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00:00:22.000Okay, well, actually we can begin this morning with some actual good news.
00:00:27.000So, the United States did add 1.4 million jobs in August.
00:00:31.000That means that the unemployment rate ticked down to 8.4%, which it was down like 1.8% because it was 10.2% in July.
00:00:41.000So that means that we are looking at what looks like a V-shaped recovery.
00:00:44.000It is not, in fact, a U-shaped recovery or a W-shaped recovery.
00:00:48.000And as the economy continues to open, you're going to see more and more job growth, which may be one of the reasons why Democrats in many of these states are a little bit hesitant to open the economy.
00:00:57.000After all, they can blame bad economic conditions on President Trump.
00:01:01.000If the economy starts to recover, Well, that may alleviate a lot of the concerns about President Trump's presidency.
00:01:05.000You see this with Joe Biden, who is constantly suggesting that schools are closed because Trump botched COVID, that businesses are closed because Trump botched COVID.
00:01:12.000Well, what happens if New York and New Jersey reopen?
00:01:15.000Because it turns out that the virus is basically dead there.
00:01:17.000And then the economy starts to really boom again, because it was booming up until the minute that COVID hit.
00:01:23.000Well, that would give Trump a pretty strong point going into the election.
00:01:26.000And you have to suspect that some of these Democratic governors know this, that they will be blamed politically if more people die from COVID, but they can always blame Trump if the economy continues to be slow because they are keeping the economy locked down.
00:01:39.000Now, the media are trying to downplay these numbers.
00:01:40.000They're trying to suggest that the numbers are disappointing.
00:01:44.000The unemployment rate fell to 8.4%, down from 14.7% in April and 10.2% in July.
00:01:50.000The drop, according to the New York Times, brings the rate below the peak of the last recession a decade ago, when unemployment briefly hit 10%.
00:01:56.000Joblessness is still higher than the peak of many past recessions, of course.
00:01:59.000The figure for August job growth was buoyed by the hiring of close to 240,000 temporary workers for the 2020 census, most of whom will be laid off when the census canvassing ends later this month.
00:02:09.000Private sector payrolls, which were not affected by the census, rose by 1 million in August, down from 1.5 million in July.
00:02:15.000So it seems to be slowing a little bit, but that's again because the reopening has been slowed.
00:02:18.000I mean, New York City still says that they're not going to open any of the restaurants, like pretty much ever, even though there are zero cases of death in Manhattan from COVID right now, which again suggests that this is far more political A few podcasts ago, I went through all the unemployment stats and how it matches up with the lockdown stats.
00:02:57.000There is no evidence that lockdowns actually prevent people from dying of COVID.
00:03:01.000All they do is slow the spread a little bit.
00:03:03.000And then, when you reopen, then the spread increases again.
00:03:07.000Which, again, was what lockdowns were designed to do in the first place.
00:03:10.000Lockdowns were designed to flatten the curve.
00:03:12.000Florida locked down, and then Florida released the lockdown, and they did so in safe fashion, and then the curve rose, and then the curve fell again, and at no point did Florida's system get overwhelmed.
00:03:21.000That's what lockdown was supposed to do, right?
00:03:23.000I mean, that's what slow the spread was all about.
00:03:25.000But now we are told that we have to lock down until the end of time, apparently.
00:03:29.000One thing I'm deeply fearful of with regard to COVID, honestly, is that things will get better and the media will just fail to report it because the media have a real invested interest at this point in suggesting that things are not getting better with COVID.
00:03:42.000Yesterday on the program, I had on Dr. Marty Makary from Johns Hopkins University, and he was talking about the development of monoclonal antibodies.
00:03:49.000So basically the artificial development of antibodies that you can take and can be used as treatment for people who actually come down with COVID.
00:03:59.000His suggestion was that by the end of this month or the beginning of next month, that there could be solid studies on monoclonal antibodies such that they become a course of treatment for COVID that could theoretically bring the death rates down below the flu.
00:04:09.000The question is going to be whether that is even allowed to be reported.
00:04:12.000Remember, Throughout this pandemic, if at any point you make any comparison between COVID and the flu, even to suggest that for young people, the flu is more deadly than COVID, which it is.
00:04:20.000If you're under the age of 20, flu is significantly more deadly than COVID.
00:04:23.000If you say that, then people will suggest that you're downplaying COVID.
00:04:27.000The media will try to browbeat you into silence about all of that.
00:04:30.000Even if you're being perfectly accurate about the data, even if you say, That it's more deadly, COVID is, than the flu for people between the ages of 20 and death, essentially.
00:04:38.000But it's not particularly deadly for people under the age of 20, and it's not particularly deadly for people who are young and healthy, which is, again, true.
00:04:44.000People will suggest that you're downplaying the impact of the virus.
00:04:46.000So what happens if it turns out that the medical community comes up with therapeutics that are actually quite effective absent a vaccine, such that we can all get back to work, and then the media suggests that things are still just as bad as ever?
00:04:57.000I mean, the alarmism that is now going around about what's going to happen post-Labor Day is pretty impressive from the media.
00:05:02.000They're saying, oh, there's going to be this massive second wave after Labor Day.
00:05:05.000Again, we've seen massive rallies in the streets for months on end in former hotspots like New York and New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
00:05:12.000And the cases of hospitalization and death have not really increased all that much.
00:05:16.000And the reason for that is because where it burned through, the virus basically has burned through.
00:05:20.000What we are seeing, there is yet to be evidence of a second wave anywhere.
00:05:23.000What we are watching is first waves that are hitting particular communities.
00:05:27.000If there's a community that was locked down and then it opens, then there is a wave, right?
00:05:32.000As the virus moves into a community with basically fresh blood, then people die in that community.
00:05:37.000People get hospitalized and die if you don't protect the elderly and the vulnerable.
00:05:41.000If, however, you're talking about areas where the virus has already moved through, you're not seeing an uptick in those areas.
