The Ben Shapiro Show - Capitalism Eats Wokeness | Ep. 1046

00:00:00.000 Colin Kaepernick cashes in on wokeness once again.

00:00:03.000 Crime surges as Democrats focus on blaming everybody else.

00:00:05.000 And Don Lemon explains that Black Lives Matter doesn't include all black lives.

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00:00:46.000 Okay, so, this is an amazing country.

00:00:50.000 It truly is.

00:00:51.000 It's an incredible, incredible country.

00:00:52.000 It's an incredible country because basically, you can never underestimate the power of the American people to make somebody extraordinarily wealthy.

00:01:00.000 If you are, let's say, a mediocre quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, you know, somebody who didn't kneel for the anthem and who took the Niners to the Super Bowl is, you know, good for one season, basically.

00:01:10.000 And then you started to fall apart because people sort of figured out your bag of tricks and sort of figured you out as a quarterback.

00:01:15.000 And soon you found yourself backing up the immortal Blaine Gabbard in San Francisco.

00:01:19.000 And you were on bench and you started thinking about things.

00:01:22.000 And soon you were kneeling for the national anthem while maintaining at the same time, you were not protesting the American flag or America more deeply.

00:01:29.000 You were really just protesting police brutality, right?

00:01:31.000 It was just police brutality.

00:01:32.000 That's all it was about, about police brutality.

00:01:34.000 And it turns out that that was not the most popular thing to do because people don't like when people kneel for the national anthem or kneel for the American flag.

00:01:41.000 And also people didn't quite believe you when you said it was all about police brutality. 0.75

00:01:44.000 After all, you were wearing like Marxist t-shirts and you had socks with pictures of cops as pigs on them.

00:01:50.000 And overall, you just didn't seem like that great a dude. 0.98

00:01:52.000 The good news is that in America, this racist hellscape, this evil, racist hellscape of America, you can make millions of dollars by calling America an evil, racist hellscape. 0.95

00:02:03.000 It is the easiest way. 0.97

00:02:04.000 It is so, so simple. 0.99

00:02:06.000 In today's day and age, you can be Robin DiAngelo and write an awful, crap book about how all of America, except for you, is filled with white people who are deeply white supremacists, but you've internalized your own white supremacy, and so you can now lecture all of us. 0.98

00:02:17.000 You can be made a millionaire on the back of diversity classes. 0.99

00:02:19.000 You can be Sarai Rao, and you can give lessons to woke white ladies about how America is evil, and they are evil, and you can charge them thousands of dollars for the privilege. 1.00

00:02:27.000 And you can be Colin Kaepernick.

00:02:29.000 Everyone.

00:02:30.000 Young kids.

00:02:31.000 You could grow up to be Colin Kaepernick.

00:02:33.000 Not to be, like...

00:02:35.000 Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, because he's not playing.

00:02:36.000 And not to be like an astronaut.

00:02:38.000 You can't grow up to be like a soldier or the president of the United States.

00:02:41.000 What you can be, everyone can be this. 0.76

00:02:44.000 You can grow up to be somebody who makes millions of dollars off calling America a terrible, horrible, evil country.

00:02:50.000 You can do it.

00:02:52.000 Dream the dream.

00:02:53.000 Dream it together.

00:02:54.000 You too can be like Colin Kaepernick.

00:02:58.000 I need to show you the last two tweets from Colin Kaepernick on his Twitter account.

00:03:03.000 So there are two tweets.

00:03:04.000 These are back-to-back on Colin Kaepernick's Twitter account.

00:03:06.000 Tweet number one comes out July 4th, 2020.

00:03:09.000 Quote, Black people have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized, and terrorized by America for centuries and are expected to join your commemoration of independence while you enslaved our ancestors.

00:03:18.000 We reject your celebration of white supremacy and look forward to liberation for all.

00:03:23.000 Okay, now, let's be quite frank about this.

00:03:26.000 Colin Kaepernick does not seem particularly victimized in the United States.

00:03:29.000 He seems like he's pretty much enjoying the fruits of freedom.

00:03:32.000 How do I know he's enjoying the fruits of freedom and liberation?

00:03:34.000 Because the very next tweet on his account, quote, I am excited for this partnership with Disney across all of its platforms to elevate black and brown directors, creators, storytellers, and producers.

00:03:43.000 I look forward to sharing culturally impactful and inspiring projects.

00:03:47.000 So what exactly is happening?

00:03:48.000 Well, capitalism always wins, gang.

00:03:51.000 And as soon as you can make a buck off wokeness, you'll make a buck off wokeness because bucks are all that matters.

00:03:56.000 According to ESPN.com, Colin Kaepernick will be featured in an exclusive docuseries produced by ESPN Films as part of its first look deal with the Walt Disney Company.

00:04:05.000 The deal between Kaepernick's production arm, Raw Vision Media, and Disney was announced on Monday.

00:04:09.000 The partnership will focus on telling scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice, and the quest for equity.

00:04:15.000 It will also provide a platform to showcase the work of minority directors and producers.

00:04:19.000 I am excited to announce this historic partnership with Disney, said Kaepernick.

00:04:23.000 Despite being exiled from the NFL since the 2016 season, when he took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality, Kaepernick still wants to play.

00:04:31.000 No, he doesn't.

00:04:32.000 Kaepernick has no intention of ever getting on the field again.

00:04:34.000 Lies, lies, lies.

00:04:35.000 That is just not true.

00:04:37.000 Kaepernick had the opportunity to try out for teams last year.

00:04:39.000 He completely and purposefully botched it.

