Louder with Crowder - 🔴 BREAKING: Trump Declares Federal Control of DC 2025-08-11 18:08

00:00:00.000 Insuring this IP, it's almost an act of war if they do that, right?

00:00:03.000 It is.

00:00:04.000 And so you're right.

00:00:05.000 They don't like IP, but then you've got people like Elon Musk and a couple of other guys trying to say that we should basically get rid of IP laws.

00:00:11.000 Right.

00:00:11.000 Jack from X was saying the same thing.

00:00:13.000 This maybe strengthens that case just a little bit.

00:00:16.000 I just don't trust the Chinese enough to think that they won't try and steal whatever they can get their hands on. 1.00

00:00:20.000 But if it's good for the United States economy, keeping these jobs here, keeping the technology here, keeping the advantage, great.

00:00:27.000 You need to know this.

00:00:28.000 AI is the game, period.

00:00:31.000 Okay.

00:00:31.000 They win or lose on that.

00:00:32.000 All right.

00:00:33.000 I think that's, let's go right now.

00:00:34.000 They're fact-checking Donald Trump right now, saying violent crime in D.C. is down 35% and 26%.

00:00:41.000 Now they're saying that carjackings are down in D.C. Is that after he took office?

00:00:45.000 What is that 2023 to 2024 is what they're saying.

00:00:49.000 So let me see what they're saying right now.

00:00:50.000 More than five years in D.C., down more than 87% from the same month in 2023.

00:00:55.000 So look, we know crime is an issue.

00:00:57.000 By using the highest month of violent crime is a shame, a tragedy, of course, not excusing any of them.

00:01:03.000 But this isn't an ongoing crime spike like President Trump suggested.

00:01:06.000 And he said it's rising even in the text of the executive order.

00:01:10.000 I went through it.

00:01:11.000 The first section says crime is rising in the Capitol.

00:01:14.000 That is just not true.

00:01:16.000 Daniel, thank you so much.

00:01:17.000 Can you guys help me fact check that?

00:01:19.000 Because I'm pretty sure that they're also just not registering certain crimes as violent crime.

00:01:23.000 Hold on, right?

00:01:24.000 Two things.

00:01:24.000 So you can see it right there in the camera.

00:01:26.000 Trump says crime in Washington is out of control, but crime says so violent crime is down.

00:01:30.000 So they picked, he said crime in general.

00:01:32.000 They said violent crime.

00:01:33.000 I don't know if that's the well, they also changed, I don't know what it is in D.C., they've changed the definition of violent crime in many cases.

00:01:38.000 Yes.

00:01:39.000 Right?

00:01:39.000 Like where they're saying where that, who was that gal that goes like, do you want me to speak?

00:01:44.000 Who's that girl? 1.00

00:01:45.000 What?

00:01:45.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:01:45.000 LAD.

00:01:46.000 I forget her name.

00:01:47.000 Piro or Judge Cheney.

00:01:48.000 Oh, you're talking about the conference?

00:01:49.000 Yeah.

00:01:51.000 She's like, well, we can't charge if they fire a gun and doesn't hit anybody.

00:01:57.000 Yeah, they say that.

00:01:59.000 That might have been previously considered a violent crime.

00:02:02.000 Yeah.

00:02:02.000 But it's now not because it didn't hit.

00:02:04.000 Because it gets wiped from the record because they're a minor.

00:02:06.000 And that too.

00:02:06.000 And getting wiped from the record.

00:02:08.000 So that's the problem.

00:02:08.000 You have a 17-year-old who could be involved in a gang shooting and then the next year it no longer is.

00:02:11.000 So yeah, if you're removing all the crimes committed by people under the age of 18 recently, it's going to have significant effect on the rates.

00:02:20.000 Well, they constantly tweak and massage crime statistics.

00:02:23.000 I mean, we saw that during COVID, right, where they tried to say, oh, actually, you're like, wait a second, wait a second.

00:02:26.000 We realized.

00:02:27.000 And then the same thing was that the DOJ stopped recording the race of the perpetrator and the victim, or was it the FBI?

00:02:33.000 They used to record those, I mean, up until I believe it was the year 2016 or 2017, where you would know the race of the perpetrator, the race of the victim, and then they stopped if it was interracial crimes.

00:02:43.000 Basically, interracial crime is no longer a thing.

00:02:46.000 So we had to use studies, for example, that came from the Bay Area, where it was, I think, 83% of all physical crimes were black against Asian, of all physical crimes in the Bay Area.

00:02:56.000 So you have to take these sort of micro studies because you can't get these numbers nationally.

00:02:59.000 I'd be willing to bet you have the same problem with DC.

00:03:02.000 You have a lot of problems with these cities.

00:03:04.000 Are they really making the argument?

00:03:05.000 Like, is Daniel Dale basically just making the argument that some crime is acceptable?

00:03:09.000 Like some high level of crime, even though it's lower than the higher level of crime the year before is acceptable and we're fine with that.

00:03:16.000 Like, what point are they really trying to make here?

00:03:18.000 Like, and listen, if he's playing ADHS on this, then great, because he's basically putting Democrats in the position of saying, well, the violent crime is fine.

00:03:27.000 Right.

00:03:27.000 It's just, you know, we don't, it's going down.

00:03:29.000 It went down by a percentage point.

00:03:30.000 Well, hold on.

00:03:31.000 If I go back to the year where it was like five times higher than it ever was before, I can say, yeah, we're coming down.

00:03:36.000 That's what he just did.

00:03:37.000 Right.

00:03:37.000 With the 2023 numbers, like, it's down 87% since 2023.

00:03:40.000 I'm like, well, yeah, every other year was in line plus or minus five.

00:03:44.000 Right.

00:03:44.000 That one year it went way up.

00:03:46.000 Yeah, it spiked.

00:03:47.000 Like, what the heck?

00:03:48.000 And that graph also is only car theft, I think.

00:03:51.000 He showed one as far as carjackings.

00:03:53.000 Yeah.

00:03:53.000 2023, D.C. had the largest spike in violent crime of any city, three times the percentage increase of second place Memphis.

00:04:00.000 We talked about that.

00:04:00.000 Yeah, and they still haven't returned to pre-COVID levels.

00:04:02.000 They're still higher than they were pre-COVID.

00:04:04.000 So basically what he's saying is maybe we're starting to come down.

00:04:07.000 Fans starting to level off since the spike in COVID.

00:04:09.000 Yeah.

00:04:09.000 And what else happened during COVID, by the way, guys?

00:04:11.000 Remember Black Lives Matter protests?

00:04:12.000 Remember Summer of Love?

00:04:13.000 Remember that?

00:04:14.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:04:14.000 Yeah.

00:04:15.000 That's true.

00:04:16.000 Which were also underreported, by the way.

00:04:17.000 $2 billion worth in recorded property damage, damages, thousands, many, many, many, many, many thousands of casualties, including both deaths and serious injuries.

00:04:27.000 Businesses shuttered, right?

00:04:29.000 Arson, Property damage.

00:04:31.000 I mean, the list goes on.

00:04:33.000 So, yeah, of course, you would hope to see a decrease since then.

00:04:37.000 By the way, it was underreported at that moment in time.

00:04:40.000 So, yeah, their numbers are still higher than pre-COVID levels.

00:04:44.000 And again, it doesn't exist in a vacuum.

00:04:45.000 You can compare D.C. to other cities.

00:04:47.000 It was bad everywhere.

00:04:48.000 It was worse in D.C. Why?

00:04:51.000 Okay, well, they're telling you no reason.

00:04:53.000 Yeah.

00:04:54.000 By the way, if it were a state, D.C. would have the highest homicide rate in the United States.

00:04:58.000 Right.

00:04:58.000 What else do you need?

00:05:00.000 But it's better than it was during COVID.

00:05:02.000 Homicide's not violent crime. 0.65

00:05:03.000 Well, it's only violent on one side.

00:05:05.000 Well, I guess it could be both violent if you're defending yourself and you lose.

00:05:09.000 Hey, I wonder if carjackings tend to go down after giant spikes in crime so fewer people are driving into the city.

00:05:15.000 Yeah.

00:05:16.000 Right.

00:05:16.000 I mean, that's what happened in Detroit.

00:05:17.000 You saw the murder rate go down.

00:05:19.000 You know why?

00:05:19.000 Because there are fewer people left to kill.

00:05:21.000 Well, the carjacking thing, that's, I mean, that's notoriously a young man's game. 1.00

00:05:25.000 Yeah.

00:05:26.000 Yeah.

00:05:26.000 And if they really are altering the numbers based on age, then that would really explain a drop-off.

00:05:31.000 Yeah, they give themselves, and I can tell you, I can't carjack like I used to.

00:05:34.000 No.

00:05:35.000 It's something I've had to accept in my 30s.

00:05:36.000 No, it's a young man's game.

00:05:38.000 You got to be hip.

00:05:38.000 You got to be cool.

00:05:39.000 You got to know how these things are wired.

00:05:42.000 I'm never going to have the same zest for carjacking as I did in my early 20s.

00:05:49.000 Do you want to hear what these guys are saying about it?

00:05:50.000 They're talking nonstop.

00:05:51.000 I'm wondering if they're just how do you defend not trying to do something?

00:05:56.000 Well, I guess they will.

00:05:57.000 Let's watch Pugsley Adams defend it.

00:05:59.000 Another attempt to change the subject.

00:06:01.000 We don't know, but that hypothesis certainly has to be thought about as we consider why now.

00:06:06.000 And one of the things that was striking in that very long press conference was something that the FBI director said.

00:06:13.000 Standing there at the podium with the president as he's making this big monumental change to law enforcement, federalizing law enforcement in D.C. and saying it's because of rampant crime rates.

00:06:29.000 Listen to what the FBI director said.

00:06:32.000 And the murder rates are plummeting.

00:06:34.000 We are now able to report that the murder rate is on track to be the lowest in U.S. history, in modern recorded U.S. history, thanks to this team behind me in President Trump's priorities.

00:06:46.000 That's great news.

00:06:48.000 Isn't that natural?

00:06:49.000 It's a little off topic from what the president is.

00:06:51.000 I think he was talking about D.C. since they've taken office.

00:06:53.000 Of course, that's great news.

00:06:54.000 Yes, but I mean, this gets back to the- See, this is the thing that that judge is trying to make the point of, is the point that the leftists are making them, they're controlling them to where they can't press charges if it wasn't a bullet hitting somebody.

00:07:05.000 They can't press charges if it wasn't somebody dying.

00:07:07.000 It's like, just because someone didn't die doesn't mean somebody didn't get fucked.

