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00:00:00.000All right, we're going to tell you everything that you need to know about the Las Vegas massacre that occurred late last night.
00:00:04.000We're going to give you all the informational background, all the political hot takes, and why we should wait for all the information to come out.
00:00:11.000Plus, we'll talk about Puerto Rico and the fallout therefrom.
00:00:39.000The number continues to rise and has injured well over 500 people.
00:00:43.000So it's the worst massacre, the worst mass shooting in American history.
00:00:46.000Of course, this is leading to all sorts of political hot takes without any information.
00:00:50.000I want to discuss a bunch of things, a bunch of angles on this particular incident.
00:00:54.000I'm going to give you all the information.
00:00:56.000I'm going to explain the hot takes that are being presented.
00:00:59.000And I also want to talk about the problem of evil, and what exactly, how we break down evil, how do we fight evil, how is it possible to stop situations like this, or can situations like this, attacks on soft targets by people who heretofore had had really no criminal background, can we stop those things, or is it possible to stop those things?
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00:02:28.000There's a lot of video that has been emerging from the incident because obviously in a crowd of 22,000 people at a concert, there are a lot of folks who are filming the concert, and then shots ring out, and it sounds like an automatic weapon.
00:02:39.000It sounds like someone is firing a machine gun from about 300 yards, about three football fields away from the Mandalay Bay, and you can see it looming up there in the skyline, and people just being mowed down.
00:05:32.000People, you know, whenever these sorts of things happen, everybody in the news industry immediately goes to social media and begins trying to uncover all of the facts about the guy.
00:05:42.000Apparently, according to Corey Rose over at the local news, he was known to local police, but
00:05:47.000They don't really have a criminal history.
00:05:50.000There have been reports that he lived in a retirement home, but this remains unconfirmed at this time.
00:05:57.000The police have checked out his girlfriend, a woman named Mary Lou Danley.
00:06:00.000They've said that she had nothing to do with it at this point.
00:06:02.000They're now saying that he used a fully automatic weapon, and upon searching the suspect's home, officers found several weapons.
00:06:10.000I'll explain to you what the law is regarding fully automatic weapons in the United States.
00:06:13.000Suffice it to say, federal law has forbid the sale of fully automatic rifles in the United States since 1986.
00:06:18.000So the idea that this was, you know, some guy just went down to the local gun shop and bought a gun, if this was indeed a fully automatic weapon, that is not correct.
00:06:26.000And you can hear on that tape, it sounds like a fully automatic weapon, right?
00:06:28.000The difference between a fully auto and a semi-auto, for people who are not familiar with guns, is that a semi-auto, you'd hear burst fire.
00:06:35.000And usually those bursts are three bullets.
00:06:37.000So, in that case, you hear a continuous rat-a-tatting of a machine gun like you would in a war movie.
00:06:42.000That's what a fully automatic weapon sounds like.
00:06:44.000There is a modification that you can make to some semi-automatic weapons that can ruin the gun.
00:06:51.000It can also, if you do it right, then it can apparently make it fully automatic.
00:06:56.000Or, there's also a modification that you can make that allows you to fire using the recoil from the semi-automatic
00:07:04.000Rifle basically you hold your finger in one place and then there's a Stock that you a gun stock that you put on the gun that bounces back and so they it sort of rattles Against your shoulder and that allows it to sort of act like a fully automatic weapon But we don't have evidence that that's what was happening as of yet according to Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo
00:07:19.000The motive remains unclear but is not suspected to be terrorism.
00:07:22.000This is all according to Amanda Prestigiacomo over at Daily Wire.
00:07:26.000He said, at this point we believe it was a local individual.
00:07:43.000ISIS has claimed credit for crimes it did not commit because it wants to make it appear as though it's an act of terrorism.
00:07:47.000Now, it may come out later that it was an act of radical Islamic terror, but we have no evidence of that so far, so please do not spread rumors of that.
00:07:54.000If you're going to talk about it, say there's no evidence so far, because there is no evidence of it so far.
