Gavin McInnes talks about what it's like to be a dad to a kid who thinks he's possessed by Satan and how to deal with it. He also talks about how to get your kids off their phones and what to do about it.
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00:00:19.000From New York, it's Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes.
00:00:25.000Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes You're everlasting summon, you can see it fading fast.
00:00:33.000So you grab a piece of something that can I'm working with someone named Ricky.
00:00:42.000And I don't know if you've ever done that before, but it puts the song Ricky Don't Lose My Number in Your Head by Steely Dan.
00:00:50.000And then to get it out of your head, you try something that Harmar Superstar taught me, which is you listen to Electric Avenue by Eddie Grant.
00:01:01.000We're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue.
00:02:50.000Now, they were probably calling their loved ones, but take a note next time you're walking around the city, and you'll notice that people, they just see it.
00:04:00.000I don't know, we'll burn candles and stuff.
00:04:02.000You know, Damien only killed a couple people.
00:04:05.000And they're mostly people who are messing with him besides that one nanny.
00:04:09.000So having your kid possessed by Satan isn't so bad.
00:04:12.000But yesterday, they were playing, my two boys were playing wiffle ball, and my eldest boy was mean to the four-year-old and said, you know what, you're a stupid idiot, and ran inside and said, I'm not playing baseball with him anymore.
00:05:16.000The four-year-old has just started randomly pounding the nine-year-old, punching him in the face.
00:05:21.000So the nine-year-old starts punching him back, and those are big punches, a nine-year-old fist in your four-year-old face.
00:05:28.000And so I'm outraged, and I grab the four-year-old and I wrestle him, and then I calm them both down, and my wife gives up, and I handle the little one.
00:05:38.000It was like, again, I'm a corrections officer.
00:05:40.000I had to wrestle him and hold him down, and we have a clapper that turns off the light.
00:05:46.000He's banging his hockey stick on his bunk bed so hard that it turns out the light and then on the light and then off the light because it's going as it bangs on the holding him down.
00:09:27.000And he put out a call to arms on his Twitter, and he said, send me your stupidest tweets.
00:09:32.000And I know we're looking at a lot of kids and stuff, but it's disturbing that these tweets we're going to look at, Bunty and I, it's disturbing how common they are in mainstream vernacular.
00:09:42.000So we're about to see the dumbest people in Western society.
00:09:46.000And what's going to be shocking about it is not that they say dumb things, but that these dumb things have been mainstreamified.
00:09:54.000And of course, I have to mention the cover of the post today, so you know this is daily.
00:09:58.000In the hot seat, de Blasio, who the post just keeps ragging on, and I keep loving it because he's a gigantic socialist, literally and figuratively.
00:10:06.000And we've got bums everywhere in New York.
00:10:08.000There, now I justified making the title of the show In the Hot Seat.
00:12:39.000You showed how dumb journalists are for constantly referring to tweets as facts.
00:12:46.000Yeah, well, I mean, that happens all the time.
00:12:48.000And I guess I feel some of us make that mistake sometimes where we see someone that we like say something, and then we're like, ah, he said that.
00:12:55.000It's just that confirmation bias that happens.
00:12:58.000I first noticed this when Miss Universe or Miss America was Muslim or Indian or I don't know, she had some sort of hijab on, and it said massive backlash against Miss Universe.
00:13:10.000And then you looked up the backlash, and the journalist had clearly just written backlash first and then gone to Twitter to justify it and found like a bunch of dumb 16-year-old girls with four followers and went, see, it's a trend.
00:13:25.000That's something that a journalist would do.
00:13:26.000That's a yellow belly press right there.
00:13:30.000Okay, so let's just really check into how dumb Twitter is and how you really get a swath of every person in the Western world, including the worst people in the Western world.
00:13:43.000But this one, I'm starting off with a weird one here because I think I might agree with it.
00:13:48.000So she goes, George W. Bush just used the words white supremacy in calling out the racism of Trump in a nationally televised speech, which is supposed to be a good thing.
00:13:56.000And then Rebecca Pierce goes, a million dead Iraqis don't give a bad word.
00:14:02.000Honestly, I would say that it's, I mean, she is right.
00:14:07.000But at the same time, I mean, it just goes to show that you'll never please anyone.
00:14:11.000Like, once you make a mistake in the eyes of the public and you made this error, because they don't have human contact with you and they haven't been able to see your development, they stick to that one thing.
00:14:23.000So she's just bitter about the Iraq war.
