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00:00:00.000California experiences rolling blackouts again in the midst of a record heatwave.
00:00:04.000Protests continue to break into violence in major cities while Democrats continue to praise Jacob Blake and President Trump vows to stop the 1619 Project and federal indoctrination in critical race theory.
00:00:29.000We're going to get to all the breaking news in just one moment.
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00:02:09.000Well, because it turns out that California's government is garbage.
00:02:11.000It turns out that this state, which has the highest tax rates in America, They've got a tax rate, the top tax rate in California is currently 13.8%.
00:02:19.000You add that onto the federal rate and that means that people who are in the top tax bracket may be paying well over 50% of their income to the state and federal government.
00:02:27.000California also has tremendous sales taxes, tremendous local taxes.
00:02:31.000The only taxes that are decent in California, and that's because of a proposition Democrats seek to overturn, Proposition 13, are the property taxes.
00:02:38.000Every other tax is extraordinarily high here in California.
00:02:41.000We are the worst tax people in America, and we have no power.
00:02:44.000Because it turns out that the electrical grid for California not only has not been really updated in quite a while, but it turns out that we have been steadily moving away from efficient forms of energy creation and toward inefficient forms of energy creation, which led to the pathetic tweet From the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, quote, it's almost 3 p.m. Time to turn off major appliances. Set the thermostat to 78 degrees or use a fan instead. OK, let me just inform you, if it is 110 degrees outside that fan, it ain't going to do you one damn bit of good. You're going to die of heat exhaustion.
00:03:14.000Turn off excess lights and unplug any appliances you're not using.
00:03:17.000We need every Californian to help conserve energy. Please do your part. Hashtag FlexAlert.
00:03:23.000So I have a question. Was he not aware?
00:03:26.000Was all of California not aware that it gets hot in the summer here in California?
00:03:29.000Because I've been here my entire life.
00:03:33.000And when your power goes out, it is a miserable experience.
00:03:37.000I've been here during a power outage, and it is just terrible.
00:03:40.000We had a transformer a few years back, blue on our street.
00:03:43.000Is the middle of a heat wave and we're literally lying on the floor of our house because we're just trying to get close to the hardwood floor because it was cooler than the air.
00:03:52.000I mean, it is really, really, really hot out here when it gets hot.
00:03:56.000And that is why AC has been such a wonderful thing.
00:03:58.000But it turns out that if you're going to sustain AC for some tens of millions of people, about 40 some million people who live in California, you're going to need an electrical grid That is not reliant on, for example, solar energy.
00:04:09.000The reason that they said you have to start shutting down your power at about 3 p.m.
00:04:12.000is because a huge percentage of California's electrical grid is now reliant on so-called green energy, which as it turns out is wildly inefficient, incredibly expensive, and means that you have rolling blackouts in the middle of the record heat wave.
00:04:25.000The Department of Energy had to authorize a federal intervention.
00:04:29.000Shailene Hines, who is the DOE spokeswoman, said tonight, pursuant to his authorities under the Federal Power Act, in response to an urgent request from the state of California, Secretary Brulette issued a Section 202C emergency order to preserve the reliability of the bulk electric power system during this period of heat and stress on the grid.
00:04:46.000The secretary concurs with the California Independent System Operator Corporation that a grid reliability emergency exists, which demands immediate federal intervention.
00:04:53.000While the Secretary has offered this emergency assistance to California in this time of crisis, he also encourages state policymakers to evaluate why the grid is not able to handle extreme stress, which could be alleviated with the support of greater baseload power generation and natural gas supply.
00:05:06.000And it is that last sentence that matters.
00:05:08.000The fact is that California has been moving steadily toward very inefficient forms of green energy.
00:05:13.000Still, the majority of power in the state of California is provided by older, reliable, carbon-based forms of energy.
00:05:19.000But we've been dumping billions of dollars in the state of California into this green energy that is supposed to take care of us, and it has not done so.
00:05:27.000The good news is the Democrats want to extend this kind of malpractice across the entire nation.
00:05:31.000The Wall Street Journal had an article on this weeks ago.
00:05:51.000Wolak was among the people who helped California chart a course out of crisis in 2001, when a poorly conceived state electricity deregulation law resulted in frequent power shortages, sporadic blackouts, astronomical wholesale prices, and market manipulation.
00:06:04.000As Californians again experience rolling blackouts and millions more are threatened with losing power, a warning that continues through Monday, WOLAC said it was clear that California policymakers completely forgot the lessons from the crisis in their rush to go green.
00:06:16.000A big part of the problem is that California regulators left the state exposed to buying large amounts of imported electricity on the spot market during peak periods on days where there is extreme energy demand.
00:06:24.000So we move toward green energy, and then if we fall short, then we try to buy electricity from other states.
00:06:28.000But what happens when there is a giant call on the system and the system is not able to meet that demand?
