A key poll suggests that Trump's chances of winning the 2020 election are significantly higher than the polls are letting on, and it points to two reasons why the polls aren't as bad as they seem: Americans are more optimistic about where they are now than they were four years ago, and the media aren't asking the hard questions they should be asking about Joe Biden. Ben Shapiro's full breakdown of the latest polling numbers and why they don't necessarily spell trouble for the Trump campaign, and why the media should be worried about the possibility of a Trump win in 2020, is one of the most important pieces of information you can find on the ground in order to make sense of the current polling numbers, and what it could mean for the 2020 campaign. The rest of the pieces of evidence points to a candidate who can overcome the polls and win the election, and that candidate is Donald Trump. Ben Shapiro is a regular contributor to CNN and the New York Times, and is a frequent guest on CNN's "Meet the Billionaire" and "The View From The Top" podcast. His latest book Other People's Money is out now, and you can buy a copy of it here on Amazon for $99.99. You won't want to miss it! Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcast's and become a supporter of the show on Audible.com or wherever else you get your favorite podcast listening choices are available. Thanks for listening to the Ben Shapiro show? Subscribe and reviewing the show? Leave us a rating and review the show! It helps us spread the word around the world! and we'll send you're listening to Ben Shapiro on social media! Thank you Ben Shapiro and other podcasting on The FiveThirtyEight? Thanks for supporting the show Ben Shapiro: - The Six Sigma Podcasts is a big thanks to Six Sigma in the Six Sigma and VaynerSpeak by Six Sigma, Six Sigma Outtrope and Vimeo on Podchronicity , and much more! - Subscribe to the show and subscribe on Podcoin v=AQ&t=1& other & Vimeo Vibee_t=2aQ&q=3dQ&referenced in this episode is And Veeee
00:00:26.000Okay, so, I've been telling you a lot over the last week and a half about the poll numbers because, and I get a lot of letters from people.
00:00:32.000Why are you talking about the polls so much?
00:00:33.000Don't you know the polls are just wrong?
00:00:35.000I mean, on the national level, the polls were not all that wrong in 2016.
00:00:39.000On the state level, they were wrong by a couple of points.
00:00:41.000They were not wrong by 8 or 10 points.
00:00:44.000Right now, the bottom line is that President Trump is trailing.
00:00:47.000That does not mean that he has no chance.
00:00:50.000It does mean that if I'm going to convey the most up-to-date information, you have to take into account the polling numbers, especially because polling companies generally have an interest in being as accurate as possible, even if you don't like the source of the polling.
00:01:13.000It is Americans view on whether they are better or worse off than they were four years ago.
00:01:17.000Now, given Trump's poll numbers and the fact that he is trailing, you would expect that the vast majority of Americans, I mean, we're in the middle of a pandemic.
00:01:25.000You would imagine the majority of Americans would say that they're worse off than they were four years ago if all you had done is listen to the poll numbers and the media over the past few months.
00:01:47.000Okay, that compares to 45% in December of 2012, 47% in October of 2004, 38% in October of 1992, and 44% in July of 1984.
00:01:50.00047% in October of 2004, 38% in October of 1992, and 44% in July of 1984.
00:01:59.000That is a very, very high number, 56%.
00:02:02.000If everybody who believes they were better off than they were four years ago voted for Trump, he would win going away.
00:02:07.000He would win a blowout victory, which suggests a couple of things.
00:02:10.000One, maybe the polls are actually undersampling people who are somewhat enthusiastic about Trump but are not actually going to talk about it.
00:02:16.000And two, if Trump could get his personality out of the way, he would be winning this election in a walk.
00:02:21.000If you are the incumbent president and nearly six in ten Americans believe that they are better off now than they were when you were elected, that is a great number.
00:02:29.000I mean, literally, Ronald Reagan in 1984 ran on the campaign slogan, are you better off now than you were four years ago?
00:02:37.000And the American people said yes, and they reelected him in mass numbers.
00:02:40.000The same thing could happen for Trump if all he did was focus in on his policies and the fact that Democrats have no policies, that when they do have policies, they are radical, that they refuse to state just how radical.
00:02:50.000And so the media have been reliant on a narrative, and we've been talking about this for months at this point.
00:02:55.000The narrative is orange man bad, bad man orange, orange bad man.
00:02:59.000Those are the variations of the theme.
00:03:02.000And the only theme they have is Trump's personality, and Trump has played into this.
00:03:05.000If Trump didn't play into this, perhaps the media would be forced to ask serious questions about Joe Biden.
00:03:10.000Yeah, maybe they wouldn't, but he would spend all of his time pressing that forward.
00:03:13.000Maybe they would be forced to ask everyday Americans about what they think about the state of the country, because it turns out most Americans are pretty optimistic about where they are as opposed to four years ago.
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00:05:07.000I mean, 90% of the coverage has been negative on Trump.
00:05:10.000Despite all of the accomplishments, despite the fact that the economy was booming, every single thing that Trump has done wrong has been magnified, and every single thing that he has done right has been minimized.
00:05:18.000To the point where peace breaks out in the Middle East, and suddenly that is now being printed on page A18 of the New York Times.
00:05:24.000Whereas if Barack Obama had farted anywhere in the general region, it would have been A1 news.
00:05:31.000Anytime Barack Obama said a thing that the media loved, which was every single day, A1 News.
00:05:35.000Whenever Trump says something that they don't like, that is A1 News.