00:05:45.000In Italy, northern Italy got hit real hard.
00:05:58.000There may be, in fact, be a political interest for politicians in keeping the lockdowns going, particularly if you're a Democrat, but there's no reason to continue these lockdowns, particularly in a lot of the Democratic areas that were originally hard hit in the first place.
00:06:09.000They should have to make an affirmative case why they need to continue to lock down when the virus is not particularly affecting their communities.
00:06:15.000This is particularly true, again, in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., and other heavily Democratic areas.
00:06:23.000We're going to get to Joe Biden going to Kenosha because this is the campaign is now all about how both campaigns are responding to racial questions.
00:07:57.000You're gonna save a bundle over what you'd be paying for cable.
00:08:00.000My parents have already worked on cutting the cord and going to FuboTV because, honestly, it's got all the channels they need, and why do they need to pay for a bunch of channels they are not watching?
00:08:22.000Okay, so meanwhile, Joe Biden heads over to Kenosha.
00:08:25.000If the Biden campaign is deprived of the COVID talking point, if it turns out that COVID wanes, if it turns out therapeutics are brought about, if it turns out that the number one issue on Americans' minds is not, in fact, COVID.
00:08:36.000And if it turns out that it may be the economy and the economy starts to boom again, then Biden's in real trouble, right?
00:08:40.000We are back to where we were back in February or March before the COVID pandemic hit and the lockdowns hit, in which case Trump was basically favored by nearly all the betting markets to win re-election.
00:08:50.000And that means that Joe Biden has to find an alternative case.
00:08:53.000And the alternative case is that Trump is a very bad, mean man who can't unify the country.
00:08:56.000And that means that Joe Biden really does have to focus on the stuff he has not really wanted to focus on so much, namely the questions of race and racial unity.
00:09:05.000He has said he wants to focus on that, but he really doesn't.
00:09:07.000Most of the Democratic platform, most of the DNC was about Trump as a character.
00:09:11.000Most of it was about Trump not being a unifying figure, but mostly it was about how Trump had blown COVID.
00:09:16.000Because he couldn't really make the case on the economy.
00:09:18.000Hard to make the case it was Trump's fault the economy tanked after a global pandemic that, by the way, the U.S.
00:09:23.000responded to with more alacrity than nearly any other Western country.
00:09:26.000The United States experienced like a 10% GDP drop in Q2.
00:09:30.000That was better than virtually every other Western country.
00:09:32.000The only one that was even competitively close was Germany.
00:09:35.000So the United States actually handled that Kind of well.
00:09:38.000I mean, like, as well as could possibly be imagined under the circumstances, given how hard the United States was hit by COVID in the first place.
00:09:44.000So that talking point may be deprived of Joe Biden.
00:09:46.000He may not have the economic talking point.
00:09:48.000He may not even have the COVID talking point because, again, the fact of the matter is this thing has wiped through most of the populated areas of the United States.
00:09:54.000Now you're starting to see the uptick in places like Iowa and South Dakota, which is what you would expect.
00:09:59.000Again, untouched areas will eventually be touched.
00:10:01.000I mean, even New Zealand, which is an island in the middle of nowhere with seven people and 2,000 sheep, even that place has been hit, again, Okay, so that means that Joe Biden has to focus in on the, I'm a unifying light bringer.
00:10:30.000That had to do with Barack Obama being an incredibly polarizing president after basically Pledging that he was going to be the great racial unifier in the United States, right?
00:10:39.000No red states, no blue states, just the United States, no black Americans, no white Americans, just Americans, right?
00:10:43.000The basic idea of the Obama candidacy was not the idea of the Obama presidency and Joe Biden was complicit in that.
00:10:49.000In 2012, he was campaigning on Mitt Romney, the most milquetoast candidate of all time in all of human history, being somebody who wanted to put y'all back in chains.
00:10:56.000So let's not pretend that Joe Biden's racial Game playing is restricted to Donald Trump.
00:11:01.000So now Joe Biden is trying to revivify the race, the race relations card against Donald Trump.
00:11:08.000And that means that he started off yesterday, put out this ad that I commented upon because the ad is particularly egregious.
00:11:16.000It promotes an extraordinarily untrue and also negative message for black Americans.
00:11:23.000Here was Joe Biden's ad about race relations in the United States.
00:11:26.000Why in this nation do black Americans wake up knowing that they can lose their life in the course of just living their life?
00:11:33.000Part of the point of freedom is to be free from brutality, from injustice, from racism and all of its manifestation.
00:11:41.000We have to let people know that we not only understand their struggle, but they understand the fact they deserve to be treated with dignity.
00:11:49.000They gotta know... The key to this ad is the first line that Joe Biden says, right?
00:11:52.000So Joe Biden says, why in this nation do black Americans wake up knowing they could lose their life in the course of just living their life?
00:12:02.000There is no evidence that is the case.
00:12:04.000There are 42 million black Americans, 42 million of them.
00:12:07.000The median household income for black Americans is about $41,000 a year.
00:12:11.000The average household income, which is different than the median because it's skewed upward by high incomes like Beyonce and Jay-Z, for example, that's $58,000 a year.
00:12:19.000The basic concept that black Americans wake up in the United States fearing for their lives every day is nuts. So first of all, I don't see the poll data on that, that black Americans wake up every day thinking they're going to get shot and killed. And if they do think that, then that is not true.
00:12:34.000So there are two questions to be asked. One, do black Americans think that? And two, is there any justification for them thinking that? First of all, I don't see tons of evidence that every black American, 42 million of them, wake up in deadly fear of being black in the United States every day.
00:12:47.000I do see a media narrative that promulgates this.
00:12:49.000I do see prominent people, from black and white, saying this kind of stuff.
00:12:54.000But that raises the second question, is that feeling justified?
00:13:13.000If Jews, who are the number one targeted group in the United States in terms of hate crimes, say that they wake up every morning in fear that they are going to be victimized in the United States because the United States is systemically anti-Semitic, that would be a crazy, crazy thing to say.
