Ben Shapiro accidentally sets up a fake Antifa recruiting website, and then discovers that it's a hoax. Meanwhile, Chicago implodes, as Mayor Lori Lightfoot raises the bridges, Trump issues an executive order to suspend the payroll tax, as Joe Biden prepares to name a VP candidate, and we deconstruct the culture by examining a new masterpiece from Cardi B and Meghan Thee Stallion. This is The Ben Shapiro Show, Surf the web with peace of mind! Subscribe to the show to receive notifications when new episodes are available, and for exclusive ad-free versions of the show wherever you get your epsiode. You can also become a patron patron by patronizing the show and leaving a five-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts, and become a supporter for future episodes and future episodes by becoming a patron of the Show. Subscribe today using the promo code: "UPLEVEL" at checkout to receive 5 stars and a FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint, and receive $5 off your first purchase when you sign up for Apple Paypal. Learn more about your first month with discount code: BONUS. Use promo code "UPCOMING" when you shop at Apple. at checkout and get 5% off your purchase through Apple Payroll. and get 10% off the first month, plus free shipping when you enter the offer is $99 or more than $99 gets you get an ad-only offer, plus an additional $5, plus heaps of free shipping throughout the UPC App Store or Vimeo membership and Vimeo, and they get 5 stars, and a free 3 months get 5GBs, plus they'll get you an extra $10,000, they'll receive 5,000 miles, and you'll get 7 days of VIP access to the rest of the service. The offer validates your choice of Prime Video Pro and VSCO Pro gets you a complimentary 3 months, and gets you an ad free version of the program gets you access to watch the show for the full service service, and 7 other places they get $49 or 5, they also get the choice of the entire service, they get 7GBs and they're all get $4, they're also get $1,000 gets $4 VIP access and they'll also get 4,000 MBs and 2,000MBs and 3,000 VIP access. Thanks for listening to the Show?
00:00:36.000So I just want to note how some people on the radical left act because it is a reminder where we are in the country.
00:00:42.000And this story happens to personally involve me.
00:00:44.000So over the weekend, I start receiving all of these bizarre emails from people just cursing me out, which is like kind of a normal weekend, but A little bit more than a normal weekend.
00:00:52.000And people saying they want to join Antifa, emailing me.
00:00:55.000And then I realized yesterday that there is this rumor going around online, and I'm not kidding you, that I had started an Antifa website, like an Antifa recruiting website in order to catfish members of Antifa.
00:01:06.000Okay, and this rumor was so prevalent because there were some big name people on the left Who are putting out this rumor.
00:01:13.000It was pushed by idiots on Reddit, obviously.
00:01:19.000What happened is they set up a fake Antifa recruiting website.
00:01:22.000And then in the fake Antifa recruiting website, they put my public email address in the source code such that it was searchable.
00:01:30.000And then they released that information on Reddit.
00:01:32.000And then everybody on the left apparently bought into this.
00:01:34.000So some person named El Stanger, who is apparently some Wild left LGBT activist tweeted out, Ben Shapiro got caught as the creator of an Antifa recruitment website.
00:01:50.000And the geniuses and grifters over at the Lincoln Project tweeting back graphics in response as though it's real.
00:01:56.000Okay, so I start getting inundated with texts and emails from both the Reddit trolls and from people on Twitter like, what the hell is this?
00:02:03.000It turns out, obviously, that it was a prank by some Reddit idiot.
00:02:07.000And the person is now going out there and recognizing this is what's happened.
00:02:13.000And he tweeted out, since this prank is going viral, and we know he'll spin it to play victim, Ben Shapiro did not set up a fake Antifa site.
00:02:20.000I thought it'd be fun to hide his name in the source code.
00:02:22.000I'm not acting as part of any leftist group.
00:02:31.000This piece of garbage decided to put my name in a fake Antifa recruitment website specifically to, you know, make my life more annoying over the weekend.
00:02:43.000And also I don't have Twitter on my phone because Twitter is stupid.
00:02:46.000And I found out about it like late last night, early this morning.
00:02:48.000So it was like mildly annoying, but it wasn't like super duper annoying.
00:02:52.000And then the person tried to raise money off of it.
00:02:54.000This just shows you where the heads are at for the radical left right now.
00:02:57.000And this went around as though it was real.
00:02:59.000They're like big-name people on the left who are promoting this garbage, and it was perfectly obvious it was garbage from the very beginning.