00:05:38.000But when he does something that is wonderful, that is page A18.
00:05:41.000And right now, the media are so open in their bias.
00:05:44.000It's one of the reasons why the left cannot be allowed to win this election, because the media apparatus have basically mobilize full score behind the hard radical left position while pretending to be objective at the same time.
00:05:56.000It's insulting to the American people.
00:05:58.000They've given up any pretense that they once had of objectivity, but then they gaslight you by claiming they continue to be objective journalists.
00:06:06.000And the best case in point of this is the fact that Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, the likely next president by the polls, and his running mate, Kamala Harris, refused to answer a very simple but quite important question.
00:06:17.000Are you going to pack the Supreme Court?
00:06:19.000Are you going to add seats to the Supreme Court of the United States?
00:06:22.000Remember, that was a policy so radical that FDR in 1937, when he tried to do this, was rebuked by members of his own party.
00:06:29.000The Republicans did not control Congress at that time.
00:06:33.000And Democrats in Congress were like, I think we're going to hit pause on this one.
00:06:37.000Democrats now, however, are so angry at the prospect of Amy Coney Barrett replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court because they believe the Supreme Court should just be a tool of policymaking on behalf of the left rather than a counter-majoritarian institution designed to prevent excesses that overrun your rights, which is the original design of the Supreme Court.
00:06:57.000They believe the Supreme Court should just be another tool in their arsenal, and they're so angry that they want to openly make it another tool in their arsenal.
00:07:03.000This is the game the left play, whether it's the media, or whether it's the Supreme Court, whether it's the executive branch.
00:07:07.000All institutions become tools in their arsenal.
00:07:10.000At the same time, they claim that those institutions have institutional legitimacy.
00:07:14.000So they play this double game where they wreck the institutional legitimacy, but then claim that you should respect the institution because the institutional legitimacy ought to remain.
00:07:23.000So Joe Biden was asked directly yesterday, again, again, about court packing.
00:07:28.000Now remember, Kamala Harris was asked in debate just two nights ago what she would do about court packing, and she refused to answer the question, and Mike Pence kept drilling her on it, and she kept refusing to answer the question, and then eventually, she just called him a racist.
00:07:39.000So Joe Biden, standing far away from Kamala Harris in an airplane hangar in Phoenix, Arizona, he was asked specifically about court packing.
00:07:46.000And his answer is so unacceptable for any political candidate that it should have the media up in arms.
00:07:52.000I mean, you don't even have to imagine it.
00:07:54.000Donald Trump has many, many, many times been asked about particular kind of crazy policies.
00:08:00.000And Donald Trump's go-to when there is a crazy policy suggestion that he doesn't know anything about is to say, well, we've been thinking about it.
00:09:18.000They'll know my opinion in court packing when the election is over.
00:09:21.000Now look, I know it's a great question, y'all, and I don't blame you for asking it.
00:09:26.000But you know, the moment I answer that question, the headline in every one of your papers will be about that.
00:09:33.000Other than, other than, focusing on what's happening now.
00:09:39.000That is such an unbelievably unacceptable answer.
00:09:41.000Are you going to completely delegitimize the third branch of government by making it an overtly political institution in which you just stack the court with a bunch of Democrats?
00:09:51.000And he says, well, you'll find out after the election.
00:10:02.000You have to elect me to find out what I'm going to do is a crappy, unbelievably crappy response to, are you going to completely wreck the third branch of government?
00:11:09.000According to the Washington Post, Democratic nominee Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris are facing growing pressure to say whether they would pack the Supreme Court if the Republican-led Senate names Amy Coney Barrett to the bench.
00:11:18.000Over the past few days, the question from Republicans, debate moderators, and reporters has dogged the pair.
00:11:23.000It came up again Thursday when Biden was asked at a campaign stop in Phoenix if he would support expanding the Supreme Court beyond nine justices.
00:11:31.000It re-answered the conversation in earnest after the death of RBG.
00:11:34.000Although the Republican-controlled Senate refused to consider Barack Obama's nomination in Merrick Garland in 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies have promised to confirm Barrett by November 3rd.
00:11:43.000Yes, because the Republicans control the executive and the legislature.
00:11:49.000In response, some Democrats have vowed to leave nothing on the proverbial table should the party take control of the White House and the Senate.
00:11:55.000Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hinted he would not rule out court packing.
00:12:00.000Again, it is amazing that the Washington Post is covering this as a story of Republicans pouncing.
00:12:04.000If you were talking about the Republicans adding seats to the Supreme Court, which they could theoretically do right now, they have a majority in the Senate.
00:12:11.000Presumably, the Democrats and the media would not be talking about Democrats pouncing.
00:12:15.000They'd be talking about the underlying issue.
00:12:17.000But Joe Biden is so confident that the media will cover his ass for him, that he refuses to answer the most basic questions, knowing that he can literally get away with anything.
00:12:25.000They can ask him any question under the sun, and he will say, the focus right now, the focus right now should be on Donald Mnuchin.
00:13:08.000What I remember more was he did a good job in the debate.
00:13:10.000See, the president is supposed to be presidential and the vice president is supposed to be vice presidential.
00:13:14.000But because everybody's afraid that Biden's gonna plot on the job, now Biden is forced to talk about how presidential Kamala Harris is when she is, at the very least, very non-presidential.
00:13:24.000By the way, love how the media treats smirking.
