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00:02:04.000So what is happening right now is pretty astonishing across the country.
00:02:10.000The basic message is that you will be forced to kneel.
00:02:13.000And if you do not kneel, then you will be castigated as racist.
00:02:15.000And when I say kneel, I don't just mean physically kneel.
00:02:17.000I mean that you will be forced to parrot the messages that the radical left would like you to parrot about race in the United States.
00:02:23.000And those messages are things like you as a white person bear inherent guilt for the sins of the past, that you may not have done anything racist, but you yourself are implicitly racist and you are part of the problem.
00:02:33.000You're supposed to parrot notions like the police are systemically racist, and this explains all inequality in arrest numbers.
00:02:39.000You're supposed to believe that America has a 400-year unbroken history of victimizing black Americans.
00:02:44.000Not that slavery was evil, not that Jim Crow was evil, but that today is just a continuum.
00:02:49.000It's just a continuation of past policy in the United States, and therefore, again, all inequality can be chalked up to inequity.
00:02:56.000And if you fail to recognize any of this, then this is because you suffer from white privilege.
00:02:59.000That white privilege can only be expunged By repeating the messages that you're supposed to repeat.
00:03:08.000You're not supposed to shut your mouth.
00:03:09.000You're supposed to parrot exactly what the left wants you to say, because silence is violence.
00:03:13.000And if you say something that the left does not want you to say, well then, as we know, speech is violence.
00:03:17.000So silence is violence, and speech is violence, unless you act as basically a stenographer for the most radical left protesters, and then suggest that you are on the same side.
00:03:52.000Now, again, this is completely unnecessary, these statements.
00:03:54.000The reason it's unnecessary is not because anybody is in favor of what happened to George Floyd.
00:03:59.000It's because everybody is not in favor of what happened to George Floyd.
00:04:02.000Americans don't feel the need, as a general rule, to point out when 100% of Americans agree that something is evil, that something is evil.
00:04:12.000As I've said before, there are no protests today with people shouting, the sky is blue, because nobody actually believes that the sky is not blue.
00:04:18.000Nobody actually believes that black lives don't matter.
00:04:21.000So the Black Lives Matter protests are a suggestion tacitly that there is a group of people who actively believe that black lives do not matter.
00:04:28.000That is one of the open suggestions that is being made.
00:04:30.000Ashton Kutcher has said as much, right?
00:04:31.000He says that the reason we protest for Black Lives Matter is because there are so many Americans who believe that black lives do not matter.
00:04:44.000It's about driving the underlying narrative that America is inherently evil, that America is inherently bad, and that if you refuse to recognize that America is inherently evil and inherently bad and that the system is corrupt top to bottom, well then, obviously, you are part of the problem.
00:04:59.000I have to read you an email that went out from one of these corporations, because it really is astonishing.
00:05:05.000It's an email from a small company, I assume, called Memphis Rocks Climbing.
00:05:09.000It was sent to me by one of our listeners a few days ago.
00:05:23.000George of England, who struggled with a fire-breathing dragon that was the devil, today's St.
00:05:27.000George struggled with the devil of discrimination.
00:05:29.000He struggled with a fire-breathing dragon that, like all fires, stole his oxygen and robbed him of his breath of life.
00:05:34.000None of us here at Memphis Rocks knew St.
00:05:35.000George personally, but our guess is he might have shouted, I can't breathe on any given day to an American that had cut off That had cut off the oxygen for so many of his kin.
00:05:44.000The oxygen of opportunity, of equality, of access.
00:05:51.000Now, again, I'm not going to jump on the whole getting into George Floyd's background, or his personal life, or the crimes he had committed in the past, because I don't think it's relevant to what the officer did in this particular case.
00:06:04.000The officer committed an atrocity, and that's why George Floyd is dead, according to medical examiner reports.
00:06:12.000The email is basically suggesting a religious revival around all of this.
00:06:17.000And the religious principle that you will be made to repeat is that America is consistently cutting off the oxygen of opportunity, equality, and access for black Americans.
00:07:17.000Any of us who are heirs to the benefits of enslaving a people upon whose backs we built our nation, a people who are then denied equal access to the very benefits we reaped, we bear some of the weight of the knee on his neck.
00:07:26.000Any of us who see no evil in the concentration of wealth in the hands of so few, while so many have so little, we bear some of the weight of the knee on his neck, right?
00:07:36.000That if you do not believe that it is evil for people to be rich in the United States of America, then you are guilty of the murder of George Floyd.
00:07:44.000The emails openly saying this is according to One Family Memphis and the Memphis Rocks team.
00:07:48.000It is no accident all of this is happening in the midst of a pandemic.
00:07:51.000The COVID crisis and the murder of St.
00:07:54.000The entire world wears masks now, each face metaphorically screaming, I can't breathe.
