The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 68 - Yale Racism. Looting as Reparations. Florida Man Gets Homeless Creative. Portland Gives Up. More Peace in the Middle East.

00:00:00.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:03.820 You all were not telling the truth, and you should not be trusted.

00:00:06.580 Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.

00:00:09.320 Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House of Republicans.

00:00:12.280 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.

00:00:16.240 Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:19.260 Let's talk about the news.

00:00:20.920 The biggest news in the world is the decision for the United Arab Emirates and Israel to establish diplomatic relations.

00:00:29.100 This will allow for enhanced cooperation on security, on economic initiatives, and areas where we have interests aligned against the radicalization of the region and the violence and destruction.

00:00:44.720 And really the failed state ingredients that we've seen too often come to bear in other countries perhaps will be able to limit the expansion of failed states.

00:00:55.560 You know what I mean? Right now, the number of failed states in the world is growing, not shrinking.

00:00:59.980 Having traditional historic adversaries like the United Arab Emirates and Israel come together certainly reduces the likelihood that we will have destabilization.

00:01:11.120 Here's Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner describing the deal and its significance.

00:01:15.700 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:01:16.560 And I would like to say that I want to thank the President for his leadership on this historic peace effort.

00:01:23.200 The President, like with all things, urged us to take an untraditional approach.

00:01:27.920 You can't solve problems that have gone unsolved by doing it the same way that people before you have tried and failed.

00:01:34.860 The President takes untraditional approaches.

00:01:37.100 He does things in different ways, but he uses common sense, and he tries to unite people by focusing on common interests as opposed to allowing them to focus on their common grievances.

00:01:47.860 And what happened was here is we were able to achieve results that others were not able to achieve, and this will advance the region, and this will advance the whole world.

00:01:55.780 I would like to say to the people of the region, Muslims, Jews, Christians, that this does give hope that the problems of the past do not condemn you to a future with conflict.

00:02:07.180 There is a lot of hope and a lot of potential, and this will benefit you, and this will also benefit people here in America, because in America we used to have a big dependency on the Middle East for gas and for oil.

00:02:18.540 Thanks to your leadership, America is now energy independent.

00:02:21.500 We no longer have that, but a lot of American soldiers have fought for securing our allies in that region and making more peace there.

00:02:30.840 Lessons are need as a country to have as many soldiers in that region and lessons are need to have as many conflicts in that region.

00:02:38.540 And obviously radical extremism, which we see as a cancer that has infected so many areas in the world.

00:02:45.120 A lot of the extremists have used these conflicts to recruit people and to say that the mosque is under attack and that Muslims don't have access to the mosque.

00:02:55.320 And now this will enable people to take flights from Dubai and Abu Dhabi directly to Tel Aviv.

00:03:00.140 Muslims will be welcome in Israel, and this will create a better interfaith exchange.

00:03:04.780 So this is a tremendous step forward for peace in the world, for America, for Israel, for Abu Dhabi, and all would not have been possible without your leadership.

00:03:14.660 So I just want to thank you.

00:03:15.780 Thank you very much. Thank you, Jared. What a great job.

00:03:17.340 I also had the chance to speak yesterday with the president about this deal, and the president is extremely optimistic that this is just the beginning, that there will be a cascading effect and that other countries that aspire to be modern Muslim countries will follow suit, that they will also work to establish stronger diplomatic ties to Israel that will create broader possibility for peace in the Middle East.

00:03:41.720 The president gave updates regarding our nation's response to coronavirus. Here's the president.

00:03:48.740 The vaccines are in the final stage of clinical trials. They're doing really well.

00:03:53.800 We're producing the most promising vaccine candidates in advance.

00:03:58.660 As you know, part of the largest industrialization ever.

00:04:03.900 It's incredible when I meet with heads of companies that are doing this, that are the best companies anywhere in the world.

00:04:11.720 It's incredible where they are, how they're doing, and the speed with which they're doing it, and also the speed with which the FDA is approving things.

00:04:21.200 Because by any other standard, you would have been two or three years away from being at the point that we're at.

00:04:27.800 By the end of this week, we will have shipped 1,846 rapid point-of-care testing devices to nursing homes,

00:04:35.460 which are a very important source, as you know, for people that are not handling the plague from China very well.