00:03:05.000I hope that you had a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
00:03:09.000Meanwhile, over the weekend, the big news, obviously, is that the President of the United States signed an executive order, President Trump angry at the Democrats for not having worked with Republicans in order to pass some sort of Bailout bill.
00:03:38.000It is actually quite smart for Trump politically.
00:03:39.000Then we'll get to the actual constitutionality of this thing.
00:03:42.000Here's my view of executive orders generally.
00:03:44.000Executive orders were always meant to effectuate legislation.
00:03:46.000That is what executive orders are meant to do.
00:03:48.000The president does not have unlimited power to simply sign into law whatever he wants to sign into law.
00:03:52.000Typically, an executive order happens when Congress says, we want the president to do X, and in order to effectuate X, the president then signs an executive order to do...
00:04:01.000acts, right, to be more specific. So Congress gives you sort of a broad mandate and the president puts that into place via an executive order. That's not really what happened here.
00:04:09.000The problem for Democrats is several fold here. One, politically speaking, the Democrats did hold up a rescue package. Two, Trump took action to fill in the gap. Three, when Democrats then fight back against that and try to sue him to stop that rescue package from going forward, they look So politically, it's actually quite smart what Trump did here.
00:04:28.000I mean, those are not normally words you hear me saying, but that is a politically smart move by the president of the United States.
00:04:49.000First, a quick reminder, Democrats held up any possibility at a rescue package last week.
00:04:53.000Senator Rob Portman from Ohio, he was pointing out on Thursday that all the Democrats had to do was sign for like one week an extension of unemployment insurance for like one week so that the negotiations could continue.
00:05:06.000Here was Senator Rob Portman from Ohio pointing this out on Thursday.
00:05:11.000One idea, by the way, that makes a lot of sense to me, and I'm going to offer this in a moment as a resolution for the Senate to take up, and I think this is the ultimate common sense, let's keep $600 in place for now while we negotiate something.
00:05:28.000So let's have an extension for another week on the unemployment insurance at $600 just so we can negotiate something.
00:05:38.000Nancy Pelosi went out there and she said she wasn't going to sign anything.
00:05:40.000Nancy Pelosi wanted to throw a wrench into the works simply so she could try and blame Republicans when the money ran out and the economy started to crater.
00:05:47.000That was the overt and obvious goal here.
00:05:56.000It may be that he has exceeded his executive boundaries.
00:05:59.000It may also be that we now live in a country where Checks and balances no longer matter, and the executive branch has usurped virtually all authority, and that predates President Trump.
00:06:06.000You know, one of the great tragedies of history is that very rarely do people who breach boundaries end up paying the price.
00:06:13.000Usually the people who are, like, second after that.
00:06:16.000Usually the government is given inordinate powers, and then the person two people later uses those inordinate powers in ways no one's thought of, and they're like, oh wow, that's crazy.
00:06:23.000In any case, Here's what Trump actually did.
00:06:26.000According to CNN, Trump tried to assert executive power, signing four actions on coronavirus relief on Saturday, one of which will provide as much as $400 in enhanced unemployment benefits after Democrats in the White House were unable to reach an agreement on a stimulus bill this week.
00:06:39.000That memorandum on enhanced unemployment benefits, 25% of which states are being asked to cover, has a lot of strings attached.
00:06:46.000It is seen as a cumbersome effort that may not help a lot of the unemployed.
00:06:48.000I love how CNN covers this stuff, right?
00:06:50.000If Barack Obama signs an executive order to do anything, literally anything, Then it was a good move.
00:07:07.000Because his last name is Trump, obviously.
00:07:08.000The other three actions he signed include a memorandum on a payroll tax holiday for Americans earning less than $100,000 a year, an executive order on assistance to renters and homeowners, and a memo on deferring student loan payments.
00:07:19.000Some of these he has more executive authority for.
00:07:29.000He has a lot of executive authority for that, actually, under the existing law.
00:07:32.000He didn't really do anything about assistance to renters and homeowners.
00:07:36.000He basically kicked it over to the Housing and Urban Development Department to assess what they could do.
00:07:42.000And then on unemployment, he basically kicked that to the states.
00:07:45.000Trump said in a memorandum on the unemployment benefits at his golf club in Bedminster, I'm taking action to provide an additional or extra $400 a week and expanded benefits.
00:07:53.000$400, that's generous, but we want to take care of our people.