00:13:26.000Because again, even though Jews are the most victimized subgroup in the United States by hate crimes, the United States is an extraordinarily friendly country to Jews.
00:13:33.000It's an extraordinarily friendly country to Jews.
00:13:36.000If there were an ad cut by the Trump campaign saying, Jews wake up every morning in the United States afraid of the predations of anti-Semites.
00:13:43.000And then it had like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and all of this.
00:13:45.000Then the media fact-checkers would be like, okay, number one, do Jews actually feel that way?
00:13:48.000And two, would Jews be justified in feeling that way, given the fact that Jews have an incredibly high level of education, and they are a very wealthy subgroup, and the fact that very few Jews are murdered?
00:13:57.000Okay, here are the actual stats on murder in the United States.
00:15:16.000But because the media have blown up every racial narrative in the country to extraordinary proportions, That's the real reason.
00:15:23.000So if a lot of black Americans feel like they're on the verge of murder in the United States, that is solely due to media malfeasance.
00:15:29.000That is not due to any statistical reality at all.
00:15:33.000Now, in a normal world, what we would do is we would say, OK, the media malfeasance should stop because this is actually really, really damaging stuff.
00:15:41.000Let's assume that what Biden says is true.
00:15:42.000How harmful is it for 42 million Americans and 13 percent of the entire American population to believe that they live on the verge of being murdered by the other 87 percent of the population every day?
00:15:53.000How damaging is that to children who believe that they are waking up in a country where they could be murdered for their skin color alone?
00:16:00.000How damaging is that, particularly if it's not true?
00:16:04.000And not only is it damaging to black Americans to falsely believe that they are living in a country that seeks to persecute them and harm them, it is damaging to the entire body politic.
00:16:14.000Because either you agree with that, in which case you want to wreck all the systems that have provided American prosperity, security, and freedom.
00:16:20.000Or you disagree with it, in which case presumably you are labeled unempathetic and uncaring.
00:16:25.000Which is why, honestly, so I tweeted out, what is the evidence that black Americans, all 42 million of them, wake up knowing they could be murdered just for being black?
00:16:33.000What is the evidence to justify this proposition?
00:16:35.000This led Katherine Watson, who's a White House reporter for CBS News, a White House reporter, to tweet, maybe white people should sit this one out.
00:17:15.000So she's fine with Joe Biden spouting nonsense.
00:17:18.000She's fine with Joe Biden promulgating a narrative that is incredibly damaging to the United States and to black Americans in the United States because he's a white person saying the right kinds of things.
00:17:27.000So it really isn't about the race of the person asking the question.
00:17:30.000It's really about the question itself.
00:17:32.000And this is going to lead to an impasse in American politics and an impasse in American life.
00:17:37.000We'll get to that impasse in just one second.
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00:19:13.000Okay, so when Joe Biden makes the claim that 42 million black Americans are living in abject fear of being murdered in the United States, just killed, going about their daily business in the United States, we should ask, number one, whether black Americans really feel that way.
00:19:23.000And two, you do have to ask the question, whether even if people feel a thing, that feeling is justified.
00:19:29.000You know, when it comes to individuals, they're individuals who have depression or a perception of victimhood.
00:19:36.000It used to be that a school of psychology suggested that you were there to reinforce, right?
00:19:40.000You were there to have them tell you the Freudian stories about their childhood that made them think this way and all of this.
00:19:45.000And then there came something in psychology called cognitive behavioral therapy.
00:19:49.000This is something that Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff have talked about.
00:19:51.000Jonathan Haidt, of course, the sociologist from NYU.
00:19:54.000Cognitive behavioral therapy is the basic idea that you come in and you complain that something bad is happening in your life and you're really depressed about it.
00:20:01.000And what the therapist does, instead of just legitimizing your feelings, you lie on the couch and you do talk therapy, instead of that, the therapist will say, is it possible you're misinterpreting that?
00:20:11.000Is it possible that you are taking a situation and misinterpreting it?
00:20:14.000The whole goal is to intervene in your own thought process so that you stop being depressed.
00:20:19.000Because instead of you just talking about your depression, which actually makes you more depressed, and your victimology, which makes you more victimized, instead, the question is, maybe you've misinterpreted that.
00:20:29.000Or maybe you should stop your thought process in the middle, right, is cognitive behavioral therapy, intervening in the thought process, to stop this chain of thoughts, to break the chain of thoughts that leads to depression, and leads to malaise, and leads to, you know, all the things that you don't want in your life.
00:20:42.000If you want to be an empowered human being, You can't think like a victim.
00:20:48.000Particularly if the evidence doesn't justify it.
00:21:39.000If you're white, you're not supposed to ask the question at all, right?
00:21:42.000You're not supposed to talk at all, unless you're asking the kind of question that Katherine Watson wants you to ask.
00:21:47.000You're never supposed to engage in this sort of therapy because the only people who can think about whether they truly have a reason to feel victimized are the people who feel that.
00:21:57.000But that is not a way to achieve any sort of political end.
00:22:00.000That locks all of us in our little individual boxes, unable to communicate with one another.
00:23:13.000Most of the problems in your life are solvable by you.
00:23:16.000And if they are not solvable by you, if somebody is actively discriminating against you, that is illegal, and we should all fight that.
00:23:21.000If somebody is engaging in actual illegal activity, we should spot that.
00:23:25.000But instead, we have decided on a narrative whereby you suggest that wide swaths of people have feelings, and then you can't fact check the justification for those feelings, because if you do, you are therefore uncaring, when precisely the opposite is true.
00:23:37.000Allowing people to be stuck in an unjustified feeling does not help them.
00:23:46.000And a media that actively promulgates feelings that are unjustified is doing something wrong, is doing something bad for the country and doing something bad for individuals.
00:23:55.000And that's exactly what Joe Biden and the media are pursuing.
