Barack Obama gets wildly partisan at a memorial for Congressman John Lewis. Media members exploit Herman Cain's death to slam President Trump. And Trump struggles with the consequences of his insane threat to delay the election. Ben Shapiro's take on the events surrounding the memorial service for civil rights hero John Lewis in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. He also points out that when someone dies, you don't use their memorials as launching points for politics. And yet, that's exactly what happened yesterday at the memorial for John Lewis, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Selma, Miss. Lewis was a disciple of Martin Luther King Jr. and a supporter of the civil rights movement. He helped lead the march at Selma and was a hero in his younger days, and then served in Congress. And this is somebody with whom I disagreed on politics. That doesn't make it any better, but it does demonstrate the utter classlessness of a lot of people in our politics who tend to use death as a rationale for jumping into debate over politics, purely speaking. And that's why Donald Trump is president, thanks to the reactions to the John Lewis memorial and George H.W. Bush's speech at the George W. Bush memorial. And it's a great reminder of why we should be looking for a bipartisan messenger for the ages, not only in politics, but in all our public service and public service, and in public service not just in our public services and in our everyday lives. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, your data is your business. Protect it at ExpressVPN. Protect It at ExpressVpnpn.com slash Ben ShapiroShow.org/TheBenShapiroShow . The show is a show about privacy, safety, and good times, good vibes, and a whole lot of good stuff. Ben Shapiro is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The New York Post, and other publications, including The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, and the New Yorker. . His new book is out now, The Dark Side of the Oval Office, The Vagrant. is out on all of it! Subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast, The Weekly Standard. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and subscribe on iTunes, too! Subscribe at The FiveThirtyEight or wherever else you re listening to the podcast is listening? Learn more about your ad choices?
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00:00:26.000Well, there's one general rule when somebody who is prominent dies, and that is you kind of hold your fire at least for, you know, the next 30 seconds.
00:00:32.000And typically you don't use their memorials, particularly if they are very large figures.
00:00:36.000You don't use their memorials as sort of launching points for politics.
00:00:40.000This has been a rule that I would say Republicans have been better at applying than Democrats in the recent past.
00:00:45.000Whenever a major Democrat dies or whenever there's a bad event that results in death and a Democrat speaks at the memorial, it very often turns into a political rally.
00:00:53.000So it's nothing new that that's what happened yesterday with regard to the memorial for Congressman John Lewis.
00:01:00.000When Senator Paul Wallstone died in a plane crash back in the 2000s, The Democratic Party held a full-out political rally, stumping for progressive policy.
00:01:08.000When there was a mass shooting in Arizona, that was the same shooting that injured Gabby Giffords, the Congresswoman, Barack Obama deployed himself to Arizona, where he proceeded to rant and rave about gun control and talk about the evils of his Republican opponents.
00:01:20.000So it really was nothing new, what happened at the John Lewis Memorial.
00:01:24.000And it does demonstrate the utter classlessness of a lot of people in our politics who tend to use death as a rationale for jumping into debate over politics.
00:01:49.000What you want to talk about is the stuff that unified about the person.
00:01:51.000You don't want to talk about the stuff that was not unifying about the person.
00:01:54.000There's plenty of time for that later.
00:01:56.000Well, you can tell the difference in the class level of our various presidents over the course of history and Kind of why Donald Trump is president, thanks to the reactions yesterday at the John Lewis Memorial.
00:02:05.000So there were several presidents who spoke at the memorial for Congressman Lewis.
00:02:08.000Lewis, of course, was a disciple of Martin Luther King Jr.
00:02:11.000He was one of the leaders of the civil rights movement.
00:02:14.000He famously was one of the people who attempted to desegregate lunch counters by peacefully protesting at lunch counters.
00:02:34.000I mean, this is somebody who really did contribute to making the country a better place over the course of his life.
00:02:37.000Well, George W. Bush gave a speech yesterday, and it was amusing to watch members of the media suddenly recognize that George W. Bush was a good person.
00:02:43.000And Jonathan Capehart at the Washington Post is like, well, George W. Bush, what a wonderful man.
00:02:50.000Yeah, five minutes ago, you all were saying that George W. Bush was the worst scourge of the earth.
00:02:53.000And frankly, I look forward to the time four years from now or eight years from now, whenever Trump is no longer in office and another Republican is running, when Democrats turn around and talk about what a bipartisan guy Donald Trump was, because that's how it always works.
00:03:05.000Ronald Reagan was the worst until George H.W.
