Joe Collins is a U.S. Navy veteran who ran for Congress in California s 43rd congressional district against none other than Maxine Waters. In this episode, Joe talks about why he decided to run for Congress and why he thinks Maxine is a bad candidate.
00:05:07.060This is South LA. I was born here. I grew up on 104th Normandy. Maxine Waters has been in office
00:05:19.06044 years. Has anything got better around here? I can tell you firsthand that it hasn't.
00:05:25.060Joe, the reason I play that specific clip is because I think it speaks to a lot of cities,
00:05:31.060particularly large cities in the United States. When in your life did it become apparent to you,
00:05:36.060like it had for me a few years ago, that a lot of the problems that face these communities,
00:05:40.060like the ones where you grow up to seem to be, they seem to be in this course where they're electing
00:05:45.060the same politicians decade after decade. The list of cities is kind of endless off the top of my head.
00:05:51.060I listed Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit. These are places that have had Democrats
00:05:56.060in charge for 30 years, even more in some places. Why do people keep voting for them if they're getting
00:06:01.060the same results? I think that when you vote for somebody because that person looks like you and
00:06:08.060because that person is saying things that you want to hear, it becomes like a social norm.
00:06:14.060Like it's normal to vote Maxine in the office. It's normal to vote Alcee Hazen in the office,
00:06:18.060knowing that these people have never done anything for you because they've just been there for so long.
00:06:23.060So I think that's the biggest reason why.
00:06:26.060Now, how do you convince the people that are in these areas, if they haven't seen it by now,
00:06:33.060how do you convince them that, look, nothing has changed? Why don't you try something that has an argument
00:06:40.060that is a little bit more depth? I mean, like I mentioned, there's arguments against crime.
00:06:44.060There's arguments against racism and homelessness, but none of this really seems to change over the course of 30, 40 years.
00:06:53.060How do you convince these people or get them to see in these areas that what they're voting for isn't working?
00:07:00.060Well, a lot of people in inner cities have trust issues.
00:07:03.060And so that's why it's hard to get them to move on to something new.
00:07:08.060And what you got to do is you just have to be there.
00:07:11.060You have to show them that the things that they're going through isn't normal.
00:07:14.060I used to think that gang violence growing up in inner city was normal until I got out of it
00:07:18.060and I started going across the world, traveling across the United States and seeing that, you know,
00:07:23.060gang violence is not normal. Poverty isn't normal. And, you know, it's what's been going on for a very long time.
00:07:30.060Now, I mean, we can harp on Maxine Waters a lot and it's part of a larger issue.
00:07:35.060So I want to play her famous clip of when she's, you know, this restaurant and all these things.
00:07:42.060All the stuff she says, Justin, can we play that? Because again, I think this stuff resonates almost timelessly,
00:07:49.060at least for at least a few more years, so long as Joe Biden's in office. Let's throw to that clip.
00:07:54.060And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.
00:08:23.060And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.
00:08:32.060She's really a cartoon character, isn't she? Now, there's been so much talk lately about around Trump
00:08:38.060and the alleged incitement of violence. They want to impeach him for a second time.
00:08:43.060But whether it's this clip or the kick them when they're down clip and all the clips that arose for the past three years,
00:08:49.060there's there's plenty of examples. Is it extremely hypocritical of them to try to claim that Trump's the one inciting violence now?
00:08:58.060Oh, yeah, of course. Of course it is. Because, you know, we've seen Black Lives Matter and Antifa destroy entire cities over the past year.
00:09:05.060And that clip that you show from Maxine Waters, that's that's actually relevant because we she sent people to our events
00:09:12.060while we were running for Congress with guns and things like that to intimidate me and my team.
00:09:18.060Can you elaborate a bit on that? So people was it a group was a specific group?
00:09:23.060Was it just random people they sent them there? They had guns on them or what?
00:09:27.060Yeah, she sent people from I think it was Watts.
00:09:30.060I think it was like four men to one of our events. I have reported this on social media.
00:09:36.060We were having a backpack giveaway and a food drive and she sent the guys there to try and intimidate me.
00:09:42.060And one of the guys had two guns. And it was just like, like, wow, really at a family event?
