On today's show, Steven and I talk about the mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, and why Donald Trump can't seem to stop losing with the merchandise. We also talk about why we should all vote for the lesser of two evils in the 2020 election.
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00:01:42.000That last look in your eyes Falling down, your pants are brown
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00:05:12.000I want to make sure they're on their toes.
00:05:13.000But talking about that, Donald Trump can't stop losing with the merchandise...
00:05:19.000I'd like to really get to today, you know, obviously it's a tragedy what happened in Jacksonville, okay?
00:05:24.000People say, oh, thoughts and prayers, it's stupid, you need to ban guns, shut up.
00:05:27.000But, I do think it's interesting to look at the dynamic between Nashville, what happened, where we had a radical gender theorist, and what's happened in Jacksonville, based on the information we have, someone who probably is a disturbed, you know, a mentally deranged racist.
00:05:41.000You don't live in a free country if you have laws, but if the laws are applied equally.
00:05:46.000And the same thing with the standards of media, right?
00:05:48.000We kind of have trials, but we also have trial by public opinion right now.
00:05:52.000And that's what we're seeing with President Trump.
00:05:54.000Which, question of the day, what would President Donald Trump, some people call him former president, some people call him sitting president, I call him sitting president, what would he have to do for you to not vote for him at this point?
00:06:04.000What would he need to do for you to not vote for him?
00:08:23.000There's like 11 states where the THC from hemp is illegal.
00:08:27.000It's legal from cannabis, legal from marijuana, and those states are states where marijuana is legal because they can't tax it and regulate it.
00:11:07.000That guy should have to face the wall, considering what he's done.
00:11:11.000And I was reading up on him because I was forced to watch this stupid flash film, and I don't know how he's ever convinced anybody that he can portray a straight man.
00:11:28.000And then I'm reading up on this guy who has kidnapped people, who has, of course, groomed children who are underage, who has committed violent assault, breaking and entering, and I'm reading, and it's Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair and New York Post, Variety, right, all these magazines, and it keeps saying, like, and they were arrested.
00:11:43.000I'm going, well, he must have, like, a really loyal accomplice.
00:11:55.000By the way, these guys, they're pushing body positivity and making sure that nudity is just a way of life, but here's the interesting thing.
00:12:02.000They cancelled their after party and what they said was, well because everybody's naked and they're drinking it creates a lot of problems.
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00:13:12.000So this weekend, climate protesters, because that's a thing, they tried to block traffic into Burning Man, and they found out really quickly that Nevada sheriffs don't play that game, and so this brings us to a segment that we haven't done in a while, and it's just Protester Fails.
00:13:28.000When you wish upon a star All right, here they are pulling up.
00:13:44.000It's a good old chain ourselves to something we think is immovable.
00:15:34.000Yeah, the Nevada Rangers, they had to investigate it, and those guys don't fuck around.
00:15:38.000And I love, sorry about the cursing, but I love the fact that some of these people are protesting, and they're gonna be mad about the cops, and then as soon as they find out that they're tribal and native, they're gonna be like, oh, well, I mean, they're just doing their job, you know?
00:16:06.000And, uh, they wanted Burning Man organizers to ban private jets and single-use plastics at the festival, so they're gonna hate those zip ties.
00:17:29.000These guys make their entire campaign is pissing people off.
00:17:32.000We're going to go block roads for people who are just trying to get to work in most cases, and we're going to go destroy priceless works of art to make a point.
00:17:40.000Could you imagine doing anything to piss the entire world off at you more to try to make a point?
00:17:45.000I don't care what their point is anymore.
00:17:47.000I just care that they don't get, like, I just get to rip the hand off of the pavement that's been glued down.
00:17:53.000Remember that guy with the chisel and he accidentally got nicked with it?
00:20:09.000I mean, this is the thing, like, what conditions?
00:20:11.000So to dismantle gender norms, a joyful baby refuses to conform to the gender binary and instead chooses toys, colors, and clothes that make him happy.
00:20:22.000This tongue-in-cheek, well, yes, but enough about yourself, board book It's a perfect tool to encourage children to love what they love, and it's also a great baby shower gift for all soon-to-be parents.
00:20:34.000By the way, encourage, what they mean is indoctrinate.
00:22:38.000And so both the boy and the girl fight over the one that has the
00:22:40.000kind of rhinoceros horn and it's pink.
00:22:43.000It's not, and I don't for a second go, oh, that must mean they're gay!
00:22:47.000No, they like bright, they don't know anything!
00:22:49.000You're the one who is copy-pasting your stupid values if your child happens to like a... What, if your son likes Lucky Charms, you think that he should be out there in the Gay Pride Parade with a tandem bicycle without a seat?