00:03:07.000Bush was running, at which point Reagan became the good Republican.
00:03:36.000Very classy speech at the John Lewis Memorial.
00:03:38.000A couple notes about the John Lewis Memorial generally, first of all...
00:03:42.000Also, there is a gap between how elites in this country are viewed with regard to attending public events at this time, and people who are quote-unquote the little people.
00:03:52.000And if you're a quote-unquote little person in America, meaning a non-politician, a non-prominent person in America, and you look at the large-scale memorial event for John Lewis, and you think to yourself, hold up, my mom died in the hospital alone and we still haven't been able to hold a memorial?
00:04:06.000Why do we get to do this for John Lewis?
00:04:11.000When you look at Andrew Cuomo in New York saying that if you go to Georgia and you come back from Georgia, you have to quarantine for 14 days, and then you look at a wide variety of people from D.C.
00:04:20.000and New York going to John Lewis's memorial, do you think any of them are going to quarantine when they get back to D.C.
00:04:25.000Of course not, even though the memorial service was held in Georgia.
00:04:28.000Anyway, George W. Bush's speech was quite good.
00:04:30.000Here was George W. Bush talking about John Lewis and how he made the country a better place.
00:04:34.000We the people, including congressmen and presidents, can have differing views on how to perfect our union while sharing the conviction that our nation, however flawed, is at heart a good and noble one.
00:04:52.000We live in a better and nobler country today because of John Lewis and his abiding faith in the power of God, in the power of democracy, and in the power of love to lift us all to a higher ground.
00:05:10.000And that is why you saw so many people paying tribute to Bush.
00:05:12.000Now, remember, Bush was the villain until five seconds ago.
00:05:15.000As soon as a Republican is not in power, the Republican becomes just a normal, nice guy that we all hang out with.
00:05:20.000When he's in power, he's super duper duper evil.
00:05:23.000Well, Bill Clinton also spoke at the memorial event, and Bill Clinton was slightly more political than Bush.
00:05:28.000He talked about sort of the continuing mission of John Lewis.
00:05:30.000John Lewis had a posthumous obituary that was published in the Washington Post in which he talked about the continuing mission and he name-checked a bunch of people who were supposedly victims of the police, including a couple people like Rayshard Brooks, who was not a victim of the police.
00:05:41.000In any case, Clinton invoked sort of John Lewis's politics in a vague sense going forward, which, again, if you're vague about it, is not unfair.
00:05:49.000He also invoked the differences between Stokely Carmichael and John Lewis.
00:05:53.000Stokely Carmichael, of course, was significantly more an advocate of violence than John Lewis, who's very much into nonviolence.
00:06:03.000Just three years later, he lost the leadership of SNCC to Stokely Carmichael.
00:06:09.000He showed as a young man There are some things that you cannot do to hang on to a position, because if you do them, you won't be who you are anymore.
00:06:23.000There were two or three years there where the movement went a little bit too far towards Stokely, but in the end, John Lewis prevailed.
00:06:35.000Okay, and that's actually a good point, but people on the left are very angry at Bill Clinton for having said this, because right now we're seeing violence in our streets, and that's Bill Clinton basically slapping at the violence in the streets.
00:06:44.000That's him saying that John Lewis would not have been in favor of the violence in the streets.
00:06:47.000They've been seeing the rioting and the looting, which he is right about.
00:06:50.000He got slapped by a columnist over at The Root for this, saying, why are you invoking Stokely Carmichael here?
00:06:57.000But the real politicization was reserved for Barack Obama, who got extraordinarily political, and it is a reminder of why Donald Trump is president.
00:07:03.000Because Barack Obama is a much more elegant speaker.
00:07:06.000He's a much more subtle person than Donald Trump.
00:07:09.000Donald Trump is just very loud and he's the checkered suit version of Barack Obama.
00:07:13.000Barack Obama was a used car salesman in a really nice suit.
00:07:16.000And Donald Trump is a used car salesman in a checkered plaid suit.
00:07:20.000That is the main difference between them.
00:07:21.000Because Barack Obama is purely political.
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00:09:09.000Okay, so, Barack Obama, an overtly political animal.
00:09:33.000And what you're watching in America's major cities where federal agents are defending federal property from mostly white rioters and looters, by the way, who are attempting to set buildings on fire.
00:11:54.000To draw a direct line between Bull Connor and Derek Chauvin without any evidence whatsoever, or to pretend it was commonplace, and not only commonplace, but enshrined in Jim Crow law, is similar in any way to what happened with Derek Chauvin, is utterly, patently crazy.