00:07:58.000And no wonder, we are not living in accord with God's creation, choking her skies, soiling her rivers, labeling her diverse beautiful people as other.
00:08:07.000Can you not hear the Godhead herself crying out precisely, perfectly at this moment, I can't breathe?
00:08:55.000If you don't say exactly what people in the media would love for you to say, and what Democratic politicians would love for you to say, Then they will come after you.
00:09:03.000And if you are a protest leader, if you do not say exactly what a protest leader wants to say, then they will come after you, even if you're a Democrat or a media leader.
00:09:11.000Is this the way to end racism in America?
00:09:16.000Is this a way to make America more unified around things that we're already unified around, like violence is wrong, looting is wrong, racism is wrong, police brutality is wrong?
00:09:26.000We're 100% agreed on all of these things.
00:09:29.000But this is not designed to be a time of unification.
00:09:32.000This is designed to be a time of division by accusing at least half of Americans of being tacitly racist if they refuse to endorse the most radical messages about the remaking of America.
00:09:42.000This is made explicit in a column today by Dana Milbank over at the Washington Post called Trump's Republican Party Displays Its Systemic Racism.
00:09:51.000This is the narrative that's being driven.
00:09:52.000So how are they displaying their systemic racism?
00:09:55.000Because Senator Tom Cotton, who claims there's no structural racism in law enforcement, which is true.
00:09:59.000There's no evidence that law enforcement bodies all over America are structurally racist.
00:10:04.000There are racists who are in law enforcement.
00:10:16.000That does not mean that there are not racists who are out there in police forces doing bad things.
00:10:21.000But overall, the idea that police forces around America are rounding up black people, posing an existential threat to black people, it's not true.
00:10:28.000Again, does that mean that there aren't enormous number of bad run-ins between Police officers and black Americans?
00:11:27.000It was not to quash racial unrest, it was to quash rioting and looting.
00:11:30.000He specifically said if you're protesting against police brutality, or even against systemic police racism he disagrees with, of course you shouldn't call in the military.
00:11:37.000On that, this prompted House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, African American product of the segregated South, A Democrat from South Carolina to quote Alexis de Tocqueville, the greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
00:11:51.000And then Clyburn says Cotton's from Arkansas.
00:11:54.000Ah, because Arkansas has a racist past, that means that Tom Cotton ought to be ashamed of himself because apparently he is just a product of that past and is tacitly racist.
00:12:02.000And so Dana Milbank says it was good to see Democrats back in the fight.
00:12:05.000They've been largely out of the debate for the past couple of months because the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided not to convene during the pandemic.
00:12:11.000Presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden, broadcasting from his basement, did no better.
00:12:14.000They should be rushing to engage this battle.
00:12:16.000For as the nation grapples with George Floyd's killing and what to do about persistent police brutality, this much has become clear.
00:12:22.000There is structural racism in the Republican Party.
00:12:25.000Structural racism in the Republican Party.
00:13:00.000They say, it's not the party of Senator Mitt Romney, says Dana Milbank, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who nobly marched with Black Lives Matter's demonstrators on Sunday.
00:13:08.000Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when Joe Biden accused him of wanting to put people back in chains.
00:13:15.000The narrative is Republicans are racist.
00:13:17.000The Democrats are consistently pushing this narrative.
00:13:19.000It makes it difficult to push that narrative on the back of an issue where we all agree, like George Floyd was killed in an atrocity and the officer should go to jail.
00:13:27.000If we all agree on that, you can't say, right, we agree on that, but you're a racist.
00:13:31.000Instead, you have to generate disagreement.
00:13:33.000The way to generate disagreement is to draw a broader narrative and make extreme demands of human behavior.
00:13:38.000And then if people don't participate, then you say that they are a racist.
00:13:41.000And this is deeply effective stuff because as the media keep repeating over and over and over again, that black Americans are victimized by law enforcement.
00:13:48.000What you are seeing is that Americans tend to believe it.
00:14:03.000Blacks, 70%, are a lot more likely than whites, 47%, and other minority voters, 53%, to think black Americans receive unfair treatment from the police.
00:14:12.000The survey found that 36% of Americans believe police discrimination is a bigger problem than crime in low-income inner-city areas.
00:14:28.000If you're worried about lack of investment in inner-city communities, if you're worried about lack of a tax base, Crime is significantly a bigger problem than quote-unquote police discrimination in these inner-city communities.
00:14:38.000By the way, you remove police from those communities?
00:14:40.000That's what caused, according to many sociologists, the spike in crime in inner-city communities in the first place.
00:14:46.000There's been a wide differential in crime statistics between black and white in America for well over a hundred years.
00:14:52.000And one of the reasons for that is because white America said, you're on your own, police yourselves.
00:14:57.000There's a great book called Ghettocide by Jane Levy, who's a left-leaning reporter for the LA Times.