00:07:58.000So, again, the girlfriend was reportedly traveling with him, but they are suggesting that she has nothing to do with it at this point.
00:08:09.000She was apparently found outside the country, and Paddock reportedly used her ID to get into the hotel.
00:08:14.000He was found dead by officers in a hotel room on the 32nd floor.
00:08:17.000Apparently, when they blew open the door, he killed himself.
00:08:20.000The suspect's brother gave a TV interview in which he said that there were no warning signs and said that he just snapped.
00:08:25.000We're going to continue updating you and providing you that information as the show goes on live.
00:08:29.000Also, go over to Daily Wire for real-time updates.
00:09:33.000This is fully automatic firearms that were registered under the National Firearms Act before 1986, were grandfathered in, and are still illegal.
00:09:39.000However, in order to obtain a legal fully automatic firearm, you must apply to the ATF, pay a $200 tax, and register with the ATF.
00:09:45.000The ATF has a registry of every legally owned fully automatic firearm and informs local law enforcement of all who own them in their jurisdiction.
00:09:52.000Fingerprints and photographs are required to be submitted along with a registration application.
00:09:57.000There are several hundred thousand legally registered fully automatic firearms in the United States, but they are very hard to obtain.
00:10:03.000And beyond the registration process, which can take up to nine months to complete, the price of fully automatic firearms is extremely high.
00:10:10.000The low end of fully automatic firearms is around five figures per gun.
00:10:13.000He says he's seen fully automatic firearms in the $300,000 range.
00:10:16.000The reason this is relevant is because what you'll hear is that they're unregulated.
00:11:20.000It's stupid because that's not how silencers work.
00:11:23.000The idea that the silencer would have prevented people from hearing that, all a silencer does is it prevents damage to the ears of the person who's firing the gun.
00:11:33.000They reduce the volume, of course, but it doesn't sound like it doesn't die hard.
00:11:37.000Like, if you watch Die Hard, if you watch any of these older movies where somebody puts a silencer on a pistol and then they fire it, and it sounds basically like an envelope opening,
00:12:07.000It's irrelevant, it's ignorant, and it's doing something else which I find really atrocious, and that is doing the same routine I blamed Piers Morgan for back after Sandy Hook, standing on the evils of this situation and the horrors of this situation in order to make a political point, and suggesting that people who disagree with her about things like silencers don't care enough about the people who were just shot.
00:12:27.000First of all, I would just suggest, this is a country music concert, I would bet you the majority of the people in that crowd are not in favor of Hillary Clinton-type gun regulations.
00:12:35.000Even the people who are in the crowd, even the victims, I'm sure.
00:12:38.000I don't want to speak for people who are dead or people who are shot, so I shouldn't say that.
00:12:42.000But I will say that a lot of people at a country music concert, that's a crowd that's more likely to be pro-gun than other crowds.
00:12:48.000Hillary Clinton can't even speak on behalf of those people.
00:12:52.000Okay, I want to talk in a second about a couple of other reasons it's inappropriate to immediately jump to legislative proposals without evidence in just a second.
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00:14:40.000Okay, well, in Britain they've been murdering people, you know, they've had multiple terror attacks, including in Manchester, using weapons and bombs and, you know, this idea that it's only in the United States we have to worry about this stuff is just not true.
00:14:53.000But Richard Dawkins could use a little bit of God, because apparently he lost his tact and his decency when he lost his God.
00:14:58.000There are a few problems with jumping to conclusions here.
00:15:02.000Again, we still do not know the shooter's motive.
00:15:05.000We still have no inkling of the shooter's motive.
00:15:08.000How the shooter acquired his weapons, we still don't know.
00:15:10.000So suggesting laws that we don't know would stop this guy from acquiring the weapon in the first place is always troublesome.
00:15:15.000Now, to be intellectually honest, I want to say,
00:15:18.000You can propose a good law that doesn't necessarily deal with this specific situation, right?