00:04:41.000 It was perfectly obvious that that's what he was doing.

00:04:43.000 He has no intention of ever getting back on the field because now he's a civil rights leader.

00:04:47.000 Because as a man who has suffered deeply from his race in this country by becoming extraordinarily rich and powerful off the back of calling America a racist hellscape, he has no intention of playing in the NFL again.

00:04:58.000 Come on.

00:04:59.000 Instead, he's going to become the face of the Nike campaign, right?

00:05:02.000 He's the face of the Nike campaign as of 2018.

00:05:04.000 And now, he's got the NFL commissioner apologizing to him.

00:05:07.000 He's got Roger Goodell saying that he's going to be the face of social justice in the NFL.

00:05:12.000 Kaepernick will work closely with The Undefeated, which is expanding its portfolio across Disney to develop stories from the perspectives of black and brown communities.

00:05:20.000 His deal with the Walt Disney Company will extend across all Disney platforms, including Walt Disney TV, ESPN, Hulu, Pixar, and The Undefeated.

00:05:27.000 I very much look forward to the new Pixar movie about Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the flag before being tackled because he couldn't make a secondary read.

00:05:36.000 During this unprecedented time, said Bob Iger, Disney's Executive Chairman, the Walt Disney Company remains committed to creating diverse and inclusive content that resonates and matters.

00:05:45.000 Colin's experience gives him a unique perspective on the intersection of sports, culture, and race, which will undoubtedly create compelling stories that will educate, enlighten, and entertain.

00:05:53.000 And we look forward to working with him on this important collaboration.

00:05:57.000 The docuseries about Kaepernick's journey is the first project in development.

00:06:00.000 It will include new interviews and other never-before-seen elements as part of the docuseries.

00:06:04.000 Who's a producer on the project?

00:06:05.000 Jemele Hill, of course!

00:06:07.000 Jemele Hill is showing up.

00:06:08.000 So you remember Jemele Hill.

00:06:09.000 Jemele Hill is a person who has suggested that everybody who watches NASCAR is a deep and abiding racist.

00:06:14.000 Jemele Hill is a racial radical who has suggested that America is thoroughly evil.

00:06:18.000 Thoroughgoingly terrible.

00:06:20.000 Well, now she is working for ESPN Disney, too.

00:06:22.000 Isn't that exciting?

00:06:24.000 In fact, she even tweeted out about it.

00:06:25.000 Very excited I'll be serving as a producer on Kaepernick's docuseries as part of his production deal with ESPN Disney and content collaboration with The Undefeated.

00:06:32.000 I consider it an honor to play any role in telling Colin's story.

00:06:39.000 Slow clap for America, man.

00:06:41.000 Slow clap for America. 0.81

00:06:42.000 Eric Hoffer, the famous cultural commentator back in the 1960s and 70s.

00:06:46.000 He wrote, every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

00:06:51.000 Yep, yep.

00:06:54.000 And you know what?

00:06:54.000 There's a little addition that could be made, theoretically.

00:06:58.000 That little addition could be that the amount of time it takes to get from point A to point C, right there, that would be from a cause to a racket, tells you about the greatness of the cause.

00:07:10.000 Meaning if it's a really great cause, it takes a while to go from being a cause to being a racket.

00:07:15.000 Because people are actually motivated to make serious substantive change.

00:07:19.000 A racket is just about making the bucks, right? 0.93

00:07:20.000 And Colin Kaepernick making the money and doing docuseries about himself, the most narcissistic, solipsistic nonsense in the entire world.

00:07:30.000 The quickness with which a movement goes from being a movement to being a racket demonstrates the seriousness of the business, of the cause in the first place.

00:07:39.000 I do love the fact that capitalism has now figured out a way to churn out The America's Hellscape nonsense, for profit, like good for capitalism.

00:07:47.000 Capitalism is great at this.

00:07:49.000 It does demonstrate also that corporations, it's so funny, people think corporations are right wing.

00:07:53.000 Corporations are all conservative.

00:07:54.000 They're so conservative.

00:07:56.000 And the reason that you know that corporations are conservative is because they make money.

00:08:00.000 Except for the fact that you don't have to be conservative to make money.

00:08:03.000 In fact, if you are interested only in making money, Well, one of the things that you can do is you can just churn out stuff for the left.

00:08:11.000 And that's exactly what is happening here.

00:08:12.000 So everybody is happy to make a buck off of Colin Kaepernick.

00:08:15.000 And I say good for them.

00:08:16.000 I say, you know what? 1.00

00:08:17.000 As long as we're going to be stuck in this morass of stupidity, somebody ought to make some money. 1.00

00:08:21.000 And why not Colin Kaepernick? 1.00

00:08:23.000 Hero to the masses!

00:08:24.000 Man who, I mean, really, what a martyr he is.

00:08:27.000 How much has he sacrificed?

00:08:28.000 He has sacrificed a backup slot on the San Francisco 49ers where he wasn't playing it down because he sucked so much the Blaine Gabbert was putting ahead of him.

00:08:36.000 He sacrificed that rich, rewarding career for the awfulness of having to trot around America, talking about how evil America is, to the cheers of the And the unadulterated drooling of the media to an overall deal with Disney, one of the biggest companies on planet Earth, as well as millions of dollars from Nike to Neil.

00:08:59.000 I mean, what a martyr.

00:09:00.000 What a martyr.

00:09:01.000 When I think of martyrs, I think of like Jesus, Joan of Arc, Colin Kaepernick.

00:09:07.000 I mean, like, clearly, clearly, what a horrible country this is.

00:09:12.000 What a terrible, terrible country it is.

