Ron Coleman is a well-known free speech attorney and also one of the poorest basketball players in the history of the sport. In this episode, Ron talks about the political climate in America today, God, and the deep state.
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00:01:03.000By the 80s, it was pretty clear the jig was up, that height was going to be an issue, and that wasn't the main thing we had to bring to the table.
00:01:11.000And also, like, the whole urban Brooklyn Jewish experience was becoming a suburban thing.
00:01:16.000And in the suburbs, there are other things to catch your attention.
00:01:19.000Oh, that could be a whole documentary on the death of Jewish basketball.
00:01:24.000And it'd be as interesting as Great Jewish Sports Heroes, that pamphlet they give out an airport.
00:02:33.000And it seems like every month it's even crazier.
00:02:36.000I mean, now you have political violence everywhere, smashing windows, but we also have mainstream politicians saying, let's take it to the streets.
00:02:46.000Maxime Waters said, let's take it to the streets.
00:02:48.000I think there was a guy, was it Tim Kaine?
00:02:50.000I just saw a guy recently saying, we need to take this fight to the streets.
00:02:54.000Yeah, Tim Kaine, of all guys, I mean, there's a guy, I see him walking down the street with a lead pipe.
00:03:24.000Not surprising, because they're that much more desperate.
00:03:27.000I mean, you can basically draw a chart showing Trump's, any politician's effectiveness as a conservative and plotted against the level of desperation displayed by the left.
00:03:41.000They're losing the ability to win elections.
00:03:44.000They thought they had a lock on it nonetheless by controlling the deep state and the judiciary.
00:04:13.000And the problem is that the irony is that the people we're talking about, these really soft pink, comfortable old Democrats who are encouraging radicalism, they're the first ones to get it in the back of the neck.
00:04:27.000If true radicals, if there really are true radicals, and I'm going to say true radicals, I mean there are people who are truly reckless, there are people who are truly irresponsible and violent, but they're pretty well aware that there's not a great deal of accountability for what they do in most of the urban cities, not New York pretty much, but certainly out west and in Washington.
00:04:48.000You know, you get a desk ticket, you get a slap on the wrist.
00:05:06.000Whether they're getting paid by George Soros or not, it's a fun thing to do.
00:05:09.000I'll never forget when they were doing the die-ins, the black BLM, and they showed some university kids going out at night to some demonstration.
00:05:21.000And not only were they taking selfies, but they're looking at it.
00:06:11.000I'm glad, for no other reason, this is the perfect place and format for me to tell you this great story because it happened to me twice, once in New Jersey and once in Florida.
00:09:41.000Where the Nazis, the right-wing alt-right guys, they go, oh yeah, if they're getting invaded all the time in Stehrot, why do we see no dead bodies if they're always getting bombed?
00:09:52.000Then you go there and you see there's a bomb shelter every 50 feet.
00:09:57.000The trash cans are this thick with cement.
00:09:59.000So when you go there, you see what's really going up.
00:10:02.000When I was there, I saw this animosity, and I think he hadn't quite moved the embassy to Jerusalem at that point, but all of his adult kids were dating Jews, and one of them had converted to Orthodox Judaism.
00:10:30.000Well, actually, most American Jews today are not interested in Israel.
00:10:34.000They're Jewish because their last names are Jewish.
00:10:37.000So a generation ago, they weren't religiously committed, but they were interested in the state of Israel.
00:10:42.000Now they couldn't care less about the state of Israel.
00:10:43.000It's a place to maybe vacation, probably not, because they're boycotting.
00:10:47.000They're more interested in their social standing at home and on campus than they are about any particular issue, and they're offended by nationalism, and they're probably not married to a Jew, or their children are probably not married to Jews, so they don't want to get all that into it.
00:11:07.000They're basically Unitarians with chopped liver.
00:11:11.000I think you just hit the nail on the head.
00:11:52.000It would be quite an interesting crowd, actually.
00:11:54.000But in general, though, yes, the social scene, I can only say it based on my understanding, because it's not something I've ever personally, you know, I went to an Ivy League school, but I didn't become any more Ivy League by virtue of it.
00:12:55.000A conservative comes to town and all of a sudden starts liking the experience of being part of the elite and getting invited to the right dinner parties and all of a sudden it becomes moderate.
00:13:06.000And then an article comes out in the Times of the Post that says, there's a strange new respect now for Senator X. You know, people who thought of him as a firebrander now, you mentioned George W. Bush.
00:14:38.000They talked about not building a wall, but they talked about securing our borders.