00:15:02.000She points out, remove the police from these communities and what you can expect is an uptick in lawlessness.
00:15:06.000But again, the idea here is that the police are the problem.
00:15:08.000If you believe that the police are the problem rather than the solution to high crime, Good luck to you, but this is the symbolism, and it's all symbolism at this point.
00:15:16.000And what we are in is a symbolic fight, because it's not about policy, as we will see.
00:15:20.000And the Democrats are fully willing to engage in the symbolism of America is brutal, evil, and vicious, just so long as they're enough to do anything the protesters want.
00:15:28.000That's the exploitative revolution here.
00:17:25.000And the symbolism crosses streams with the broader leftist narrative that America and Western civilization more generally are tremendously, tremendously evil.
00:17:32.000And it starts with sort of things we all agree on, and then it moves to things that we absolutely disagree on.
00:17:38.000So, for example, there's been this real push to tear down Confederate statues.
00:17:41.000Now, this has been a longtime push on the political left in the United States, and I understand the appeal.
00:17:51.000And I definitely agree with the idea that taxpayer dollars being used to uphold Confederate statues, statues of Confederate leaders, that's a net negative, I think.
00:18:00.000But the question is, as Condoleezza Rice put it, whether you rip away the history so that you're never forced to confront the history.
00:18:06.000You know, we keep hearing from the left that we should confront the history.
00:18:08.000Well, maybe, it seems to me, that you might want to confront the history by being able to point to the bad people, the statue of the bad man, and say, in this country, these people were treated as heroes for a hundred years and for decades before that.
00:18:22.000And that's one of the things that we need to move past.
00:18:24.000Having the reminder of America's evils from the past is a good way of teaching people about the past and also why we've moved beyond it.
00:18:32.000Instead, people are seeking to tear down statues and then they are seeking to conflate all historic figures.
00:18:40.000They're not just tearing down the statues of old Confederate generals.
00:18:44.000In London, they defaced a statue of Abraham Lincoln It faced a statue of Abraham Lincoln with BLM and the names of various people who had died in police custody or been killed by police, including people like Mike Brown.
00:18:57.000I am at a wit's end to understand why it is that the Black Lives Matter movement wants to lump all of these folks together, because not all these cases are the same.
00:19:06.000The Michael Brown case was nothing like the Eric Garner case, which was nothing like the Breonna Taylor case, which was nothing like the Philando Castile case.
00:19:13.000Like, all of these cases are very different.
00:19:16.000Many of these cases are true atrocities.
00:19:18.000And some of these cases, like Michael Brown, are absolutely not atrocities.
00:19:20.000He was justifiably killed by the police officer in that particular case.
00:19:22.000Lumping all these people together is a cheap trick.
00:19:25.000And then, to deface a statue of Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator, with these slogans?
00:19:42.000People were defacing pictures, defacing statues of Winston Churchill.
00:19:48.000Winston Churchill, right, who fought the Nazis and helped overcome the Nazis.
00:19:52.000Somebody defaced his statue in the middle of London, and they crossed out his name and then says, Churchill was a racist.
00:19:58.000Now, there's a lot of controversy over the level of Winston Churchill's bigotry.
00:20:03.000But if what you took away from history is that Winston Churchill was a racist, it's because you're a dumbass.
00:20:07.000If that is his great contribution to humanity, just like Abraham Lincoln needs to be defaced, then what you're really talking about is the defacement of all of Western civilization.
00:20:15.000If Lincoln and Churchill ain't good enough for you to have statues, then no one is.
00:20:18.000And that, of course, is the point, because no one really is.
00:20:21.000The idea is the world must be remade in real time.
00:20:24.000And that is because the system is so deeply and thoroughly corrupt that it must be torn down.
00:20:31.000And this is why you see the push from members of the left in the media, in our political class, to suggest that racism in the United States is still so much of a threat that it is deadlier than an ongoing pandemic.
00:20:53.000So in three months, we have a pandemic that has killed 120,000 people with full lockdown.
00:20:59.000And we have been told that if you go to your business, if you go to your church, if you go visit grandma in the nursing home, if you go to the deathbed of grandma, that you're going to kill Americans, unless you're protesting racism.
00:21:08.000Protesting racism is so necessary because America is so evil, and Western civilization is so evil, that racism is a greater threat to Americans and America in 2020.
00:21:41.000We're making sure if you didn't have a mask and you had a megaphone, you were protected.
00:21:46.000Some of my colleagues are handing out Purell.
00:21:48.000We want as much as anything for social justice to take the center stage, because poverty, racism, they have actually bigger killers than coronavirus by the statistics.
00:21:58.000So this is the right thing to do, but to do it safely.
00:22:07.000Poverty and racism are not the same thing.
