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00:00:24.000I know that there may not be a lot of World of Warcraft fans here in the Ben Shapiro Show audience, but I do need to make a reference that requires explanation.
00:00:33.000So, there is a game, an online game called World of Warcraft.
00:00:38.000I'm not a World of Warcraft player myself.
00:00:41.000And all of the, all of the, there's one very famous meme that has come from World of Warcraft in which a bunch of people who are all playing World of Warcraft together are sitting around planning their next move and one of the players is away from his computer preparing himself a plate of chicken.
00:00:57.000He comes back and they are all still preparing their plan and he decides to randomly charge directly into the middle of a firefight thus killing everyone while shouting LEROY JENKINS!
00:01:12.000The news cycle this weekend could have been the Democrats tearing each other apart.
00:01:16.000The news cycle could have been this weekend people attempting to raid an ICE facility and one guy getting killed while attempting to destroy an ICE facility.
00:01:25.000All of that could have been the news cycle this weekend.
00:01:27.000Instead, the news cycle was LEROY JENKINS, the President of the United States, deciding to tweet xenophobic nonsense.
00:01:35.000In the middle of a Democratic infight and to do so in such a way that the Democrats were able to unite against him.
00:02:24.000As a conservative, it was glorious to watch all of the specters, all of the ghosts of Christmas past, the intersectional ghosts of Christmas past, come back to haunt Nancy Pelosi.
00:02:35.000It was wonderful, because Nancy Pelosi had enabled this intersectional nonsense for years on end, proclaiming that everyone who disagreed with the left agenda was a racist, and it had come back to bite her directly on her posterior, thanks to AOC and her crew.
00:02:50.000And meanwhile, she was going after AOC too, and everybody was going after everybody.
00:02:55.000And then Leroy Jenkins appeared, President Jenkins.
00:02:59.000We'll explain exactly how all of this played out since last week, and why on a political level it's moronic, and beyond that, why on a moral level it is bad stuff.
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00:04:22.000This all began when Nancy Pelosi, she spent basically the last seven months vacillating between praising AOC for her supposed energy and brilliance and knocking AOC as a dolt, who doesn't know what the hell she's doing, who's too radical, who attacks moderate members of the Democratic caucus. who doesn't know what the hell she's doing, who's too It was criticism like this that we're about to hear from Nancy Pelosi that led AOC to strike back.
00:04:45.000So this began with Nancy Pelosi attacking AOC and suggesting that a glass of water would win AOC's district if it had a D on it, which of course is true.
00:04:52.000When we won this election, it was a very good thing.
00:04:55.000It wasn't in districts like mine or Alexandria's.
00:04:59.000However, she's a wonderful member of Congress.
00:05:02.000I think all of our colleagues will attest.
00:05:05.000But those are districts that are solidly democratic.
00:05:08.000This glass of water would win with a D next to its name in those districts.
00:05:14.000And not to diminish the exuberance and the personality and the rest of Alexandria and the other members.
00:05:22.000Okay, the exuberance is wonderful, but they're idiots, is what Pelosi's saying.
00:05:25.000Well, this caused AOC to get mad, and then she told the Washington Post, quote, But the persistent singling out, it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful, the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.
00:05:33.000So now she is calling out Nancy Pelosi as a racist.
00:05:36.000But the persistent singling out, it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful, the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.
00:05:43.000So now she is calling out Nancy Pelosi as a racist.
00:05:45.000The reason Pelosi is attacking AOC or Ayanna Pressley, who again is the Ringo Starr of the squad's Beatles.
00:05:53.000The reason that Pelosi is attacking those people is not because they are so radical that they are undercutting democratic appeal in the middle of the country.
00:06:00.000She's not attacking them because they're dolts who don't know how Congress works.
00:06:04.000And publicity hounds who are interested in the nearest camera.
00:06:08.000Now the reason that Pelosi is attacking AOC according to AOC is because Pelosi's a racist.
00:06:12.000And all of us on the right were like, yes.
00:06:20.000We were waiting for the moment when the intersectional caucus came for old Nancy Pelosi in the same way that the intersectional caucus is coming for Joe Biden.
00:06:39.000And knowing the media environment that we're operating in, knowing the amount of death threats that we get, knowing the amount of concentration of attention, I think it's just worth asking why.
00:07:13.000And he has spent the last several months attacking the quote unquote new Democrats, Southern Democrats, many of whom are black and who happen to be more moderate in orientation on some of the policy issues that AOC is pushing.
00:07:25.000So he originally tweeted out that these New Democrats were like 1940s-style Jim Crow Democrats.
00:07:32.000And then he retracted that, and then he tweeted out, didn't realize this needed to be said, but you can be someone who does not personally harbor ill will toward a race, but through your actions still enable a racist system.
00:07:41.000And a lot of New Democrats and Blue Dogs did that today.
00:07:44.000This is in reference to my comparing Blue Dogs and New Democrats to 1940 Southern Democrats.
00:07:49.000Southern Democrats enabled a racist system too.
00:07:51.000I have no idea how personally racist they all were, and we're seeing the same dynamic play out now.
00:07:55.000So he was out there, her chief of staff, calling the other Democrats a bunch of vicious racists in the mold of the Southern Democrats who are enabling a racist system.
00:08:04.000Because they voted for additional funding for ICE so that ICE could do its job and ensure that people who are crossing the border illegally weren't being penned up in cages 20 to a room.
00:08:13.000And as it turns out, it's not enough funding anyway.
00:08:15.000So Saikhat Chakrabarty was attacking all of these other so-called New Democrats.
00:08:20.000Well, this then led the House Democratic account on Twitter.
