Louder with Crowder - #679 #BlackLivesMatter BURNS MINNEAPOLIS! | Dinesh D'Souza Guests | Louder with Crowder

00:00:00.000 America first!

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00:00:03.000 We want to build a much better, believable people.

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00:00:13.000 America first!

00:00:14.000 To lead it by an A. Insiders fighting for insiders.

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00:00:30.000 Check us first!

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00:00:36.000 Now it's time for new believable people.

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00:00:43.000 If we don't control insiders, this will be over and over.

00:00:48.000 To lead it by an A. Big, fat, love, find common ground.

00:00:53.000 To halt the spread of lies.

00:00:55.000 And we must do it.

00:00:56.000 Big, fat, love, find common ground.

00:01:00.000 To halt the spread of lies And aid

00:01:04.000 America first!

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00:01:10.000 We want to build a much better, believable people.

00:01:14.000 And we must do it non-fatal.

00:01:17.000 Communication very much higher.

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00:01:23.000 Insiders fighting for insiders.

00:01:25.000 Time to stop.

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00:01:29.000 More of.

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00:05:16.000 Not COVID-related.

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00:06:07.000 ♪ Papa!

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00:06:38.000 And Betty! 1.00

00:06:39.000 Samson, I just don't understand why you won't tell me what would make you as weak as any other man.

00:06:50.000 What?

00:06:51.000 What?

00:06:52.000 I repeat, what?

00:06:53.000 Is that a... Of course not!

00:06:54.000 Why would I tell you that?

00:06:56.000 Oh, you don't trust me?

00:06:57.000 Is that it?

00:06:57.000 Is that a serious question?

00:06:59.000 Is that a serious question?

00:07:00.000 Of course I don't trust you!

00:07:02.000 The last time we went out for Drink Tuesday and Happy Hour, You said, hey, what would make you as weak as any other man? 0.94

00:07:08.000 I said, oh, I don't know.

00:07:09.000 We had a couple of daiquiris in it.

00:07:10.000 Oh, you know what?

00:07:11.000 If I wake up tied in fresh ropes, lo and behold, the very next morning, tied with fresh ropes!

00:07:17.000 They still smell like new ropes! 0.79

00:07:19.000 That was a sex thing, Samson. 0.95

00:07:21.000 Oh, it was a sex thing, was it? 0.51

00:07:24.000 Was it a sex thing?

00:07:25.000 Because I don't remember any sex!

00:07:27.000 As part of that thing. 0.90

00:07:28.000 But while we're on the subject, next time, what would make you as weak as any other man? 0.70

00:07:32.000 Why don't you trust me?

00:07:33.000 And I tell you, you know, if someone were to tie my hair in a weave, I would lose all my power and I'd wake up like this!

00:07:41.000 Who would love the new look?

00:07:43.000 Who would love this new look?

00:07:44.000 Who, my boy George?

00:07:46.000 No one likes this look.

00:07:47.000 Simpson, I just need you to trust me.

00:07:49.000 Oh, you need me to trust you.

00:07:50.000 Okay, now we're at the point where we talk about your needs.

00:07:53.000 Forget about my needs at all.

00:07:54.000 The strongest man in the world who's actually tasked with ensuring the bloodline of the Lord's people effectively.

00:08:01.000 Do you have any idea how hard it is? 0.74

00:08:03.000 To kill over a dozen people with the jawbone of a donkey? 0.96

00:08:07.000 No, do you know how hard it is to actually get a jawbone off a donkey? 0.99

00:08:12.000 It isn't gonna work if you don't trust me!

00:08:17.000 Okay.

00:08:20.000 Box, boundaries, no boundaries.

00:08:23.000 We need to work on this together, we're a team.

00:08:25.000 We are not each other's enemy.

00:08:28.000 My hair, okay?

00:08:30.000 That's the source of all my power.

00:08:32.000 You want me to trust you?

00:08:33.000 There it is.

00:08:34.000 I'm being vulnerable instead of angry because anger is not an emotion, it simply masks the real emotion, we know that.

00:08:38.000 that my hair were cut, I'd be as weak as any other man. 1.00

00:08:43.000 Shit. 1.00

00:08:51.000 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 0.99

00:08:54.000 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"]

00:08:59.000 Bye.

00:09:03.000 Hey, glad to be with ya!

00:09:31.000 You know what that is?

00:09:32.000 That's because I'm inspired.

00:09:33.000 I just recently, I swear, there's a silver lining with all this COVID and businesses shutting down.

00:09:37.000 There is still, in Texas, a Jazzercize studio open.

00:09:41.000 Really?

00:09:41.000 Oh, wow.

00:09:41.000 I saw it in a strip mall.

00:09:42.000 You thought it was Spirit Fingers.

00:09:44.000 No, it's still there.

00:09:45.000 So good on you, Jazzercize.

00:09:46.000 And I know that many of you are asking what the Samson sketch is.

00:09:49.000 Any enhancements?

00:09:51.000 Pure Crowder.

00:09:53.000 And it doesn't happen by accident, Cuomo!

00:09:55.000 Right?

00:09:55.000 We have that in common.

00:09:57.000 Dinesh D'Souza is going to be on the show today, which I very much enjoy him as a guest.

00:10:02.000 My half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richmond, is here.

00:10:05.000 Quarter Black Garrick, how are you, sir? 0.60

00:10:06.000 I'm very disappointed in my community.

00:10:08.000 Don't like leading it with this!

00:10:11.000 No context yet!

00:10:12.000 Just right to the register of the video!

00:10:14.000 I gotta get it off my chest!

00:10:16.000 Inappropriate.

00:10:17.000 I wish we didn't do this live to tape.

00:10:20.000 And Gerald A. is here.

00:10:21.000 What's the wine of the day?

00:10:22.000 Wine of the day is Dow Reserve Cab.

00:10:24.000 Giant etched bottle.

00:10:25.000 Oh, Dow Reserve.

00:10:26.000 By the way, rallying.

00:10:29.000 I see what you did there.

00:10:31.000 It's a horrible start to the show.

00:10:32.000 Question of the day.

00:10:33.000 Does it seem that Governor... We're going to be talking obviously about what's going on in Minneapolis.

00:10:37.000 We don't have all the info yet.

00:10:38.000 But I also want to talk about Gretchen Whitmer.

00:10:40.000 And if you think she's going to be the next AOC. 0.98

00:10:42.000 Also, if you believe that she is actually evil.

00:10:45.000 Spoiler alert.

00:10:47.000 Yeah.

00:10:49.000 But first, this is hopefully what happens when Joe Biden debates Donald Trump.

00:10:55.000 Or stop work on Rose and Bridget.

00:10:57.000 So, what does a human cost?

00:10:59.000 Now, I don't know if everyone can play that again.

00:11:01.000 Can you guys hear that?

00:11:02.000 Listen, you gotta listen.

00:11:03.000 Or stop work on Rose and Bridget.

00:11:04.000 So, what does a human cost?

00:11:07.000 Yeah!

00:11:08.000 Listen to that again.

00:11:09.000 Everyone listen to that again.

00:11:10.000 This is not edited from what I hear.

00:11:11.000 It came from the Daily Caller, so you know it's good.

00:11:13.000 Or stop work on Rose and Bridget.

00:11:14.000 So, what does a human cost?

00:11:17.000 Did that really happen?

00:11:18.000 Stay in the vase and get an exhaust fan! 1.00

00:11:20.000 Oh my goodness.

00:11:23.000 The guy on the other split-screen was like, hmm.

00:11:26.000 What was that?

00:11:26.000 I told you.

00:11:27.000 I didn't think it was real, but then I looked at that guy's face and he heard it.

00:11:30.000 Yeah, he heard it.

00:11:31.000 He could be the leader of the free world.

00:11:33.000 I told you, I don't think Joe Biden is going to debate Donald Trump in person.

00:11:38.000 Maybe on Skype, because he can have a directional lavalier mic, but he can't do a debate just for the walk.

00:11:44.000 You never know when you're going to get the walk-in farts.

00:11:47.000 We did leave the show off with farts.

00:11:50.000 I know we're going to be talking about Minneapolis and all this cruelty and all this division, so we figured that we would just sort of pave the way a little bit, throw you off the scent with Joe Biden farting.

00:12:01.000 Leading the news...

00:12:07.000 He's a Peruvian mayor, by the way.

00:12:08.000 He was caught breaking curfew to go drinking curfew with the COVID.

00:12:12.000 To avoid arrest, he actually jumped into a coffin.

00:12:16.000 He jumped into a coffin and he pretended to be dead from the coronavirus.

00:12:19.000 Wow.

00:12:20.000 I like this guy.

00:12:21.000 It didn't work.

00:12:22.000 It's creative, to be clear.

00:12:23.000 It's very creative, though.

00:12:24.000 Sir, we saw you.

00:12:26.000 Yeah, and this is why I have very little respect for Peru.

00:12:29.000 That's ethnocentric! 0.77

00:12:30.000 Okay, so it should be noted that he did though allegedly find some inspiration from a retro, and they're doing this a lot with films, a retroactively COVID-sensitive friendly re-edit of My Girl.

00:12:42.000 Let us pray in silence.

00:12:46.000 Wanna go tree climbing, Thomas J?

00:12:49.000 His face hurts.

00:12:51.000 And where is his glasses?

00:12:52.000 He can't see without his glasses.

00:12:55.000 Put his glasses on!

00:12:57.000 Put on his glasses!

00:13:01.000 By the way, the death certificate reads COVID.

00:13:03.000 Oh, yeah.

00:13:03.000 Even with the stings.

00:13:05.000 You would think it was the bee stings.

00:13:06.000 No.

00:13:06.000 Turns out he's just a centiphile.

00:13:08.000 No, no.

00:13:09.000 The bees have the COVID.

00:13:10.000 The bees have the COVID.

00:13:11.000 They did.

00:13:11.000 They spread it that way.

00:13:12.000 Just like that crappy film with Mark Wahlberg.

00:13:14.000 What was it called?

00:13:15.000 It was the bees and the wind?

00:13:16.000 I don't know.

00:13:17.000 Oh, yeah.

00:13:17.000 Happening.

00:13:18.000 Happening.

00:13:19.000 I blocked that out.

00:13:21.000 You should.

00:13:21.000 It's really bad.

00:13:23.000 Turning to science, because we are the party of science now.

00:13:26.000 Oh yeah, of course.

00:13:27.000 By the way, that is absolutely true.

00:13:28.000 There is no way, May 28th, 2020, anyone can argue for the draconian lockdowns that we have seen in this country based on science or data.

00:13:37.000 You guys are, that's it.

00:13:37.000 That's it!

00:13:38.000 You're done.

00:13:38.000 It's done.

00:13:39.000 Yours is based on emotion.

00:13:40.000 People who say we need to ease into reopening and do it in a responsible way.

00:13:44.000 That's the party.

00:13:45.000 That's the ideology of science.

00:13:46.000 That's it.

00:13:46.000 You're done.

00:13:47.000 Everyone loves the winner.

00:13:48.000 That's us.

00:13:49.000 No one likes the loser. 0.99

00:13:50.000 That's you. 0.99

00:13:51.000 Turning to science.

00:13:53.000 I'm glad you defined that.

00:13:54.000 Some women, you know, they're still whining about this. 1.00

00:13:56.000 Ah!

00:13:57.000 Texas is real!

00:13:58.000 Ah! 1.00

00:13:58.000 Shut up! 1.00

00:13:59.000 I know. 1.00

00:13:59.000 Just shut up. 1.00

00:14:00.000 I'm so done with it all. 1.00

00:14:01.000 Am I angry?

00:14:02.000 Yes.

00:14:02.000 A little bit.

00:14:05.000 So in science, some women now, they're actually using virtual reality headsets to make the process of birthing their baby more bearable. 1.00

00:14:13.000 Yeah.

00:14:13.000 Coincidentally, Gerald's wife does the same thing during sex.

00:14:16.000 Yes. 0.99

00:14:17.000 Wow.

00:14:18.000 It hurts.

00:14:19.000 Wow.

00:14:20.000 It's almost like I'm not here.

00:14:22.000 Oh.

00:14:23.000 Nope.

00:14:24.000 You know guys, jokes are supposed to be not that true.

00:14:30.000 I was told it would enhance the experience.

00:14:32.000 By the way, it is not true.

00:14:33.000 I will say this.

00:14:34.000 The only reason we rag on Joe is because he can take it.

00:14:36.000 He actually is very smart. 1.00

00:14:37.000 He's got a nice big penis. 0.99

00:14:39.000 I wouldn't say nice. 1.00

00:14:43.000 It's not fake news.

00:14:44.000 I was editorializing a little bit, but it's a judgment call and I made it.

00:14:49.000 I respect that.

00:14:51.000 Hey, whose name is...

00:14:53.000 That would be you. 1.00

00:14:54.000 I can add nice as a descriptor to Gerald's rotund penis. 1.00

00:14:59.000 You're nice for doing it. 1.00

00:15:01.000 What can I say?

00:15:02.000 This is the moment when we get labeled as fake news.

00:15:02.000 You're a good guy.

00:15:08.000 Ten Pinocchios.

00:15:09.000 They're gonna be like, see Pinocchio?

00:15:10.000 See Gerald?

00:15:11.000 Not the same size.

00:15:13.000 I think it was labeled fake news when his wife said, don't worry, happens to lots of guys.

00:15:20.000 I don't like the direction of my life right now.

00:15:24.000 Finally, we do have some sad news to get to.

00:15:27.000 And I say sad.

00:15:30.000 It's really not that sad.

00:15:31.000 Because people right now are thinking, sad?

00:15:33.000 I don't know what's happening in Minneapolis.

00:15:34.000 No, no, it's not that.

00:15:35.000 Don't worry. 0.93

00:15:36.000 It's very silly.

00:15:36.000 That's later.

00:15:37.000 It's a silly place. 0.97

00:15:40.000 An alligator, rumored to have belonged to Adolf Hitler, has died. 0.98

00:15:45.000 This comes from the Associated Press.

00:15:47.000 The zoo noted that animals are not involved in war and politics, and it is absurd to blame them for human sins.

00:15:55.000 Tell that to Adolf Gator!

00:16:01.000 Wow.

00:16:02.000 Evil.

00:16:02.000 The dimensions are perfect for the art band.

00:16:06.000 And this is the thing, too.

00:16:06.000 A lot of people don't realize this, though.

00:16:08.000 A lot of the Nazis' pets, and there's a lineage of them. 0.59

00:16:12.000 Some of them went to Argentina.

00:16:13.000 That's weird.

00:16:15.000 I don't know where else.

00:16:16.000 It's just Argentina.

00:16:17.000 But it's been an ongoing problem.

00:16:19.000 I had no idea.

00:16:20.000 And I want to be clear, what we're about to talk about, I don't want to condone it or support them in any way. 0.99

00:16:24.000 I think the Nazi pets, they need to be eradicated. 1.00

00:16:28.000 Eradicated, though? 1.00

00:16:29.000 Yeah.

