Ep. 603 - Democrats Burn Another City
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Summary
Kenosha, Wisconsin is burning down, and it's not about white supremacy or police brutality. It's about socialism. And it's based on a clip from a video of a police shooting of a black man in a car.
Transcript
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Another day and Democrats are burning down another city, this time Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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And the violence has become so radical that cops are now being knocked unconscious,
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being left in the ground after being hit with bricks.
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Used car dealerships are being burned to the ground
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because used cars apparently are tools of white supremacy or something like that.
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And stores are being smashed and smashed and looted and vandalized,
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But this is not about white supremacy or police brutality.
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What this is really about is Democrats burning down another city to try to win an election.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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My favorite comment from yesterday comes from Kai Jukebox, who said,
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Michael, I'm 17 and I'm taking sociology at the local community college this semester.
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The show has helped me stay sane in this indoctrination station the past three semesters.
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I'm so glad to be a counterbalance to your sociology professor.
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Sociology, of course, one of the most left-wing fields.
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It's hard to even call it an academic discipline, but it goes very far left.
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The problem is that, presumably, you're not being taught to understand Marx.
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You should read Marx, because Marx is a very important thinker in the history of Western thought.
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But you've got to make sure that you understand Marx.
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A great book to help you understand Marx, by the way, is one that I just wrote the foreword to.
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It just came out a couple weeks ago, called The Devil and Karl Marx by Paul Kenger.
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Actually, if you read that book, I think you'll be able to look around America today
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and start to make sense of everything that's happening as another city goes up in flames,
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This is all based on another officer-involved shooting.
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The story that you're being presented by the mainstream media is very, very, very different
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And most important, it's so simple, even I can do it.
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I think today, if I didn't want to write another show today, sometimes writing the show takes
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I could have just gone back to a show from a couple of weeks ago and switched the names
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Burning down, it seems like a different city every week.
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I could have dubbed in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the same exact script.
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A man named Jacob Blake in Kenosha was filmed walking away from the cops with guns.
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The guy's walking away, opens his car door, reaches into his car as the cops are telling
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And then the cops fire on the guy as he's reaching into his car.
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If you are, for whatever reason, under arrest and you're resisting arrest, that is going
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to make this a very provocative and dangerous situation.
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And in virtually, maybe every single one of these officer-involved killing cases, you've
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got the perpetrator resisting arrest, which automatically makes things more dangerous.
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But then, imagine, you've got multiple guns trained on you.
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And by the way, this guy's children were in the car, so you're making this very dangerous
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And so the cops, at the very last moment, fire their weapons.
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If you're a cop and you've got this guy resisting arrest, walks in, reaches into his car, are
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you supposed to wait for him to grab a gun and turn around and point it at you and fire
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Are you going to shoot him in the ankle and say, okay, well, I've wounded you now.
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If you're at the point where you've got to discharge your weapon, you're going to shoot
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I think he's in a serious condition, but I don't think they ended up killing him.
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And this coverage is typical of how the mainstream media are covering the story.
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Jacob Blake, shot by police officer in Kenosha, part of the Evanston family long associated
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Jacob Blake, who was shot by a police officer in Kenosha on Sunday, grew up in Evanston as
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part of a family with deep ties to local community activism.
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Then it describes the video, but it doesn't describe it too specifically.
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It says there's unrest, you know, now that's going on.
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Unrest is code word for people are burning down car dealerships and looting and throwing
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It describes the video a little bit more, but not too specifically.
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Blake's family's been active in and around Evanston for generations, said his uncle, Justin
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Blake, while en route to the hospital where Jacob Blake is being treated.
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He's like his father, my brother, Justin Blake said.
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So one thing you notice about the article, the only source they ever refer to is this
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He's got a hell of a personality and he loves people.
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He moved to the Kenosha Racine area a few years ago for a job and family, his uncle said.
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He could work and try to save and build for a better life, Justin Blake said.
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So how many times is he going to say, the uncle said this, the uncle said that?
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Journalists used to go out and get multiple sources and try to construct the story themselves,
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not allow people who are the object of the story and their relatives to write the story.
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Played football and basketball at Evanston Township High School.
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What does any of this have to do with the story?