00:09:47.060This is what you do. After we deescalate the situation, my team caught up with them and asked them who sent them.
00:09:53.060And they showed the email where one of her chief of staff, you know, had them come up to our event.
00:09:59.060Wow, that's crazy. I'm gonna have to get that video from you. Do you think that Joe Biden's administration wants to bring Americans together?
00:10:09.060Like I mentioned, there's so many times where they're dehumanizing Trump supporters.
00:10:13.060They're they're calling them. They've gone as far as call all of them terrorists now.
00:10:17.060Do you think they actually want them to want people to come together or does it matter for them?
00:10:21.060No, they don't want people to come together at all.
00:10:24.060This never been their agenda is to bring people together.
00:10:27.060They talk trash to get in the office. They talk trash about Trump supporters.
00:10:32.060Mind you, it's about 75 million people who support Trump.
00:10:35.060And, you know, now Joe Biden's talking about he want peace.
00:10:39.060He's talking this and that. But I don't believe anything he says.
00:10:43.060He's he's lied too many times. He said he's not going to rule by executive order.
00:10:47.060First day in office, 17 executive orders. He didn't do anything for the black community.
00:10:51.060He just gave a pass to 11 million immigrants and told everybody across the United States.
00:10:56.060You got a hundred days to come to the United States and we're going to give you a citizenship.
00:11:00.060Um, he's allowed little boys to participate in little girls sports.
00:11:05.060And so we see what the agenda is for the Biden administration.
00:11:10.060Yeah, I don't think anyone could have anticipated that Biden would work faster than Trump with more executive orders, far more.
00:11:19.060It just so happens they're terrible decisions, in my opinion.
00:11:22.060You know, talking about Biden, he just signed some executive orders.
00:11:26.060And I want to get your opinion on this and and how they claim that they're going to address what he calls systemic racism.
00:11:33.060So if we could bring some of those up, Justin, I want to read them off to you, Joe, and get your reaction.
00:11:38.060Direct the Department of Justice to not renew contracts with private prisons.
00:11:43.060Order Department of Housing to fully implement Fair Housing Act.
00:11:47.060Push federal agencies for more regularly meaningful talk with tribal governments.
00:11:51.060Direct Health and Human Services, as well as COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force to examine the best practices to protect Asian community, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as part of relief efforts.
00:12:04.060Now, Joe, I want to show you a clip of what Joe Biden has to say about this.
00:12:09.060And then I want to get your reaction to those executive orders.
00:12:16.060At the moment it arrived as a nation where we face deep racial inequities in America and systemic racism that has plagued our nation for far, far too long.
00:12:27.060I said that over the course of the past year that the blinders have been taken off the nation, the American people.
00:12:33.060But what many Americans didn't see or had simply refused to see couldn't be ignored any longer.
00:12:40.060Those eight minutes and 46 seconds that took George Floyd's life opened the eyes of millions of Americans and millions of people around all over the world.
00:12:52.060It was the knee on the neck of justice and it wouldn't be forgotten.
00:12:57.060Now, Joe, I don't know what George Floyd has to do with any of these executive orders, but it sounds to me just by reading them, as you can see, that they're more about Native Americans and Pacific Islanders getting disaster relief in neighboring islands.
00:13:11.060How does this address systemic racism at all?
00:13:14.060Well, he does have the one that allows the Department of Justice to renew private contracts in prisons.
00:13:20.060I mean, that facilitates black racial inequality right there and put more black people in prison because that's what private prison industrial complex does.
00:13:29.060But nothing that Joe Biden says that makes sense and nothing that he says will ever resonate with me or anybody in the black community.
00:13:35.060I think he's trash. Now, is it ironic?
00:13:38.060Do you think it's ironic coming from Joe Biden? Because I've made a lot of videos about him.
00:13:42.060And when I go back in the history of him in office, a lot of the stuff is very hard to find.
00:13:48.060He's got all these weird statements from the past, which I think that he doesn't believe are racist, but they certainly sound very racist.
00:13:56.060I mean, he's known as the father of the crime bill. And by the end of his term, that'll be 12 out of 16 years where Joe Biden's in the White House.