00:15:22.000It's not like every law has to deal with the specific situation at hand, if it reduces the probability of a situation like this, or if it doesn't even have to do with this situation, but it's going to make things safer generally, right?
00:15:34.000You can pass a seatbelt law that has nothing to do with a mass shooting, the seatbelt law can still be good, but it's dishonest to suggest that using a situation like this to push a law that wouldn't have stopped a situation like this, the two things are related because they're not.
00:15:46.000If you use this to push a child safety law about cribs, that's obviously unrelated.
00:15:51.000Well, if you use this incident to pass a law or push a law or push a policy that has nothing to do with this particular shooting, again, unrelated is unrelated.
00:15:59.000And then there's a final point, and this is something that we all fall into, whether on the right and on the left.
00:16:03.000When something bad happens, we immediately jump to what could the government have done?
00:16:08.000Making policy in the heat of passion is not a good way to make policy.
00:16:11.000It's why we don't have a democracy, it's why we have a republic.
00:16:14.000It was to shield policymaking from the passions of the public.
00:16:17.000It was to shield policymaking from the problems inherent in getting very emotional and passionate about situations.
00:16:23.000You know, the fact is that policy is best made when we're at a bit of a remove.
00:16:27.000Injecting emotional accusations into the process does not make things better, it just makes things more polarized.
00:16:32.000We saw this after Barack Obama would push gun control after every mass shooting, and people would say, wait a second, are you implying I don't care when people get shot just because we disagree?
00:16:40.000All it does is make people, we're unified in how evil this is.
00:16:44.000We're Americans, we're brothers and sisters.
00:16:46.000Polarizing the electorate on the basis of a policy and suggesting that people who disagree with you don't care about shootings like this is really nasty.
00:16:52.000What I say about this is, now is a good time to shut up about policy.
00:16:56.000It's actually a really good time to contemplate the nature of human evil, to gather all the information and stay silent.
00:17:01.000There'll be plenty of time to talk policy in, I'm not even telling you wait six months, I'm telling you wait 48 hours.
00:17:07.000There'll be plenty of time to talk policy when all of the details are out and then we can have a real good debate about
00:17:13.000What are the costs and benefits of policies?
00:17:15.000Because, as I say, you could pass a policy tomorrow, it would violate the Second Amendment, but you could try to pass a policy banning all guns in the United States.
00:17:21.000But that has costs, and it has benefits, and it has risks, and it has rewards.
00:17:24.000But we have to discuss those rationally, without suggesting that people who disagree somehow don't care when bad things happen to good people.
00:17:32.000Pictures from this whole thing are horrifying, and I want to talk a little bit about the nature of evil, because there's one word that I've steadfastly attempted to avoid when discussing issues like that, and that is the word tragedy.
00:17:42.000You'll see a lot of people today use the word tragedy.
00:17:45.000I don't use the word tragedy in relation to acts of human evil.
00:17:48.000A tragedy is what happened in Puerto Rico.
00:17:51.000A tragedy is a natural disaster that happens, an unavoidable incident, a cancer that hits somebody and they die of illness.
00:18:39.000But when we're talking about evil people, or evil belief systems, we have to distinguish what makes a person evil, or a belief system evil, other than just the act.
00:18:47.000Because, again, there are many types of things that drive people to do those evil things.
00:18:51.000That's what we're talking about now, the evil motivation.
00:18:54.000And how we make policy is largely dependent on what kind of evil motivation we're talking about here.
00:18:59.000So there's a guy named Roy Baumeister.
00:19:01.000Roy Baumeister is a psychologist and he's also a terrific writer.
00:19:04.000He has an entire book called Evil Inside Human Violence and Cruelty.
00:19:07.000I've quoted it in some of my college speeches.
00:19:09.000And he breaks down evil into basically four forms of evil.
00:19:13.000And I think it's important to talk about these four forms of evil and determine if what we saw last night was one of these four forms or was it something else.
00:19:19.000So here are the four forms of evil that Baumeister talks about.
00:19:22.000The first form of evil is what he calls instrumental evil, instrumentality.