00:22:09.000Second of all, if you cared so much about poverty, maybe you should have thought about the giant lockdowns before you put 40 million Americans out of work.
00:22:14.000But you weren't allowed to talk about that, were you?
00:22:17.000But racism, so what he's really saying is racism is a bigger killer than coronavirus.
00:22:20.000I'm gonna need like a shred of evidence for that.
00:22:21.000Phil Murphy, the governor of New Jersey, he's trying to extend lockdown for another 30 days.
00:22:25.000Meanwhile, he got tested for coronavirus yesterday because he was out protesting with people.
00:22:29.000We're gonna get to this in just one second.
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00:23:38.000Okay, so, because all of this is symbolic, and the symbolism is about how horrible American racism is on a continuing level, You have politicians simultaneously claiming that if you go outside, you will die and kill grandma in the process.
00:23:50.000But also, fighting racism is so big and so important and so endemic to American culture that if you kill a lot of people, well, you still won't have killed as many people as racism.
00:24:03.000There are people who are talking about ending lockdown because they're pointing out suicide rises, opioid deaths, people without a job die deaths of despair, their kids suffer.
00:24:13.000You can't, no, no, hey, come on, come on.
00:24:15.000As Andrew Cuomo said, death is the only thing that we are worried about right now.
00:24:18.000We are not worried about any of those other issues.
00:24:21.000If you just say racism kills more people than coronavirus with no evidence, none, zero, a grand total of, according to the Washington Post, 15 black men were killed unarmed by the police in 2019, and many of those are running away from the cops, and the classification there is not particularly clear, then I don't know what to tell you.
00:24:43.000So here's Phil Murphy making the come-to-Jesus call that you should brave death in order to fight racism because it's just so important.
00:24:51.000This is a moment in time perhaps unlike any in our nation's history.
00:24:55.000There is an overwhelming amount of anger and passion and by the way it's all been incredibly peaceful, I mean overwhelmingly so, particularly in New Jersey and we should be very proud of that.
00:25:09.000I can't imagine what it would look like if we said to people, actually, you have to stay in.
00:25:27.000You literally told everybody to give up their life savings and their business and stay inside and watch their parents die in a hospital alone.
00:25:34.000You literally told people they cannot visit their relatives.
00:25:36.000You literally told people that if they protested against any of this, they were violating your lockdown order.
00:25:41.000They couldn't go to church or synagogue.
00:25:43.000But can we tell people not to go out in the streets and yell about George Floyd without any actual policy ramifications?
00:25:56.000Remember, as you will see, this is the message, and the way you can tell this is the message, is that the specific policy demands made by Black Lives Matter protesters are being completely ignored by Democrats.
00:26:06.000It is all about the symbolic adoption of the language without the actual adoption of any of the policy.
00:26:10.000So this is what Democrats were doing yesterday.
00:26:12.000So last I checked, Democrats in Congress, they're supposed to be passing legislation, right?
00:26:16.000Legislation to help fix the systemic racism of the United States.
00:26:20.000Nancy Pelosi is a terrible Speaker of the House, but Nancy Pelosi is very good at coordinating outfits with the rest of the Democratic With the Democratic Power Rangers here.
00:26:29.000So, Nancy Pelosi, at the State of the Union address, she got everybody up in white, right?
00:26:33.000All the women were wearing white to demonstrate the purity of feminism.
00:26:36.000Well now, she got everybody a kensei cloth, which, by the way, like, if everybody in Congress showed up wearing a talus one day, I'd be like, what in the world are you doing?
00:27:42.000I'm all on board with President Trump shouldn't have done a photo op at a church, a burned out church, with a Bible, because it's a photo op.
00:27:49.000When you have a bunch of old white Democrats who can barely get down on one knee wearing kente cloths, looking like, as one person on Twitter put it, chess pieces from a Wakanda Black Panther chess set.
00:29:33.000The one who said, Daddy's going to change the world.
00:29:35.000And I think her daddy's going to change the world.
00:29:38.000I think what's happened here is one of those great inflection points in American history, for real, in terms of civil liberties, civil rights, and just treating people with dignity.
00:29:48.000So fair enough, what does that change look like?
00:29:50.000So for Democrats, what it means is that they posture, as we're about to see.
00:29:53.000So, Democrats don't actually believe in any of the policy changes that are being promoted.
00:29:58.000We're gonna get to that in just one second.
00:29:59.000I mean, what a sucker's game politics is.
00:30:03.000All you gotta do is kneel, and put on a kente cloth, and pretend that everybody who opposes you is a racist, and people will vote for you.
00:30:08.000All you have to do is keep repeating ad nauseum that the police are the bad guys, and that rioters and looters are just acting out of justified rage, and people will believe you.
00:30:16.000All you have to do is tell those protesters that you're on their side and then you don't have to do anything they want you to do.