00:09:13.000 And if you say it loud enough, they'll pay you too.

00:09:15.000 They'll pay you too.

00:09:17.000 More examples of how this has basically become a business now.

00:09:20.000 It's basically become a scam now.

00:09:21.000 And I will admit to being somewhat amused.

00:09:24.000 Because, again, half of the program here is about how capitalism is evil, and capitalism is terrible, and the only solution to all of this is Marxism, and remaking all of America's systems, and the systems of exploitation are really the problem here, and systemic racism is embedded in corporate America, and corporate America is like, here's a dollar.

00:09:40.000 Here's a dollar right here.

00:09:41.000 You want this dollar?

00:09:41.000 You want it?

00:09:42.000 You want it?

00:09:43.000 And half the woke crowd is like, absolutely, I want it!

00:09:46.000 Bring it right here for me! 0.99

00:09:48.000 Put it in my wallet!

00:09:50.000 I'm noticing that the deep abiding belief system of Colin Kaepernick and Jemele Hill has not prohibited them from taking money from Walt Disney.

00:09:58.000 Really, well done, everyone.

00:10:00.000 Second slow clap of the day already.

00:10:01.000 I mean, really just incredibly well done.

00:10:03.000 OK, we're going to get to more of how American capitalism can turn anything, can turn any cause into a profit-making enterprise, which is a Tribute to ingenuity.

00:10:14.000 It's not a tribute to forethought because eventually you turn everything into an industry and then the industry takes over the business and wrecks you.

00:10:20.000 But at least in the moment, you have to admire the ingenuity of turning a cause into a racket.

00:10:25.000 We'll get into more of this in just one second.

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00:11:45.000 OK, so it's not just a racket for Colin Kaepernick, obviously.

00:11:49.000 Colin Kaepernick, I mean, Al Sharpton's been making a very lucrative living for literally decades at this point from being one of the West's worst race baiters and a guy who literally created out of whole cloth an accusation of rape against a person.

00:12:00.000 But there's a whole diversity industry.

00:12:02.000 Understand the diversity industry Meaning the people who come into your company and give you diversity training? 0.97

00:12:08.000 That's people making money off dumb, okay?

00:12:10.000 Because there's very little evidence to prove that this diversity training actively changes anything inside the culture of a company. 0.89

00:12:16.000 Understand that diversity training was basically designed by corporations to pay off people, not to sue them.

00:12:23.000 That's basically what it was designed to do.

00:12:25.000 It was designed so that companies could point to their diversity training and then say, How could you say that we have a systemic problem of discrimination in the company when we paid?

00:12:33.000 We paid Robin DiAngelo $16,000 to come and speak at our company.

00:12:37.000 And you say we have a problem with racism?

00:12:39.000 We have a full-on, week-long diversity training.

00:12:42.000 That shows we care about diversity.

00:12:43.000 So, that's a shield from litigation.

00:12:45.000 You can't suggest that we have a systemic culture of discrimination when we are willing to pay this person who has no bona fides in ever accomplishing anything decent. 0.71

00:12:53.000 To come and lecture you about your white privilege.

00:12:55.000 Okay, so the city of Seattle is doing this right now.

00:12:58.000 The city of Seattle has diversity trainers.

00:13:00.000 I love that everything becomes an industry, right?

00:13:02.000 It's just, it's incredible.

00:13:03.000 You think we can't create jobs in the United States?

00:13:05.000 We can create jobs out of anything.

00:13:07.000 Anything!

00:13:09.000 It does not matter.

00:13:10.000 Is it like, that's how great, again, I keep praising capitalism because it's incredible.

00:13:14.000 It's incredible.

00:13:15.000 You can take the worst idea and you can turn it into an entire billion dollar industry.

00:13:20.000 Simply by blackmailing a few people with the possibility of lawsuits and then corporations are like, ah, I don't really want the lawsuit.

00:13:25.000 I guess I'll just toss 10 grand at somebody to come and yell at us about the evils of white fragility or something.

00:13:32.000 You can do the same thing, not just by threats of lawsuit.

00:13:35.000 You can also do it by threats of boycott.

00:13:37.000 You can go after corporations and you can say to them, if you don't, if you don't do X, Y, or Z and pay us money, well then we'll come after you.

00:13:43.000 This was Al Sharpton's stock and trade.

00:13:45.000 For years, Al Sharpton would basically go to corporations and he'd say, I'm going to accuse you of racial profiling, but a small donation to my National Action Network will demonstrate your good faith.

00:13:54.000 This kind of stuff is super common in the United States.

00:13:57.000 So the city of Seattle is now paying diversity trainers, which is pretty spectacular.

00:14:02.000 And what do they teach?

00:14:03.000 So according to Christopher Ruffo, who's the contributing editor of City Journal, he's gotten a hold of some of their diversity documents, and they are spectacular.

00:14:11.000 Interrupting IRS and whiteness, the work of white accomplices, So, you have to practice self-talk that affirms our complicity in racism. 0.81

00:14:20.000 They're going to train white people who work for the city of Seattle to practice self-talk affirming your complicity in racism.

00:14:26.000 Racism is not our fault, but we are responsible.

00:14:30.000 You have to do your own healing work.

00:14:32.000 What trauma, patterns, or other unwell ways of being are you complicit in?

00:14:37.000 Also, you have to cultivate networks of other white people who are practicing anti-racist accomplicehood so you can talk through your struggles in the work of undoing your own whiteness and showing up as allies and accomplices.

00:14:49.000 This is all written in the diversity training.

00:14:49.000 I'm serious.