00:08:25.000The House Democratic account, which apparently is handled by Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, He tweeted out, who is this guy?
00:08:32.000And why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?
00:08:36.000And the reason that this is being brought up is because Chakrabarti also tweeted, I think the point still stands.
00:08:42.000I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system.
00:08:45.000And the same could even be said of the Southern Democrats.
00:08:47.000I don't believe Sharice is a racist person, but her votes are showing her to enable a racist system.
00:08:52.000He was referring to Sharice Davids, right?
00:08:54.000Congresswoman Sharice Davids, who voted in favor of ICE funding.
00:08:59.000So Hakeem Jeffries tweeted out on behalf of the entire House Democratic Caucus, apparently, who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?
00:09:07.000Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice.
00:09:09.000She's a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue.
00:09:12.000And then with the black colored hand emojis, Keep.
00:09:21.000Oh, well, you know that they've gone fire, the House Democrats, when they start using the clapping emojis.
00:09:26.000Clapping emojis are, in the left, a sign of seriousness.
00:09:30.000If you use a fire emoji or a clapping emoji, this means you are super-duper, super-duper pooper-scooper serious on the left if you start using those sorts of emojis.
00:09:38.000So, they're using the emojis on AOC's Chief of Staff, and it appeared that this was all coming to a head.
00:09:43.000It appeared And the Democrats were all going to go directly after Chakrabarty.
00:09:48.000They weren't going to go after AOC because they can't do anything about AOC.
00:09:50.000They weren't going to go directly after Ilhan Omar, who, after all, just two months ago they defended, even though she's a rabid anti-Semite.
00:09:55.000They were going to go after Chakrabarty and knock him off.
00:09:57.000And by knocking off Chakrabarty, who is allegedly AOC's brain, they were basically going to render AOC feckless and defunct.
00:10:04.000And then that caucus would basically disappear from the front pages because, let's face it, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are not nearly as media attractive as AOC is, which is why AOC gets all the attention.
00:10:15.000In a second, we'll explain how this was getting even worse for AOC and the squad and how they were fighting back until Leroy Jenkins arrived.
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00:11:53.000So the Justice Democrats were backing primary challengers to eight-term Representative Henry Queller of Texas, a Hispanic caucus member, and 10-term Representative William Lacy Clay of Missouri, who's a member of the CBC.
00:12:04.000They were also talking about challenging the Democratic caucus chairman, Hakeem Jeffries, who of course hates them.
00:12:09.000And he, of course, is seen as an heir apparent to Nancy Pelosi.
00:12:12.000And he is also the person who's in charge of that House Democrats account that was attacking Chakrabarty.
00:12:18.000Well, this prompted Gregory Meeks, a senior CBC member, to say, quote, I don't know what the agenda is, but if they want to come after members of the Black Caucus, it's two ways.
00:12:25.000Black Caucus, individuals who have stood and fought to make sure that African-Americans are included in part of this process.
00:12:31.000I don't know what the agenda is, but if they want to come after members of the Black Caucus, it's two ways, meaning that we are going to, they're either going to win or they're going to lose.
00:12:39.000A lot of folks very upset with the Justice Democrats.
00:12:43.000So all this was breaking out into the open.
00:14:02.000She, at Netroots Nations, she again attacked the Congressional Black Caucus, and she said, listen, here's what we don't need.
00:14:09.000We don't need black people who don't know that they're black, or gay people who don't know that they're gay.
00:14:13.000We need people who think exactly like Ayanna Pressley does, because Ayanna Pressley is the greatest expository of what it means to be black or gay or Latino or whatever.
00:14:23.000She knows what it is to be a true member of the intersectional community.
00:14:27.000Here is Ayanna Pressley launching a tax on democratic leadership.
00:14:29.000If you're going to come to this table and for all of you that have aspirations of running for office, for whatever lived experience and identity that you represent, if you are not prepared to come to that table and to represent that voice, don't come.
00:14:47.000Because we don't need any more brown faces that don't want to be a brown voice.
00:14:52.000We don't need black faces that don't want to be a black voice.
00:14:56.000We don't need Muslims that don't want to be a Muslim voice.
00:14:58.000We don't need queers that don't want to be a queer voice.
00:15:01.000Okay, and everybody cheering because everybody's crazy over at Netroots Nation.
00:15:05.000Who in the Democratic caucus is she talking about?
00:15:07.000A black person who doesn't want to be black?
00:15:08.000Or a queer person who doesn't want to be queer?
00:15:10.000She's allowed to use that word, I guess.
00:15:11.000So I guess we're all allowed to use the word in that context.
00:15:16.000The Democrats tearing each other apart.
00:15:18.000And then Karen Atia, who's the global opinions editor over at the Washington Post, she tweets out, what people need to see in this newly formed Maureen Dowd, Speaker Pelosi, Donald Trump Axis of Sheevil is that white supremacy relies on dismissing, silencing and undermining women of color, putting them in their place by any means necessary.
00:15:37.000I mean, this thing was out in the open.
00:15:38.000That is the global editor of the Washington Post editorial page saying that Maureen Dowd and Nancy Pelosi and real Donald Trump That's his Twitter account.
00:16:20.000Alex Twissant, the digital Peloton instructor inside the screen on my spinning bike, had some wisdom for me, the kind of new-age bromide dispensed in spin classes everywhere.
00:16:28.000You climb the mountain to see the world.
00:16:29.000You don't climb the mountain so the world can see you.
00:16:32.000I only wished AOC was cycling alongside me to hear it as well.
00:16:49.000And I imagine the most potent feminist partnership in American history.
00:16:52.000Nancy Pelosi is sensei, bringing her inside game, and AOC, the karate kid with a wicked Twitter game.
