Comedian Dave Landau ( ) joins Jemele to discuss his new show, The Rebels of the Cause Tour, and how to get free tickets to his upcoming live show in Phoenix, Arizona on September 17th, 2019.
00:03:22.000And then we'll be talking about, I don't know if you know this, Visa, MasterCard, Amex, all these major credit card companies now, they're effectively creating a gun registry.
00:03:36.000Comment below, there you can hear it too, man.
00:03:37.000What do you do when you have company, when you have Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Apple, Amazon, and now you have all these major credit card companies, and of course banks, who've decided to work with the government?
00:03:47.000Does the libertarian argument of, ah, the First Amendment, your rights only apply as it relates to government, I don't think so anymore!
00:03:54.000We're at a point where there's nowhere you can turn without the influence and pressure, not only of the national government, but international governments.
00:05:19.000So she grabs him by the collar this weekend, pulls him down.
00:05:23.000Just grab him by the collar and kind of pulls him down, and he's a really sweet boy, my son, so he often, like, he'll give her things if she wants them.
00:05:28.000If she's crying, he gives her his pacifier.
00:06:37.000If you understand the human condition, kids are awful, horrible, selfish beings if left to their own selfish motivations.
00:06:43.000That's why you have to teach them right from wrong.
00:06:45.000And liberals believe that we are all inherently good.
00:06:48.000And of course, as people who are conservatives, we understand that there's damage that can be done because people are inherently That's true.
00:07:29.000Okay, just really quickly, in case you thought, before we get to the news, in case you thought If before this you thought, as Nick DiPaolo says, that soccer is for six-year-olds and homosexuals from Greece, you stand corrected.
00:09:44.000100 kilograms of donkey appendages, and if you're going to number it, that's the poundage, or kilograms, we're going by metric here, 2,754.
00:09:52.000And you're wondering why these penises are being used to make a traditional medicine in China called ujiao, which purportedly treats or prevents many problems including miscarriage, circulatory issues, and premature aging.
00:10:06.000So there you go, your next great superpower!
00:10:49.000If the government is telling social media what they can and can't say, or if social media is subject to international forces, pressures, coalitions, and then it affects you as an American, at what point are you no longer an autonomous human being?
00:11:02.000So we have five companies that control 90-something percent of all the information that flows.
00:11:07.000Uh, and then we also have, now, credit card companies.
00:11:10.000And this is, uh, basically, effectively, the first step towards a gun registry.
00:11:14.000And what happens is if you can't get it through the legislation because it's unconstitutional, well, they'll do it through businesses who, by the way, get bailed out and have kickbacks from government so the two are one and the same.
00:11:22.000We really are at a point in this country where it's hard to tell the difference.
00:11:26.000It's hard to tell the difference between a private bank, a private institution, In the United States government.
00:11:32.000So Visa, MasterCard, American Express, they're now going to be tracking all gun purchases using this purchase code that they've set up.
00:11:40.000And I'll get into why this is the case, but these are all major credit card companies, charge cards for people who are defenders of American Express.
00:13:05.000It would save one life the inconvenience of being targeted by the NSA, FBI, or intelligence communities as proxy arms of, well, I guess these credit card companies are proxy arms of our American intelligence communities.
00:13:18.000You're not gonna be called by the local police department You go and you purchase or you do an FFL transfer with your Amex card and the next thing you know, you're being raided like it's Mar-a-Lago!
00:13:29.000This is pretty stupid, though, because his own argument doesn't work.
00:13:31.000He says that if you care about teachers, if you care about students, that you're going to do this.
00:13:34.000Obviously trying to pull on heartstrings for school shootings, which is a horrible thing.
00:13:38.000This wouldn't prevent a single one of them.
00:13:40.000This would be used after a shooting to see what happened, because somebody can walk in and buy a gun.
00:14:13.000But he's saying something that makes you think, oh, well, this is going to... If I care about teachers.