00:07:56.000In order for this to happen, a state has to enter into a financial arrangement with the federal government for any unemployed person living there to get any of the additional benefits.
00:08:03.000And the federal government is requiring states to pick up the tab for $100 of the $400 additional benefit each person may be able to receive weekly in additional aid.
00:08:12.000Up to $44 billion from the Disaster Relief Fund would be made available for lost wage assistance.
00:08:16.000So he has the ability, under executive law, he does have the ability to shift some funds from sort of general funding under the Disaster Relief Fund.
00:08:22.000It's stretching the definition, for sure.
00:08:25.000And it is constitutionally questionable, as I say.
00:08:29.000And the way you can tell that it's politically smart is the Democrats are losing their minds.
00:08:32.000They are very, very upset about this because they thought they had them boxed in.
00:08:35.000They thought that simply by preventing any sort of relief package from taking place, they would be able to turn around and blame Republicans.
00:08:42.000A Democratic official said that Democrats were not given any heads up on the executive action.
00:08:46.000They said their funds are completely tapped.
00:08:49.000And so the states won't be able to help out.
00:08:51.000In fact, states have asked Congress to provide them with an additional $500 billion to help shore up their budgets, which have been crushed by the loss of tax revenue amid the pandemic.
00:09:01.000Several experts told CNN there are major questions about how many states may be able to afford the extra cost if a state says it doesn't have the funds or doesn't want to enter into an agreement with the feds.
00:09:09.000The unemployed in that state would receive zero dollars in the extra benefits.
00:09:14.000They would still receive normal state unemployment insurance.
00:09:17.000So this is not going to solve all of the problems.
00:09:19.000But again, it is a smart political move.
00:09:21.000In a second, we are going to get to how you can tell it's a smart political move, the Democratic reaction to all of this.
00:09:27.000Again, two things can be true at once.
00:09:28.000One, I don't like when the President of the United States of whichever party exceeds executive boundaries.
00:09:33.000It is a violation of the Constitution.
00:09:34.000And two, this is a smart political move and Democrats have no card to play.
00:09:38.000So both of those things can be simultaneously true all at once.
00:09:41.000Senator Mitch McConnell He said struggling Americans need action now since Democrats have sabotaged backroom talks with absurd demands that would not help working people.
00:09:48.000I support President Trump exploring his options to get unemployment benefits and other relief to the people who need them most.
00:09:54.000We'll get to all of the reactions from Democrats and from the media in just one second.
00:09:58.000First, let us talk about the fact that does it feel like your rights are under assault these days?
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00:11:18.000Joe Biden reacted by suggesting that the executive order to cut the payroll tax particularly was a war on social security.
00:11:24.000His idea here, so the payroll tax usually is money that goes toward social security.
00:11:28.000You pay some, your employer pays some.
00:11:30.000When a payroll tax holiday is declared or when there is a payroll tax cut, then the money is usually filled in through general funding to social security.
00:11:38.000It's a way of delaying the cost of Social Security, but the benefits never get cut.
00:11:43.000And government never allows Social Security benefits to ever get cut.
00:11:46.000Didn't stop Joe Biden from lying about this.
00:11:48.000He said that the payroll tax cut was a threat to Social Security.
00:11:52.000And he said it's a reckless war on Social Security, actually.
00:11:56.000He said it would undermine the financial footing of Social Security, which is hilarious.
00:11:58.000There is no financial footing to Social Security.
00:12:08.000It'll be later taxpayers who foot the bill for your retirement, if they foot the bill for your retirement at all.
00:12:13.000Biden said he's laying out his roadmap to cutting Social Security.
00:12:16.000Our seniors and millions of Americans with disabilities are under enough stress without Trump putting their hard-earned Social Security benefits in doubt.
00:12:22.000So the Democrats have taken a couple of tacks on Trump's executive order.
00:12:44.000In fact, I can look at the at the White House website, the Obama White House website, February 22nd, 2012.
00:12:50.000Just now, President Obama signed the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, extending the payroll tax cut and emergency jobless benefits through the end of the year.
00:12:59.000President Obama was very, very happy about this.
00:13:01.000And in fact, David Plouffe, the senior advisor, said at the time, when President Obama asked you to speak out on the payroll tax cut, you jumped into action.
00:13:08.000Thousands of individuals from across the country wrote in to say what $40 with each paycheck means to their families.
00:13:15.000So I'm old enough to remember when somebody not named Trump was president, and nobody in the media seemed to care about a payroll tax cut.