00:16:57.000But instead, the 79-year-old speaker and the 29-year-old freshman are trapped in a generational and ideological tangle that poses a real threat to the Democrats' ability to beat Donald Trump next year.
00:17:07.000Pelosi told me, after the AOC squad voted against the House's version of the border bill and trashed the moderates, the very people who provided the Democrats the majority, that the squad was four people with four votes.
00:17:16.000She was talking about a legislative reality.
00:17:18.000If it was a knock, it was for abandoning the party.
00:17:21.000That did not merit AOC's outrageous accusation that Pelosi was targeting newly elected women of color.
00:17:26.000She slimed the speaker who has spent her life fighting for the downtrodden and who was instrumental in getting the first African-American president elected and passing his agenda against all odds as a sexist and as a racist.
00:17:38.000AOC, says Maureen Dowd, should consider the possibility that people who disagree with her do not disagree with her color.
00:17:43.000Glad to see the left come around on this one, gang.
00:17:46.000Glad to see the left finally realize, oh wait a second, if I think AOC is just stupid, then maybe it's because I think she's stupid, not because of the color of her skin.
00:17:54.000Because lots of people with lots of different colors of skin are incredibly stupid, as we will see.
00:18:00.000In just a second, we'll continue with Maureen Dowd's column.
00:18:03.000This was all, what was the news cycle?
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00:19:20.000Okay, so Maureen Dowd lamenting the fight between AOC and Nancy Pelosi.
00:19:24.000She says, the young lawmaker went further, implying that the speaker was putting the squad in danger, asking why Pelosi would criticize them, knowing the amount of death threats and attention they get.
00:19:34.000AOC pulled back and said she wasn't calling Pelosi a racist, but once you start that ball rolling, it's hard to stop.
00:19:39.000You know how topsy-turvy the fight is when the biggest defenders of Pelosi, who has endured being a caricature of extreme liberalism for decades, are Trump and the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
00:19:48.000The AOC crew threw down a gauntlet in a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post by The Intercept's Ryan Grimm.
00:19:54.000He wrote that when Pelosi and other Democratic mandarins try to keep the image of the party centrist, they are crouching in the defensive posture they've been in since the Reagan revolution.
00:20:03.000Corbyn Trent, spokesman for AOC, co-founder of Justice Democrats, said, The greatest threat to mankind is the cowardice of the Democratic Party, with the older generation driven by fear and unable to lead.
00:20:16.000And then there's the real instigator, Sycott Chakrabarty.
00:20:18.000As I say, all the guns were out on Sycott.
00:20:21.000I mean, the sights were leveled at Sycott Chakrabarty as of 24 hours ago.
00:20:26.000That's AOC's 33-year-old chief of staff, who co-founded Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress, both of which recruited progressives, including AOC, to run against moderates in Democratic primaries.
00:20:35.000The former Silicon Valley Bernie bro assumes he could apply Facebook's mantra, move fast and break things, to one of the oldest institutions in a country.
00:20:42.000But, says Maureen Dowd, Congress is not a place where you achieve radical progress, certainly not in divided government.
00:20:48.000It's a place where you work at it, and work at it, and don't get everything you want.
00:20:51.000The progressives act as though anyone who dares disagree with them is bad.
00:20:57.000Some impurity that is a moral evil that justifies their venom.
00:21:00.000Rahm Emanuel told me Chakra Bharti is a snot-nosed punk who has no idea about the battle scars Pelosi bears from the liberal fight she's led.
00:21:07.000What votes did you get, Emanuel said, rhetorically challenging AOC's chief of staff?
00:21:11.000You should only be so lucky to learn from somebody like Nancy, who has shown incredible courage and who has twice returned the Democratic Party to power.
00:21:17.000We fought for years to create the majorities, to get a Democratic president elected and re-elected, and they're going to dither it away.
00:21:22.000They've not decided what's more important.
00:21:25.000Or do they want to clear the moderate and centrist out of the party?
00:21:28.000You really think weakening the Speaker is the right strategy to get rid of Trump and everything he stands for?
00:21:32.000In the age of Trump, says Maureen Dowd, there is no more stupid proposition than that Nancy Pelosi is the problem.
00:21:37.000If AOC and her Pygmalions and acolytes decide that burning down the House is more important than deposing Trump, they will be left with a racist backward president and the emotional satisfaction of their own purity.
00:21:47.000So Maureen Dowd, long knives out for Chakrabarty, long knives out for AOC and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley.
00:21:58.000I mean, this is the biggest Democratic infight that I have seen in recent memory.
00:22:03.000And then it gets even worse for the Democrats, because it turns out that over the weekend, all of their talk about ICE actually results in some pretty nasty side effects, some pretty nasty sides.
00:22:16.000Here are a couple of stories about what was going on.
00:22:19.000Over the weekend, so here's what's happening really with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
00:22:22.000What's happening is they're overwhelmed at the border because Congress has not provided them the funding.
00:22:26.000Congress has not provided them the necessary funding because Democrats do not wish to provide them the necessary funding.
00:22:31.000Democrats wish for there to be a humanitarian crisis at the border that would supposedly justify releasing large numbers of people into the interior of the United States without keeping proper tabs on them so that eventually they will be given amnesty and become American citizens or so that they can live illegally in the country.
00:22:47.000So over the weekend, Mike Pence Went down to the border.
00:22:50.000We'll talk about that in just a second.
00:22:51.000So Mike Pence heads down to the southern border for a visit, and he looks at the migrant detention centers in Texas.
00:22:58.000He toured two border patrol facilities and It was not great.
00:23:05.000And Mike Pence made clear that it was not great.