00:06:34.000WOLAC likened this to going to the airport on Thanksgiving and expecting to fly standby.
00:06:38.000Only this time, the crunch time for the state's grid operator isn't the actual power demand peak in late afternoon.
00:06:43.000It's when the sun starts to fall in early evening, and the renewable energy the state is increasingly dependent on begins to wane.
00:06:49.000Remember, solar energy, when the sun goes down, when it starts to go down, your solar energy begins to wane because we still don't have a great way of storing solar energy and batteries.
00:06:58.000On many days, California's grid operator now has to find 10,000 to 15,000 megawatts of replacement powers.
00:07:03.000Sometimes that is somewhere between a quarter and a half of all of the energy needed to keep the lights on during a three hour period as solar and to a lesser degree wind power falls off.
00:07:11.000So we didn't have a lot of wind over the last several days.
00:07:14.000And solar power again began to fall off early evening.
00:07:17.000And so everybody was stuck in 100 degree weather.
00:07:20.000California often relies on imported power from other states to help fill its void, but when a historic heatwave gripped the western U.S.
00:07:25.000this month, the state struggled to find a way to replace up to 8,000 megawatts of disappearing renewable energy each evening.
00:07:31.000It came up short on some days, by as much as half that amount, and had to call for rolling blackouts in the middle of August.
00:07:36.000And then we just did that again this weekend.
00:07:38.000Between 2014 and 2018, the state reduced its consumption of electricity from natural gas-fired power plants by 21%.
00:07:44.000Over that same period, it increased renewable energy consumption by 54%.
00:07:50.000These were ambitious mandates that were designed to lower global warming.
00:07:53.000By the way, the impact on global warming is absolutely negligible statistically speaking.
00:07:58.000of natural gas in the state of California with solar and the impact on global warming would be incredibly negligible. Tiny, tiny, tiny over the course of the century. It would just mean that everybody would have to turn on those ceiling fans in the middle of this massive, massive heat wave. Every time there's a heat wave. There's a guy named Michael Peavy.
00:08:15.000He served as president of the California Public Utilities Commission before he stepped down at the end of 2014.
00:08:19.000He said rigid adherence to the green policy might have gone too far, particularly in light of state decisions to shut down two big sources of round-the-clock power, the San Onofre nuclear plant in 2013, and then the last remaining nuclear plant in the state, Diablo Canyon, after 2025.
00:08:32.000So we don't even have nuclear power in the state.
00:08:35.000So it's been a disaster for a long time here.
00:08:37.000It's just that this became absolutely clear.
00:08:41.000For all of the United States, large-scale installed battery capacity today totals approximately 1,000 megawatts.
00:08:48.000One California ISO estimate is the state could need up to 15,000 megawatts of energy storage capacity to reach its goal of eliminating carbon emissions from power generation by 2045.
00:08:57.000Hey, so again, bad policy led to these rolling blackouts.
00:09:00.000I'm constantly amazed to watch California politicians going out there and saying things like, well, you know, this was a historic heatwave.
00:09:06.000You saw Gavin Newsom at the DNC doing this, standing out there in the forest being like, we have wildfires because it's so hot.
00:09:11.000It turns out human policy has an awful lot to do with a lot of the bad things that happen here in the state of California.
00:09:16.000When you have rolling blackouts in the middle of 120 degree weather, Because you didn't foresee it might get a little hot during the summer, you stupid jackasses.
00:09:49.000There's a study came out said about 1 in 10 of these protests turned violent.
00:09:53.0007% of these protests turned violent, which means like 570 different riots and looting incidents across the United States over the past several months.
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00:11:28.000Okay, so, meanwhile, things continue to heat up over the weekend, not just physically, but also in terms of politics.
00:11:35.000I have to acknowledge, I am amazed, amazed, that the Trump campaign And what can only be called an act of political malpractice has not made more of the fact that the Biden-Harris campaign is lionizing an alleged rapist who resisted the police before he was shot.
00:11:53.000The fact is that the Jacob Blake case in Kenosha, which kind of revivified a lot of these riots and protests and created a new moment, that is an extraordinarily poor example of supposed police malfeasance.
00:12:13.000And remember, there was an open warrant for Jacob Blake's arrest because a woman alleged that he had gone into her room, this is a couple of months ago, that he had gone into her room, in her house, invaded her house, that he had, her child was asleep next to her in the bed, that he had digitally raped her, that he then sniffed his fingers and said, smells like you've been with other men.
00:12:32.000And now she shows up again, and then she calls the cops.
00:12:34.000All of this precedes Jacob Blake resisting arrest, being tased twice, apparently, and not falling down, refusing to abide police commands, walking around to the driver's side of his car, reaching into his car, apparently for a knife, because a knife was found on the driver's side floorboards, and then he was shot.
00:12:48.000And the Democrats have chosen to make this person a hero.