00:25:58.000Here he is promoting The Tale of Two Homo Princes on Twitter.
00:26:03.000Hey, if you liked Red, White, and Royal Blue and want more, then I guarantee you'll like my young adult novel, A Tale of Two Princes, out now.
00:27:38.000Aren't we going to do another segment based on that at some point here in the future?
00:27:41.000I think we were, but so look, I looked and I saw the people bought these books as well, kind of other suggestions, and I thought, okay, like this book is bad enough.
00:31:21.000By the way, the interactions on that were through the roof.
00:31:27.000And he immediately, by the way, turned it into merchandise, including shirts, mugs, decals, koozies, which Pop Strider must be thrilled with.
00:31:35.000I don't know why he has a koozie everywhere.
00:31:37.000He has like five in his car and he also has them in his kitchen.
00:33:57.000I think he's going to... I think Donald Trump, if he is the Republican nominee, will get more black, a higher percentage of black votes, the Republican Party, than any Republican in the last 40 years.
00:34:12.000He improved by four from 2016 to 2020.
00:34:14.000We don't really have the context, but in some areas, he won a significant portion of the black vote.
00:34:18.000Now I know that that doesn't really win elections because black Americans only make up 12-13% of the population, but it's important to see the cultural shift.
00:34:26.000Black Democrats, and they do largely vote Democrat, are the moderate wing of the Democratic Party today.
00:34:31.000And this is a way to turn them off really quickly.
00:34:35.000You act like you side with them in defunding police, which by the way, a lot of them have more positive views of their local police in their neighborhood.
00:34:41.000That's an important component here to take into the equation, but they have a negative view of the federal police.
00:34:47.000They have a negative view of the militarization of police.
00:34:50.000So it's not so much that they hate the Darren Wilsons of the world, even though he was ostracized in the media by largely white liberals, it's that they hate people who would, for example, be involved with this mugshot and Donald Trump.
00:35:11.000The things that all of these other people, these shills out there, will talk about but never actually do anything for because they want to constantly have that for elections.
00:36:33.000This is the kind of Republican they bring on CNN, just to be clear.
00:36:36.000It's like it's a human walking straw man just to be clear.
00:36:40.000Music Playing have now of course admittedly not been nearly as effective
00:37:08.000as we thought and certainly come with more complications. They believe that their votes may
00:37:11.000have been stolen. Oh I wonder why that would be considering that some people showed up to vote.
00:37:15.000Let's just use Arizona for example and they couldn't vote for four or five hours. Let's just use
00:37:20.000that as an example or the fact that they had ballots sent to places where they didn't live or their
00:37:24.000state violated the constitution and they believe that there is a deep state. Hmm I wonder
00:37:28.000why they might believe that there was a deep state considering for three years of their lives
00:37:32.000they heard you talk about as the republican that you are and Anna Navarro they heard you
00:37:36.000talk about Russia Russia Russia collusion which we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt is verifiably
00:37:41.000false and was planted by political People like Hillary Clinton, Fusion GPS, the Steele dossier, for crying out loud, his campaign was actually spied on.
00:37:49.000You have Americans, by the way, with Let's go back to Barack Obama, where the IRS was weaponized specifically against people who were members of the Tea Party group.
00:37:56.000So why would Americans believe that the deck is stacked against them, that maybe their vote doesn't count as much as they thought it would, or that the government has a deep state?
00:38:05.000Yeah, yeah, let's just gaslight you and hope that that continues to work.
00:38:08.000By the way, do you liken those ratings, CNN and Fox News?
00:38:41.000No, no, no, and this guy always loses some.
00:38:43.000I'm just saying with the presidential campaign, fine, you know, if you're the chief strategist, sometimes it's not you, it's the guy that, you know, you're working for.
00:38:51.000He was doing very, very well until you You got in his ear and said, hey, don't go after Barack Obama so much in the next debate because you just killed him!
00:39:09.000Well, I don't know, it might help if we all stopped being such bitches, but then again, I'm not a political shredder anymore.
00:39:14.000I tell you what, the black vote's gonna have a huge, huge impact.
00:39:18.000Especially in these cities that were like Fulton, or like Fulton County, or Atlanta.
00:39:21.000Detroit was a big one that was disputed and stuff.
00:39:23.000Well, that's the odd thing about Detroit.
00:39:25.000You know, Detroit, actually, he was winning.
00:39:26.000Donald Trump was winning Wayne County, by the way, by the same margin that he was actually outperforming himself in other urban areas, meaning like if you go to Philadelphia, meaning if you go to Portland, meaning if you go to Los Angeles.
00:39:37.000I shouldn't say winning, but he was receiving a huge portion of the vote in Wayne County with urban voters, by the way, in the same proportion that Donald Trump was receiving them in all other urban areas until there was a vote switch at three in the morning when some red wagons came in.