00:14:52.000 Also, what happens after the thought exercises?

00:14:55.000 It's time to do the work.

00:14:56.000 So what exactly does the work constitute according to these diversity trainers?

00:15:00.000 The trainers ask white employees, according to Christopher Rubo, to quote, let go of comfort, guaranteed physical safety, control over the land, social status, and relationships with some other white people.

00:15:11.000 Then there's a flow chart that outlines how white people cause harm to people of color. 0.55

00:15:16.000 How do white people keep the system going? 1.00

00:15:18.000 Well, the system co-ops us through socialization to cause harm to people of color and to each other, right? 1.00

00:15:24.000 It's always the racist systems, the racist systems.

00:15:26.000 Then you have a mindset and behaviors that justify why we are superior and have been wronged by people of color. 1.00

00:15:32.000 Then our anger, self-righteousness, and defensiveness mask fear, shame, and guilt for the harm of our actions.

00:15:36.000 Then we show up small and inauthentic, unable to see opportunities to contribute as allies and accomplices.

00:15:42.000 And finally, we are unable to imagine a way forward that comes from the place of humanity and empowerment and the status quo. 0.87

00:15:48.000 Okay, if all of this sounds like absolute drivel, that's because it's absolute drivel, and the city of Seattle is paying presumably tens of thousands of dollars for this cultish nonsense. 0.77

00:15:58.000 It's all a racket. 0.94

00:15:59.000 It is a racket.

00:16:00.000 Okay, that is not to say that the cause of racial sensitivity in America is a racket. 0.98

00:16:04.000 This has nothing to do with racial sensitivity and everything to do with a group of people who are making a buck by claiming that America sucks. 0.54

00:16:04.000 It is not. 0.54

00:16:11.000 America's an evil, terrible place where people who stand for diversity can make tens of thousands of dollars by talking about how diversity is really important. 0.98

00:16:18.000 America's an evil, terrible place. 0.96

00:16:20.000 And by the way, they're the victims, right?

00:16:22.000 Again, Colin Kaepernick, the diversity trainers, they're all victims.

00:16:24.000 Everybody's a victim.

00:16:26.000 Amazing.

00:16:26.000 Amazing stuff.

00:16:28.000 Also, You can be given a slot at the New York Times if you demonstrate your own wokeness.

00:16:36.000 We won't care anything you have to say, but the minute you decide to go woke, then all of a sudden we take your opinion seriously.

00:16:41.000 There's a lot of Kwan to be made here in the phraseology of Jerry Maguire.

00:16:45.000 A lot of Kwan to be made when it comes to all of this.

00:16:49.000 Okay, Lucian Trescot is a, the fourth, is a journalist.

00:16:54.000 He's also a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

00:16:55.000 There's a piece in the New York Times today called, I'm a Direct Descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

00:16:59.000 Take Down His Memorial.

00:17:01.000 Now, no one cared what this guy had to say five minutes ago.

00:17:03.000 Like, literally five minutes ago, no one knew who this guy was or cared what he had to say.

00:17:06.000 But now, it's time for him to get a little bit of money.

00:17:09.000 It's time for him to get a little richer and a little more famous, because no one knew who he was.

00:17:13.000 Now it's time for him to speak out about the evils of Thomas Jefferson.

00:17:16.000 You know, a couple hundred years after Thomas Jefferson's dead.

00:17:20.000 Like, now's the time.

00:17:21.000 Now's the time.

00:17:22.000 We're gonna get to that in just one second.

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00:18:57.000 So again, you can make a lot of waves and gain publicity by taking the proper woke position these days.

00:19:03.000 So Lucian Truscott, who nobody had heard of five seconds ago, he's a columnist for Salon.

00:19:09.000 So nobody cared what he had to say.

00:19:10.000 But it turns out that he has a relationship with Thomas Jefferson because he's a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

00:19:16.000 And therefore, he has the authority to say it's time to take down the Thomas Jefferson memorial.

00:19:21.000 He writes, I guess that's why my brother and I, the great-grandsons, took the Jefferson Memorial for granted.

00:19:46.000 We had his ancestral home as a playground.

00:19:48.000 It was where all of our great-grandparents and great-aunts and great-uncles were buried, and where one day we were told we would be buried, too.

00:19:53.000 We didn't need the Jefferson Memorial.

00:19:55.000 Monticello was enough.

00:19:56.000 It's still enough.

00:19:57.000 In fact, as a memorial to Jefferson, it's almost perfect.

00:19:59.000 And that is why his memorial in Washington should be taken down and replaced.

00:20:03.000 Described by the National Park Service as a shrine to freedom, it is anything but.

00:20:07.000 Okay, well that is obviously not true.

00:20:09.000 It is a shrine to freedom.

00:20:10.000 The way you can tell it's a shrine to freedom is because of all the text that is on the memorial.

00:20:13.000 It's all phraseology from the Declaration of Independence talking about freedom.

00:20:16.000 The great contradiction of Thomas Jefferson as a human being is that he was a man who held very high ideals but did not abide by them, which is a sin common to humanity.

00:20:24.000 Doesn't mean that Jefferson didn't treat his slaves with unique evil.

00:20:29.000 His treatment of Sally Hemings, I mean, he literally fathered children with his own slave and then kept them enslaved.

00:20:32.000 I mean, that's an act of great evil.

00:20:33.000 You don't have to ignore any of that to recognize that, again, for the thousandth time, when you build monuments to people, you're not building monuments to their cruelty as a general rule.

00:20:42.000 You're building monuments to the stuff they did that was good.