00:19:26.000This is the idea that you have an object in mind and you don't care what means are used in order to gain that end.
00:19:31.000You want money, you don't care that it's not your money, you go to the bank, you rob it, you shoot somebody.
00:19:45.000And that's one we all have to be careful with, because we all have a tendency to fall for that, right?
00:19:49.000That's an easy human one to fall into.
00:19:52.000And when you wonder why good people become evil, that's an easy one to fall into, to say, my ends are so important, it doesn't matter if I treat another human being as a means.
00:19:59.000The second form of evil that Baumeister talks about, or the second motive for evil, is what he calls threatened egotism.
00:20:04.000He says that violence isn't perpetrated by those with low self-esteem, but those with relatively high self-esteem, or self-esteem that was threatened.
00:20:12.000Here's what he said, he said, quote, This is the danger inherent in what we call microaggressions culture, right?
00:20:16.000The idea that you're being insulted and therefore you have the right to lash out at somebody.
00:20:19.000That's the kind of evil we also have to watch out for in ourselves.
00:20:22.000And I would suggest that we have to be careful when we talk politics because of this.
00:20:39.000We have to stop feeling offended when we disagree politically.
00:20:41.000We have to stop attributing evil motives to people who disagree with us because then we're more likely to become evil ourselves.
00:21:18.000His theory is that it would be more common except for guilt.
00:21:21.000That we all have guilt, and so if we do something bad, we feel bad about it.
00:21:25.000Once that guilt is removed, then we have a tendency to engage in further evil.
00:21:28.000Now the reason I'm breaking down these types of evil is because when we make policy, we have to determine what sort of evil we're fighting.
00:21:34.000Several of these types of evil are actually only fightable.
00:21:38.000They're only combatable through moral education.
00:21:43.000That is only combatable through moral education.
00:21:46.000We can have laws on the books that stop people from committing violence, but that's not going to help you if people are willing to break those laws in order to achieve a higher end.
00:21:54.000Moral education is the only way that you can prevent that.
00:21:56.000That's not something that can be done at the governmental level.
00:21:58.000It has to be done at the individual level, at the community level, at the school level.
00:22:02.000That's something that we all have a part in helping to prevent.
00:22:05.000Well, how about threatened egotism, the motive that springs from threatened egotism?
00:22:10.000Well, there, I think that it's important, again, moral education has to take a hand here.
00:22:15.000We all have to acknowledge that political disagreements do not involve a blight on your identity.
00:22:28.000Sadism is one where, you know, and if this looks like a sadistic crime, which it may well be, or if this is a crime of mental illness, that's the one where we can talk public policy.
00:22:35.000Because the problem is with all the other three you're talking about, everyone is susceptible to it.
00:22:39.000Everyone is susceptible to instrumental evil.
00:22:41.000Everyone is susceptible to idealistic evil.
00:22:43.000Everyone is susceptible to threatened egotism evil.
00:22:46.000So if you promulgate a regulation targeting any of those three things, or any of those three types of people, you're going to take away rights from everyone.
00:22:54.000The only types of people that we can profile are sadists and mentally ill people.
00:22:58.000Those are the only types of people that we can profile.
00:23:00.000This is why you see the great discrepancy between how the left describes stuff like this, talking about the instruments of evil, the guns, and the right talks about how do we actually stop people from committing these acts.
00:23:11.000They're two completely separate conversations.
00:23:13.000I want to talk a little bit more about that.
00:24:23.000The reason that I discuss evil is because I think this is what conservatives tend to do.
00:24:26.000We tend to say, okay, how do we stop people like this evil piece of garbage who shot 500 people in Las Vegas last night?
00:24:32.000How do we stop people like that from doing what they do?
00:24:35.000How do we separate those people from guns?
00:24:37.000And the left says, if everybody is susceptible to being bad, then nobody should have a gun.
00:24:42.000Well, the reality is that the vast majority of people who are susceptible to being bad are not people who do this.