00:12:51.000They've chosen that this person is going to be a hero, not just the Democrats.
00:12:53.000The media, too, have decided to make this person a hero.
00:12:57.000So Benjamin Crump, who is the lawyer for Jacob Blake, basically anytime there's a police incident, the family immediately...
00:13:03.000goes directly to Benjamin Crump, who's been at the forefront of nearly every one of these particular incidents, and via his office has disseminated really bad information initially on a number of these incidents, ranging from Michael Brown to Jacob Blake.
00:13:14.000Remember, I believe it was Benjamin Crump's office that originally disseminated the lie that Jacob Blake was there to break up a fight between two women and was peacefully abiding by what the officers said, and then they shot him for no reason.
00:13:23.000Well, now, Ben Crump has put out a statement with his co-counsels, Patrick Salvi II and Blory Lamar, Senator Kamala Harris visited with the family of Jacob Blake Jr., who joined by phone from his hospital bed.
00:13:36.000Now, he's not just in the hospital bed because he is wounded.
00:13:40.000He's also in the hospital bed because he's literally chained to the hospital bed because he's under arrest right now for alleged rape.
00:13:45.000Here is the statement put out by Benjamin Crump.
00:13:47.000Senator Harris had an inspirational and uplifting one-hour visit with Jacob Blake Jr.
00:13:52.000She spoke individually with each family member about how they were handling the trauma and urged them to take care of their physical and mental health.
00:14:08.000So which part is she proud of, Jacob Blake?
00:14:11.000Like really, I'm wondering what it is there is to be proud of.
00:14:13.000He's an alleged rapist with an open warrant for domestic violence, for domestic abuse, and for rape, who resisted arrest before he was shot.
00:14:23.000It seems like there are a lot of things in life that you can be proud of someone for.
00:14:25.000I'm wondering what it is that she is proud of exactly about Jacob Blake.
00:14:30.000Just to review Kamala Harris' record and how she perceives alleged rape, according to Kamala Harris, Brett Kavanaugh Also, Kamala Harris declared that Joe Biden, like a year ago, had been credibly accused of sexual harassment, and in fact, soft forms of sexual assault, right?
00:14:44.000evidence other than an account that was belied by every one of the supposed witnesses to the event from Christine Blasey Ford. Also Kamala Harris declared that Joe Biden like a year ago had been credibly accused of sexual harassment and in fact soft forms of sexual assault right he had touched people without their permission. That was Kamala Harris.
00:15:04.000Now she's out there praising a man who allegedly raped a woman with her child in the room and then returned to the scene and tried to take the keys of the house from the woman in violation of a restraining order.
00:15:18.000assured her he was not going to give up on life for the sake of his children.
00:15:22.000Senator Harris also discussed the policy changes she and Vice President Biden will seek, including the Justice in Policing Act and implicit bias training to make things better for all Americans.
00:15:29.000She encouraged them to continue to use their voices, even through their pain, to help America make progress to end systemic racism.
00:15:38.000The vague mush word that means nothing when heard by everybody in the United States, but means everything to people in the press who understand that the systemic racist charge means that you have to tear down nearly every system in the United States.
00:15:50.000Kamala Harris didn't just have this statement via the Benjamin Crump law firm.
00:15:55.000She also spoke to the press about this.
00:15:56.000She said, the Blake family is just wonderful.
00:16:00.000It's like in the list of, in the pantheon of American families, It goes like, probably, you know, like the Rockefeller family, the John Adams, John Quincy Adams family, and then the Blake family, right?
00:16:13.000Where the son is an alleged rapist and the father is a rabid anti-Semite who posts stuff about how the Jews run the world on his Facebook page.
00:16:19.000That is the pantheon of incredible families in America.
00:16:21.000Here is Senator Harris praising a family where the son is an alleged rapist and the father is a rabid anti-Semite.
00:16:30.000This is the vice presidential candidate for the Democrats.
00:17:08.000The Democrats have taken the side of people who are, when you say credibly accused, who are very, very credibly accused of having committed sexual assault and they're anti-Semite family members.
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00:19:30.000Okay, so the New York Times is also attempting to push the lie that Jacob Blake is a wonderful hero.
00:19:38.000You know, it's funny, Candace Owens got a lot of flack for suggesting that people were lionizing George Floyd, right?
00:19:44.000And this led Dave Chappelle to attack Candace Owens and suggest that she was a bad person because she was pointing out that it's not merely that people were upset about what happened to George Floyd.
00:19:51.000They were also lionizing him as some sort of American hero being buried in a gold casket and all the rest.
00:19:56.000The media are giving the full treatment to Jacob Blake.
00:19:58.000I mean, they are giving the full sycophantic treatment to an alleged rapist with multiple children by multiple mothers.
00:20:03.000I mean, this guy is, this is not a model of excellent human behavior.