00:23:58.000Okay, so as we'll talk about in a second, Joe Biden headed over to Kenosha and he met with Jacob Blake's family and got on the phone with Jacob Blake.
00:24:15.000People are feeling rather unprotected, and that is because there has, in fact, been a major uptick in crime in most major American cities.
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00:25:37.000Okay, so Joe Biden heads over to Kenosha.
00:25:39.000And in heading over to Kenosha, he meets, not with local business owners, because that's what Trump did, right?
00:25:45.000He met with the people who were actually victimized in Kenosha.
00:25:47.000When I say actually victimized, I am specifically saying there is no evidence to suggest that Jacob Blake was quote-unquote victimized by the police.
00:25:53.000Okay, the evidence does not suggest that.
00:25:55.000The evidence suggests that Jacob Blake, there was an open warrant for sexual assault and domestic abuse.
00:26:01.000The cops were called to the scene because Jacob Blake was allegedly digitally raping a woman with her child in the room.
00:26:07.000And she called the cops, and apparently he did this to her like every six months, according to her allegations.
00:26:11.000And the cops showed up, and then he resisted arrest.
00:27:06.000So the fact that he's calling a guy who's allegedly a rapist, okay, who had three children in the back of the car.
00:27:14.000He like left his kids in the car and then went into this woman's house to digitally rape her allegedly.
00:27:18.000That does not sound like the kind of person a presidential candidate should get on the phone with, nor does it sound like he should really be in the house with the parents of this person.
00:27:25.000Because again, there is no evidence that the cops were unjustified in the shooting at this point.
00:27:46.000The guy posted allegiance to Louis Farrakhan and he was posting all sorts of stuff about how the Jews control the world and all this kind of stuff.
00:28:15.000Okay, he's gonna go to jail and he should go to jail if he committed the crimes which have been alleged against him.
00:28:21.000Okay, so this in and of itself demonstrates that the facts do not match the narrative, but the narrative matters most of all.
00:28:27.000Okay, so Joe Biden then goes to a church and his visit to Kenosha, not only was it, you know, bad on the messaging front, but also he just looked terrible because he heads out to Kenosha and it reinforces all of the rumors about his health.
00:28:40.000It reinforces the fact that he does not look like he is strong out there.
00:28:44.000First, he suggests that it is the first chance in a generation to cut a slice off institutional racism.
00:28:50.000Understand that when people say institutional racism, most of the time they don't know what they are referring to.
00:28:54.000The term institutional racism was coined by Stokely Carmichael, the former head of the Black Panther Party, and it was specifically designed to shift the definition of racism from what we all understand racism to be, namely the belief in the inferiority or superiority of a particular group of people based on their race.
00:29:09.000It shifted that definition into any system that creates inequality is racist.
00:29:14.000Which is an illogical and evidence-free system of identifying racism.
00:29:19.000Because literally every system provides for inequality between groups.
00:29:22.000There is no system that has no inequality between groups.
00:29:57.000I'm sorry, this is so evidence-free and so contrary to any shred, any iota of logic, that it boggles the mind.
00:30:06.000Here's Joe Biden saying a silly thing.
00:30:09.000This is the first chance we've had in a generation, in my view, to deal and cut another slice off of institutional racism toward getting to the place where it changes.
00:30:23.000And by the way, the main reason why I'm optimistic?
00:30:25.000Because of your generation, black, white, Hispanic, and Asian American.
00:30:31.000Did you ever think you'd turn on the TV?
00:30:33.000You're much younger than I am, but you're a little older than she is.
00:30:36.000Did you ever think you'd turn on the TV?
00:30:38.000And roughly two out of three ads would be biracial couples selling a product.
00:31:14.000One of the questioners is alleging this.
00:31:16.000So here's a young woman from Kenosha, young black woman from Kenosha, and she literally gets up and she says, I was told to read from this piece of paper, but I'm going to ask you an actual question.
00:31:23.000Who gave her a piece of paper and told her to read from a piece of paper to Joe Biden?
00:31:27.000I mean, Joe Biden was pretty much reading from a script the entire time because he cannot be allowed off the script.
00:31:32.000No wonder Nancy Pelosi doesn't want him to debate Trump.
00:31:34.000Here's this woman basically letting the cat out of the bag here.
00:34:29.000I mean, Thomas Edison didn't invent the lightbulb.
00:34:31.000Lewis Latimer is the person he's talking about, and he perfected the carbon filament, which is an important thing, but you don't have to be like, Thomas Edison didn't exist.
00:34:58.000He's doddering around the stage, but wait till you see the media reaction to this, because basically of an old white man who spent his entire career doing nothing.
00:35:06.000Honestly, if he wants to talk about, at a certain point, he's like, we should talk about black contributions to white American life.
00:35:11.000If he wants to talk about black contributions to white American life, he is example 1A of a white man who has benefited from a black man, OK?
00:35:18.000Joe Biden would be an obscure, no-name, ridiculous, much-mocked senator from Delaware if it were not for the fact that Joe Biden plucked, that Barack Obama plucked him from obscurity and made him his VP.
00:35:29.000Would this guy be a presidential candidate?
00:35:56.000Okay, wait until you hear the media drooling all over this.
00:35:58.000The media have just become the public relations wing of the Democratic Party because their reaction to this really pretty bad Kenosha visit is astonishing.
00:36:07.000And it continues to promulgate the dual narratives that Joe Biden is good at this.
00:36:10.000And second, that black Americans ought to be living in fear of their lives.
00:36:12.000All 42 million of them ought to be living in fear of their lives because of the predations of white America.
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00:39:28.000It seems like she could earn a lucrative side salary simply by acknowledging that she's a propagandist.
00:39:32.000Listen to her reaction to Joe Biden doddering around in a church while apparently handing like scripted pieces of paper to people to ask him questions.
00:39:47.000Point by point by point on his notes, you know, just questions, concerns from folks there who have been able to speak up about, you know, their children and education and mental health and the prison system.