00:13:19.000In fact, Barack Obama pushed the payroll tax cut in 2011.
00:13:23.000Here's Barack Obama pushing exactly the same sort of evil, evil payroll tax cut that Joe Biden says is going to undermine Social Security.
00:13:30.000Who was vice president when this guy was president again?
00:13:52.000All of the leaders in Congress, Democrats and Republicans, say they are committed to making sure we extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance for the entire year.
00:14:03.000And by the way, this is something I called for months ago.
00:14:07.000Okay, he called four months ago, right?
00:14:08.000And this is Barack Obama, back in the day, saying the payroll tax cuts are good.
00:14:11.000By the way, you know who else used to say payroll tax cuts were good?
00:14:49.000A payroll tax holiday is a good idea because you're paying less taxes in the here and now.
00:14:53.000And right now, given the fact that employment is scanty and we need to be bolstering businesses, allowing them to keep some of the money, at least for the moment, is a good idea.
00:15:02.000The media are fibbing about it anyway.
00:15:11.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
00:15:13.000First, let us talk about safety and security.
00:15:15.000So I care deeply about safety and security at my house.
00:15:18.000It turns out there are lots of people online who don't like me and target me and dox me and all that sort of stuff.
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00:16:30.000Instead, you decided to go for like a $4 trillion package that funded pretty much everything up to and including, you know, Garbage.
00:16:38.000Just garbage that has nothing to do with trying to save the economy.
00:16:42.000And Nancy Pelosi has no answer because of course that's what she was doing.
00:16:45.000It was obviously an attempt to poison pill the process so that when the thing went down she could blame Trump and she could blame Republicans.
00:16:50.000Here's Chris Wallace calling her on it.
00:16:53.000You're known as a master negotiator, but didn't you mess this one up?
00:16:58.000Because you talk about all the things that the president's bill... Let me just finish if I may, Speaker.
00:17:04.000Now, because there's no deal at all, cities and states won't get any money.
00:18:00.000Barack Obama said in 2013, Obamacare was supposed to kick in the employer mandate in 2013.
00:18:05.000Instead, Barack Obama delayed it for a couple of years simply so he wouldn't feel the political blowback when suddenly employers were forced to cover Obamacare.
00:20:46.000Okay, people were angry that he ended the press conference because one of the reporters wouldn't stop asking him the same question over and over again.
00:20:53.000So, meanwhile, meanwhile, the media's gaslighting here continues.
00:20:58.000So the media covered this executive order as though it was really, really bad.
00:21:02.000That if Barack Obama had not been able to negotiate an agreement with Republicans in the middle of a pandemic to extend aid, and then he had unilaterally gone and done it, they would have cheered.
00:21:11.000And we know that because they literally cheered when he did it with DACA, right?
00:21:14.000He said, I can't cut a deal with Congress.
00:21:42.000I don't think the President of the United States has the unilateral authority to do these kinds of things.
00:21:46.000But the media definitely do not get to stand there and now stand on the corpse of the Constitution they helped shiv and be like, oh guys, you know, this is real bad.
00:21:55.000The thing about the media that you have to understand, though, at least many members of the mainstream media, is the lack of self-awareness is just incredible, just unbelievable.
00:22:01.000So Brian Stelter, who, you know, I find Brian amusing, I will say.
00:22:06.000I've been on his show a few times, a nice guy, but Brian Stelter on CNN.
00:22:09.000Over the weekend, he literally had on a liberal journalist and he asked them, you know, there are all these media outlets and they're out there trying to destroy Biden.
00:22:35.000I mean, I got Brian Stelter may never have seen CNN, right?
00:22:37.000I mean, he spends all day watching Fox News.
00:22:38.000So maybe he doesn't understand CNN exists.
00:22:40.000Here he was on CNN asking whether there is a network dedicated to the destruction of Donald Trump.
00:22:47.000Aaron, your view of this, you know, when you see entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden, is there an equivalent to that on the left tearing down Trump?
00:23:19.000Have you ever seen anything like this attack on Joe Biden?
00:23:21.000I mean, like people attacking Joe Biden, a presidential candidate?
00:23:25.000In a second, we'll get to more Brian Stelter because it's pretty highly amusing.
00:23:28.000First, let us talk about the fact that you hear stories in the news all the time these days about people defending their own property with a gun and then being arrested for it.
00:23:35.000In fact, we saw that crazy story out of St.