00:23:06.000He sort of gave a little bit of conflicting testimony here.
00:23:09.000The tour, according to the New York Times, gave journalists covering the VP a rare glimpse inside a border patrol station near McAllen, Texas, where they observed nearly 400 men crammed inside a cage with no space to lie down, no mats or pillows, according to pool reports.
00:23:21.000Before members of the news media were ushered out of the facility, some of the detainees shouted they'd been there for more than 40 days, were hungry, and could not brush their teeth.
00:23:29.000One pool reporter described the stench as horrendous.
00:23:33.000and said it was sweltering inside the detention center, which is less than 10 miles from the Rio Grande, a river that divides the United States and Mexico.
00:23:40.000Mike Pence had this to say about the situation on the border.
00:23:44.000These families are receiving compassionate care in a proper environment.
00:23:49.000And I asked every one of those little children, are you being well taken care of?
00:23:53.000And they all looked at me and said, yes.
00:24:06.000And the Customs and Border Protection is doing their level best In an overcrowded environment and a difficult environment to address this issue, but Congress has got to act to make it possible for us to reduce the numbers of people coming into our country illegally.
00:24:24.000So CNN juxtaposes, obviously, Pence talking about children and the treatment of children with the treatment of adults, which is not exactly the same thing.
00:24:32.000Pence then commented on the situation at the border with regard to those adults, right?
00:24:37.000He said, I was not surprised by what I saw.
00:24:38.000He said, I knew we would see a system that was overwhelmed.
00:24:50.000They wish to portray ice as an Auschwitz like situation.
00:24:55.000They wish to portray immigration and customs enforcement as running concentration camps.
00:24:59.000Those are the words of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Alyssa Milano, the heart of the Democratic Party.
00:25:04.000She tweeted out a picture of Mike Pence.
00:25:07.000Viewing these detention facilities alongside a picture of Heinrich Himmler viewing the concentration camps, which makes perfect sense until you realize that Himmler had everybody inside those camps gassed, whereas everybody who is inside that cage will eventually either become an American citizen or be released back to their home country, which is not the same thing at all.
00:25:23.000And they would all be treated better if Democrats would sign a damn check to make sure that ICE could do what it needs to do.
00:25:30.000And this becomes obvious when you see members of ICE speaking publicly about this situation.
00:25:35.000So, late on Friday, there was a hearing about the situation on the border.
00:25:40.000Representative Garcia was speaking with a former ICE head, whose name is Homan, and he went directly after Representative Garcia.
00:25:48.000He said, you know, you're going after ICE.
00:25:50.000We're the ones doing the hard work on the border.
00:26:19.000What I've been trying to do my 34 years serving my nation is to save lives.
00:26:24.000So for you to sit there and insult my integrity and my love for my country and for children, that's why this whole thing needs to be fixed.
00:26:35.000Democrats are grandstanding on this issue.
00:26:38.000That's Jesus Garcia, Democrat of Illinois, and that was former ICE Enforcement Chief Tom Homan, who is testifying on all of this.
00:26:45.000Well, this was leading to this grand rift between the right and the left on ICE, where Democrats are basically now claiming that they want open borders, and in order to achieve that open border situation, they want to make sure that nobody gets funded.
00:27:00.000So that nobody can actually be held at the border and processed in an orderly fashion.
00:27:25.000One of our members said to me, if there were dogs in those cages, every single member of Congress would vote to make sure that all of these cages didn't exist anymore.
00:27:41.000So we live in a society We live in a society and govern in a body that might value the life of a dog more than they value the life of a child who might not look like theirs.
00:27:57.000Okay, it's a disgusting thing to say about the country, obviously.
00:28:00.000We don't live in a society where Americans value the life of a dog over the life of a child at the border.
00:28:04.000Why do you think there's such outrage about what's going on at the border?
00:28:07.000Why do you think that everybody, right, left, and center, wants more funding at the border, wants something to be done so that this is not the situation at the border?
00:28:14.000But the Democrats are making that impossible because at the same time that they are claiming that they are deeply Concerned about the situation at the border.
00:28:22.000She voted against funding at the border.
00:28:24.000She voted against a $5 billion bill that was passed by the House Democrats to fund the situation over at the border.
00:28:31.000And meanwhile, you have top Democratic officials like Mayor Eric Garcetti in my hometown of Los Angeles, suggesting that illegal immigrants who are caught up in ICE raids, Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, in his city will be defended at taxpayer costs in Los Angeles.
00:28:47.000I mean, this is full-scale incentivization of open borders.
00:28:49.000This is what Democrats were pushing over the weekend.
00:28:53.000No matter their immigration status, I want every Angeleno to know their rights and how to exercise them.
00:28:59.000Remember, you have the right to remain silent.
00:29:01.000You don't have to open your door to a nice agent that doesn't have a warrant signed by a judge.
00:29:06.000You have the right to speak to a lawyer before signing any documents or speaking to law enforcement.
00:29:11.000And if you need help finding an attorney, you can call 311 and learn more about our Justice Fund and other resources that offer legal support.
00:29:19.000And most importantly, I want you to know you do not need be afraid.
00:31:04.000Okay, we're going to get to the rest of the insane news cycle over the weekend and President Trump's Much maligned and supremely covered tweets.
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00:32:17.000Well, all the hubbub over immigration has some pretty extreme stories associated with it.
00:32:30.000So I'm always hesitant to say that rhetoric causes violence.
00:32:34.000Unless you are explicitly calling for violence, I don't believe that you are the cause of that violence.
00:32:39.000Unless you say, go punch that guy in the face, I don't think that you caused somebody to punch that guy in the face.