00:40:24.000Never would have predicted anything remotely like that.
00:40:27.000So Brooke Baldwin doing the heavy lifting there.
00:40:29.000Meanwhile, CNN had an entire panel lionizing Jacob Blake and Joe Biden.
00:40:34.000And then Jacob Blake's attorneys were attacking Donald Trump and William Barr.
00:40:37.000Nothing like having the attorneys for a man accused, alleged of digitally raping a woman with her son in the room, appearing on TV to lionize Joe Biden.
00:40:48.000And CNN had an entire panel doing this.
00:40:52.000By the way, the lawyer originally claimed, lest you forget, Benjamin Crump, originally claimed that Jacob Blake was there on the scene in order to break up a fight between two women.
00:41:06.000Here's that bit of propaganda on CNN yesterday.
00:41:11.000What we've seen was, you know, Vice President Biden show a great degree of empathy, and that also shares stories and challenges of medical challenges that he's personally had.
00:41:22.000And I thought that was, I thought that helped ease The burden a little bit to some degree for Jacob.
00:41:29.000What we heard from Vice President Biden is that he is very supportive of measures that allow police to better do their job.
00:41:39.000I think that Attorney General Barr's statements are very disturbing and I think that type of rhetoric is divisive and I think at a time where we really need to be united.
00:42:29.000But this is the narrative promulgated by the media.
00:42:30.000Again, this all goes back to that centralized narrative that Democrats and the media have been pushing for now decades, which is that black people are being ground under the boot heel of American cruelty and racism.
00:42:41.000Now, that message immediately goes away as soon as Democrats are elected.
00:42:44.000But when Republicans are in office, then it immediately comes back again.
00:42:48.000What's so insulting about this is there was a point in time when this was true.
00:42:51.000For, in fact, a huge swath of American history, this was true.
00:43:08.000If you're responding to false allegations of police brutality by burning a city, it seems to me that law and order is pretty important.
00:43:14.000And it turns out that law and order is mostly important for people living in communities where law and order is not observed.
00:43:20.000If you're living in a poor, impoverished community, what you need is property rights and individual rights protected.
00:43:25.000Law and order should be important to everyone.
00:43:26.000It is the precondition for a civilized society.
00:43:29.000But Eddie Glaude says if you say law and order, it's because you're a racist.
00:43:33.000When we hear the language of law and order, we need to understand its origin.
00:43:37.000It has everything to do with shifting the blame and focus from the violence of police to how black people respond to the violence that they experience.
00:43:47.000So when we think about all of the urban unrest in the 20th century, 90% of that urban unrest, Chris, has been a result, has been a response to police violence. 90%.
00:43:58.000And so what we do is we respond to the quote-unquote looting and the violence, but we never address the underlying cause.
00:44:06.000Okay, this is so crazy that you're not allowed to talk about law and order because somehow you're a racist if you mention law and order, according to Eddie Glaub.
00:44:14.000And this narrative, again, is promulgated in every circumstance.
00:44:18.000In every circumstance, regardless of the surrounding fact pattern.
00:44:21.000So, for example, there was low-level unrest in Washington, D.C.
00:44:25.000over the last couple of nights after there was a man named Deon Kaye who was shot.
00:44:29.000He was an 18-year-old who was shot by a D.C.
00:44:42.000Mayor Muriel Bowser, who, of course, had tried to appease the mob and be part of the mob by painting giant letters on the street and renaming plazas and all of this.
00:44:50.000So they initially seized on reports that a black man was unjustifiably shot by the cops.
00:44:54.000And then the tape came out, and it turns out that this guy was running from the cops He was not, in fact, shot in the back, as the original allegation suggested.
00:45:01.000He was shot directly in the front because he was carrying a handgun at the time.
00:45:31.000When somebody comes at you with a gun, what are you supposed to do?
00:45:33.000Wait for- wait to see, like, which angle his arm is gonna come at?
00:45:36.000According to townhall.com, police say officers were responding to a live stream on social media of a man brandishing a firearm.
00:45:41.000The officers recognized the young man from their previous encounters with the individual.
00:45:45.000According to the chief, K was a validated gang member.
00:45:48.000When officers arrived and approached the car, two of the four occupants fled on foot.
00:45:51.000Body cam footage of the incident captures Deon K raising a gun as he runs toward a Hispanic officer.
00:45:58.000The officer then fires a single shot at K, striking him in the chest.
00:46:03.000And two people who complied with the cops, of course, were arrested without injury, which is what typically happens.
00:46:07.000I remember even in the George Floyd situation, there were other people in the car, nothing happened to them.
00:46:12.000And meanwhile, another fact pattern that is now being used as an evidence of systemic American racism, seven police officers have been suspended in Rochester after the death of Daniel Prude.
00:46:22.000We talked about this case a little bit yesterday.
00:46:24.000This is a case in which there is a black man who is apparently high on PCP and It was suspected that he was suffocated to death by the officers.
00:46:33.000According to the New York Times, the man, Daniel Prude, was having a psychotic episode.
00:46:36.000Apparently, he'd been hospitalized for suicidal ideation earlier in the day and then released.
00:46:41.000He was handcuffed by officers running naked in the streets in the middle of a freezing night.
00:46:44.000You can actually see the snow coming down in the video.
00:46:47.000Prude began spitting and claiming out loud that he had COVID-19.
00:46:49.000This is the beginning of the COVID crisis.
00:46:51.000And then they put what was called a spit sock over his head.
00:46:58.000Okay, now, there's one problem with this.
00:46:59.000the officers force Prude face down on the ground. One of them pushes his head to the pavement.
00:47:02.000Prude was held down by the police for two minutes and then later had to be resuscitated.
00:47:06.000The accusation is, of course, that they asphyxiated him.
00:47:09.000Okay, now there's one problem with this. The EMT arrives and they're focusing in on the fact that one of the officers has his knee on the guy's back. Now that is, throughout the United States, an approved procedure.