00:14:42.000I don't think either one of them ever was particularly enamored of any particular policy.
00:14:46.000I think it was all about getting into office.
00:14:49.000I think if you would have asked Hillary, if you had shaken her and woken her up from her slumber, right, at 3 in the morning 20 years ago and asked gay marriage yes or no, I think like most normal people, because I think she wasn't the Hillary that she is today, she would have given you an honest answer.
00:15:44.000The Democratic Party, I mean, they have this debate in Florida, and they ask Gillem, well, would you, if you got a detainer from ICE, would you respect?
00:16:23.000So we're the only country in the world that doesn't have borders?
00:16:27.000So they don't answer questions like that, and they're not asked by the people that they allow themselves to be exposed to.
00:16:34.000You know what else is a remarkable thing to note?
00:16:36.000If you just look at the quality of the people we're talking about, think of who represent who, look, the Senate in general is not exactly the world's greatest deliberative body, or maybe it is.
00:16:50.000But look at the people who are representing, you know, the hacks, the absolute party, you know, Kirsten Gillibrand, where did she come from?
00:17:00.000I don't know how long you've been living in New York.
00:18:15.000But they say if you have a problem with that, then that's hate.
00:18:18.000So if you don't want every company to have at least one female CEO and that enforced by the government, then you hate women because you don't want them to be CEOs.
00:19:54.000So the DNC is hurting themselves by threatening our wallets, and the GOP is helping themselves by throwing money around, not even throwing money, allowing money to prosper.
00:20:05.000Well, I mean, hopefully what we're seeing, what we're experiencing and perceiving in the news, not only in our social media silo, or even the one you got kicked out of, and I'm sure you have no idea what's going on on Twitter now.
00:20:56.000And then you realize they're not interested in any kind of compromise.
00:20:59.000So then we go, fine, we're getting Trump in.
00:21:01.000Yeah, I mean, these are historic times.
00:21:05.000I mean, this is unlike anything that, you know, politically that we've ever seen before.
00:21:10.000I mean, when you have a guy like Lindsey Graham saying, you know, I'm taking over this committee next year, the Judiciary Committee, and this is going to be pre-Kavanaugh and post-Kavanaugh.
00:21:23.000Lindsey Graham, the, I mean, he was like one of the standard punchlines that we had until 60 days ago was Lindsey Graham.
00:21:32.000And now he's been turned into a hero of the beach.
00:23:10.000So people aren't all that busy tracking.
00:23:14.000I'm not aware of anyone who I otherwise would be dealing with, other than perhaps on Facebook, which I...
00:23:27.000No more than I have been conservative.
00:23:29.000Because you've always been conservative.
00:23:30.000I've always been conservative, and I've always been outspoken.
00:23:37.000Look, I have family members who say to me, who said to me years ago, during the Reagan era, right, how could a Jewish person be a Republican?
00:23:46.000I thought it was a stupid question then.
00:23:48.000But I don't see now how a Jewish person could be a Democrat.
00:23:50.000If you identify yourself as, I mean, I understand how a Jewish person could be anything.
00:24:11.000I mean, this whole radicalization, I mean, listen, what's happening in the UK with Labor is simply a preview of where we're going with the Democrat Party.
00:24:21.000The reason they don't crack down on anti-Semitism is because their base wants anti-Semitism.
00:24:33.000These guys, listen, so there's certain who throughout history, Jews show up in a country, get comfortable, demonstrate group excellence, get wealthy, get welcomed into elite, and leave the Jewishness on the table.
00:24:53.000And you have last names hanging around, you know, and cultural preferences.
00:25:00.000They're like ginos, Jews in name only.
00:25:04.000Sometimes, well, you know, the rule is, you know, if you, at this point in history, if you meet a young person with a Jewish last name, that's the person in like a Hebrew school that you know is not Jewish.
00:25:17.000Because the father, that means they have their father's name.
00:27:45.000They have those strange fur hats and the jompers, whatever, the knee-high socks and all that stuff.
00:27:51.000And you go, how the hell did not only you maintain your culture, but maintain the exact look?
00:27:57.000I mean, it hasn't even changed in 100 years.
00:27:59.000Yeah, I mean, to some extent, it's a bit of an artifice.
00:28:01.000I mean, Hasinim in Europe didn't all look as uniform as they do now.
00:28:06.000But part of the strategy that was decided on by some very important leaders after the war was to basically develop this sort of esprit de corps and a really insular focus.
00:28:20.000You know, how are we going to survive the freedom of America?
