Ep. 558 - Defund The Rioters
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The Democratic response to the riots that are ravaging cities across the U.S. is to try to defund the police. This is the latest example of how radical left-wing politicians are trying to take control of public safety.
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This is the Democratic response to the riots that are ravaging cities across the country.
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The Minneapolis City Council voted overwhelmingly, veto-proof majority, 9 out of 13 members,
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Because that'll make the situation a lot better, won't it?
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This is now being threatened not just in Minneapolis, but in cities around the country.
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If I wanted to light my stogie, there are a lot of places that I could do that.
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When I tried to get to my hotel last night, I was stopped by the National Guard.
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There was no way for several blocks around my hotel to get there.
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So then we got out of the car, walked all the way up to the hotel.
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It just feels like the whole Western world is on fire.
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And just when you think, okay, things can't possibly get any worse.
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Well, the optimistic view is, yes, they can get worse because the policy that's now being
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proposed to deal with this is to defund the police departments.
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Just the latest evidence that no reasonable person can support the BLM movement.
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People think that BLM just means that you think Black Lives Matter.
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We'll get into some of the radical aims of BLM.
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I think people are beginning to wake up to this.
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Even people like J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, are waking up to the pernicious
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But first, we've got to start with this cop thing because it's really, really dangerous
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And it's being pushed by very high-level politicians.
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Ilhan Omar, the Democratic representative, member of the squad, young socialist in Congress.
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I will never stop saying, not only do we need to disinvest for in police, but we need
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to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.
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The Minneapolis Police Department is rotten to the root.
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And so when we dismantle it, we get rid of that cancer and we allow for something beautiful
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And that reimagining allows us to figure out what public safety looks like for us.
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Now, of all the crazy things that she just said, of all the scary things she just said,
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it's this last one that worries me the most because I think a lot of left-wingers are
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forgetting that the Committee of Public Safety is the name of the French revolutionary group
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that chopped everybody's heads off during that war.
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This kind of language is not the sort of measured statesman-like language that we're used
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to hearing, or people saying, well, look, the police have problems maybe, but we need
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They want to dismantle the whole thing because they think that they're vicious and vile and
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They use that word killers, and it's not just, obviously, Ilhan Omar is very far left-wing.
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But even the ostensibly moderate, measured statesman-like mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti,
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He gave a public speech at an AME church in Los Angeles, and he explicitly called the cops
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I got calls from mayors around the country, some of them saying, I'm so excited, and the
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It starts someplace, and we say we are going to be who we want to be, or we're going to
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Going to continue being the killers that we are.
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You ask people to serve to protect your community.
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Now, there's a narrative that's developed on the left, all the way up to the highest
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levels of the left, that the cops are these thug killers who are slaughtering people largely
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We spoke last week at length about that, how that is not true.
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When you actually look at the number of unarmed black men who were killed by police departments
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across the United States, the number is vanishingly small.
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And don't forget, unarmed does not necessarily mean not dangerous.
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Unarmed does not necessarily mean that a killing would not be justified by law enforcement.
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The way that they're talking, people think the number is 9,000 unarmed black men killed
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And as other commentators have gone through, we've gone through on this show, even among
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those nine people, the killings in many cases were justified.
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And the killings are not always white cops killing black suspects.
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So it's just a completely false narrative that is so disrespectful to people who are actually
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But these politicians are so craven that they're willing to push that narrative.
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Now, some politicians don't want to go so far as to say, we need to completely defund
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Some are still trying to walk that line of aggressing and race hustling and antagonizing
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people and not going all the way of disrupting and dismantling the police department.
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That would include Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry.
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Jacob Fry, who has been ridiculous this whole time, kowtowing this whole time to Black Lives
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He went into a group of these Black Lives Matter protesters and he was asked point blank, will
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Their reaction, his reaction tells you a whole lot about the situation.
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What Jacob Fry is doing is what I think a lot of moderate Democrats or even some moderate
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He wants to accommodate the radical leftist Black Lives Matter movement.
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He thinks there's some accommodation to be made between the radical leftist Marxist.
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How many isms can I possibly fit into this radical movement, BLM movement, and normal
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And he quickly found out that that is not possible.
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So initially, Fry walks up to them and he tells them how much he supports their movement.
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I've been coming to grips with my own brokenness in this situation, my own failures, my own
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shortcomings, and I know there needs to be deep-seated instructional reform in terms of
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The systemic, the racist system needs to be revamped.