00:30:27.000We're gonna get to more of this in just one second.
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00:31:15.000This is true before the last few weeks.
00:31:17.000It's certainly going to be true after the next few weeks.
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00:32:43.000It could not possibly be more relevant.
00:32:44.000It is called How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:32:47.000The basic idea is that there is a group of people in the United States, I call them disintegrationists, who would love to see the Union come apart.
00:32:52.000They would love to shatter American philosophy.
00:32:54.000They say the Declaration of Independence is bad and racist, and so is the Constitution.
00:32:57.000They would love to shatter our history and say we don't have a shared history.
00:33:00.000We just have a history of the exploiters and the exploited, and you are a member of the exploiting class.
00:33:04.000And they would love to shatter our culture of rights and say that our rights are, in fact, just an outgrowth of our exploitative system.
00:33:10.000And that exercise of free speech and freedom of the press, exercise of free association, that all of these things are actually just white supremacism.
00:33:18.000I talk about all of this in my book, and I talk about why all of this is wrong, and I talk about what you can do to fight all of this.
00:33:47.000It means that when Democrats hear radical proposals, they won't just dismiss them, but they're not going to go along with them when they actually have a chance to vote on them.
00:33:55.000So over the last 48 hours, there's been a call to defund the police.
00:33:58.000And it's been fun to watch the media spin on behalf of what defund the police means.
00:34:01.000Defund the police, it turns out, does not mean defund the police.
00:34:03.000It actually just means fund mental health services.
00:34:06.000Well, if you'd said that in the first place, Then I kind of would have been on board, right?
00:34:10.000Keep the funding for the police, expand the funding for the police, and also make sure that you actually have services to take care of mentally ill people.
00:34:16.000Which, by the way, I've been stumping for on this program for literally years.
00:34:25.000And the reason they didn't call for that is because that's not a sexy slogan.
00:34:28.000Saying we need to spend more on social services for the mentally ill and for drug addicts, that's not a sexy slogan.
00:34:33.000Defund the police is the slogan because the most radical protesters, the ones who are out chanting in the streets, want the police out of their communities.
00:34:40.000They're not being ambiguous about this.
00:34:42.000When the Minneapolis mayor, who spent the last couple of weeks begging forgiveness for his whiteness, From the Black Lives Matter crowd.
00:34:49.000I mean, seriously, that's what he did.
00:34:50.000He literally went in a crowd and he talked about his own conflicts and trying to expunge his own white guilt and all of this nonsense.
00:36:34.000And by the way, in areas where they're not doing this, Seattle and Portland, for example, rioting and looting continue.
00:36:40.000It does not take a genius to recognize that when you remove police from high-crime communities, crime goes up, not down.
00:36:46.000Again, one of the more robust social science findings in American race studies is that the removal of police from black communities in the early 20th century led to a radical rise in crime which exacerbated inequality.
00:36:58.000But according to Lisa Bender, the president of the Minneapolis City Council, police don't make the city safer.
00:37:11.000Yesterday, nine City Council members stood together with our community and pledged to rethink public safety in our community and to acknowledge that the current Minneapolis Police Department is not working to keep our community safe.
00:37:25.000And really what we pledged was to start a year-long conversation with Minneapolis residents to help us reimagine what public safety looks like as we make those short-term fixes that are so clearly needed in our department.
00:37:40.000That was the same lady who suggested yesterday that if someone calls 9-1-1 because their house is being broken into, she said this on Alice in Camerata, that if someone calls 9-1-1, they should check their privilege.
00:37:48.000You have to check their privilege if you're worried about crime.
00:37:51.000Top Democrats have been asked about this defund the police thing.
00:37:54.000Pelosi and Democrats were asked about the Minneapolis City Council defunding the police and looking to basically destroy the police department from within.
00:38:01.000Here is a bevy of Democrats refusing to criticize the Minneapolis City Council for taking measures that obviously are going to make matters worse in high-crime communities.
00:38:11.000People are calling it defund the police.
00:38:13.000Is that something that the caucus supports?
00:38:16.000Is it something that can happen in a federal way?
00:38:18.000Well, I can't imagine that happening in a federal way, but let me just tell you that part of that cry is a desire for there to be significant higher investment in communities.
00:38:31.000I think the Congresswoman answered your question very clearly.
00:38:35.000But the fact is, is that we do have a great deal of legislation coming down the pike that addresses some of the concerns of our communities across the country.
00:38:46.000OK, so this is an explicit refusal to condemn that, right?
00:38:49.000And then Kamala Harris was asked on The View about defunding the police.
00:38:52.000And she refused to just say, well, actually, when we say defunding the police, what we don't mean is getting rid of the police.
00:38:57.000What we just mean is we're going to shift social services.
00:38:59.000Instead, she's dodged the question from Meghan McCain.