00:47:41.000Now, the media have also said that they're laughing at him.
00:47:44.000The man makes some sort of comment about his penis, and they start laughing at the comment because it's kind of funny.
00:47:50.000They're not sitting there laughing at the man's condition.
00:47:52.000Okay, that's not what the video actually shows.
00:47:54.000In any case, excited delirium has now been mistaken in several cases for police brutality.
00:48:00.000Here's an article from the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, circa 2011.
00:48:05.000From Professor Asia Takuchi of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Terrence Ahern from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and Sean Henderson from the Keck School of Medicine at USC about excited delirium.
00:48:16.000Here is how they describe the condition of excited delirium.
00:48:19.000Excited or agitated delirium, which again was named by the officers in this case, also in the George Floyd case, is characterized by agitation, aggression, acute distress, and sudden death, often in the pre-hospital care setting.
00:48:30.000It is typically associated with the use of drugs that alter dopamine processing, hyperthermia, And most notably, sometimes with death of the affected person in the custody of law enforcement.
00:48:39.000Subjects typically die from cardiopulmonary arrest, although the cause is debated.
00:48:44.000What they're saying is that basically, excited delirium happens to a lot of people, but it very often is the reason why the cops are called.
00:48:50.000Because you'll see somebody acting extraordinarily erratically, aggressively.
00:48:55.000You'll see people acting with agitation.
00:49:30.000So one of the things that they say is, EXD, right, excited delirium, has gained increasing public attention recently due to the number of post-mortem explanations offered by medical examiners regarding the death of individuals being restrained by police or being taken into custody.
00:49:43.000Authors of one review article found enough evidence in the literature to suggest that excited delirium might represent the clinical spectrum of a...
00:49:53.000rhabdomyelosis and neuroleptic malignant syndrome might represent the clinical spectrum of a single disease.
00:49:59.000They say that very often medical examiners mistakenly attribute the death to asphyxia in these particular cases, but in fact, in most cases of excited delirium, people die without ever having encountered the police.
00:50:11.000Since the victims sometimes die in police custody, says this study, the most widely publicized proposed causes of death in EXD are taser use and positional asphyxia.
00:50:19.000No study thus far has been able to demonstrate a causal relationship between taser use and subsequent individuals' death.
00:50:26.000Also, supporters of the positional asphyxia hypothesis postulate that an anoxic death results from the combination of increased oxygen demand with a failure to maintain a patent to airway or inhibition of the chest wall.
00:50:38.000But the positional asphyxia theory has been refuted by a series of articles exploring the effect of PRMP on ventilatory capacity and arterial blood gases.
00:50:46.000Okay, so basically what this article says is that people suddenly die after exhibiting excited delirium, and it is generally not the suppression of the officers that leads to it.
00:50:55.000But one of the reasons why this is an approved use of force, you know, putting your knee on somebody's back or on the back of somebody's neck, as long as you're not actually cracking their sternum or something, is because people get very aggressive and they get very erratic when they have excited delirium.
00:51:07.000This has been treated by everybody as another example of unwarranted police brutality.
00:51:12.000And if you know nothing about excited delirium, that's what it looks like.
00:51:14.000But the media don't even bother to report on excited delirium, which is, in fact, what the EMC said it was arriving on scene.
00:51:59.000He murdered a man who was a patriot prayer guy.
00:52:04.000There was a warrant out for Reinald's arrest earlier on Thursday.
00:52:09.000And apparently, the suspect came out of the car, he was carrying a gun, he apparently fired shots at the officers, and then they shot him.
00:52:19.000So he was pronounced dead at the scene.
00:52:22.000Now, earlier in the day, Vice found the guy, and they interviewed him, and they simply allowed him to propagandize about how he was actually attempting to lower the temperature, and how he shot this man in self-defense.
00:52:32.000There's no evidence that he shot the man in self-defense.
00:52:34.000I mean, the evidence is pretty clear, in fact, on tape, that he's just a patent murderer.
00:52:41.000Lots of lawyers suggest that I shouldn't even be saying anything, but I feel it's important that the world at least gets a little bit of what's really going on, because there's been a lot of propaganda put out there.
00:53:20.000He characterized himself as 100% Antifa who had been arrested prior on a gun violation like in early July.
00:53:27.000He was let off with no charges in Multnomah County, and then he went and murdered somebody.
00:53:30.000Here's how the New York Times reported this story.
00:53:32.000Quote, suspect in fatal Portland shooting is killed by officers during arrest.
00:53:36.000Law enforcement agents killed Michael Forrest Reinald while trying to arrest him, four officials said. He was being investigated in the fatal shooting of a supporter of a far right group. So just to be straight in the subhead, there's no mention of Antifa.
00:53:47.000There's no mention of Black Lives Matter.
00:53:48.000The only political affiliation is the victim.
00:53:58.000Okay, buried down further in the interview, they went and they interviewed a bunch of this guy's friends.
00:54:01.000on Thursday as they moved to arrest him in the fatal shooting of a right-wing activist who was part of a pro-Trump caravan in Portland, Oregon, officials said. The suspect, Michael Forrest Reinold, 48, was shot by officers from a federally led fugitive task force during the encounter in Washington state. Okay, buried down further in the interview, they went and they interviewed a bunch of this guy's friends. And according to this guy's friends, he was a wonderful man. Okay, here is the way that the New York Times reports on his death.
00:54:27.000Okay, and again, all evidence is that he murdered somebody in cold blood by shooting him point blank.
00:54:31.000I was going to say radicalize, but galvanize is a better word, he said.
00:54:33.000security team during the demonstrations.
00:54:35.000Mr. Reinold's role included intercepting potential agitators and helping calm conflicts, fellow protesters said.
00:54:40.000Nightly, he would break up fights, said Randall McCorkle, a regular at the demonstrations, who said he became close friends with Reinold as they wore on.