00:23:37.000Louis where Where Black Lives Matter, I mean, you have to call them rioters because they literally broke into a private gated community and then they threatened somebody's house and the guy walked out front with his gun and then he was arrested for it, right?
00:23:50.000And his wife and he were issued charges.
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00:24:56.000Okay, Brian Stelter didn't just stop with being unaware of Of media companies trying to tear down Trump.
00:25:05.000Brian Stelter also, this is my favorite clip actually from Brian Stelter's show this weekend on CNN.
00:25:09.000He was very angry because it turns out that many of us on the right, and by the way, some on the left, have questioned Joe Biden's mental fitness because, I will say it again, Joe Biden is barely alive.
00:25:18.000I mean, his mental acuity is not what it used to be.
00:25:21.000It is perfectly obvious from watching any clip of him.
00:25:23.000Brian Stelter decided that all of us are insane for suggesting that Joe Biden is not mentally fit because Joe Biden rode a bicycle over the weekend.
00:27:51.000Meanwhile, speaking of media bias, I've got a bunch of media bias headlines here that are pretty spectacular.
00:27:56.000So, over the weekend, there was a report that the top U.S.
00:28:00.000intelligence officials, counterintelligence officials, have been warning of foreign interference in our elections.
00:28:05.000And what they found is that the Russians have been trying to interfere on behalf of Donald Trump, that the Chinese have been trying to interfere on behalf of Joe Biden, and that the Iranians have been trying to interfere on behalf of Joe Biden.
00:28:15.000They put out a statement and said, we assess that China prefers that President Trump does not win re-election.
00:28:20.000China has been expanding its influence efforts ahead of November 2020.
00:28:23.000Although China will continue to weigh the risks and benefits of aggressive action, its public rhetoric over the past few months has grown increasingly critical of the current administration.
00:28:31.000Okay, on Russia, we assess that Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia establishment.
00:28:38.000This is consistent with Moscow's public criticism of him when he was vice president for his role in the Obama administration's policies in Ukraine.
00:28:46.000Some Kremlin linked actors are seeking to boost President Trump's candidacy on social media and Russian TV.
00:28:52.000We assess that Iran seeks to undermine U.S.
00:28:53.000democratic institutions, President Trump, and to divide the country in advance of 2020.
00:28:56.000Iran's efforts along these lines probably will focus on online influence, such as spreading disinformation on social media and recirculating anti-U.S.
00:29:11.000Okay, so the Russians want Trump apparently, according to this counterintelligence memo.
00:29:14.000The Chinese and Iranians, they want Biden, which makes perfect sense.
00:29:17.000The Iranians know that Joe Biden will cave to them and that he wants to re-enter the garbage Iran nuclear deal.
00:29:23.000The Chinese know that Biden is soft on China.
00:29:26.000And the Russians have always been in favor of sort of the chaos that Trump represents, even though Trump is actually in policy much more anti-Russian than the Obama administration ever was.
00:29:36.000So naturally, the media's takeaway from this?
00:29:38.000The media's takeaway from this tripartite counterintelligence report?
00:29:42.000Is that the Russians are trying to steal the election and then they just conveniently forgot about the parts about China and Iran.
00:29:58.000I mean, shockingly, the media only focused in on one aspect of the report, the Kremlin.
00:30:02.000They don't care that the Chinese, who are, by the way, way more powerful than the Russians, or that the Iranians, who are far more malevolent than probably either, are both stumping for Biden.
00:30:10.000That just went completely by the wayside.
00:30:33.000Okay, meanwhile, in other news, well, you know what?
00:30:36.000I do have to add one note on an amazing New York Times headline over the weekend, because the New York Times has basically just become BuzzFeed.
00:30:42.000Over at the New York Times, they literally ran a headline.
00:30:46.000It's hard to fathom, but it has been 36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket, writes Maureen Dowd, to use Geraldine Ferraro's favorite expression, give me a break.
00:30:54.000They're calling for Joe Biden to run with a female VP.
00:30:56.000Um, I don't mean to fact-check the New York Times, which, by the way, couldn't even fact-check its own 1619 project, because Nicole Hannah-Jones is the editor.
00:31:03.000But, um, has it been 36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket?
00:31:46.000They tried to actually cut off The circle loop.
00:31:50.000They tried to cut off the center of downtown Chicago because so many people were rushing in with, I kid you not, U-Hauls in order to rob major stores in Chicago's downtown.