00:12:10.000Okay, but Obama gets away with this kind of stuff because the media have decided for years that they are simply going to carry around drool cups for the guy.
00:12:20.000Then Obama called the... He went after the Senate filibuster.
00:12:23.000Again, this is at a memorial for a man who just died and spent his life attempting to unify the nation around racial issues.
00:12:29.000Here's Barack Obama saying that the Senate filibuster is a Jim Crow holdover, which is pretty incredible because I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama, Senator Barack Obama, filibustered Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court, tried to filibuster him.
00:12:41.000I'm old enough to remember when Democrats, like five seconds ago, filibustered Senator Tim Scott's police reform bill.
00:12:51.000By essentially saying that the filibuster is racist, this does give the lie to the idea that Democrats don't want to tear down the system.
00:12:57.000Now in a bit, we're going to get to Donald Trump.
00:13:00.000Saying something about delaying elections that really does tear away at the roots of the democracy.
00:13:04.000But to pretend that Democrats are not doing the same thing and haven't been doing the same thing for a long time is to cut against all available evidence.
00:13:09.000Here's Barack Obama suggesting that the Senate filibuster is a tool of Jim Crow, despite the fact that he himself used the filibuster when he was in the Senate.
00:13:16.000And Democrats have been very fond of the filibuster.
00:13:18.000They were using it against George W. Bush's judicial nominees.
00:13:24.000Donald Trump is president because everybody decided that Barack Obama speaking this way was completely apolitical.
00:13:30.000Here he was calling the filibuster Jim Crow.
00:13:33.000Once we pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, we should keep marching by guaranteeing that every American citizen has equal representation in our government, including the American citizens who live in Washington, D.C.
00:14:21.000Because America's rights are preserved through checks and balances.
00:14:25.000The idea is that a government that is unable to stomp on those rights at will We'll not be able to stomp on those rights at will.
00:14:31.000The idea is that when you set up these checks and balances, it prevents a pure majority, the tyranny of the mob, the tyranny of the majority, from stomping on the rights of the minority.
00:14:38.000And for all the people who are like, well, yeah, but, you know, in the South, a pure majority was able to stomp on the rights of the minority.
00:14:47.000The point is there should have been more checks and balances.
00:14:49.000The federal government should have stepped in and stopped the trampling of rights in the states.
00:14:54.000The filibuster is simply a tool to prevent the trampling of minority rights by majorities.
00:14:58.000That is one of the goals of the filibuster.
00:14:59.000Now, it doesn't mean there aren't times when the filibuster can't be used for nefarious purposes.
00:15:03.000The Civil Rights Act was filibustered by Strom Thurmond.
00:15:06.000But it is also true that there are many procedures that are written into the Constitution with the direct intent of making sure that there has to be a broad spectrum support for particular policy before it goes into law.
00:15:16.000One of the points of the filibuster is to create exactly the sorts of checks and balances on pure majoritarianism that allow for the For the destruction of individual American rights.
00:15:28.000When it comes to Democrats, very often when they talk about institutions, they don't care about the institutions.
00:15:32.000The institutions are either a barrier or a weapon.
00:15:35.000So the filibuster is sometimes a weapon, that's when it's good.
00:15:37.000And then when it's not good, then they get rid of it.
00:15:40.000Barack Obama, within five minutes, will be arguing that the Senate itself should be done away with because the Senate, as it turns out, is actually non-representational.
00:15:46.000Having two senators for each state, two for Wyoming and two for California, when the population of Wyoming is seven people and the population of California is 40 million people, that's unrepresentative.
00:15:55.000So Democrats will stomp in favor of the Senate when they control it, and they want to add senators from Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., and then they'll stomp against the Senate when they don't control it.
00:16:05.000They'll stomp in favor of the filibuster when they can use it in their favor, and they will stomp against the filibuster when it is wrong, which suggests that they don't care about the institutions of government one iota.
00:16:15.000It's not about the institutions of government.
00:16:17.000It's about what they can use the government to do to you.
00:16:20.000So this kind of demagoguery Barack Obama was an awful president and he's an awful ex-president.
00:16:28.000And then Obama continued along these lines.
00:16:30.000We'll get to more of Barack Obama demagoguing at the memorial service for John Lewis in just one second.
00:16:35.000First, let's talk about the fact that if you believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility, you believe in the Second Amendment.
