Join us as we travel back in time to a time where grown men dance to call in the rain, where adults have zero tolerance for fire water, and a propensity for scalping which has nothing to do with ticket sales. A land where casinos dot the landscape, and there s going to be a lot of embarrassed and red faces like the mighty buffalo of yore.
00:01:43.000Welcome to Louder With Crowder's 9th Annual Cultural Appropriation Month, where we introduce you to all the great and wondrous cultures our planet has to offer.
00:01:54.000Because to appropriate is to appreciate.
00:02:01.000This week, join us as we travel back in time to a point in history of this, our great land.
00:02:10.000A time where grown men dance to call in the rain.
00:02:13.000Where adults have zero tolerance for fire water and a propensity for scalping which has nothing to do with ticket sales.
00:02:20.000A land where casinos dot the landscape.
00:05:19.000So, also, you may not notice, there are more Lakota today than ever.
00:05:23.000180,000, which is nine times more than there happened to be in the 18th century, which means that the white man is not very good at genocide.
00:06:42.000John Stewart tried to make the claim that crime is down in major cities across the United States and the reason for gun crime, the reason for violent crime in big blue cities is actually because of Republicans and their gun laws.
00:06:57.000We're going to be debunking that point by point.
00:07:02.000Spoke a lot of different languages, but it's also been a thing now where they're dubbing the white man's films into native languages, so we'll show you some of that.
00:08:22.000It only stinks for the forever part of my life.
00:08:27.000The scalping, actually, that the Europeans did, it was a matter of, instead of collecting heads, like dog tags, take a scalp back to say, these are how many people we've killed.
00:11:04.000Yeah, and she was converting other people, and they're like, hey, don't push your religion on me, pal.
00:11:13.000I don't need your spaghetti monster in the sky.
00:11:15.000Yeah, all of a sudden, she used to be painting with colors of the wind, and now that that bitch found Jesus, nothing's good enough for her!
00:11:27.000Don't forget where you came from, and that's scalping and no wheels!
00:11:44.000And what would you say to the Mormons and others who believe that their God has given to them Indian lands in the West?
00:11:50.000I would say they should listen to Achan Tronca.
00:11:52.000No matter what your legends say, you didn't sprout from the plains like the spring grasses.
00:11:58.000And you didn't coalesce out of the ether.
00:12:01.000You came out of the Minnesota woodlands, armed to the teeth, and set upon your fellow man.
00:12:07.000You massacred the Kiowa, the Omaha, the Ponca, the Oto, and the Pawnee without mercy.
00:12:13.000And yet you claim the Black Hills is a private preserve bequeathed to you by the Great Spirit.
00:12:18.000And who gave us the guns and powder to kill our enemies?
00:12:21.000And who traded weapons to the Chippewa and others who drove us from our home?
00:12:25.000Chief Sitting Bull, the proposition that you were a peaceable people before the appearance of the white man is the most fanciful legend of all.
00:12:33.000You were killing each other for hundreds of moons before the first white stepped foot on this continent.
00:12:37.000You conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and their lands, just as we have now conquered you for no less noble a cause.
00:13:40.000A lot of coffee companies out there, you know, There's been a track record where people, you know, you think they're your allies and then you're like, oh, OK, it turns out this is just another coffee company.
00:14:47.000You know, many of you know that films are dubbed.
00:14:50.000I was raised in Canada, French Canada, where half of the films at the local cineplex, they were in French, and it was silly, and I had to make a choice, and if I missed one, tickets were sold out.
00:14:58.000Ah, jeez, I gotta go see Fast and Furious with a Parisian accent.
00:15:05.000I'm kidding, I never saw Fast and Furious.
00:16:09.000I don't know what you say with tonsils.
00:16:10.000So, I don't know if you know this, but when people talk about cultural appropriation, you can also find films now that have been dubbed in native languages.
00:16:28.000Prey, which is the Predator prequel, you know, and that's the one where Arnold and Carl Weathers, they couldn't take him out with submachine guns or actually like rocket launchers, but this girl with a spear.