00:32:44.000If you say, I don't like that guy, not the same thing.
00:32:46.000If you say, I think that guy's a jerk, not the same thing.
00:32:48.000Even if you say, I think that guy's a racist, not the same thing.
00:32:51.000What is obvious is that the lack of any sort of rational discourse happening around the immigration situation is raising the temperature.
00:33:00.000And when you raise the temperature, you are going to get more of the water spilling over the sides of the pot.
00:33:06.000And that's what you have over the weekend.
00:33:08.000Over the weekend, this is a story that was wildly undercovered.
00:33:10.000How this is not leading national news, how President Trump's Twitter is leading national news, is both a referendum on President Trump's use of Twitter and on the media's coverage of various issues.
00:33:20.000Because you know what's a little more important than whatever the president tweeted today?
00:33:24.000The fact that a man attacked an ICE detention center over the weekend and then was fatally shot by the police.
00:33:29.000According to the New York Times, the police fatally shot a man who was attacking an immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington on Saturday morning, the authority said.
00:33:36.000Imagine that a right winger had gone and attacked the IRS with a gun.
00:33:39.000You think he might be leading the national news today as opposed to whatever Obama tweeted about it or Trump tweeted about it?
00:33:44.000Instead, the man, who was armed with a rifle, was throwing unspecified incendiary devices at the Northwest Detention Center, according to a police statement.
00:33:53.000The man was identified by officials on Saturday.
00:33:55.000We don't say the names of people who commit these sorts of terrorist acts.
00:34:03.000He continued throwing lit objects at buildings and cars.
00:34:05.000One car was fully engulfed in flames, according to Officer Loretta Kuhl, a spokeswoman for the Tacoma Police Department.
00:34:11.000He attempted and failed to ignite a commercial-sized propane tank attached to the center, said Sean Fallow, the resident agent in charge of the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility.
00:34:20.000He said this could have resulted in the mass murder of staff and detainees housed at the facilities.
00:34:25.000These are the kinds of incidents that keep you up at night.
00:34:45.000Police have not established a motive for the attack, but according to his longtime friend, She said that he had intended to provoke a fatal conflict.
00:34:54.000He did release apparently some sort of manifesto, and in the manifesto he suggested that ICE detention facilities were in fact concentration camps.
00:35:02.000It's fascinating to watch as the media, which have declared over and over again that if somebody in their manifesto Use his language that they can somehow connect to President Trump and it's President Trump's fault.
00:35:15.000But if somebody says concentration camp and then goes and tries to shoot up an ice facility, then presumably the rhetoric is still not overcharged.
00:35:22.000We'll still get defenses from the Washington Post of the rhetoric.
00:35:26.000From particular Democratic Congress people who use exactly that kind of rhetoric.
00:35:29.000We've seen the same thing, of course, during the congressional baseball shooting, which would still be a national story if Democrats had been the victims of it.
00:35:35.000But it was Republicans who were attacked by a man who was basically quoting Bernie Sanders at the time.
00:35:39.000So he didn't get any questions about how rhetoric leads to violence.
00:35:42.000That only happens on one side of the aisle.
00:35:45.000So that was one incident over the weekend.
00:35:47.000That wasn't, by the way, the guy claimed apparently in his manifesto that he was a member of Antifa five seconds ago.
00:35:55.000Seattle, apparently in one of his Facebook, he put up a Facebook manifesto in which he said, quote, I am Antifa.
00:36:02.000I stand with comrades around the world.
00:36:05.000Seattle Antifa put up an actual statement about his death, saying when our good friend and comrade took a stand against the fascist detention center in Tacoma, he became a martyr who gave his life to the struggle against fascism.
00:36:15.000He was kind and deeply loved by many communities.
00:36:18.000We cannot let his death go unanswered.
00:36:19.000So apparently more violence coming from Seattle Antifa.
00:36:22.000Throughout history, we idolize figures like John Brown for their courage to take the ultimate stand against oppression.
00:36:26.000Today, we stand strong in our support for yet another martyr in the struggle against fascism.
00:36:30.000May his death serve as a call to protest and direct action.
00:36:33.000Direct action, of course, is a code for violence.
00:36:35.000That was not the, by the way, another hundred people gathered today outside the That was not the only attack on an ICE facility over the weekend.
00:36:47.000There was also a non-violent but trespass attack at an ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colorado over the weekend.
00:36:54.000According to the Denver Post, more than 2,000 people had assembled outside the ICE detention facility in Aurora on Friday night to protest the Trump administration's planned immigration roundups when Claudia Castillo noticed a commotion.
00:37:05.000A group of protesters had broken through a chain marked private property, no trespassing, headed for the front of the detention facility.
00:37:12.000Castillo is a 22-year military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army.
00:37:16.000Army and legal services coordinator for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition.
00:37:20.000She pled with the group of 25 that initially pushed through.
00:37:43.000You can see them raising the Mexican flag as people cheer up top this ICE facility.
00:37:49.000Nothing says that you believe in America quite like replacing the American flag with a Mexican flag.
00:37:54.000Nothing says that you really are just looking for the best for America in your immigration policy quite like removing an American flag and putting a Mexican flag up top a flagpole at an ICE detention facility after breaking in.
00:38:06.000So all of this All of this was the news cycle.
00:38:09.000The news cycle was Democrats fighting each other.
00:38:11.000It was an actual violent attack on an ICE facility by a person claiming that it was a concentration camp.
00:38:17.000It was people who were breaking into an ICE facility to pull down the American flag, try to burn it, and put up a Mexican flag.
00:38:23.000That was the news cycle over the weekend.
00:38:25.000And that's when President Leroy Jenkins arrived.