00:04:47.340 This week alone, we're sending 992 testing devices and 450,000 tests to more than 950 nursing homes across the country.

00:04:57.400 And these tests are incredible.

00:05:01.280 These are tests that are all new, very modern.

00:05:04.540 And we're also getting on the tests that are not done immediately with the 5- to 15-minute timing.

00:05:13.160 When they do send them to a lab, they're coming back now in three days.

00:05:16.540 So it's a three-day process, which is about as good as you can do.

00:05:20.360 You have one day of delivering, one day of receiving, and one day in the lab.

00:05:24.840 But we're also requiring all nursing homes to test all members of their staff, at least weekly.

00:05:32.560 Is Yale University racist?

00:05:36.280 Do they discriminate against people based on the color of their skin who would otherwise be admitted?

00:05:42.560 The answer is yes, according to a Department of Justice investigation being reported by the Associated Press's Michael Balsamo.

00:05:51.600 And in this story, a Justice Department letter that is the result of an investigation details circumstances where Yale discriminated against Asian American and white applicants in violation of federal civil rights laws.

00:06:08.460 They ultimately rejected the scores of white and Asian American students that they would otherwise admit.

00:06:16.540 Yale has denied the allegation, calling it meritless and hasty, but it is the result of a decision by the Trump administration to look into higher education institutions that are treating people differently as a consequence of their race.

00:06:33.400 Here's my hot take.

00:06:34.380 It may not be politically correct to raise the issue of discrimination against Asian Americans or white Americans, but that discrimination exists.

00:06:45.200 And where it does, it needs to be pointed out.

00:06:48.080 It needs to be litigated.

00:06:49.720 And people and institutions who engage in racist behavior against Asian Americans, against anyone, should be held to account.

00:06:58.300 And it is no surprise to me, following what we saw with Harvard and their treatment of Asian Americans, that throughout the Ivy Leagues, there is a desire to elevate their wokeness over merit.

00:07:13.540 And it's not fair.

00:07:14.960 If Asian American students, if white students are earning admission to these top colleges and universities, they should have the opportunity to matriculate.

00:07:23.480 They should not be barred admission.

00:07:25.840 They should not see their scores just tossed out because they happen to be Asian or because they happen to be white.

00:07:33.080 In America, the color of your skin should not dictate your circumstances.

00:07:38.440 It should not dictate your opportunity to get a job, to live where you want to live, or to go to the college where you have earned admission.

00:07:47.100 So this racist behavior needs to stop.

00:07:49.980 I'm glad the Department of Justice is investigating.

00:07:53.440 And if Yale has a defense, let's hear it.

00:07:57.300 Everyone deserves due process.

00:07:59.320 But given what we've seen, given the propensity in this country right now to diminish certain groups for the virtue signaling that it seems to draw from the left-wing circles of Hollywood and celebrity and academia,

00:08:15.840 it's just no surprise. 0.82

00:08:17.340 But it's disgusting.

00:08:18.220 Racism in any form should not be tolerated in the United States of America.

00:08:24.260 It should certainly not be tolerated at Yale University, at Harvard, or at any of the higher education institutions in our country.

00:08:31.780 Rose Wong of the Tampa Bay Times has our bizarre Florida man story of the day.

00:08:39.900 That's right, a homeless man in St. Petersburg, Florida, broke into Al Lang Stadium, found his way to a luxury suite, and lived there for like two weeks, according to police and surveillance footage.

00:08:56.740 I guess if you think about it, in a time when athletics is not operating at the same degree that it was before, if you're homeless and there's food and a luxury suite and clothing, why not take a shot?

00:09:10.400 So, turns out he ends up stealing about $1,000 worth of clothing, eats about $250 in food and drinks.

00:09:19.000 It's all on tape, it's all on tape, and maybe a little embarrassing for stadium security.

00:09:24.940 Hey, the Florida man is resourceful.

00:09:27.700 We will move into your stadiums, wear your memorabilia and clothing, and eat any hot dogs and Cracker Jacks left behind.

00:09:36.180 Is looting and stealing the form of modern-day reparations?

00:09:43.840 That appears to be the position taken by at least one Black Lives Matter organizer.