00:16:30.000 How does the shoe feel on the other talon?

00:16:32.000 You are the ones.

00:16:34.000 To whom we're going to issue a final... Because they're anti-Semitic.

00:16:36.000 There has been a pandemic of anti-Semitic Nazi pets that have gone out and created a whole new genetic lineage, and it's a problem.

00:16:44.000 Which brings us to this week's 7 Plus 1.

00:16:50.000 You forgot Stefan in the chamber!

00:16:52.000 I always forget.

00:16:53.000 That's what gets you, is the one in the chamber.

00:16:55.000 This week is 7 Plus 1 of history's most notorious anti-Semitic animals.

00:17:01.000 Yeah.

00:17:01.000 Serious business.

00:17:02.000 We're steering right into it, folks.

00:17:04.000 It's an educational show, really.

00:17:06.000 It is, yes.

00:17:07.000 Again, it's been a problem.

00:17:07.000 Nature Channel and us.

00:17:08.000 It's a pandemic, not a fan.

00:17:09.000 We are all condemning these animals with a long and storied history of track record of being anti-Semitic.

00:17:16.000 Number seven, Joseph Gobbles.

00:17:19.000 That one's been a real problem.

00:17:20.000 Oh, wow. 0.90

00:17:21.000 Nazi Turkey. 0.99

00:17:22.000 Persuasive. 0.95

00:17:23.000 I wonder how the jacket's taken on.

00:17:24.000 Evil.

00:17:25.000 Number six.

00:17:26.000 That's the fashion question?

00:17:32.000 So inquisitive.

00:17:34.000 I don't know that she was anti-Semitic so much as she was an accessory. 0.97

00:17:39.000 Number six of our 7 plus 1 most anti-Semitic animals was, of course, Ava Brown Bear.

00:17:44.000 So that was a big one.

00:17:46.000 We'll never know if she was in that bunker.

00:17:49.000 Bill, half-Asian Bill Richman, give us number five. 1.00

00:17:51.000 Number five of our 7 plus 1 most anti-Semitic animals. 0.97

00:17:54.000 The Ku Klux Klan. 0.91

00:17:56.000 And if you look out, they really fly in Vs.

00:18:01.000 Wow.

00:18:01.000 So it creates a headwind to protect the other hoods from flying off.

00:18:05.000 Yeah.

00:18:05.000 If it was chickens, it would be the clu-cluck-cluck-cluck.

00:18:07.000 Yes, just the clu-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck.

00:18:09.000 And they would become President Pro Temporum of the Senate.

00:18:13.000 Of course.

00:18:14.000 A little bit of a Robert Byrd joke.

00:18:17.000 It's a genre.

00:18:18.000 Number four, and these ones, because now they've actually migrated from Asia, you know, you've heard about this, the Japanese killer hornets?

00:18:25.000 Yeah.

00:18:25.000 Now, this is a problem that we have.

00:18:27.000 Number four, the Zyklon Bs.

00:18:29.000 So that's a real... Dang.

00:18:31.000 Deadly.

00:18:31.000 Wow.

00:18:32.000 Yeah.

00:18:33.000 And number three, you know what?

00:18:34.000 I don't want you guys to have this kind of heat.

00:18:36.000 I'll just read these.

00:18:39.000 I said, you guys are going to take one.

00:18:40.000 I don't want to.

00:18:42.000 I don't want to read it up around there.

00:18:43.000 I'll read it.

00:18:44.000 I don't care.

00:18:44.000 Oh, well, this one was, this was a performing artist.

00:18:47.000 This person went viral, actually, this animal.

00:18:50.000 And a lot of people didn't really understand what was being subliminally pushed there.

00:18:53.000 So you can read us number four.

00:18:55.000 Number three, you mean?

00:18:56.000 Oh, number three, yeah.

00:18:56.000 Swastikats.

00:18:57.000 Swastikats. 0.89

00:18:58.000 Yeah, that was, that was a good one.

00:19:04.000 It was.

00:19:04.000 Wow.

00:19:05.000 You're staying on brand.

00:19:09.000 Very smart, this show.

00:19:10.000 Very smart.

00:19:11.000 I mean, no, that cat is very smart.

00:19:13.000 Because he could have been more on the nose.

00:19:16.000 But instead, he just directed people to one of the most notorious antisemites of our time in Wagner, who also happened to be musically very gifted. 0.94

00:19:22.000 But disgusting.

00:19:23.000 Separate the art from the artist. 0.98

00:19:27.000 You attract more Aryans with honey than vinegar. 1.00

00:19:34.000 Number 2 in our 7 plus 1.

00:19:37.000 Most anti-Semitic animals throughout history, and this, you know, some of them they travel in, you have the Ku Klux Klan, they travel in packs.

00:19:42.000 Right.

00:19:42.000 And then sometimes you just have, you have your lone wolves, which are, or lone wolf I should say, plural, lone wolf.

00:19:48.000 Lone wolf, it's a problem as well, so who can forget, you remember, the infamous storm front anteater.

00:19:52.000 So that's just, but he acts, he acts alone.

00:19:57.000 See this?

00:19:57.000 That means not welcome.

00:19:59.000 Is that a polar bear?

00:20:00.000 I have no idea.

00:20:01.000 It's an anteater!

00:20:03.000 Get your... you don't know.

00:20:05.000 They eat them before they can grow old.

00:20:06.000 Look, if anyone knows their animals here, it's me, alright?

00:20:09.000 Yes, very bizarre animals.

00:20:10.000 You just proved it.

00:20:12.000 And the number one most anti-Semitic animal that we could think of, of course, was the Gestapopotamus. 0.72

00:20:17.000 So that one was pretty...

00:20:19.000 That was very accurate.

00:20:21.000 It looks like we hired a hippopotamus.

00:20:23.000 That's like Archduke Ferdinand.

00:20:25.000 Why is he wearing that, like, spiked helmet?

00:20:27.000 It's like the wrong war. 0.52

00:20:28.000 Well, look.

00:20:30.000 At a certain point, you're running out of ideas.

00:20:34.000 And our plus one most anti-Semitic animals of all time is actually Congresswoman Ilhan Otter.

00:20:40.000 By the way, I know people are going to get upset and say, well, why could you make light?

00:20:54.000 How could you make light of the Nazis?

00:20:57.000 Do you understand that we're making fun of Nazis? 0.61

00:20:59.000 Do you think the SS would be flattered?

00:21:06.000 It's not always the work of the Juden, okay?

00:21:14.000 Hitler, sometimes it's just the work of incredibly immature hosts who are tired of covering COVID. 0.76

00:21:20.000 And so we figure we would throw a little salt in your wounds because we're not Nazi fans.

00:21:24.000 Not at all. 1.00

00:21:25.000 Rub it in the neck. 0.97

00:21:27.000 Rub it right in. 0.99

00:21:29.000 How mad do you think they were, the remaining Nazis, when they saw the land speed records?

00:21:35.000 Just being obliterated?

00:21:37.000 It's like, really?

00:21:38.000 Because the top 20 fastest people ever disagree.

00:21:42.000 You're not even close.

00:21:44.000 You're not even on the same track.

00:21:46.000 You're still warming up behind the blocks.

00:21:49.000 My point is, there's a strong argument that Germans are an inferior race.

00:21:53.000 Who's the winner of our trivia contest from last week?

00:21:55.000 The winner is, off the hook, I'm not going to say that username.

00:21:59.000 We're going to get right past that. 1.00

00:22:00.000 If you answer correctly, Steven Crowder's a piece of shit. 1.00

00:22:03.000 Oh, from the answer from last week. 1.00

00:22:04.000 He says that, you give him a gift.

00:22:06.000 I don't know if I would call that correct.

00:22:07.000 Correct, yeah.

00:22:09.000 Correct.

00:22:09.000 A little bit.

00:22:10.000 Accurate.

00:22:11.000 Maybe give it context.

00:22:12.000 What was the question?

00:22:12.000 I don't know what the question is.

00:22:14.000 I feel like we should be including the questions.

00:22:18.000 I don't know.

00:22:19.000 You know what's funny?

00:22:20.000 There was no question.

00:22:21.000 I don't want this to be on the next Vox Highlight Reel. 1.00

00:22:24.000 Look, even his own sidekicks are calling him a piece of shit. 0.96

00:22:31.000 Alright, let's move on here to the Black Lives Matter burning down all of Minneapolis here for people who, and it's still unfolding as this goes on today, so I want to be very clear, and we're going to get hopefully in the close to Donald Trump's executive order with social media. 0.99

00:22:47.000 Fairness.

00:22:48.000 What does that mean?

00:22:49.000 It's gonna be so fair.

00:22:52.000 Hey, excuse me.

00:22:53.000 You don't know fair.

00:22:54.000 I would never call myself the most fair.

00:22:56.000 People call me Fair Trump.

00:22:58.000 That's what they say.

00:22:59.000 They call Trump Tower Fair Towers.

00:23:03.000 Do you know what they call my steaks?

00:23:04.000 I don't know.

00:23:05.000 FAIR STEAKS.

00:23:07.000 MEDIUM FAIR.

00:23:09.000 So.

00:23:13.000 This is what sort of obviously spurred on the rioting, looting, and destroying your own neighborhood.

00:23:20.000 productive is was this and I want to warn you it's obviously very disturbing

00:23:24.000 and we're going to talk about this incident with the cop first that led to

00:23:27.000 this right because I think that's important so if you have children right

00:23:30.000 now this isn't a trigger warning it's an actual warning the following clip you

00:23:33.000 don't see anyone obviously die in this clip but it does give you an idea as to

00:23:37.000 why people are mad what I can't breathe off of it. I'm going to kill you. 0.99

00:23:47.000 I'm going to kill me right here. 1.00

00:23:56.000 I don't want to do a Covington Kids thing.

00:23:58.000 We don't have all of the facts, to be clear.

00:24:00.000 Now, there very well may be a justifiable reason for the police officer to have handcuffed him and put him on the ground first.

00:24:07.000 But that is irrelevant to what I think is totally unacceptable, in that when the guy passed out, he kept his knee on the guy's neck.

00:24:15.000 That's probably something on which you're not going to change my mind if a police officer's job is to de-escalate and keep people safe.

00:24:22.000 We don't have all the information, but what we do see, there's no acceptable justification for keeping your knee on someone's cervical spine After they're no longer moving, and they are handcuffed.

00:24:33.000 That's the most important part.

00:24:33.000 It's like, if you watch the entire video that Ms.

00:24:36.000 Fraser, the lady who took that video, who's now being harassed online, by the way, but, you know, the video itself goes on for more, I think it's a minute and a half, where he clearly passes out in the first 30 seconds of the video.

00:24:48.000 Yeah, he went limp.

00:24:48.000 I mean, if anything, but, like, look at the cop, right?

00:24:50.000 Like, look at his hand.

00:24:51.000 His hand is just, like, in his jacket, like he's about to sidle up and ask you for your phone number at a bar.

00:24:55.000 I mean, he's clearly casual about it.

00:24:57.000 What bars are you going to?

00:24:58.000 People reaching your jacket?

00:24:59.000 No, no, they put their hands in their pocket and they walk over and they're like, hey.

00:25:02.000 That's what that guy looks like.

00:25:03.000 If you really play your cards right, you might get a Kirby.

00:25:08.000 Oh my gosh.

00:25:08.000 That's Bill's bar, not mine.

00:25:10.000 That's his bar.

00:25:11.000 Right, my bar, yeah, I know.

00:25:13.000 There's no reason for, I mean, especially when somebody is handcuffed like that.

00:25:16.000 And I know police officers hear all the time, oh I can't breathe, I have to use the restroom, the cuffs are too tight.

00:25:20.000 Like I understand they hear that stuff all the time.

00:25:22.000 That does not excuse what we just saw there.

00:25:25.000 There was no threat to those officers.

00:25:27.000 And I will say this, just like obviously you cannot, you can't tar all black people by the actions of these horrible people.

00:25:34.000 Now granted that's more than one lone cop, you're talking about hundreds if not thousands and then tens of thousands of people on black Twitter, which is an interesting subculture right now. 0.59

00:25:43.000 I hate to say it, unfortunately breeds more racists when they're encouraging looting.

00:25:46.000 But again, we don't have all the facts.

00:25:48.000 It could not be less relevant as to why people are upset.

00:25:52.000 And I think that the cop is wrong in that.

00:25:53.000 And he was fired.

00:25:54.000 We don't know what the charges will be.

00:25:56.000 It's not like a Darren Wilson scenario where Mike Brown was reaching for his gun and was

00:26:00.000 punching him actively.

00:26:01.000 And there was an altercation.

00:26:02.000 It's not even like what was it?

00:26:03.000 Aubrey?

00:26:04.000 Aubrey, that just happened, where the guy wasn't under control.

00:26:08.000 He reached for the guy's gun, right?

00:26:10.000 And then the guy shot the gun.

00:26:11.000 So there's two people panicking.

00:26:13.000 This is something that I want to make.

00:26:14.000 This is why I'm against female police officers. 1.00

00:26:15.000 Let me explain here.

00:26:16.000 What you are seeing is panic.

00:26:18.000 What I want and what we need with police officers, and some do meet these qualifications, but

00:26:22.000 not all of them do, I want them to be as powerful as humanly possible so that we can see some

00:26:27.000 bridled strength.

00:26:28.000 And a lot of people, they believe these myths, these lies, like, oh, Navy SEALs or Army Rangers

00:26:33.000 or cops, they can kill you right away.

00:26:34.000 Well, first off, we don't want someone whose only option is to kill you, and most of them 0.90

00:26:38.000 can't.

00:26:39.000 Police officers get a seminar once a year.

00:26:41.000 The Hodge twins, they never fired their sidearm when they were in the Marines.

00:26:44.000 Jocko Willink has talked about this.

00:26:46.000 He wants to train up police officers so that they can actually control people and be adept in combat.

00:26:51.000 Because people often see strength as bullying.

00:26:54.000 No, bridled power is how you avoid panic.

00:26:57.000 And let's remove intent from it.

00:26:59.000 People get killed from panic all the time.

00:27:01.000 It happens all the time.

00:27:02.000 People can't control themselves.

00:27:04.000 They're not experienced, and so they panic.

00:27:06.000 A good example would be how many people here have been bitten by dogs?

00:27:09.000 I'm willing to bet that it's most likely a small dog.

00:27:11.000 I was bitten on the face by a small dog.

00:27:14.000 Betty, if she does that, she's on the nightly news, and she's helicopter flown into the euthanizing whatever place. 1.00

00:27:20.000 The euthanasia clinic.

00:27:21.000 It's a volcano.

00:27:22.000 No one gives her a chance.

00:27:23.000 It's a volcano.

00:27:26.000 But the point is, big dogs don't tend to.

00:27:29.000 Because Betty understands that she does have power. 1.00

00:27:31.000 It's bridled strength.

00:27:32.000 She's been trained.

00:27:33.000 But a small Yorkshire Terrier, what happens?