00:14:26.000I don't think, oh, I mean, I'm not bitter about the Iraq war.
00:15:24.000Rapes are due to hypersexual culture that exists in the West and objectification of women, hence low rape stats in countries like Saudi or Iran.
00:15:37.000Man, it's, you know, it's really easy to have low rape stats when your women are silenced.
00:16:16.000I mean, I mean, doesn't Iran, doesn't Iran do something crazy like offer a there people framed it like some progressive journalists framed it as they offer sex changes to trans people and but the reality is that they don't offer them they offer to people if you're gay they like force you to turn into a woman that's something that they do yeah in other words modern liberals here in America are on the same page as the homophobic extremists in Iran they go you can't be gay but you can be a woman I think
00:16:47.000I think I saw one of these Iranian government officials talk some smack about Donald Trump at the UN.
00:16:58.000And he was like, Donald Trump's words belong in the Middle Ages.
00:17:03.000It's like, dude, how backwards is your society?
00:17:34.000The thing about Tariq Nasheed, though, is you start out laughing and then it's sort of like when you find out that someone was in a brutal car accident and you're making fun of them.
00:17:43.000You go, oh, wait a minute, this is getting cruel.
00:17:45.000Now I'm making fun of someone who's mentally handicapped.
00:17:48.000no totally totally it's uh and also it's kind of scary because he has influence over a lot of people even though he doesn't get a lot of engagement on twitter and uh that's his prime like i would say that's his primary social platform he's still he's i see i just posted a photo of him in some theater at uk showing off one of his propaganda films so all right white cops in the u.s are allowed to execute unarmed black people on film and plant evidence on them but mugabe is the human rights man he's such an idiot
00:18:19.000Let's take all the cases of cops and black people being killed.
00:18:26.000Let's take 100% of them and say 100% of the time the cops were guilty.
00:18:30.000That still doesn't hold a candle to Mugabe's slaughters.
00:18:47.000Mugabe said, while you're confiscating these Rhodesian farms, and we're making this place Zimbabwe, I will not prosecute those who murder these farmers.
00:18:56.000I refuse to, because they're just taking back their land.
00:19:00.000Meanwhile, the farms just rotted, because no one knew how to run a tobacco farm, because they killed all the guys in charge, including the black employees who worked in the farm.
00:19:09.000That doesn't sound like goodwill to me.
00:19:21.000this is a fun one spookini i will always call my black women students first other poc by the way every time i see p oc i read p os it's an unfortunate acronym isn't it well i mean it's an acronym that i hate using but i use it because of twitter because it cuts it cuts down color i like saying colored people i'm the guy that's still saying colored people you know yeah you're right minorities takes forever to type out uh other poc gets second tier to second tier priority, WW come next.
00:20:19.000You were just ahead of us one, but you still had the women in the front.
00:20:22.000And because of this bizarre imbalance, women, they get up and they have to talk to the professor and they have nothing to say.
00:20:31.000And this is really the origin of the word like, because they would go, I just felt that like Heathcliff was like really attracted to Catherine or not.
00:20:44.000And the professor would go, yes, good girl, good girl.
00:20:48.000You said this happened to you in college?
00:24:36.000Do you sort of like set it up, get everyone white, you make sure everything's good and you go, all right, guys, I think my work is done here.
00:24:43.000I'm going to get on the boat and head back to India.
00:24:56.000The way he would accuse me is that I was tap dancing for white people because I'm saying all the things that white people would like to hear.
00:25:03.000The fact that I'm not big on white hatred in the media.
00:25:06.000I don't like the fact that people are talking smack about white people.
00:25:11.000Every headline, every headline is like, if you're white, how do you get rid of that toxic whiteness?
00:25:24.000That's why hijab has importance in Islam.
00:25:28.000And what's amazing about this terrible analogy is you just called women garbage.
00:25:34.000You said, if women are garbage lying on the ground like discarded crap nobody wants, then you should cover them so they don't get ants on them.
00:26:39.000And it's funny, because I've heard you talk about, I know, I've heard you talk about this before, but like, it's like in the West, I could see it as a form of empowerment because women are fighting for having a hijab.
00:26:49.000I mean, listen, at the end of the day, like, a woman wants to wear a hijab, cool, cool.
00:26:54.000You know, I dated a Pakistani girl once, and, you know, she had the choice of whether she could be a hijabi or just a girl without a hijab.
00:27:00.000And she chose to be with the girl without a hijab.