00:09:49.280 Breitbart has the story.

00:09:50.600 Ariel Adams, a Black Lives Matter organizer, who spoke at a recent rally, said,

00:09:55.300 I don't care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike store, because that makes sure that the person eats.

00:10:04.280 That makes sure the person has clothes. 0.86

00:10:06.880 That is reparations.

00:10:09.080 She continued justifying the criminal action and contending that businesses will be fined because they, quote, have insurance.

00:10:16.880 So, insurance, according to the Black Lives Matter movement, is that anybody can take whatever they want, and it's really victimless.

00:10:24.300 No one really is harmed by that. 0.97

00:10:27.180 That's ridiculous.

00:10:29.180 You realize that when you steal stuff and insurance has to pay out, then insurance prices go up for small businesses. 0.89

00:10:36.500 You know, people who, to get clothing and eat, don't steal and take from others, but actually create value and earn things and provide a service to the local economy.

00:10:47.520 This Black Lives Matter movement is not a movement now about politics.

00:10:52.100 It's not a movement about race.

00:10:53.540 It's not a movement about policing.

00:10:55.440 It is a movement to justify criminal behavior in far too many circumstances.

00:11:00.700 And here, one of the organizers, literally, like, not in an off-camera, unguarded moment, but literally speaking at a rally,

00:11:08.420 saying that what really Black Lives Matter stands for now is the ability to go and rob a Nike store or a Gucci store,

00:11:15.900 because that's what's going to allow you to eat.

00:11:17.980 Now, I've never seen a whole lot of food getting served at the Gucci store. 0.86

00:11:22.760 So I guess what they're saying is that because someone is Black, they have a right to steal.

00:11:29.660 Then they have a right to sell what they've stolen, thus undercutting, I guess, the legitimate merchants that are engaged in that commerce.

00:11:37.720 And then that is justified because of a reparations theory that African Americans, Black people in this country are owed something and that that doesn't have to go through any formal process.

00:11:50.940 That is just something that people can self-execute.

00:11:55.000 They can self-execute the reparations that they believe they are owed by stealing from someone else.

00:12:01.900 This is rotten behavior.

00:12:03.640 This is unacceptable behavior in the United States of America.

00:12:07.120 Preaching violence, preaching theft, saying that it's okay to steal from your fellow Americans because they, quote, have insurance.

00:12:14.560 I don't think that Ariel Atkins understands the basics of what it takes to make a country or an economy prosperous.

00:12:23.240 You don't take from one another.

00:12:24.860 You find out what you can contribute.

00:12:27.120 I mean, for Democrats, what the hell happened to, you know, JFK's not ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?

00:12:34.900 I guess now it's don't ask what your Gucci store, you know, can do for economic success.

00:12:40.320 Just ask whether or not you can rob it and take from it and justify your own illegal criminal behavior with some tortured theory of reparations.

00:12:49.640 We can do better than this as a country, and we need to reject the notion that you're owed the right to commit a crime against someone else based on what happened to your ancestors hundreds of years ago.

00:13:01.340 That is not America, and we cannot tolerate it.

00:13:04.360 So since looting can now be deemed reparations, what will the looters wear?

00:13:13.040 I mean, Ms. Atkins in this speech suggests that looting a Gucci store is reparations.

00:13:18.860 And so I'm wondering, can you loot the Gucci store and then wear the Gucci, or is it sort of like a concert where you don't wear the t-shirt of the band you're going to see?

00:13:29.720 Maybe you don't wear the gear of the particular store you're going to loot.

00:13:35.420 So maybe you loot Gucci first for your reparations and then wear your Gucci when you go to loot Nike for your reparations.

00:13:43.320 Or maybe you wouldn't wear the designer when you loot athletic gear.

00:13:49.560 You'd want to be sort of on trend for your looting garb.

00:13:54.100 I don't know.

00:13:54.820 All seems pretty crazy to me.

00:13:56.400 How about just buy the stuff you want?

00:13:57.980 How about, you know, like get a job that pays you money and then use that money as consideration for the things you want to own rather than just taking stuff, breaking stuff, and then justifying it with some BS reparations excuse.

00:14:18.320 President Trump recently asked, if a school is closed, why do we give the money to the school?