00:27:34.000 They're small and they bite.

00:27:36.000 You obviously played football at Notre Dame, right?

00:27:39.000 So you went there.

00:27:40.000 You had played high school your whole life.

00:27:42.000 You went to obviously one of the top schools in the country.

00:27:44.000 When you were on the field, did you panic and not know what to do?

00:27:46.000 No.

00:27:47.000 No, because you were experienced.

00:27:48.000 Your first football game, did you panic?

00:27:50.000 Yeah, of course.

00:27:51.000 Do you panic every time you go into a courtroom?

00:27:52.000 Nope.

00:27:53.000 Exactly.

00:27:53.000 That's the point.

00:27:54.000 But how do you expect officers who aren't regularly engaging in combat and aren't entirely sure that they can control the situation, how do you expect them to not panic?

00:28:03.000 Let's use a very specific example there.

00:28:05.000 Let's say Muhammad Ali.

00:28:06.000 We can use Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, take your pick.

00:28:08.000 If some guy in the street throws a punch at them, now, could they hurt him?

00:28:12.000 Sure.

00:28:12.000 But they could just as easily avoid the punch and keep themselves safe.

00:28:16.000 The danger is a lack of options.

00:28:19.000 Yeah, exactly. 0.99

00:28:19.000 And that's what I see there, is a cop who's trained poorly, a lack of options, and very well could be a dick. 0.99

00:28:25.000 But we don't know. 0.98

00:28:26.000 Well, I mean, that's the question.

00:28:27.000 When you look at him, he doesn't look like he's struggling.

00:28:29.000 He doesn't look like there's... And the officer, right?

00:28:32.000 The officer, you know, I'm not saying that he wasn't confused about what to do, or... I mean, clearly he was confused.

00:28:37.000 Either he was intending to cause this kind of pain and result, or he just didn't care about whether the result was happening.

00:28:43.000 Or, like we've seen a lot of times, they don't know what to do.

00:28:45.000 He goes from zero to shooting, right?

00:28:47.000 Or here, it's not even bothering to check the person you're kneeling on to figure out if it's necessary or not necessary.

00:28:54.000 Because a whole minute goes by where the guy's passed out, and yet the officer's not checking.

00:28:58.000 I don't personally think that it's a matter of whether you have a woman or a man as a cop, because there are weak men who will panic.

00:29:05.000 Like in this example, you just gotta have proper training.

00:29:08.000 Yeah, but that being said, I mean, if you look at the strongest women in the military right now, they still have to do a dead hang instead of pull-ups, because there's a difference in strength. 1.00

00:29:14.000 They don't have to.

00:29:15.000 They are allowed to.

00:29:16.000 You should just make it equal.

00:29:17.000 Most women have to. 1.00

00:29:17.000 Most women couldn't do the pull-ups. 1.00

00:29:19.000 But that's what I'm saying, most women don't, so you just make the test equal. 1.00

00:29:21.000 Yes, oh yes, exactly.

00:29:22.000 I'm saying if you can meet the test and the qualifications, then part of that test should be combat.

00:29:26.000 Part of that test should be subduing an unwilling opponent, or you don't get to be a cop!

00:29:30.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:29:30.000 You need to have the confidence to be able to do this.

00:29:32.000 And it seems like this, the cop is probably used to kneeling on suspects back when they're on the ground.

00:29:37.000 It's a great way to pin them down and to keep them from moving.

00:29:39.000 But the guy's already handcuffed.

00:29:40.000 Yeah.

00:29:41.000 This is what you do when you're trying to control a suspect.

00:29:44.000 I don't know that there, and maybe cops out there that can, I don't know that you're in much danger when somebody is lying flat on their stomach with handcuffs on.

00:29:50.000 Right.

00:29:50.000 Especially when you're in close proximity with four other officers.

00:29:53.000 Exactly.

00:29:54.000 Or three other officers, whatever the total was.

00:29:55.000 Like it just seems like a, just a gross negligence.

00:29:59.000 Can I just jump in real quick with a point?

00:30:00.000 I did not realize this because I read many, many articles about it and then watched some of the videos this morning, is that actually one of the officers that was there is Asian.

00:30:08.000 He's clearly very East Asian.

00:30:10.000 I know.

00:30:10.000 And yet all the articles say four white cops were fired for... It's easier to say that.

00:30:16.000 There's definitely something going on here where it hasn't been accurately told yet because we don't know everything.

00:30:22.000 But you are right.

00:30:22.000 And I was disappointed.

00:30:23.000 Asian cop? 0.70

00:30:24.000 Could have used a dim mock.

00:30:27.000 Pass out!

00:30:27.000 No one gets hurt!

00:30:28.000 No need danger!

00:30:30.000 So, this of course led to obviously the natural response which has been taking place. 0.99

00:30:36.000 Burning s*** down in your own neighborhood. 0.99

00:30:38.000 Here you go. 1.00

00:30:41.000 Dang.

00:30:41.000 It's a COVID suit.

00:30:46.000 Apparently she couldn't loot Bed Bath & Beyond. 0.99

00:30:49.000 Lamps.

00:30:49.000 Alright.

00:30:50.000 Let him know!

00:31:01.000 Let him know!

00:31:02.000 Yeah!

00:31:02.000 I think they hear you now.

00:31:04.000 At first they thought you were an incompetent hooligan with no respect for individual rights but you've corrected me sir. 0.85

00:31:13.000 It's disappointing. 0.94

00:31:18.000 Did we splice in some photos of Beirut?

00:31:20.000 And by the way, that was going on for a while and it only got worse from there.

00:31:24.000 life into pieces this is my last resort who have known the carriers of justice would be one Papa Roach

00:31:41.000 worse atrocities um

00:31:44.000 And by the way, I don't understand.

00:31:45.000 This has happened in Ferguson and Baltimore.

00:31:47.000 You know who's hurt the most? 0.93

00:31:49.000 Black people. 1.00

00:31:49.000 If you're going to do this, and you're wrong, and you're racist, and you hate all that, go burn down a yacht club for crying out loud. 1.00

00:31:56.000 At least that makes sense. 1.00

00:31:57.000 You don't destroy your own house and burn down businesses that employ black people. 0.98

00:32:00.000 Yeah, exactly. 0.99

00:32:01.000 They employ black people.

00:32:02.000 What about all the black people that just lost their jobs? 0.95

00:32:05.000 I burned down Target because I feel like I got a Target on my back my entire life so you can know the pain that I feel. 0.98

00:32:11.000 What?

00:32:11.000 There was a lady in there.

00:32:12.000 Oh, now I'm going to O'Reilly. 1.00

00:32:14.000 Oh, oh, oh, oh, fuck you! 1.00

00:32:18.000 Also has an auto zone on his back too. Yeah, auto zone. 1.00

00:32:21.000 Yeah.

00:32:21.000 Mobs, I guess, don't travel well. I guess that's why they just, wherever they form,

00:32:25.000 they just destroy.

00:32:25.000 And by the way, does anyone else notice, I know I'm going to sound conspiratorial,

00:32:28.000 but right before 2016, the election, that's when Black Lives Matter came up to the agenda.

00:32:32.000 We had Baltimore. Then it kind of, remember we were talking about this a few weeks ago,

00:32:35.000 like it kind of disappeared.

00:32:36.000 Yeah.

00:32:36.000 Right back. We went from impeachment, right? Russia collusion to impeachment,

00:32:40.000 and that was failed. Then we had to keep COVID as the biggest pandemic our globe has ever seen.

00:32:44.000 Yeah.

00:32:44.000 Until now, and this will probably also be included into election.

00:32:47.000 It is remarkable to me that it always seems to come up coming into election.

00:32:50.000 And I just want to know, how does this help anybody? And something I want to be clear about.

00:32:53.000 out. Cut.

00:32:54.000 To the black community, okay? 0.98

00:32:56.000 And I know I can't talk to the black community because I'm white, but you know what? 1.00

00:32:59.000 Okay, this is just me as an ignorant white guy. 0.99

00:33:01.000 There needs to be some condemnation here. 0.96

00:33:04.000 Let's compare, by the way, the reaction that we've all had here with the police officer, white or not, where we said, that's wrong.

00:33:10.000 And I also would encourage you right now, everyone watching, go to the big conservative websites.

00:33:14.000 Take your pick.

00:33:15.000 Go to Conservative Reddit.

00:33:16.000 Go to Breitbart.

00:33:17.000 Go to Huffington Post.

00:33:19.000 Go to The Right Scoop.

00:33:20.000 Go to Hot Air.

00:33:21.000 Take your pick and read the write-ups.

00:33:23.000 And see if you find them condemning that police officer.

00:33:25.000 I haven't read one that has not.

00:33:28.000 Now, go to black Twitter. 0.98

00:33:29.000 Yourself.

00:33:30.000 There are tens of thousands of people saying, this is what you get.

00:33:33.000 This is- Actively calling for- And when they ask for white people to condemn shooters who happen to be white, who, by the way, aren't doing it in the name of whiteness, we love them, sure. 0.50

00:33:40.000 No problem, we can condemn them.

00:33:42.000 These people right now, and these people, I mean the people who are burning things down and starting the hashtag AllLivesMatter slash Black Twitter, they are hijacking your entire race of people. 0.98

00:33:51.000 We need to see condemnation from leaders in the black community. 1.00

00:33:54.000 I've been watching CNN all day, and they're going, well, of course, we want it to be peaceful, but this is why.

00:33:58.000 No, there is no but, this is why.

00:34:01.000 I mean, we got checkmarks calling for this, encouraging this, saying this is a good thing, like it's altruistic or it's righteous.

00:34:07.000 This is not good.

00:34:08.000 This doesn't fix anything.

00:34:09.000 It just destroys their own stuff.

00:34:11.000 I say, don't give them federal funding to fix the city.

00:34:14.000 Just leave it.

00:34:14.000 Let it be that way.

00:34:16.000 But where am I gonna get my alternator? 0.98

00:34:18.000 I done burned down O'Reilly's, you saw that sh**?

00:34:21.000 People not getting funding because some people made a problem. 0.87

00:34:24.000 That's like saying, well, if you have a certain number of murders in your city, we're not going to fix your highways.

00:34:29.000 Why should other taxpayers pay for their city to be fixed?

00:34:33.000 Because it's not the rest of the people that did it.

00:34:36.000 I'm saying that city let this happen.

00:34:39.000 They let it happen so they shouldn't get fixed.

00:34:41.000 Well, why do you think the city let it happen?

00:34:43.000 What do you mean, how did the city let it happen?

00:34:45.000 How did the city let it happen?

00:34:46.000 You're talking to a lawyer.

00:34:48.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:34:50.000 Ask him to do math and when his brain short circuits, move on.

00:34:53.000 That's true.

00:34:54.000 Oh, yeah, I cannot do nails.

00:34:57.000 But my point is that I think that, you know, the intent of your statement, though, I think is very important, which is that we need to- Hold on!

00:35:04.000 Hold on! 0.98

00:35:05.000 It's gotta be fun.

00:35:08.000 How does that feel?

00:35:10.000 Can you hear me?

00:35:11.000 Yeah.

00:35:11.000 Wow.

00:35:12.000 I want to make sure, is my message getting across?

00:35:14.000 I picked up the message.

00:35:15.000 I get it.

00:35:15.000 Hey Toshiba.

00:35:16.000 I get it.

00:35:18.000 Just want to make sure that we're being productive.

00:35:22.000 Go ahead, continue what you're arguing.

00:35:23.000 So the point that you're making is, someone, who are we going to punish here, right?

00:35:27.000 And we need to punish the people who are actually doing wrong.

00:35:30.000 And to the extent that there was folks who were letting that happen, police officers.

00:35:32.000 And it's true that there's probably a lot of people outside of the community that came in, because that happens all the time during riots.

00:35:37.000 They'll come out, come into the place that Right. 0.97

00:35:39.000 So ultimately the question is like, okay, so in the same way that we think reparations are wrong because you're punishing people who didn't actually commit the wrong, I do think punishing the rest of the city because, you know, let's say 5,000 people were participating in that riots, right?

00:35:51.000 How about this?

00:35:52.000 I think maybe you're miscommunicating here.

00:35:55.000 No state funding at all to that city or federal.

00:35:58.000 If the city, the municipality, wants to spend it, sure.

00:36:01.000 If the taxpayers say we want to fix our city, sure.

00:36:02.000 But the rest of the people in the state shouldn't.

00:36:05.000 I can see that.

00:36:06.000 Did this happen yesterday or the day before?

00:36:10.000 It was yesterday.

00:36:11.000 Were you cryogenically frozen?

00:36:13.000 I couldn't remember if it was the day before.

00:36:15.000 Did they wheel you out from next to Walt Disney?

00:36:18.000 Pretty much.

00:36:20.000 So the cops have been fired, so immediate action was taken.

00:36:24.000 For justice to take place, you have to investigate, you have to charge people, you have to go through a process.

00:36:28.000 We haven't even gotten to day two yet to be done, right?

00:36:31.000 So I don't think that protesting like this and rioting and burning things down is ever a productive thing to do.

00:36:38.000 But if you're ever going to do it, I don't ever approve of it.

00:36:40.000 No one here supports rioting, but I feel like we're going around in circles.

00:36:43.000 No, I'm not going around in circles.

00:36:43.000 What I'm saying is, when the O.J.

00:36:45.000 verdict came out, they were protesting the end result of justice not happening in their... Sorry, not O.J., but when Rodney King was beaten.

00:36:53.000 Thank you.

00:36:54.000 They were protesting that.

00:36:55.000 Nothing has happened yet.

00:36:56.000 Right.

00:36:56.000 Nothing.

00:36:57.000 Like, this could be taken care of.

00:36:58.000 Yes.

00:36:58.000 Okay.

00:36:59.000 Well, no, they're saying it's too late because someone was killed, and I understand that, but if we're talking about a system that is stacked against you, you do need to let the system work.

00:37:08.000 Right.

00:37:08.000 And see what happens.

00:37:10.000 I understand that point, but they would say, well, one life lost is one life too many.

00:37:12.000 And we agree.

00:37:13.000 But that doesn't mean that the entire system is racist.

00:37:15.000 You could have one racist cop.

00:37:17.000 All right, well, we'll keep following this.

00:37:20.000 And I just really hope this doesn't end up into a Baltimore and Ferguson.

00:37:23.000 I really do.

00:37:23.000 And you know what?

00:37:24.000 Black Twitter, Black Twitter, and this is, we've talked, you've spent some time there on Black Twitter.

00:37:29.000 I mean, you've spent a quarter of your time on Black Twitter. 0.88

00:37:32.000 Here's what I hate. 0.93

00:37:34.000 This right now will breed more racism, guys.