00:14:16.000If you care about teachers, well, I do care about teachers.
00:14:19.000If you care about kids, well I do care about kids, then you're fine with your private information being reported by these credit card companies to the government who can then target and prosecute you.
00:14:26.000By the way, we've had this in California.
00:14:28.000Just before we move on to why this is happening, in California obviously you have even ammo, for example, has to be tracked.
00:14:41.000It affects people who go out and their hobby is working with firearms.
00:14:43.000The truth is, if you see, most of the time, someone who has that many firearms and that much ammo, it doesn't really necessarily mean that they're a prep or they're just people who are meticulous about their firearms.
00:16:19.000They want to do away with these institutions that they blame you for not trusting.
00:16:22.000And when that doesn't work, when we have a Supreme Court case, for example, that relates to New York, that it's unconstitutional for them to not allow you to carry, they find workarounds.
00:16:30.000In New York, workarounds were every single zone, unless otherwise expressed, is a firearm-free zone.
00:17:06.000So, she wrote this to the credit card companies, to American Express.
00:17:09.000Elizabeth Warren, we write to urge American Express to support the creation of a new merchant category code, MCC, which is the term you'll hear right now to sort of whitewash it, for gun and ammunition retail outlets and to seek answers to reports that the company has obstructed efforts to create such a category, which would be an important step towards ending financial system support.
00:17:29.000For gun trafficking, gun violence, and domestic terrorism.
00:18:29.000Walther sometimes have to send me new products to sample, and sometimes I'll get multiple products, and then one time one was for you, and so what I do is I ship to me, then I do a legal transfer, you know, half-Asian, creates a document, we draft it up, There's your gun show loophole!
00:18:44.000You cannot find crimes that have been committed, and certainly not to a statistical significance, of people getting their guns through gun show loopholes.
00:18:52.000They said it's a gun show loophole, let's close the gun show loophole.
00:18:54.000Then they expand and say it's the online loophole, which really isn't an online loophole, it just means that you can purchase it illegally.
00:18:58.000And now they say, well it's not a loophole, let's just track legal purchases of firearms if we think, I don't know, it's a little bit over the limit and we want to draw suspicion.
00:20:30.000Yeah, it's basically like a charge card, nothing really like a credit card.
00:20:32.000Of course, the New York City Mayor, Eric Adams...
00:20:35.000Remember, we all had high hopes for this guy.
00:20:40.000He cheered the code and he said, when you purchase an airline ticket or pay for your groceries, your credit card company has a special code for those retailers.
00:20:46.000It's just common sense that we have the same policies in place for gun and ammunition stores.
00:20:52.000First off, whenever someone tries to compare firearms to anything, car insurance, when they try and compare it to groceries, when they try and compare it to Take your pick. Those aren't expressly outlined as a
00:21:04.000constitutional right in the Bill of Rights.
00:21:05.000It's Amendment Number Two. That's why it is different. You may not like it,
00:21:10.000but that's why it is fundamentally different. And there's a huge difference between a code
00:21:14.000from one of these companies, because they want to internally track what it is that you're buying.
00:21:20.000And that often sort of that data determines what they create rewards for going in the future.
00:21:23.000A lot of the times they have these like online marketplaces, right?
00:21:26.000Where you can use your points versus a code that is being implemented because of international governing pressures, shadow governments, and then the United States government demanding your private information, which we have seen them misuse time and time again.
00:21:48.000Hit a like if you want people to learn.
00:21:49.000This is one of those things that you won't hear a lot about because the Queen, another one taken not too soon, is rolling through in a hearse with some Palominos.
00:21:57.000I don't understand why they're burying her in Scotland.
00:21:59.000I thought they didn't like each other.
00:22:01.000What was odd was the guys in the kilts twerking on the hearse.
00:23:40.000We're seeing- it's the ends justify the means, right?
00:23:42.000They're saying, oh, well, we want to prevent school shootings, and that's just the thing that they, you know, throw out there for everybody.