00:07:11.000 Yeah, no, exactly right.

00:07:12.000 Yeah.

00:07:13.000 And they also changed.

00:07:14.000 Yeah.

00:07:14.000 They massaged the story.

00:07:15.000 Oh, we didn't die.

00:07:16.000 You're fine.

00:07:17.000 Look, you're not dead.

00:07:18.000 What do we need to press charges for?

00:07:19.000 You're not dead.

00:07:20.000 Yeah.

00:07:21.000 Why do we need to bail?

00:07:22.000 You didn't kill anybody.

00:07:23.000 Right.

00:07:23.000 You tried to, you missed.

00:07:24.000 You sucked.

00:07:25.000 You're fine.

00:07:25.000 Get out.

00:07:26.000 Didn't they also change in certain cities of Mission Control theft?

00:07:31.000 It was no longer a violent crime.

00:07:32.000 I mean, I've got to imagine in a place like San Francisco when you're allowed to steal up to $999.

00:07:36.000 It's true.

00:07:37.000 That's not a store.

00:07:37.000 Yeah.

00:07:38.000 Not from a person.

00:07:39.000 That would no longer be registered as a violent crime because it was a misdemeanor, right?

00:07:42.000 So that couldn't possibly be a violent crime.

00:07:44.000 I can imagine.

00:07:45.000 They've changed the definition of violent crime, and then they go, well, murders are down.

00:07:49.000 That's great.

00:07:50.000 What do you mean violent crime's up?

00:07:51.000 Well, because here's the thing, because no violence took place when they robbed your store because you didn't fight to defend it.

00:07:57.000 Right.

00:07:57.000 You just let them have it.

00:07:58.000 You let them have it.

00:07:59.000 You didn't want a violent confrontation where you might lose your life.

00:08:02.000 Right.

00:08:03.000 So you thought, you know what?

00:08:04.000 And one may argue, if they were so inclined that the people robbing your store in the Bay Area to the tune of $923, whatever it is, feels emboldened and knows that the shopkeeper won't do anything.

00:08:15.000 As a matter of fact, it's doing so under the threat of violence, right?

00:08:18.000 If you try and stop me, I'm going to get violent.

00:08:20.000 So, hey, good news.

00:08:22.000 If you allow people to be robbed, you've reduced the chance for violence.

00:08:26.000 That is a good point.

00:08:28.000 Crimes go down when you make something not a crime anymore.

00:08:31.000 Yeah.

00:08:32.000 That's just logic.

00:08:35.000 They were probably robbed at gunpoint.

00:08:36.000 So.

00:08:37.000 But they robbed, but I won't shoot you and get violent if you let me go.

00:08:41.000 Well, it's not a gun, it's the implication.

00:08:43.000 That's what it is.

00:08:44.000 It's the implication that you could at some point be held at gunpoint if you were to try and stop me or just let me steal the $995 worth of stuff.

00:08:52.000 Yeah, just let it go.

00:08:53.000 You know, razor bump cream.

00:08:54.000 Yeah.

00:08:56.000 I like the guy that literally priced everything in his store at $1,000 and he got a discount at the register.

00:09:01.000 Yeah.

00:09:01.000 So no matter what you stole.

00:09:02.000 I think he got sued or something.

00:09:04.000 Yeah, but you know what?

00:09:05.000 Good for him.

00:09:05.000 I don't care.

00:09:06.000 I mean, hopefully he won.

00:09:07.000 At least he knew that you were going to have to face him if you're going to rob him.

00:09:10.000 Yeah.

00:09:10.000 Well, in this whole scenario right now, he's federalizing the D.C. police.

00:09:14.000 Okay, you can maybe take issue with that, but ultimately, look at you know, maybe there's a process legally that they have to go through with this.

00:09:22.000 Maybe there's some legitimate questions and concerns there.

00:09:24.000 That's fine.

00:09:25.000 But look at what he's basically saying: like, I'm going to employ the National Guard to help kind of clean this city up and make this a safer place.

00:09:32.000 I'm going to federalize the police to make sure that we can take steps to get around what Judge Perino said.

00:09:39.000 Like, she's saying, like, guys, you're hamstrung here.

00:09:41.000 We're hamstrung.

00:09:41.000 We can't really do anything about this.

00:09:43.000 I would draw a line, though, at going and doing this in Chicago, in LA, in San Francisco.

00:09:48.000 That's different from D.C. Provide opportunities if governors want to. 0.94

00:09:51.000 And they kind of mentioned that.

00:09:52.000 They said they would work with governors to deploy the National Guard if requested or if necessary.

00:09:56.000 And that's fine.

00:09:57.000 But D.C. for me is a different thing because, like most people, when we did the segment, they didn't realize how D.C. was governed.

00:10:03.000 It's basically Congress that has most of the power.

00:10:06.000 Yeah.

00:10:07.000 And essentially, whoever the leader is in the White House, if they control Congress as well, that's the person that you want to do business with because he's going to tell Congress what to do.

00:10:14.000 Right.

00:10:14.000 I think our capital should be a beacon for the world.

00:10:18.000 I don't think it should be a Potimkin city necessarily.

00:10:20.000 I don't think you should get rid of every single rough edge that it has, but I think it should be a beautiful, safe, wonderful place for people to come.

00:10:28.000 And look, if you want to be homeless, you got to be homeless somewhere else.

00:10:31.000 Yeah, right.

00:10:31.000 You got to go to prison or commit crimes somewhere else.

00:10:33.000 I'm not saying make it somebody else's problem necessarily, but it is certainly not going to be how we represent ourselves to the world.

00:10:39.000 Yeah.

00:10:39.000 Because it sucks.

00:10:40.000 They can change your slogan to Washington, D.C. It's more than just hobo piss. 0.75

00:10:45.000 But only a little more.

00:10:46.000 I remember, you know, where I saw it with people, they'll say, oh, crime is down.

00:10:49.000 The first time in my life that I saw was in Louisville, Kentucky, when we did a show there at the club, went to several like Walgreens, CBS.

00:10:57.000 Everything was behind glass.

00:10:58.000 Socks, athletic socks.

00:10:59.000 Yeah.

00:11:00.000 Yeah, everything.

00:11:00.000 Everything was behind glass.

00:11:02.000 Usually, you know, it's like the razors or some expensive items, right?

00:11:04.000 Like I think nicotine gum.

00:11:06.000 Everything.

00:11:07.000 Socks, soap, body wash, everything was behind glass.

00:11:10.000 Yeah.

00:11:11.000 And that was pretty much everywhere in the city.

00:11:13.000 That was not a common thing.

00:11:14.000 That's insane.

00:11:15.000 And some of these weren't, by the way, they would be in the nice area.

00:11:18.000 I use that term loosely in the nice area of Louisville.

00:11:21.000 And then I started noticing that when I would go to other cities during those COVID and post-COVID years.

00:11:26.000 So you can tell us not to believe our lying eyes and lion ears and the statistics when you actually try and pull the accurate ones.

00:11:32.000 But again, what's the solution coming from the left?

00:11:35.000 They're going, hey, murder is down after COVID.

00:11:38.000 So great.

00:11:39.000 Don't do anything.

00:11:40.000 Don't try to make it better.

00:11:41.000 About D.C. Why do they, what's the bar they're shooting for?

00:11:44.000 Like, tell me, I know you're never going to get rid of it completely, but where is good for you?

00:11:49.000 Because I don't think our goods would be the same.

00:11:52.000 It's just another example of the left, and you see it with teenagers and you see it with young adults and you see it with them and you see it with the government.

00:12:00.000 This goes back to Jordan Peterson saying, make your bed.

00:12:03.000 The left, these same people who believe or want to sell you that they can fix the world's climate problem.

00:12:09.000 That includes China and India, by the way, by signing on to an agreement and implementing green car, electric cart, and let's not talk about the batteries, policy and renewable resources, things that have proven not to, they want you to believe that they can affect that, but they throw their hands up in their own actual city with a physical problem.

00:12:29.000 People who are committing physical acts of violence, vagrancy, destroying the cities, that's just something that progress can't be made.

00:12:38.000 But carbon offsets for your flight, but no big gulps, but making sure you can't get an SUV, right?

00:12:44.000 But a giant welfare state.

00:12:46.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:12:47.000 What about your city?

00:12:48.000 Chicago?

00:12:49.000 What about your city?

00:12:51.000 New York?

00:12:52.000 You don't need to sort of do some quasi-math and figure out the emissions and CFCs.

00:12:58.000 You go, how many homeless people did we have?

00:13:00.000 How many do we have now?

00:13:01.000 Is there something we can do physically with these people?

00:13:05.000 And they never have an answer.

00:13:07.000 It's the same thing with leftists if you're in college, right?

00:13:10.000 The conservative is usually working their way through college or going to a trade school or studying an apprenticeship or going to law school.

00:13:18.000 The feminist liberal is going to talk about how they need to fix the patriarchy and systemic discrimination, but can't solve their own personal issue of student loans that they took out themselves. 1.00

00:13:30.000 It always absolves, the left always absolves themselves of the personal accountability, the things they could actually do something about.

00:13:38.000 They never have an answer for that.

00:13:39.000 They always have an answer for someone that would require an international agreement and everyone else live in a utopia, of course, of the exact same ideological stripes.

00:13:50.000 And I mean it, think about it.

00:13:51.000 Think about the liberal in your life.

00:13:52.000 How are they solving their life?

00:13:54.000 How are they solving their community?

00:13:55.000 Or is it a problem at large?

00:13:59.000 It just shows you they don't mean it.

00:14:01.000 It's all it's really easy to say this should be fixed.

00:14:03.000 This should be fixed when you know that you'll never have skin in that game.

00:14:07.000 No, and I mean, you can put band-aids on things.

00:14:09.000 Every policy that you, or problem that we've talked about that you just listed and the things that are running through my head, every solution is essentially just a band-aid on the problem, right?

00:14:17.000 So homelessness, let's give everybody a home.

00:14:19.000 Okay, well, what keeps people from becoming homeless?

00:14:21.000 What policies make sure that this stops?

00:14:24.000 By the way, that doesn't even work in the first place.

00:14:25.000 Let's say it did.

00:14:26.000 Let's say it worked tomorrow.

00:14:27.000 Everybody off the streets.

00:14:28.000 Boom.

00:14:28.000 Fantastic.

00:14:29.000 In 10 years, you'll have homeless again because you didn't stop the problem to begin with.

00:14:33.000 You go through every single rent forgiveness.

00:14:36.000 What keeps people from needing it in the first place?