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But Jacob Blake didn't forget his roots and he returned often to volunteer with his uncle
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at Black Urban Recycling in Chicago, an organization that collects aluminum cans from senior centers,
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veterans groups, and elsewhere to recycle them and raise money for a community center in
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Man, this guy sounds like the greatest guy on earth, right?
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That's the picture the mainstream media are painting.
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The veterans love him when he comes around because he's always polite and perky, his uncle said.
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Jacob Blake's grandfather, also named Jacob Blake, served as pastor of Ebenezer AME Church
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in Evanston and was a local leader in the civil rights movement, according to Chicago Tribune
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After the death of Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Jacob Blake helped organize and spoke
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to a crowd of 3,000 Evanston residents who marched in support of a local,
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Man, this guy's like Martin Luther King Jr., for goodness sakes.
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Can you believe these white supremacist, racist cops did this with no reason, no provocation
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Talks about these various buildings that were trying to get people out of the slums.
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All this wonderful work that this man's family's done.
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Court records show Blake has a pending criminal case that started last month.
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Online court records indicate Kenosha County prosecutors charged Blake on July 6th with third
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degree sexual assault, trespassing, and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse.
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An arrest warrant was issued for Blake the next day.
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So it doesn't sound like all that stuff that the uncle said and how he's wonderful and how
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he's always helping old ladies cross the street and how he's picking up trash and
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Maybe the story is there's a warrant out for his arrest because of sexual assault,
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And it's not that the media completely ignore it.
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It's not that the media completely lie about it.
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It's that they bury the actual, the only actual news, the only relevant information in that
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story, they bury it almost 550 words into the story.
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Most articles on the internet, by the way, are fewer than 550 words.
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So you'd read a whole story's worth before you'd get to any relevant information.
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If you're watching the mainstream media to hear about this case.
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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, some of the local, the local elected Democrats.
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We'll get into that because they're certainly not focusing on the relevant aspects of that
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How do you think the Democrats, the elected Democrats, are covering this shooting?
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in a joint statement.
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Yesterday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back as police attempted
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His children watched from inside the car, and bystanders watched in disbelief.
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His children that he walked toward while he was resisting arrest, while he was reaching
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And this morning, the nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another black
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So they're already saying right now this is excessive force, right?
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Special investigators, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they've already concluded that.
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This calls for an immediate, full, and transparent investigation.
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How many black Americans were killed unarmed last year by the police?
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The early number that came out that we were looking at was nine.
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And by the way, unarmed does not mean not dangerous.
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It does not mean that the shooting was not justified.
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We're talking about a very, very small number of people in all of the civilian police encounters
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This is completely, as a national political issue, contrived by cynical Democrats who want
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to gin up racial division and burn down American cities.
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They say, equal justice has not been real for black Americans and for so many others.
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We must fight to honor the ideals laid in the original American promise, which we are yet
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to attain, that all men and women are created equal, but more importantly, that they must
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This is a complete, a complete misunderstanding of the American founding.
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First of all, they say we have to dismantle systemic racism.
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Who controls the administrative government, the mainstream media, higher education, lower
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Who controls every single institution in America?
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And yet, we're supposed to trust them to dismantle the system that they preside over.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
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You know, you know the thing, that equality principle.
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Some people deny that it's a self-evident truth.
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Actually, the equality principle is self-evident in a very technical, logical way.
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It is a self-evident truth that all men are created equal because all men are equally men.
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A self-evident truth here is something which contains the evidence for its truth in itself.
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And the statement that all men are created equal is self-evidently true because we know,
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But now, all people have to be treated exactly equally?
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Should you be treated equally under the law on the basis of race?
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You are, actually, except for the one aspect of legal racial discrimination that we have,
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which is called affirmative action, which disadvantages white and Asian applicants to colleges,
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and it gives benefit to Hispanic and black applicants to colleges,
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which the DOJ Office of Civil Rights right now is looking into.
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Kind of a side point, and certainly not the narrative that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are trying to say.
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What does this case tell us about the state of racial relations and equality under the law?
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What we do know, namely that this guy was resisting arrest,
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he was only shot at the very last minute when he was reaching into his car,
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and that there was a warrant out for his arrest on sexual assault and domestic violence,
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the more evidence we see, the more evidence that this arrest was justified.