00:24:48.000And I still agree with the basic argument that the only way to stop a guy with a gun is a guy with a gun.
00:24:54.000And in this particular case it was law enforcement because this was a planned terror attack that was occurring from a vantage point high up where only law enforcement could do something about it.
00:25:02.000But there have been a number of situations where people with guns have stopped people with guns.
00:25:09.000All the arguments for the Second Amendment don't stop applying just because somebody misused the Second Amendment or obtained their gun illegally.
00:25:15.000We don't even know how this guy obtained his gun in the first place.
00:25:19.000Again, there'll be lots of time to discuss the policy implications of all this tomorrow.
00:25:23.000All I would suggest for everybody is that we focus in on how we cleanse our own hearts of the tendency to do evil things, how we look at the world, and that we think a little bit more about the fact that we're all brothers and sisters in this fight against evil people, and we really need to focus together on how we can make our country a better place across the board without
00:25:43.000Tearing each other apart over simple political disagreements.
00:25:46.000Because I see that happening too much and I find it really inappropriate and quite disgusting.
00:25:51.000So, in other news, the President of the United States is in hot water over everything that's happening in Puerto Rico.
00:25:58.000So, there's been a bit of a controversy over whether what's happening in Puerto Rico is really Trump administration failure, or if it's the media blowing it out of proportion.
00:26:05.000This is one of the problems with the country where we've all lost trust, right?
00:26:08.000The media, we feel, is a partisan hit factory, and that's exactly right.
00:26:13.000On the other hand, we look at the Trump administration, we can't say we trust these people to tell us the truth about what's going on in Puerto Rico.
00:26:18.000After all, they have a stake in the game, the same way that any administration would have a stake in the game.
00:26:22.000So I'm gonna give you some information.
00:26:24.000I'm not an expert about hurricane preparedness or hurricane
00:26:33.000So I'm going to allow a couple of different experts to talk about this because I think that it's important to get the most objective view that we can because all that I'm hearing from one side is that Trump is Hitler and he's not doing the right thing.
00:26:44.000He's letting people starve because they're brown and all this.
00:26:46.000And on the other side that Trump is the greatest relief president that ever lived and everything that he's done is pitch perfect and all of this is an unfair hit job.
00:26:53.000So here is an article from Bloomberg.com, courtesy of a guy named Tobin Harshaw, and he interviewed a retired Navy captain named Jimi Hendrix.
00:27:04.000So Jimi Hendrix is Jerry Hendrix, not the guitarist.
00:28:00.000You're seeing a lot of rumors online about problems distributing the supplies throughout the country because of unionized truck businesses or impassability of the roads.
00:28:16.000These are actually the ideal platforms, he says, for relief operations owing to their range of assets.
00:28:20.000The ships, due to their designs to support marine amphibious landings in war zones, also have hospitals aboard.
00:28:26.000And he says that there is a broad misunderstanding of the USS Comfort's mission.
00:28:31.000This is a hospital ship that was sent.
00:28:33.000It was kind of held up and then sent later.
00:28:34.000She's not an emergency response ship, but a hospital ship.
00:28:37.000She was built to accompany a large military force into war zones.
00:28:41.000And says it's revelatory of where the U.S.
00:28:42.000group mind is now that when the American public thinks about the ships like Comfort and Mercy, they automatically think of them as part of a civilian emergency response force, rather than quietly considering the type of potential conflict
00:29:38.000Eight days after Hurricane Maria ripped across neighboring Puerto Rico, just 4,400 service members were participating in federal operations to assist the devastated island, an Army general told reporters on Thursday.
00:29:48.000In addition, about 1,000 Coast Guard members were aiding the efforts.
00:29:51.000military helicopters were helping deliver food and water to 3.4 million residents of the U.S.
00:29:56.000territory, along with 10 Coast Guard helicopters.
00:29:59.000And then there were a bunch of people who helped out in Haiti.
00:30:01.000Again, I don't have the expertise, so I'm just going to present you with the facts without making a hard and fast judgment.