00:54:46.000He wanted change so badly, he said, his death, he said, would likely inspire others to continue the movement for police reform.
00:54:52.000I was going to say radicalize, but galvanize is a better word, he said.
00:54:55.000Honestly, I'm gonna try to step into his shoes.
00:54:58.000Reese Monson, a local leader in the protest movement, who also helped organize security, that all the people who helped with security in Portland, including Reinald, were trained on de-escalation.
00:55:07.000He was excellent at that, said Mr. Monson.
00:55:09.000Mr. Monson said security designees have been trained to approach potential agitators and politely ask them to leave.
00:55:14.000They've also been trained on how to conduct physical removals, but are cautioned to try to avoid such measures because they can cause situations to escalate.
00:55:21.000Mr. Monson said Mr. Reinold would often come over to discuss how to handle potential agitators appropriately.
00:55:26.000He was literally a guardian angel, said Teal Linseth, one of the main organizers of the Portland protest.
00:55:44.000It is only at this point that the New York Times says, you know, on July 5th, he was charged with resisting arrest in possession of a loaded firearm.
00:55:50.000And he showed a bloodied arm to a journalist with Bloomberg and said he'd been shot while intervening in a fight at the end of July.
00:56:07.000The narrative has overtaken nearly all of America's major institutions.
00:56:11.000We're in the middle of a cultural revolution.
00:56:13.000It is a cultural revolution in which America's major institutions, ranging from political parties to media outlets to even places like the APA, the American Psychological Association, have been overtaken by politics.
00:56:27.000And it undermines their credibility as experts, by the way.
00:56:30.000I'm not going to listen to the quote-unquote experts unless they actually demonstrate expertise in the subject area that they purport to proclaim expertise.
00:56:38.000The American Psychological Association, I'm supposed to believe their designations in the DSM that a man who believes he is a woman is not, in fact, suffering from any sort of mental condition or mental illness.
00:56:56.000The president of the American Psychological Association, which represents psychologists in the United States, accused the United States of harboring a racism pandemic.
00:57:05.000The president of the Association of Black Psychologists stated, quote, This is so scientific.
00:57:09.000in America is born from the blood of white supremacist ideology and capitalism and that's the disease according to a press release released by the APA.
00:57:18.000This is so scientific. The experts are telling you guys we're in the middle of a racism pandemic and every institution in America is racist and so is capitalism.
00:57:26.000The statements were made by APA president Sandra Schulman and ABPSI president Shulman said, we are living in a racism pandemic, which is taking a heavy psychological toll on our African-American citizens.
00:57:40.000Racism is associated with a host of psychological consequences, including depression, anxiety, and other serious, sometimes debilitating conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders.
00:57:49.000Moreover, stress caused by racism can contribute to the development of cardiovascular and other physical diseases.
00:57:55.000Research shows that, compared with whites, blacks feel more negative stereotype threats and more racial profiling when interacting with the police.
00:58:05.000Okay, this is so anti-scientific, it boggles the mind.
00:58:07.000In their further sources cited, they cite the garbage book, Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility.
00:58:12.000So the cultural revolution has now overtaken, quote unquote, institutions of science.
00:58:16.000Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren wants to use those institutions of science in order to use the government to cram down her purported messages.
00:58:23.000Warren has now joined forces with Representative Ayanna Pressley, who was encouraging violence five seconds ago, and Representative Barbara Lee of California to promote the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act, which would put COVID-19 restrictions in the same square as Black Lives Matter protests.
00:58:37.000Warren said in a statement, it's time we start treating structural racism like we would treat any other public health problem or disease.
00:58:43.000Oh, you mean a thing that you can't define?
00:58:46.000You want to treat like an actual disease?
00:58:48.000You mean you want to use the power of the CDC in order to go after people who you purport to be, who you claim are racist without any evidence that they're actually racist?
00:58:55.000Because remember, structural racism does not require racist intent or actual racist policy.
00:59:04.000So she wants to create a National Center for Anti-Racism at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research and explore racism's health impacts.
00:59:11.000They also want to create a Law Enforcement Violence Prevention Program at the CDC as a bulwark against police brutality.
00:59:16.000Because when I think of Center for Disease Control, first thing I think is Law Enforcement Violence Prevention Program.
00:59:24.000Pretty incredible stuff here from Elizabeth Warren.
00:59:26.000So all major institutions will be turned toward the narrative.
00:59:30.000Over at USC, how far have they turned at the universities toward this narrative?
00:59:32.000Here's how far they've turned at the universities toward this narrative.
00:59:36.000Over the last couple of days, a man named Greg Patton, a professor of clinical business communication at USC, was suspended from his job.
00:59:55.000This got him suspended and investigated by the University of Southern California when people claimed they were offended by a word in Chinese that sounds like a slur in English, but has nothing to do with that slur.
01:00:06.000If you have a lot of um or ers, and this is culturally specific, so based on your native language, like in China, the common word is that, that, that, that, that.
01:00:13.000So in China, it might be nega, nega, nega, nega.
01:00:15.000So there's different words that you'll hear in different countries, but their vocal is full in states that say that, that, that, um, um, er, er, er.
01:00:25.000USC is now offering supportive measures to any student, faculty, or staff member who requests assistance.
01:00:30.000The school is, quote, committed to building a culture of respect and dignity, where all members of our community can feel safe, supported, and can thrive.
01:00:37.000Our institutions are completely broken.
01:00:58.000She admitted Thursday she's actually a cultural leech who is white.
01:01:02.000She wrote a life-shattering medium post titled The Truth and Anti-Black Violence of My Lies.
01:01:07.000She's a self-proclaimed historian of politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the African diaspora.
01:01:13.000She said, for the better part of my adult life, every move I've made, every relationship I've formed has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies. To an escalating degree over my adult life, I've eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a blackness that I had no right to claim. First, North African blackness, then US rooted blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx blackness. I've built my life on a violent anti-black lie.