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We need to make sure that everything from the union contract to the way that the arbitration
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functions to the way that our officers and the culture and the department behaves.
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Jacob Fry, we have a yes or no question for you.
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Okay, so she, this woman, this activist, takes over at this point.
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The cops are no good, dirty, rotten, terrible people.
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You know, if the cops are so rotten as Jacob Fry says that they are, how could you possibly
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If they are systemically racist, systemically, not just incidentally, once or twice, every
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so often, but systemically racist, then how are you supposed to reform that thing?
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And this activist woman, very wisely, says, okay, you're going to talk a good game, Jacob
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Because things are so bad, will you or will you not disband the police?
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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, fist up, fist up, y'all, fist up.
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Jacob Fry, we have a yes or no question for you.
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Yes or no, will you commit to defunding Minneapolis Police Department?
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We don't want people with guns toting around in our community, shooting us down.
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Will you defund the Minneapolis Police Department?
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Because it's important that we actually hear this.
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It's important that we hear this because if y'all don't know, he's up for re-election next year.
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If y'all don't know, he's up for re-election next year.
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And if he says no, guess what the f*** we gonna do next year?
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Now, at this point, at this point, I am just pleased that this woman still has any respect at all for elections.
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Because the way that they're speaking is the way that revolutionaries speak.
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Sometimes I've done both, but I've mostly antagonized them.
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Dismantling the police is one of the key features of this.
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It's because they view the liberal capitalist state as intrinsically oppressive.
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So the first key to overthrowing the entire government, overthrowing the entire society,
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She goes, enough of this mealy-mouthed nonsense.
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Because if you don't, we're gonna vote you out.
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Thank goodness she still gives some legitimacy to elections.
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Although, frankly, I don't know how much longer that's gonna work.
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In some ways, I give him credit because it is pretty scary to go into a crowd like this.
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But this guy thinks, this guy thinks what so many squishes in both parties think,
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which is that they think Black Lives Matter is just about Black Lives Matter.
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Doesn't realize how extremely far left they are.
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And he thinks that an accommodation can be made.
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Some kind of coming together, kumbaya, we'll meet in the middle, compromise.
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There are three levels of Black Lives Matter demands, okay?
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Don't forget, Black Lives Matter is an organization.
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You can go to blacklivesmatter.com, I think it is.
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They say, okay, they want to expose and prevent police brutality.
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They want to stop unjust deaths at the hands of vigilantes.
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They want to stop the general racism that threatens black lives.
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This is a little bit less what you expect, but still within the realm of understanding.
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In the same way that you have white identitarians, they are black identitarians.
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They say, we're unapologetically black, capital B, in our positioning.
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They're not just saying we're one group of Americans.
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In affirming that black lives matter, we need not qualify our position to love and desire
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freedom and justice for ourselves as a prerequisite for wanting the same for others.
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We see ourselves as part of the global black community, and we're aware of the different
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ways we're impacted or privileged as black people who exist in different parts of the world.
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So already, you hear a little bit of this more Marxist language all around the world,
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transnational, not focusing on bonds of national loyalty, not saying we're Americans, we love
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No, they're saying we're part of the global black community, black people of the world
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unite, getting a little bit more of an explicit Marxist message, but still within the realm.
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Obviously, it's going to have a little bit of a black identitarian component to it.
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Second level, we do like racism in the sense that we have more racial solidarity than national
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We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift
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They're not intersectional in the way that leftist politics usually is.
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Saying like, yeah, you know, the Hispanics have something in common with the Muslims have
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something in common with the lesbian tap dancers have something in common.
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All the disparate oppression groups that then can go and attack the oppressor group of straight
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white men who think that they're men who come from money, who could write on and on and on.
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Every qualification here, trans, women, it's all about being black, which is in a way a
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little bit refreshing in leftist politics because it's a little more old school.
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It's a little more old school Marxism than whatever has been happening for the last few
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They say, especially, we want to protect black trans women who continue to be disproportionately
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All this language, cisgender privilege, trans folk is the language of radicals.
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We build a space that affirms black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments
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We engage comrades, comrades to the intent, with the intent to learn about and connect
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We make our spaces family friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children.
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We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work double shifts.
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We disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each
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other as extended families and villages that collectively care for one another, especially
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for our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
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If you support the nuclear family, then you are standing in opposition to Black Lives Matter.
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The Western prescribed nuclear family, as they put it.
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When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative
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thinking, or rather the belief that all in the world are heterosexual unless she, he, or
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It's the same kind of sexual revolutionary language.