00:14:38.000 Having to have their tuition paid for because they can't pay for it anymore.

00:14:42.000 Like their student debt.

00:14:44.000 What keeps people from getting into student debt too far, too deep, too fast?

00:14:48.000 Like they never try to solve the problem.

00:14:50.000 They only try to put a band-aid on it currently just to get votes because every time we're going to have to pay for it every single year.

00:14:58.000 Yeah.

00:14:58.000 Every year.

00:14:59.000 And I keep going back to, by the way, the guardrails to be set.

00:15:02.000 It's really easy to do with liberty.

00:15:05.000 It doesn't have to be.

00:15:06.000 Let me walk you through an example here.

00:15:09.000 Let's take a poor, let's take a poor single mother living in D.C., okay? 1.00

00:15:18.000 All right.

00:15:19.000 Obese eats crap.

00:15:21.000 Okay?

00:15:22.000 Could be a man, could be a woman. 1.00

00:15:23.000 I'm just taking an example.

00:15:24.000 So a poor person in D.C. Who lives on Snap and EBT is obese and eats crap.

00:15:32.000 All right.

00:15:32.000 There's nothing fascist.

00:15:33.000 There's no removal of your rights.

00:15:35.000 I'm saying, oh, can't eat junk food on Snap or EBT anymore.

00:15:40.000 Well, I got, I want to.

00:15:43.000 So the right solution, conservative solution is, yeah, well, you can't.

00:15:47.000 So if you want that, you have to go work.

00:15:51.000 Problem now solved, right?

00:15:53.000 The left goes, no, no, no, we need to be able to allow Coca-Cola and Fanta and Skittles on Snap and EBT.

00:16:01.000 And if they don't get that, this person goes, okay, I don't want to work.

00:16:07.000 I'll steal it.

00:16:08.000 The policy from the right is, you can't, you'll go to jail.

00:16:12.000 The left is, as long as it's under $999, we get it.

00:16:16.000 You've had some tough breaks.

00:16:18.000 So again, it's liberty.

00:16:19.000 You have the right to eat what you want, drink what you want, work for it.

00:16:23.000 You don't have the right to steal.

00:16:25.000 You'll go to jail.

00:16:26.000 The left says, you have the right to never work and take from the taxpayer, and you have the right to steal, provided it's not too much.

00:16:35.000 Why would anyone ever improve under policy of the left?

00:16:40.000 They're required to because they get to live the consequences of their own liberty in the conservative.

00:16:45.000 It doesn't require more regulations.

00:16:47.000 No.

00:16:48.000 It requires enforcing basic regulations and not giving a handout.

00:16:51.000 Well, we're going to enforce the law.

00:16:52.000 You can't steal.

00:16:53.000 That's a crime.

00:16:54.000 As it has been in every respectable society since modern Christendom.

00:16:59.000 And we're not going to give you a handout for junk food.

00:17:02.000 There you go.

00:17:04.000 Problem solved.

00:17:05.000 They work or they lose weight or go to jail.

00:17:08.000 It's not my problem.

00:17:10.000 Who does it hurt to when the Democrats get their policies enacted the way they want them to?

00:17:14.000 It's us.

00:17:15.000 Like we have to, and listen, I'm not bemoaning the fact that there's somebody asking for something on a street corner for a handout.

00:17:21.000 What I'm bemoaning the fact is when I turn under the bridge, I see an encampment that is now a very unsafe place to be for those very people.

00:17:28.000 Yep.

00:17:28.000 Because guess what?

00:17:29.000 If you're another homeless person, you don't have to go sit on on a street corner and beg for money.

00:17:33.000 You just have to beat the crap out of the person who did it later when they're trying to go back to whatever place they call home that night.

00:17:38.000 I mean, that's not even that dangerous place.

00:17:40.000 Going under a bridge and an overpass and they're under there in the encampment.

00:17:44.000 That's nothing.

00:17:45.000 I mean, in some places in this country, like where I lived in Tacoma, I lived next to a park.

00:17:51.000 My backyard fence was right up against a park.

00:17:53.000 And that's, I mean, they had a bathroom with a shower.

00:17:56.000 What do you expect?

00:17:57.000 They were all there.

00:17:58.000 I had them lined up in like old RVs and old beated down cars and trucks just living there all the time and did nothing about it.

00:18:05.000 There's a street in Portland.

00:18:07.000 I can't remember which street it is in Portland.

00:18:09.000 Very affluent neighborhood.

00:18:10.000 I mean, multi-million dollar homes, which is this beautiful neighborhood.

00:18:15.000 And then the homes stop.

00:18:17.000 The street keeps going.

00:18:18.000 There's a park in the middle, two streets, and it's just all encampment.

00:18:21.000 It's now all these people who have, you know, who have built a nice life for themselves, put their kids into a neighborhood that, you know, has a higher tax, not tax break, but a higher tax levy on for the schools.

00:18:34.000 They're in nicer schools.

00:18:34.000 They're in a nicer neighborhood.

00:18:35.000 They think they're going to be safe.

00:18:37.000 They think it's going to be clean.

00:18:39.000 And all of a sudden, you've got guys screaming at each other at three in the morning, banging on your door.

00:18:45.000 I mean, it happened at my house.

00:18:47.000 Yeah.

00:18:47.000 Banging on my door.

00:18:48.000 I mean, there was snow on my porch one day.

00:18:50.000 Bare footprints of somebody banging on my door when I was on the road.

00:18:55.000 Yeah.

00:18:55.000 Banging on my door.

00:18:56.000 My German shepherd's going nuts.

00:18:57.000 Didn't phase the guy at all.

00:18:58.000 My wife is behind the door with the gun saying, I will shoot through the door. 1.00

00:19:01.000 Didn't phase the guy at all.

00:19:03.000 Yeah.

00:19:04.000 Just banging, trying to get in my house.

00:19:06.000 Yeah.

00:19:06.000 Yep.

00:19:06.000 And that's a very, that's a that's not, that's not homeless people under a bridge.

00:19:10.000 No.

00:19:10.000 That's not homeless people building a community for themselves and self-sustaining.

00:19:13.000 That is just delinquent degenerates doing whatever they want whenever they want because you can't call the police for it.

00:19:25.000 And you know what?

00:19:25.000 Until they do something, until they've actually murdered you in your house, you can't call the police.

00:19:30.000 And that harrowing experience, and it would be for a woman with a homeless man who's undoubtedly larger than her and probably on drugs, that wouldn't be registered as any kind of a violent crime.

00:19:38.000 That was not a violent crime.

00:19:40.000 We called the police.

00:19:41.000 They said, is he still there?

00:19:42.000 She said, no, he finally left.

00:19:43.000 They go, okay, thanks.

00:19:44.000 We'll check it.

00:19:45.000 We'll have.

00:19:45.000 We'll look into it.

00:19:46.000 Yeah, we'll look into it.

00:19:47.000 I don't remember exactly what they said, but then I had these guys that were lined up on my street corner, big, big open area for them to park next to the park.

00:19:54.000 And multiple times I called them, and they're like, you have to call city services.

00:19:58.000 You have to call not 411, but 611 or whatever the social social.

00:20:04.000 It was like the whole defund the police have the social workers do.

00:20:06.000 This is like 2022 with 2021.

00:20:08.000 And so I'm like, okay, so I call them and I go, yeah, there's people out here.

00:20:12.000 They're in cars that they have license plates on the street that are not registered, which should be, it is a crime.

00:20:17.000 It should be enough for a police officer to come out and give a ticket or at least check out the Switch situation.

00:20:21.000 Nothing.

00:20:22.000 It says they're not going to do anything about that.

00:20:23.000 I say, I found a bag of drugs in my backyard.

00:20:28.000 Okay, well, that might be yours.

00:20:29.000 Okay, fair enough.

00:20:31.000 Fine.

00:20:32.000 Yeah, self-report.

00:20:33.000 Yeah, sure.

00:20:34.000 You should say it is.

00:20:37.000 We hear a couple having a domestic dispute.

00:20:39.000 This is what finally broke it up.

00:20:41.000 A couple was having a domestic dispute in their little old camper that was being pulled by a truck.

00:20:47.000 And I went out, there was like two or three in the morning, and I went out there to tell them to shut the hell up.

00:20:54.000 Turn it into Swiss cheese.

00:20:55.000 Yeah.

00:20:55.000 So I go out there and I'm on the phone.

00:20:58.000 I call the police.

00:20:58.000 They think they can't do anything.

00:20:59.000 Has anybody been hit?

00:21:00.000 I go, I don't know.

00:21:01.000 It sounds like it, yada, yada.

00:21:02.000 Well, you know, if they call, if the victim calls them, then we'll do something, yada, yada.

00:21:07.000 So you got to call these other people.

00:21:08.000 So I called the other people the next day.

00:21:12.000 I'm on the phone with them.

00:21:13.000 My plan was to go out there with a gun and try to get the police to come.

00:21:17.000 It worked.

00:21:18.000 I went out there with a gun, banged on the door, didn't have it out, didn't brandish it.

00:21:22.000 It's just on my, you know, open carry on my hip.

00:21:26.000 And I knock on the door.

00:21:27.000 The guy comes out and I confront him.

00:21:28.000 I'm on the phone with the social workers.

00:21:30.000 And I'm confronting him.

00:21:31.000 And he starts yelling at me.

00:21:32.000 I start yelling at him.

00:21:33.000 And then he goes, what are you going to do?

00:21:35.000 You're going to fucking shoot me with that gun.

00:21:37.000 And then as soon as the word gun was mentioned, dispatcher sent police out.

00:21:42.000 Good.

00:21:42.000 To come get me.

00:21:43.000 Come get you.

00:21:44.000 Yeah.

00:21:45.000 But the police officers get there and they're tired of this shit.

00:21:47.000 So they get out there and they go, okay, what's going on?

00:21:49.000 I go, tell them the situation.

00:21:50.000 They go over.

00:21:51.000 They talk to the guy.

00:21:51.000 It turns out warrants on both of them.

00:21:53.000 Both of them get arrested.

00:21:54.000 Car gets towed.

00:21:55.000 Truck gets towed.

00:21:56.000 Gotcha, bitch. 1.00

00:21:57.000 Yeah.

00:21:57.000 You know, it's similar to.

00:21:58.000 I had to do a huge workaround to get these people out of my neighborhood.

00:22:02.000 Literally, if you did not have a gun, you were completely at their mercy.

00:22:06.000 I had, I think this, I had a neighbor who was the worst of the worst.

00:22:10.000 I lived in a very nice area of Western Michigan.