00:20:08.000In fact, if you don't want to be shot by the police, I have a couple of recommendations.
00:20:24.000But apparently none of that matters because you'll be lionized as a hero by the media, so long as you are black and the police officer is white, and so long as it serves a political purpose for a Democrat.
00:20:32.000And that is what is happening right now.
00:20:33.000Here's an article from the New York Times today.
00:20:35.000Jacob Blake, rare survivor at center of police protests, starts telling his own story.
00:20:43.000In a video recorded from his hospital bed, Mr. Blake, who was shot by the police, says, it hurts to breathe, it hurts to sleep.
00:20:49.000Demonstrations against police violence have been filled with the chants of victims' names.
00:20:52.000George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner.
00:20:55.000In recent days, a new name, Jacob Blake, has been called out in protests across the country.
00:20:59.000In that list, though, Mr. Blake, a black man who was repeatedly shot in the back by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is also set apart.
00:21:05.000Okay, you might notice that that description of the crime lacks a little bit of context.
00:21:10.000According to the New York Times, he was just a black guy repeatedly shot in the back by a white police officer.
00:21:14.000None of the, he was reaching for a knife in his car.
00:21:16.000None of the, he repeatedly disobeyed orders by the cops.
00:21:19.000None of the, he violently resisted arrest, which he did.
00:21:21.000None of the, he was called, the cops were called to the scene because he was violating a restraining order for a woman who alleged rape.
00:21:26.000None of that makes it to the New York Times piece.
00:21:30.000According to the New York Times, unlike so many of the people who have become grim symbols for a movement, Mr. Blake survived and has begun to tell his story.
00:21:39.000Okay, buried in paragraph 17 of this piece, Buried in paragraph 17 of this piece is the little-known fact that Blake has pled not guilty to three domestic charges against him, including a sexual assault count.
00:22:09.000The trial in that case has been scheduled for November, although it could be delayed.
00:22:14.000Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney, said Blake was still coming to terms with the public attention to what had happened to him and what it might mean in the months ahead.
00:22:22.000Crump said he hasn't been able to fully grasp what a symbol he has become, adding that Blake was mostly focused on making sure that his young children, three of whom witnessed the shooting, are not traumatized and they understand that he will emerge from this.
00:22:32.000Crumb said, the way he's trying to be a strong black father for his children is the way he's taking on the mission of this movement.
00:22:37.000You know what's a great way to be a strong black father?
00:22:39.000Not allegedly raping people and then resisting arrest when they come to arrest you.
00:22:42.000That would be a great way to be a better father, period.
00:23:22.000Please, I'm telling you, change your lives out there.
00:23:25.000We can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people out here, man, because there's so much time that has been wasted.
00:23:42.000Okay, so when you set the narrative that America is evil and systemically racist and horrible across the board, the predictable result is that no matter what the circumstances of any individual police interaction with a black person, it will be treated by the media and by a population that has been taught by the media that America is a horrible place as an incident of white-on-black brutality.
00:24:02.000And that is what we have seen across the country.
00:24:03.000And by the way, It will be latched onto by agitators of all races, particularly upper-class white people.
00:24:09.000A shocking number of Antifa members and rioters and looters have actually been upper-class white people.
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00:26:12.000A lot of pissed off white people looking to wreck a restaurant.
00:26:19.000All this is good for America, and I feel like the Biden-Harris campaign is going to reign it in by praising people who commit active, disgusting crime, and then are shot in the process of resisting police.
00:26:32.000That seems like that'll probably heal things.
00:26:33.000In D.C., protesters were blocking reporters, so that's always good news.
00:26:37.000We've been told by the way, these same reporters who try and cover for the protesters and pretend they're nice people, again, bunch of White people who have decided to glom onto the movement and do the hard work, according to Robin DiAngelo.
00:26:47.000According to Frederick Kunkel of the Washington Post, quote, protesters are now blocking media from filming their demonstration, shining lights into a reporter's face, blocking shots with fans umbrellas, and following like, quote unquote, minders.
00:26:59.000So, good times over in Washington, D.C.
00:27:03.000Over in Portland, we had an instance in which people were throwing Molotov cocktails at the cops, and one of the protesters who was standing in front of the cops was hit by the Molotov cocktail, leading to him being set on fire, and then ironically having to be put out by the very police officers he was protesting.
00:27:16.000So the cops were systemically evil, had to put out this man who was on fire.
00:27:23.000He's standing in the middle of the street protesting the police.
00:27:32.000You know, if you go out protesting the police and you get sent on fire by a Molotov cocktail thrown by one of the members of your own side, and then the police have to come and save you because your idiot friends are trying to put out a fire with a trash can, as opposed to, you know, an actual fire extinguisher where the cops show up and try to help you.
00:28:33.000There's a black woman walking up to this elderly white couple, just walks up and starts drinking the lady's beer.