00:16:40.000One of the things that many people are after right now is the Second Amendment, the destruction of the Second Amendment.
00:16:44.000They believe that the Second Amendment is a barrier to the goals of the federal government.
00:16:49.000They believe that individuals who are responsible owning guns is somehow a threat to public safety, which is obviously untrue.
00:16:55.000The founders enshrined rights in the Constitution and they recognized that the people needed to be armed in order to protect themselves against the tyranny of government and, yes, against crime as well.
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00:17:50.000Firearms, a means to preserve the lives and liberties of ourselves and others.
00:18:13.000President Obama didn't just stop at calling for the overthrow of the filibuster and suggesting that today's police and federal agents are in league with George Wallace and Bull Connor.
00:18:21.000He then suggested that there is a wide variety of attempts to stop the vote.
00:18:36.000The black population of the United States, thank God, votes in heavy numbers, and in the last several election cycles, and certainly when Barack Obama was elected in both 2008 and 2012, outvoted their share of the population.
00:18:47.000But Barack Obama is fully on board with the Stacey Abrams lie that black people are systematically being prevented from the vote, which is, it is a lie.
00:18:54.000There is no evidence that this is the case.
00:18:56.000that there are people out there who are like, black people shouldn't vote.
00:18:58.000Here is Barack Obama suggesting that some people's like, some people's like, but I shouldn't go so political at a memorial.
00:19:11.000There are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision.
00:19:32.000Now I know this is a celebration of John's life.
00:19:37.000There are some who might say we shouldn't dwell on such things.
00:20:03.000Show me the evidence and don't give me voter ID.
00:20:06.000Voter ID is not an attempt to stop people from voting.
00:20:09.000Voter ID is a fine idea approved by, by the way, in every poll, a majority of nearly every demographic group, including black folks, as far as I'm aware.
00:20:18.000But Barack Obama, this is how you got Donald Trump.
00:20:22.000You guys want to know how you got Donald Trump?
00:20:23.000You gaslit the entire American population.
00:20:25.000You suggested over and over that this man was the epitome of class, that he was above politics, that he was some sort of godlike figure from on high.
00:20:34.000He is just a typical Chicago-style machine politician.
00:20:40.000And here he was using a memorial service for a man whose politics I disagreed with in many ways, but who did do incredible good for the United States.
00:20:47.000And instead of just paying tribute to him in a classy way, the way George W. Bush did, Barack Obama got up there and suggested that America is living with the vestiges of Jim Crow and Bull Connor.
00:20:57.000He suggested that America is dominated by neo-segregationists and people attempting to stop black people from voting.
00:21:31.000I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama went out there during the Ferguson rioting and said, people don't make up things like this.
00:21:35.000He was talking about the Michael Brown shooting.
00:21:37.000The Michael Brown shooting, by the way, it was a good shoot.
00:21:39.000In fact, it turns out that after another review of the Michael Brown shooting by officer Darren Wilson, it turns out five years after the, six years after the case, the case has been dismissed again.
00:21:52.000According to the Daily Wire today, Amanda Presti-Giacomo reporting, St.
00:21:55.000Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell announced on Thursday he will not be bringing charges against former Ferguson Police Department Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Michael Brown, 18, back in 2014.
00:22:04.000During a Thursday press conference, Bell announced the news by prefacing it as, quote, one of the most difficult things I've had to do, noting that his heart breaks for the Browns.
00:22:12.000The question for the office was a simple one.
00:22:14.000Could we prove beyond a reasonable doubt that when Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown, he committed murder or manslaughter under Missouri law, Bell asked.
00:22:20.000After an independent and in-depth review of the evidence, we cannot prove that he did.
00:22:25.000He, by the way, is the county's first black prosecutor.
00:22:27.000He reopened the case after taking office.
00:22:30.000One of the reasons he gained office is because of disapproval for no case against Darren Wilson in the first place.
00:22:35.000And then he looked at the evidence and he said, sorry, we can't actually make a case.
00:22:38.000Bell said his office conducted a five-month review of witness statements, forensic reports, and other evidence.
00:22:43.000The AP noted, adding his investigation, does not exonerate Darren Wilson.
00:22:46.000By the way, it's not the way the criminal justice process works.
00:22:48.000If you are not convicted, that does not mean that you are exonerated.
00:22:52.000There is no exonerated standard in criminal law.
00:23:19.000Democrats have continued to lie about the Michael Brown shooting and use it as the basis for a political campaign to suggest that America and its police officers are deeply racist.