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There's no evidence that I've seen whatsoever that this is police brutality,
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Or are they the third option, which is what I think is true?
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Do they not care whether this narrative is true or false?
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Do they just push it because it's a very effective story in their playbook?
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is they gin up completely contrived racial injustice controversies,
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And they burn down cities because they think that this is going to help them in November.
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They think that they can only win a tribal war.
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Our constitutional system requires that we make persuasive logical arguments to one another.
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So, instead, they've got to burn down cities and get things so scary and so tribal
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that the people that they believe on the basis of their tribe are going to vote for them
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tweets out that he's not going to call for peace.
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We are calling for a complete dismantling of American policing.
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We're going to burn down and dismantle American policing.
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Do they mean they're going to burn down one or two bad cops that you can maybe point to?
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They're going to burn down and they're going to dismantle policing in general.
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The police are a symbol for the American system of law and order.
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We are going to dismantle the American legal tradition.
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We are going to dismantle the criminal justice system.
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Then we, the radical left, are going to control things.
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I think some squishy conservative types, they'll say,
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okay, well look, I'll defend George Washington.
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where university dorms are being racially segregated,
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It's that tea that has those weird little balls in it
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and you kind of, I don't know, it's kind of nice.
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Woman walks into this store, which is run by Asians,
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and she's very upset because the boba tea place
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Asian people stealing black culture once again.
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No, I came here because I thought it was black-owned.
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That's why I came here because I'm supporting a black business.
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I came here because I didn't know I was black-owned.
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She's arguing at the end with this black guy who says, hey, lady, you're in an Asian
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Why are you screaming about how it's not a black-owned business?
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And then she calls him a racial slur because he doesn't have his tribal solidarity, which
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the Democrats are trying to gin up because they think it's the only way they can win the
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I think I'm going to walk into General Tsao's Chinese chicken palace and demand that it
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I probably wouldn't be able to eat at very many places if I only went to Sicilian-owned
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One of the nice things about America is we don't have to check someone's racial pedigree
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before we go in and buy a sandwich or a cup of iced tea.
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But that's the point that the left wants us to get to.
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By the way, what does it mean to be a black-owned business?
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Because it's not just this kooky lady who goes into the shop.
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Uber Eats was giving special privileges to black-owned businesses.
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You didn't have to pay a delivery fee if you aided a black-owned business.
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They were actually giving out privileges based on race.
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Well, what if your business, say, gives equity to five people and someone who owns 1% of the
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business is black and then the people who own the other 99% of the business are like the
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What if it's a guy who's half black and half Jewish?
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How are we going to plug that into the racial victimhood calculator and figure out exactly
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What it boils down to here, what this woman's argument is, is that it's cultural appropriation.
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Now, I don't think that Bobati comes from Africa or from the American plantation before
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Even if the point she were making, even if the premise that Bobati is somehow black,
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even if that were true, cultural appropriation is a very good thing.
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This is a big lie that the left doesn't seem, probably they don't understand it because they
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I was not born loving Beethoven, believe it or not.
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Even though, you know, I don't think my mother ever played baby Beethoven for me.
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Now, I think some like bourgeois white mothers do this in the cities.
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They play Beethoven to their stomachs and they think their kids are going to become really
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I may as well have been because I started at an early age.
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Cultivated my appreciation of certain literature.
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But it's great because now I get to read Dante.
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It's, by the way, the premise of immigration and assimilation in America.
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We have the most open, we have a ridiculously open immigration system in America.
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Which most people, by the way, want to dramatically curtail across racial groups.
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But part of the reason we have any functioning immigration system at all is based on assimilation.
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That you have to come in and appropriate the American culture.
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And you have to give up some culture, too, when you do that.
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What this woman is saying is, no, we're going to have a pedigree test.
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We're going to check your blood, see exactly what percentage black you are.
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And the culture is decaying more and more by the day.
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And we have, at the same time, coincidentally, divvying up racial groups.
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Who is presiding over essentially a failed state in America.
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And this woman is the machine politician who's running it.
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She's looking closely at what's happening in Kenosha.