00:30:04.000Suffice it to say, I'm seeing credible people on both sides of the aisle, some saying that
00:30:31.000All of this is basically going as planned, and some people saying that this is obviously not sufficient.
00:30:36.000So before you start believing all the rumors that everything is a disaster area, I don't think that that is, I don't think all the information is on one side.
00:30:42.000Here's a video that's been released from the U.S.
00:30:44.000Coast Guard showing what the Coast Guard is doing to try and do cleanup in Puerto Rico.
00:30:51.000Expected some damage, but not to the extent that we experienced yesterday, that we witnessed yesterday.
00:31:00.000People lost everything in their houses say Everything everything they just the only thing they had in there.
00:31:08.000It seems like whatever they they were wearing that was what's left Looking at the homes and seeing where the water line was pretty much chest level for me It was definitely It was definitely a challenge to keep it together when we started
00:31:35.000I was sad looking at the conditions that the people... So I mean obviously you can see that there is work that's being done on the ground and you wouldn't see a lot of these videos except for the fact that a lot of these branches of the military actually have their own PR wings.
00:31:50.000This has been contrasted with San Juan Mayor Carmen YulÃn Cruz.
00:32:10.000Well, maybe from where she's standing, it's a good news story.
00:32:14.000When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story.
00:32:17.000When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.
00:32:20.000When you have to pull people down from their buildings, because, you know, I'm sorry, but that really upsets me and frustrates me.
00:32:29.000You know, I would ask her to come down here and visit the towns and then make a statement like that, which, frankly, it is an irresponsible statement.
00:32:39.000And it contrasts with the statements of support that I have been getting since yesterday when I got that call from the White House.
00:32:48.000Damn it, this is not a good news story.
00:32:57.000There's a truckload of stuff that cannot be taken to people's story.
00:33:02.000Okay, so the media, of course, eats this up and suggests that she is exactly right, this is going to be Trump's Katrina, and the media is alacrity to cover this thing.
00:33:10.000And their apparent unwillingness to talk to other people on the ground is quite striking here.
00:33:15.000There's some problems with this particular mayor, who seems like she has a lot of time for TV, and not as much time to actually do the things she's supposed to do.
00:33:22.000So she admitted in a press conference that she had not met with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
00:33:26.000She was invited to do so, and she didn't even bother to do it.
00:33:30.000People from my administration, people from my administration have been to the Koi.
00:33:55.000There's always this sort of blame game that goes on, by the way, between local authorities and the federal authorities.
00:34:00.000Remember after Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin, who's largely responsible for the tragedy in New Orleans, who had told people to stay in town, made it a voluntary evacuation instead of a mandatory evacuation.
00:34:15.000It's funny, when all the locals were saying that Obama wasn't doing enough during the Louisiana flooding a few years ago, then the media wasn't quite so... they weren't hustling quite so much to get those people on TV.
00:34:25.000And I'm going to show you the other side.
00:34:26.000I'm going to show you the people who are saying this mayor is basically speaking inaccurately, shall we say.
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00:35:52.000Okay, so, the media's been granting a lot of credibility to this San Juan mayor, who apparently is not doing the world's greatest job, but here is the Puerto Rico governor saying, the feds are answering our calls, like we want more stuff, but they're doing what they can do.
00:36:04.000You know, there was a good article that aired this morning... It's the FEMA chief.
00:36:06.000It's okay, we can play the FEMA chief, that's fine.
00:36:08.000...Mayor Otero out of Guayanabo, if I'm not pronouncing that correct, is basically saying, look, there's been excellent communication with not only the governor, but also FEMA, and the way that we're trying to tackle this.
00:36:22.000You know, we can choose to look at what the mayor spouts off, or what other people spout off, but we can also choose to see what's actually being done.
00:36:55.000So here are his tweets about the San Juan mayor.
00:36:58.000So he responded to the San Juan mayor by saying, Okay, again.
00:37:06.000I think that the president of the United States has the right to say, the mayor of San Juan, I understand why she's emotional, but she's incorrect about the way that we're treating this.