00:39:01.000And then, of course, Twitter trended Meghan McCain because Meghan McCain is very bad for asking the most obvious question.
00:39:04.000What the hell do you mean by defunding the police?
00:39:10.000How are you defining defund the police?
00:39:12.000I assume it's removing police and as Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said, bringing in a whole new way of governing and law and order into a community.
00:39:23.000We need to reimagine how we are achieving public safety in America.
00:39:27.000And to have cities where one-third of their entire budget is going to policing, but yet there is a dire need in those same cities for mental health resources, for resources going into public schools, resources going into job training and job creation?
00:40:15.000Okay, so the Democrats refusing to explicitly move away from the Defund the Police program because they want to, again, act on the sort of fiery, the fire-in-the-guts kind of messaging of BLM.
00:40:28.000Meanwhile, you have a widely trafficked column by a woman named Michelle Alexander over at the New York Times called America.
00:40:33.000We must get it right this time or risk losing our democracy forever.
00:40:36.000And after recommending a bunch of books about race in America, the same litany that you will see over at Amazon being represented by the woke, then she gets to her real message, which is we must fight for economic justice.
00:40:52.000And then she quotes James Baldwin, who's a favorite, saying, the necessity for a form of socialism is based on the observation that the world's present economic arrangements doom most of the world to misery.
00:41:01.000Which again, is one of the great lies in human history, is that socialism uplifts everybody while capitalism dooms the world to misery.
00:41:07.000Capitalism has lifted more than half the globe out of abject poverty.
00:41:10.000We have reduced extreme poverty on planet Earth by 80% since 1980.
00:41:14.000That is because of capitalism, not because of the rise of socialism.
00:41:17.000And then Michelle Alexander talks about Dr. King, Dr. Martin Luther King being a socialist, and W.E.B.
00:41:22.000Dubois, founder of the NAACP, becoming a socialist.
00:41:26.000And Albert Einstein, and Helen Keller, and Paul Robeson, all being socialists and or communists.
00:41:30.000Robeson actually was like a fellow traveler with the Soviet communists for a time during the 1930s.
00:41:35.000And then she says, no matter what you think about Bernie Sanders as a man or as a candidate, and I wish he was much better at addressing racial issues like reparations, we all owe him and countless organizers a debt of gratitude.
00:41:47.000And she says, Okay, so we are hearing calls for socialism, we are hearing calls for getting rid of the police, and we are hearing calls for racial reparations.
00:42:05.000Leading the Huffington Post yesterday was an article about why we need racial reparations right now.
00:42:10.000So white Americans presumably should be spending money on black Americans, even though those white Americans never enslaved those black Americans.
00:42:19.000Well, it would mean black Americans just getting checks from different organizations, which of course is not going to solve underlying problems in many of these communities.
00:42:27.000Problems of failing schools are not going to be solved by spending more money.
00:42:42.000Right now the biggest issue is that there are not enough black people who are graduating from high school.
00:42:45.000We need to increase the number of black Americans who are not dropping out of high school.
00:42:49.000I mean, seriously, that is a major gap in American life, but we're not going to address any of those major gaps in American life because if you want to talk about truly uncomfortable conversations, then you have to talk about personal behavior that results in disparate impact, right?
00:43:01.000You can't just talk about tossing money at problems or blaming white Americans for all problems.
00:43:05.000So here's where it gets really cynical.
00:43:43.000The entire weekend stretching from May 29th through May 31st, 24 people were killed in Chicago, another 85 were wounded by gunfire.
00:43:49.000Nobody's going to remember any of these names and nobody's going to care because of course it doesn't back the narrative that America, that the big threat to black America is white police.
00:43:58.000And so, here's where the rubber hits the road.
00:44:00.000The Democrats, they mirror all the messaging, and then when it comes time for them to actually mirror the policies, they're like, no, we're not doing any of that.
00:44:05.000Because they understand, they know, these policies are not geared toward helping people.
00:44:10.000They know that the policies that they themselves are unwilling to condemn, that those policies are actually bad policies.
00:44:17.000So what they want is the message, America is deeply and systemically racist.
00:44:20.000But then they act in ways that do not suggest that they actually believe that the system is deeply systemically racist.
00:44:42.000In fact, Joe Biden, who five seconds ago was saying that George Floyd is going to change the world, which is all well and good, He rejected the call for defunding the police.
00:44:51.000Openly rejected the call for defunding the police.
00:44:53.000Here was Joe Biden actually saying he's going to expand the funding for the police.
00:45:00.000No, I don't support defunding the police.
00:45:03.000I support conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness and in fact are able to demonstrate they can protect the community and everybody in the community.
00:45:19.000So there he is, basically saying the same thing I'm saying about the police and how the police are protecting communities.
00:45:24.000But as long as Joe Biden signals, then he's saying something very different.