00:22:12.000 My neighbor was not allowed within whatever, 100 yards of a school because he had a background as a sex offender, lived with his 70-something-year-old mom who used to wave her shaman stick around my backyard.

00:22:22.000 Yeah.

00:22:23.000 And he was like 60-something.

00:22:24.000 So she had him young, but she was in her 70s and he was in his 60s.

00:22:28.000 And he would sit out there on the front porch, Shirtless, greasy, up until three or four in the morning, playing his guitar.

00:22:33.000 He didn't know how to play guitar, screaming, drinking bush ice.

00:22:36.000 He had been banned from the right aid.

00:22:38.000 He had been banned from the DNW, which was like a local grocery store.

00:22:40.000 He'd been banned from the Starbucks.

00:22:41.000 He'd been banned from two or three restaurants.

00:22:43.000 The police knew about him.

00:22:44.000 He would be taken to jail sometimes around like in the drunk tank to sleep it off.

00:22:50.000 I get questioned one time about a special needs neighbor who lives two houses down if I saw anything if this guy had molested this young adult, I should say.

00:22:58.000 He was like 17.

00:22:59.000 You remember that?

00:22:59.000 And then his mom was a huge lib.

00:23:02.000 They would scream at us, scream at me when I would walk down the street, just scream, just scream the cops, like, ah, you know, leave him alone.

00:23:08.000 And then one night at 2, 3 in the morning, he's screaming my name at the top of his lungs, drunk at 4.

00:23:14.000 And when I came out and said, hey, you know, you need to kind of calm down, stop this.

00:23:21.000 The next morning, I woke up with a brick thrown through my car window and him leering at me.

00:23:25.000 And I went to the cops.

00:23:27.000 Not violent.

00:23:27.000 It's not violent.

00:23:28.000 Yeah.

00:23:28.000 I went to the cops and they knew about it.

00:23:30.000 And I told them, like, look, when he's doing this at three, something in the morning and he's kind of pacing up and down the street.

00:23:35.000 They said, well, do you have a firearm?

00:23:38.000 I said, yes, I do.

00:23:38.000 They said, well, if he at all tries to, you know, get into your property here, he'd be well within your rights to defend yourself.

00:23:45.000 But yeah, we've had a lot of run-ins with him.

00:23:47.000 And they were the ones who told me where he was.

00:23:49.000 They're like, there's not much else we can do unless we catch him sexually molesting another kid.

00:23:53.000 Right.

00:23:53.000 No, I know.

00:23:54.000 Unless we catch him throwing the brick.

00:23:56.000 I'm like, disturbing the peace night after night after night after night?

00:24:00.000 Is that not enough?

00:24:01.000 I mean, you can't look at the cumulative, the total of banned from it's one street, right?

00:24:06.000 That main street.

00:24:07.000 And when right aid bans you, that's bad.

00:24:09.000 Yes.

00:24:09.000 When right aide bans you, he was banned.

00:24:11.000 I would see his mom, his 77-year-old mom, walking back with the bush ice for him.

00:24:16.000 He would drink on the porch.

00:24:18.000 The enabler.

00:24:18.000 Good.

00:24:18.000 Yeah.

00:24:19.000 Well, you know why they had that place?

00:24:20.000 It was a Unitarian church.

00:24:22.000 Unitarian church.

00:24:23.000 We're helping these people who are down on their luck.

00:24:24.000 It was a Tinderbox waiting to light everybody else, is what you're doing.

00:24:28.000 Speaking of a church, there was one guy parked out outside my house who was playing some kind of children's music from his RV.

00:24:35.000 Really?

00:24:35.000 Yeah.

00:24:36.000 Like towards the park.

00:24:37.000 Which I was like, what are you trying to entice kids?

00:24:39.000 Of course.

00:24:40.000 I talked about it.

00:24:41.000 I was the one when I was new to the show.

00:24:43.000 I came on.

00:24:44.000 I said, I walked to him.

00:24:46.000 He was like, hey, are you trying to fuck these kids?

00:24:48.000 It was that guy.

00:24:49.000 Yeah.

00:24:50.000 And he was all mad.

00:24:50.000 He's like, hey, you know, I'm about to, how dare you accuse me of it?

00:24:53.000 I'm like, what else are you doing then?

00:24:55.000 He's like, I just thought that maybe the kids would like it.

00:24:57.000 But I'm like, get out of here.

00:24:58.000 He's like, you don't know who I am.

00:25:00.000 I'm a good guy.

00:25:00.000 And, you know, I donate money and I work for this church down the street.

00:25:03.000 I go, well, then go stay there.

00:25:05.000 You can go their kids.

00:25:07.000 Yeah.

00:25:07.000 It's like, what are you doing?

00:25:08.000 You play the music and the kids come say, hey, what are you playing?

00:25:10.000 How do you follow?

00:25:11.000 What's the rest of that conversation?

00:25:13.000 What happens next?

00:25:14.000 Come inside my RV.

00:25:16.000 Yeah.

00:25:17.000 What's the, yeah, exactly.

00:25:19.000 What is the progression?

00:25:20.000 Like, ask this guy.

00:25:20.000 Like, I would ask, do you at least understand?

00:25:23.000 Give me something here.

00:25:24.000 That the optics are not good.

00:25:25.000 Yeah.

00:25:26.000 For a fully grown man to be blaring, I love you by Barney for like a moment.

00:25:30.000 And the police can't do anything about it.

00:25:31.000 They go, yeah, dude, that's creepy.

00:25:32.000 I wouldn't live there.

00:25:35.000 So here's, Josh, this is my entire point.

00:25:36.000 The reason that I started with the homeless people under the bridge or asking for money because it was the most benign thing that I could think of in this conversation that leads to your experience.

00:25:46.000 You don't typically start with encampments.

00:25:47.000 You start with a policy of, oh, these people are down on their luck.

00:25:50.000 Yeah, they need to be able to ask people to maybe get some money, you know, to do this.

00:25:55.000 And then I've seen this happen.

00:25:58.000 When you start allowing it, you start to see more people doing it.

00:26:02.000 And then they continue to creep up because they're looking for money.

00:26:05.000 They're looking for an opportunity to make money.

00:26:07.000 And when they see that, they're just going to move to that area and start having a lot of people there.

00:26:12.000 These areas go downhill so fast.

00:26:14.000 I'm not like, oh, it's bad to look at.

00:26:15.000 I'm like, I'm thanking God that through no benefit of my own or nothing that I've done, he has blessed me to not be in a situation where I have to raise my kids around that.

00:26:27.000 That's what I'm thinking about.

00:26:29.000 Because at what point do I have a right as a father, as a as just a person to live in a society where I don't have to worry about going through those areas because we pay taxes.

00:26:39.000 We want this as a community.

00:26:41.000 We have the ability to affect this.

00:26:42.000 But it's these bad policies that just turn out horribly every single time and end up with situations like yours that most Americans right now listening to this go, what?

00:26:50.000 How's that even possible?

00:26:51.000 That is the Pacific Northwest.

00:26:53.000 That is the Pacific Northwest around the major cities, Portland, Seattle.

00:26:56.000 Josh knows this better than anybody.

00:26:59.000 And Francisco, like, gosh, these places, and you can see their fall.

00:27:02.000 It's the same thing in the Midwest.

00:27:03.000 It's cities, too.

00:27:04.000 So Detroit, Chicago.

00:27:06.000 I mean, but it's this, like, when I was going to San Francisco in 2008, 2009 to kind of go to Napa Valley, we'd always stay there.

00:27:13.000 Everybody used to tell me, like, oh, it's gotten bad.

00:27:15.000 And it was still very nice then.

00:27:17.000 Now, compared to when the first time I went there to now, when I didn't even know Newsom at the time, Newsom was governor in 2011.

00:27:23.000 We were right.

00:27:24.000 That place is just, it's a hellscape.

00:27:26.000 You don't want to be anywhere in that city anymore.

00:27:28.000 And it's a beautiful place.

00:27:29.000 Like, you take a gorgeous area and go, here, here, I'm just going to give you this beautiful, wonderful looking place here.

00:27:34.000 It's got great weather, a little chilly sometimes in San Francisco.

00:27:37.000 And you're going to turn it into like the biggest outdoor poop market in the world.

00:27:40.000 By the way, look it up.

00:27:41.000 It's a fact other than India, I should say. 1.00

00:27:43.000 It's not really a market, though.

00:27:44.000 No one's buying it.

00:27:45.000 Nobody's buying.

00:27:46.000 They're tracking.

00:27:46.000 They used to, at least.

00:27:47.000 The poop tracker had to go off.

00:27:48.000 It's not really a market red heat dot.

00:27:50.000 There's one park that's more like right by a school.

00:27:52.000 And it's just, it's just like a, it was like, not protected.

00:27:56.000 I don't know the words for it, but it wasn't like a secret encampment.

00:27:59.000 It's like in the downtown area of Tacoma, and there's this big park.

00:28:04.000 I can't remember the name of the park.

00:28:05.000 Somebody in Tacoma can probably let me know if they're in chat.

00:28:08.000 But there's a big park and it's like either across the street from school or right down the street from a school.

00:28:12.000 It's within 500 feet of a school and it's just an encampment of homeless people in this one park that are just allowed to be there.

00:28:18.000 It's just insane.

00:28:19.000 It's just the park's gone.

00:28:20.000 You can't use the park anymore.

00:28:21.000 No, no.

00:28:22.000 Like, it's not like, oh, I can't bring my kids because there's because the homeless people are looking at.

00:28:25.000 No, no, they are there.

00:28:26.000 You can't get on the playground because you'd have to walk over tents.

00:28:30.000 You have to get their tents in the playground.

00:28:32.000 Like, it's unusable.

00:28:33.000 People's Park?

00:28:35.000 Yeah, People's Park.

00:28:35.000 I think that's it.

00:28:36.000 People's Park?

00:28:37.000 I don't know.

00:28:37.000 When I was the first time, I was in Spokane.

00:28:40.000 I saw a guy, I saw a homeless guy smoking crack in front of the officer.

00:28:44.000 Because I thought it was a tire pressure dictionary.

00:28:47.000 That's it.

00:28:48.000 No freaking way.

00:28:49.000 Good.

00:28:52.000 Hold on.

00:28:52.000 Listen, listen.

00:28:53.000 At what point do the citizens around there go, you know what?

00:28:57.000 Everybody's packing.

00:28:58.000 Let's go.

00:28:58.000 We're taking a walk.

00:29:00.000 Like, at what point would you not go, that makes sense to me.

00:29:03.000 If I bought a house, I mean, buying a house, think about that.