00:16:48.000So they've been dubbing them, and I don't know where, at a certain point, when, I don't really care, people can dub it whatever they want, but when people bitch about constant appropriation, eh, okay, this is kind of a white thing.
00:16:58.000I don't really know, before we get to the idea of these films, which are distinctly American, you know, the idea of moving pictures also kind of came from the white man.
00:21:19.000I'm gonna need to put a shirt on before I do the Jon Stewart rebuttal, because he's probably going to come back at us, and then the first thing he'll point to is my nips, and you know, rightfully so.
00:27:35.000I know what you're talking about when you're talking about the First Amendment, right?
00:27:38.000And a lot of people just reference the First Amendment as freedom of speech, but that is where And we see this idea, which is very important, of prohibiting some kind of a state-sponsored or mandated church.
00:27:50.000The First Amendment was designed to keep the government out of the church-running business, like the Church of England, which they fled.
00:27:57.000Or, of course, the California Church of Fatter Gay Saints.
00:28:12.000So, the idea of separation of church and state is not to prevent people from being religious, and it's not to even prevent the idea of Judeo-Christian values, as we well know, from being the backbone of the laws that we have.
00:29:05.000Thomas Jefferson, the other deist that people point to, not really a Christian like you modern-day fundamentalists, you would consider him a right-wing radical Christian if you actually knew what he stood for.
00:29:14.000He confirmed freedom of worship, right?
00:29:16.000And he had this letter that he wrote, I've talked about this, to the Danbury Baptists, where they were very concerned about a state denomination.
00:29:21.000And he sent them a letter saying, no, no, don't worry, the separation of church and state is to guarantee that there is no Church of England.
00:29:26.000So you are free to practice any religion and certainly any denomination that you want.
00:29:32.000It's not just when you look at the Bill of Rights.
00:29:34.000There are many, many corroborating auxiliary documents from these people, from their own hands, that clarify and provide context.
00:29:42.000And the more you add context, even without it, it's very clear if you read the First Amendment, you add more context, And it only undergirds that.
00:29:50.000And this is actually a letter from, let me read a quote from it, the Danbury Baptist from Jefferson, confining myself therefore to the duties of my station which are merely temporal, be assured that your religious rights shall never be infringed by any act of mine and that.
00:30:03.000If you look at the Ten Commandments, of course they're reflective of the foundational principles.
00:30:07.000You look at the Mayflower Compact, look at the Declaration of Independence, you look at the Constitution.
00:30:11.000To act as though they share nothing in common or they weren't the basis of our laws is simply to deny history.
00:30:18.000You may not like it, but don't say that historically throughout this country, we have not allowed any displays of religious faith in public places.
00:30:28.000And the guys who wrote about it, the guys who were basically saying, hey, we're founding a country to make sure that we don't have the same kind of religious persecution that we had in England.
00:30:36.000In large part, that's why most people came here early on, they did things that showed
00:30:42.000us exactly what they thought and what they meant with what they wrote.
00:31:14.000But to say that you have to disconnect anything religious from government life or from something that is So fundamentally who we are, like you cannot separate our founding from God.
00:32:06.000I've been watching today's program, and I must say, this is quite offensive and disrespectful towards Native American people in this country.
00:35:44.000I do want to ask a quick question before we go on to the next story because I don't want to interrupt once we do, but Josh, I know you probably had a little different opinion.
00:35:50.000I don't see a problem with the separation of church and state and having Louisiana state say, hey, we're going to have this display in classrooms.
00:35:58.000Well, my belief is that in the First Amendment, it says that no law should be made respecting the establishment of a religion.
00:36:09.000And the Ten Commandments is one of those things where I could see that not being considered super religious, and I could see it being considered as the basis of our laws, the basis of society, and a law-abiding society, but the first four commandments command you to have only one God.
00:36:36.000But but to say that it has to be in every classroom, it feels like it could.
00:36:40.000I mean, if I was Jewish, it's the same God there.
00:36:43.000But if I was a different religion, right, if I was a different religion and I had to put that in my classroom, I think I would feel a certain way about it.