00:28:40.000She's wearing a shirt that says Nazi lives don't matter, which the irony of modern day fascists walking up to other people and just taking their stuff and seizing it in the name of racial justice.
00:29:19.000If you appease them, then presumably they will get a little bit calmer.
00:29:22.000The only problem is that you are now making it so that the math works.
00:29:25.000That every time they decide to get violent, you're going to do more work on their behalf.
00:29:29.000I don't think that the American people are particularly into being blackmailed, especially not by the wonderful people who are engaged in this sort of blackmail in the first place.
00:29:38.000There is an amazing story of a wealthy college student who was arrested Over the weekend for engaging in rioting.
00:29:51.000She was among those arrested after a vandalism spree on Friday in the Flatiron District where demonstrators were protesting in favor of BLM.
00:29:58.000They did $100,000 worth of damage to businesses in Manhattan.
00:30:01.000So apparently she has now been charged.
00:30:06.000Well, she was arrested at her family's second home.
00:30:10.000She's an undergrad at Rice University.
00:30:12.000Her father is a psychiatrist who teaches at Columbia University Department of Psychiatry.
00:30:17.000So we are now living out Philip Roth's American Pastoral.
00:30:21.000Her mother is an architect at a prestigious Manhattan firm.
00:30:23.000The family in 2016 purchased a $1.8 million apartment on the Upper East Side.
00:30:27.000They also own a home with four fireplaces in Connecticut.
00:30:30.000One law enforcement source told the Post, I wonder how her rich parents feel about their daughter.
00:30:34.000How would they feel if they graffitied their townhouse?
00:30:36.000This girl should be the poster child for white privilege.
00:30:38.000Growing up on the Upper East Side and another home in Connecticut, this is the height of hypocrisy.
00:30:43.000But of course it isn't the height of hypocrisy if you engage in a movement that says that America is systemically racist and that that is basically the fault of white people.
00:30:49.000And the only way that white people can alleviate their historic systemic racism is by leading the way in creating change.
00:30:57.000And the way that change is created is by overthrowing all systems.
00:31:00.000So of course she's rebelling against exactly the systems that made her parents wealthy.
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00:33:56.000So Democrats are having an exorbitantly hard time condemning Antifa and certainly Black You won't see anybody on the Democratic side condemn Black Lives Matter and the associated violence involved with Black Lives Matter.
00:34:08.000Over the weekend, Joe Biden was asked specifically about Antifa and he said, yes, I condemn that violence and all other violence.
00:34:13.000Which, of course, is both sidesing it in the same way that Donald Trump was criticized for in Charlottesville.
00:34:18.000I remember, because I was one of the people who criticized him for it.
00:34:20.000Okay, well, Bret Baier asked Simone Sanders, who is a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, why Biden had not specifically condemned Antifa.
00:34:57.000Brett, the Vice President has been very clear.
00:35:00.000He condemns all forms of violence, and frankly, what you heard him say in the speech that he gave on Monday of last week was, it doesn't matter what political party you belong to, it doesn't matter what your political beliefs are, violence is wrong.
00:35:17.000Does not cut it when you refuse to specifically talk about the evils of Antifa or specifically refuse to talk about the evils of BLM, the organization, as well as the protests that have led to violence across the country.
00:35:27.000Okay, Bret Baier then asked a more specific question to Simone Sanders.
00:35:30.000He says, you know, 13 members of the Biden campaign tried to bail out rioters in Minneapolis.
00:35:39.000Do the dozen-plus Biden campaign staffers who donated to this Minnesota Freedom Fund have any regrets about that, now that at least one person bailed out has been re-arrested on a serious charge?
00:35:51.000Brett, it was not and has not been our campaign position of bailing anyone out, so I'm unsure about specifically what you're speaking to.
00:36:01.000She said if you're able to chip in to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help post-bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota, please do.
00:36:09.000And then she was like, well, you know, we don't like violence in any form.
00:36:12.000OK, no, honestly, honestly, the Biden campaign seems kind of sanguine about violence so long as it comes from the left.
00:36:19.000It is violence of the alt-right and white supremacists that they are very, very concerned about.
00:36:23.000Now, you can be concerned about all of those forms of violence, but it's the violence on your side of the aisle you have to speak up against particularly.
00:36:30.000Okay, this is one of the things I've been saying for a very long time.
00:36:34.000You can go back and listen to old episodes of this show.
00:36:36.000How many times have I done full episodes on the evils of the alt-right and white supremacy?
00:36:40.000Literally dozens of times on this show.
00:36:50.000They don't very often want to analyze the motivations of BLM or Antifa because they might come up against the harsh reality which is that BLM and Antifa imitate many of their talking points and they agree with them on many of these ideas.
00:38:18.000And again, there is something deeply ironic about a woman coming to the United States From an impoverished position, right?