00:14:24.260 Why shouldn't the money follow the student?

00:14:26.040 And by the way, this ought to be our mentality regarding education funding, even outside of the pandemic.

00:14:34.600 You know, I believe that in health care, dollars ought to follow the patient.

00:14:38.480 I believe in education, dollars ought to follow the student.

00:14:42.580 And that's not just to say if a student chooses to be homeschooled, if a student goes to a charter school, if a student goes to a parochial school.

00:14:50.140 We ought to empower parents by letting them vote with their feet. 0.55

00:14:55.020 Too often in public education, the parents and students are treated like chattel, like they're just sort of moving through the system in a supply chain, in an assembly line.

00:15:05.300 They don't feel like the customer.

00:15:06.460 But if you give parents and families the empowerment of directing education dollars, then they really will be treated like the customer.

00:15:14.520 And you'll have different schools and different options develop different specialties and capabilities and competencies that can appeal to different talents and various students.

00:15:25.200 And I think that'll ultimately lead to better preparation.

00:15:28.100 That'll also lead to better specialization in the skills of our students.

00:15:32.180 So I'm all about learning the lesson from this pandemic that education should not be a government run monopoly and that empowered parents, empowered students, more choice will ultimately lead to a better education system for the United States of America.

00:15:48.420 A Huey helicopter assigned to President Trump's support detail was shot over Virginia during training exercises yesterday.

00:15:59.280 There was an incident where an individual was injured with non-life-threatening ailments and has subsequently been released from the hospital.

00:16:08.520 The FBI wants your help.

00:16:10.060 If you know who's shooting at military helicopters flying over the D.C., Virginia, Maryland area,

00:16:16.320 call the FBI, Washington field office, 202-278-2000. 0.97

00:16:24.280 The Woketopia in Portland, Oregon continues to adopt some of the stupidest policies one could imagine in dealing with the civil unrest in their community. 0.95

00:16:35.480 And one starts to wonder, with leaders like those in Portland, Oregon, no wonder this is the place that was so weak and so vulnerable to an overrun by the criminal element. 0.92

00:16:47.180 The news today comes to us from Portland Mercury dot com District Attorney Mike Schmidt to limit criminal charges against protesters.

00:16:56.160 And he has apparently adopted the policy that if someone was engaged in interference with a police officer, disorderly conduct, rioting, that they will not be charged.

00:17:07.880 He will still press charges for assault, theft, or property damage.

00:17:11.980 But I guess if people were just engaged in the disruption of police and rioting, he doesn't view that as a crime.

00:17:19.720 It is problematic when, for the sake of wokeness, we are choosing what crimes to enforce against what people and what lawlessness we're going to allow.

00:17:30.620 Appeasement is always a failing strategy.

00:17:34.320 And in Portland and throughout the country, our response to riots and action of violence or disruption against our police should not be accommodated or appeased or understood.

00:17:47.540 It should be prosecuted.

00:17:49.940 People who harm our law enforcement, people who interfere with their duties, are putting people's lives in danger.

00:17:56.820 I mean, come on, if a police officer, if a fire truck, if an ambulance can't get to someone in need, they can die.

00:18:03.980 And no one should be dying as a consequence of Portland's inability or, in this case, just unwillingness to enforce the law.

00:18:12.100 No wonder this is happening in Portland.

00:18:15.020 But let's hope that throughout America, we see the failures over there on the left coast and we decide not to put their politicians, their leaders, I would even suggest their senators like Kamala Harris, in an enhanced position to do greater harm to our country.

00:18:32.000 This is a great country.

00:18:34.060 The people in America deserve to be safe and free.

00:18:37.100 They need to know that they can go to the store or get their hair nails done or take their children to school without the fear that there's going to be some riot, some bloodshed, some violence that's going to dislodge our ability to live free and safe lives.

00:18:54.380 So I'm hopeful that in Portland, the people will demand better.

00:18:58.560 There are good Americans who live in Portland and Seattle and San Francisco, and they have been let down by their failed leadership.

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - August 14, 2020

Episode 68 - Yale Racism. Looting as Reparations. Florida Man Gets Homeless Creative. Portland Gives Up. More Peace in the Middle East.

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