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They're urging civil and criminal authorities in Kenosha to investigate the incident.
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I'm so glad that Lori Lightfoot and Chicago is on the case.
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You know how many individual shootings happened in Chicago over the weekend?
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There was one officer involved shooting here because a man resisted arrest and reached into
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his car when they told him not to at the very last minute.
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They don't seem to be looking very closely at that.
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They don't care if one of these people dies or if all of these people die.
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Lori Lightfoot does not lose one second sleep over the killing, or I suppose not killing,
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And it's amazing because there are still some conservatives who don't see it.
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And so they feel really pressured to prove to these awful Democrats, you know, that they're
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There's a scourge of police brutality where racist white supremacists are gunning down
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This is a cynical strategy being implemented for the election.
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You're going to see this go away after November 3rd.
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And it goes so much further than the shootings.
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Right now, there's a group of black professors in universities who are demanding the abolition
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of English, the language, the English language, white mainstream English is how they describe
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A subcommittee of an organization called the Conference on College Composition and Communication
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They published a list of demands calling for the abolition of white mainstream English
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I thought that these euphemisms couldn't get crazier after Julian Castro during the 2020
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Democratic presidential primary called for reproductive justice for trans women, meaning
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But they basically called for abortions for men using all this cockamamie language with
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But we've gotten a little black linguistic justice.
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Well, the first issue you might see here is that when we refer to white mainstream English
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as a terrible thing, you might recall that English is not just a language.
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English is also a people known for that language.
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So you cannot separate the history of the English language from white people because the English
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But I suppose this is a great injustice that the English are white.
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The English should have looked different than the English do.
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Six authors include a Michigan State professor, Cal State professor, Cal State Fullerton.
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Cal State always goes really far left on these things.
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A Boston University professor, Texas Christian University professor, and a University of
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In case you've forgotten what we mean when we say Black Lives Matter, we stand with the
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words of the three radical black organizers and freedom fighters dreamers, quote unquote.
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Alicia Garza, Patrice Colors, and Opal Tometi, who created the historic political project Black
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Those are explicitly the three women who are self-described trained Marxists.
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You saw that video of Patrice Colors coming out and saying, yeah, me and Alicia were trained
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Then you saw photos of Opal Tometi smiling with the communist dictator of Venezuela, among
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We said earlier that the police are a stand-in for American law.
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Well, here, white mainstream English is a stand-in for the very method of communication, the
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very idea that we can have objective communication.
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They focus on it here with the abolition of English for one reason.
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If you can talk to one another across racial groups, sexual groups, national groups, if you
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can speak to one another, then you can have objective conversation and debate.
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The only way you and I can communicate right now is because there is an objective reality
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outside of me and you that we are using symbols called words and letters to refer to
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so we can use our faculties of reason, which perceive objective reality, to discuss that
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If the left wants to destroy that kind of politics, that authentic politics, self-government,
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debate, they've got to destroy language, which they have been trying to do now for at least
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100 years and which these authors, who I suspect are somewhat intelligent and somewhat educated,
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they know exactly what they're doing because they're not even just using the slogan, which
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a lot of squishy people who are ignorant of the subject say.
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They don't know that it's a radical Marxist group.
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These professors calling for the abolition of English are naming the Marxists.
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Unless you need just a cherry on top of this proof that the Democrats don't care a whit about
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racial justice and that all of this is just about burning down the country for the election.
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Joe Biden just picked up an endorsement of the most well-known, self-described, white
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identitarian, which you would call the most clear white racist in the country, Richard
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Richard Spencer, who they always peg on Trump, even though he doesn't support Trump, has
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We will get to what that means in just a second.
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We will get to the RNC, which kicked off last night.
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We will get to the white identitarian endorsement of Joe Biden.
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Richard Spencer, the well-known white identitarian, endorses Joe Biden.
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He tweets out, quote, I plan to vote for Biden and a straight Democratic ticket.
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It's not based on accelerationism or anything like that.
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The liberals are clearly more competent people.
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The word accelerationism, we actually mentioned it a little bit, maybe a week ago.