00:29:05.000 Think about what we talk about people having to go through right now to be able to get their first home or get a home in general.

00:29:11.000 And then the city allows that to happen.

00:29:14.000 What bothers me.

00:29:15.000 That's part of the problem trying to sell my house too.

00:29:17.000 That's why I was one of the reasons why I was so obviously there's the whole want to be safe thing.

00:29:21.000 Wow.

00:29:22.000 But that was one of the reasons.

00:29:22.000 I'm like, we got to sell this house.

00:29:24.000 I was, these stories were coming up when I was first coming on the show because I was like, I'm going to move to Texas.

00:29:28.000 Yeah.

00:29:28.000 Probably going to move to Texas.

00:29:29.000 I want to sell this house.

00:29:30.000 And I'm like, I can't sell this house because who's going to buy a house when there's literal meth labs on wheels next to my driveway?

00:29:37.000 Yeah.

00:29:38.000 Nobody.

00:29:38.000 They'll solve it.

00:29:39.000 Just, you know, just legalize all drugs.

00:29:41.000 They got to legalize all homelessness.

00:29:42.000 What really bothers me is when you see that and then we have a permit to do a change of mind.

00:29:47.000 They go, can't block the sidewalk.

00:29:48.000 You're like, are you shitting me?

00:29:50.000 Right.

00:29:50.000 It's not even a tripod.

00:29:51.000 It's a monopoly.

00:29:52.000 It's a shoulder rake.

00:29:53.000 Can't you?

00:29:53.000 Can't do it.

00:29:54.000 I'm not doing a show.

00:29:55.000 I'm homeless.

00:29:56.000 Yeah.

00:29:56.000 Can't block the sidewalk.

00:29:57.000 This is not a show where actually this is a show teaching people how to inject safely.

00:30:01.000 Yes, exactly.

00:30:02.000 How do you think if you didn't have plates that were registered and driving on a suspended license?

00:30:07.000 But they just know, like, hey, these people fear no consequences.

00:30:10.000 They're just going to be, why waste your time?

00:30:12.000 They'll be caught.

00:30:12.000 They'll be released.

00:30:13.000 This happens all the time when you see cops.

00:30:15.000 You have cops like in Michigan.

00:30:16.000 I remember one time like, you can't sit.

00:30:18.000 It was a, it was a hammock that I'd like ties.

00:30:20.000 Like, I'm going to go do a picnic and just set up one of those, you know, one of those basic nylon hammocks.

00:30:24.000 Like, oh, you can't do that there in the public.

00:30:25.000 I'm like, it's two trees and it's a tie.

00:30:27.000 Like, this is, it's like God said, put a hammock here.

00:30:30.000 Have a picnic.

00:30:31.000 I'm like, there's a homeless guy in a tent taking his shit, like literally 50 feet from here.

00:30:35.000 Yeah, but that's his house.

00:30:36.000 Oh, God.

00:30:37.000 Oh, yeah.

00:30:37.000 Well, so my problem is that it's temporary.

00:30:40.000 This is not entirely hammocks.

00:30:42.000 Yeah, you got to actually establish a residence there.

00:30:45.000 I just take a stick and poke it through.

00:30:46.000 So see?

00:30:47.000 No, it's not a hammock.

00:30:48.000 It's a tent.

00:30:48.000 You got it time served.

00:30:49.000 Ah, son of a bitch.

00:30:50.000 This is insane.

00:30:52.000 I don't understand.

00:30:53.000 It's two standards of justice.

00:30:54.000 It's not just, I don't understand how we allow this.

00:30:56.000 South Park is the park that I lived that I lived in, South Park.

00:30:59.000 There's a guy, there's like a little community, it's like an Asian heritage community center thing where they do all kinds of stuff, not Asian stuff, but it is primarily run by, I think, South Pacific Asians.

00:31:11.000 And they have a little cute little gazebo outside.

00:31:14.000 And it's just been taken over by a homeless guy.

00:31:16.000 So I was walking my dog, and I don't care.

00:31:18.000 I'll walk my dog regardless.

00:31:20.000 But it's like, Catherine, you can't go walk the dog by yourself.

00:31:23.000 This guy, every time I come by, he chirps something.

00:31:25.000 Yeah.

00:31:26.000 And that's at me.

00:31:26.000 Chirp something yelling something at me every Single time, and it probably wasn't directed at me, probably going through some kind of mental crisis.

00:31:33.000 Right.

00:31:34.000 But at what point do you go, hey, the guy took the gazebo of the Asian American Cultural Center?

00:31:39.000 Like, they want to use that too?

00:31:40.000 Yeah.

00:31:41.000 I mean, shit, they own it.

00:31:43.000 Yeah.

00:31:43.000 My thing.

00:31:44.000 Why is this guy just allowed to just set up shop there and then just yell at people, everybody walking by?

00:31:49.000 I never understood squatters' rights as a kid.

00:31:51.000 Yeah.

00:31:51.000 As a kid, they're like, Squatter.

00:31:52.000 I was like, wait, what?

00:31:53.000 Wait.

00:31:54.000 It can be your house, but if someone just breaks in, you can't kick them out.

00:31:57.000 I'm like.

00:31:58.000 That's a law?

00:32:00.000 Yeah, that's I couldn't comprehend that.

00:32:01.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:32:02.000 Oh, it's really bad in San Francisco.

00:32:04.000 But are there any updates or shit?

00:32:05.000 Well, the only thing I wanted to do is trying to get some context on the media is going to run with this, that your officers are empowered to do whatever the hell they want.

00:32:12.000 And I wanted to try to get some context so I don't pull the clip.

00:32:14.000 So if you guys want to see that real quick, or we can wait until tomorrow.

00:32:16.000 No, let's watch the clip.

00:32:17.000 Let's see.

00:32:18.000 Here we go.

00:32:18.000 I don't know what to expect.

00:32:19.000 For three, four years, I've watched them.

00:32:22.000 The police are standing, and they're told, don't do anything under any such so this, and you can see they want to get at it.

00:32:30.000 And they're standing there, and people are spitting in their face, and they're not allowed to do anything.

00:32:36.000 But now they are allowed to do whatever the hell they want.

00:32:39.000 This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject failures of the city's local leadership.

00:32:47.000 Got it.

00:32:47.000 That's pretty much straightforward in this.

00:32:49.000 They're going to say to break the law.

00:32:50.000 No, no, they're supposed to be law enforcement.

00:32:54.000 So in enforcing the law, within the bound of the law, spitting on a cop, that's assault of an officer.

00:33:00.000 Now they can take them to jail.

00:33:01.000 They can cuff them.

00:33:02.000 The context is they're being essentially threatened or spit on or they're doing something to the police officers, not police officers just randomly going and picking people out to be a target of a baton.

00:33:13.000 No, the CNN picked whatever the hell they want and they go, oh, now cops are allowed to do whatever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want.

00:33:19.000 Yeah.

00:33:19.000 For whatever reason.

00:33:20.000 No.

00:33:20.000 He said I'm removing the red tape.

00:33:22.000 That's all he said.

00:33:23.000 Yes.

00:33:24.000 Well, they're going to actually be able to enforce the law.

00:33:26.000 That's all he said.

00:33:27.000 Remember how we were all sold that once police had body cams, like you'd see all the videos of police brutality.

00:33:34.000 I've not seen one.

00:33:35.000 My dad said he prefers it.

00:33:36.000 Yeah.

00:33:37.000 He said because all the times that he'd arrest somebody and bring them in and they'd go, oh, he did this to me.

00:33:43.000 He did that to me.

00:33:44.000 And it was just, it was easier to believe, I guess, for a judge or jury, it was easier for them to believe that an officer was being too aggressive or abusing them than it would be to they just were a piece of shit.

00:33:56.000 Yeah.

00:33:56.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:33:57.000 Remember what we were told?

00:33:57.000 Like, hey, where's the one where it's just, you know, 10 and two, black got being pulled over?

00:34:01.000 Yes, officer, was I going five over?

00:34:03.000 Here's my license.

00:34:03.000 No, no, we've not seen any of them.

00:34:06.000 We've seen some where, like, it's a gray area, you know, where he tells the officer that he's a fat piece of shit and to go screw his mother.

00:34:11.000 Like, okay, but that doesn't necessarily work getting out of the car.

00:34:13.000 But we've never seen what we have been told, like a law-abiding citizen's entire life, top of his class, valedictorian, pulled over and nut stomped for the crime of being black. 0.68

00:34:23.000 We've never seen it.

00:34:24.000 We've never seen anything close to it.

00:34:26.000 And as I understand, pretty much all major municipalities have body cams.

00:34:30.000 You know what I have seen?

00:34:31.000 I have seen way more of this.

00:34:33.000 Somebody coming out and saying that they were done wrong.

00:34:35.000 Yeah.

00:34:36.000 And then the police releasing the body cam footage, and we find out, now, wait a minute.

00:34:39.000 Yeah, it's a beating coming right there because you tried to grab the officer's gun or whatever it was.

00:34:44.000 Yeah, we'll see the cell phone video.

00:34:46.000 That's what we see.

00:34:46.000 We see the cell phone video taken by a bystander, usually a friend or an accomplice of said criminal or suspect.

00:34:53.000 And then we see, like you said, the body cam comes out and goes, hey, we had to wait for an investigation.

00:34:59.000 Yeah.

00:34:59.000 Investigation's complete.

00:35:00.000 Now we can release this body cam footage.

00:35:02.000 Here's the part where they swung a weed whacker at my face.

00:35:05.000 Right.

00:35:05.000 Yeah.

00:35:06.000 I see many more offensive examples of abuses of power where it's like, you know, someone cycling or something in the wrong lane, like writing up a ticket, you know what I mean?

00:35:12.000 Or something for like someone who clearly doesn't deserve it and the cop is on a power trip.

00:35:16.000 But I haven't seen the police brutality.

00:35:18.000 No.

00:35:18.000 I haven't seen the police brutality.

00:35:19.000 All right.

00:35:20.000 Let's grab some chats.

00:35:22.000 All right.

00:35:22.000 First chat from Zhao, one, two, three.

00:35:25.000 If the management and courts of D.C. have failed, should the residential areas be returned to the respective states and the D.C. courts dissolved?

00:35:33.000 Hey, fantastic idea.

00:35:34.000 We carved it out once.

00:35:35.000 We can throw it back at them.

00:35:36.000 I like it.

00:35:37.000 But then Maryland's going to be in control of some stuff, and we don't really want that.

00:35:41.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:35:41.000 That's a bad idea.