00:13:26.000If you're a high school student and a Native American activist comes up to your face and bangs a drum in your face and you have an awkward smile, that is a smirk.
00:13:36.000If you're Kamala Harris and you smirk for 90 minutes against the Vice President of the United States while he simply lays facts on you, then that means that you are slaying, Queen.
00:13:45.000Anyway, here was Joe Biden talking about how presidential Kamala Harris was.
00:13:50.000I thought Kamala did a great job last night.
00:14:00.000She'll never have to answer a question, as she did in the debate.
00:14:03.000Speaking of people who will never have to answer questions, Nancy Pelosi laid out there yesterday that she wants to create a new commission that would be able to objectively evaluate the president's health and mental health and deprive him of the presidency and hand it over to the vice presidency.
00:14:18.000So, number one, real backhanded slap at Joe right there, isn't that Nancy?
00:14:22.000I mean, if you're so confident Joe Biden is going to be elected president, it seems like kind of a slap, like you think that Joe's lost his mind and you might have to hand it over to Kamala Harris.
00:14:29.000But obviously, this is directed at Trump and the belief that the 25th Amendment should not be left to Trump's cabinet.
00:14:33.000Instead, it should be left to some nonpartisan body.
00:14:37.000which is to say people appointed by people like Nancy Pelosi.
00:14:39.000Here is Pelosi talking about changing the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to allow an outside body to evaluate whether the President of the United States ought to continue in his job, which is just insane.
00:14:49.000When we hear people saying I'm young and I'm a perfect specimen, instead of addressing the fact that what 50,000 people were, in fact, it reports to be in fact that yesterday nearly a thousand people died.
00:15:19.000Well, right now, the 25th Amendment allows for the temporary ouster of a disabled president and requires the active participation of a majority of the cabinet.
00:15:27.000Pelosi, however, is now saying that she wants some other body to determine whether, in fact, the President of the United States ought to ought to be ousted from his job.
00:15:38.000Pelosi and Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland said in a press release they will introduce a bill creating a commission to evaluate the presidential mental and physical fitness.
00:15:46.000The bill would change to establish a commission on presidential capacity to discharge the powers and duties of office that would enable Congress to help ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership in the highest office in the executive branch of government.
00:15:57.000So in other words, they're no longer going to have to in any way By the way, that addled octogenarian, she's totally fine.
00:16:03.000on presidential capacity to discharge the powers and duties of office.
00:16:06.000And they will evaluate whether the president of the United States is actually worthy of continuing in his job.
00:16:12.000By the way, that addled octogenarian, she's totally fine.
00:16:17.000We're told that Donald Trump has lost his mind, but Joe Biden, who will not answer a single question and can't get through seven sentences without nearly falling off his feet.
00:16:24.000And Nancy Pelosi, who has not said a coherent thing in at least two years.
00:16:27.000These are the people who should decide whether Donald Trump gets to stay in his job after a duly elected president becomes the president.
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00:17:47.000Okay, meanwhile, stories that are just not going to be covered in the media, other than, you know, a quick blurb.
00:17:50.000It turns out that Devon Archer, you haven't heard of Devon Archer.
00:17:52.000He was the business partner of Hunter Biden.
00:18:26.000But apparently, Hunter Biden is a complete non-story.
00:18:29.000And the fact that Hunter Biden's business partner is now headed off to jail for fraud, that of course is a non-story as well.
00:18:34.000The Wall Street Journal reports today, a federal appeals court reinstated the conviction of a former business associate of Hunter Biden on securities fraud and conspiracy charges ruling a lower court judge erred last year in vacating a jury's verdict.
00:18:47.000Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Devon Archer, quote, knew at least the general nature and extent of the scheme and intended to bring about its success.
00:18:54.000The fraud involved the sale of $60 million in bonds issued by an economic development corporation affiliated with the Native American tribe.
00:19:00.000The proceeds were misused by Archer and others, according to prosecutors.
00:19:03.000Archer and Biden were business partners.
00:19:05.000At various times, they served together on the board of Ukrainian gas producer Burisma Holdings.
00:19:09.000Hunter Biden's name was invoked at various stages of the fraud as a selling point in transactions, according to trial testimony.
00:19:15.000But the son of the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, didn't know about it, was not involved with that particular scheme, according to Hunter Biden's attorneys.
00:19:22.000Federal prosecutors never alleged that Hunter Biden was aware of the scheme.
00:19:25.000However, he was deeply involved with Devon Archer in a variety of businesses where they were traveling around the globe, picking up bags of cash in foreign countries.
00:19:36.000According to Joe Biden, Hunter is pure as the driven snow, so that will never be asked.
00:19:41.000Meanwhile, Donald Trump may never get the chance to ask some of these questions about court packing or about anything else.
00:19:46.000Because, of course, the Commission on Presidential Debate announced unilaterally, without consulting medical authorities, that they were simply going to cancel the second presidential debate, essentially.
00:19:56.000They were going to make it a Zoom debate.
00:19:58.000Well, normally, in order to do that, they said for health reasons.
00:20:01.000Wouldn't you have to consult some doctors in order to do that?
00:20:03.000Well, apparently they didn't even bother to do so.
00:20:06.000It turns out that today, the doctor for the president, Sean Connolly, released a health update on Trump.
00:20:12.000He said, This afternoon's vital signs were heart rate 69 beats a minute, blood pressure 127 over 81, which is quite healthy, respiratory rate 15 to 17 breaths a minute, and pulse oximetry 96 to 98% room air.