00:23:27.000Now, as we will see, the exploitation of prominent people's death was not relegated to John Lewis yesterday.
00:23:32.000It also extended over to Herman Cain, the 74-year-old former Republican candidate for president in 2012, the first black Republican ever to lead presidential polling in 2012.
00:23:50.000Between the demagoguery of Barack Obama over John Lewis's death, and the attempts to link George Wallace with today's federal law enforcement protecting federal buildings from rioters and looters, and the media jumping on Herman Cain's death to blame President Trump, this is hideous stuff.
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00:26:23.000Here was Chris Cuomo yesterday saying that it's Trump's fault that Herman Cain is dead, despite the fact there's no evidence that Cain actually obtained the virus at Trump's rally in Tulsa.
00:26:30.000And Herman Cain happens to be an individual with the agency of his own.
00:26:42.000The president says he was a good friend of his.
00:26:46.000We wish his family well, and we wish that he rest in peace, and I wish that this president have no peace until he thinks about what he's exposing people to.
00:26:56.000He didn't even mention that Mr. Cain was at his rally among the maskless masses right before he was diagnosed.
00:27:19.000First of all, who the hell is Chris Cuomo to talk about this?
00:27:21.000Chris Cuomo, who went on air every single night and massaged his brother's ass on air as his brother presided over the largest death toll in America from COVID-19.
00:27:30.000Chris Cuomo, who every night was talking about the glories of public rallies in which people were not wearing masks and had not one thing to say about pandemic preparedness or pandemic protection while these massive rallies on social justice warrior messaging took place in the streets.
00:27:45.000Chris Cuomo, who spent his evenings Showing up on national TV with giant nasal swabs to make fun of his brother's nose size, Chris Cuomo, who ditched his own quarantine in order to apparently go to his second house while he had COVID.
00:28:02.000That guy is going to lecture Trump about Herman Cain.
00:28:04.000Again, without any evidence that Cain picked this thing up at the Trump rally.
00:28:31.000Unless I'm getting that very, very wrong.
00:28:33.000And by the way, that's not a case against mask wearing.
00:28:35.000But again, the media's attempt to twist this into a story of Trumpian evil and to reduce Herman Cain's life to his death is really disgusting.
00:28:45.000So Reuters had a headline about Herman Cain.
00:28:47.000Here was their headline about, again, a man who at one point led the 2012 Republican presidential race, a man who served on the Federal Reserve Board of Chairs, a man who spends his entire life becoming a success in the United States as a black man in America growing up in a segregated America in Atlanta.
00:29:04.000Here was how Reuters summed up Herman Cain's life.
00:29:06.000Quote, Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and supporter of President Trump, who refused to wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic, has died after contracting COVID-19.
00:29:15.000Yeah, he got a dunk on the guy because he didn't wear a mask.
00:29:18.000It seems to me that so much of the focus on mask wearing... Listen, again, I think you should wear a mask.
00:29:23.000I've been saying consistently for months, as soon as the conventional wisdom turned, I've been saying, what's the harm?
00:29:29.000That's what I've been saying for months.
00:29:31.000They said this is not a diatribe against mask-wearing, what I'm about to say.
00:29:34.000But it seems to me that many of the people who are focused in on dunking on people who die after quote-unquote not wearing masks, what they're really attempting to do is create in their own minds a protective shield by which they say, OK, well, if I do all of the approved things, then for sure I won't die.
00:30:11.000Whenever somebody dies, the first question you ask is, how?
00:30:14.000And then, if they did something of which you don't approve, you go, oh well, at least it won't happen to me.
00:30:18.000Okay, but Herman Cain's life story is not about how he died.
00:30:20.000It's about how he lived and the attempt to reduce him to his death method so that you can snack around Donald Trump on mask wearing.
00:30:26.000By the way, while Donald Trump is going out and now preaching that everybody should wear masks, it's pretty gross.
00:30:32.000This was the predominant sentiment, by the way, online yesterday.
00:30:34.000Leftists blaming Herman Cain for his own death and suggesting that Donald Trump is responsible for his own death.
00:30:41.000Tony Posnadsky tweeted out, there's another one of these blue check-marked lefties, He tweeted out, I feel bad for Herman Cain and his family, but I don't feel bad for his selfishness, his mocking of a deadly disease, nor convincing others it is safe to go maskless.
00:30:54.000I refuse to have sympathy for those who put my family in danger.
00:30:58.000I wonder what he has to say about Denmark or Netherlands, where they have refused to mandate mask wearing because they say that the evidence on it is pretty scanty.