00:36:51.000And so that's where I go with it, where they're making a law where every classroom has to have it.
00:37:04.000They claim to obviously respect the prophets of old, the people of the book.
00:37:08.000And the people who would be offended by it, you know, really probably wouldn't, because if you look at Hinduism and Buddhism, it's kind of subjective.
00:37:14.000I don't imagine that they would have a problem with the Ten Commandments in there.
00:37:17.000So, really, we're just dealing with Satanists.
00:37:21.000Yeah, I mean, I think, and I, I understand it too, but it's, you're not compelling any kind of behavior either, right?
00:37:27.000And, and that was the argument used in school prayer, where you're kind of compelling behavior because it was an optional prayer and then people would give, have a problem with it.
00:37:33.000But I, I just, I really do think that what we've done is ceded so much ground where it's like, yeah, we're going to have pride flags, we're going to have, you know, this, this kind of cult In our classroom, and we're going to teach our kids all these very terrible cultural things that we disagree with, but we cannot, under any circumstances, acknowledge how this country was founded, at the very least, or that there might be a god.
00:37:53.000And I think that is a very, very, yeah, but how do you acknowledge it then?
00:39:04.000It is secularism and it is effectively a religion based or predicated on the rejection of God.
00:39:11.000That's really what we're dealing with right now.
00:39:12.000In other words, if you want to say that the idea of teaching children that they can be any gender that they want, or take mind-altering cross-sex hormones at the age of six, that is a religious belief because it's not based in science.
00:39:50.000Because they don't want to serve a God who tells you to love your enemies Or who tells you to control your emotions or who tells you to be meek and submissive to God.
00:39:58.000They say, hey, that's a God who hates you.
00:40:00.000You should do things that bring you pleasure.
00:40:23.000And hey, by the way, you are all perfect and beautiful the way you are.
00:40:26.000That is a rejection of every single... well, those ones, I should say, are a rejection of fundamentally godly principles that were the basis of this country, and that's why we are where we are.
00:40:37.000So we do have to look at them both and say, let's put these on equal footing.
00:40:40.000Leftism, progressivism, is a religion.
00:40:49.000When you're talking about a party that supports abortion up until and including birth period, and even after birth in some instances like Virginia, or states like California, Colorado, if they had their way, we're no longer talking about a life.
00:41:00.000It is human sacrifice at the altar of self.
00:41:03.000And I think the reason for this, if people may think it's an overcorrection, and you can comment below, It's necessary at this point, because we've been acting as though all of these other ideals, these values that are corrosive, that have seeped in, that they're not somehow religious because these people claim that they're not religious.
00:41:20.000But they are dogmatic, and they do subscribe to a doctrine.
00:41:23.000It's the doctrine of me, me, me, me, me.
00:41:26.000And, you know, not to be exclusive, but none of those other religions or ideas or tenets of belief had any impact on the founding of this country.
00:41:33.000So when you're talking about the founding of this country, I'm sorry but we didn't look to Islam to find out how to arrange society.
00:41:41.000We didn't look to Buddhism or Taoism or any of these other things.
00:41:45.000We looked to Christianity and we looked to Judaism when you look at the Old Testament.
00:41:49.000We looked to Judeo-Christian principles to found this country.
00:41:53.000I do agree, I do agree that we should, you know, we gotta keep reminders of how this country was formed and what the ideas were behind it and all that, but I do think it's important to remember that people were escaping religious persecution.
00:42:05.000Right, and there's no persecution by having a person.
00:42:07.000And if we're gonna stick to the things that started this country and stuff, yeah, there's some, you know, it's backed up by Christianity, Judeo-Christianity, but it's also, I would support a law or a bill that made the Bill of Rights, or the Declaration of Independence, both of them be put in classrooms.
00:42:22.000I think if you could teach those—I think that's more important, honestly.
00:42:25.000I don't— Nobody's teaching these kids these—if you ask any kid what the—if you asked yesterday what the 19th Amendment was to a bunch of—nobody's gonna know.
00:42:46.000You'd be surprised as to what a lot of those people know and hey, that's why they end up
00:42:50.000becoming law-abiding citizens, not to be confused with illegal immigrants or El Chapo.
