.000Clearly, we viewed it as serious from the beginning in January when we were monitoring it.
00:59:10.000But at the same time, when you hear news about cases, I just think that should be put in the proper context and perspective that the number one age for cases in Florida is 21.
00:59:22.000And if you're 21 and you don't have significant comorbidities, your fatality rate is pretty much zero with that.
00:59:43.000And I'm willing to wait it out, but I'm not willing to wait it out forever.
00:59:46.000And I'm going to take exactly the same perspective on this that I took at the very beginning, when I suggested that let's let the lockdowns work.
00:59:53.000Okay, you want to say that the death is inevitably going to come?
00:59:56.000Maybe it is, but inevitably better have an end date.
00:59:59.000Because inevitable doesn't mean ten years from now, and it doesn't mean six months from now.
01:00:02.000It doesn't even mean a month from now.
01:00:04.000The spike began at the beginning of June.
01:00:09.000So if the death spike doesn't happen soon, you're gonna have to start questioning some of the experts about why it is that the virus seems to either have gotten milder or is killing fewer people overall.
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