01:01:37.000I've lied in every breath I have taken.
01:01:38.000She's the author of the book, Fugitive Modernities, Kisama and the Politics of Freedom, which interrogates the political practices and discourses through which those who fled from slavery and the violence of the slave trade in Angola forged coherent political communities outside of and in opposition to state politics.
01:01:53.000She says, there is no parallel form of my adulthood connected to white people or white community or an alternative white identity.
01:01:58.000I have lived this life fully, completely with no exit plan or strategy.
01:02:05.000So she doesn't really explain why she was finding, why she has decided to reveal this.
01:02:10.000And now the actual answer is that she has decided to reveal this apparently because she was about to be outed about all of this.
01:02:16.000But again, we live in a society where, you know, folks like Rachel Dolezal seek positions of power by masquerading as members of a particular race.
01:02:23.000And now you have this woman who is masquerading as a black woman in order to gain presumably power and prestige.
01:02:30.000That does say something about where we stand in American society today.
01:02:33.000There were not a lot of white people who were attempting to pass as black in a time of widespread American racism in the 1950s, 1960s, 1940s, 1930s.
01:02:42.000Okay, this is just another cultural hallmark of the fact that, in fact, black Americans are treated really well in the United States.
01:02:51.000And people don't tend to masquerade and take on the lived experiences of people who are the victims in a society.
01:02:58.000That is not something that they tend to do.
01:03:00.000In fact, throughout tragic periods of American history, Black people, in many cases, were forced to try to masquerade as white people simply so they could be treated as equal human beings.
01:03:09.000The fact that you now have people in academia, Rachel Dolezals or this lady, who are trying to act black and pretend to be black in order to gain cultural prestige.
01:03:19.000I mean, this lady obviously has problems and you don't want to use her as the case in point of what's going on in the United States.
01:03:24.000But again, it does have something to say on a broader level about where we stand in terms of race relations in the United States.
01:03:30.000Okay, now, I know that we're going a little long here, but I'd also be remiss if I did not comment on this story from The Atlantic that claims that President Trump said that Americans who died in war are losers and suckers.
01:03:40.000The reason that we have to talk about this, obviously, is this is becoming a major Democratic narrative.
01:03:45.000So Jeffrey Goldberg, who is just garbage.
01:03:46.000Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor of The Atlantic.
01:03:48.000He was just a mouthpiece for the Obama administration.
01:03:51.000He frequently just mouthed whatever Obama slogans Obama wanted him to mouth.
01:04:04.000He fired him because Jeffrey Goldberg is a coward.
01:04:06.000So now Jeffrey Goldberg has run apiece, suggesting via four anonymous sources everything that the left would want to believe about President Trump.
01:04:13.000And so the headline at The Atlantic is Trump.
01:04:15.000Americans who died in war are losers and suckers.
01:04:31.000Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day.
01:04:41.000There are on the record books about this particular incident.
01:04:45.000And there are emails specifically talking about the weather inside the administration talking about the weather that day and why they had to cancel the event.
01:04:52.000But, reports Jeffrey Goldberg, in a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, Why should I go to that cemetery?
01:05:00.000In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives at Billow Wood, which is a World War I site, as suckers for getting killed.
01:05:09.000Below wood is a consequential battle in American history.
01:05:12.000The ground on which it fought is venerated by the Marine Corps.
01:05:14.000America and its allies stopped the German advance toward Paris there in the spring of 1918, but Trump, on that same trip, asked aides, who are the good guys in this war?
01:05:21.000He also said he didn't understand why the United States would intervene on the side of the allies.
01:05:26.000There was no precedent in American politics for Trump's repeated expression of contempt for service members.
01:05:32.000And he talks about how he was mean to John McCain, of course, which, of course, we already know, and was gross at the time.
01:05:40.000But according to four different sources, he just craps all over dead soldiers and soldiers who have been wounded in the line of duty.
01:05:49.000According to The Atlantic, on Memorial Day 2017, Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery, a short drive from the White House.
01:05:54.000He was accompanied on this visit by John Kelly, who was then the Secretary of Homeland Security and who would, a short time later, be named White House Chief of Staff.
01:06:00.000The two men were set to visit Section 60, the 14-acre area of the cemetery that is burial ground for those killed in America's most recent wars.
01:06:06.000Kelly's son, Robert, is buried in Section 60.
01:06:09.000A First Lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Robert Kelly was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan.
01:06:14.000Trump was supposed to join Kelly in paying respects at his son's graves, but according to sources with knowledge of the visit, Trump, while standing by the grave, turned directly to his father and said, I don't get it.
01:06:25.000Kelly, who declined to comment for the story, initially believed people close to him said that Trump was making a ham-handed reference to the selflessness of America's all-volunteer force.
01:06:32.000But later he came to realize that Trump simply does not understand non-transactional life choices.
01:06:37.000He can't fathom the idea of doing something for someone other than himself, one of Kelly's friends, a retired four-star general, told me.
01:06:42.000Okay, so now, it's not even that, uh, that, that Kelly, uh, that he said something bad to Kelly, it's that Kelly interpreted in a way that was bad, but didn't go on the record.
01:06:50.000So you have four sources saying that he is mean to dead and wounded soldiers, none of whom would go on the record.
01:06:57.000And this is being used by the Democrats to go after Donald Trump.
01:07:01.000Trump has denied all of these allegations, of course, but it doesn't matter.
01:07:04.000So long as there's an unnamed source, the media will believe anything that confirms their narrative.
01:07:10.000This is why the Michael Wolff book became a bestseller, even though apparently it was completely full of crap.
01:07:15.000The media have fact-checking standards in which they will go after Donald Trump for nearly anything, but they won't fact-check themselves or request that anybody go on the record if you're going to make a shocking allegation, like the sitting president of the United States goes around calling dead and wounded American soldiers suckers and losers.
01:07:29.000High standards from our media these days.