00:39:54.000This is one thing, too, when you're talking about, and someone can bring this there from Mission Control, we have this in one of our older episodes that may have been removed from YouTube.
00:40:04.000As you look at major cities across the country, and Donald Trump was outperforming the polls, and he was outperforming his previous performance, meaning he was gaining ground, like we saw with black voters, like we saw with a lot of inner-city voters, except For cities, which cities?
00:40:19.000Places like Phoenix, places like Detroit, places like Atlanta.
00:40:22.000In other words, Portland overperformed, Seattle overperformed, Los Angeles, San Diego, Tampa, Miami, Chicago.
00:40:32.000Not saying he was winning it, but he was performing by a significantly higher margin.
00:40:36.000Some of these areas he was winning until in these key swing states, It's a statistical anomaly.
00:40:45.000You can go back and watch the 12-hour stream that night in election.
00:40:48.000We went to bed thinking, well, I guess Donald Trump wins Michigan, and the reason why was because we were looking at how he won Wayne County, or sorry, we were looking at how he performed in Wayne County, comparing it with Kent County in Michigan, a place where I was living at that point in time during that first election, and said, well, look, if we're just looking at this, this is the county that he has to worry about, and he's doing far better here, And comparable in a lot of the counties that he won, so there's really no way in.
00:41:08.000We went to bed, one hour later we had to start streaming again because the votes flipped.
00:41:12.000But hey, why would Americans think that their vote doesn't count, CNN?
00:41:54.000And the people who they don't want to be involved.
00:41:56.000It's about the people pulling the strings.
00:41:57.000It's about the haves and the have-nots as far as power, not just money.
00:42:00.000And so now they've transitioned from the system is corrupt...
00:42:03.000From, you know, against black people by white, but they're seeing the most, one of the most powerful white men in the world go through the same kind of shit that their buddy did, or their cousin, who was selling weed on the corner, and they go, maybe it's not a black-white thing.
00:42:15.000Maybe we can link arms with other white people, Asian people, who've been gamed by the system.
00:42:22.000That's the kind of, those are the kinds of inroads that are being made, and that's why you can come back and tell, I think that if Donald Trump is a nominee, he is going to receive a record number of black votes.
00:42:31.000Because again, being around in comedy, we have the luxury of being around, generally speaking, far more black people than most white people do, right?
00:42:38.000You're in a green room, if you're doing a showcase set, it's like 40% black.
00:42:41.000Comedy has a lot of, and they're usually better than white comics.
00:43:43.000And just to be clear, we already know a lot.
00:43:45.000But for those of you who maybe haven't been recapped, here you go.
00:43:49.000This afternoon, a little after 1 p.m., an individual we have not yet officially identified Entered Dollar Tree in the Newtown area of Jacksonville, outfitted with a tactical vest, armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun.
00:44:05.000Then the shooter killed three people before turning the gun on himself, taking his own life.
00:44:11.000Other than the three individuals killed and the shooter himself, there are no additional people who suffered gunshot wounds.
00:44:17.000We are not identifying the deceased victims at this time, but I can tell you that there are two male victims and one female victim.
00:44:25.000All of the deceased victims are black.
00:44:27.000The Clay County Sheriff's Office, who has been assisting our agency with this investigation, received information after the shooting that the shooter had authored several manifestos.
00:44:36.000One to his parents, one to the media, and one to federal agents.
00:44:41.000Portions of these manifestos detail the shooter's disgusting ideology of hate.
00:44:47.000Plainly put, This shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people.
00:44:52.000He wanted to kill... This is in the first public statement.
00:44:55.000That's the one and only time I'll use that word.
00:44:58.000The weapons that the shooter used today are a Glock and an AR-15 style rifle.
00:45:04.000All right, so you guys can go and watch the whole clip.
00:45:06.000And by the way, all references are available at ladderwithcrowder.com.
00:45:09.000And again, is the rule of law, or I guess I should also say, are the ethical standards of media?
00:45:15.000Because it's never been more applicable than this.
00:45:17.000How often have you heard them say, well, we don't want to create copycats, so we're not even going to address the manifesto.
00:45:23.000Right there, the very first statement.
00:45:27.000Are the ethics of journalism applied equally?
00:45:29.000Well, let's compare this to the Nashville shooting from March, and we actually still
00:45:33.000don't know things there that some would argue could be pivotal, which brings us to this
00:46:45.000So the investigation is still ongoing into this whole incident.
00:46:51.000But what detectives have said so far is there is possibly some resentment for having to go to that school.
00:46:58.000There's a connection with that family.
00:47:01.000Right now, I can't go deeply into that because it's unconfirmed.