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It is not possible to be a conservative and to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
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It is not possible to be a reasonable person and support the Black Lives Matter movement.
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A lot of conservatives, even conservatives, a lot of reasonable people think they support
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the Black Lives Matter movement because they think that Black Lives Matter and they think
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the Black Lives Matter movement is about how Black lives matter.
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I think the best analogy would be what they do in Congress.
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Whenever there's a really bad bill, really ugly, awful legislation that is really harmful
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to people, they give it a really nice sounding name.
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So you can almost judge how bad a bill is by how nice the name sounds.
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They will cram in the worst policies ever and then they'll call the bill the Don't Murder
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And they'll say, okay, Congressman, are you going to vote for the Don't Murder Puppies
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And then you're in a bad spot because you say, actually, that bill is really terrible
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and it includes all this stuff that everyone's going to hate and it's going to destroy all
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But they'll say, but it's called the Don't Murder Puppies Act.
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They'll say, hold on, you don't support Black Lives Matter?
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What are you, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi, Klansman, Nazi supremacist?
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You say, no, I just, you know, I don't think we should destroy the family.
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So I can't, they tell me that if I support the family, I can't support BLM.
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There are a lot of people who posted the stupid square on social media because basically everybody
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And you don't want to lose your job if you didn't do it and you thought it meant that
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No one should support this terrible, terrible, radical, leftist, disastrous, awful, how many
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It's not possible to support your country, to support your family, to support any sort
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of reasonable politics and support this radical movement.
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And they should be shunned from the mainstream of radical politics before they do even more
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So it's not just about even dismantling the cops, though that's a pretty bad one.
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There's now, in the name of anti-racism, a lot of racism that's being pushed.
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Maybe you found this when you were ordering out Uber Eats over the weekend.
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Uber Eats is now waiving delivery fees for black-owned businesses.
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Something tells me, though, all of a sudden you're going to see a lot of companies start
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giving out 0.00001% of equity to some black person so they qualify for this so that they
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As a company, we believe that everyone has the right to move freely no matter where they
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We're proud of how Uber has helped improve transportation equity over the last decade.
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I guess that's a new liberal slogan that we've got to add to the list.
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But the reality remains that black Americans often don't feel safe to move freely in many
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places around the country, and they still face enormous barriers that others do not.
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So Uber now is focusing on their main business, which is a taxi cab business, basically.
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And they're saying, look, we care a lot about black people in black communities, and we've
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I wish that the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others
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I wish that institutional racism and the police violence it gives rise to didn't cause their
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So corporate America buying into the lie that there is a systemic scourge of racist cops
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slaughtering innocent black people around the country.
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Completely imaginary and causing real harm in the real world, but you got corporate America
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There's this lie that the left believes that corporate America is very, very conservative.
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Corporate America, at the very least, rolls over for leftism, whether it's based on lies,
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whether it's based on the lie that men can become women.
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The minute that that becomes in any way a social movement, corporate America rolls over, gets
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rid of same-sex bathrooms, forces everybody to go through brainwashing trainings where
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we all recite endlessly that men really are women or else you'll be written up by HR or
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The minute it becomes part of a social movement that cops are racist and terrible and slaughtering
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people willy-nilly based on their race, then they just start spouting this.
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And by the way, if you go around the water cooler at your office and you contradict this
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It wasn't on the show, but it was on my YouTube channel, on the Michael Knowles Show YouTube
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We spoke to a friend of mine, Tim Gordon, the author.
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He pointed out how radical Black Lives Matter is.
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He said he didn't support them because, for instance, they want to destroy the family.
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Which ostensibly believes exactly what he believes, but they don't really.
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And so now Uber Eats is giving free delivery to Black-owned businesses.
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And it's funny because I pointed this out on Twitter.
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I said, this is obviously against the law for this business to discriminate on the basis
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And I had lawyers quibbling with me in the comments section.
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And one lawyer or some liberal lawyer says, this is, that's ridiculous.
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And then you had more conservative lawyers saying, you know, yes, it is based on the Civil
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Now, the law is how we interpret the law, okay?
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We know that there have, but we talked about this last week a little bit too.
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There's the written law, and you can quibble over the written law every single day.
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Then there's the practical law, the way the law is actually enforced.
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And the applications of the Civil Rights Act now govern virtually every aspect of our law.
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So the way that I know that this is illegal or would be illegal on the letter of the law
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Imagine if Uber Eats said, we're going to give free delivery for white-owned businesses,
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and we're going to charge delivery fees for black-owned businesses.