00:20:45.000 You don't build a monument to someone because you believe everything they ever did was good.

00:20:48.000 You build a monument to somebody because of the thing they did that was good.

00:20:51.000 That is the point.

00:20:53.000 But according to this guy who no one cared about until five seconds ago when he claimed ancestry to Jefferson, which I assume is true, now he gets a piece in the New York Times talking about how it's time to take down the Jefferson Memorial.

00:21:03.000 Well, I mean, he did do some to make those words come true.

00:21:06.000 Namely, the founding of the United States that was instrumental in the tearing down of the institution of slavery in the United States.

00:21:11.000 are created equal in the Declaration of Independence and yet never did much to make those words come true.

00:21:16.000 Well, I mean, he did do some to make those words come true, namely the founding of the United States that was instrumental in the tearing down of the institution of slavery in the United States.

00:21:25.000 The words he wrote in the Declaration of Independence were invoked not just by Abraham Lincoln to stop slavery in the United States, They were invoked by Frederick Douglass to question why the promises had not been extended to black Americans.

00:21:35.000 They were invoked by Booker T. Washington.

00:21:36.000 They were invoked by Martin Luther King Jr.

00:21:38.000 The idea that he did nothing to end slavery is simply not true.

00:21:42.000 He did nothing in his own life to end slavery with regard to himself.

00:21:46.000 But the principles he established, which is the reason the monument's there, not for his personal life.

00:21:50.000 The principles that he established were maybe the most important Most important philosophical brick hurled through the window of slavery in the United States. 0.88

00:22:02.000 So to pretend that that makes no difference is simply ridiculous.

00:22:07.000 He says, I'm the sixth generation great-grandson of a slave owner. 0.84

00:22:10.000 My cousins from Sally Hemings' family are also the great-grandchildren of a slave owner.

00:22:13.000 The difference is that our great-grandfather owned their great-grandmother.

00:22:15.000 Yes, we get it.

00:22:16.000 We get it.

00:22:18.000 I will also point out that when he says that we should preserve Monticello, because you'll learn the history of Jefferson and Monticello, anytime he wants us to tear down Monticello, I don't know why the monument should stand at all.

00:22:28.000 We are told by this guy, Lucian Trescott IV, that Jefferson never did anything to end slavery, so why do we even have a monument to him at Monticello?

00:22:35.000 Why are we preserving his family?

00:22:38.000 Memorial over at Monticello.

00:22:39.000 That shouldn't be there either.

00:22:40.000 The bottom line is that once the door is open to people making a name for themselves off a particular point of view that happens to not like America, that door does not close for quite a while.

00:22:52.000 Okay, so all of this, of course, is incredibly counterproductive.

00:22:55.000 None of it helps the country forward.

00:22:57.000 You would imagine that President Trump could take advantage of some of this.

00:23:00.000 And in fact, the speech that he gave over the weekend at Mount Rushmore was quite good on this, right?

00:23:03.000 He points out that the history of America is good, that our heroes are worth remembering, And that we should not be tearing down statues of Washington and Jefferson.

00:23:11.000 At no point does he mention the Confederate flag.

00:23:13.000 At no point does he mention Confederate generals.

00:23:16.000 At no point does he get into sort of the dicier areas of racial controversy in the United States.

00:23:21.000 He instead talks about the great universal principles upon which the United States was founded.

00:23:24.000 So naturally that means within 48 hours, he's tweeting about stuff that completely undermines everything that he said at Mount Rushmore.

00:23:30.000 Again, Trump without Twitter is somewhere near 50% in the approval ratings.

00:23:34.000 Trump with Twitter is at 38% in the approval rating.

00:23:37.000 He needs to stop this.

00:23:39.000 He needs to stop it.

00:23:39.000 Not only because it's bad for the country, but also on a personal survival level as a politician, it is bad for him.

00:23:44.000 The president spent the last 48 hours tweeting about Bubba Wallace and NASCAR and renaming sports teams.

00:23:51.000 He tweeted out, has Bubba Wallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers and officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, and were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out the whole thing was just another hoax?

00:24:01.000 That and flag decision has caused lowest ratings ever.

00:24:03.000 So there he is, defending the Confederate flag against the supposed predations of NASCAR, and going after Bubba Wallace in a controversy that ended two weeks ago, and in which it turns out that Bubba Wallace actually ended up making a pretty good statement about how he was happy that it didn't turn out to be a noose, and he was glad that people showed solidarity with him.

00:24:19.000 Like, what is the president doing here?

00:24:20.000 And the answer is, he's not doing anything.

00:24:22.000 He's bored and he's on the toilet.

00:24:23.000 And I'm sorry, there is no 4D chess game here.

00:24:25.000 That's all that's happening.

00:24:26.000 The president is bored, he's on the toilet, he's watching Fox and Friends on the TV, and he's tweeting.

00:24:30.000 And that's all that's happening.

00:24:32.000 And they tweeted out the renaming of sports teams.

00:24:34.000 They named teams out of strength, not weakness.

00:24:36.000 But now the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians, two fabled sports franchises, look like they're going to be changing their names in order to be politically correct.

00:24:43.000 Indians like Elizabeth Warren must be very angry right now. 1.00

00:24:46.000 Okay, I'll admit that's funny, but it is also true.

00:24:48.000 Is this like the message that you're going for?

00:24:51.000 He goes to Mount Rushmore and he gives what should be a pretty easy unifying message.

00:24:54.000 And then immediately he decides to jump into sort of hot topics of the day over on The View.

00:24:59.000 And it's like, this is not, Not useful, not useful.