00:23:47.000And they say, okay, then we can then do whatever is necessary to prevent it.
00:24:14.000This is a proxy registry, let's be really clear.
00:24:16.000If you use any major credit card, you are now a part of a proxy gun registry.
00:24:20.000Any guns purchased going forward, and I'm sure they can probably apply it retroactively, This is a gun registry, which of course is unconstitutional.
00:24:27.000We oppose in this country, and I'll get into exactly why we oppose it.
00:24:29.000Hey, by the way, can someone bring me a pen?
00:25:21.000Be ashamed if you didn't get a bailout next time around.
00:25:23.000Be ashamed if you didn't get a bailout!
00:25:25.000But the government's been doing this with the states, too, right?
00:25:28.000If you want federal funding, which is basically us giving you your money back that we collected from your citizens and taxes, then you will do these things, right?
00:25:35.000They've threatened that the entire time.
00:25:52.000Can someone bring up, I think it's Houston, I don't know if it's Texas, but I think it's Bank of America said, we are now specifically going to be lending money, going to be providing mortgages to areas of color.
00:26:03.000And we are going to relax the standards.
00:26:11.000They write letters, they make phone calls.
00:26:13.000Haven't we seen... Wait, what happens when you give money in a market that's clearly a bubble to people who have no ability to pay it back, then afterwards the government never accepts responsibility and say, oh, it's predatory lending.
00:27:22.000You could either go to the quarantine camp or go to the quarantine camp and pay a $5,000 fine plus a $2,000 ride, I think, in one of the paddy wagons that they have over there.
00:28:19.000Every single horrible fascist, which will bring us to Kamala Harris afterwards when they try and accuse people on the right of... Fascists don't typically want to allow people more freedom to purchase firearms, allow people to speak freely regardless of how offensive, and demand that actually private entities like credit card companies and social media not track your personal whereabouts.
00:28:39.000That's typically not the kind of action that you take from fascists, even if they tweet things that you don't like.
00:28:44.000Fascism to give you an example 1928 Germany's liberal the Weimar Republic they enacted gun registration laws Requiring licensing for all weapons and then of course and this is one thing the left says I've said this before Hitler of was of course a leftist The Nazis were socialists and people go.
00:29:00.000Oh, that's just Have you seen they try it they try and gaslight you have you seen conservatives of course it's in the name Nationalist Socialist Workers Party And they said, well, he actually didn't disarm people, Adolf Hitler.
00:29:48.000And that's the most famous example that we have to point back at, because it had the most dire consequences, not for Germany, but for the world.
00:30:14.000Talk about 6 million Jews being killed in the Holocaust.
00:30:16.000There were about 6 million other people outside of that as well.
00:30:20.000That should be the most frightening thing that people who want guns confiscation have.
00:30:24.000That should be the most frightening thing that you ever hear in your life because it allows a government to just run roughshod over you no matter what.
00:30:29.000And it doesn't matter if you like it today.
00:30:31.000It matters if you like it in 10 years because think about it.
00:30:34.000The next person that comes to power could be against you and could hate the fact that you own an electric vehicle.
00:30:53.000You want the citizens to have guns to put down any government that is tyrannical, whether it is right or left.
00:30:59.000And people will say, you're just going to the Hitler comparison, which is like, no, I'm giving you a historical precedent that exists, a precedence in this case.
00:31:05.000I think both of them probably are appropriate.
00:31:07.000So you see that that's the worst that you can imagine.
00:31:42.000We had a guy kill 22 people on 16 separate occasions over the course of days because nobody could stop him and just had a mass stabbing of 10.
00:32:08.000And keep in mind, the FBI, this isn't an extreme... We know they've used credit card info to track down people.
00:32:15.000January 6th, sorry, 9-11 times 2, the sequel, 9-11, more 9-11-er.