00:35:42.000 A place that, you know, I didn't think this through.

00:35:44.000 A place that has a city named Chevy Chase, I don't trust.

00:35:47.000 That's not the worst thing.

00:35:48.000 It's Baltimore.

00:35:49.000 Baltimore is the worst thing about Maryland.

00:35:51.000 What are you talking about?

00:35:52.000 Baltimore is one of the worst.

00:35:53.000 It was the worst city with probably one of the best hotels when we did a last gig there.

00:35:57.000 I was like, oh, this is great.

00:35:58.000 This is a nice hotel.

00:35:59.000 And then I walk out.

00:36:00.000 I'm like, is there any place I can go like right back in the lobby?

00:36:03.000 Yeah, but they sent Ramon Lauriano and Ryan O'Hearn to San Diego, so they're good for something.

00:36:07.000 Thank you.

00:36:08.000 I don't know what that is, but okay.

00:36:09.000 Sounds good.

00:36:10.000 Good for you, Baltimore.

00:36:11.000 Do I have a bridge yet?

00:36:12.000 Do y'all build the bridge back?

00:36:14.000 I don't know.

00:36:14.000 It's looking up, according to Josh.

00:36:16.000 Well, it's great.

00:36:17.000 Things are looking up.

00:36:17.000 He's not talking about Britain.

00:36:18.000 They sent their best baseball players somewhere else.

00:36:20.000 Things are looking up.

00:36:20.000 Oh, oh, you were there?

00:36:22.000 I see.

00:36:22.000 I didn't know.

00:36:23.000 They sent some where?

00:36:25.000 San Diego.

00:36:26.000 Oh, all right.

00:36:26.000 Good.

00:36:27.000 That's the only thing I like about so burn Baltimore to the ground.

00:36:30.000 Next chat.

00:36:31.000 They pronounce it Baltimore.

00:36:32.000 Well, I don't care.

00:36:32.000 What?

00:36:33.000 Yeah, they're.

00:36:34.000 I don't care what they pronounce it.

00:36:35.000 And by the way, The Wire is overrated crap.

00:36:39.000 The fact that Seinfeld got knocked out as top show of all time for the wire.

00:36:42.000 I tried to watch it.

00:36:43.000 I did too.

00:36:44.000 I tried to watch it.

00:36:45.000 I'm like, eh.

00:36:46.000 Yeah.

00:36:47.000 It's fine.

00:36:49.000 It's fine.

00:36:50.000 But I don't know why people love The Wire.

00:36:52.000 Can someone explain to me why The Wire is the most brilliant show of all time?

00:36:55.000 Was it gritty when things weren't gritty?

00:36:57.000 I guess, I guess.

00:36:58.000 That was the key word.

00:36:59.000 I know what I thought.

00:36:59.000 Let's take it, make it gritty.

00:37:01.000 All right.

00:37:02.000 You did it.

00:37:03.000 You hopped up a beer.

00:37:04.000 Good for you.

00:37:05.000 Next chat.

00:37:06.000 All right.

00:37:06.000 Next chat from Silverback, 1968.

00:37:09.000 Question for Stephen.

00:37:10.000 Why isn't DC under federal control already?

00:37:12.000 It doesn't have statehood.

00:37:14.000 It's a federal district.

00:37:15.000 Am I missing something?

00:37:15.000 Yes, 1973.

00:37:16.000 You're missing an entire year.

00:37:18.000 That's when they did the, what is it, the Home Rule Act?

00:37:20.000 That was a question for Stephen.

00:37:21.000 Mr. Morgan?

00:37:23.000 But that's...

00:37:26.000 No, that was a good answer.

00:37:27.000 That was a good answer.

00:37:28.000 Yeah, but he covered it in a previous segment.

00:37:30.000 So I agree with you in principle.

00:37:32.000 But yeah, he was just talking about the Homer Act and they can do it.

00:37:34.000 But of course, it needs to go through Congress.

00:37:39.000 But I agree with you.

00:37:41.000 If I could wave my magic wand, I'd be like, nah, you're under my control.

00:37:44.000 And you're gone and you're gone and you're gone and you're gone.

00:37:46.000 Yeah, that was last week.

00:37:47.000 I think like Thursday, maybe Wednesday, but I think Thursday.

00:37:49.000 I'm just being snarky.

00:37:50.000 Sorry.

00:37:50.000 I mean, this is the thing.

00:37:52.000 This is how you end up with people talk about strong men.

00:37:54.000 This is how you end up with them.

00:37:56.000 And you make people feel powerless.

00:37:57.000 And all they're doing is empowering a force, if it ends up being a federal force or a force, in some cases, you know, state troopers, a force National Guard to enforce the law that already exists.

00:38:10.000 You have one side that creates loophole after loophole after loophole, not for you, but for the serial offenders.

00:38:17.000 And one side is going, low, look, we're going to enforce the law.

00:38:20.000 That's it.

00:38:20.000 I'm sorry.

00:38:21.000 I'm totally fine.

00:38:22.000 I'm not going to be told that I'm callous and go, no, you don't get Coca-Cola and you don't get Fritos on Snap and EBT.

00:38:30.000 I'm sorry.

00:38:30.000 That is a total violation of the spirit of this country.

00:38:33.000 You want to get some milk, eggs, meat, fruit for a temporary period of time.

00:38:38.000 When you get back on your feet, okay, I think a lot of people are on board with that.

00:38:43.000 I think there's an argument to be made, but still.

00:38:45.000 But the idea that you should get whatever you want because it's what you prefer to eat, no.

00:38:48.000 No.

00:38:50.000 The idea that, oh, you've had some tough breaks, so you should be allowed to be homeless for years of pun.

00:38:54.000 No.

00:38:55.000 The idea that, oh, where are these people going to go?

00:38:57.000 The people who are taking over a park that was meant to be enjoyed by families.

00:39:02.000 No.

00:39:03.000 You don't get to do it.

00:39:04.000 Okay.

00:39:05.000 In all of these scenarios, you get to work and become a contributing, functional member of society or institution or jail.

00:39:16.000 That's it.

00:39:18.000 That's it.

00:39:18.000 We should expect of everybody.

00:39:20.000 You need to work and you need to provide.

00:39:23.000 Why do we live in a country where people can just go, I'm just going to have kids.

00:39:26.000 You have people who have children without ever having the intention of providing to them. 0.57

00:39:31.000 You have an entire class.

00:39:32.000 Think about what baby mama is.

00:39:33.000 Think about how perverse that actually is.

00:39:36.000 And it's a term that we laugh about. 0.96

00:39:37.000 Ha ha, baby mama. 0.86

00:39:38.000 They did a movie called a baby mama.

00:39:40.000 You know what that means?

00:39:41.000 That means someone who knowingly has children and knowingly doesn't get married so that they can collect more checks and does so with the full premeditated plan of never working.

00:39:58.000 I'm just going to have kids, no husband, no dad for them, and never work.

00:40:03.000 And I'm going to be on Easy Street.

00:40:04.000 That's what baby mama means. 1.00

00:40:06.000 But those kids have great work ethics.

00:40:08.000 Right.

00:40:09.000 I don't want a country that enables that at any step of the way.

00:40:13.000 If they took a bulldozer through that park and gave them a 10-minute warning, I'd be fine with whatever happened afterwards.

00:40:19.000 Yep.

00:40:20.000 I'm not even kidding.

00:40:21.000 At some point, you're just like, listen, I'm just, I'm going to do this.

00:40:23.000 And then, hey, everybody that lives around here, yeah.

00:40:26.000 You guys have guns, right?

00:40:28.000 Okay.

00:40:28.000 Make sure it stays this way.

00:40:30.000 Okay.

00:40:30.000 Yeah.

00:40:31.000 Done.

00:40:31.000 At a certain point.

00:40:32.000 I know it's more complicated than that, Josh.

00:40:34.000 Yeah, I know.

00:40:35.000 Just the idea of that.

00:40:36.000 One in Tacoma and two just ever happening.

00:40:39.000 I know.

00:40:40.000 You just get a snowplow.

00:40:41.000 You just call it a people plow. 0.96

00:40:43.000 Yeah.

00:40:44.000 You know what?

00:40:44.000 If I see one tent anywhere near, no, I'm going to, I'll be the guy that goes and takes it down every single time.

00:40:50.000 Hey, why don't you send the social workers there? 1.00

00:40:51.000 Let's let's use the social workers. 1.00

00:40:53.000 You see a tent in a park?

00:40:54.000 All right.

00:40:55.000 You go up and you're the first wave. 0.78

00:40:57.000 You're the Marines of social work.

00:40:59.000 You go and you tell them, hey, look, here's the work program and the whatever, the homeless shelter where you can go and we'll put you in a drug rehabilitation program.

00:41:08.000 And if their answer is no, all right, you step aside and the cop comes forward and handcuffs them.

00:41:13.000 I agree.

00:41:14.000 Every single time.

00:41:14.000 Jail.

00:41:15.000 Josh, you're right.

00:41:16.000 That problem would keep happening.

00:41:17.000 Jail every time.

00:41:18.000 Jail.

00:41:19.000 Keep jailing.

00:41:20.000 Build bigger jails.

00:41:21.000 We need more alligator Alcatraz. 1.00

00:41:22.000 It's fine.

00:41:23.000 Build it.

00:41:23.000 You can't.

00:41:24.000 Otherwise, you don't have a city anymore.

00:41:26.000 You don't have a civilization anymore.

00:41:28.000 Yeah.

00:41:28.000 You just don't.

00:41:29.000 You lose it.

00:41:29.000 And at some point, you have to take drastic measures.

00:41:31.000 I'm trying to do that beforehand and say, hey, let's not get to drastic steps.

00:41:34.000 Let's just put them in jail every single time in your situation because that seems like not extreme, but that seems on the extreme end.

00:41:40.000 You know what I mean?

00:41:41.000 Well, when there's a guy beating up a lady in a tweaker van, I think.

00:41:45.000 Just don't let the van ever stop there.

00:41:46.000 Don't let the van ever be there.

00:41:47.000 Don't let the tents ever happen there.

00:41:49.000 Nothing.

00:41:49.000 Jail every single time.

00:41:50.000 Get out of here.

00:41:51.000 No, jail.

00:41:52.000 By the way, there was a dude.

00:41:54.000 There was a car that there was tweakers that flipped a car to my front yard.

00:41:58.000 That's right.

00:41:59.000 That's right, Bob.

00:41:59.000 I was posting pictures of them.

00:42:00.000 Yeah, they hit this roundabout.

00:42:02.000 They flipped their car to my front yard in the middle of the night.