00:20:27.000Since returning home, his physical exam has remained stable and devoid of any indications to suggest progression of illness.
00:20:33.000Overall, he's responded extremely well to treatment without evidence on examination of adverse therapeutic effects.
00:20:38.000Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday's diagnosis.
00:20:41.000Based on the trajectory of advanced diagnosis the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the president's safe return to public engagements at that time.
00:20:47.000So in other words, Trump can do public events, according to his own doctors, by Saturday.
00:20:59.000Like really, apparently there is no actual health reason why they had to do this.
00:21:03.000And good news, the media, of course, go right along with this, which is not a shock at all.
00:21:08.000ABC News has announced a town hall for Joe Biden, moderated by George Stephanopoulos, the partisan hack, Keebler elf, George Stephanopoulos, who has spent the last several weeks simply playing offense on behalf of the Biden campaign, a guy who two nights ago suggested that Mike Pence was mansplaining to Kamala Harris.
00:21:25.000Now he's going to moderate a town hall.
00:21:27.000Another propaganda feat for Joe Biden on ABC News.
00:21:31.000October 15th, the primetime event will take place in Philadelphia, where the former VP will answer questions from voters.
00:21:37.000So I do love the fact that apparently Biden is going to fly in.
00:21:41.000He will be at the live event with George Stephanopoulos.
00:21:44.000I don't think he's going to be there virtually.
00:23:53.000For me to comment on that now would be irresponsible.
00:23:56.000I think that if I'm going to follow the commission's recommendation, if he goes off and he's going to have a rally, I don't know what I'll do.
00:24:33.000I mean, let's suggest that you wanted to start your show on time.
00:24:36.000It was a very important day to start your show on time.
00:24:37.000But your lead producer was too busy going to the bathroom.
00:24:40.000I mean, here at The Daily Wire, we do not allow you to go to the bathroom except in accordance with National Labor Relations Act restrictions.
00:24:48.000Okay, and let's just be real about this.
00:24:50.000Producer Colton, that's on your time, man.
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00:26:33.000By the way, Trump has had an alternative suggestion and Biden hasn't taken him up on it.
00:26:36.000So Trump's reelection campaign released a statement pointing out that Trump will be medically cleared for safe return by Saturday.
00:26:42.000He said there is therefore no medical reason why the Commission on Presidential Debates should shift the debate to a virtual setting, postpone it or otherwise alter it in any way.
00:26:50.000Commission on Presidential Debate chairman Frank Fahrenkopf admits they consulted with no one before unilaterally changing the format of the debate well in advance of knowledge of what the president's condition would be on debate night.
00:27:00.000The commission must stop protecting Joe Biden from this in-person debate and allow the event to proceed as it was agreed to months ago.
00:27:06.000The American people can see through this obvious attempt to shield Biden from another shellacking like he got two weeks ago in Cleveland.
00:27:11.000CPD must reverse course and let the debate proceed.
00:28:04.000If you are not openly advocating violence, if you're not advocating violence, you are not responsible for violence.
00:28:09.000And if somebody misuses your words to go do something evil, you are not responsible for them misusing your words to go do evil.
00:28:16.000Also, you cannot impute to somebody motive that they did not actually show.
00:28:21.000Meaning that if somebody goes and does something and they have nothing to do with me or Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump or Barack Obama, you cannot then claim that they have something to do with us.
00:28:33.000Because that is unfair and it is wrong.
00:28:36.000There is something called the scope of agency in law.
00:28:38.000There's a concept called scope of agency.
00:28:40.000Scope of agency is where I deploy an agent to go do X. I want producer Colton to go pick up something at FedEx for the purposes of the studio.
00:28:50.000He is now my agent and going to pick up the thing at FedEx for purposes of the studio.
00:28:54.000If Colton then For some odd reason decides to go out and do cocaine on the side of the road.
00:29:01.000I'm not implying anything about Colton's activities right now.
00:29:05.000Colton's really taking it out on the show today.
00:29:07.000The fact is that outside the scope of agency is outside the scope of agency.
00:29:11.000Well, there is no agency when someone decides to commit a terror attack against the sitting governor in the United States.
00:29:17.000Okay, it's not like Donald Trump was like, you know what, guys?
00:29:19.000I want you to go perform a terrorist attack.
00:29:21.000The reason that I am bringing this up is because the media and the Democrats are now claiming that Donald Trump is responsible for an attempted kidnapping plot against Governor Christine, Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
00:29:35.000According to the Detroit Free Press, the Wolverine Watchmen militia group didn't just plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
00:29:40.000They were on a mission to attack the state capitol and target police officers at their homes as part of a broader mission to instigate a civil war, according to authorities.
00:29:47.000Thursday, they announced this in announcing felony charges against 13 militia members accused in a sensational case of domestic terrorism.
00:29:54.000Attorney General Dana Nessel referred to the accused as extremists who are hoping to recruit new members by seizing on a moment of civil unrest to wreak havoc on the country.
00:30:01.000She identified the militia group as the Wolverine Watchmen, whose members are accused of, among other things, conducting surveillance outside Whitmer's vacation residence, using code language and encrypted messages to throw off police, and planting a bomb under a bridge to divert law enforcement.
00:30:14.000So obviously an act of tremendous evil they were planning here.