00:25:04.000 Okay, meanwhile, there are actual serious issues going on in the country.

00:25:07.000 And again, the president could be running against the left on these issues, particularly the crime surge.

00:25:12.000 It turns out that the vast Black Lives Matter push to defund the police has some pretty damned horrific consequences all over the country in major cities. 0.78

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00:26:39.000 Okay, meanwhile, it turns out that all of this, it's all fun and games until people start getting shot.

00:26:45.000 So the whole sort of capitalization of the Black Lives Matter movement, the attempt to turn the cause into a business and then into a racket, The message still is promulgated. 0.75

00:26:59.000 And this is the danger.

00:27:00.000 This is what I was saying before about the short-term interests of corporations not really meshing with their long-term interests.

00:27:06.000 There's been a critique of the left and some of the populist right for a long time with regard to corporations.

00:27:09.000 The corporations very often are looking at the bottom line for like the next two weeks, but they're not looking at the bottom line for the next 20 years because there's turnover of corporations.

00:27:18.000 There are some studies that show that that is the case with regard to particular decisions.

00:27:22.000 Overall, typically, people are kind of looking down the road at what's going on in the country.

00:27:26.000 But there's one area where corporations are absolutely helpless when it comes to looking down the road, and that is when there is internal and external clamor about what corporations are doing.

00:27:34.000 And that means that when corporations are assaulted from all sides about how they are, quote-unquote, sponsoring hate speech on Facebook, and so they pull their money because they're afraid of standing up for themselves.

00:27:43.000 Or when they are told, just sponsor diversity training and we'll leave you alone.

00:27:47.000 They think to themselves, okay, well, is the brand hit really worth it?

00:27:50.000 Okay, here's the problem.

00:27:51.000 They are not taking into account the full weight of what's going to come on the other end of the supplication.

00:27:57.000 What's going to happen after these corporations bow to the pressure is that there'll be more pressure.

00:28:02.000 There'll be more pressure.

00:28:03.000 And the messages they are promulgating undermine the very system that does allow them to operate safely and securely.

00:28:09.000 So you will see.

00:28:10.000 Coca-Cola pull its ads from Facebook at the behest of left-wing social media pressure groups who are attempting to get Coca-Cola to disassociate from free speech platforms.

00:28:21.000 And then Coca-Cola will have to move out of Atlanta because Coca-Cola is going to be in a city that has more crime.

00:28:28.000 These are all connected.

00:28:29.000 There is a connection here between caving to causes that actually undermine the system itself.

00:28:34.000 And this is where corporations are not taking into account the future.

00:28:39.000 Corporations think that if they just feed the alligator a little bit, then capitalism will always win. 0.73

00:28:43.000 Capitalism will always win.

00:28:45.000 Well, that's true up until the point when the messages that the corporations themselves have been sponsoring end up destroying the system within which they operate.

00:28:51.000 And that's the cleverness.

00:28:52.000 I will say that is clever on the part of some of the, quote, anti-racist crowd.

00:28:56.000 I say, quote, anti-racist because their definition of anti-racism isn't anti-racism.

00:29:00.000 It's a complete rewriting of the term, as we've talked about.

00:29:03.000 It basically means tear down the system.

00:29:04.000 Their idea is let's pressure corporations into basically adopting our sloganeering.

00:29:09.000 And then we'll use that sloganeering to tear down the systems by which the corporations get to operate. 0.94

00:29:13.000 In fact, by which all of American capitalism gets to operate.

00:29:16.000 So all we have to do is pressure them on this one soft point, We'll stick the knife in right here, and then they will cave to us, and the air will go out of the balloon, and then we'll collapse the system around them because we'll actually turn them into a loudspeaker against the system that allows them to operate in free, unmitigated fashion.

00:29:31.000 You can see this most clearly when it comes to crime.

00:29:33.000 So, you've seen, you know, the white, woke left in these major cities across the country, basically caving to the defund the police movement.

00:29:39.000 Because they figure, okay, well, you know what?

00:29:41.000 I live in a pretty safe area.

00:29:43.000 What if we just, you know, let's focus in.

00:29:44.000 The call for fighting police brutality sounds pretty good.

00:29:47.000 Defunding the police doesn't sound as good.

00:29:48.000 But, you know, maybe if we go along with it, then everything will calm down a little bit.

00:29:52.000 And maybe, just maybe, it'll work.

00:29:55.000 Okay, now the system upon which you get to spend all of your time protesting because you live in a rich, secure, wonderful, free America, that starts to disappear too.

00:30:04.000 Because the first predicate for a successful civilization is a certain sustainable level of law and order.

00:30:09.000 And that is disappearing very, very quickly.

00:30:12.000 The crime is surging in major cities around the United States, unfortunately.

00:30:16.000 According to Michael Snyder at the Economic Collapse blog, he says, What we are witnessing all over the country right now is incredibly sad.

00:30:22.000 In the aftermath of the tragic death of George Floyd, it would have been wonderful to see the entire nation unite behind an effort to make our society less violent, more just and peaceful.

00:30:29.000 Instead, we've seen a tremendous explosion of violence and lawlessness that doesn't seem likely to end anytime soon.

00:30:34.000 Violent crime rates are surging in major city after major city.

00:30:37.000 The 4th of July weekend was particularly bad.

00:30:39.000 At least 41 people were hit by gunfire in New York City during the holiday weekend.

00:30:43.000 This continues a trend we have seen throughout the first half of 2020.

00:30:47.000 According to figures released by the NYPD, for the first six months of this year, there were 176 murders, an increase of 23% on the 143 killed during the same period last year.