00:45:27.000Stephanie Rawlings-Black, who is, I believe, the former mayor of Baltimore.
00:45:31.000I believe Stephanie Rawlings-Black was the person who suggested that she was going to give space for people to burn in Baltimore back in 2014 when people were rioting.
00:45:38.000She said, we have to stop with this call to defund the police.
00:45:41.000It's just giving Trump a talking point.
00:45:42.000Weird because you on the left are humoring this nonsense.
00:45:47.000You're humoring it and pretending like it's legit.
00:45:49.000Because again, what you want is the broad message.
00:45:51.000What you don't actually want is the policy that follows from the broad message.
00:45:55.000As I've been talking about for a week, Democrats basically set a controlled fire.
00:45:58.000They pushed a narrative that America is systemically racist and that if you oppose that narrative, then you are evil and racist yourself.
00:46:27.000Whatever is the outlying position of the Democratic Party, within five years it becomes the mainstream position inside the Democratic Party.
00:46:54.000We all know that we can do better when it comes to policing.
00:46:58.000And I think that it's a missed opportunity not to figure out what better looks like together and a path forward, rather than to, again, have this litmus test of, you know, you're either for or against us when it comes to dismantling the police departments across the country.
00:47:13.000So what are Democrats actually pushing?
00:47:15.000What they're actually pushing, they pushed forward a bill.
00:47:16.000Their actual bill includes reforms making it easier to sue police officers for misconduct in civil court, so scaling back qualified immunity, which is something that has wide support, and prosecuting them for criminal behavior.
00:47:27.000It would also prohibit the use of chokeholds and certain no-knock warrants by police nationwide.
00:47:31.000Again, when it comes to chokeholds, you're going to have to explain whether you're talking about a chokehold or a submission hold, because sometimes police do actually need to Stop a suspect from being violent.
00:47:40.000And maybe the best way to do that is to engage in a submission hold.
00:47:43.000The bill mandates the use of body cameras, which is fine.
00:47:45.000It creates a national database disclosing the names of officers with a pattern of abuse.
00:47:49.000It would eliminate the legal shield protecting police from lawsuits.
00:47:53.000These are all fairly mainstream proposals.
00:47:55.000You know what I'm not seeing anything in here about?
00:47:58.000Not seeing anything in there about defunding the police.
00:48:01.000In fact, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Republican, said he can't comment on the proposal because he hasn't seen the actual language yet, but he said that there are three possible points of common ground with Democrats.
00:48:11.000He says, I want to work and see that we get law.
00:48:14.000According to AP, not included in the bill is any nod toward the idea of defunding the police or reallocating police budgets toward other social services, such as housing, mental health, or substance abuse treatment, which some activists began calling for over the weekend.
00:48:34.000And if you buy this stuff, honestly, if you buy that the Democrats are on your side because they're performatively kneeling wearing kente cloths, Fine.
00:49:01.000Ben Smith had a piece of the New York Times talking about how newsrooms have decided they're going to go full editorial.
00:49:07.000According to Ben Smith, he's the media reporter now over at the New York Times, used to be the head of BuzzFeed, He says as America is wrestling with the surging of a moment that began in August 2014, its biggest newsrooms are trying to find common ground between a tradition that aims to persuade the widest possible audience that its reporting is neutral and journalists who believe that fairness on issues from races Donald Trump requires Clear moral calls.
00:49:33.000I think that objective journalism is a lie.
00:49:34.000I think it's been a lie for a very long time.
00:49:36.000I think there are very few in the journalistic world who even attempt objective journalism.
00:49:40.000I've singled out people that I think have tried in the past.
00:49:44.000I think Jake Tapper tries sometimes on CNN.
00:49:46.000But I think that the vast majority of reporters are not reporters, they're activists.
00:49:49.000So I'm glad that they are now being open about this.
00:49:52.000The conflict exploded in recent days into public protests at the New York Times, ending in the resignation of its top opinion editor on Sunday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, whose executive editor resigned on Saturday over the headline, Buildings Matter Too, and the ensuing anger from his staff.
00:50:06.000It's been the subject of quiet agony at the Washington Post, which Wesley Lowry left earlier this year, months after the executive editor, Martin Baron, threatened to fire him for expressing his views on Twitter about race, journalism, and other subjects.
00:50:17.000Lowry's view is that news organizations, quote, core value needs to be the truth, not the perception of objectivity.
00:50:25.000What he really means is that his opinion should be treated as truth and that objective fact should not be reported to you because you might make up your mind in a way he doesn't like, Leslie Lowry.
00:50:35.000Lowry's view has been winning in a series of battles, many over how to cover race.
00:50:38.000Heated Twitter criticism helped retire euphemisms like racially charged.
00:50:43.000Okay, but sometimes there's a difference in perception of whether a statement was racially charged or whether it was racist.