00:31:59.000We'll get to that in just... Don't worry.
00:32:02.000You know, honestly, we should have seen it coming when Jussie Smollett gave us that report on those evil, white, red-hatted men who are trying to lynch black people in downtown Chicago.
00:32:15.000We should have known that Trump was going to ruin Chicago.
00:32:17.000We should have known that this was next.
00:32:19.000We're gonna get to all of this in just one second.
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00:36:09.000Well, in Englewood, Over the weekend, on Sunday, about 2.30pm, the police responded to a call about a person with a gun.
00:36:17.000And they tried to confront someone matching his description in an alley.
00:36:20.000He then ran away from the police officers and then shot at the officers with a gun.
00:36:23.000Officers then returned fire and they wounded him and a gun was recovered.
00:36:26.000He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
00:36:27.000Three officers were also taken to a hospital for observation.
00:36:31.000More than an hour after the shooting, as according to ABC News, police and witnesses said a crowd faced off with police after someone reportedly told people police had shot and wounded a child.
00:36:40.000OK, so people just started lying about what happened because this is what we do now.
00:36:43.000And by the way, Democrats facilitate this sort of behavior on a broader level.
00:36:46.000Joe Biden over the weekend, for example, he tweeted out the Michael Brown lie again.
00:36:51.000This has become like a this has become a normal Democratic thing to say.
00:36:54.000I remember Elizabeth Warren did this during the campaign.
00:36:56.000Joe Biden tweeted out over the weekend.
00:36:58.000It's been six years since Michael Brown's life was taken in Ferguson, reigniting a movement.
00:37:02.000We must continue the work of tackling systemic racism and reforming police.
00:37:41.000And this is according to the Chicago Tribune.
00:37:44.000They found that people were driving U-Hauls up to large stores and just stealing stuff.
00:37:50.000So according to ABC News, quote, more than 100 people were arrested Monday following a night of looting and unrest that left 13 officers injured and caused damage in the city's upscale Magnificent Mile shopping district and other parts of the city.
00:38:00.000According to authorities, you can see that they're outside a Tesla building trying to shatter, they shattered the windows of this Tesla building, right, to try and steal cars, presumably.
00:38:15.000It's the most beautiful part of downtown Chicago.
00:38:18.000Police Superintendent David Brown said it was not an organized protest.
00:38:20.000Instead, an incident of pure criminality that began following the shooting of a person by police the previous day in the city's Englewood neighborhood.
00:38:27.000At one point early Monday, shots were fired at the cops and officers returned fire.
00:38:32.000Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said this was straight up felony criminal conduct.
00:38:49.000The unrest began shortly after midnight.
00:38:50.000Anti-police graffiti was seen in Magnificent Mile.
00:38:53.000Hours earlier, dozens of people had faced off with cops after officers shot and wounded that guy.
00:38:58.000By the way, it takes all the way until the end of the article for them to mention that the person they wounded had actually been shooting at the cops.
00:39:04.000There was video that emerged last night of the city of Chicago closing the bridges.
00:39:09.000Okay, this is just Batman Begins at this point.
00:39:12.000Apparently Ra's al Ghul took over the Chicago Loop last night.
00:39:16.000They raised the bridges in the middle of the evening to stop people from rushing over to the Magnificent Mile and continuing to do damage.
00:39:24.000Along Magnificent Mile, people were seen going in and out of stores carrying shopping bags full of merch, as well as at the bank, the Chicago Tribune reported.
00:39:32.000As the crowd grew, vehicles dropped off more people in the area.
00:39:34.000So basically it was running, guys, they needed bread.
00:39:37.000As AOC says, these are people who need bread.
00:39:40.000What we are watching right now, this is all about racial justice.
00:39:43.000These are people who are stealing stuff from the bank, because obviously, racial injustice, systemic evil.
00:39:52.000Stores miles from downtown were also ransacked.
00:39:54.000Parking lots were littered with glass and items from inside the stores.
00:39:57.000Clothes hangers and boxes that once contained TV sets and electronics were seen, stealing TVs for racial justice.
00:40:03.000Representative, Reverend Michael Flager, who is a wild leftist, right?
00:40:16.000A rock was thrown at a police vehicle.
00:40:18.000Again, according to the Chicago Tribune, According to the Chicago Tribune, people literally were driving U-Hauls up to stores to steal things.
00:40:52.000Now the mayors of major cities just let the cities burn.