00:32:20.000But to stop school shootings, what would the Border Patrol agent use to borrow and then go into the school and stop the shooting if these aren't allowed?
00:32:28.000There's one 100% constant with mass shootings.
00:32:33.000The shooter is invariably, without exception, stopped.
00:32:37.000Now, that good guy with a gun may be someone who's off-duty, who has their own private firearm, or it may be the police, although we've been seeing that's more inept.
00:32:43.000Or sometimes, you know, in a happy ending, the feel-good story of the year, the shooter takes out himself with a gun, where he goes from bad guy to good guy in that last flash of a second.
00:32:49.000The point is, they are only stopped by somebody with a gun.
00:33:02.000We don't need to get down to, and sure, maybe, these also are contributing factors, psychotropic drugs that are prescribed inappropriately, perhaps, that's a chicken and the egg thing, maybe they were prescribed these psychotropic drugs because they were already mentally unstable, perhaps you can get to inter-race crime related statistics if our intelligence committee would monitor them, they actually won't record these anymore, maybe, but 100% of the shooters are stopped by a good guy with a gun, Into the tune of 92, 94%, I've heard it as high as 97% of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones.
00:33:39.000Instead, you have Visa, MasterCard, and Amex telling gun shops that they can or can't sell to you and tracking it and sending it to the government.
00:33:47.000By the way, Rolling Stone, not a fan of them, they've also showed us that the FBI routinely harvests data from Facebook, WhatsApp, iMessage.
00:33:56.000The government constantly tracks your whereabouts and uses private information that you think is private.
00:34:17.000And what's the problem with this, too, as well?
00:34:18.000It's not only gun purchases, but then that becomes a macro issue if the government can determine, hey, who's a good citizen and who's a bad citizen.
00:34:24.000No longer did they break the law, but is this someone who we believe is good, we believe is loyal, we believe is someone who potentially is not a threat to the government?
00:34:35.000That's where you end up with a social credit system like, I don't know, exactly in China.
00:34:40.000In areas where the system is in full implementation, more than 27 million airplane tickets, as well as 6 million high-speed rail tickets, have been denied because of low social credit scores.
00:34:53.000Meaning that these people could not book a plane ticket or a train ticket because they had done something the government found unsavory.
00:35:00.000Not something that threw them in jail or was considered a crime, but something that was socially unacceptable to the Chinese government.
00:36:38.000And this is what happens, is not only are you no longer subject to only American law and federal law with unconstitutional parameters, international governments, they put pressure.
00:36:49.000You think if they're putting pressure on Fast and the Furious 11 to change flags in the background, you don't think that they're pressuring the biggest The biggest tech companies in the world who control 90% of information.
00:37:00.000Of course they are, and of course our government is also beholden.
00:37:03.000It's a tapestry that has been weaved right before your very eyes, and I am tired of libertarians who say, well, it's not the government.
00:40:26.000But, you know, I don't fully under- I know, I'm just speculating, but why would they have reason to be jealous of the only person who doesn't look inbred?
00:41:14.000Show some respect to those who were so inbred and promiscuous they put on wings and convinced the world that it was a style decision and not because of syphilis.
00:41:53.000Also, I saw Chiron when Elton John was playing, and it said like, you know, mourning the queen, and he was on screen, and it just said the queen, and I laughed for about an hour and a half.
00:45:04.000As you have a generation, right, and I'm a millennial, but just below us, younger millennials and Generation Z, they grew up without really remembering or experiencing this.
00:45:15.000Americans actually being proud to be American.
00:45:18.000Rudy Giuliani, they called off the dogs and all the racist attacks because he cleaned up New York, right?
00:45:22.000And of course I have some problems with stop and frisk, but he had the broken windows theory, cleaned up the subways, he changed that city.
00:47:49.000Here's what happens when you have someone who's not smart, who's attempting to be a pseudo-intellectual.
00:47:52.000And I have problems with pseudo-intellectuals to begin with, but she's not even good at that.