00:37:15.000We are treating this with the highest level of seriousness, which is why all of the experts say that we're doing what we can do.
00:38:41.000Him going after all of the people of Puerto Rico, apparently, or a large swath of the people of Puerto Rico, that seems insane that they want everything done for them.
00:38:49.000Again, if you're not gonna name names, then this is just bad policy.
00:38:53.000But he's very angry at the media because the media used this as an opportunity to slam Trump himself.
00:38:58.000So here's Bernie Sanders talking about how it is unspeakable to attack the mayor of a city that has been underwater.
00:39:08.000Speaking from his fancy golf club, playing golf with his billionaire friends, attacking the mayor of San Juan, who is struggling to bring electricity to the island, food to the island, water to the island, gas to the island, that is just, it is unspeakable, and I don't know what world Trump
00:39:27.000Okay, so I like that it's unspeakable for Trump to say the mayor's not doing his job, but it's not unspeakable for the mayor to say Trump's not doing his job.
00:39:48.000If Obama did this, we'd be ripping him up and down.
00:39:51.000If Obama had gone out and played golf in the middle of a hurricane relief effort and then dedicated the golf tournament to the victims of the hurricane relief, I have a feeling that everybody would have been on his case, and I think rightly so.
00:40:06.000So apparently, he got up, and he actually, so if you can't see the image, it's him at this golf tournament, and here is what he said.
00:40:12.000He said, on behalf of all of the people in Texas, and all of the people of, if you look today and you see what's happening, how horrible it is, but we really have it under great control, Puerto Rico, and the people of Florida who have suffered over this last short period of time with hurricanes, I wanna just remember them, and we're gonna dedicate this trophy to all of those people that went through so much that we love, a part of our great state, really a part of our great nation.
00:40:31.000He says, I'll tell you what, I've been watching this thing from the beginning, and I have to say, our Team USA, wow, did you play well.
00:40:37.000I can guarantee you the people in Puerto Rico do not give two craps about this golfing event.
00:40:42.000Okay, and I don't think victims in Texas or Florida are deeply honored by the president presenting the president's cup to the victims of a hurricane.
00:40:50.000Like, unless it actually has potable water in it, I have a feeling they're not super interested in it.
00:41:13.000Go tell Melania to put on her flood heels, get some bottled water, some food, pack up some extra Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl t-shirts, and write them a check with our money, you cheap cracker.
00:41:25.000Okay, so first of all, calling the president a cheap cracker, imagine if somebody had said something similarly inflammatory about Barack Obama referring to him by race.
00:41:34.000And by the way, it's an easy comedic technique to use shocking words and then expect people to laugh, but it's really kind of gross.
00:41:40.000So, no wonder Trump is mad, and Trump has a right to be mad.
00:41:42.000Again, there's not a lot of evidence, or at least there's mixed evidence, that this Puerto Rican effort is being handled badly, and to suggest that he is a quote-unquote cheap cracker is pretty incredible, and Trump has every right to be upset about all of that.
00:41:55.000The media are really over the top here.
00:41:57.000So, I want to talk about football fallout and then some things I like and some things I hate.
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00:43:18.000So it's fallen into the background now, but I do want to point out that President Trump has won his debate with the NFL, at least insofar as the NFL backing down and the players deciding they no longer want to kneel for the anthem.
00:43:29.000So I don't feel like it's too serious a day to spend time on tremendous amounts of time on frivolities like this foolishness.
00:44:31.000You can see the picture of him wearing the shirt that says, Everybody vs. Trump.
00:44:34.000And President Trump thanks you for your 2020 donation, Marshawn.
00:44:37.000I mean, nothing is going to make Trump look better than a bunch of jerk football players who make millions of dollars a year and want to kneel for the anthem saying that they are against Trump.
00:44:45.000It makes Trump a very happy man every time they do this.
00:44:49.000And what's amazing is the Democrats are so stupid that they're jumping right into this.