00:40:54.000At least the corrupt Chicago mayors of old, at least those corrupt Chicago mayors used to make sure that the citizens were at least somewhat safe.
00:41:13.000Quote, a fire inside a police union building led authorities in Portland, Oregon to declare a riot and force protesters away from the offices as violent demonstrations continue in the city that had hoped for calm after federal agents withdrew more than a week ago.
00:41:38.000According to USA Today, a group of demonstrators broke into the Portland Police Association building, set fire, and were adding to it when officers made a riot declaration late Saturday.
00:41:47.000Video shot by a journalist shows smoke and flames rising from inside the building.
00:41:51.000Several hundred people had gathered outside the offices, which are located about five miles north of the federal courthouse that had been the target of nightly violence earlier this summer.
00:41:58.000The Portland Police Association is a labor union that represents members of the Portland Police Bureau.
00:42:03.000Live video had shown multiple dumpster fires had been set near the building, because that's our country now, less than half an hour after police tweeted that criminal activities, including but not limited to vandalism, unlawful entry to the building, or fire starting, could be subject to arrest, use of tear gas, and or crowd control munitions.
00:42:20.000The riot was declared about 11.30 p.m., but everything is going great, guys.
00:42:25.000In fact, things are going so great that the main challenger to Mayor Ted Wheeler, who of course is the pathetic mayor who went down to the middle of the protest like a couple of weeks ago and got yelled at by the people he was allowing to riot, his main challenger is a communist, basically.
00:43:54.000I clean up when things are unfairly targeted, but here's what I have to say.
00:43:58.000Their outrage at the police is valid, and the problem of police brutality and executing black lives in the streets is more important than any vandalism.
00:44:09.000Things are going great over in Portland.
00:44:10.000By the way, they're going great in L.A.
00:44:13.000According to the Washington Examiner, public records indicate that an L.A.
00:44:15.000City Councilman who voted to slash the police department budget by $150 million, called for police assistance eight times since April, including calls for protection from protesters at his home.
00:44:26.000A public records request reveals that LA City Councilman Mike Bonin, who voted to defund LAPD by $150 million, has called LAPD to his home eight times since April 4th, including to provide extra patrols and protection from peaceful protesters at his home, according to Bill Malugan, a reporter for Fox 11 in Los Angeles.
00:44:44.000He joined 10 other city council members in an 11-3 vote to cut the police budget in June.
00:44:49.000Bonin says that he has not called the police.
00:44:51.000He just said that a lot of staffers called the police.
00:44:54.000So that's, he said seven of the eight calls were apparently generated by the LAPD themselves.
00:44:59.000He says, I specifically asked for no patrols at my home.
00:45:02.000Then the reporter from Fox LA revealed that there was definitely a call for service by Bonin or a member of his staff from within the LAPD.
00:45:11.000So it turns out there are natural consequences to allowing your cities to be made a mockery by rioters and looters just to own Trump.
00:45:20.000You know, by the way, chickens coming home to roost over in Washington, D.C.
00:45:52.000At some point, Joe Biden's gonna have to actually answer some questions about how he plans to get this sort of insanity under control, or whether he's just gonna poo-poo it the way that every other major Democrat seems to be poo-pooing it.
00:46:03.000By the way, in stories about making the country better, apparently, the store Target, so one of the things that's most wonderful about our situation right now, is corporate America has decided to simply woke-signal, and they're gonna woke-signal for the cash.
00:46:16.000What they figure is that motivated woke people will shop at their stores if they do woke virtue signaling, and that everybody else will shop at the stores because they don't want to be bothered.
00:46:23.000So Target has now added a badge to help shoppers identify black-owned brands.
00:46:53.000According to Food Network, Target said in a company statement, quote, We have carried a number of Black-owned brands for years and continue to listen to guests to ensure we offer a compelling, relevant assortment that supports our guests' needs.
00:47:03.000Based on what our guests are searching for, we have started to implement icons online to help our guests find and support Black-owned brands and founders when they shop online.
00:47:11.000Yeah, this is, no way this could possibly backfire in any possible iteration.
00:47:19.000Let's talk about a little bit of good news.
00:47:20.000I know it's a lot of bad news in one episode.
00:47:22.000Let's talk about a slight amount of good news at the very least.
00:47:25.000So it turns out that Goldman Sachs is actually pretty positive about the economy for next year.
00:47:29.000They're saying that vaccines seem to be developing apace.
00:47:32.000They put out a notice over the weekend.