00:38:25.000I mean, she came from Somalia to the United States, gaining a seat in Congress and talking about the grinding evil of the United States and its racial and ethnic oppression.
00:38:33.000I mean, it's just, frankly, it's a pretty disgusting thing to do.
00:38:37.000There are many criticisms you can make of the American system.
00:38:39.000The idea that the American system grinds millions of people into poverty and is complicit In racism and oppression and brutality that coming from a sitting.
00:38:48.000I mean, she in her very own person is a rebuke to her own perspective.
00:38:52.000But this is a mainstream Democratic perspective.
00:38:54.000Let us stop pretending this is not a mainstream Democratic perspective.
00:38:56.000When Joe Biden goes out there and he says nice things about the Declaration or the Constitution or when Obama does it.
00:39:02.000That is just surface-level nonsense for people who are gullible.
00:39:06.000Because at the heart and soul of the Democratic Party is, in fact, with Ilhan Omar.
00:39:09.000If it were not, Nancy Pelosi had every opportunity to endorse Ilhan Omar's opponents in a primary.
00:39:23.000Because, again, this should not be tough.
00:39:25.000Like, from a political perspective, Joe Biden doesn't actually need the support of Antifa.
00:39:29.000From a political perspective, Joe Biden doesn't even need to go along with the violence of BLM.
00:39:34.000He could say, listen, I think there are You know, that our police are not systemically racist, that there are corrections that we can make, but we live in a country where we're all trying to do our best.
00:39:43.000He doesn't actually need to go full radical on this.
00:40:18.000Nor do they disagree about the arguments.
00:40:20.000And these arguments have very, very deep roots.
00:40:23.000One of the arguments is an argument made by critical race theory.
00:40:25.000So critical race theory is the basic idea that all human interactions are basically power struggles.
00:40:31.000And all human interactions in the United States particularly can be analyzed through the lens of race.
00:40:35.000So every policy that is created in the United States is actually just a reflection of underlying racial power dynamics.
00:40:42.000Critical race theory is an offshoot of critical legal studies.
00:40:44.000Critical legal studies is the theory that there is no actual principled interpretation of law.
00:40:49.000Instead, all there is are people pretending that they are doing principled interpretation of law, when in fact, they're simply attempting to effectuate systems of power on their own behalf.
00:40:58.000Critical legal studies came about in the 1960s, 1970s.
00:41:02.000Thinkers like Roberto Unger were big proponents of critical legal studies.
00:41:24.000Because if legal systems are not predicated on principle, they're merely a competition among power dynamics.
00:41:30.000Well then, why not side with your tribe and try and grab power?
00:41:33.000Critical race theory is just an adjunct to that.
00:41:37.000The first proponent, one of the early proponents, was Derrick Bell.
00:41:39.000Derrick Bell was a big proponent of critical race theory, and his basic view of American law and American politics is the same as Ibram Kendi's, which is that all of American law is white supremacy.
00:41:49.000Derrick Bell was very clear about this in his own writings.
00:41:51.000He was also promoted at the time by a young Harvard Law student named Barack Obama, who famously hugged Derrick Bell when Derrick Bell was denied tenure at Harvard Law School.
00:42:00.000There were big rallies about Derrick Bell and what should Derrick Bell be maintained there.
00:42:04.000This was not legal scholarship, right?
00:42:05.000It was just politics masquerading as legal scholarship.
00:42:08.000A critical race theory has become sort of the go-to anti-racism program.
00:42:13.000So it used to be sort of a fringy thing that you saw in upper level law schools.
00:42:16.000It has now bled down into the mainstream.
00:42:18.000It is what you see when you see people like Robin DiAngelo or Ibram Kendi being hired by universities and by corporations and by members of the federal government to teach about anti-racism again.
00:42:28.000The basic going theory is that the Declaration of Independence is a lie.
00:42:31.000It's a bunch of highfalutin ideas that mean nothing.
00:42:33.000The Constitution is merely an attempt by white people to maintain their own power.
00:42:37.000That all systems of power, all systems of law, are in fact merely a cloak for disguised racial oppression.
00:42:44.000That is the basis of critical race theory.
00:42:46.000It's also the basis of the 1619 Project, which springs from the same place.
00:42:51.000And Ilhan Omar kind of bumper stickers it when she says that what we're watching now is an uprising against racism and against oppression and that all systems of America are rife with racism and oppression.
00:43:00.000The 1619 Project is basically an offshoot of critical race theory that all of American history is just a racial struggle and it's white supremacy in action.
00:43:08.000So the Trump administration is rightly fighting back against this.
00:43:12.000President Trump said over the weekend that the Department of Education I would be investigating whether California schools are using the New York Times' 1619 Project in public school curricula.
00:43:22.000The 1619 Project is, of course, anti-factual.
00:43:25.000I've analyzed it at length on this show.