00:30:18.000Nessel said there's been a disturbing increase in anti-government rhetoric and the reemergence of groups that embrace extremist ideologies.
00:30:23.000This is more than just political disagreement or passionate advocacy.
00:30:26.000Some of these groups' mission is simply to create chaos and inflict harm upon others.
00:30:31.000Okay, so the implication the media have drawn from this is that because these people were anti-government and wanted to start a civil war and were members of what would be probably termed a far-right militia, that they must have been Trump fans or that Trump instructed them to do all of this or something like that, which is like Republicans claiming that the congressional baseball shooting is the responsibility of Bernie Sanders because a Bernie Sanders fan went and shot members of Congress and nearly killed Steve Scalise.
00:31:00.000The left tried to blame the Oklahoma City bombing on Rush Limbaugh.
00:31:03.000Now, the left is attempting to blame this kidnapping plot on Donald Trump.
00:31:08.000The Wolverine Watchmen group is one of an estimated two to three dozen Michigan militia groups.
00:31:13.000Some fear it could pose a growing threat, according to the Detroit Free Press.
00:31:17.000The state has always been a hotbed for militia activity, says Amy Cooter, senior lecturer at Vanderbilt University.
00:31:23.000Thursday, law enforcement arrested 13 people, including 7 members of Wolverine Watchmen.
00:31:28.000Apparently, they wanted to kidnap her, take her to Wisconsin, and put her on trial for treason.
00:31:33.000The conspirators were frustrated and upset about many things, including the fact that during the pandemic, the state was controlling gym openings, they called Whitmer a tyrant b-word, and sought to train and recruit others into their ranks.
00:31:44.000More than a dozen people, investigators said, met in Dublin, Ohio and sought to form, quote, a society that followed the U.S.
00:31:48.000Bill of Rights and where they could be self-sufficient.
00:31:50.000They discussed peaceful and violent ways to do this.
00:31:52.000Well, you know what is not in the U.S.
00:31:54.000Actually kidnapping sitting members of the government and then attempting to execute them.
00:31:58.000It turns out these people can't read, apparently.
00:32:01.000They believe state governments were violating the Constitution and they talked about murdering tyrants or taking a sitting governor.
00:32:07.000The Wolverine Watchmen was founded by Pete Musico, 42, and Joseph Morrison, 26, who live together in Munith, Michigan, and are now each charged with a threat of terrorism.
00:32:15.000Throughout the summer, the combined group decided they needed firearms and tactical training and homemade bombs to blow up police vehicles and 200 men to storm the Capitol and take hostages.
00:32:23.000They also discussed a shooting at the governor's vacation home.
00:32:28.000So, by the way, most of the militia groups in Michigan, according to this professor, are law-abiding, so not all militia groups are the same.
00:32:35.000Here's the prosecutor saying that their plan was a civil war.
00:32:38.000What they actually wanted was tremendous levels of violence in the streets.
00:32:44.000The individuals in custody are suspected to have attempted to identify the home addresses of law enforcement officers in order to target them, made threats of violence intended to instigate a civil war, and engaged in planning and training for an operation to attack the Capitol building of Michigan and to kidnap government officials, including the governor of Michigan.
00:33:09.000Okay, so this prompted Governor Gretchen Whitmer To say that this was all Trump's fault.
00:33:25.000Only members of the left get away with this kind of crap.
00:33:27.000Implying that their political opponents are responsible for acts of violence of which they not only do not approve, but in this case, Trump's DOJ was intimately involved in the actual prosecution here.
00:33:38.000I mean, it's pretty, it is pretty despicable to claim that your political opponents are responsible for acts of violence against you.
00:33:46.000Not the ones who are actually performing the violence, but people, broadly speaking, who oppose your lockdown policies.
00:33:51.000But that's exactly what Gretchen Whitmer does right here.
00:33:55.000Just last week, the President of the United States stood before the American people and refused to condemn white supremacists and hate groups like these two Michigan militia groups.
00:34:06.000When our leaders speak, their words matter.
00:34:25.000If we are now going to use this logic, presumably, the entire Democratic leadership is responsible for the excesses of Black Lives Matter who have been burning down cities.
00:34:32.000Again, Bernie Sanders is responsible for the congressional baseball shooting.
00:34:34.000This would make Barack Obama responsible for the Dallas police shootings that happened back in 2016.
00:34:39.000It would make Barack Obama responsible for the riots that happened in Milwaukee.
00:34:56.000He tweeted out, Okay, you remember that back in the middle of the pandemic, April 17th, Trump tweeted out in all capital letters, Liberate Michigan!
00:35:15.000And I at the time was like, this seems like kind of a dumb tactic.
00:35:18.000Like, why don't you make a policy and then tell people what your policy is?
00:35:21.000But, you know, Liberate Michigan is not a call to do violence against the Michigan government.
00:35:27.000Amy Siskind, who is another member of the left-wing media, she tweeted out, The FBI thwarted what they described as a plot to violently overthrow the government and kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
00:35:36.000The plot was hatched by Michigan militia.
00:35:38.000Recall the liberate Michigan and repeated rhetoric from Trump.
00:35:42.000were not shy about this. Keith Boykin of CNN. He said Trump calls CNN the enemy of the people.