00:30:56.000 The number of shooting victims has gone up 51%.

00:30:59.000 to 616 this year.

00:31:01.000 In June alone, there were 250 shootings, compared to 97 in the same month last year.

00:31:06.000 Month on month, burglaries are up 119%, car thefts are up 48%.

00:31:11.000 Those are obviously horrendous, horrendous numbers.

00:31:14.000 And things are getting worse in Chicago, too.

00:31:15.000 At least 67 people were hit by gunfire in the Windy City over the July 4th weekend, including 13 people who were shot to death.

00:31:22.000 Nine of the weekend's victims were minors.

00:31:24.000 Two children died, including a 14-year-old boy.

00:31:27.000 Philadelphia shootings are up 67%.

00:31:30.000 Victims of armed violence are up 29%.

00:31:32.000 Homicides are up 25%.

00:31:33.000 Law enforcement in downtown Portland are under attack consistently from members of Antifa.

00:31:41.000 And what we are watching right now is the collapse of law and order in major cities around the United States. 0.82

00:31:45.000 And by the way, the people who are damaged most by this are black and brown people. 1.00

00:31:50.000 According to Tom Winter, a reporter for NBC News, quote, every single person who has been shot in New York City this July, nearly 100 in total, has been a member of the minority community.

00:32:00.000 97% of shooting victims in June were members of the city's minority communities, according to the NYPD.

00:32:05.000 Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lepetri told reporters yesterday, all murder victims in June, all, were of the minority community.

00:32:13.000 The city's spike in crime is now a bona fide trend.

00:32:15.000 Homicides are up 27% year-to-date, are running 11.3% higher than they were five years ago.

00:32:21.000 50% of the shootings have taken place in just 10 precincts.

00:32:23.000 Those communities are being overrun by a small percentage of gang members who have little regard for their own life and no regard for their community.

00:32:30.000 Chicago's recent crime-fighting success has cratered, a homicide rate that has risen 34% this year compared to last, for a total of 324 deaths.

00:32:39.000 Over the last 28 days, compared to last year over the same period, homicides rose 83% in Chicago.

00:32:47.000 And for this reason, you are seeing governors in red states starting to react.

00:32:53.000 The Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has now deployed 1,000 National Guard troops to Atlanta after the violent weekend in Atlanta.

00:33:02.000 Americans are more and more looking at leaving larger cities for suburban towns, because this is what happens.

00:33:06.000 The white woke liberals, they go along with this stuff, but then, because the white woke liberals are rich enough to spend their days not worried about what happens to poorer people who are victimized by violence, when the violence reaches their front door, they're like, oh, you know what?

00:33:17.000 This is a bad place to live.

00:33:18.000 I'm leaving.

00:33:19.000 According to The Hill, a perfect storm of factors make the decision to leave major cities like New York very obvious.

00:33:25.000 Many are moving to small towns north of the five boroughs.

00:33:27.000 Four upstate counties have seen an incredible surge in real estate demand, while the rest of the New York market is cratering.

00:33:32.000 Oh, who could have perceived that all of the woke policies pursued by Black Lives Matter are counterproductively pushing people to leave these cities, and the people disproportionately who can afford to leave the cities, namely the people who are paying for the tax base in these cities. 0.86

00:33:49.000 But don't worry, it's really all about the cause, guys.

00:33:51.000 Remember, it's all about the cause.

00:33:53.000 It's not a media racket.

00:33:55.000 It's all about the cause.

00:33:57.000 Now, how does this get justified?

00:33:59.000 Really, seriously, how does this get justified is the big question.

00:34:01.000 Because when you see a tremendous uptick in violence, when you see people who are being shot, and in New York City, 100% members of minority communities, when you see that, how can you possibly justify causes like defund the police, or let's not talk about the problem of inner city violence, which, by the way, is what this is.

00:34:18.000 I mean, we're watching in these cases minority on minority violence. 0.52

00:34:20.000 This isn't white cops going into these inner cities and killing people.

00:34:23.000 That's not what's happening here.

00:34:24.000 How do we justify that?

00:34:26.000 We justify that by blinkering ourselves.

00:34:28.000 Because the narrative must live.

00:34:30.000 This is how you know it's a racket.

00:34:32.000 It's a racket because the narrative has to live even if people have to die to preserve the narrative.

00:34:36.000 That's a racket.

00:34:37.000 There's no other way to describe it.

00:34:38.000 We're going to get to the media racket, the democratic racket.

00:34:40.000 It is a racket here.

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00:36:31.000 People are dying, but it doesn't matter.

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00:36:35.000 Pay no attention to the bodies in the corner.

00:36:36.000 We have a narrative to promote here.

00:36:38.000 We have a narrative to promote.

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00:37:16.000 So these black lives do matter.

00:37:23.000 The people who are being shot in cities around the United States, who again are disproportionately of color, right? 0.98

00:37:28.000 They're disproportionately black. 0.99

00:37:30.000 Specifically, they're disproportionately black. 0.98

00:37:32.000 There are some people who are Hispanic being shot, but disproportionately, these are black people who are being shot. 0.95

00:37:36.000 Those lives matter too.

00:37:37.000 There's some heartbreaking video that came out from Chicago, where an 11-year-old boy was murdered.

00:37:42.000 And the grandfather was on TV, and he said, it seems like to many people, black lives matter only, they only matter when a cop pulls the trigger.

00:37:50.000 Otherwise, you don't give two solid dams about it.

00:37:53.000 And he is exactly right about this.

00:37:54.000 This is exactly right.

00:37:55.000 Because the narrative is about the narrative.