00:43:27.000There's a big analysis of it in my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:43:30.000It basically blames everything from traffic patterns to housing to maternal mortality rates and disparity between maternal mortality rates on America's history of slavery and Jim Crow.
00:43:42.000Trump tweeted out, Now, I just want to know, all the people who are very upset with President Trump for suggesting that he is going to cut via the Department of Education funding to California based on their teaching of the anti-factual 1619 Project, which again is anti-American propaganda that suggests that America was not founded in 1776.
00:44:03.000The Declaration's principles mean nothing.
00:44:05.000It was founded instead on slavery and racial oppression.
00:44:07.000They're very angry at Trump because they're saying, well, why can't California run its own ship?
00:44:23.000Get rid of the Department of Education on the federal level as a whole.
00:44:27.000Frankly, that'd be something I'd be very much in favor of.
00:44:29.000I don't think the federal government has any business in how I teach my children.
00:44:32.000But, so long as the federal government is going to be involved, then it seems to me, in the federal government's interest, not to having states, not to have states, teach propaganda about how evil America is.
00:44:42.000Russell Vaught, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, has also instructed heads of federal agencies to dramatically alter, quote, racial sensitivity training programs for employees, deeming them un-American propaganda in a two-page memo.
00:44:59.000As it has come to the president's attention that executive branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date training, quote unquote, training government workers to believe divisive anti-American propaganda. For example, according to press reports, employees across the executive branch have been required to attend trainings where they are told that, quote, virtually all white people contribute to racism or where they are required to say that they quote unquote benefit from racism. According to press reports, in some cases, these trainings have further claimed that there is racism embedded in the belief that America is the land of opportunity or the belief that the
00:45:28.000the most qualified person should receive a job.
00:45:30.000These types of trainings not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the federal workforce.
00:45:39.000We cannot accept our employees receiving training that seeks to undercut our core values as Americans and drives division within our workforce.
00:45:46.000So, all agencies have been directed to begin to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on critical race theory, white privilege, or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either 1. that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or 2. that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.
00:46:04.000In addition, all agencies should begin to identify all available avenues within the law to cancel any such contracts and or to divert federal dollars away from these un-American propaganda training sessions.
00:46:13.000Of course, this has led the left to say that Trump is instead trying to defend racism.
00:46:21.000If you defund the 1619 Project, again, an anti-historical bag of garbage, Or if you defund these diversity training initiatives led by grifters like Robyn D'Angelo.
00:46:32.000What a living that lady has made for herself.
00:46:34.000Upper-class white lady lecturing everybody else on racism, and all you have to do to alleviate your own racism, to cleanse yourself of the racist thetans, is to hire Robyn D'Angelo at $20,000 a pop, or Ibram Kendi at $20,000 a pop.
00:46:44.000And magically, magically, your racism is now relieved.
00:46:47.000Good for the Trump administration on this stuff.
00:47:16.000Or at least he's weak-kneed enough to cave to those people who do agree with it.
00:47:20.000So, you know, again, one of the things that you have to gauge in this election, like every election, is whether it is a competition between individual figures, which is very often how people see elections, it's Trump versus Biden, or whether it is a conflict between movements and ideas.
00:47:32.000And Trump may be a highly imperfect, a highly imperfect vessel for the expression of American ideals.
00:47:38.000And when I say highly imperfect, that is putting it extraordinarily mildly.
00:47:40.000I think the man has tremendous, tremendous and terrible character flaws.
00:47:44.000That I've criticized at length on this program.
00:47:45.000But if I'm forced to choose between a party that is fully engaged in a 1619 mentality that says America is systemically racist, a party that fully embraces the alleged evils of Jacob Blake and rips the cops, versus a party that says, no, you know what?
00:49:02.000So I got critiqued over the weekend for suggesting that Joe Biden is not with it.
00:49:07.000People were saying, well, you know, if you really wanted to help Republicans, then what you would really do is you would talk about how he's with it, and then he would undercut expectations.
00:49:25.000Joe Biden was a weird dude who had loggeria.
00:49:29.000He was constantly just jabbering nonsensically about random stuff.
00:49:33.000There's a reason that when he ran, first in 1842, There is a reason why Joe Biden has run for president one million times and lost every time.
00:49:43.000Okay, so over the weekend, Joe Biden was doing a Zoom session.
00:51:05.000It's like an installment of Saw, except he's not actually chained to the wall and there's no threat to him and he still can't leave the basement.
00:51:11.000Here's Gloria Borger saying empathy is Joe Biden's superpower.
00:51:15.000Looking at the grief there, and also empathy.
00:51:18.000Biden has talked about empathy as sort of his number one, you know, way to really connect with the average American.
00:51:44.000So that's a superpower is that he's nice, guys, because, again, the media are trying to boil this race down into Trump versus Biden, as opposed to the movements they represent.
00:51:52.000And then they mischaracterize the movements they represent, of course.