00:14:04.060How come things have not gotten better in terms of racial inequality or racial justice in the U.S.?
00:14:10.060Well, because Joe Biden is the epitome of white supremacy in the United States.
00:14:15.060I mean, when you look at every single thing that Joe Biden has ever done, it has never been to help anybody of any racial ethnic background.
00:14:23.060I mean, you look at the 94 crime bill. That was all him. He was there whenever Jim Crow was enacted.
00:14:29.060He walked with the Grand Wizard from the Ku Klux Klan, even under Obama as a vice president.
00:14:35.060He still didn't do anything except for allow his son to run around to different countries and extort him.
00:14:40.060So, I mean, Joe Biden, he's he's legitimately trashed and I don't know why people voted for him.
00:14:45.060Yeah. And a lot of the stuff, I don't know if the viewers know this and I don't know how much of you seen.
00:14:50.060But besides the obvious one about busing, he's got stuff where he was friends with extreme racists, extreme segregationists who said, you know, Joe,
00:14:59.060whether it's supporting you or coming out against you, I'll do whatever you want to help you out.
00:15:04.060He said he got along great with that guy. And and he was he literally said black people are an inferior race.
00:15:11.060And then there's the other guy who is the last last Dixiecrat to run for president.
00:15:15.060He got along great with him. So for a guy who's got all these stories about how how much he's beloved in the black community,
00:15:22.060he sure got a lot of shady connections. Joe, how do you think they square this with the public?
00:15:28.060Is it just a matter of don't ask, don't tell? I mean, Kamala Harris, she's got her her background in her profession of putting people in jail.
00:15:39.060Joe Biden, he's got his background. How do they pull the wool over the eyes of people?
00:15:43.060And I know I'm sounding really biased here, but this is just the I didn't I didn't come into this thinking I'm going to find that he's racist and they're and they're all doing this stuff.
00:15:53.060This is just based on my own research. How do they square this with the public or is it just a matter of hiding it?
00:15:58.060Well, that's what the mainstream media is for. They they they kind of sway opinions based on a type of propaganda that they push out.
00:16:08.060They push out that Trump was a racist and Joe Biden was the best thing to slice bread.
00:16:13.060And it's actually the the the reverse. Joe Biden was a racist and President Trump was actually good for America.
00:16:22.060I mean, you got to think Trump was telling black America, Latinos and Asians, you know, what do you want me to do?
00:16:29.060I got five hundred billion dollars of planning plan here. I'll let you guys start businesses and stuff like that.
00:16:34.060Tell me what you need and I'm gonna get it done. Meanwhile, Joe Biden's on a Zoom call with civil rights leaders,
00:16:38.060staying in hell, which all I run on a platform nobody thought would work.
00:16:42.060So I don't need y'all. Y'all don't compete with the Mexicans. That's exactly what he said.
00:16:46.060So, yeah. And a lot of people look past that the billions of dollars that you mentioned.
00:16:51.060I mean, there was a meeting he had with black leaders in in the White House and they said the hardest.
00:16:58.060I forget what her name was. I don't want to get it wrong.
00:17:00.060But a woman there said that the hardest part about getting this money to the inner cities is getting it past the Democrat leaders
00:17:07.060who run the city and getting it to the actual business owners and people that need the money.
00:17:15.060Now, Joe, I want to play a clip for you, which I believe you addressed on Newsmax, but it's so much fun.
00:17:21.060And I love Don Lemon just as much as you do that. I call him Don Lamone.
00:17:25.060And I can't get enough of this. Justin, can we cue up that wonderful clip of Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo?
00:17:32.060If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported.
00:17:38.060You voted for the person who Nazis support.
00:17:42.060You voted for the person who the alt-right supports.
00:22:33.060No, I think it's I think it's hypocritical.
00:22:35.060You know, they they perpetuate the pandemic as if it was just this this totally terrible thing, even though the death rate is like point zero zero six or point zero zero seven or something like that.
00:22:46.060They did it so they can sneak the mail in ballots, so they can ballot harvest and stuff ballot boxes and and do whatever they can in order to be President Trump.