00:44:52.000They've decided they're going to jump on every landmine.
00:44:55.000Every landmine must be stepped upon multiple times until it explodes.
00:44:58.000Kamala Harris, the senator from California, unfortunately my own senator over here in California, she says that no one should feel threatened or bullied by President Trump.
00:45:07.000Again, I don't disagree that President Trump shouldn't have been bullying the NFL to suspend players.
00:45:13.000But I think the Democrats are making a very stupid political move by trying to own this one.
00:45:18.000Let's speak the truth that when Americans demand recognition that their lives matter or kneel to call attention to justice that that is an expression of free speech protected by our Constitution and should not be threatened or bullied.
00:45:40.000Okay, I may agree with the general point that she's making, but the Democrats wanting to own this thing?
00:45:49.000So, there's a book that I read over the weekend.
00:45:52.000It was recommended to me by a new friend, who we are doing a Facebook Live with either today or tomorrow.
00:45:58.000We did film it earlier, but we're going to put it up a little later.
00:46:01.000That is Professor Edward Fazer, who wrote Five Proofs of God's Existence.
00:46:05.000He recommended to me a book on free will that I read over the weekend.
00:46:08.000It's very short, it's about 85 pages, but it really is quite concise and good.
00:46:12.000It's called Free, Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will by a guy named Alfred Mele.
00:46:16.000And it is quite good, it's easily readable, and it debunks a lot of these scientific arguments on behalf of the notion that neuroscience shows that you have no free will, and that basically you're just a machine, a self-replicating machine.
00:46:29.000That's not the case, and this book shows that science has not proved it.
00:46:32.000The single most important factor for the development of society is your feeling of capacity to better yourself and better the society in which you live.
00:46:39.000If we didn't feel that way, progress would stop short, people would get depressed, we'd have a serious problem.
00:46:44.000I think that's one of the problems with our society as it currently is constituted.
00:46:48.000Check out this book to find out why science has overstepped its boundaries in making some of its more ridiculous claims about the nature of your capacity to choose.
00:49:26.000So somebody decided that it was imperative to actually invent something called the pause pod, in which you are supposed to sit and pause and reflect.
00:50:22.000He does not stick his legs out of it because he's not a moron like these adults who decide that in a public place, he's a year and a half and he's not stupid enough to do this.
00:50:29.000And they've decided that they need to stick their legs out into the public thoroughfare.
00:50:32.000As I suggested to Mathis, this just seems like ripe for robbery, right?
00:50:37.000Somebody goes to sleep in public in a tent, you just open up the tent, grab their stuff and run, and meanwhile their legs are tangled up in the lengthening part of the pause pod.
00:50:45.000Or, if you really want to get violence about it, I suppose you could just chainsaw off their legs and they really can't chase you.
00:50:50.000But, you know, there's no reason to get violent about it.
00:50:52.000You can also just push over the tent and laugh.
00:51:03.000The other thing that I hate today is that John Kasich somehow thinks he's still relevant.
00:51:07.000The Ohio governor who basically assured that Donald Trump won the nomination by staying in the race far too long.
00:51:12.000A man who I have said before looks like he went through the washing machine like a receipt in your pocket and then was uncrumpled.
00:51:19.000He now says that maybe he won't support the Republicans and he'll make an independent run because that's just what we need, America, is John Kasich making an independent run.
00:51:38.000Well, okay, if the party is fixed by people like John Kasich, it ain't fixed.
00:51:42.000Okay, I think there are serious problems in the party.
00:51:44.000I do not think that this man is the one to fix the problems in the party, considering that he was too selfish to get out of the race and let somebody else compete.
00:51:53.000This dummy stayed in long enough that it was impossible for anybody else to win the nomination, and here he is talking about how he's not a factor in ruining the party.
00:52:01.000This is a guy who expanded Medicaid in his state in accordance with Obamacare.
00:52:31.000And let's pray that the evil that is growing, it seems, all over the planet and in so many hearts and minds should be checked by a more benevolent God.