00:37:37.000 It breeds more racism. 0.99

00:37:38.000 You are perpetuating, you, meaning you, not all black people, in case you're gonna try and hang me on that, and I don't really give a rat's ass at this point, you people who are doing this and looting right now and burning down Target to a crisp, you are going to create more racists. 0.99

00:37:52.000 You are perpetuating a negative stereotype that the people you hate might use to commit you, to treat you in a subhumane way, to commit acts of crime against you. Do you understand that? Black 1.00

00:38:04.000 Twitter, when you go, this is what you get, you're breeding more racists. And you 0.99

00:38:07.000 know what else you're breeding? You're breeding more division in your own

00:38:08.000 community because you're burning down your own sh**. So black people who own that auto zone 1.00

00:38:13.000 are people who live in your neighborhood. I saw that white lady stealing lamps. 1.00

00:38:16.000 Good. She loves the people.

00:38:17.000 She's not racist. We'll give her that. She's willing to participate. Those people

00:38:23.000 are going to be fed up with you if you start burning down their stuff.

00:38:25.000 This is what happens.

00:38:26.000 The hate breeds more hate, right?

00:38:27.000 What happens is, oh my gosh, this cop committed a horrible act, as far as we know thus far.

00:38:31.000 Then, what happens is someone commits another act of violence against somebody who had nothing to do with that cop.

00:38:35.000 And that person goes, what the hell?

00:38:37.000 Then they bring out their gun to make sure that their business, their place of work, is no longer attacked. 0.90

00:38:41.000 They shoot someone else.

00:38:41.000 And guess what?

00:38:42.000 Then that person's family... And then it ends up being West Side Story with Natalie Wood on a boat with Robert Wagner.

00:38:47.000 My point is, it doesn't end well.

00:38:49.000 We should know better than this!

00:38:51.000 And you can say that's racism! 0.99

00:38:52.000 Yes, it's racist to say, hey, don't abuse black people when you're a police officer, don't kill black people, and black people don't burn down your own stuff. 0.99

00:38:59.000 Please, black people in this community who are doing it, and white people don't burn down your own stuff. 0.99

00:39:02.000 Well, you know what the story is now? 0.93

00:39:03.000 The story is now the looting, right?

00:39:05.000 That's what you're seeing on all of these things.

00:39:06.000 You just distracted from the problem that we all needed to focus on by doing this.

00:39:09.000 Twitter completely forgot about his name.

00:39:11.000 Yeah.

00:39:11.000 What's his name?

00:39:12.000 It's all just riot, riot, riot, riot.

00:39:12.000 You can't see it.

00:39:14.000 Everybody forgot about it.

00:39:15.000 So much misinformation.

00:39:16.000 All right, speaking of things I don't like, I wanted to talk about this Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

00:39:22.000 Why'd I have this here?

00:39:23.000 I just cut my finger from breaking the Toshiba.

00:39:25.000 At least it should have broken a gateway.

00:39:25.000 Did you?

00:39:27.000 Is that still a thing?

00:39:29.000 No, hopefully not.

00:39:31.000 Dude, you're getting a paper cut.

00:39:32.000 That was a Dell genre slogan humor.

00:39:35.000 That guy ended up going to jail.

00:39:37.000 So Governor Whitmer, I want to know Your opinion on Governor Gretchen Whitmer, because I will say this, I can't stand her. 0.99

00:39:45.000 I think she's the next AOC. 0.98

00:39:46.000 She's just a different coat of paint.

00:39:48.000 A little older. 0.97

00:39:50.000 She is absolutely the worst governor in the country. 1.00

00:39:53.000 Very dangerous. 0.97

00:39:54.000 And I would say evil.

00:39:54.000 Very wrong.

00:39:57.000 And I mean that because she's actually stated motivations here.

00:39:59.000 I'm not falsely attributing motivations.

00:40:01.000 She has stated motivations, which to me are so disturbing.

00:40:04.000 It's almost like she's saying she's the female social justice warrior version of Donald Trump in that she says the inside parts out loud.

00:40:10.000 You're like, no, abortions are safe, legal, and rare.

00:40:13.000 Up to nine months, always!

00:40:15.000 You're like, oh my god, you're not supposed to be saying this.

00:40:17.000 Is that because I'm a woman? 0.97

00:40:18.000 No, it's because we hate you.

00:40:21.000 Let's go through the reasons why Governor Whitmer is the worst governor in the country, and I want everyone else to know, because she's obviously auditioning for VP right now. 1.00

00:40:28.000 She doesn't want to politicize the issue, she's making her decisions based on science, and Joe Biden, pick me, pick me, pick me! 0.99

00:40:34.000 Let's go through abortion first, again to go through the radical agenda that we see from Governor Gretchen Whitmer, my home state, which I don't even recognize anymore.

00:40:41.000 She actually thinks that abortion is what makes America great. 1.00

00:40:44.000 She has that hat right there, that abortion is what makes America great. 1.00

00:40:47.000 And if this were a gaffe that were made by Donald Trump on the other side of the coin, she said that abortions actually had to continue under lockdown because they were, she said, life-sustaining.

00:40:58.000 A woman's health care, her whole future, her ability to decide if and when she starts a family is not an election.

00:41:07.000 It is a fundamental to her life.

00:41:10.000 It is life-sustaining.

00:41:12.000 I didn't know that Axelrod's face could be worse without a mustache.

00:41:17.000 Like after Star Jones lost weight, you're like, oh, good for him.

00:41:23.000 I was getting mad when we played that, because we always have a watermark.

00:41:25.000 We try and give credit when we run clips.

00:41:26.000 I'm like, guys, a watermark.

00:41:28.000 Oh, the whole screen is a watermark.

00:41:30.000 It just says the Axe Files.

00:41:32.000 Life-sustaining.

00:41:33.000 So keep in mind, this is why it matters.

00:41:35.000 Context matters, kind of like the tweet questions.

00:41:37.000 Let's fix that going forward.

00:41:41.000 ELECTIVE PROCEDURES WEREN'T ALLOWED IN HOSPITALS.

00:41:44.000 Elective procedures, well she wanted abortions to be provided at will up until birth period, 0.99

00:41:48.000 pretty much that's her world view, I don't know the exact regulations in Michigan.

00:41:51.000 Elective procedures included things like knee replacements, hip replacements, serious

00:41:56.000 reconstructive surgery on your joints and ligaments. Those were elective, but abortion is life sustaining.

00:42:02.000 Which is, to be clear, she actually plays this game as governor. 1.00

00:42:06.000 It's called the antonym game, where she says something and she means the exact opposite.

00:42:11.000 Life-sustaining means murder a baby against the will.

00:42:16.000 I was trying to be more clever by saying antonyms. 0.77

00:42:19.000 But that ship has sailed along with seven plus one anti-semitic animals.

00:42:25.000 Billy, are you doing me again?

00:42:26.000 Are you trying to take my job?

00:42:27.000 I thought you were really right there. 1.00

00:42:29.000 I will say, I don't use this word that often, but I think she's a fascist bitch. 1.00

00:42:33.000 And I mean that. 1.00

00:42:34.000 Not everyone, just her.

00:42:36.000 Because before we get to the lockdowns, she outright tried to ban all vaping, by the way, in her state until a judge suspended the order. 1.00

00:42:45.000 It went to a higher court, and now I think she wants to bring it to a Supreme Court. 0.99

00:42:48.000 Really?

00:42:49.000 Like, that's the hill you want to die on?

00:42:51.000 And by the way, she still wants tobacco-flavored vapes to be available because people don't like them. 0.98

00:42:55.000 And tobacco is a flavor, by the way.

00:42:57.000 They're not extracting it from a leaf of tobacco.

00:42:59.000 They're just putting in old sock juice so that it tastes disgusting, and she doesn't want the gummy flavor to be out there because she knows people will enjoy it.

00:43:06.000 I was in Michigan, and gas stations had these empty shelves.

00:43:08.000 I said, what used to be there?

00:43:09.000 They said, oh, those were our vapes, but the governor said, so we can't have it now.

00:43:12.000 I said, so what happened?

00:43:13.000 They said, people just buy cigarettes.

00:43:15.000 We go backwards in here.

00:43:17.000 So one of the justices actually wrote one of the opinions that she was like, I have to write this.

00:43:22.000 She was like, I have no idea how the judge has tried to link vaping to COVID, but she did.

00:43:28.000 She did in her report saying, you know, she's trying to tie it to COVID-19, you know, preparedness and taking care of that long before COVID.

00:43:34.000 And now she's trying to tie in. 1.00

00:43:35.000 It's like climate change.

00:43:36.000 It's like, wait, you were trying to study the mating patterns of the Ku Klux Klan and you got no grant.

00:43:42.000 And they go, no, we're trying to study the Ku Klux Klan mating patterns in relation to COVID.

00:43:49.000 The justice actually wrote, you see this with her, if you give her an inch, she is going to try and take a mile and try to push her policies no matter what she has to do to cover it. 1.00

00:43:58.000 And I've read polls that try to say she has a 70-something percent approval rating.

00:44:03.000 Almost no governors have a 70% approval rating.

00:44:06.000 Just the smokers, the vapers alone, would bring your average down.

00:44:10.000 And the barbers now.

00:44:11.000 Isn't this something where we can find common ground?

00:44:13.000 Libertarians, people who don't even necessarily use nicotine products or vapes because you believe that people should be able to put in their own body whatever they want.

00:44:20.000 And the left because you guys love your drugs.

00:44:23.000 Shouldn't we all be able to find some kind of common ground here?

00:44:26.000 Oh, a governor shouldn't be able to ban vaping. 0.99

00:44:28.000 And by the way, there is a relation to nicotine and COVID.

00:44:30.000 They're conducting a clinical trial because it seems to actually drastically reduce your chances of having severe COVID.

00:44:35.000 Oh, really?

00:44:36.000 We're not supposed to talk about it because it'll be fact-checked on YouTube.

00:44:40.000 But no, what happens is it actually down-regulates the, I think, ACE2 receptor.

00:44:44.000 So it happened in China.

00:44:45.000 You know, it happened in China.

00:44:46.000 That's why our deaths are so low.

00:44:48.000 It's all the smoking.

00:44:49.000 They went to zero.

00:44:50.000 It's the highest percentage of smokers, I think, in China and the world.

00:44:53.000 They're one of them.

00:44:53.000 I think it might be Okinawa.

00:44:54.000 We could have to ask our resident Okinawan. 1.00

00:44:57.000 So they noticed that it's like something like 30-40% of Chinese people smoke, but it was like a very small number of COVID patients who smoked.

00:45:05.000 We're not saying smoke cigarettes!

00:45:06.000 asymptomatic. So then they said, let's find another population that smokes a

00:45:08.000 whole lot, France. And when they saw people who smoke, again, far lower than

00:45:12.000 the population, and now they're actually conducting a clinical trial or I think

00:45:16.000 it's a trial, not even a study on nicotine's effect on COVID affecting

00:45:20.000 those receptors in your lungs. And by the way, they always say, by the way,

00:45:22.000 don't smoke. We're not saying smoke cigarettes. Separate nicotine from

00:45:25.000 cigarettes.

00:45:26.000 Right.

00:45:26.000 We can do it with pot.

00:45:27.000 People tell you that it cures everything from SARS to AIDS.

00:45:30.000 Can we admit that people have smoked for a long time because there's some kind of a benefit?

00:45:35.000 And if we can remove nicotine from inhaling tar into your lungs, maybe it's something to study?

00:45:40.000 Anyway, I got off on a tangent. 0.99

00:45:41.000 I think it's just the natural social distancing caused by people who smell like shit after smoking. 1.00

00:45:46.000 Nobody wants to be around you. 1.00

00:45:48.000 That's true.

00:45:49.000 I do smoke cigars.

00:45:50.000 A couple of years ago, your dad and I were walking up and we saw some people smoking.

00:45:52.000 He goes, You guys are still smoking?

00:45:54.000 Really?

00:45:55.000 Man, I thought that was done!

00:45:58.000 Joke's on you, Governor Ban Vaping, so... Now it's back to Chesterfields, brah!

00:46:05.000 Wow.

00:46:06.000 I didn't know people still smoked anymore.

00:46:07.000 I didn't know Chesterfield was still a thing.

00:46:09.000 Ask Ronald Reagan.

00:46:09.000 He did their ads.

00:46:10.000 So, here's another thing.

00:46:11.000 We're talking about the draconian measures that have been taken.

00:46:14.000 The lockdown orders.

00:46:15.000 And they're worse than you think in Michigan.

00:46:17.000 I even just found this out because of a brilliant researcher, Reg, the beast.

00:46:20.000 I can't take credit for this.

00:46:22.000 She had, obviously, to start with, the most strict lockdown orders in the entire nation, banning the selling of furniture, paint, garden plants.

00:46:28.000 Here you go.

00:46:28.000 Big box stores will also have to close areas of the store that are dedicated to things like carpet or flooring, furniture, garden centers, plant nurseries, or paint.

00:46:40.000 Now, Trippie, some think that she has an axe to grind because Ren-A-Center was after her lucky charms! 1.00

00:46:45.000 And apparently she only has Guess Who characters from the board game signed by her.

00:46:51.000 Is your character crazy? 0.93

00:46:53.000 No, just unsightly. 0.98

00:46:56.000 It gets worse.

00:46:57.000 And by the way, don't worry, you can still buy liquor and weed in Michigan.

00:47:00.000 That was never in danger.

00:47:01.000 But forget trying to get a fern.

00:47:04.000 I know, right?

00:47:04.000 A lot of people even made the point, like, what if you grow your own food?

00:47:08.000 What if you're somebody who sustains yourself?

00:47:08.000 Right?

00:47:10.000 You can't go buy the stuff that you need for it.

00:47:11.000 What if you have a child and you need to buy a car seat?

00:47:14.000 You couldn't buy the car seat at the time.

00:47:15.000 Toss some cannabis his way.

00:47:17.000 He's not going to know the difference. 0.61

00:47:18.000 The hell does he care? 0.95

00:47:19.000 He's going to give him the munchies. 1.00

00:47:20.000 What are you talking about?

00:47:20.000 I don't know.

00:47:23.000 They always have the munchies! 1.00

00:47:24.000 I don't think that's the most negative effect we're concerned with if you're actually administering cannabis to a baby.

00:47:30.000 No, no, no, no, that's not what I... I didn't mean for the baby!

00:47:34.000 That's an alternative eating pattern! 0.95

00:47:36.000 I thought you meant for the person growing their own food.

00:47:38.000 I'm like, they don't have to be hungry, what's the matter with you?

00:47:40.000 By the way, I don't care if people want to grow their own cannabis in Michigan, it's legal, and people want to... fine!

00:47:43.000 But don't tell people they can't go to... whatever, I was about to say Bureau Angle, which is a Canadian... Nobody's gonna know.

00:47:48.000 Johnny Boy Dave knows what I'm talking about.

00:47:51.000 Every now and then I reference things, and I'm like, oh, this is America!

00:47:55.000 That's right.

00:47:55.000 But no, you're absolutely right.