00:35:46.000Cesar Sayoc sends pipe bombs to CNN. Trump tweets about anarchists and agitators. Kyle Rittenhouse kills two people in Kenosha. Trump tweets, reliberate Michigan. Six men try to kidnap the governor of Michigan. Okay, so number one, if you say that CNN is quote unquote the enemy of the people, I've decried that language because frankly, I don't think that you should use the language of Joseph Stalin to describe members of the media. Okay, that does not mean you are are responsible for people then threatening the media with acts of violence.
00:36:12.000Any more than the Democrats have been calling Trump, they're calling him a traitor and a person who is giving incentive to murder.
00:36:17.000Now if somebody goes and tries to assassinate the President of the United States on that basis, I still don't think Keith Boykin's responsible for that.
00:36:23.000By the way, linking Kyle Rittenhouse with any of this is absurd.
00:36:25.000Kyle Rittenhouse did not go to Kenosha to murder anybody.
00:36:28.000So even listing him there is just, in this list, is just absurd on its face.
00:36:33.000Liberate Michigan is not... Is there any evidence that we have seen that it was that tweet that had anything to do with anything?
00:36:40.000Like, seriously, did... At some point, shouldn't you actually require some evidence?
00:36:44.000There's more evidence that a congressional baseball shooter was mimicking the language of Bernie Sanders than there is that these guys were following Trump's lead, especially because the alleged ringleader declared Donald Trump an enemy openly.
00:38:36.000Okay, we'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:38:38.000Of course, this is all about creating a broader overall narrative, which is, again, making the election referendum on Trump personally, and making Trump a stand-in for supposed American racism.
00:38:47.000And if the square peg does not fit into the round hole, then you just hammer away at the peg until it fits into the hole.
00:38:53.000We're gonna see this in just a second.
00:38:56.000America's evil, and it doesn't matter how you have to get to that conclusion, and how you get to the conclusion that Trump is the ringleader of this racist, evil America.
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00:42:45.000Alrighty, so there is a broader overarching narrative that the Whitmer allegations tie into.
00:42:57.000And that is that America is a deeply racist place filled with white supremacist racists who are being emboldened by the president of the United States.
00:43:03.000And Democrats are fighting back against this horrific infrastructure in the United States.
00:43:09.000And corporate America has joined in on this ridiculous quest The media are all in on all of this.
00:43:14.000All you have to do is just cast your reason out to the side.
00:43:17.000All you have to do is just become completely blind, deaf, and dumb to the actual real world in order to believe this kind of crap.
00:43:50.000Karen Attia says it's hard to break glass ceilings while walking on a tightrope.
00:43:53.000But in her historic debate appearance on Wednesday, that's exactly what Kamala Harris had to do.
00:43:58.000That plexiglass had to be installed for the showdown between Harris and Vice President Pence was a visible reminder that the Trump administration has recklessly played down a deadly virus.
00:44:06.000The plexiglass was also an onstage reminder of the barriers that non-white women face when vying for political power in this country.
00:46:12.000So, some crazy person walks into the local Mickey D's and then pretends that somebody wrote a racist thing on their receipt.
00:46:19.000This has happened like a thousand times now in the media.
00:46:22.000Yelp will now report that on the page and issue a consumer alert that perhaps this business is the site of racism based on an unsourced, unverified allegation by random user.
00:46:32.000I can't imagine how people would misuse this.
00:46:35.000I can't imagine that people would attempt to shake down businesses by basically saying, you know what you could do?
00:46:40.000You could, you know, give me like a free coupon or I could just go on Yelp and I could allege that you guys are mean to black people.
00:46:46.000I can't imagine that anybody would misuse this kind of thing.
00:46:50.000According to Yelp, quote, When we notice an unusual spike in activity on a business's Yelp page, our team of moderators will investigate and temporarily disable content as we place an alert on the business's page to warn users that some of these reviews may not be based on firsthand experiences.
00:47:07.000But here's what we will do when an incident involving racism occurs.
00:47:10.000We'll default to a general public attention alert to inform consumers if someone associated with the business was accused of or the target of racist behavior.
00:47:19.000We'll only escalate to a business accused of racist behavior alert when there's resounding evidence of egregious racist actions from a business owner or employee, such as using overtly racist slurs or symbols.
00:47:28.000This alert will always link to a news article from a credible media outlet so users can learn more.
00:47:32.000Oh, so they'll launder all this crap through CNN.
00:47:36.000So as soon as you have a credible news outlet, namely a left wing news outlet that accuses Mickey D's of racism, then you'll just link to it and then you'll issue an alert, a business accused of racist behavior alert.
00:47:47.000If somebody is accused of racism, however, there will just be a public attention alert.
00:47:52.000So there, you don't even need evidence.
00:47:53.000A public attention alert will just... I can't imagine how this will be abused.
00:47:58.000And you're seeing this kind of crap emerge at corporations around the country.
00:48:01.000You already saw Uber earlier this year suggest that they were going to give special discounts to black-owned businesses, which, by the way, I believe is federally illegal.
00:48:10.000I don't think that you actually are allowed to discriminate on the basis of race in pricing.
00:48:16.000But according to Yelp, communities have always turned to Yelp in reaction to current events at the local level.
00:48:20.000As the nation reckons with issues of systemic racism we've seen in the last few months, there is a clear need to warn consumers about businesses associated with egregious, racially charged actions to help people make more informed spending decisions.
00:48:41.000Meanwhile, how endemic is systemic racism?
00:48:43.000When I talk about the media and the corporate complex pushing this notion that America is systemically racist, and that if you don't say that America is systemically racist, you yourself are racist, I mean it.