00:31:05.000That doesn't mean you shouldn't wear a mask.
00:31:06.000It doesn't mean you shouldn't be careful.
00:31:08.000But to pretend that the evidence is absolutely clear neglects the fact that there are plenty of countries where they are not mandating mask wearing because the evidence is not exactly clear at this point.
00:31:17.000Over and over and over again, members of the media were using Herman Cain's death to dunk on the man, which is just really kind of disgusting.
00:31:24.000Anna Navarro, who's become just a bleep show, she tweeted out, Herman Cain thought COVID was a hoax, scoffed at wearing a mask, died of COVID.
00:31:32.000There's a post on Herman Cain's website today from his staff pointing out that he has started every podcast recently with the note that everybody should wash your hands a lot.
00:31:38.000And yes, that when you're in public, you should wear a mask.
00:31:40.000Bill Montgomery, she says, Bill Montgomery, co-founder of Pro Trump Turning Point USA, scoffed at virus, died of COVID, representative Gohmert refused to wear a mask, has COVID, see a pattern? COVID doesn't care about partisanship. Okay, I don't remember Anna Navarro tweeting the same thing about mass rallies in the streets where people were not wearing their masks. But, you know, so long as you can dunk on people, then you can feel So really well done all around.
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00:35:15.000Well, at least if we're going to live in the most garbage timeline, we have distractions like the NBA, right?
00:35:25.000I mean, at least we can enjoy sports together until they decide to politicize everything about sports and make them stupid.
00:35:31.000So I'm not saying you can't enjoy basketball.
00:35:32.000You can, but it does take a little bit of overlooking when they decide that social justice warrior messaging is going to be just poured into I mean, up to the brim, into the NBA, into the MLB, into the NFL.
00:35:46.000Apparently the end zones in the NFL are going to have things like equality and stand for justice like on the end zones now.
00:35:53.000I mean, honestly, what they really should just do is they should just label.
00:35:58.000These are all in-kind contributions to the Democratic Party, because let's be frank about this.
00:36:01.000All of the sloganeering here is designed to back up a particular narrative about America is systemically racist that the Democratic Party preaches.
00:36:09.000We are engaged right now in, again, what linguists call semantic overload.
00:36:13.000There's nothing wrong with the principle of equality before the law, right?
00:36:22.000When people say black lives matter and they put it on the side of a basketball court, what they do not mean is that black lives matter the same as white lives and all lives matter.
00:36:36.000Because if you say to them, I agree, black lives matter, and also America is not systemically racist, then they will respond and say, then you don't agree, black lives matter.
00:36:43.000Which means that you are just using a semantically overloaded term so that you can avoid saying what you actually mean, because what you actually mean is a lot more unpopular than what you're saying.
00:36:53.000Every single person agrees in America that black lives matter because you'd be an awful human being not to agree that black lives matter.
00:36:59.000But that is not what black lives matter advocates mean when they say black lives matter.
00:37:02.000What they actually mean is that police are evil and that America is systemically racist and that all inequality is a result of systematic inequity.
00:37:19.000Because obviously America's a terrible, horrible place where you get to earn millions of dollars for playing a child's game in front of adoring audiences.
00:37:26.000And Americans care so little about black lives that they are more than happy to watch basketball players paid millions of dollars to dunk a basketball.
00:37:36.000Deeply cruel, terrible country in which Americans obviously don't agree that black lives matter, which is why we spend tens of millions of dollars watching games and patronizing products that are advertised by these spokespeople.
00:37:50.000For the revisionist historians who suggest that kneeling for the national anthem, by the way, is a sign of respect for the flag, it was never meant as a sign of respect for the flag.
00:37:59.000It was meant as a sign of disrespect for the flag.
00:38:03.000It was meant originally as a signifier that America is systemically racist and the flag represents that systemic racism.
00:38:10.000Again, at least the MLB knelt before the National Anthem, but kneeling before the National Anthem is saying that the National Anthem is not true, and that the flag is not true.
00:38:20.000So the NBA let off with this, which of course makes it harder to watch the game because, again, no one is watching basketball to hear the Social Justice Warrior messaging, but they decided to get even more obvious about it.
00:38:29.000They did this routine where they basically went full XFL.
00:38:32.000If you remember the XFL, people were putting names on their jerseys like, He Hate Me.
00:38:38.000Well, yesterday, the NBA had players wearing words on their jerseys, like slogans on their jerseys.