00:47:56.000 So here's something else that's important. 0.83

00:47:58.000 Everyone's a hypocrite, but this is a different level, where she banned, obviously, travel to second residences. 1.00

00:48:04.000 And to keep in mind context for people who don't understand Michigan, you have people who don't make a lot of money, people who make middle class, upper middle class income, sometimes less, because they have basically shacks, cottages, that have been passed down for generations in their family. 0.90

00:48:17.000 And people don't believe it because it's like the Mediterranean being on Lake Michigan in summer.

00:48:21.000 It's so beautiful, right?

00:48:22.000 But this is a culture of Michigan.

00:48:24.000 A huge portion, I think more than anywhere else in the country, they have second homes.

00:48:27.000 And so she suspended travel for folks to their second homes, right?

00:48:31.000 Didn't apply to people who are outside of the state.

00:48:32.000 That's loophole! 0.98

00:48:36.000 Thank you, Delta.

00:48:37.000 So, her husband, though, traveled to their vacation home, 150 miles away, to support... And here's the... She said to rake leaves, and he actually used his... He said, do you know who I am?

00:48:48.000 When he was trying to get his boat taken off the dock over there in, I believe, Elk Rapids.

00:48:52.000 And he said, well, we can't take your boat off the dock because of the governor's orders there, and, you know, it's Memorial Day.

00:48:57.000 He was like, I'm the governor's husband. 0.99

00:48:59.000 Like, oh, well then, you're a big, fat p***y, and of course I'm not taking your boat out. 1.00

00:49:04.000 The guy actually said something, I think on Facebook or something like that. 1.00

00:49:07.000 He said, actually, that puts you to the back of the line.

00:49:09.000 Yeah, puts you to the back of the queue.

00:49:11.000 I'm sorry, your Boston Whaler seems to have a hole in it!

00:49:15.000 Look at that right there! 0.90

00:49:16.000 How unfortunate.

00:49:17.000 What are you doing to my boat?

00:49:18.000 I'm making it look mean by doing that.

00:49:22.000 But here's the thing.

00:49:23.000 She said, and she actually did say, she said, my husband did go up, and it was after the order had been lifted, but people were still strongly discouraged from traveling.

00:49:31.000 She said, my husband did go up just to rake leaves.

00:49:35.000 It's spring in Michigan.

00:49:37.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:49:38.000 So you were going to send your husband by himself, even though, and I can't confirm this, there were multiple cars that were there at the house, at the cottage.

00:49:46.000 He went up there by himself to rake, for an entire weekend, to rake leaves?

00:49:53.000 First off, I'm willing to assume that you have help who rakes your leaves.

00:49:56.000 Second, maybe I would buy the excuse that your husband just was trying to get away from you.

00:50:01.000 And third, there is no third.

00:50:02.000 Maybe your husband was just trying to get away from you.

00:50:03.000 I just figured that out as I was talking.

00:50:05.000 He needed a little space.

00:50:06.000 He's really the victim here.

00:50:08.000 He had a whole plan.

00:50:08.000 Yes.

00:50:09.000 He was going to go up there.

00:50:10.000 He was going to rake some leaves, take the boat out, and drown himself.

00:50:14.000 And here we are stopping his plan.

00:50:16.000 Yeah.

00:50:16.000 He just can't get away.

00:50:17.000 I mean, the guy's embarrassed.

00:50:18.000 He's also not very resourceful, because if he really wanted to drown himself, just walk into the lake and don't stop.

00:50:23.000 No, he had to get back to the leaves.

00:50:25.000 Very important.

00:50:26.000 Not the leaves, the buds, because it's spring.

00:50:28.000 If I don't get those buds, then Gretchen's going to beat me. 1.00

00:50:31.000 Regardless, is that supposed to be a prank? 0.99

00:50:33.000 That's sex hammocks. 1.00

00:50:33.000 No fun when I'm not willing. 1.00

00:50:34.000 Doesn't she know, by God.

00:50:37.000 First the boat, now this.

00:50:39.000 And here's the thing.

00:50:40.000 She responded, by the way.

00:50:43.000 And this is something to me that is so disturbing and why I want everyone... Please, if I've done nothing, share this.

00:50:49.000 Share this with everyone in Michigan.

00:50:50.000 Everyone needs to know how awful this human being is.

00:50:53.000 She responded to the criticism.

00:50:56.000 Didn't say that it wasn't correct, by the way, by playing the victim.

00:51:00.000 Effectively cancelling my own daughter's prom and graduation ceremony.

00:51:05.000 But it gets worse.

00:51:07.000 My family has had men with automatic rifles standing in view of our front window outside of our home.

00:51:14.000 We have read the vile things people have said and written in response to my stay-at-home safety order.

00:51:21.000 My daughters have seen the likeness of their mother hung from a noose in effigy.

00:51:27.000 We have weathered demonstrations that were egged on or participated in by some city Republican leaders.

00:51:33.000 I think the signer is from Twilight, the movie.

00:51:36.000 Even my neighbors have been terrorized as they tried to enjoy their Memorial Day weekend up in Antrim County.

00:51:42.000 Your houndstooth jacket is terrorizing me.

00:51:43.000 Despite the fact that I was 200 miles away.

00:51:46.000 By the way, he did the hung in Effigy.

00:51:50.000 When you sign, do you have to wince?

00:51:52.000 You really gotta get into it. Oh my gosh.

00:52:00.000 Well, you even brought this up.

00:52:02.000 The rule that she had, so you could drive from Chicago and go up to your lake house somewhere, right?

00:52:07.000 And get around that.

00:52:08.000 The point that I was making earlier about the gardening stuff too, and this, it's all of these unintended consequences.

00:52:13.000 She has no idea how these rules are actually going to affect people, but it's like, ah, this sounds like a good idea.

00:52:17.000 Let's do that.

00:52:18.000 And then, well, crap, now I want to go up to my house.

00:52:20.000 And it affects, when you couldn't go out on a boat with a motor, it affects people in fishing towns who are hundreds of miles away from her where they don't have a single active K.

00:52:27.000 Right, and this is exactly why we push back on stuff like this, because government tends to screw things up when they do things like this.

00:52:33.000 Don't interfere in people's lives as much as possible.

00:52:36.000 That is your job.

00:52:36.000 It's a general rule.

00:52:37.000 She wants us to believe that a woman living in an ivory tower as tall as hers has to rake leaves.

00:52:43.000 No, her husband has to rake leaves.

00:52:44.000 That's his punishment.

00:52:46.000 Fairly certain he lives in the tower, too.

00:52:47.000 I don't think he's very tall, but neither is she.

00:52:49.000 Either way, someone's wearing stilts.

00:52:50.000 That hammock's not going to swing itself.

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00:53:07.000 Here's the one that's most disturbing to me.

00:53:10.000 Fast fact for you.

00:53:12.000 We all know about the New York nursing homes, right?

00:53:14.000 What happened there, which affects the entire country's death toll, by the way.

00:53:17.000 Yes.

00:53:19.000 Okay, another disturbing video.

00:53:20.000 If you have children, right, take them out here.

00:53:24.000 This is, if you don't remember this, the man beating... Just cover their eyes, don't take them out.

00:53:28.000 Yeah, don't take them out like Whitmer does with her husband. 1.00

00:53:32.000 This is the man who was beating an old person in an old folks home in Michigan, in case you forgot the clip.

00:53:37.000 ...

00:53:44.000 Okay. Alright, that's enough.

00:53:46.000 Horrible, right? 0.98

00:53:47.000 And by the way, thank God, not all geriatric white people are going down, burning down the local YMCA. 0.98

00:53:55.000 They are, they just haven't gotten there yet. 0.94

00:53:56.000 It takes a little while.

00:53:59.000 I'm glad they caught that guy, by the way.

00:54:00.000 They make their voices heard, slowly, but eventually.

00:54:04.000 I know some people may be going, why was that guy there in the first place?

00:54:07.000 That was the question.

00:54:09.000 And the guy had mental health issues.

00:54:09.000 Why was he there?

00:54:12.000 Well, here's why he was there.

00:54:13.000 And I think we're going to see a trend, which I'll get to in a second.

00:54:16.000 He was there because of Whitmer's orders.

00:54:17.000 This was a governor's order.

00:54:18.000 He tested positive for COVID, and he was sent there to quarantine.

00:54:23.000 Now, I want to be clear.

00:54:23.000 Wow.

00:54:24.000 She just actually renewed on May 13th.

00:54:27.000 So she renewed her order, by the way, since we've seen these results from New York, and we know how catastrophic they are.

00:54:32.000 She renewed the order on May 15th, but it's worse than New York, forcing nursing homes to house COVID-positive patients.

00:54:40.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:54:41.000 In New York, we were taking old people who left the old folks home, went to a hospital, were sick, and sending them back in like a buzzsaw, which is terrible.

00:54:49.000 But in this case, you're taking new people who aren't old, who have no business being in an old folks home to begin with, a nursing home, and sending them in just using the nursing homes as a quarantine. 0.97

00:55:00.000 It's worse than New York, and there's no way to actually find the numbers right now on deaths in nursing homes.

00:55:05.000 I've been trying to find them.

00:55:07.000 You absolutely cannot find them right now.

00:55:09.000 The home, the infection rates, the death rates in nursing homes.

00:55:13.000 Think about that for a second.

00:55:14.000 That guy was there only, he was beating the crap out of that old guy only because he tested positive for COVID.

00:55:20.000 The governor decided that the best idea was to send young people with coronavirus into old folks' homes. 0.73

00:55:28.000 How much you want to bet they're cooking the books right now, and that's why we don't have the death rates?

00:55:31.000 That is just, I mean, I did not realize that that's why he was there.

00:55:34.000 I thought he worked for the old folks' home or something like that.

00:55:36.000 Yeah, that's not a rumor.

00:55:37.000 Maybe he tested positive or something.

00:55:38.000 He wasn't an employee.

00:55:39.000 Yeah, no.

00:55:40.000 How would he make it through the screening process?

00:55:42.000 What would you say is your biggest shortcoming? 0.99

00:55:45.000 Sometimes I beat the shit out of old people. 1.00

00:55:49.000 Welcome aboard! 0.99

00:55:50.000 But listen, that's my truth.

00:55:50.000 Thanks for coming.

00:55:54.000 But I bring y'all jello, right?

00:55:55.000 It evens out.

00:55:56.000 Well, the old folks home were given kind of, you know, they were given five grand every time that they took somebody in for this, right?

00:56:02.000 So you gave them a financial incentive to be able to do this.

00:56:05.000 And also they didn't do any inspections.

00:56:09.000 fingers. I'm a moron. Go ahead. They didn't do inspections at the nursing homes to see if they 1.00

00:56:13.000 were even capable of taking care of people. I think at the time that we had this article,

00:56:18.000 there were somewhere like 10 or 15 percent of the nursing homes had even been visited to see

00:56:21.000 if they were doing a good job. They are not geared up for this. Hospitals are. There's only so much

00:56:25.000 bandwidth that you have. And because of the politicization that's taken place around COVID

00:56:29.000 and coronavirus, despite the people trying to say, you're the folks who are anti-science. No,

00:56:32.000 no, no, no, no. We all knew no one had any problem with acknowledging and accepting that we needed

00:56:36.000 to protect the most vulnerable among us, namely old people and people who are already sick. 1.00

00:56:39.000 But because you wanted to...

00:56:40.000 you control everyone else through fear. You ignored the one place where everyone would

00:56:46.000 find common ground. I bet if you were to poll Americans and say, hey, should we send criminals,

00:56:52.000 felons into old folks' homes if they test positive, people would say, probably not. 0.89

00:56:55.000 No.

00:56:56.000 Probably not. That's probably not a good idea. And this is absolutely remarkable to me. And

00:57:02.000 I think this is something that we're going to find. And we do have to go to Dinesh D'Souza

00:57:04.000 in a second. There's no rhyme or reason.

00:57:07.000 Right now, a lot of us are trying to figure out.

00:57:08.000 We've said you cannot say that opening up states has helped with coronavirus.

00:57:11.000 Right.

00:57:12.000 But you definitively cannot say that lockdowns have helped.

00:57:15.000 So you go, hold on a second.

00:57:16.000 Florida's doing, and New York's doing badly, and then Texas is doing well.

00:57:18.000 You go, hold on.

00:57:18.000 It doesn't seem like lockdowns have that much of an effect.

00:57:20.000 Why are certain states doing better than others?

00:57:22.000 And it doesn't seem like urban areas are the only factor here, because Texas has a lot of big cities.

00:57:26.000 Here's what I think we're going to find out.

00:57:28.000 Now that we see what's happened with Cuomo, and once we get the accurate, and there should be an investigation, by the way, into these death rates and these death numbers in Michigan with old folks' homes.

00:57:36.000 I think what you're going to see is go, oh, history.

00:57:38.000 We'll look back on this and go, that's because of horrible actions from individual governors.

00:57:43.000 I think the delineating factor here is that one state said you have to take sick patients into the old folks' home.

00:57:50.000 Another state said you have to take not even old folks who are sick into the old folks' home.

00:57:54.000 And Texas said, you know what?

00:57:55.000 Wash your hands and be responsible.

00:57:57.000 Yeah.

00:57:58.000 And Florida went to the marketplace.

00:58:00.000 So it's remarkable to me.

00:58:00.000 Unreasonably.

00:58:03.000 that no one is talking about this because we should be trying to find solutions at this point.

00:58:07.000 We should be trying to look at the data and the people who accuse us of being the party of anti-science, well, Governor Whitmer, if you're science, why don't you release the data?

00:58:12.000 Why don't you give us the numbers so we can make an educated decision?

00:58:15.000 Ooh, I understand you're too busy helping your husband rake leaves and breaking out the paddle, demanding that he say, thank you, ma'am, can I have another?

00:58:21.000 She's AOC with another coat of paint.

00:58:24.000 This is what happens, by the way, when you have a professional victim become governor.

00:58:27.000 This is the scary part.

00:58:29.000 Imagine that person with the authority to be president.

00:58:32.000 Can you think of how scary that would be?

00:58:34.000 Why did you blow up Canada?

00:58:37.000 And I've gotten so much haters for having done that.

00:58:41.000 Who's going to care about Saskatchewan?

00:58:42.000 Someone sent me a mean letter that my daughter had to read. 0.93

00:58:45.000 We don't care!

00:58:47.000 How about you address the point?

00:58:49.000 How about you address the science?

00:58:50.000 How about you address the data?

00:58:51.000 How about you look out for the freedoms and liberties that are That are constitutionally insured to your citizens in the state of Michigan.

00:58:58.000 And I haven't said this about many people.

00:59:00.000 Didn't say it about Barack Obama.

00:59:01.000 Didn't say it about Hillary Clinton.

00:59:02.000 I think Barack Obama was wrong.

00:59:03.000 I think Hillary Clinton's an opportunist. 1.00

00:59:04.000 I don't think she actually believes anything. 0.98

00:59:06.000 I think Nancy Pelosi is evil. 0.99

00:59:09.000 And I think Whitmer. 0.90

00:59:10.000 With a smile.

00:59:10.000 Yeah.