00:28:24.000Because for Europe, until they actually start actually killing Jews in Europe, which they were doing on a regular basis, but it had the advantage of the intolerance in Europe, had the advantage of keeping Jews more or less on the farm.
00:28:46.000People who are associated with my kind of part of the modern world's Orthodox Jewish, strictly Orthodox Jewish movement, are a little bit more integrated.
00:29:00.000I'm really of two minds about it because when I lived in Quebec, it's very anti-English there.
00:29:06.000And they literally have word police who go around and they take a picture of your sign.
00:29:11.000And if it says Joe's shoes, bigger than Chausil de Joe, you get a fine.
00:29:16.000And you have to close down your company.
00:29:17.000They have big problems with McDonald's and all these other people, these chains.
00:29:22.000And you have to send your kids to French school.
00:29:24.000And, you know, you send your kids to French school, they start counting in French, these faint trends, caroms.
00:29:31.000And the next thing you know, you've got in their brains.
00:29:33.000So it's a form of thought control, all this language policing.
00:31:06.000No, no, but listen, reading, well, Unorthodox is a book with an agenda.
00:31:11.000And it's not the book Ron Coleman would write about the same community.
00:31:15.000Fact is, what's more of a threat to Hasidim isn't the guy who becomes non-religious.
00:31:21.000It's the guy who maintains that he's still being religious, but not the way they say.
00:31:27.000That's more of a threat, because then you might mistake that for the real thing, as opposed to someone who just goes and does his own thing.
00:32:17.000No, no, I believe that he was for real.
00:32:20.000I'm totally fascinated by this subject because, like, say the black community, for example.
00:32:24.000I don't like names like Shaquan and Rashida, or maybe Rashida's not bad, but You look at Michelle Obama.
00:32:32.000Her dad, south south of Chicago, handicapped guy, had those crutches that go up your arms, stuck by his family, gave her a normal name, made sure she had an education, provided for her.
00:32:50.000When you have kids with different names and they develop, you know, even here in the hood, you have a different accent.
00:32:56.000And it's this self-segregation that ends up hindering the person because they don't want On the other hand, look at the message you're sending out, right?
00:33:28.000So if you want to name your kid with an African name or a made-up African-sounding name or with some other kind of ethnic name, that's a call, right?
00:33:40.000And so in the case, for example, of Hasidim, and I think to a large extent in the black community, they are making that decision to say, we want to keep you here.
00:33:51.000But with the Hasidic community, it seems to work, and with the black community, it doesn't seem to work.
00:33:56.000Well, there are many variables besides the zip codes.
00:34:52.000These are flags, especially when you're doing, when you're hiring, you are looking for shortcuts to telling you about how dependable that person is going to be, how acculturated that person is going to be, what the person's work ethic is.
00:35:04.000And a decision was made by our judicial rulers that criteria such as those or ones like them that might align and correlate very closely with race could get you in trouble.
00:35:20.000But they're rational, as to some extent IQ testing is rational.
00:35:25.000Now, some people disagree about IQ testing, but in the free market, I should be able to be wrong about that if I want to.
00:35:35.000That's a decision that people are making, and it is a problem in our community to some extent, not so much the names, because I think because of what you're describing, there are lots of names out there.
00:35:46.000In other words, there are all kinds of names.
00:35:47.000There are a lot of Israelis and second generation Israeli immigrants who are not Jewishly observant at all, but who have funny Jewish-sounding names.
00:35:57.000And they're all over the corporate world.
00:36:00.000In my experience, I've been on panels discussing intellectual property issues with very diverse panels, with people with very diverse numbers of consonants and vowels in their names.
00:36:16.000I'm using it as a microcosm to talk about a different thing.
00:36:20.000I wish that Americans had more of the traits of Hasidic Jews or blacks, not that blacks aren't Americans, but or Quebecois.
00:36:31.000I wish your average American was more arrogant and more protecting, but there's this self-hatred that you get from, especially from the left, where they go, America was never great.
00:36:43.000They feel guilt for some reason about being heirs to prosperity and freedom.
00:36:50.000And rather than actually give away what they have or really make sacrifices, I'm not saying no one does, but the vast majority of these people who are living in Westchester, living in comfortable locations, they want to feel good about themselves.
00:37:09.000Listen, the reason, in my view, why Obama was so successful as an electoral phenomenon was that here was a black guy that people with no particular political issues, he came across as a moderate, and he came across as a black guy you could vote for, and people wanted to, most people want to feel good about themselves, and they want to reassure themselves that they're not racist.