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It refers to this Marxist concept about the acceleration of contradictions within the capitalist
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system, within our traditional system, that basically the seeds of our civilization are
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And so eventually you're going to see these contradictions and the civilization is going
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This is occasionally picked up, sometimes ironically or tongue-in-cheek, by various other groups
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In this case, it's this white identitarian who's referring to, presumably he's referring to
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this acceleration, specifically on racial grounds.
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In other words, he's not going to vote for Biden so that things get way worse and then
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the whole system will collapse and we'll either become Marxist or we'll become fascist, we'll
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He's saying, I'm voting for the Democrats because they're more competent people.
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We're saying the nation doesn't burn down under Democrats.
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This is the same argument that Joe Biden has been making, right?
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Joe Biden, when the country was being lit on fire a few months ago for the, for the first
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time this cycle, he said, we can't take four more years of this.
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It's not, the Democrats are doing the burning and Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
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And they're saying, look, vote for us and we'll stop burning the country down.
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And I actually think that's what Spencer's seeing here.
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He says, look, the country doesn't burn when Democrats are in charge.
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Now, it's an extortion racket is what's, what the Democrats are doing.
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And he doesn't have any particular love for, for Donald Trump because Donald Trump's not
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a white identitarian, no matter what the mainstream media try to say about him.
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Next time they call Trump the candidate of the racists, the white identitarians, whatever.
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And make sure you remind them that Richard Spencer just unironically endorsed Joe Biden.
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But they did have some big winners here, one of whom we spoke to.
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I was, it was either on my show or I may have been filling in for Ben Shapiro's show.
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He's the one half of the gun couple in St. Louis that defended their lives and property
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when an armed mob broke through their gates and threatened them.
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And you'll remember he was wearing that pink polo shirt and those white chinos.
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And I felt he should be on the next Brooks Brothers catalog cover, but they're probably
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So he and his wife, the McCloskeys, went out and they gave a rousing speech at the RNC.
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America is such a great country that not only do you have the right to own a gun and use
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it to defend yourself, but thousands of Americans will offer you free advice on how to use it.
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What you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to any of you who are watching from
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And that's what we want to speak to you about tonight.
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Whether it's the defunding of police, ending cash bail so criminals can be released back
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out on the streets the same day to riot again, or encouraging anarchy and chaos on our streets.
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It seems as if the Democrats no longer view the government's job as protecting honest citizens
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from criminals, but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens.
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Not a single person in the out-of-control mob you saw at our house was charged with a crime.
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This was one of, if not the most effective speech during the whole convention.
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You saw the woman, she goes, listen, when you become a national viral sort of superstar
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Some of them were giving you advice on how to hold a gun because people were making fun
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of them for brandishing their weapons all over the place.
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It contained a legitimate warning for what's going on right now, and it focused on the leftist
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He says, the marauding criminals who broke onto my property weren't thrown in jail.
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You know who they're threatening to throw in jail?
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And by the way, if they're threatening to throw me in jail, they're threatening to throw you
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A more cautious convention would not have had them speak because they're just regular
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They're just people who are, we only know their names because the mob, both in the literal
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physical mob and then the online mob came for them one day.
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And by the way, that doesn't mean a certain class of people or a certain race of people.
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It's actually part of why they were targeted in the first place by the mob.
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We can all identify with the McCloskeys because they're not known for their wealth.
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What they're known for is the mob coming after them.
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And the RNC giving a voice to those kinds of people who feel that no one's speaking for
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them, whether they're a zillionaire or whether they're a factory worker, when they're being
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come at unjustly, that is a very effective strategy.
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You know, the Democrats learned a little bit, or the Republicans rather learned a little
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bit from the Democrats, from their convention, which was super produced.
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So the Republicans, for most of the speeches, had people just come up to a podium, give a
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But they didn't learn enough because the speeches, first of all, didn't have a crowd.
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They'd give these rousing lines and then nobody's applauding.
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And they were a little too divorced from reality.
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And they weren't speaking in many ways to the issues that we've got right now.
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We're not going to go through every single speech.
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And obviously, everybody out here is trying to do their best job.
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The Republicans are trying to go out there and win the election.
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So I want to just focus on people that you might not have heard.
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He's another guy you probably haven't heard of.