00:59:10.000 I really do. I really do. When she's talking about, when you hear her talk about abortion,

00:59:15.000 when you hear her flagrantly disregard people's rights and brag about it,

00:59:18.000 with a smile, with a smile and condemn people who want to live in a free country

00:59:22.000 and recognize the America they grew up in and she condemns them and says, well, you know what?

00:59:26.000 If you do that, there's a lockdown's only going to be longer.

00:59:29.000 You think you're a mom and if your son mouths back, you're going to give him another whack with the spoon? 1.00

00:59:34.000 You don't have the authority to do that.

00:59:37.000 But this is exactly what happens when you have professional victims, the social justice warrior feminists left who get any kind of power. 1.00

00:59:47.000 How would I characterize, if I had to, Mrs. Whitmer?

00:59:53.000 If you can't say it better than Jack Nicholson, then I'm just going to let him say it.

00:59:57.000 I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.

01:00:02.000 Okay, well there you go, and we're gonna be back with Dinesh D'Souza after this.

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01:00:49.000 How many can we fit before they start to trickle out?

01:00:51.000 23, 24, 25.

01:00:51.000 You're going to be way off.

01:00:54.000 39 coffee beans in my sternum that's missing.

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01:03:39.000 Yeah, yeah.

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01:04:04.000 So, I've known him for a long time.

01:04:06.000 He's been on the show quite a bit.

01:04:07.000 You guys know him.

01:04:08.000 You love him.

01:04:08.000 Always a controversial... I don't want to say always a controversial figure, actually, because I used to read his books when I was younger.

01:04:14.000 My family, particularly my wife's Parents made her read the books.

01:04:19.000 They made her read all conservative books.

01:04:21.000 I chose to read Dinesh D'Souza.

01:04:23.000 And only recently did he become controversial to people, even though he's somewhat professorial.

01:04:30.000 He's not a bombastic guy.

01:04:32.000 He's a nice guy.

01:04:33.000 And perfect diction.

01:04:34.000 You know him.

01:04:36.000 It is at Dinesh D'Souza, where you can follow him.

01:04:36.000 Spoiler alert.

01:04:38.000 And he has a new book coming out, available, I believe, June 2nd, United States of Socialism.

01:04:43.000 Mr. D'Souza, how are you, sir?

01:04:45.000 Hey, great to be on the show.

01:04:46.000 I agree with you.

01:04:49.000 I'm an apostle of moderation, but one who's living in immoderate times.

01:04:55.000 You look angry.

01:04:55.000 Oh, there you go.

01:04:56.000 You were just so happy off air, and you got your... Is that salmon colored, that shirt?

01:05:00.000 What is that?

01:05:01.000 Is that salmon?

01:05:03.000 Well, you know, now that we're all kind of schlepping at home, I think you'll see a little more casual look than you normally see.

01:05:11.000 Okay.

01:05:14.000 I'll try to be no less philosophical, though, and serious in context.

01:05:20.000 I don't know if I would have taken Aristotle as seriously in a Tommy Hilfiger pink polo, but it works for you.

01:05:26.000 It works for you.

01:05:28.000 First off, you have the book, obviously, United States of Socialism.

01:05:30.000 That'll be available June 2nd.

01:05:33.000 I wanted to talk with you about something specific, Dinesh, because obviously, you know, you had your house arrest ankle bracelet situation.

01:05:39.000 We're very glad that you were pardoned.

01:05:41.000 But now with Mike Flynn and everything going on, I think some Americans may be in the dark a little bit as to how these wings of, whether it's the FBI, DOJ can be politicized and used as a tool, you know, political weapon.

01:05:55.000 What did you experience with that?

01:05:57.000 And do you think that it plays into it all?

01:05:59.000 You know, Mike Flynn, it was, it's where you sort of a shot across the bow being the first major name that I remember being pardoned by Donald Trump.

01:06:06.000 Well, I'll just give you an idea of how it went down in my own case.

01:06:10.000 I was literally in Central Park reading a book when a friend of mine called and said that they had been contacted by the FBI and that the FBI was I didn't have a criminal attorney.

01:06:26.000 I called a film attorney.

01:06:27.000 that they thought that they might be trying to come after me or arrest me.

01:06:34.000 So I, you know, I didn't have a criminal attorney. I called a film attorney.

01:06:39.000 I don't imagine you had a criminal attorney because you were reading a book in Central Park.

01:06:43.000 I was reading a book in Central Park and the only lawyer I dealt with was the lawyer who basically does legal work for

01:06:52.000 our films.

01:06:53.000 So I contacted him in Los Angeles, and he goes, Dinesh, this is quite serious.

01:06:58.000 Hold on.

01:06:59.000 I'll bring on my partner, who's the former district attorney for Los Angeles.

01:07:04.000 And so that guy comes on, and he reads me the riot act.

01:07:07.000 He says, basically, put down your book.

01:07:10.000 Go to your apartment, take all valuable papers that you have in your apartment, all your financial papers, anything to do with your work, your computer, any books that you think are important, and move them into storage immediately and hide the key.

01:07:25.000 Because if you are subject to an FBI raid, they will clean out your apartment.

01:07:30.000 They will put everything in boxes.

01:07:32.000 You might not see it again for months.

01:07:34.000 If you have ongoing work, it's going to be seriously disrupted.

01:07:38.000 And so I, you know, was sort of taken... I had a kind of cold shock when this occurred.

01:07:44.000 And so I went and did those things.

01:07:46.000 And that was the start of my dealings with the United States government.

01:07:50.000 The case that came to be known as United States of America vs. Dinesh D'Souza.

01:07:54.000 Yes, that's a very... it almost seems like a parody title.

01:07:57.000 Like, the man, he just won't stop reading his books.

01:07:59.000 Central Park?

01:08:00.000 Sometimes Thompson Square Park?

01:08:02.000 It never ends!

01:08:03.000 By the way, book is euphemism for crack.

01:08:05.000 We need to be very clear with the audience here, just so we... so I'm not investigated.

01:08:10.000 You know, I gotta tell you that I think that phrase, United States of America versus Dinesh D'Souza, is more chilling when you're an immigrant, because you don't feel like you have roots in this country, you don't have family here.

01:08:23.000 So this idea that you have the full force of the United States government arrayed against you is kind of terrifying.

01:08:30.000 As it turned out, there were at least a half dozen FBI agents assigned to my case.

01:08:34.000 Literally, one guy was going through all my bank statements.

01:08:37.000 Another guy was going through all my tax returns.

01:08:39.000 A third guy was reading all my books!

01:08:42.000 That's the guy I feel really sorry for, but the idea was...

01:08:47.000 They were trying to see if I had basically made some cavalier statements about campaign finance reform so they could then say to the judge, this guy violated the law because he doesn't even have any respect for the law.

01:08:58.000 So, you know, the whole idea that you've got this little army of paid stooges being directed by someone, and that's really what worried me from the beginning.

01:09:08.000 Who is giving the order here?

01:09:10.000 Who's behind this?

01:09:11.000 Well, that's my question to you, based on, you know, sort of Flynn, and I want to get your thoughts on quote-unquote Obamagate, and if you think that this could in any way be related to that, or if we're going to see anything maybe in some sort of discovery here that they could be connected, because it does seem like political opposition to Barack Obama were targeted systematically, and now seeing what happened with Flynn, I think it's a good time for Americans to pay attention, because it could happen to anyone, including Oh, sure.

01:09:39.000 I mean, my case, looking back on it, was a kind of a miniature preview of what was to come on a much bigger scale.

01:09:46.000 And in fact, when I had a meeting last November, my family did with Trump, he literally said, he goes, Dinesh, what they did to you, they're trying to do now to me.

01:09:56.000 So he saw it as an enlarged replica of a sort of deep state political hit.

01:10:03.000 So, in my case, the frontman was this Indian guy.

01:10:06.000 I kind of refer to him on Twitter as Indian Headwaiter, Preet Bharara, the former head of the Southern District of New York.

01:10:13.000 But Bharara's a stooge.

01:10:15.000 He's basically angling for Eric Holder's job.

01:10:18.000 And he was taking direction from the Holder Justice Department.

01:10:22.000 Holder, of course, being Obama's self-confessed wingman. 1.00

01:10:26.000 So, you know, it's kind of funny because I speak on campus these days and people go, well, Dinesh, you know, you keep saying that Obama was mad because you made a stupid movie. 1.00

01:10:35.000 What makes you think the President of the United States even saw your dumb movie? 0.97

01:10:38.000 And I'm like, well, the reason I think that is that right after the movie came out, it was being vilified every single day on a website that happened to be called barackobama.com. 0.96

01:10:49.000 And that's where I got the weird idea that maybe when Barack Obama wasn't entirely happy with the movie.

01:10:54.000 Dead giveaway.

01:10:55.000 Dead giveaway.

01:10:57.000 Yeah, and this is scary because I think a lot of people don't necessarily look at this as, you know, holistically, and that this is sort of the endgame and byproduct of socialism.

01:11:05.000 And we sort of see it, and this transitions into, you know, the coronavirus, COVID-19, where it's the same idea, right?

01:11:11.000 Targeting voices of dissent, in your case, finding something that you can pin on them, or with Mike Flynn, Getting them to lie, putting pressure on them by threatening their family.

01:11:21.000 We have the same thing now with people being intimidated into silence with executive orders, intense lockdown measures.

01:11:29.000 I mean, Whitmer we just talked about.

01:11:31.000 Oh my gosh, I don't want to talk about it anymore.

01:11:33.000 Let me ask you, I know you've talked about, I think you've used the term sort of sneak peek, this is a sneak peek at socialism, COVID-19.

01:11:40.000 Do you think that there's a motive to intentionally use this to sort of implement an expanded government through panic?

01:11:50.000 Well, yes.

01:11:51.000 Now, remember, for Marx, he didn't think socialism needed a panic.

01:11:54.000 He didn't think it needed even tactics.

01:11:58.000 Marx didn't even try to organize the working class because he thought that the socialist revolution would come automatically, that the working class would become so impoverished and immiserated, to use his term, that it would revolt.

01:12:10.000 Now, that's never happened from Marx's time to now anywhere in the world.

01:12:16.000 Well, it kind of did, in that the middle working class in America did revolt and elect Trump, so went the other direction, but yes.

01:12:22.000 That's exactly right.

01:12:23.000 Today a working class guy is more likely to be found in a Trump rally.

01:12:27.000 So the leftists figure out that they can't count on that proletariat. 0.81

01:12:31.000 They need new proletariats. 1.00

01:12:33.000 And so I think this is part of the reason why our socialism today is a marriage of socialism and identity politics, because there is genuine racial grievance.

01:12:42.000 So you try to get a racial proletariat, and then you try to get the women, you try to get the gays and transgenders, you try to get the illegals. 0.98

01:12:50.000 So the Democrats here are trying to cobble together a kind of multifarious coalition of presumed victim groups to produce their democratic majority.

01:13:02.000 That's why socialism has taken on a kind of new face in the United States.

01:13:05.000 I also think that's why you can't just refute it by saying it didn't work before, so it won't work now.

01:13:10.000 Because we're dealing with, in some ways, a new type of socialism.

01:13:10.000 Right.

01:13:14.000 Yeah, I think that's a good point.

01:13:15.000 And I also think it's tough to say, well, it didn't work then.

01:13:17.000 People go, well, Marx.

01:13:18.000 Or they go, well, Lenin.

01:13:19.000 Then they point to Denmark, who, by the way, they tell Bernie Sanders stuff, saying, for socialists, if you are not socialist, but they point to any sort of, you know, Scandinavian socialist countries.

01:13:28.000 And we've talked about that quite a bit.

01:13:29.000 I think the laziest argument and I appreciate you pointing that out, would just be to 0.87

01:13:32.000 say, well Karl Marx was crazy.

01:13:34.000 Sure, but there are other examples of socialism, like sometimes people even point to Canada,

01:13:39.000 where I'm from, despite the fact that the healthcare system is broken.

01:13:42.000 So there are multiple examples of socialism, and that's what you see people sort of saying

01:13:46.000 right in the media here on the left.

01:13:48.000 Like, well, people want to say it's socialism, but roads aren't socialism, firefighters aren't

01:13:52.000 socialism.

01:13:53.000 So they're trying to incorporate a little bit of a new brand.

01:13:55.000 How would you define the current brand of socialism?

01:13:59.000 And I know, listen, we're staying on socialism because that's obviously your book, United States of Socialism, but how would you say it differs today versus how people might define it in their mind?

01:14:08.000 Well, I think that the left is trying to point to the successful model of Scandinavia, but their actual model is far closer to Venezuela.

01:14:20.000 To take a single example, Venezuela has identity socialism the same way that we do.

01:14:25.000 They've outlawed Columbus Day.

01:14:28.000 Hugo Chavez, the former ruler of Venezuela, was an indigenous guy and he demonized the white people of Venezuela.

01:14:35.000 He drove out a lot of the foreign companies and foreign businesses because he claimed that they represented white supremacy.

01:14:43.000 Now, by the way, none of this occurs in Scandinavia.

01:14:46.000 You can't go to Scandinavia where every third guy is named Sven and go, you know, that guy's a rich guy.

01:14:51.000 We got to get rid of that Sven.

01:14:53.000 No, he's Sven too.

01:14:55.000 He's part of the Nordic population.

01:14:57.000 So Scandinavian socialism is all about we're all in the same boat.

01:15:01.000 You don't have this demonization of the rich.

01:15:03.000 Columbus Day is perfectly fine.

01:15:05.000 Their only complaint is that Columbus wasn't named Sven.

01:15:09.000 So what I'm getting at is that the left doesn't want to go there.

01:15:13.000 The Scandinavians also, by the way, they don't kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.

01:15:17.000 They're pretty socialist in wealth distribution, but they're not socialist in wealth creation.

01:15:23.000 And the proof of that is that they have corporate tax rates no higher than those in America.

01:15:29.000 They have no minimum wage, by and large.

01:15:31.000 They have no wealth tax.

01:15:32.000 They have no inheritance tax.

01:15:34.000 Only one Scandinavian country tried Universal Basic Income Finland and they got rid of it.

01:15:40.000 The Scandinavians do not impose the financial transaction fees that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have talked about imposing on Wall Street.

01:15:48.000 So the truth of it is that the left, and they know this deep down, they don't actually want to use the Scandinavian model.

01:15:54.000 Their model is actually the Caracas model.

01:15:57.000 I think that's a very good point, one that we've talked about in the show quite a bit, and something that really surprised me in researching the Scandinavian models is when you take Swedes and you take them out of Sweden, so Swedish-Americans or Danish-Americans, they actually have a life quality when you include, you know, average income, their quality of life regarding health and longevity, it's 50-something percent higher.

01:16:17.000 I don't know the number, I believe it was 54 percent.