00:42:55.000There's a lot of kids that grow up thinking that everything's against them.
00:42:59.000That everything's racist, everything's against them.
00:43:01.000If you have the Bill of Rights and the Constitution up in the classrooms, every day they can look at it, they get to see it, they get to look for it themselves.
00:43:08.000I can do this, I can do that, I can... Except they have a bunch of public school teachers saying, well you can't because those are written by white men and they actually don't apply to you and it's systemically racist.
00:44:21.000And I will tell you exactly why all of it is wrong.
00:44:24.000But he wants to make the case, if you haven't gone and watched this, it's been making the rounds, it's gotten millions of plays, that actually crime is down across the country, and certainly in big blue cities, and the crime in big blue cities is actually the result of Republican gun policies.
00:45:23.000The balls of these right-wing motherfuckers.
00:45:28.000Talking about how there's too much gun crime and chaos in our democratic cities.
00:45:34.000When Republicans are the ones who've enabled the flood of illegal weaponry into our cities in the first place.
00:45:44.00093% of the illegal guns used in crimes in New York City aren't from here!
00:45:50.000The guns come from states like Florida, and Georgia, and South Carolina, where the gun laws are lax.
00:45:56.000Well, I guess I'll be your right-wing mother f***er, because you're wrong.
00:46:01.000And here's the thing, Jon Stewart is very, very smart.
00:46:04.000So I don't know if it's people who've gotten him information that he hasn't taken the time to fact-check.
00:46:09.000Or I don't know if he knows that these are misleading statistics and by that I mean flat-out incorrect and is simply deciding to use them anyway to score political points.
00:46:19.000I'd like to think it's not the latter.
00:46:20.000All I know is that it is incorrect and I will provide all references.
00:46:24.000Link in the description or ladderwithcreditor.com.
00:47:33.000The National Crime Victimization Survey, which interviews citizens directly, they report that only four in ten violent crimes are reported at all.
00:47:41.000Only three in ten property crimes are reported.
00:47:44.000So, it's like, if you only count the calories you eat while you're sober, fine, but you're still going to end up dying in the street.
00:48:03.000Once we've established they've fundamentally changed their method of reporting and also the why there would matter.
00:48:08.000I can't give you that answer definitively.
00:48:10.000I can guess as to why they would decide to report it differently when they've had a crime wave the likes of which we haven't seen in many, many, many years and they need to for political expediency reduce it.
00:48:20.000Let's just change the reporting mechanisms.
00:50:07.000These numbers are actually probably significantly worse.
00:50:09.000If you wonder why people are so concerned with violent crime while talking heads, comedians, entertainers, analysts like Jon Stewart and people at CNN don't actually think that people are suffering crime waves, well, that's also because they're experiencing something that you're missing, and a big part of that is that many crimes no longer go prosecuted at all in a lot of these cities.
00:51:06.000So you have crimes that aren't being listed at all as crimes, right?
00:51:10.000Or they're not being prosecuted, so these criminals are free to roam in these cities, and then the citizens have to experience it.
00:51:16.000You have a new, a very novel reporting system, a new method of reporting that, by the way, is a system that at least a quarter, as far as we know right now, and for those years at least a third of law enforcement agencies don't use, and you still have increased crime across these cities, largely in blue cities, which will bring us to the next point that he makes.
00:51:37.000Well, even if you maybe believe that the crime is up, gun violence, of course this is the term, gun violence in blue cities is actually the fault of Republicans and Conservatives.
00:51:48.000Now all of this, by the way, is not to say that gun crime does not exist.
00:51:59.000The balls of these right-wing motherfuckers.
00:52:05.000Talking about how there's too much gun crime and chaos in our democratic cities when Republicans are the ones who've enabled the flood of illegal weaponry into our cities in the first place.
00:52:31.000This is the easiest way to debunk this, and I know he's a rational person.
00:52:34.000You cannot make the argument that in these blue cities, gun crime is up because of the red districts, where they have higher gun ownership, but they don't have crime.