00:50:51.000That's an editorial subjective decision.
00:50:53.000The big outlets have gradually awkwardly given ground using racist and lie more freely, especially when describing Trump's behavior, which by the way has undercut their own credibility because it turns out half the time they're saying Trump is lying.
00:51:03.000They're saying that his implication is wrong, but that the fact that he said something like they never treat Trump with the same sort of They treat Trump with a very different level of disdain when it comes to his prevarications than they do any other politician on planet Earth, obviously.
00:51:16.000The Times vowed to remake its opinion section after Senator Tom Cotton's op-ed, calling for the use of troops in American cities, infuriated the newsroom last week again.
00:51:25.000It called for the use of troops to put down rioting and looting in American cities.
00:51:28.000It wasn't just randomly sending in soldiers.
00:51:31.000Meanwhile, Axios has decided that its reporters are allowed to join protests.
00:51:37.000In a company memo, the chief executive of the politics news site said he supported staff members' right to march, adding the publisher would cover bail for any employee who is arrested.
00:51:46.000So if you chuck a rock at a cop and you work for Axios, they're now going to bail you out.
00:51:50.000Jim VandeHei, the co-founder and chief executive of Axios said, first, let me say we proudly support and encourage you to exercise your rights to free speech, press, and protest.
00:51:57.000If you're arrested or meet harm while exercising these rights, Axios will stand behind you and use the family fund to cover your bail or assist with medical bills.
00:52:05.000That was sent in reply to an employee who had asked about the company's stance on protesting as part of a weekly practice at Axios, where staff members anonymously submit questions to managers.
00:52:17.000Now, ethics guidelines of the New York Times say the company's journalists may not march or rally in support of public causes or movements or publicly take positions on public issues.
00:52:24.000Adding, doing so might reasonably raise doubts about their ability or the Times' ability to function as neutral observers in covering the news.
00:52:34.000So we are now watching as the media basically strip the mask off themselves.
00:52:38.000We on the right have been saying for literally decades, you're a bunch of leftist activists disguising yourselves as objective journalists.
00:52:45.000We are journalisming up the wazoo, journalisming everywhere.
00:52:48.000Don Lemon, not an opinion guy, a journalist.
00:52:50.000Chris Cuomo, not an opinion guy, a journalist.
00:52:53.000Jim Acosta, not an opinion guy, a journalist.
00:52:55.000We are just, it's journalism guys, it's reporting.
00:52:57.000And if you attack our opinions, you're attacking us as an institution.
00:53:01.000On the other hand, if we wish to join protests, and if we wish to suggest that a point of view is out of bounds even though it is a mainstream American opinion like America is not systemically racist, and that America's history of racism does not mean that America today is institutionally racist, Those opinions, if we just dismiss them as racist themselves, that's also objective journalism-ing.
00:53:23.000Which means that you've now redefined objective journalism-ing.
00:53:37.000Instead, they've decided to take out their rage.
00:53:40.000The wokesters have decided to take out their rage at the liberal institutions they know they can control.
00:53:44.000They can't control Congress because the Senate is held by Republicans.
00:53:47.000They can't even control, can't control Congress because despite the vast size of these protests and all of the virtue signaling you see online, The vast majority of Americans are not in favor of defunding the police.
00:53:58.000The vast majority of Americans are not in favor of slavery reparations or remolding the American economy along socialist lines.
00:54:35.000The editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit is a man named Adam Rapoport.
00:54:39.000He resigned on Monday after a photo of him in brownface resurfaced from 2013.
00:54:43.000It was him dressed up as apparently a Puerto Rican.
00:54:47.000Many former and current Bon Appetit staffers called for Rappaport to resign after the photo was posted to Twitter by food writer Tammy to Clamarium.
00:54:56.000Very, very important that this guy lose his job and his career because he went to a Halloween party.
00:56:27.000Meanwhile, well, they're not just going after... By the way, food is so political that they didn't just go after the editor of Bon Appetit.
00:56:32.000There's a woman named Alison Roman who was forced to apologize.
00:56:36.000She wrote a New York Times bestseller, Nothing Fancy.
00:56:39.000And she was a columnist for New York Times Cooking.
00:56:41.000I'm going to say was because I have a feeling that she's probably not going to be for much longer.
00:58:36.000And everybody who's working right now in America and is receiving notes from their employers about how they bear guilt for George Floyd's death is feeling this right now.
00:58:44.000And if you speak up and you say, wait, I didn't kill George Floyd.
00:59:06.000Because in terms of policy, it ain't achieving anything.
00:59:08.000And in terms of actually changing Americans' minds, I'm wondering how you change Americans' minds by basically castigating people who are not racist as racist for not saying the specific words you want, and then by putting out videos of people kneeling before other people.
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