00:48:54.000There's an article today from the Washington Post that is so absurd on its face, Okay, now let's be real about George Floyd.
00:49:01.000it will not be. It is part of a six article series from the Washington Post titled, Born with Two Strikes, How Systemic Racism Shaped George Floyd's Life and Hobbled His Ambition.
00:49:12.000Okay, now let's be real about George Floyd. Whatever happened to George Floyd? And it looks to me like excessive use of a police force to sit on the guy's neck for eight minutes and 40 seconds.
00:49:26.000Okay, but that's excessive use of force.
00:49:28.000The case for murder is a lot shoddier.
00:49:31.000In fact, even the case for excessive force may not be shoddy depending on whether he was suffering from excited delirium.
00:49:35.000Okay, whatever the case is with George Floyd, George Floyd was not some Wonderful person who was who was bound for glory in American life, but then was thwarted by systemic racism in America.
00:49:49.000That is not what happened to George Floyd.
00:49:51.000What happened to George Floyd can be a tragedy.
00:49:53.000It could also be a crime, but that does not mean that America is responsible for his personal failures throughout the course of his life.
00:49:59.000The Washington Post tries to claim that George Floyd was bound for the Supreme Court.
00:50:27.000Its horrific, videotaped end ignited the largest anti-racism movement since, with demonstrators the world over marching for racial justice in his name.
00:50:34.000During the 46 years in between, George Perry Floyd came of age as the strictures of Jim Crow discrimination in America gave way to an insidious form of systemic racism, one that continually undercut his ambitions.
00:50:44.000Early in life, he wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice, then a pro-athlete.
00:50:47.000At the end, he just longed for a little stability, training to be a commercial truck driver.
00:50:52.000All were bigger dreams than he was able to achieve in his version of America.
00:50:55.000Weird, because Clarence Thomas grew up in the home of sharecroppers and ended up on the Supreme Court.
00:50:59.000Condoleezza Rice went to a church that was firebombed by racists.
00:51:02.000It turns out that Oprah Winfrey grew up in tremendous... She was a single mom in tremendous poverty.
00:51:32.000While Floyd's lifespan coincided with many advancements for Black Americans, says the Washington Post, some of them dramatic, his personal path highlights just how much these hard-fought gains remain out of reach for millions like him.
00:51:42.000My mom, she always used to tell us growing up in America, you already have two strikes.
00:51:45.000As a Black man, Floyd's younger brother, Phil Anise, said in an interview, you're going to have to work three times as hard as anybody else if you want to make it in the world.
00:51:52.000Like many Black Americans, Floyd was behind long before he was born.
00:51:54.000And the whole thing is about how George Floyd was a victim throughout his life.
00:52:19.000But this is the narrative that the media are attempting to draw.
00:52:22.000The narrative that's being drawn by people up to and including Michelle Obama is that America is racist and terrible, and that people who are protesting are not in fact rioters and looters, they are just wonderful, peaceful protesters.
00:52:31.000And we have to ignore the rioting and the looting because of the greater point, which is that America is so systemically racist that Michelle Obama is probably the best-selling author of the last 15 years in the United States, a front-runner for the presidential nomination for the Democrats, If Joe Biden does not win, or even if Joe Biden leaves office at some point, it's hard to be.
00:52:48.000It's so terrible to be a black person in America that literally the most admired people in America are nearly universally black at this point.
00:52:58.000Look at a field in the United States and you will see black faces in positions of power, which is a great thing.
00:53:04.000It speaks to the tolerance of America, the diversity of America.
00:53:07.000It speaks to the fact that we have an open meritocracy.
00:53:09.000That is an excellent, excellent thing.
00:53:10.000But according to Michelle Obama and the Democrats, again, America is systemically racist and systemically evil.
00:53:16.000So racist and evil that people like George Floyd, according to the Washington Post, are victims of systemic American racism.
00:53:21.000Again, the Washington Post printed an actual article claiming that George Floyd's life was a series of misadventures because of systemic American racism, not because he was a repeat criminal who was in and out of jail nearly his entire adult life.
00:53:32.000So here was Michelle Obama just a couple of days ago.
00:53:34.000Downplaying, rioting and looting, pretending that they don't exist in a video where she was calling Trump and America, by extension, completely racist.
00:53:42.000They're stoking fears about black and brown Americans, lying about how minorities will destroy the suburbs, whipping up violence and intimidation.
00:53:53.000And they're pinning it all on what's been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity.
00:54:15.000The study that she's talking about suggested that only about 7% of the protests across the United States devolved into actual violence.
00:54:21.000Oh, well, you know, well, if only 7% of Tea Party protests had devolved into actual violence, probably that would be mostly peaceful as well.
00:54:28.000Completely ignoring rioting and looting to say that Trump is a racist for pointing out the rioting and looting bespeaks a particular vision of the United States that is quite ugly and is quite wrong.
00:54:37.000Hey, it is a vision of the United States shared by people like Colin Kaepernick, who has been treated as a hero, like an actual hero, for being an extremely wealthy, as it turns out, mediocre NFL quarterback.
00:54:49.000He had one good season and then he sucked so much that he was benched for Blaine Gabbert.
00:54:52.000And that guy knelt for the national anthem on the basis, by the way, of a shooting that happened, I believe, in Oakland that turns out was justified by the police.