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But the minute they announced that, their phones would explode from the lawsuits that
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would be coming in, from the complaints that are coming in.
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I guess probably the way the lawsuits would come in is that you get a knock on the door.
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Now, is it going to explode because it's the other way around?
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I mean, there is an irony to all of this, which is if we're talking about actual legal racism,
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there's only one policy in the country that permits legal discrimination and actually encourages
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it, and that's called affirmative action, which is not legal racism in the way that the leftist
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Actually, it disadvantages the other people who are supposed to be the oppressors.
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And most of all, it actually disadvantages Asian students, which is why Asian students
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sued Harvard University because they said that there were discriminatory admissions practices
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that disadvantaged Asians on the basis of their race and helped other races on the basis
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That is legal racial discrimination, not according to the left-wing narrative.
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Affirmative action has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
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So very likely, the same thing would happen to something like Uber Eats.
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Doesn't make it legal according to the letter of the law.
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But where we are right now is in this radical movement.
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And I got to tell you, folks, you thought two months ago that things couldn't get crazier in
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politics, then left-wing activists started torching cities, then Ilhan Omar talks about
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Then she talks about the Committee of Public Safety.
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You know, things happen gradually, then suddenly.
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And we are moving into some unchartered, radical territory here.
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The Washington Post has one solution to the problem.
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Cancel police TV shows, which frankly is a step too far.
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You can get rid of my cops, but you cannot get rid of my law and order.
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It's the best way to just turn your brain off at the end of the day.
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This is their solution to alleged police brutality.
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Like many other industries, entertainment companies have issued statements of support
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for the protests against racism and police brutality now filling America's streets.
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But there's something Hollywood can do to put its money where its mouth is, immediately
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halt production of cop shows and movies and rethink the stories it tells about policing
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The reason I mention this is to just point out the difference between the fantasy of how
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In the fantasy version of the world, cops have a ton of power.
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They're slaughtering people on the basis of their race.
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So we got to muster all the power of the people and try to crack their oppressive power structure.
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In reality, right now, everybody hates the cops based on nothing, based on a completely
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fictional narrative, so much so that they're actually trying to write the cops out of popular
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Even though cops are getting sniped left and right during these riots, cops' lives are
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not considered to matter at all by the popular culture.
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But the vast, vast majority are good people trying to help the country out.
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They get no support now, even from the popular culture.
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Even Sean King, who is one of the BLM leaders, Sean King is pointing out that, hey, wait a
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Because they all say, you've got to go out and vote.
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Quote, stop generically telling us to vote in response to all of the police brutality
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Democrats from top to bottom are running the cities with the worst police brutality in
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Look, I actually wasn't even able to see that tweet initially because Sean King blocked
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me on Twitter because I'm too mean to him, I think, usually.
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But I was able to see the tweet on like incognito windows.
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Maybe the reason that the left is causing this destruction, the left is encouraging this
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Because when there's civil disorder, then we turn to the authorities even more and more.
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I wondered, I mean, this is a little bit too 4D chess, and I don't necessarily give leftists
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But the AG of Minnesota, you remember Keith Ellison, increased the charge against the cop in
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He increased it from third degree murder, which would be, I think, pretty easy to prove,
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to second degree murder, showing, you know, you'd have to show them that the cop really,
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If the cop walks, that would seem to contradict what these guys want to do.
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Maybe the left wants this cop to walk so that there's even more chaos and mayhem, and they
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can make an even stronger plea next election cycle.
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That, I think, is what Sean King is starting to catch on to a little bit.
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He's just waking up to a little bit of the grift.
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Attorney General William Barr was asked on CBS News about this charge of systemic racism.
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And Barr gave what I think is maybe the most reasonable answer on the whole thing.
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Do you believe there is systemic racism in law enforcement?
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I think there's racism in the United States still.
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But I don't think that the law enforcement system is systemically racist.
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I understand the distrust, however, of the African-American community, given the history
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And I think conservatives should take this to heart.
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When we're trying to figure out what to replace this absurd agree with BLM narrative with,
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I think Barr gives us a good answer, which is one, yeah, I think there's racism in America
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because the imagination of man's heart is evil from the beginning.
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There are always these sort of nefarious things lurking in man's heart.
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By the way, we're never going to get rid of that.
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And America is the least racist, whatever the word is said to mean these days, the least
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racist country that has ever existed in the history of the world.
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But putting that aside, yes, there will always be some kind of sin crouching in man's heart.