00:37:32.000So you think he was an affirmative action president that we voted to feel better about ourselves?
00:37:37.000No one with a resume that thin would otherwise ever have gotten to be.
00:37:39.000You know, I remember when he was elected too, a relative of mine said, I was very surprised that a racist country like America would elect a black president.
00:37:47.000And I felt, on behalf of America, I felt insulted.
00:37:51.000And I went, what country do you think you're living in?
00:37:54.000But here's the thing about these isolated self-segregators.
00:39:13.000Rooting for your favorite team is very different.
00:39:15.000And Hasidic Jews, I'm just using them as an example, is a group that has isolated themselves, but they don't seem to affect anything around them.
00:39:45.000And it's diametrically opposed to the Hasidic example, where when Muslims get to 10%, they start to want to alter the entire system and change the laws.
00:40:36.000Well, you know, last time I was there, I was for Tommy's trial, and I just looked around and I thought, did you guys use up all your brave people in the war?
00:40:44.000Because there's just the sort of blue collars, the soccer hooligans, are the only ones with any balls left.
00:40:50.000The rest are happily handing over their country to grooming gangs.
00:41:37.000Maimonides explained that a person's relationship with God should fundamentally be based on gratitude, and you learn how to be have gratitude towards God by the way you should have gratitude toward your parents.
00:42:34.000It didn't go along with being, he was certainly no reactionary, far from it, but it was just a really basic understanding that patriotism wasn't something that only existed for the right wing.
00:42:48.000And the fact that there might be things to apologize in American history, and there are, obviously there are, but we're all in this together.
00:43:12.000I'm busy with building my community, contributing, doing what I can.
00:43:16.000If I can go and win a case that helps everyone, that's fantastic for me.
00:43:20.000If I win a case that just helps me pay the mortgage, that's fantastic for me too.
00:43:26.000Well, I think we're getting to the point now where a lot of immigrants come here and they see this lack of gratitude and they want to assimilate.
00:43:34.000So hating your host country is them assimilating.
00:43:37.000Like there was this group, the Halifax Five, they were called, up in Canada.
00:43:41.000And there was an anti-Canada Day thing on Canada Day.
00:43:47.000And they had F Canada stickers all over the statue of Cornwallis.
00:43:51.000And these military guys showed up and they said, what are you doing?
00:43:54.000And there was some woman who called herself Chief Grizzly Mama.
00:43:58.000And they said, get out of here, you're disgusting.
00:44:00.000And they had the Dominion flag, the flag of Canada previous to the Maple Leaf, and it's got a Union Jack on it and some other stuff.
00:44:06.000And it's what Canadians wore to battle in World War I and World War II.
00:44:10.000We only had the new one in 1979 or something.
00:44:14.000So there was a guy there, and he's an African guy, and he said, take down that flag.
00:44:18.000That flag is a flag of oppression and slavery.
00:44:22.000And I could tell by his accent, he couldn't have been here for very long.
00:44:25.000So he comes to Canada, and his first thing is, that's, I mean, he must have got it from someone.
00:44:30.000But not only that, I mean, when you talk about oppression and slavery, there's no victim group, including the Jews, that didn't have its moment of oppressing and enslaving others.
00:44:40.000World history, until just about 10 minutes ago, was about...
00:46:10.000Because you have someone like the Sarnev brothers, right?
00:46:13.000And they're in class, and their Marxist teacher goes, America sucks, America sucks, America sucks.
00:46:18.000Slavery stole from the Indians, America sucks.
00:46:20.000Then they go back to, I don't know whether they're from Chechnya, Georgia or something, and they go, and their uncles go, America sucks, it's great evil, you've got to join jihad.
00:46:29.000And then the next thing you know, they go, well, my teacher did verify that.
00:47:26.000You've got to recognize the value of a stable society.
00:47:31.000And that as a minority, a strong government and the rule of law are your best friend.
00:47:39.000Because once that comes to an end, once you have mob rule, the only way that undermining social order is beneficial to a minority is if they intend to not be a minority for very long.
00:47:52.000And if they are numerically a minority now, that process of not being a minority might not be very pretty.
00:48:00.000So you're saying when the team So the fact that the DNC is pushing mob rule and we're in it, I mean, we're seeing windows smashed all the time.
00:48:52.000And I do think that there is a school of thought in those circles that if it's true that what Coleman says and what a lot of other people say, that there's no way out, we will go down the radical path.
00:49:05.000And it might not be so good for me personally, but I would rather bring down the whole thing.