00:53:19.000Does he mean weapons that have been purchased illegally?
00:53:22.000In other words, they haven't been purchased in the way that people in these counties, in suburban high gun ownership or rural counties, would purchase their firearms?
00:53:30.000Either way, the rate-limiting factor is the criminal who's procuring these guns illegally.
00:53:36.000We have counties with far, far more guns than the most violent counties.
00:53:44.000Only the counties, these major cities where we have seen increased crime, increased violent crime, which are entirely run by Democrats, have seen those problems.
00:53:56.000And here's another truth that's very uncomfortable, okay?
00:54:00.000If you take out black firearm deaths, the numbers are dramatically different.
00:54:07.000It's not about race, it's about big city culture, and it's about these big city cultures, these metropolitan cultures, by the way, that are run by leftist mayors.
00:55:44.000If you want to make the, it's the Republicans' fault, okay, well then I guess, how would you solve it?
00:55:49.000In other words, if you said, well we're not going to look at black firearm deaths, we're not going to look at the fact that these are run entirely by Democrat mayors, um, the problem is Republicans, right?
00:55:55.000The problem is Republicans and where these guns are coming from.
00:55:58.000The only way to solve that is to go to the areas that have high gun ownership, where they are not committing crimes, and take away their guns.
00:56:06.000There is no solution that couldn't involve that!
00:56:10.000Or, maybe we have a problem with these cities.
00:57:45.000And also I was, there was two, you said the two counties at the 56% of the murders are the two counties, uh, whatever Chicago's in and, uh, New York 2% of the murders happen.
00:59:00.000When you look at the bail reform, when you look at the no cash bill, when you look at the recidivism rate, when you look at not prosecuting crimes, and you look at, oh, no, no, no, it's the suburbs and it's the rural areas.
00:59:08.000They have all the guns and those guns are making it here.
00:59:10.000It's like, okay, you're saying that their guns are making it here, but their guns are already I wonder how many of these illegal gun crimes he's talking about are just possession charges.
00:59:43.000Well, we're using the gun homicide rates or gun death rates, and they are higher in big blue cities.
00:59:48.000But yes, people can be charged by simply carrying a firearm that would be constitutionally protected with other states who actually value the rule of law in this country.
00:59:55.000But the violent crime, that's the big difference.
00:59:57.000The violent crime is a plague in these cities.
01:00:01.000And I know what people say, well, that's because there are more people.
01:00:03.000No, no, we're talking about the rate per 100,000.
01:00:07.000But if people are closer together in a big city, okay, then I would also argue back to the first point.
01:00:12.000It's the people with the mindset that creates in all blue city and those gun laws for decades that lends itself more to no cash bail and crime.
01:00:23.000There's no escaping it when you have the contrast.
01:00:26.000There's no escaping that Detroit is the left.
01:00:46.000There's no escaping that San Francisco is the left.
01:00:48.000At a certain point, you do have to deal with it, and you can't just blame the Republican counties and those dumb hicks out there who own all the guns anyway and don't commit the crimes.
01:01:28.000It means that you have laws that are overreaching.
01:01:30.000But the second part of all of this is that he's trying to shill for Biden.
01:01:35.000He's trying to go, look at the job this administration is doing.
01:01:38.000In most of the other examples that I can think of of Donald Trump, where maybe a stat that he has was going down, like a good economic indicator was going up, but they would say still not as good as under Obama.
01:01:49.000Still not as high as the previous administration.
01:01:51.000What they're doing right now is saying, hey, look, gas prices are going down.
01:02:12.000That is the kind of reporting that you need.
01:02:14.000That is the kind of honest reporting that I think they would go, well, if Donald Trump was in office, he'd go still higher than the previous administration, even though he's making progress.
01:02:21.000And do you know why it's the kind of reporting you need?
01:02:23.000Because it informs you so you can make decisions for your life.
01:02:26.000Where to move, If owning a firearm is more dangerous than being disarmed, for example, when people believe you're in greater danger of having a firearm in your house, you repeat these kinds of talking points.
01:02:35.000It affects people's decisions if they believe it.