00:47:34.000They say that they expect at least one vaccine will be approved by the end of 2020 and will be widely available by the end of 2021 quarter two.
00:47:41.000And they're now leaving their forecast of quarterly annualized GDP growth unchanged in 2020.
00:47:45.000They're hoping there will be a 25% GDP growth in Q3 and an 8% GDP growth in Q4.
00:48:14.000I mean, that's at least some piece of good news.
00:48:16.000By the way, also worth noting, It appears that Democrats are beginning to come around to the idea that keeping schools interminably closed is a bad idea.
00:48:26.000Which is weird, because five seconds ago, Democrats were declaring that if you want schools open, you want to kill both your children and grandma.
00:48:35.000Executive orders to leave out schools altogether.
00:49:45.000It was called Deconstructing the Culture.
00:49:47.000So, it is time once again to deconstruct the culture where we take an important piece of popular culture and we break it down for its important aspect in American life.
00:49:59.000So, let's deconstruct a little bit of culture.
00:50:23.000Their last name is Stallion and her parents named her Megan Thee.
00:50:26.000And I don't know why her middle name is Thee as opposed to The.
00:50:30.000Um, but apparently you are the stallion.
00:50:32.000Not just, not just the, the, the are the stallion.
00:50:34.000In any case, there's this new video, and just as a preface to this video, let me note some of the headlines about this video from mainstream outlets.
00:50:44.000The headline from Complex was, why Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's empowering anthem, WAP, is so important.
00:55:01.000But I will admit that when I first saw the lyrics to this song, my first concern, as a sympathetic and empathetic human being, my first concern is that these women are describing a serious gynecological condition.
00:55:18.000These women are suffering from some sort of serious, I mean, a bucket and a mop?
00:55:23.000This sounds like there's something that is going on here that is not biologically normal.
00:55:28.000And by the way, this song is so unsexy that it frankly sounds like somebody describing what amounts to a serious condition that requires the care of a doctor.
00:55:38.000So, fortunately I know a doctor, who is my wife.
00:55:42.000And so I asked her for her medical diagnosis.
00:55:47.000And after being kind of appalled by them, obviously, she had a few sort of indicators here on how she could diagnose the vaginal condition that apparently these women are suffering from.
00:55:58.000There are a few sort of giveaways here.
00:55:59.000So first of all, a bucket and a mop for this wet-ass p-word.
00:56:02.000So first of all, she had to clarify whether wet-ass p-word was a description of the p-word or whether one of the clinical symptoms here was also diarrhea.
00:56:21.000Because that's a symptom of something that is not going great.
00:56:25.000Apparently there are signs of prolapse.
00:56:28.000And I say that because, hop on top, I want a ride, I do a kegel while it's inside.
00:56:31.000So there's some signs of some actual clinical prolapse, which is a problem.
00:56:36.000Also, there's some talk about where this person is putting their nose, and there's some talk about smelling.
00:56:47.000There's a line here about gagging and choking, which suggests that perhaps there's an odor issue here.
00:56:54.000Also, at some point in here, there's a reference to diabetes about a person who engages in a particular activity and ends up diabetic, which suggests a serious pH imbalance.
00:57:04.000So, I asked my wife for a differential diagnosis for the sake of these ladies in case they need to go to the doctor.
00:57:20.000Her differential diagnosis, my wife the doctor, was either these women are suffering from bacterial vaginosis, or a yeast infection, or, my wife suggested, most probably, they are suffering from trichomonas.
00:57:39.000I mean, I understand how empowering it is for women to sing about the moisture state of their genitals.
00:57:46.000And I understand that anybody who criticizes this as reductive of female sexuality and or of putting out images of females as over sexualized in a way that is negative, that puts negative images in men and drives negative images toward women for men, treating them as sex objects.
00:58:03.000I understand that that stuff is out of bounds, right?
00:58:05.000I mean, if we mention any of that stuff, it's because we're misogynists.
00:58:08.000I'm a sexist for saying that women are more than just, you know, they're wet ass p words.
00:58:13.000As a sympathetic human being, I just want to make sure these ladies get the care they need.
00:58:17.000My wife's medical advice is that they go to a gynecologist ASAP and that they do whatever checks are necessary for bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonas.
00:58:28.000So, with that in mind, we'll be here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:58:33.000And by the way, this video is available to everybody, including people who are under the age of 18, is what I have been informed by those who use YouTube.
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