00:38:44.000And it seems to me they should just put Biden 2020 on their jerseys if this is what they really think, or America Sucks on their jerseys if that's what they really think.
00:38:50.000Instead, you had the bizarre picture of players throwing up alley-oops while, like, if you don't know the players, you literally have no idea who is playing right now.
00:38:59.000Like, the purpose of the name on the back of the jersey used to be to identify the players.
00:39:04.000So instead, you had equality throwing an alley-oop for peace.
00:39:13.000Here is actually, like, that's actually what happened.
00:39:15.000I mean, I don't even know how the announcers announced this.
00:39:17.000And they know the names of the players, but if you didn't, right, if you're just watching this thing, it's like, and coming up the court is equality.
00:39:23.000Here comes equality, running up the court, throws up an alley-oop to peace.
00:39:26.000And there's peace slamming it home over say their names.
00:39:32.000That's literally how it looked yesterday.
00:39:34.000That would be the sound that you'd hear down under.
00:39:38.000Strong finish, Zion Williamson on a special delivery.
00:40:01.000So was Stop the NBA's Chinese Talent Sweatshop.
00:40:04.000That person never made it to the court, so that's too bad.
00:40:07.000Charles Barkley got a lot of flack yesterday, because Charles Barkley, who may be the only sane person left dealing with the NBA, he said, by the way, if you don't kneel, you're not a bad person.
00:40:35.000You're a bad person who doesn't care about black people if you don't kneel for the national anthem.
00:40:39.000A national anthem that represents a country that has seen more racial progress than any other country in human history, and in which the richest black people on planet Earth live, by average income.
00:40:49.000Okay, but apparently Charles Barkley's a bad guy for saying that if you don't kneel, you're not a bad person.
00:41:34.000Quote, individuals of the cervix are now recommended to start cervical cancer screenings at 25 and continue through age 65 with HPV testing every five years as the preferred method of testing according to a new guideline released by the American Cancer Society.
00:41:47.000You notice something wrong with that particular headline?
00:41:50.000Individuals with a cervix are recommended to start cervical cancer screenings.
00:41:54.000You know what we call individuals with a cervix in the real world?
00:42:24.000There will be a backlash to this, and the backlash, I think, will come in the form of reasonable people just saying, you know what, no.
00:42:28.000I'm not kneeling for the national anthem, nor do I frankly feel like patronizing basketball games where I'm lectured about how America is systemically racist by people who are earning millions and millions of dollars to call America systemically racist.
00:42:40.000Honestly, the best thing that happened yesterday, is maybe the only good thing that happened yesterday, was Trader Joe's said, you know what?
00:43:39.000a kitschy reference to a mathematical theory.
00:43:41.000These products have been really popular with our customers, including some budding mathematicians.
00:43:45.000Recently, we have heard from many customers reaffirming these name variations are largely viewed in exactly the way they were intended, as an attempt to have fun with our product marketing.
00:43:52.000We will continue our ongoing evaluation, and those products that resonate with our customers and sell well will remain on our shelves.
00:44:10.000Which is why you're seeing, this one I love, you're seeing Beyonce come under fire.
00:44:13.000There's a new documentary, it's not really a documentary, it's sort of like a movie that is called Black is King for Disney+, that is produced by Beyonce.
00:44:21.000Now, first of all, let me just point out that if Disney Plus launched a program called White is King, it would be the end of the world.
00:44:39.000The music for Lion King was originally written by two white guys, Elton John and Tim Rice.
00:44:42.000And the story of Lion King is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet, who happened to be a white guy, so...
00:44:46.000Seems like a little cultural appropriation.
00:44:48.000Now Beyonce's under a little bit of fire because it turns out that Beyonce is not in fact African, and for her to culturally appropriate African culture is sort of a problem for some people on the left.
00:44:57.000Not kidding, there are articles on this today.
00:44:59.000People defending Beyonce saying she's allowed to do it because she's disconnected from her history, but her disconnection from her own history is because of White intervention over slavery and all this.
00:45:08.000The fact that it's even a controversy is bizarre.
00:45:21.000Remember, these are the woke white ladies who are supposedly protecting Peaceful protesters who are actually vicious rioters and looters from the predations of federal police officers attempting to stop violations of law.
00:45:32.000Now the Wall of Moms is falling apart.
00:45:36.000According to Oregon Live, Portland's Wall of Moms, a group formed in recent weeks and quickly recognized as a staple of nightly downtown protests, was accused publicly Wednesday of anti-blackness by leaders of an existing black-led community group.