01:16:19.000 of a higher quality of life on the index scale for Swedish-Americans than Swedes in Sweden,

01:16:23.000 or Danish-Americans than those in Denmark. So that was surprising to me and also brings in 1.00

01:16:28.000 this important facet of, like you said, if people come in with a culture of hard work,

01:16:34.000 with a culture of, you know, industriousness, and then they apply it in the United States,

01:16:38.000 then it's an exponential, you know, growth factor.

01:16:42.000 Okay, listen, hey, the book is, we're gonna go to a web extended here because he's just a foul-mouthed sailor, Dinesh D'Souza, when we're not on the YouTube and they're gonna ban us any second.

01:16:50.000 At Dinesh D'Souza, the book is available, right, Dinesh?

01:16:52.000 United States of Socialism, June 2nd, where can people find that?

01:16:56.000 Yeah, I mean, an easy way, if you go to my website, just DineshD'Souza.com, it links to all kinds of sites where you can get it from Walmart to Amazon to Barnes & Noble, where you can just get it the normal way through however you buy books.

01:17:09.000 It'll be out everywhere next week.

01:17:11.000 And if you go look for it on my website, it will reroute you to a scathing critique of Dinesh at BarackObama.com.

01:17:17.000 We'll be right back with the web extended for mug club members.

01:17:19.000 Ooh, that'll be nice.

01:17:20.000 Okay, so you are 28 with three codependents.

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01:17:34.000 You exercise regularly.

01:17:37.000 Not a smoker.

01:17:41.000 Are there any pre-existing conditions we should be made aware of?

01:17:46.000 No.

01:17:47.000 Not anything that comes to mind.

01:17:48.000 No.

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01:18:03.000 Thanks for watching!

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01:18:17.000 Isn't that cool?

01:18:24.000 It's...

01:18:45.000 It's...

01:18:48.000 This is not even my pipe.

01:18:49.000 It's Paul's pipe.

01:18:51.000 And you can see there's still tobacco in that pipe.

01:18:53.000 That's not my pipe!

01:18:55.000 I was trying to do like the snorkel thing with the drowning dance that Arnold did with Commando with a reed.

01:18:55.000 Months old.

01:19:03.000 Is that a reed where it's like a hollow grass?

01:19:06.000 I don't think we can do the Drowning Dance anymore.

01:19:08.000 Honestly, I think, and you guys can let me know, the thing with the Drowning Dance, and Dinesh D'Souza, there's like a 20 minute web extended, of course, for people who aren't subscribed to Mug Club.

01:19:16.000 The thing with the Drowning Dance, it feels like it's past its prime.

01:19:21.000 It's a liability physically because often someone gets hurt.

01:19:25.000 Yeah.

01:19:26.000 And I honestly don't think I'm ever going to top the Greg Louganis hitting the back of my head on the diving board and swimming with AIDS. 0.99

01:19:33.000 And I've always felt like I'm trying to hit the high water mark again with the drowning net, but it's never there.

01:19:36.000 Yeah.

01:19:37.000 It's tough.

01:19:38.000 Just out of grasp.

01:19:39.000 All right, guys.

01:19:40.000 I had another closed plan for you today, but like I said, some of this is pre-taped because I do have a missus in the emergency room, and hopefully fine.

01:19:49.000 We don't know yet, so some of the elements today are more pre-taped than usual.

01:19:54.000 Because I am a husband, but this is the current draft of the executive order.

01:20:01.000 That we have from Donald Trump on social media right now.

01:20:05.000 And it could change, though I should say that this isn't necessarily the one that's available publicly right now in the afternoon, right before the press conference when I'm taping this close.

01:20:16.000 We also have some information that is a little bit behind the scenes, so I trust it.

01:20:21.000 And I want to be clear about this.

01:20:23.000 Monday morning, so good morning, MugClip.

01:20:25.000 We are going to do an entire episode with my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman.

01:20:28.000 It'll be a Barely Legal with Bill Richman, where we will be going through the ins and outs of this, because he's a lawyer.

01:20:34.000 He is.

01:20:35.000 And I know I'm not a lawyer, that being said.

01:20:37.000 And I really, I like him.

01:20:38.000 I respect him.

01:20:39.000 I know Ben Shapiro has tweeted about this.

01:20:40.000 I think he's wrong.

01:20:41.000 And I'll explain to you why.

01:20:42.000 So for people who don't know about... And I want to be really...

01:20:46.000 You know, I'm not one for, even though we do a comedy show and it's entertainment, I don't really think I'm necessarily one for hyperbole, like people are like, our country's gone, Barack Obama.

01:20:56.000 No, but I do think that today in 2020, when you look at all of the issues that we run into, whether it's COVID, whether it's the impeachment, whether it's Russia, whether it's, we just talked about today, Twitter and the mob or how they present AOC, it really does come down to the ability of the American public to procure information.

01:21:17.000 And I think we were all really excited when new media, it's not really that new right now,

01:21:24.000 when new media came out, and I know Joe Rogan talked about this and we've talked about this,

01:21:27.000 where the gatekeepers were gone. But now there are new gatekeepers and more gatekeepers than ever.

01:21:34.000 Because the gatekeepers aren't just people in a network, but the gatekeepers now can be the town square.

01:21:39.000 The gatekeepers have moved to the sidewalk where they're telling you what you can and can't say because a lot of these companies, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, they benefit from the safe harbor protection, basically treated as a public utility.

01:21:50.000 It's a little more complicated than that.

01:21:52.000 It's like the difference between a website or a magazine or New York Times versus AT&T or Verizon.

01:21:58.000 They can't edit what you say on their phone lines, right?

01:22:02.000 Because they're a public utility versus a publisher.

01:22:03.000 New York Times can tell what you can't write for our paper, so I want to be really clear about that.

01:22:09.000 But all the problems that we've talked about, they come back to this.

01:22:12.000 They come back to the public being able to get accurate information and there being an even playing field for people regardless of political persuasion.

01:22:23.000 And I think we're at a point now where you have not only three companies or four companies, but one company, Alphabet, Google, YouTube, is more powerful as it relates to information than any national government or world governing body.

01:22:35.000 You add up, Alphabet, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, far more than any government agency you can ever imagine.

01:22:46.000 And this isn't the same kind of argument that liberals have tried to make about guns, and conservatives have said, well, the First Amendment doesn't just apply to the printing press, it applies to your iPhone.

01:22:55.000 Because again, these are companies that are benefiting from protections of being politically neutral, as though they are a digital town square.

01:23:03.000 And there's been one foot in and one foot out, and we need to settle the guidelines.

01:23:09.000 And that's what we've been talking about in this show for a very long time.

01:23:11.000 Are you a publisher?

01:23:12.000 Are you a platform?

01:23:12.000 Pick one.

01:23:13.000 We'll be talking next week.

01:23:14.000 We have some new info coming from some of these social media companies that have been affecting what we do here.

01:23:20.000 So please do subscribe.

01:23:21.000 Join Mug Club.

01:23:22.000 That's what allows us to continue.

01:23:23.000 If you don't want to, obviously you don't have to, but we don't make any money off of YouTube and we're not able to reach some of you now in new ways that we didn't know about before.

01:23:31.000 But let me tell you this.

01:23:33.000 I think this is pretty good.

01:23:35.000 I think this is pretty good from the president.

01:23:37.000 I was worried that it could be some kind of an executive order that, you know, would say something along the lines of, you're gonna let me tweet!

01:23:44.000 Don't fact check me!

01:23:44.000 Come on!

01:23:45.000 Just Garbo did it!

01:23:47.000 But, instead, I love how you mute your mics in the close, so you chuckle into the darkness.

01:23:54.000 Instead, it's something that actually is trying to create a fair and even playing field, and if read The way that it is written right now, and I'm going to read some highlights for you, would apply to both the right and the left.

01:24:04.000 Which is what we've always wanted, by the way.

01:24:06.000 I don't want a leg up.

01:24:08.000 I just want to make sure that our videos, that our tweets, are being shown alongside anybody else, regardless of our politics.

01:24:16.000 And I want the same thing for leftists.

01:24:18.000 That's why we did our video on Tulsi Gabbard and search results.

01:24:22.000 So hopefully we've been consistent.

01:24:23.000 So let me read some of this from you.

01:24:25.000 This is the Executive Order, right?

01:24:27.000 Executive Order CDA 230 is kind of the working title.

01:24:29.000 Again, at this point, it's possible that it changes.

01:24:35.000 So let me read you some highlights that I see here.

01:24:37.000 Well, I guess I should read the first line, which is, by the authority, by the authority vested in me, and I'm not going to do this the whole time, because then it'll lose its impact.

01:24:44.000 You've got to set it up, though.

01:24:45.000 I've got to set it up.

01:24:46.000 OK.

01:24:48.000 Listed.

01:24:48.000 Excuse me.

01:24:51.000 That sets the stage.

01:24:53.000 Barley was dead to begin with.

01:24:57.000 Very dead.

01:24:58.000 He was just, he was so dead.

01:24:59.000 He was unbelievably dead.

01:24:59.000 That's what they told me.

01:25:03.000 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution of the Laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, 40 U.S.C.

01:25:19.000 101 and 12... That's a lot of numbers, folks.

01:25:23.000 It is hereby ordered as follows, and there's a lot of information here regarding free speech being the bedrock of American democracy.

01:25:27.000 I encourage you to read all of this.

01:25:29.000 This, by the way, more than the Green New Deal. 0.70

01:25:33.000 One topic.

01:25:34.000 Yeah.

01:25:34.000 At least more than five.

01:25:35.000 It's not a new Al Pacino movie and social justice for all.

01:25:39.000 This is actually just about one topic, social media, and it's more than the Green New Deal.

01:25:45.000 Wow.

01:25:45.000 Nuance!

01:25:46.000 Do it!

01:25:47.000 So much!

01:25:48.000 Do it!

01:25:49.000 So, here's what stuck out at me, and again, Monday morning, 9 a.m.

01:25:55.000 or 10 a.m.

01:25:56.000 We'll be doing an entire episode, Good Morning Mug Club, Barely Legal, with Bill Richmond.

01:25:56.000 Eastern.

01:26:00.000 He's a great lawyer.

01:26:01.000 Thank God he's on our side.

01:26:03.000 Online platforms, however, are engaging in selective censorship that is hurting our national discourse.

01:26:07.000 Tens of thousands of Americans have reported, among other troubling behaviors, online platforms flagging content as inappropriate even though it does not violate any stated terms of service.

01:26:16.000 We know exactly what that is.

01:26:17.000 The rules were changed because of us on YouTube.

01:26:19.000 It was declared!

01:26:20.000 And that's so concerning, right, because we've experienced this personally.

01:26:24.000 YouTube came out and said we did not violate any rules.

01:26:26.000 The media interpreted that as though we had.

01:26:29.000 And so then YouTube felt like they had their balls in a vice, and they had to change and create new rules that we may violate, and that's what happened with the Vox Apocalypse.

01:26:38.000 This is a weird moment. 0.75

01:26:39.000 When people look back through history, Vox Apocalypse, people maybe forget, it was entirely because of me dressed as a woman in some videos and making fun of a guy who called himself a lispy queer using his own words.

01:26:53.000 That's the reason for these changes.

01:26:57.000 I just wanted to tell jokes.

01:26:59.000 Even though it does not violate any stated terms of service, making unannounced and unexplained changes to policies that have the effect of disfavoring certain viewpoints and deleting content and entire accounts with no warning, no rationale, and no recourse.

01:27:11.000 So this is again, this sort of would talk to the motive of Stopping political bias.

01:27:16.000 Later on down here it says, several online platforms are profiting from and promoting the aggression and disinformation spread by foreign governments like China. 0.60

01:27:24.000 Google for example, which is how you know he was very involved in this, because it's vague.

01:27:29.000 Several online platforms, well I don't know, who do you think it is?

01:27:32.000 I'm not going to say who it is.

01:27:33.000 Who do you think it is?

01:27:37.000 China, Google.

01:27:38.000 Then it goes right into... Google, for example, created a search engine for the Chinese Communist Party.

01:27:43.000 We just talked about that yesterday.

01:27:44.000 It's like someone's listening.

01:27:45.000 Which blacklisted searches for human rights, hid data unfavorable to the Chinese Communist Party, and tracked users determined appropriate for surveillance.

01:27:55.000 Again, this is... we're talking about the rationale behind this bill.

01:27:58.000 Stopping a foreign agent From promoting propaganda and American companies that are more powerful than the American government, mind you, being complicit in that.

01:28:08.000 That's necessary, in my opinion, legally.

01:28:11.000 If we're going to talk about Russia, you've got to be just as concerned about algorithms on YouTube auto-deleting comments that aren't racist. 0.79

01:28:19.000 These aren't comments that called someone a z*****.

01:28:22.000 These were comments that were specifically targeting the Communist Party of China that were automatically deleted.

01:28:36.000 Let's be really clear.

01:28:36.000 It's not about race.

01:28:38.000 It's not about offense.

01:28:40.000 It's about the most powerful entities in the history of mankind being complicit with one of the most evil governments throughout the history of mankind.

01:28:48.000 It's a necessary order.

01:28:51.000 Let me see.

01:28:52.000 Let me go through this.

01:28:53.000 Sorry.

01:28:54.000 A little intense with my wife in the emergency room.

01:28:57.000 Section 2.

01:28:59.000 Here's it.

01:29:00.000 Prominent among those rules is the immunity from liability created by Section 230C of the Communications Decency Act.

01:29:07.000 Section 230.

01:29:07.000 47 U.S.C.

01:29:09.000 It is a policy of the United States that the scope of immunity should be clarified.

01:29:13.000 Now, what does that mean?

01:29:14.000 We're talking about safe harbor.

01:29:15.000 Again, that goes back to Publisher or platform?

01:29:18.000 And what we've talked about when we've had people on this show, we've had lawyers, we've

01:29:20.000 had guests that said, all I want them to do is pick a lane. 0.58

01:29:24.000 Are you a publisher or are you a platform?

01:29:27.000 If you say you're a publisher, you have the right to edit whatever you want.

01:29:29.000 If you say you're a platform and your currency, by the way, as a platform is your user base

01:29:35.000 and it's predicated on the idea of a massive user base of billions of people and the only

01:29:39.000 reason they're there is because they feel that it's free and open communication, then

01:29:43.000 Then you're not the Washington Post.

01:29:44.000 Then you're not louderwithcrowder.com!

01:29:46.000 You can't make those decisions for individuals.

01:29:51.000 I'm going to keep going here because there's a lot.

01:29:53.000 It's a little wordy.

01:29:54.000 It reads like a Trump press conference.

01:29:58.000 Okay, here's a big one.

01:30:00.000 But subsection 230c, number two, qualifies that principle when the provider edits the content provided by others, subparagraph c2, specifically addresses protections from civil liability and clarifies that a provider is protected from liability when it acts in, quote, good faith to restrict access to content that are considered to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, outrageous.

01:30:19.000 No.

01:30:21.000 A little Johnny Cochran there.

01:30:22.000 Excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.

01:30:25.000 The provision does not extend to deceptive or pretextual actions restricting online content or actions inconsistent with an online platform's terms of service.