00:38:27.000So President Trump Decided yesterday, because apparently he was bored and he was watching TV, that he was going to tweet about things.
00:38:35.000And what did he decide to tweet about?
00:38:36.000He decided that he was going to tweet about the Democratic freshman Congresswomen.
00:38:41.000If he had said that Ilhan Omar doesn't seem to have proper gratitude for the country that took her in, she seems to think this country was founded and steeped in racism and bigotry and homophobia and it's a terrible place to be.
00:38:52.000If he had said basically what Tucker Carlson said last week, it would be controversial, but it wouldn't be what it is.
00:39:08.000Well, there are many, but there's one big problem with this.
00:39:10.000Only one of the so-called progressive Democratic Congresswomen, to whom he is apparently referring, actually was born outside the United States.
00:39:16.000I'm going to read you what President Trump had to say word for word.
00:39:19.000And then we'll analyze what the defenders are saying, he said.
00:39:22.000And then we'll talk about what people who are attacking him say that he said.
00:39:25.000And then we'll talk about what he actually said.
00:39:27.000So, because there are sort of three versions of this.
00:39:29.000So here's what President Trump tweeted.
00:39:30.000He tweeted, So interesting to see progressive Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt, and inept anywhere in the world, if they even have a functioning government at all, now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came?
00:39:54.000Then come back and show us how it is done.
00:39:57.000Those places need your help badly, and you can't leave fast enough.
00:40:00.000I'm sure Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements.
00:40:06.000The defense of President Trump goes something like this.
00:40:08.000What President Trump is saying is he's not referring to AOC or Rashida Tlaib, who was in fact born in the United States, or Ayanna Pressley, who was born in the United States.
00:40:18.000And if he's referring to anyone else, he means that they should go back to their failing districts and then come back.
00:40:23.000Except that he says they should go back to their home countries because they all come from bad countries.
00:40:28.000And then they claim maybe he's just talking about Ilhan Omar, so why is he saying progressive Democratic congresswomen?
00:40:33.000Or they refer to some of the other Democratic congressmen, Representative Jayapal, for example, who is sort of loosely associated with the squad, except that he's pretty clearly not talking about her because she hasn't been hit by Nancy Pelosi anywhere in here.
00:40:46.000Here is, okay, so the defense of him on its own merits, that he is not talking in xenophobic terms about people, that fails.
00:40:53.000Then there is the charge by folks on the left that this is blatantly racist.
00:40:59.000I am sure that it is xenophobic because what he's actually, he's not saying that people who are brown are not from the United States.
00:41:05.000He is not saying that all people who are brown and not looking like him are not from the United States.
00:41:09.000He's not saying that all people who don't look like him and who have darker skin hue are inferior.
00:41:14.000What he is doing is he is suggesting that a bunch of Congresswomen of color with whom he does not agree, he is assuming they are not from here, which is more a xenophobic point than a racist one, right?
00:41:23.000He's basically saying, I don't like these women, therefore, they must be foreigners.
00:41:27.000Therefore, they must not be from here.
00:41:30.000Now, there may be a racial tinge to it.
00:41:33.000I think it's sort of undeniable, considering that these are all women of color.
00:41:36.000But it's more xenophobic than I think in the racist camp.
00:42:23.000If he attacks her that way, I think that's fine.
00:42:26.000If he attacks her the way that Tucker Carlson attacked Ilhan Omar, saying that she's a product of a failed immigration system, and she came here with a series of beliefs about the United States that are not properly appreciative of the United States, I think there's an argument to be made.
00:42:39.000It's dicier, but I don't think that that's racist or xenophobic in and of itself.
00:42:46.000Instead, he said progressive congresswomen, and he's referring to a bunch of people, including a bunch of people who were born here.
00:42:51.000And so what he's basically saying is if you disagree with Nancy Pelosi and with me, and if you are radical, and if you are brown, then I'm going to assume that you came from somewhere else.
00:43:38.000But, That attack is wrong, and it is wrong in a pretty obvious way.
00:43:44.000It is also politically moronic, because the Democrats are busy attacking each other.
00:43:48.000And President Trump shouts, LEROY JENKINS, and goes charging right into the middle of a firefight.
00:43:54.000So the piranhas are eating each other, they're cannibalizing each other, and he's like, what if I just jumped in?
00:43:58.000What if I just, you know, like, headlong, right in?
00:44:01.000This, of course, Resulted in exactly what you would think it did.
00:44:04.000It immediately, like that, unified the Democratic caucus back together again.
00:44:08.000They put all of their arguments with one another behind them.
00:44:10.000And Nancy Pelosi began tweeting about how the president was a racist.
00:44:13.000Quote, when Donald Trump tells four American congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to make America great again has always been about making America white again.
00:44:22.000Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power.
00:44:25.000Well, you're not really unified, but now that Trump has said something, you can pretend to be.
00:44:29.000I reject Donald Trump's xenophobic comments meant to divide our nation.
00:44:32.000Rather than attack members of Congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American values.
00:44:57.000Now, I will also point out that the media do not cover this stuff in any way the same if it comes from the left or it comes from the right.
00:45:04.000If it comes from the left, then the media cover the Democrat side.
00:45:07.000So now it's, has every Republican come out and condemned Trump?
00:45:42.000I certainly understand the frustration of folks on the right going, why do you think I'm going to come out and say anything when you guys won't say anything?
00:45:49.000I mean, the answer is you say something when something is wrong, and you shouldn't be making that decision based on what the Democrats have to say about their own people.
00:45:55.000That's why you are not a Democrat, presumably.
00:45:57.000But, at the same time, there is certainly a double standard in how this sort of stuff gets covered.