00:45:48.000Wall of Moms, whose members said they aimed to support and protect other Black Lives Matter protesters near the fence in front of the federal courthouse, announced Friday that its white leadership had rescinded their positions to allow women of color to be in charge.
00:46:00.000So the Wall of Moms fell apart because they weren't black enough.
00:46:03.000New leaders announced Friday include Theresa Rayford, executive director of Don't Shoot Portland, Demetria Hester, and Danielle James.
00:46:10.000Less than a week later, Don't Shoot Portland took to Instagram to urge people against supporting the Wall of Moms, saying it was no longer working with the moms group.
00:46:18.000Because after leaving vulnerable black women downtown after marching, failing to support those on the ground that put trust in them, Wall of Moms leadership also found time to make three registrations through Oregon's Secretary of State.
00:46:28.000This was done without the knowledge of the black leadership that Wall of Moms was claiming to implement.
00:46:46.000It just, there's no limitations to the wokeness.
00:46:49.000Now, if you're thinking to yourself, you know, all of this seems like pretty solid ground for President Trump to campaign.
00:46:54.000And so you got the Democrats seeking to undermine fundamental institutions of American republicanism and checks and balances, like filibusters.
00:47:00.000You have Democrats seeking to prop up rioting and looting.
00:47:03.000You have a system so woke that the wall of moms is not woke enough.
00:47:07.000You have every major cultural institution Pushing social justice warrior messaging about how America is systemically evil.
00:47:12.000Wouldn't that be some pretty fertile ground for Trump to campaign?
00:47:15.000Well, lest you forget, Donald Trump is busy distracting us all with absolute, utter, insane stupidity.
00:47:21.000So I remember that yesterday, President Trump floated the idea of postponing the election, which is fundamentally unconstitutional.
00:47:28.000The election is set as the first As the first weekend in November, it has been set that way by the Constitution of the United States for well over 150 years.
00:47:37.000The president doesn't have that kind of power.
00:47:39.000Now, yesterday, I kind of shrugged it off a little bit because Trump says a lot of crap.
00:47:42.000And it's true, he does say a lot of crap.
00:47:43.000And I'm not going to pretend I take Trump particularly seriously as a person.
00:47:47.000I've never taken Trump particularly seriously as a person because I think if you do, then you're doing it wrong, frankly.
00:47:53.000That does not justify his activity in undermining fundamental faith in American democracy by saying that the vote is going to be so corrupted that we should postpone the election.
00:48:03.000That is a tactic the Democrats have been using.
00:48:12.000When Trump does it, and Trump really opened the door to everybody clocking him.
00:48:16.000It's political malpractice, and it's unconstitutional, unreasonable, foolish, and wrong for the President of the United States to threaten delaying the election.
00:48:25.000It really justifies a lot of the complaints about Trump that have... I'm old enough to remember when I was defending Trump against charges, he was going to say stuff like this, and then he went ahead and said stuff like this.
00:48:34.000And that left running room for the left, so Chuck Schumer said, nah, the election's gonna be November 3rd, and of course he is correct about this.
00:48:40.000Once again, all he wants to do is divert from his abject failure in the coronavirus crisis.
00:48:49.000He says, oh, well, maybe we won't have an election.
00:48:52.000That's up to the Senate and the House.
00:48:54.000Mr. President, President Trump, the election will be in November, on November 3rd, and you will not change it.
00:49:06.000President Trump, that's what you've done for three months.
00:49:08.000Okay, well in any case, the rest of it is irrelevant, but he's not wrong that the election will take place at this point.
00:49:13.000Now the question is whether you take Trump with a grain of salt because he's fundamentally an unserious human being, which is what I've thought for a very long time, that has not wavered for years, or whether you take it super-duper seriously.
00:49:23.000If you take it seriously, it's a fascist threat.
00:49:24.000If Barack Obama said, I'm delaying the election, everybody on the right would completely go nuts.
00:49:29.000The reason I don't take Trump as seriously as Obama is because I don't think that Trump is as serious a person as Obama.
00:49:39.000Yesterday he came out and said, glad I was able to get the very dishonest, lamestream media to finally start talking about the risks to our democracy from dangerous, universal mail-in voting, not absentee voting, which I totally support.
00:49:50.000So he came out and he said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, by the way, when I was saying delay the election, it was really just a misdirect tactic so people would talk about mail-in voting, which God, God.
00:49:58.000Okay, so why not just say mail-in voting is bad?
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