00:47:06.000Yeah, here's the very clear answer which, by the way, we were able to confirm and we're not, we don't even have an investigative unit.
00:47:12.000This was someone who was a radical gender ideologist who was targeting specifically what they viewed as a Christian school and Christian victims.
00:48:34.000It's Audrey Hale, for those of you who've forgotten.
00:48:37.000And by the way, we would have to go around, we'd have to avoid on YouTube covering anything from the manifesto or from this person's social media.
00:48:44.000Or, by the way, people would be suspended on social media, in case you don't remember, for misgendering the mass shooter!
00:48:52.000Here's overlay D5, in case you forgot.
00:48:53.000It was Audrey Hale used he him pronouns.
00:50:16.000Hate crimes are always and will always remain a top priority for the FBI because they are not only attack on a victim, they are also meant to threaten and intimidate an entire community.
00:50:30.000Well that's not hate crime, that's terrorism.
00:50:32.000What were you about to say there, Gerald?
00:51:38.000Same thing with the transgender shooter in Nashville.
00:51:41.000Sheriff provides the first details of how a white man fatally shot three black people at a Florida store.
00:51:45.000And that headline, by the way, from AP, was then changed to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis booed at vigil as hundreds mourn more racist killers.
00:51:52.000Oh, they were just trying to fit racist and Governor DeSantis into the same headline.
00:51:57.000Someone sat there and said, okay, hold on a second.
00:51:59.000I'm gonna, headline here is going to be, uh, sheriff provides the first details of how a white man fatally shot three black people at a Florida store.
00:53:46.000And by the way, both the left and the right wing media, they were claiming, and here's the thing too, just to be clear, I get that I'm a hypocrite.
00:53:53.000I understand, because I used to say, you know what, I don't want these issues to be politicized.
00:54:25.000What they want to do is divide America and have no response.
00:54:29.000And we're not going to play that game anymore.
00:54:31.000Back then with Nashville, both the left and the right wing media, they were claiming that releasing the manifesto, or even talking about it, even mentioning his name, would spur copycat killers.
00:54:41.000This manifesto Let's other people read it and then somehow copycats become involved.
00:54:48.000And the main thing you were talking about is this called mass shooting contagion.
00:54:51.000And it's when the releases of manifestos then contribute to the other manifestos.
00:54:55.000Some people even copy and paste the manifestos into it.
00:56:25.000What is it with these shooters and whiteout on guns?
00:56:28.000I have been to many gun shows, many gun ranges, I have never once seen someone with a swastika through, you know, a sharpie or whiteout on their firearm.
00:57:04.000I used to not want to because of copycats, but at this point I think it's important for you to know where, you know, the violence is stemming from.
00:57:12.000I think that's important because we're at a point now where you deserve to have all the information at your fingertips to keep yourself safe.
00:57:18.000Did they just hand you something important?
00:57:19.000Well, they showed the gun at the press conference too, you know, with obviously that, with the swastikas and stuff on there.
00:57:25.000That is the laziest swastika I've ever seen.
00:57:28.000I mean, I just, you know, look, we don't have enough information, but this is the problem.
00:57:32.000When you only provide information for some shootings and not for others, that's how you breed conspiracy theorists, because they're going, we're definitely not being given the whole truth.
00:57:40.000Because you refuse to tell us the truth about Nashville.
00:57:42.000Also, this could maybe be sort of an admission to the fact that transgender individuals, of course, suffering from higher rates of mental instability, are more likely to be influenced to be a copycat, whereas white supremacy is intensely unpopular.
00:57:58.000This brings us back to THEN with Nashville.
00:58:02.000The media, by the way, censored coverage of the shooter across the board that defied their narrative.
00:58:08.000So here's CBS executives, right, they barred the use of the word transgender.
00:58:12.000So the shooter's gender identity has not been confirmed by CBS News, although it was confirmed by the rest of Earth.
00:58:20.000As such, we should avoid any mention of it as it has no known relevance to the crime.
00:59:29.000That's the only way we can actually expand our investigative journalism.
00:59:32.000And there were a lot of people calling for—you can bring that up there, Toolman—there were a lot of people who were calling for violence.
00:59:36.000Just to be clear, there were a lot of people calling for violence for the Trans Day of Vengeance, and one person went out and committed it.
00:59:41.000Now, I think that's relevant, because I don't believe that there was a call for violence on a day at Dollar General against black people.
01:01:19.000Also had incredibly bad mental health challenges.
01:01:21.000Had actually been, I think, not committed necessarily, I can't remember what it was, evaluated maybe the right term before, for mental health issues.
01:01:28.000So it's not just because what they want to do is they want to focus on the one thing that they think will get people to get, oh, I can't believe it.
01:01:34.000White people are coming after black people.