00:42:04.000 They ran.

00:42:05.000 Dude, I got out so fast.

00:42:06.000 I was so proud of myself.

00:42:07.000 I heard a bang and I was out.

00:42:09.000 I got my gun.

00:42:10.000 I was out.

00:42:10.000 I didn't need the gun because it was a car crash.

00:42:12.000 I didn't know what it was, but I ran out within like 90 seconds, dude.

00:42:16.000 I was from hearing it to downstairs outside 90 seconds, gone.

00:42:20.000 They were completely gone.

00:42:21.000 And then the next day, some guy was cruising by.

00:42:25.000 My wife's out front cleaning up glass, sweeping up glass off the sidewalk because the city didn't get it. 1.00

00:42:31.000 And this guy goes, hey, was there a car flipped over right here?

00:42:36.000 And she goes, yeah, how'd you know?

00:42:38.000 He goes, I was just at 7-Eleven.

00:42:40.000 These two tweakers came up to me and asked me for a ride.

00:42:43.000 I said, what do you guys need a ride for?

00:42:45.000 And then I started calling the cops and put it on speakerphone.

00:42:50.000 And he said, yeah, they told me that they were driving last, you know, it was last night that it happened.

00:42:55.000 He said they were driving and they flipped their car into a yard and then they walked here and looking for a ride.

00:43:02.000 And so I kept him there and I was talking to him for a little while, you know, leading him on and then the cop showed up and took him.

00:43:07.000 Good.

00:43:08.000 I was like, what a great closure that is.

00:43:11.000 The next day, this guy's cruising around the neighborhood trying to find where they did it.

00:43:14.000 Nice.

00:43:14.000 That's awesome.

00:43:15.000 And who knows?

00:43:16.000 Then they could have been released immediately.

00:43:17.000 Most likely were.

00:43:18.000 Yeah.

00:43:18.000 Flipping the camera.

00:43:19.000 Most likely were already repeat violators and living their best life.

00:43:23.000 All right.

00:43:24.000 Let's go another chat.

00:43:25.000 All right.

00:43:25.000 Next chat from Camaro Z2813.

00:43:30.000 Could the federal government take over a city like Detroit since it has declared bankruptcy?

00:43:34.000 It can then rehab some of the houses, send all the countless homeless there.

00:43:37.000 Did Detroit officially declare bankruptcy?

00:43:41.000 I don't know.

00:43:41.000 I think that has to be a just default to state then if that was how that worked.

00:43:46.000 I don't know.

00:43:46.000 I don't know how that works at all, so I don't want to talk out of turn here.

00:43:49.000 Say that we put it up again.

00:43:50.000 Well, I do know.

00:43:51.000 I do know when they had the Detroit riots, for example, my dad sat on his mailbox and watched the tanks go down his road into the city.

00:43:59.000 So that would have been, I think probably that would be state.

00:44:01.000 State National Guard is state reservoirs.

00:44:05.000 Every state has their own National Guard.

00:44:07.000 So State National Guard.

00:44:08.000 State Reserve.

00:44:09.000 But my grandfather ran, he was in the Air Force, and they had him running reconnaissance planes over the roof because there were so many snipers in the rooftops.

00:44:16.000 So I think if it's an actual situation of unrest, obviously you can send in some kind of federal forces if it's like a riot.

00:44:23.000 As far as a city declaring bankruptcy, you can't.

00:44:26.000 It's not the same as DC.

00:44:28.000 You just can't do it.

00:44:28.000 And here's the thing.

00:44:29.000 It's just got to be, it's got to be the failure that it deserves to be.

00:44:34.000 And then hopefully people can see it as an example.

00:44:36.000 I mean, that's the best you can really hope for at that point.

00:44:38.000 Example for a change.

00:44:39.000 Yeah.

00:44:40.000 I mean, Detroit, you always have, that's why you always have these hipsters. 0.93

00:44:42.000 You go like, no, it's coming back.

00:44:43.000 Is there the coffee house?

00:44:45.000 And some people staple dockers to a willow tree, whatever the hell.

00:44:48.000 And you're like, no, no, no.

00:44:49.000 That doesn't fix this.

00:44:50.000 What is this about a willow tree?

00:44:51.000 I did a whole, the art district.

00:44:53.000 Like, man, look, it's a resurgence of art in Detroit.

00:44:56.000 There's an area where literally people just like tape and staple clothes to trees.

00:44:59.000 Like, fucking blind certain doctors.

00:45:02.000 Fuck it's art.

00:45:03.000 It's like, okay.

00:45:05.000 All right.

00:45:06.000 So like, it's a whole area.

00:45:07.000 And the day I went there, there was a meth lab that was, or a crack house.

00:45:12.000 I don't know what it was.

00:45:12.000 That was hard to tell.

00:45:14.000 They're making drugs.

00:45:15.000 Yeah.

00:45:15.000 Inflamed.

00:45:16.000 So that sounds like that's a happy ending to your story.

00:45:19.000 The day, sorry, in 2013, they did file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

00:45:28.000 In 2013, I didn't realize that.

00:45:29.000 When you said it, I was like, no, I would have heard about that.

00:45:32.000 Well, it's 2013.

00:45:32.000 I don't know if I was paying as much attention.

00:45:34.000 Whose responsibility is that?

00:45:35.000 Would that be the state of Michigan's responsibility?

00:45:37.000 If they declare bankruptcy?

00:45:39.000 What do you mean?

00:45:39.000 I mean, you just, it basically goes to a bankruptcy court.

00:45:42.000 You're just discharging debt and figuring out what people that you owe money to, whatever vendors.

00:45:48.000 Did they change how they voted after that?

00:45:49.000 Oh, no, of course not.

00:45:50.000 Come on.

00:45:51.000 They probably blamed it on some five Republicans that did something.

00:45:55.000 I don't know.

00:45:56.000 Yeah.

00:45:56.000 In Michigan, that's what they did.

00:45:58.000 Sure, sure.

00:45:58.000 My father's house sold for, was it $7,000, his childhood home in Detroit?

00:46:03.000 Yeah, and it's a part of my collection.

00:46:06.000 Strong.

00:46:06.000 Detroit's strong, Stephen.

00:46:08.000 Yeah.

00:46:08.000 Detroit, the backbone of America.

00:46:10.000 Just shut up. 1.00

00:46:12.000 You know what they did?

00:46:12.000 They went out and got a football coach that actually doesn't practice any nonsense at all with his team, and they're doing better now.

00:46:19.000 Maybe apply that to your city.

00:46:21.000 Go get somebody who knows what they're doing from somewhere else, not from Detroit.

00:46:24.000 No one wants to do what needs to be done with Detroit.

00:46:26.000 Here's what you need to be done with Detroit.

00:46:27.000 They kind of did it with Pittsburgh.

00:46:29.000 It's half the city gone and is now green space that you don't allow homeless encampments to be set up in.

00:46:35.000 That's what you need because the population is they try and say it's 700,000.

00:46:39.000 I would be very surprised if it's half a million.

00:46:41.000 This is a city that was a couple million people.

00:46:43.000 The population's been cut to less than half.

00:46:46.000 It cannot sustain it, but everyone's so busy trying to say, it's coming back and some new government program and program, program, program, program.

00:46:52.000 It's only made the city worse.

00:46:54.000 You need to start, you need to start designing this city, planning it around the actual population.

00:47:01.000 There's so many empty houses that are a fire hazard.

00:47:06.000 Just mow it all, bulldoze it all down, and the city needs to be half of its size, create some green space, earn farming.

00:47:13.000 There you go.

00:47:14.000 Dude, I was doing some, I was doing some fantasy house hunting after talking with you guys a couple months ago about Chicago, and I was finding just like mansions, dude.

00:47:23.000 Yeah.

00:47:23.000 Just, oh, dude, six bedrooms, seven bedrooms.

00:47:25.000 Chicago, Detroit.

00:47:26.000 Three, four thousand.

00:47:27.000 Oh, just outside Detroit.

00:47:29.000 So like in the suburbs of Detroit, but not actual Detroit.

00:47:31.000 Yeah.

00:47:32.000 And it's just like 4,000 square feet, and it's like 300 grand, 350.

00:47:36.000 Yeah.

00:47:36.000 And I'm like, oh, God.

00:47:38.000 Yeah, but your neighbor is a pack of coyotes.

00:47:41.000 Hey, I know how to deal with coyotes.

00:47:42.000 You need like a turret system with automatic systems.

00:47:46.000 Yeah, I guess in Claymore's out there.

00:47:47.000 It's the only city where I have a major U.S. city where I saw packs of roving wild dogs, not even coyotes.

00:47:52.000 How fun.

00:47:54.000 And I mean, actual Detroit, not Southern Department.

00:47:56.000 That's exciting.

00:47:57.000 That's like Oliver and Company.

00:48:00.000 I guess.

00:48:02.000 Add a Billy Joel song and you got a kids movie.

00:48:04.000 Yeah, I guess you do.

00:48:05.000 But, you know, it's kind of sad because they're very skinny.

00:48:08.000 And it looks like India.

00:48:09.000 Final chat.

00:48:10.000 All right.

00:48:11.000 Final chat from anti-federalist payne.

00:48:14.000 How do you justify supporting martial law from an administration that has not enforced second, fourth, and fifth amendment rights to self-defense and defense of property in these same cities?

00:48:23.000 When did we say martial law was cool?

00:48:26.000 They're calling, they're saying this is, I think there's federalizing forces in the US.

00:48:30.000 I think it's a little bit dramatic, but that's not martial law.

00:48:33.000 It's not martial law.

00:48:35.000 Be clear about that.

00:48:35.000 It's a little dramatic, but I think the National Guard coming in and stuff like that, I think maybe is what you're...

00:48:45.000 And this is different burdens that you would have to meet because of, again, civil unrest.

00:48:50.000 In this case, it's just empowering a police force to enforce the laws that are actually on the books and are being violated because of a corrupt system.

00:48:59.000 I think you're referring to the National Guard coming in, but that I don't know exactly.

00:49:03.000 But the president has the right to be able to call the National Guard in, but is that necessarily declaring martial law?

00:49:08.000 I don't necessarily know what they're doing either.

00:49:10.000 Like, I know in California they call the National Guard to protect the ICE buildings.

00:49:13.000 Right.

00:49:13.000 So that's not martial law.

00:49:14.000 That's just them standing outside an ice building saying, hey, you're not coming through this.

00:49:17.000 Martial law needs to be a new set of laws for the contributing citizen. 0.97

00:49:23.000 In other words, for the law-abiding citizen.