00:47:57.000So something about January 6th and Trump supporters and America's being made weaker.
00:48:01.000This is one of the worst interviews of a sitting president that I've ever seen.
00:48:06.000When I think about what we have been seeing in terms of the attacks from within, I wish that we would approach it the same way, as Americans, instead of through some partisan lens.
00:48:25.000You know, I was... It's not that you think this threat is as great.
00:48:30.000It's a different threat, but it is as great.
00:48:31.000I think it is a threat, and I think it is very dangerous, and I think it is very harmful, and it makes us weaker.
00:48:39.000Hold on a second, before we go on, just remember, this is the latest thing, it's weaker, talking about January 6th, where no one died aside from one person trying to enter the Capitol.
00:48:46.000But this is the same broad who on Colbert said that the rioters, not the protesters, was actually asked about the violence, said they won't stop and they shouldn't stop.
00:50:58.000She was the one who was shot by the Capitol Police.
00:51:00.000So how do you compare a targeting of civilians from a foreign terrorist threat To an incident where you had hundreds of thousands of Americans, by the way, the Capitol, who were completely non-violent, to an incident where only one person was shot, and it was shot by members of the government.
00:51:20.000I don't know, I think this is where when people talk about common ground, I think we're so far beyond the pale.
00:51:24.000I don't know where I'm going to find common ground.
00:51:26.000I agree, people shouldn't have run into the Capitol, or people who weren't welcomed in.
00:51:30.000I agree, some people were of course disruptive, and I think that they should be charged with things like trespassing, or if there was assault.
00:51:38.000No, and is this the greatest threat to our democracy that we've ever experienced?
00:51:42.000Like, to make that claim, the reason that I keep coming back to that every single time that it happens, because Chuck Todd set it up by saying, you know, this threat that we're facing right now to our democracy, the threat that she said that we're facing to our democracy right now, the only reason I bring that back is because that is the justification for extreme actions.
00:52:45.000And that brings me to my next point here.
00:52:47.000Of course, she goes on to then claim, and a lot of these people have Biden have as well, their claim that Republicans are semi-fascist is a term that they use.
00:52:56.000For a lot of the attacks, or even criticisms that are legitimate of Donald Trump, I love the fact that during COVID he was getting into fights with members of the CDC.
00:53:06.000I love the fact that there are members of government who didn't like the president.
00:53:18.000When you have people who don't like each other, who aren't getting along, who aren't necessarily following lockstep, that's a good thing.
00:53:25.000Think about how concerning it is when a party achieves power, Democrats, and they write letters, like you said, to these private companies to create a gun registry.
00:53:32.000They want to pack the court if they don't get the decisions that they like.
00:53:37.000And then they want you to be removed from the town square if you question election integrity.
00:53:45.000It's really important to note the difference between people who are in power and people who aren't.
00:53:48.000When people are in power, and the only decisions they make are to accrue more power and to silence dissent.
00:53:55.000Again, Donald Trump, my complaint, he didn't do a whole lot with social media.
00:53:59.000He talked a big game, but he wanted everyone to be allowed on the platforms.
00:54:05.000Have you heard en masse Republicans, the semi-fascists, calling for liberals to be removed for misinformation?
00:54:11.000No, look, I don't even think anyone's going to argue it.
00:54:15.000Have you heard Republicans calling for people, conservatives, to be removed because they say, hey, you know what, maybe we need to strengthen our election integrity and have voter ID?
00:54:46.000Listen, I think that when we, let's not get caught up in politicizing the fact that most people in America know.
00:54:58.000That it is not helpful to our country when we have people who are denying elections or trying to obstruct the outcome of an election where the largest number of people in our country voted for the President of the United States.
00:55:12.000And when we look at where we are, I think that we have to admit that there are attacks from within, to your first question.
00:55:22.000And we need to take it seriously, and we need to stand up together, all of us, and think of this not through partisan lens, but as Americans.