00:51:54.000BLM is all about peaceful change, while apparently the Trump supporters are all about violent evil.
00:52:00.000We'll get to that in a moment also, because seriously, there's an entire article in the Daily Beast today talking about how leftists are bracing for pro-Trump violence after the election.
00:52:08.000Show me the massive episodes of pro-Trump violence.
00:52:12.000Where are all these evil right-wingers burning cities?
00:52:17.000I'm not talking about, you know, the clashes between the Proud Boys, who are a small group and, you know, a fringy group, who have not been embraced by the Republican establishment and Antifa members.
00:52:27.000And I'm not talking about, you know, white supremacists who have been actively thrust out of anything resembling the right wing by people in power.
00:52:36.000If we're talking about widespread violence, I think we all know where the widespread violence is going to come from after the election.
00:52:40.000If Trump wins, there will be widespread burning of cities, and we all know that that's the case.
00:52:44.000The Daily Beast, however, is trying to make it that it's about how the right wing is the true violent wing of the American political spectrum.
00:52:51.000In any case, the media Really pushing Joe Biden hard.
00:53:46.000State officials have said it's a felony.
00:53:48.000When you hear these remarks, suckers, losers, recoiling from amputees, what does it tell you about President Trump's soul?
00:53:54.000You said today is the angriest you've been as a presidential candidate?
00:54:00.000Um, but you said you're trying to restrain yourself.
00:54:04.000Aren't there a lot of people out there who are supporting you or inclined to not vote for the president who would say, why isn't Joe Biden angrier?
00:55:08.000By the way, why is it that the media don't ask tough questions like Bret Baier asked Simone Sanders about why exactly Joe Biden won't dissociate from people in his own campaign who are trying to spend money to bail out protesters, including Kamala Harris?
00:55:21.000Hey, why is it that the Biden-Harris campaign over the weekend, you know, they've been saying we need to follow the science, follow the science, fight COVID, follow the science, follow the science.
00:55:29.000And then over and over, over the weekend, Kamala Harris suggested that Donald Trump was going to rush out a vaccine, that he would somehow cudgel the medical community into approving the vaccine, and therefore she wouldn't take the vaccine.
00:55:41.000Hey, this is bordering on anti-vaxxer stuff.
00:55:49.000She wouldn't answer if Joe Biden would take the vaccine.
00:55:51.000Will Joe Biden get the vaccine if it's available?
00:55:54.000Well, look, Brett, again, as I just noted, first and foremost, I think folks have asked, we've had lots of conversations about testing, right?
00:56:01.000And as folks know now, Vice President Biden and Senator Harris are being regularly tested as are our campaign staff.
00:56:07.000But first and foremost, at the top of mind for Vice President Biden So that is not an answer.
00:56:12.000And then Kamala Harris said that she would literally not trust any vaccine promoted by Trump.
00:56:27.000And then Kamala Harris said that she would literally not trust any vaccine promoted by Trump.
00:56:31.000She wouldn't trust a vaccine promoted by Trump.
00:56:33.000Now, again, let's be straight about this.
00:56:34.000Nobody's asking you to trust Donald Trump on the vaccine.
00:56:37.000They're asking you to trust the medical community on the vaccine.
00:56:39.000Are you really of the opinion that Donald Trump can simply cudgel Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx into endorsing a vaccine that is inherently unsafe?
00:57:37.000Biden and his very liberal running mate, the most liberal person in Congress, by the way, is not a competent person in my opinion, would destroy this country and would destroy this economy, should immediately apologize for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric That they are talking right now, talking about endangering lives, and it undermines science.
00:58:02.000Okay, by the way, not wrong about this.
00:58:20.000Okay, so literally only one in five American voters say that they would get one as soon as possible that is down from one in three American voters.
00:58:25.000And that is because Democrats keep saying that Donald Trump is going to rush out a vaccine in order to kill you.
00:58:30.000Also, I'm amazed to see that nobody seems to be asking tough questions to Biden and Harris about what exactly they would do on COVID.
00:58:36.000Remember, part of their campaign strategy was Trump botched COVID.
00:58:39.000So here was Kamala Harris, who said over the weekend that wearing a mask would be the standard in the United States if they were elected to high office.
00:59:09.000Everything's hilarious in the world of, I've always told my children, if you ever want to identify the villain in a movie, it's the person who's always laughing.
00:59:15.000Villains are always having a great time in the movies, right?
01:00:34.000trusted them in March. Now it is 35%, 5% below Trump and 20% below their governor. All of that is earned. All of that is earned. Media asking tough questions of the Biden-Harris campaign, Alrighty, well, later today, we'll be back with two additional hours of content, including President Trump saying he could spend up to $100 million of his own dollars on his campaign.
01:00:54.000We'll analyze that particular claim, and we'll get to Trump fighting back against the military and military members.
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