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And he speaks about his experience, his perspective from outside of America, then looking into
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I'm speaking to you today because President Trump may not always be politically correct.
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A friend, a friend, a most important, our elected commander-in-chief who puts America first.
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Keep in mind, the other guy running for president is mostly concerned about power.
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I'm speaking to you today because I have seen people like this before.
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And I am here to tell you, we cannot let them take over our country.
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He's referring to these people who are now openly campaigning in the name of Marxism.
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Even though we thought they were just liberals.
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But many of them now are openly campaigning in the name of Marxism and in the name of Marxists.
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We all like to see our kind of favorite political celebrities.
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When he says that the Democrats are running to get more power, in a way, this is like a truism, right?
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Because people run for office to have power to do things.
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But he says, but they're not interested in using power for the benefit of all Americans.
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Whether you think Trump is good at using power or not, it seems clear to me he is exercising power for all Americans.
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One of the few themes he comes back to again and again is, we all bleed the same blood of patriots.
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We all need to be able to speak our minds in public because it's the only way we can have self-government.
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They say, black people can never get ahead in America.
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Some of the politicians, and I say, by the way, only some are still calling for people remaining peaceful.
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Do you remember when Chris Cuomo, Fredo Cuomo on CNN, said, show me where it says that assemblies have to be peaceful?
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You say, well, it's in the Constitution, first of all.
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But even openly on CNN saying, yeah, maybe you can be violent.
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Hillary Clinton saying, you can't be civil with people who disagree with you.
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Maxine Waters saying, go mob Republicans where you see them, wherever you see them in the streets.
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When we win, we're going to be good for our people and bad for your people, Republicans.
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You don't, this is not an issue where the two sides are equal here.
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This is an issue where one side says they want to help all Americans.
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The other side said they only want to help, they only want to help Democrats.
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They've got all these cockamamie conspiracy theories about the post office.
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Democrats who are trying to steal the election through widespread mail-in ballots are now
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saying that Republicans are trying to steal the election by defunding the post office that
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The postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, just came out, tried to pour some water on these
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As part of this conversation, there are many inaccuracies about my actions that I wish to
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First, I did not direct the removal of blue collection boxes or the removal of mail processing
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Second, I did not direct the cutback on hours at any of our post offices.
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And finally, I did not direct the elimination or any cutback in overtime.
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I did, however, suspend these practices to remove any misperceptions about our commitment to
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Any further assertions by the media or elected officials is furthering a false narrative to
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They're going to, I don't think that they're pushing conspiracy theories because they think
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I don't think they're pushing conspiracy theories because they even know that they're false.
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I think they're pushing conspiracy theories because they just don't care.
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And they're more than willing to burn down the country or threaten to burn down our body
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But what do we call this kind of violence against, metaphorical violence against our
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political system and literal violence in the streets?
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You always hear senseless violence whenever it suits a narrative.
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Right now, let's take it all the way to the religious level.
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We always quote Henry Cardinal Manning on this show who said that at bottom all conflict
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Right now throughout the West, churches are being burned down.
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Right now on earth, Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world.
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Right now, people are being attacked at churches.
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Philly Police Department is trying to find a woman who hit a female lector in the face
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during a Sunday morning Novus Ordo Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and
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Someone comes up and socks the woman in the face.
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During the 11 a.m. mass, which was broadcast live via my Facebook page and Archdiocese and
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Vimeo channel, a senseless act of aggression took place.
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One of the lectors was punched by someone in the congregation as she left the altar.
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The people who are perpetrating this violence are trying to bring about senselessness.
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They're trying to bring about a politics, a culture, and a religious world in which we
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can't debate anything, where language itself is taken from us, where we can't refer to objective
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reality, where there is said to be no such thing as objective truth, only your truth and
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my truth and my feelings and my oppression and my passions that I'm going to vent by burning
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They're trying to affect senselessness, but the way in which they're trying to do that is highly
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They know that they cannot win in a traditional debate, in a traditional discussion, in traditional
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We should be highly sensitive to that plan, to that tactic.
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That is a real strategy, and unless we wake up to the logic of that strategy, we're going
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to lose logic and reason and sensible political debate, and then we're going to lose our self-government.
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It's only going to get worse until November 3rd.
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