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We can try to practice the virtues and repent of our sin.
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Put that idea away with the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny.
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And then three, do black Americans have a point in being a little skeptical of the cops?
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Just historically speaking, there have been power imbalances in the country.
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And so it's, I think, perfectly reasonable to have this feeling of skepticism.
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However, you've got to counter your feeling of skepticism by looking at the facts.
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And the facts show there is no systemic racism.
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So the feeling of unease, sure, understandable.
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And if you need any further evidence that maybe it's not such a good idea to disband the cops,
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because there's no evidence that we should do that at all, look at the leaders.
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Occasionally, the leaders break through into the mainstream media.
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You know, never on the left-wing channels, but at least Fox News, the right-leaning cable news
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channel, interviewed one of the leaders, one of the peaceful rioters of this movement.
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Was he promoting this idea that we should all go out and, you know, come together and
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No, he was threatening to burn down the Diamond District of New York.
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It can also mean fire to property, you know, and that's very possible.
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Tonight, I'm leading a demonstration from Barclays Center at 6 p.m. to City Hall.
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And we're hoping de Blasio and Cuomo come out and talk to us and give the youth some direction.
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But if they don't, the next stop is the Diamond District.
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And gasoline, thanks to Trump, is awfully cheap.
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There's actually a secondary racial component to this, which is that the Diamond District in
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New York is run by Jews and among the so-called peaceful black identitarian leaders in New
00:39:07.980
York, there's been a little bit of hostility historically with the Jews there.
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You know, I give this guy credit, the FTP movement, which he says is for the people,
00:39:18.800
I give him credit for using that phrase because FTP is a little more honest about the radical
00:39:26.720
It's a lot more honest than BLM, but all in all, basically the same thing.
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Some people are getting a little bit woke, not even on the issue of cops or BLM, but just
00:39:39.100
Rowling, who is a card-carrying lefty, she's the author of the Harry Potter books, she came
00:39:45.100
out against the idea that men can be women, right?
00:39:48.460
So one of the more extreme versions of left-wing politics.
00:39:52.220
And she's now incurred the ire of the woke mob.
00:39:55.160
She wrote, the idea that women like me, who've been emphatic, or empathetic rather, to trans
00:40:01.880
people for decades, feeling kinship because they're vulnerable in the same way as women,
00:40:05.720
it asked to male violence, hate trans people because they think sex is real and has lived
00:40:13.460
I respect every trans person's right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable
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I'd walk with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans.
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At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female.
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She's trying to do the same thing that the squishes are trying to do on BLM.
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She's trying to come to an accommodation with this insane radical ideology that a man is really
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There's no middle ground of men are kind of women sometimes or whatever.
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And the problem is she's trying to say, look, I respect people.
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I mean, she obviously doesn't respect every trans person's right to live any way that
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Maybe they feel authentic and comfortable if they're a man who pretends that they're a
00:41:07.260
Maybe they feel authentic and comfortable using the women's room.
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But what you're saying is they can't use the women's room.
00:41:13.840
Maybe they feel authentic and comfortable playing in women's sports.
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You're saying they can't play in women's sports.
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Maybe they are being discriminated against on the basis of being trans in the sense that
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you're not allowing them to do the things that they want to do based on a manifestly
00:41:30.120
untrue delusion, namely that the men are women and the women are men.
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You've got to make a choice and you can't keep trying to be the nice guy.
00:41:38.360
You can't keep trying to buy into the premises that the left is giving you.
00:41:41.400
If you disagree with the craziest, most radical things they're saying, that somehow you're
00:41:51.040
There's an amazing story out of speaking of the intersectional leftist hierarchy.
00:41:56.060
There's an amazing story that LA Pride, like the used to be gay pride, now I guess just
00:42:02.360
LA Pride has been canceled because now we're in LA wrath month.
00:42:10.380
But the pride parade was canceled because of coronavirus.
00:42:16.080
Then pride was reorganized as a black solidarity march.
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The virus is so bad that you can't have the gay pride parade.
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But now that it's going to be a black pride parade, you can do it.
00:42:28.700
But actually now it's been canceled again because gay pride has a good relationship with
00:42:35.500
So now gay pride has to get rid of the cops and now they can't march even though they weren't
00:42:38.960
supposed to march in the first place because of the virus, which by the way is super duper
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But they were going to march back when it was going to be a black parade because if you're
00:42:50.080
marching with the radical black movement, then you're not going to get the virus.