00:49:24.000 Martial law means you are now either there's a curfew or there are checkpoints in other words if you are a law-abiding citizen you're not a homeless vagrant in D.C. This affects your life.

00:49:32.000 It affects you zero.

00:49:33.000 It changes nothing.

00:49:34.000 I think there's extra helping hands.

00:49:36.000 I think that that's really all the National Guard is doing is just being strong, healthy, helping hands.

00:49:41.000 Excuse me.

00:49:42.000 Do you mean to say that they don't have the right to do this because they haven't been able to, when you say not enforcing the Second Amendment, you mean not by mandate constitutional carry?

00:49:52.000 Is that what you mean in D.C.?

00:49:54.000 Because again, you understand that that is different.

00:49:56.000 You would just have to supersede the Supreme Court.

00:49:59.000 All state, like that would be worse.

00:50:01.000 So I guess I don't really understand.

00:50:03.000 It sounds to me like you're kind of creating a wish list of the things that you want that they haven't done and saying therefore they don't have the authority that they actually have been constitutionally granted.

00:50:12.000 And there's a long-standing precedent.

00:50:13.000 Now, I agree with you.

00:50:14.000 I would support constitutional carry.

00:50:16.000 I think there should be.

00:50:17.000 Unfortunately, that's not where we are right now.

00:50:20.000 The courts have allowed states to set their certain laws, which I do think violate the Second Amendment.

00:50:26.000 But you think that it would be less of a violation of the constitutional authorities or checks and balances that exist right now for Donald Trump to just go constitutional carry, regardless of what the states and Supreme Court have said.

00:50:37.000 You think that would be less of a violation than enabling a police force to enforce the laws in a federally controlled municipality?

00:50:47.000 Do I have that right?

00:50:49.000 I just don't, I don't, maybe, maybe, maybe they can clarify the question.

00:50:52.000 Genuinely, maybe you could clarify the question because I see this a lot.

00:50:55.000 And I see it where Donald Trump isn't perfect.

00:50:58.000 This administration isn't perfect.

00:51:00.000 And so then it's just like, it's hopeless.

00:51:02.000 Why even vote?

00:51:02.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:51:04.000 I think there's a big difference.

00:51:06.000 I think there's a big difference.

00:51:07.000 And I think this is a good thing.

00:51:08.000 If you think this is martial law, maybe you can make the case as to why that is.

00:51:10.000 So let's grab one more chat.

00:51:11.000 Maybe there'll be a follow-up.

00:51:13.000 All right.

00:51:14.000 Let's see.

00:51:14.000 Next chat from Landshark 0087.

00:51:19.000 There are plenty of jobs that need to be filled by the city.

00:51:22.000 Timeout.

00:51:23.000 Timeout.

00:51:23.000 Cool.

00:51:24.000 Leave it up.

00:51:25.000 You're telling me that Landshark 007 was already taken and you had to do 0087?

00:51:30.000 Yes.

00:51:30.000 There were 80 in between.

00:51:32.000 Landshark 007.

00:51:34.000 I think that's a choice, actually.

00:51:35.000 I think they wanted to be a bad person.

00:51:36.000 Maybe it's a birthday.

00:51:36.000 Maybe.

00:51:37.000 Maybe.

00:51:37.000 Okay.

00:51:38.000 Sorry, continue.

00:51:39.000 Sorry.

00:51:40.000 Those are the favorite roulette numbers.

00:51:42.000 There are plenty of jobs that need to be filled by the city.

00:51:45.000 Those that are homeless can work those jobs.

00:51:47.000 Obviously, some would qualify and others would not.

00:51:49.000 But put them to work, solved.

00:51:51.000 I think that should be the case for any and all welfare recipients.

00:51:54.000 Yes.

00:51:55.000 Sweep streets if you have to.

00:51:56.000 Whatever it is.

00:51:57.000 Pick up cans.

00:51:58.000 Liberals love this idea.

00:51:59.000 They call it a co-op.

00:52:00.000 Yeah.

00:52:00.000 But it's not mandatory.

00:52:01.000 It's just that they love the idea of it when it's their idea.

00:52:05.000 Right.

00:52:06.000 Yeah.

00:52:07.000 I went to a co-op once.

00:52:08.000 I didn't fully understand it.

00:52:09.000 And I was like, oh, wait, I got to make stuff crappier.

00:52:13.000 I go to co-op.

00:52:14.000 Every time I go to Kroger, I got to check myself out.

00:52:16.000 I know.

00:52:16.000 It's terrible.

00:52:17.000 I'm fine with it.

00:52:18.000 The only exception is Sprouts around here, where they always have someone to check you out.

00:52:21.000 Well, hey, YoPlay can be scanned as Kroger brand.

00:52:26.000 Yes, it can.

00:52:27.000 Wow.

00:52:28.000 They made their bed.

00:52:32.000 99 cents.

00:52:33.000 Everything I buy there, 99 cents.

00:52:34.000 Everything is the president's choice or whatever.

00:52:36.000 I heard my friend's comedian who said everything.

00:52:38.000 A lot of things look like bananas.

00:52:42.000 Sorry, what was the question?

00:52:45.000 No, no, I agree with you.

00:52:46.000 I completely agree with you.

00:52:47.000 Put them to work.

00:52:47.000 Like, here's the thing.

00:52:48.000 If you look at the left, okay, and this is why I say don't let them move the Overton window.

00:52:53.000 We talk about our giant welfare state.

00:52:54.000 We're like, well, we need to help people and you don't care about all right, okay.

00:52:58.000 How about a jobs program?

00:53:00.000 Oh, no, that's shameful.

00:53:02.000 How about drug testing?

00:53:03.000 They shouldn't have to.

00:53:04.000 Why?

00:53:05.000 All right.

00:53:06.000 How about single, young, unmarried, childless, able-bodied, how about 20 hours a week?

00:53:12.000 Why should they have to work at all?

00:53:14.000 Okay, all right.

00:53:15.000 How about if they're committing crimes that they shouldn't be able to?

00:53:20.000 Well, they're tough on the, okay, so they should still be able to collect it.

00:53:25.000 What do we do here?

00:53:26.000 Okay.

00:53:27.000 Hey, funyuns from SNAP.

00:53:31.000 Why do you want to shame them?

00:53:33.000 Oh, all right.

00:53:33.000 So you just don't believe in any type of incentive for people to better life.

00:53:40.000 And you don't believe in any type of limitations.

00:53:43.000 You believe that serial criminals currently doing drugs, untested, not working, not seeking any kind of gainful employment, should be able to live on the streets if they so choose and have the taxpayer pay for their Fanta and funions and Doritos in perpetuity for the rest of their life.

00:54:04.000 Do I have that right?

00:54:08.000 Why are we trying to find common ground with these people at all?

00:54:11.000 Like, I just, it just, to me, I just don't, like, people say, both gone, like, no, we haven't both gone left.

00:54:19.000 Wait a second, wait a second.

00:54:21.000 Let's go to immigration. 0.99

00:54:23.000 All right.

00:54:23.000 So, wait, what does he believe?

00:54:25.000 Okay, anyone born here?

00:54:26.000 Anyone born here, if their parents were, but if they're born here, they should be able to stay here. 1.00

00:54:29.000 Okay.

00:54:29.000 Wait, wait.

00:54:31.000 Okay, you also believe anyone who came here, but if they were a minor, okay, student visa, I mean, I guess, wait, wait, what was that?

00:54:39.000 Oh, you also believe if they were brought here as a minor by parents who weren't, that their parents should also get citizenship.

00:54:48.000 Okay?

00:54:49.000 Well, okay, so, so, so, anyone who comes here is granted citizenship.

00:54:52.000 All right, I understand that pretty much.

00:54:54.000 Like, there's no way that you can't grant, but what about the deportation policies?

00:54:58.000 Is it criminals?

00:55:01.000 No.

00:55:03.000 In prison currently?

00:55:05.000 No.

00:55:08.000 Okay, well, then maybe the solution is: let's get, I don't know, okay.

00:55:12.000 We're just going to let them all stay.

00:55:13.000 They're already here.

00:55:14.000 Bygons, we've gotgons. 0.96

00:55:16.000 Let's let them all stay.

00:55:17.000 We're not going to deport anyone, but we know we can't have like another 20 million like every three, four years.

00:55:22.000 So how would we slow down the, let's, let's slow down the new cross?

00:55:27.000 No wall.

00:55:30.000 What about visa over a path to citizenship?

00:55:37.000 There's nothing even resembling a solution that takes into account the American citizen who is working and paying taxes.

00:55:47.000 Ever.

00:55:49.000 Ever.

00:55:51.000 They only care about you when it comes time to fund some new bullshit pet project. 1.00

00:55:57.000 Carbon offsets, an electric car credits, a new park that'll be filled with homeless people.

00:56:02.000 That's what they come to you.

00:56:04.000 But when it comes to you asking, what is it you get for your money?

00:56:09.000 There's never an answer.

00:56:13.000 Ever.

00:56:15.000 Ever.

00:56:16.000 Like, that's, I just, honestly, if we just said no to all their policies, just think about it.

00:56:21.000 Forgive student loans.

00:56:22.000 No.

00:56:24.000 Let the homeless live. 1.00

00:56:25.000 No.

00:56:27.000 Cashless bail?

00:56:28.000 No.

00:56:29.000 Summer beloved?

00:56:30.000 No.

00:56:32.000 COVID mandate backs?

00:56:33.000 No.

00:56:34.000 Lockdowns?

00:56:35.000 No.

00:56:36.000 Credit for electric cars?

00:56:37.000 No.

00:56:41.000 Like, I mean, that is genuinely my stance on most issues at this point.

00:56:45.000 Whatever it is they're saying, I pretty much just, my set point is the exact opposite.

00:56:49.000 Because there used to be a point, if you look at Bill Clinton, for example, okay, and you could argue about Newt Gingrich, but there was some balancing the budget, right?

00:56:56.000 There was some fiscal response, but there were some parts that were tougher on crime.

00:57:01.000 We don't see any of that anymore.

00:57:05.000 Nothing.

00:57:07.000 And we sit here, we go back and forth on what's that pathetic.

00:57:10.000 And then you talk about that frog in the boiling water in the pot.

00:57:15.000 Sometimes we just wake up and go, wait a second, wait a second.

00:57:17.000 Wait, we didn't fucking have a candidate for president who believed in funding violent transgender inmate sex surgeries, did we? 0.63

00:57:28.000 Did I dream that?

00:57:30.000 How do you think you got there?

Louder with Crowder - August 11, 2025

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