00:27:03.000But she knows girls that have a hijab.
00:27:49.000The Huffington Post and all these other blogs will say, there's been a backlash or there's been this sentiment or this idea, but they don't say it's from Nin the Fulf.
00:27:57.000There'll just be like a link there and you have to click on it to see who it is.
00:29:20.000But what they do is they end up politicizing these apolitical people that, especially young men, especially young white men, they go, you know what?
00:30:29.000It's probably cheaper as the technology gets better.
00:30:32.000You know, the problem with the internet and YouTube and everything is we assumed everyone deserves a voice.
00:30:37.000And then you go on Facebook and you see all these women that just put up post after post of just like a rose and don't take life for granted.
00:30:45.000And you realize you don't deserve a voice.
00:31:31.000That's why that UVC hoax was so plentiful, because Sabrina Elderly heard that the rapists were these sort of blonde frat boys, and she went, I'm in, let's go.
00:32:24.000This is a liberal fantasy about basically murdering some Nazi who came on his campus and started beating up his black female small co-workers.
00:32:46.000The title is My Liberal White Male Rage, and then he describes the fantasy he has as he sits there in his class.
00:32:52.000By the way, you should be teaching or doing work.
00:32:54.000I don't know who's why he's stroking your beard, but he's sitting there in class looking out the window fantasizing about beating up this tough guy.
00:33:37.000For me, I've always kind of like, for me, this whole process of like these people kind of like feeling guilty about their whiteness, it's annoying a little.
00:33:48.000It's like, you don't need to protect me.
00:33:50.000And there's some people that obviously do need a little bit of help or like the nudge in the right direction, but it's so clear when there's some people that don't.
00:33:57.000But for some reason, they are projecting it as if every minority is suddenly at risk of being attacked by a Nazi, and that's not the truth.
00:34:06.000It's a uniquely white thing to constantly be questioning yourself and saying, I've never heard an Indian or a Japanese person or a Mexican talk about how horrible they are and all the terrible things they've done.
00:34:23.000And when Puerto Ricans get to meet, have a white girlfriend or something in New York, they go, wow, all you guys talk about is how much you suck.
00:34:34.000Yeah, I think it's because minorities have had such a voice in the media, and there's some obviously that are still feeling like things aren't as fair as they could be.
00:34:48.000And the people who are a little bit more sensitive to, you know, understanding like history and colonialism, they kind of take this and they're like, well, we screwed up.
00:34:59.000But the reality is that whenever I talk about colonialism with my dad or with people like Sargon of Akkad or something like that, at VidCon, I was having a conversation with him.
00:35:09.000And it comes down to, I was like, listen, colonialism was kind of shit.
00:35:13.000There was some things that happened that are bad.
00:35:15.000But at the end of the day, I'm in Canada because of colonialism.
00:36:28.000What is with these sites where you just put a random video as the visual for your article that's unrelated?
00:36:36.000And why are you so worried about toxic, violent masculinity when you have radical Islam going, hi, I'm all the bad things that you're looking for.
00:36:47.000So this is almost an advertisement for a book in an article that's related to toxic masculinity, but it has nothing to do with the article.
00:36:56.000So I almost feel, just from my whole marketers perspective, that this person cut a deal with Salon and probably has some kind of thing going on.
00:37:11.000Well, what it really is, too, is a couple spinsters, a couple cat moms talking about how bad men are for not finding them attractive anymore.
00:37:20.000That's really what it comes down to, as far as I'm concerned.
00:37:47.000I think the single greatest threat, and I'll just say to humanity at the moment is male fragility and men just not being able to process their feelings of insecurity, their feelings of anger.
00:38:01.000I mean, when men get mad, they lash out.
00:38:03.000There's not a lot of intellectual stop and think it through.
00:38:12.000It's so, what's sadder than watching a woman's eggs dry up?
00:38:16.000I mean, that woman, Amanda Marcott, on the left, won't shut up about Nazis, and she's really mad at men.
00:38:22.000Coincidentally, she lives with her cats and is a cat mom, and men aren't interested in her.
00:38:33.000You really go in on these people, and I have a hard time just going in on anyone unless I really think that they're completely insane, like Tariq Nasheed.
00:38:40.000Now, I just feel like, I feel like these women are also a byproduct of this culture that we've built up that, you know, just surrounds hating men.
00:38:49.000Like, the more we kind of hate on men and hate on white men, it ends up being this, this, like, this vicious, like you said, vicious cycle.