00:42:57.040
The virus part of it is one that's been lost, which is that we were told the virus is going
00:43:03.920
But then whenever it is convenient for leftist protesters or rioters or arsonists or looters,
00:43:10.140
Fauci is already setting it up that we've got to worry about the virus again.
00:43:14.860
He said we're now in a perfect setup for further spread of the virus in the sense that creating
00:43:19.820
these blips, which might turn into some surges.
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So already they tell us the virus is super serious, then leftists go out in the streets
00:43:33.680
To quote George W. Bush, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.
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The point is you're not going to fool me again.
00:43:38.920
We'll get to George W. Bush in a second because George W. Bush says he's not going to support
00:43:42.180
Trump and it actually ties in with everything we've been talking about.
00:43:45.340
Right now, if you search on Twitter, if you go to Twitter and you type in racist, it's
00:43:51.800
So you click on the people tab, type in racist.
00:43:59.500
Because presumably someone at Twitter is having a little bit of fun.
00:44:04.620
Someone at Twitter presumably is smearing the president as a racist.
00:44:13.300
They, in part, along with their other big tech oligarchs, control the flow of information
00:44:20.180
Going after President Trump is a terrible, no good, rotten racist.
00:44:26.720
The media, obviously giving into this nonsense.
00:44:28.660
The bureaucracy, been trying to snipe President Trump for so long.
00:44:31.860
They've been trying to snipe conservatives for so long.
00:44:33.960
The whole edifice turning on anybody who wants to do anything as a conservative.
00:44:40.820
And now you've got three moderate, more liberal Republicans coming out saying they won't support
00:44:50.360
Colin Powell's been half a Democrat for his whole career.
00:44:52.400
President George W. Bush, Trump's Republican predecessor.
00:44:57.580
And Mitt Romney, Trump's Republican presidential nominee.
00:45:00.900
All three saying they will not support Trump for re-election.
00:45:04.180
No surprise because Trump's been really tough on Bush.
00:45:15.140
But, look, they come from the liberal wing of the Republican Party.
00:45:17.520
And Trump, whatever you think about his ideological vision and his philosophical formation,
00:45:22.880
he certainly is now on the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
00:45:33.260
The problem isn't even that the radicals are going to be radicals,
00:45:36.380
that the radicals are going to try to do things like defund the police and destroy the family
00:45:42.800
And in many cities so far, actually reduce our cities to rubble.
00:45:47.520
The problem is these squishes who go along with it.
00:45:50.640
Because the argument here, I mean, this is from George W. Bush.
00:45:57.440
basically suggesting that Trump isn't bringing people together.
00:46:00.720
Colin Powell said, I can't support President Trump or, you know,
00:46:03.960
I can't vote for him this year because the president's drifted from the Constitution.
00:46:12.100
It's all being directed at Trump by the bureaucracy, by the media, by the radical activists,
00:46:23.020
And they hate Trump so much because he's actually doing something.
00:46:27.680
He is by far the most conservative president we've had, certainly in my lifetime,
00:46:31.180
probably including Reagan, maybe all the way back to Calvin Coolidge or further back, right?
00:46:37.260
He's not just playing around and he's not just the nice Republican who gives enough resistance
00:46:41.380
to the liberal order to legitimize the order, but not enough to actually irk the left-wingers.
00:46:48.560
And so they've been trying to undermine him since day one.
00:46:50.440
They've been trying to throw him out of office.
00:46:51.720
They've been trying to impeach him over nothing, multiple, multiple times.
00:46:56.980
And this makes the liberal Republicans uncomfortable.
00:47:00.160
They say, gosh, things have gotten so heated that we can't do this.
00:47:04.360
He said, we can't continue like this for another four years.
00:47:06.940
The implicit threat here is that if you don't elect a Democrat, we're going to burn your
00:47:15.140
And the implicit squishy Republican argument here is, look, the Democrats are burning our
00:47:26.860
Chris Cuomo is going on CNN defending domestic terrorism, okay?
00:47:30.520
Defending political violence against civilians.
00:47:36.240
You can't reconcile and kumbaya and come to the middle, okay?
00:47:42.420
And there are some people right now who want to lose because they can't stand the heat,
00:47:46.220
literal heat, when the radical leftists are torching buildings in the country.
00:47:56.520
The stakes are not just, we're going to raise your taxes a little bit or we're going
00:48:00.640
The stakes are, we're going to defund the police department.
00:48:05.280
And the reason we're going to do that is so that we can totally overhaul the legal and
00:48:10.920
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