00:46:01.000Trump says something that is bad, everyone is all over him.
00:47:20.000Yeah, you can just, I mean, these guys are, they're both so good.
00:47:24.000This is high-level, quality competition, and Federer is just terrific.
00:47:29.000When he was in his prime, he was the best player who ever lived.
00:47:31.000I mean, from 2003 to 2007, dude was basically unbeatable.
00:47:35.000Djokovic, in the end, because he's only 32, it's possible that he ends up winning more majors than Federer, but he's catching Federer on the downslope.
00:47:44.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:47:50.000So let's talk about something a little bit lighter, but also similarly stupid, and that is the movies.
00:47:55.000So, Scarlett Johansson is now being ripped up and down because she has suggested she should be able to play various characters.
00:48:04.000One of the things the left has done is they've basically decided that you can only play a character if you look like that character unless the character was historically a white character, in which case we can make that character whatever we want the character to be.
00:48:14.000So in other words, if there was a character who was black in the movies and you make that character white, that's a problem.
00:48:18.000If there's a character now who is transgender and that character who is transgender is played by a non-transgender person, That's bad.
00:48:25.000But if there was a character who was historically white, and then we make that character non-white, then that is a good thing.
00:48:32.000Now, frankly, I don't care about too much of this in any case.
00:48:36.000I'll explain why I think that that is not true in the case of James Bond.
00:48:39.000Not as far as color, but as far as sex.
00:48:41.000I'll explain that in just a second, but Scarlett Johansson got caught up in all of this.
00:48:45.000So she said in a statement to Variety that she there's an interview that was recently published.
00:48:49.000She said it was edited for clickbait and was widely taken out of context.
00:48:52.000She said the question I was answering in my conversation with the contemporary artist David Sally was about the confrontation between political correctness and art.
00:48:59.000She said, I personally feel that in an ideal world, any actor should be able to play anybody and art in all forms should be immune to political correctness.
00:49:06.000That is the point I was making, albeit it didn't come across that way.
00:49:09.000She then went on to clear up some of the points made during the original interview, noting that not every actor gets the same opportunities as their Caucasian cisgendered counterparts.
00:49:17.000She said, I recognize that in reality there is a widespread discrepancy amongst my industry that favors Caucasian cisgendered actors and that not every actor has been given the same opportunities that I have been privileged to.
00:49:27.000I continue to support and always have diversity in every industry and will continue to fight for projects where everyone is included.
00:49:34.000Johansson had come under fire for her response to a question about political correctness because she'd been cast to play a transgender woman named Dante Tex Gill in an upcoming film.
00:49:43.000The film was cancelled after people started protesting that she wasn't trans enough because it turns out that Scarlett Johansson is a beautiful, a beautiful woman.
00:49:55.000So this was a weird controversy over the weekend in which we were apparently supposed to figure out, we were supposed to suggest, I guess, that something deeply wrong had happened with regard to Scarlett Johansson saying that you should be able to play a variety of parts.
00:50:12.000Okay, so with that said, there is this new standard on the woke left.
00:50:16.000And again, the standard is that Scarlett Johansson cannot play a transgender woman, but you can recast James Bond as a black woman.
00:50:24.000Now, Now, again, I think this story is being miscovered.
00:50:26.000I don't think that the Bond series has any intention of making James Bond into a black woman.
00:50:33.000But, there is news that is obviously designed to elicit clicks, and that is that 007 is going to be played by Lashana Lynch in the next movie.
00:50:44.000Right, so you could be, there have been other movies in fact where 007 is temporarily taken, somebody temporarily takes the place of 007 and then James Bond becomes 007 again.
00:50:54.000Right, that has happened in the movies before.
00:50:57.000But the left was going nuts over this.
00:50:59.000They were so excited about the possibility that an iconic character like James Bond would suddenly become black and female.
00:51:05.000Now, I don't care at all about the race of James Bond.
00:51:07.000In fact, I don't think it's particularly relevant to the part of James Bond.
00:51:10.000In fact, I was kind of stumping for Idris Elba to become James Bond, because I think he's a terrific actor.
00:51:14.000I love him in everything I've ever seen him in.
00:51:16.000And he was kind of stumping for it, too.
00:51:18.000I think you'd make an excellent James Bond.
00:51:20.000I don't think that color has anything to do with the part.
00:51:22.000There are certain parts where color has something to do with it, right?
00:51:24.000If you're watching Mississippi Burning and Gene Hackman's character is black, it makes no sense because color is obviously part of the movie.
00:51:29.000If you're watching Black Panther and everybody's white, that doesn't make any sense because color is obviously a part of the movie.
00:51:36.000And there are certain parts where color is a part of the movie.
00:51:38.000That is not really true of James Bond.
00:51:40.000Maybe it was truer back in like the 19- if you're setting it in the 1950s or 60s when race is more of an endemic quality to the social system.
00:52:08.000Because as it turns out, The natural differences between black folks and white folks are basically restricted by most good data, are basically restricted to the color of your skin, right?
00:52:19.000I mean, that's what separates a black person from a white person.
00:52:21.000All the other standards are somewhat malleable and move around, because who is black and who is white, even that is a standard that is somewhat malleable.
00:52:55.000That's why Bond girls were always seductive maidens, and James Bond's special skill was at getting them into bed.
00:53:01.000Now the left is celebrating because they think, The Daily Beast has an entire piece called Lashana Lynch, a black woman, is taking over as 007.
00:53:10.000Really, why can't you just create a new character who's a black woman and also an action hero?
00:53:16.000I mean, that seems plausible, does it not?