00:55:32.000There are moments in time when we have to also agree, all good people who care about our country, that there are those who right now are vividly not defending our democracy.
00:55:51.000I think we want that our Commander-in-Chief, the President of the United States, will speak up and raise the alarm about what this means to our strength.
00:56:41.000There's only one party looking to regulate the ability to defend oneself.
00:56:45.000We're talking about the Second Amendment, then of course we go to the First Amendment, censor speech from political oppositionists.
00:56:50.000She just said, hey, if you question election integrity, you're a threat to democracy.
00:56:54.000There's only one party that wants to weaponize a federal government against opposition, like FBI raids, like handing over credit card information if you happen to have purchased too many handguns.
00:57:03.000I don't know who's buying the bullshit at this point, but there's a good portion of this country that is.
00:57:08.000You're not going to find common ground with them.
00:57:09.000There are people with whom you can find common ground, but if people believe that limited government conservatives are the semi-fascists, then there is no pleasing you.
00:57:18.000Don't let this tin can we're about to kick hit you in the teeth.
00:57:21.000There's also only one party that wants to, what, of course, pack the court.
00:57:26.000And they want to nuke the filibuster for abortion and things like voting rights.
00:57:29.000And what they mean by that is not have to present IDs.
00:57:31.000So if you say, hey, hold on a second, we need election integrity, they label you a fascist simply for wanting people to present identification to vote while these actual fascists will change the fundamental institutions of government in order to be able.
00:57:50.000To ram through things like no voter ID, things like packing the Supreme Court, doing away with the filibuster.
00:57:56.000Here she is describing it in her own cackles.
00:57:59.000Our president has said he will not let the filibuster get in the way.
00:58:06.000If the Senate, through a majority vote, votes to pass the Women's Health Protection Act, he will sign it into law.
00:58:12.000You know what that means in the midterms?
00:58:14.000We need to hold on to the Senate and get two more.
00:58:17.000And then we can put into law the protections of healthy women.
00:59:22.000I hope they play this on a loop in every swing, state, senate, race, whatever it may be because
00:59:29.000this is what's waiting for you right now.
00:59:31.000We don't like the results that we're getting, so we're going to end the filibuster.
00:59:35.000The filibuster, by the way, that we have video of Democrats supporting, including, you know, former Vice President himself Joe Biden, saying that it's an institution!
00:59:45.000This is how you protect the country from losing its way, is to not just let everything kind of go through.
00:59:50.000And by the way, you start making promises to Joe Manchin and not fulfilling those promises to get his vote to swing legislation, which is what just happened.
01:00:06.000Can we really think of, you know, outside of questioning the election, did Donald Trump, when he was in power, try and do away with any institutions?
01:00:12.000Did he try and change the number of seats to the courts?
01:00:13.000Did he try and, did he encourage doing away with the filibuster?
01:00:16.000I mean, people may not have liked his appointments.
01:00:19.000But they were well within the realm of constitutionality and certainly the precedents that we have available to us.
01:00:24.000I can't even think of something comparable.
01:00:26.000And they were confirmed, too, which is weird.
01:01:04.000The problem is right now, there are a handful of people, again, my litmus test for conspiracies, and I'll leave you with this.
01:01:10.000The litmus test for conspiracies is how many people have to be involved.
01:01:13.000Area 51, you don't think that someone who's working there, a day worker, You know, an independent contractor is going to blab, so it's pretty tough to buy into these.
01:01:21.000But when you're talking about a handful of peop- Elizabeth Warren, Eric Adams, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, they send a letter out to credit card companies and Visa, MasterCard, American Express say, Aye aye, Captain, we'll make sure to create a gun registry.
01:01:34.000Sorry, not a gun registry, we'll create a code.
01:01:37.000When you have just a handful of people who say, you know what?
01:02:54.000Get me fitted for my tinfoil hat because I'm at the point where I'm going, there are just a few people running this game and they are running it into the ground.