00:55:00.000He wore a pair of socks suggesting that cops were pigs.
00:55:04.000Now, he is saying not only that America is deeply racist, of course, in every respect.
00:55:09.000Also, he, this new goodwill ambassador for the NFL, he has suggested That the police ought to be completely defunded.
00:55:17.000He published an essay on Tuesday with a missive describing a change of heart he's experienced since holding his kneeling positions in 2017.
00:55:24.000He says he is now opposed to reforming law enforcement at all.
00:55:27.000He prefers a total abolition of police in prisons.
00:55:29.000Don't worry, he's not a radical, guys.
00:55:32.000He just wants mainstream police reform.
00:55:35.000He's just worried about excessive police use of force.
00:55:37.000He's not a radical in any way, Colin Kaepernick.
00:55:39.000He is the heart and soul of racial justice reform in the United States.
00:55:44.000Under the subheading title, F-Reform, Kaepernick wrote his thinking was, quote, fastened to a reformist framework.
00:55:50.000He admitted he missed the larger picture, or even major changes to policing would produce similar problems to those that, in Kaepernick's mind, currently plague law enforcement, according to Emily Zanotti for Daily Wire.
00:56:01.000The focus on individual punishment will never alter the outcome of a system rooted in black death, said Kaepernick.
00:56:09.000Yet the reforms often proposed, use of force policies, body cameras, more training, police accountability, were the same recycled police reforms consistently proposed in the past.
00:56:16.000And in both the past and the present, these reforms have done nothing to stop the actions that force us to say their names.
00:56:30.000Colin Kaepernick needs the police to protect, presumably, his multi-million dollar estate and his very expensive cars that he has achieved in this horrifically racist and backward country.
00:56:41.000He says, despite the steady cascade of anti-black violence across this country, I'm hopeful we can build a future that imagines justice differently.
00:56:47.000A future without the terror of policing in prisons.
00:57:01.000Of course, this doesn't involve any solutions, as you may have noticed.
00:57:04.000He says the ever-present threat of premature death at the hands, knees, chokeholds, tasers, and guns of law enforcement has only further ingrained its anti-black foundation into the institutions of policing.
00:57:14.000In order to eradicate anti-blackness, we must also abolish the police.
00:57:17.000The abolition of one without the other is impossible.
00:57:21.000He says that this will have wide-ranging effects, but he resists the urge to explain how ending law enforcement will result in an end to homelessness and other social ills, other than to speculate that money spent on policing will be redistributed in a way not guided by white supremacy.
00:57:34.000He says, by abolishing policing in prisons, not only can we eliminate white supremacist establishments, we can create space for budgets to be reinvested directly into communities to address mental health needs, homelessness and houselessness, access to education and job creation, as well as community-based methods of accountability.
00:57:49.000If we just dump trillions of dollars into local government initiatives focused on like, you know, say like Head Start programs or midnight basketball, probably that will solve the crime problems.
00:57:57.000Except that the only thing that ever solved the crime problem in the United States is more cops on the street.
00:59:00.000And that lie has consequences, because as it turns out, those who want to defund the police are jacking up the rates of homicide and violence.
00:59:12.000A troubled police department is reeling from street demonstrations seeking racial justice and accountability, and a city budget is ravaged by the coronavirus economy.
00:59:20.000The push to reshape police departments is occurring in cities across the country, but it is perhaps nowhere more evident than here in Oakland, where veteran activists want to sharply reduce the police budget.
00:59:29.000But much of the broader community is struggling with what that could mean.
00:59:32.000In a place that for the past decade has been dedicated to rethinking how it polices its people, the argument for a smaller force and larger social service agencies has gained momentum.
00:59:40.000The nearly immediate calls for cuts of up to half of the police department's $300 million budget were popular among protesters.
00:59:46.000But cutting a municipal police force in a large city has proved highly complex at a time when the economic slowdown caused by the pandemic has greatly reduced the amount of public money to go around and crime has spiked.
00:59:56.000Oakland has seen a surge in shootings and homicides, which in the second quarter of this year had more than doubled from the previous one.
01:00:02.000Violence and vandalism that have come with some of the street protests have rattled a business community that supports, in principle, a more preventive approach to addressing crime.
01:00:09.000One of the beautiful things about being a Democrat, about being a member of corporate America that backs this kind of anti-racist garbage, and I put anti-racist in scare quotes because that's the Ibram Kendi, Robin DiAngelo version of anti-racism, which has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with neo-Marxist claptrap.
01:00:26.000The predictable result of this are more minorities getting hurt, more people dying, more businesses being looted, more businesses being broken into.
01:00:34.000But Colin Kaepernick doesn't have to care.
01:00:36.000And Michelle Obama doesn't have to care.
01:00:38.000They know full well the consequences of what they say.
01:00:40.000But since they are being back massaged by a democratic establishment that is perfectly willing to, and not just willing, eager to forward the narrative of racist America, These are the heroes.
01:00:51.000These are the heroes in America, the people who are making life worse every day for people desperately in need of more law enforcement, not less law enforcement, people desperately in need of more opportunity, not less opportunity, and people desperately in need of more encouragement in a free society, not the pervasively disgusting message that you are born with two strikes on you, no matter what, in the United States if you are born black, which is just a lie.
01:01:14.000Alrighty, we'll be back here today with two additional hours of content.
01:01:17.000Otherwise, we will see you here on Monday.