00:53:18.000Is there a reason why you have to take a traditionally heterosexual hero like James Bond, a heterosexual man, a virulently heterosexual man, and then turn him into a woman?
00:53:31.000The Daily Beast says, In news that will surely come as a shock to James Bond fans and the film industry at large, it was revealed today that longtime 007 Daniel Craig will pass the Walther PPK to black British actress Lashana Lynch in the iconic role.
00:53:44.000For years, there's been intense speculation about who would take over the reins of one of the most durable and profitable film franchises in history once Craig stepped aside.
00:53:51.000Much of that speculation has revolved around whether the series might make a nod toward diversity and cast a person of color or a woman for the first time.
00:53:58.000But if the report from the UK tabloid, The Daily Mail, is to be believed, the 007 producers are going for a radical twofer, casting a 31-year-old black female newcomer as Bond's apparent heir.
00:54:11.000That is not actually what's going to happen.
00:54:14.000Okay, it is very unclear that this is going to be the permanent replacement for James Bond.
00:54:21.000In all likelihood, this actress is going to walk in, play 007 for five minutes, and then be elevated to the M position, perhaps, or to a higher level position where she is Bond's boss, for example.
00:54:35.000But the eagerness with which the left is greeting this demonstrates they don't care very much about art, and they care a lot about political correctness, particularly when it comes to art.
00:54:55.000The movie makes no sense on any level because Charlize Theron is basically a male character Who is a female.
00:55:03.000In other words, she beds beautiful women, and she is incredible in terms of physical conflict, and all this, and there's no reason, there's nothing about her character that says, okay, she has to be a woman.
00:55:13.000If you replaced her with a man, then the movie would basically be exactly the same.
00:55:17.000And that doesn't make a lot of sense in terms of sexual dynamics.
00:55:21.000The reason it doesn't make a lot of sense is because a lesbian relationship is not the same as a heterosexual relationship.
00:55:39.000And this is particularly true with Bond.
00:55:40.000So, to take a perfectly obvious example, number one, there's this movie trope that a 130-pound, soaking wet woman can knock over a 200-pound man who is physically trained.
00:55:51.000One of the things about the Bond series is that Daniel Craig is ripped beyond belief, and he can beat the crap out of anyone, and so at least that part of the movie is plausible.
00:55:59.000If you're talking about somebody who's a bowling ball of a human going into other people and breaking them up, that makes a lot more sense.
00:56:04.000There's less suspension of disbelief along those lines if it turns out that the hero is actually physically large.
00:56:12.000And then there's the other aspect, right?
00:56:14.000Because Bond is about the guns and the girls.
00:56:16.000When it comes to the seduction of women, There is a very, very large difference between a woman and a man.
00:56:23.000I'm not even going to get into the lesbian aspect of this because I don't know if this character is going to be a lesbian.
00:56:28.000Let's assume that she's not for a second.
00:56:29.000Let's assume that she is just black female James Bond, which means that she's betting the most handsome men.
00:56:35.000That is not in any way a wish-fulfillment fantasy for the men who typically watch the Bond films, because a disproportionate share of the Bond audience is male.
00:56:43.000So unless you're completely shifting the character, it makes no sense.
00:56:45.000It also, on a narrative level, makes no sense at all.
00:56:48.000Because the challenge for James Bond to be completely Sexist about this.
00:56:54.000Okay, the challenge for James Bond is conquest, right?
00:56:56.000That's obviously been part of the trope of the series is this conquest driven mentality by James Bond.
00:57:01.000Now they're trying to make it as though he has to be in a relationship every movie because they're trying to make it as though he is not an abuser of women.
00:57:09.000That was always the appeal of Bond, is in every movie he was going to somehow seduce the most beautiful woman in the movie into bed with him.
00:57:14.000And this is what made him an idol to millions of men, who of course would like to seduce beautiful women, but are incapable of doing so.
00:57:20.000Because there's an actual challenge to it.
00:57:21.000Now, let's say that there's a beautiful woman who is playing James Bond, like Lashana Lynch, let's say.
00:57:27.000And now she wants to seduce the most handsome man.
00:57:35.000To quote the great intellectual icon of our time, Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer correctly said that she can walk into a bar and catch a D anytime she wants.
00:58:18.000There's a study where professors took an attractive woman, a college-aged woman, and they had her walk through a bar in a college town and proposition 100 men, saying, would you like to come home with me tonight?
00:58:34.000Men, they replicated the experiment, except they had an attractive man walk through a bar asking women, would you like to come home with me tonight?
00:58:44.000These differences between men and women, it's one of the things that makes life beautiful.
00:58:50.000It was created by evolution or God or both, depending on your perspective on this.
00:58:55.000It is not evolutionarily beneficial for women to be as sexually aggressive about partnership as with men because women, historically and evolutionarily speaking, had a chance of getting pregnant.
00:59:03.000They wanted to be more selective about the genetic material that might provide a child.
00:59:07.000Men, however, have a different and contrary evolutionary expectation, which is to reproduce with as many people as humanly possible.
00:59:13.000To pretend all of this crap doesn't exist as the backdrop to something like Bond is just silly.
00:59:19.000And the fact that the left is celebrating all of this is even sillier.
00:59:23.000Art takes a backseat to political correctness and you end up with absolute stupidity of the highest order.
00:59:55.000Here she is showing how to do an abortion on a watermelon.
00:59:58.000This is what you do over at Netroots. - So this would go through the cervix and into the uterus.
01:00:03.000And then we create section to remove pregnancy tissue.
01:00:08.000And this doesn't work as well as it would with a papaya, but this is what we would use for about an eight-week pregnancy, so for about two months, and you get a wee little watermelon penis.