01:30:33.000 When an interactive computer service provider removes or restricts access to content and its actions do not meet the criteria of that paragraph, it is engaged in editorial conduct.

01:30:41.000 By making itself an editor of content outside of the protections of this subparagraph, we're talking about, again, Safe Harbor, we want to be clear, such a provider forfeits Any protection from being deemed a publisher or speaker which properly applies only to a provider that merely provides a platform for content supplied by others.

01:30:59.000 It is the policy of the United States that all departments and agencies should apply Section 230C according to the interpretation set out in this section.

01:31:13.000 That's important.

01:31:16.000 That's about as important as it gets.

01:31:19.000 YouTube, for how many years?

01:31:21.000 What content did you create?

01:31:23.000 Twitter?

01:31:24.000 Facebook?

01:31:24.000 I know you've got a couple series now, YouTube, like Scare PewDiePie, which you had to get rid of because he had an offensive Twitchy stream, which we'll get into in a second, it didn't even happen on the platform.

01:31:35.000 You didn't build your sites up by creating content.

01:31:38.000 You're not like, even a Netflix.

01:31:40.000 You're not like NBC, ABC, or CBS.

01:31:43.000 You're not!

01:31:45.000 You were like the Church Bulletin.

01:31:47.000 People paid a little commission to be on that bulletin, effectively, at that point.

01:31:51.000 Or to withdraw from the bulletin.

01:31:52.000 You ran some ads on the bulletin.

01:31:53.000 You ran some guy selling guitar lessons with a little phone number that you pull off on the bulletin.

01:31:58.000 That's important.

01:31:59.000 Because now you have to decide.

01:32:00.000 Do you want your entire business model, YouTube, to be your original series?

01:32:04.000 Good luck.

01:32:05.000 Or do you want to continue benefiting from the protections that not everyone, but a lot of you, have exploited?

01:32:10.000 Okay.

01:32:13.000 And again, that's really, it's clarifying the taking down in good faith and how it's an inconsistent application of the terms of service.

01:32:19.000 National Telecommunications and Information Administration, NTIA, shall file a petition for rulemaking with the Federal Communications Commission.

01:32:25.000 Communications Commission, that's, I didn't use the plural.

01:32:29.000 I was getting into character too much with looting the target.

01:32:32.000 Communication Commission!

01:32:33.000 What?

01:32:34.000 I don't like F. It's just, it's a burden.

01:32:39.000 Gotta add S's and I gotta add E-D's to what, what am I retired?

01:32:45.000 Um, so sorry.

01:32:48.000 So file a petition for rulemaking within the Federal Communications Commission requesting that the FCC expeditiously... Can we get half-Asian bills done? 1.00

01:32:58.000 Propose regulations to clarify the conditions under which an action restricting access to or availability of material is not taken in good faith.

01:33:06.000 Deceptive, pretextual, inconsistent with the provider's terms of service.

01:33:10.000 The result of inadequate notice.

01:33:12.000 That's important.

01:33:13.000 That addresses shadow banning.

01:33:16.000 In other words, let's say there's a hypothetical scenario where someone puts out a highlight reel of everything offensive that maybe you said, which I'm so glad that they used up all their powder.

01:33:26.000 Should have kept some dry.

01:33:28.000 To try and get rid of you, and it's not a violation.

01:33:32.000 But then, without properly notifying you, there are changes made to your channel algorithmically.

01:33:37.000 Or, for some reason, maybe, let's say Twitter isn't showing your tweets to people in the timeline who've chosen to follow you, despite the fact that that always used to be the case, and they haven't sent you proper notification.

01:33:47.000 In other words, if anyone out there is being treated differently on any of these platforms, and it can be verified, and you've not been notified, again, that's a problem.

01:33:58.000 I think this is necessary.

01:34:02.000 This is another one.

01:34:08.000 The head of each executive department and agency shall review its agency's federal spending and advertising and marketing paid to online platforms.

01:34:16.000 Ooh, that's a good one.

01:34:17.000 Why does that sting so much?

01:34:18.000 Because when we're talking about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russiagate, how many Democrats have been running ads on Facebook?

01:34:26.000 How many politicians?

01:34:26.000 How many people who work in the federal government or the national government on any level?

01:34:32.000 How many people are using their gain paid for through your taxpayer dollars or a PAC?

01:34:38.000 Which often happens, right?

01:34:39.000 How many ads have you seen for Bernie Sanders on Facebook?

01:34:43.000 How many ads have you seen for, I don't know, Gretchen Whitmer, Barack Obama?

01:34:46.000 In other words, if these platforms want to pick and choose losers politically, guess what?

01:34:52.000 No one involved with the United States federal government can be advertising because we can't be giving you money.

01:34:58.000 That's not allowed.

01:34:59.000 That goes back to propagandist Chinese Communist Party.

01:35:04.000 So is Russia the biggest concern?

01:35:06.000 Okay, let's make sure there's no Russia.

01:35:08.000 And no Biden ads.

01:35:11.000 Want to play by those rules?

01:35:12.000 I think it's necessary.

01:35:13.000 What do we have?

01:35:14.000 This page is empty, mostly boring.

01:35:18.000 Section 5, State Review of Unfair and Deceptive Practices.

01:35:20.000 The Attorney General shall establish a working group regarding the potential enforcement of state statutes that prohibit online platforms from engaging in unfair and deceptive acts and practices.

01:35:32.000 I feel like that one's pretty self-explanatory.

01:35:35.000 Then this one right here says, uh, monitoring, talking about some issues, uh, item, line items, monitoring or creating watch lists.

01:35:43.000 This is something that stuck out to me of users based on their interactions with contents or users and monitoring based on their activity off of the platform.

01:35:51.000 Now, I'm not entirely sure.

01:35:53.000 But I feel like this is in here, because everything is in here very purposefully, which I'm actually really happy with, because sometimes Donald Trump—I almost said Barack Obama—he shoots from the hip, Donald Trump, and obviously this is something that's been drafted up not just by Donald Trump, but this seems pretty methodical.

01:36:09.000 This seems pretty thought out, and I was concerned because we just saw the tweet yesterday, I believe.

01:36:13.000 People thought this was being drafted up out of nowhere.

01:36:15.000 This is almost a timeline.

01:36:19.000 Alex Jones was banned for off-platform statements.

01:36:21.000 with social media saying, all right, that's not going to happen anymore. This isn't just

01:36:25.000 coming out of thin air. So in this case, a good example would be Alex Jones. Alex Jones was banned

01:36:32.000 for off-platform statements. Whether you like them or not, whether you think they're horrible or not,

01:36:37.000 he was banned from platforms for things that he said that weren't on that platform.

01:36:43.000 In other words, this is included there, and it's not just Alex Jones, this has happened with many people, because we've seen this happen.

01:36:49.000 And that's a violation if it's a public utility, if this platform benefits from the Safe Harbor Act.

01:36:54.000 That's a violation of the protections from which they benefit.

01:36:58.000 One, they did it with Alex Jones.

01:36:59.000 One, they've done it with us.

01:37:01.000 That, to me, is important and it's powerful.

01:37:03.000 And I want to see if there's anything else in here.

01:37:04.000 No, there's nothing else in here.

01:37:05.000 So, I will say this.

01:37:06.000 Not to take any shots at him.

01:37:07.000 I love Ben Shapiro.

01:37:08.000 I think he's right on a lot.

01:37:10.000 And I think he's right in spirit to be apprehensive of this.

01:37:12.000 Because we've talked about how I don't want the government to be in charge of what sites can and can't say.

01:37:18.000 Because that can change.

01:37:20.000 Then it can become President Whitmer, and she can decide what can and can't be said. 0.99

01:37:25.000 But I do think it's within the role of government to ensure that people are being honest, that they are not engaging in deceptive business practices, and that they are not benefiting from legal protections that they have no right from which to benefit.

01:37:40.000 So Ben Shapiro, let me tell you where I think that it's a disagreement, and I think that he's wrong, but I understand the concern and I appreciate it.

01:37:45.000 He tweeted out that here's the inevitable effect of destroying 230 of the CDA.

01:37:49.000 All comment sections will be taken down.

01:37:51.000 No website has the resources to actively edit all comments in order to shield themselves from liability, and no website is willing to leave comments entirely standards-free.

01:38:00.000 Then he tweeted, the invitation to redefine unfair business practices to include comment policing based lawsuits will likely not end well for conservatives.

01:38:08.000 I see the appeal, but I'm wondering just why conservatives are suddenly so unconcerned about political bias among regulators.

01:38:14.000 Because this isn't putting the power in the hands of regulators.

01:38:18.000 This is what's concerning.

01:38:19.000 Well, not this is what's concerning.

01:38:20.000 This is where I think that Ben Shapiro, respectfully, and I know I'm not a lawyer, And I'll be told that, and I want everyone to be respectful.

01:38:28.000 And it's not—Ben is just saying this.

01:38:29.000 A lot of conservatives are saying this, and I understand the argument because I once felt that way.

01:38:32.000 We're not giving undue power into the hands of regulators.

01:38:36.000 The power is already there.

01:38:38.000 The power is already there with regulators, with our government, to recognize entities as public utilities or platforms, right?

01:38:43.000 We already do that.

01:38:45.000 Certain entities benefit from safe harbor laws and protections, right?

01:38:48.000 That already exists.

01:38:49.000 So this isn't giving new sweeping power to the government.

01:38:53.000 It's now making these companies who are more powerful than the government pick a lane.

01:38:58.000 That's what I see happening.

01:38:59.000 If this were saying, and Donald Trump can pick who stays or goes on Twitter or some board that Donald Trump appoints, I'd have a problem.

01:39:06.000 That's not what we're seeing here.

01:39:07.000 And even more, what I actually find really inspiring here is this, this reads the same for conservatives as it does for liberals.

01:39:16.000 Anyone out there who supports freedom of speech, anyone out there who doesn't think that people should be shadowbanned, who doesn't think that offensive speech should be removed just because someone in Silicon Valley, be it Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg or Susan Wojcicki, deeming it offensive, this is a good thing for you.

01:39:29.000 I'm more concerned about them having unfettered power, which is what they have right now.

01:39:34.000 And the government has this current power.

01:39:36.000 It's about exercising it correctly and defining the parameters that have kind of been skirted.

01:39:41.000 And how can you argue that they shouldn't?

01:39:44.000 When especially recently, let's get rid of ourselves and the Vox Apocalypse and conservatives, they've automatically edited comments critical of the Communist Chinese Party.

01:39:55.000 And here's something else where I think it's wrong.

01:39:58.000 This is not going to be affecting conservative websites for the same reason that it won't be affecting the New York Times or the Washington Post.

01:40:04.000 And it shouldn't, by the way.

01:40:05.000 I want conservatives to be very clear on this, because YouTube, Facebook, Twitter—I'm just reading the tweets again here—them policing comments themselves is very different than, say, the New York Times or the Washington Post.

01:40:20.000 Or, let me use a closer analogy.

01:40:22.000 Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube deleting comments that they deem offensive is very different than a user on that platform deleting comments on their own channel.

01:40:31.000 In other words, Karen can delete your COVID data.

01:40:36.000 That she doesn't like on her Facebook post.

01:40:39.000 Because that's her Facebook page.

01:40:40.000 That's why she has a delete button. 0.99

01:40:42.000 Facebook doesn't, if they're a public form, if they benefit from Safe Harbor, does not have the right to preempt Karen, as bitchy as she may be, does not have the right to preempt her decision to remove something from her personal profile. 1.00

01:40:54.000 Karen can remove it.

01:40:56.000 Facebook can't.

01:40:57.000 New York Times can pick who publishes.

01:40:59.000 YouTube can't.

01:41:00.000 Washington Post can edit the comment section.

01:41:02.000 LoudHouseCredit.com can edit the comment section.

01:41:05.000 The Blaze can edit the comment section.

01:41:06.000 YouTube, provided that it's not violating actual law that we have, active threats of violence, laws that have already been outlined in this piece of legislation for a while, they don't have the authority to do that.

01:41:20.000 And again, I want to drive this home.

01:41:22.000 New York Times is a publisher.

01:41:24.000 Just like an individual on Facebook.

01:41:26.000 Facebook itself is not.

01:41:27.000 And they benefit from the individual publisher on Facebook.

01:41:30.000 The people who use the platforms are the publishers.

01:41:33.000 The platforms are designed to court and benefit and monetize publishers.

01:41:37.000 They are not supposed to be publishers themselves.

01:41:41.000 And that is a really gray territory that's been a huge problem and has made Americans less informed, arguably, than ever before.

01:41:50.000 Should they choose to be?

01:41:55.000 So I just think, a platform, particularly one that benefits from the safe harbor, right, they necessarily, they need to be precluded.

01:42:02.000 I will say this, this is the main, and then I do have to get going, and Monday we're going to do an entire, I guess, deep dive is the term now into this executive order.

01:42:13.000 YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, take your pick, whoever, Instagram, if there have been any of these companies that are benefiting from safe harbor protections, they need to be precluded from making editorial decisions. You have to pick one. It's

01:42:30.000 that simple. I've said this for a long time. You have to pick one or the other. Pick your rules.

01:42:34.000 Just let us know what they are.

01:42:36.000 And it seems like the president is hearing us now.

01:42:40.000 He's saying you have to pick one or the other.

01:42:42.000 And you know what, President Trump?

01:42:44.000 If you are looking to reach folks who've been championing this cause for a very long time, the largest show ever in the history of YouTube as far as a conservative program would.

01:42:54.000 We'd be happy to welcome you.

01:42:55.000 And if not, you know what?

01:42:56.000 We'll take Donald Trump Jr.

01:42:57.000 as well.

01:42:57.000 He's great.

01:42:58.000 We love him.

01:42:58.000 We'd love to have him on the show.

01:43:00.000 I bet you.

01:43:00.000 Maybe I'll send him a text with this.

01:43:04.000 Tweet.

01:43:04.000 I mean, tweet.

01:43:07.000 I'm excited.

01:43:08.000 I'm excited about this because this puts into legalese what we have been trying to communicate for a very long time and a very real fight that we've had to have here at this show.

01:43:18.000 Every, I would say, quarter, we have to entirely reinvent our business model, how we title, how we thumbnail, who we talk to at these platforms to make sure that we're not running afoul, and it just gets to be exhausting.

01:43:30.000 Because the rules keep changing, and they're benefiting from a statute that specifically says companies like them cannot keep changing the rules.

01:43:39.000 This isn't about changing anything.

01:43:42.000 This is about making sure that they don't.

01:43:44.000 This isn't about changing the rules of a platform and a publisher.

01:43:48.000 It's about making sure that people who benefit from being platforms are playing by those rules, because for a long time they haven't.

01:43:55.000 And I think that's a good thing.

01:43:56.000 Okay, Monday, we are going to see you with my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman.

01:43:59.000 I'll put him in a judge's robe.

Louder with Crowder - May 28, 2020

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