00:37:57.000 And the narrative is about tearing down the system.

00:37:59.000 The narrative from the Black Lives Matter organization and from the media about Black Lives Matter is not just about police brutality.

00:38:05.000 It's about The idea that America is systemically racist, that all problems that are experienced in the United States can be chalked up to the system itself, and that there is, we should just pay no attention to the far bigger problem, the far bigger threat to black life in the United States, because all violence in the United States is intraracial, virtually all, right? 0.98

00:38:22.000 Meaning whites kill whites, blacks kill blacks, Latinos kill Latinos. 0.97

00:38:25.000 On a statistical level, that is the reality. 1.00

00:38:28.000 That means that the far greater threat to black life in the United States than the cops are criminals who share the race of the victim. 0.93

00:38:35.000 Again, true cross-racially.

00:38:37.000 True in every race.

00:38:38.000 But we're not allowed to pay attention to that. 0.99

00:38:39.000 If it's a black person killing another black person, and it doesn't matter if it's a kid, it doesn't matter. 0.97

00:38:44.000 We're not going to know the name of this dead 11-year-old from the media. 0.98

00:38:47.000 Because that 11-year-old doesn't matter.

00:38:49.000 Tamir Rice matters because Tamir Rice was 12 years old and was shot by the police in disputed circumstances in which he was unfortunately killed in a horrific situation where he had sawed the front off of a BB gun so it looked like a regular gun and the cops mistook him.

00:39:01.000 We all know that name because it's a terrible, terrible situation.

00:39:03.000 No one is going to know the name of this 11-year-old because his death does not back the narrative that the greatest threat to black life in the United States is coming from white supremacists and evil white supremacist systems.

00:39:14.000 Here is the grandfather of this 11-year-old.

00:39:16.000 Everybody's just saying they're just tired, tired of the shootings in the community. 0.93

00:39:20.000 Everybody's running around here thinking they're Uzi-toting, dope-sucking, psychopathic killer machines, and they're just destroying lives. 0.78

00:39:27.000 But we're protesting for months, for weeks, saying Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter. 0.99

00:39:32.000 If Black Lives Matter, it seems like only when a police officer shoot a black person.

00:39:38.000 What about all the black-on-black crime that's happening in the community? 0.99

00:39:42.000 Does he not have the credibility to say that?

00:39:43.000 His grandson just got shot.

00:39:44.000 By the way, it was in Washington, D.C., not in Chicago.

00:39:47.000 The 11-year-old boy was identified as Devon McNeil.

00:39:50.000 You try to remember the name because the media don't care.

00:39:52.000 The media are not going to pay any attention to Devon McNeil.

00:39:54.000 Just as they've paid no attention to the literally dozens of young black kids who have probably been killed this year in major cities across the United States.

00:40:01.000 I believe there were four or five killings of young black people across the United States on the July 4th weekend alone, none of them by cops.

00:40:09.000 We saw the killings of two black miners in Seattle chop.

00:40:12.000 You don't know their names.

00:40:14.000 The media narrative is that America is to blame for all of this and that personal responsibility at no level can be applied to a problem in which personal responsibility is required.

00:40:24.000 Here's the grandfather saying you have a bunch of young people who are treating themselves as Uzi toting killing machines.

00:40:31.000 That's a problem.

00:40:32.000 The media won't talk about that problem because that problem doesn't matter.

00:40:34.000 You know who makes this perfectly clear?

00:40:35.000 The scam?

00:40:36.000 Don Lemon makes this perfectly clear.

00:40:37.000 So Don Lemon had Terry Crews on.

00:40:39.000 Terry Crews pointed out that it seems to me that if you say Black Lives Matter, that really should include all Black Lives Matter.

00:40:44.000 So, I'm old enough to remember when if somebody said Black Lives Matter and you said all lives matter, this meant that you were bad.

00:40:49.000 Why did this mean you were bad? 0.50

00:40:50.000 Because the category all includes black, right? 0.99

00:40:54.000 That is just a logical fact.

00:40:56.000 The category all includes all, which would include black people, as well as white people, as well as Hispanic people.

00:41:01.000 So all lives matter was just a recognition that black lives matter just the same way that all other lives matter.

00:41:07.000 This was considered insufficiently woke because if you said all lives matter, what you were failing to recognize is the special threat that existed to black lives from the white system.

00:41:15.000 Now, I do not actually believe that the cops pose a special threat to black lives in the United States because statistically speaking, they do not actually pose a greater threat to black lives in the United States.

00:41:25.000 There is zero statistical evidence that police disproportionately shoot black people in the United States.

00:41:29.000 That evidence does not exist.

00:41:31.000 Okay, so Even putting that aside.

00:41:33.000 But even assuming that you believe that there is racism, miasmatic systemic racism, and institutional racism brought to bear on Black people.

00:41:40.000 So Black Lives Matter, you would think, would include all Black Lives Matter. 0.89

00:41:43.000 But here's where you're wrong.

00:41:44.000 According to Don Lemon, he actively says this.

00:41:47.000 According to Don Lemon, if somebody says to you, Black Lives Matter, and you say, you're right, all Black Lives Matter. 1.00

00:41:51.000 Right, not just all lives.

00:41:52.000 We're not talking about whites. 0.99

00:41:53.000 We're not talking about Latinos now.

00:41:54.000 We're saying all black lives matter. 0.97

00:41:55.000 So it matters when a black kid is shot by the cops, and it matters just as much when, as is far more common, a black kid is shot by another black person. 0.94

00:42:04.000 If you say that, that's bad.

00:42:06.000 So you can't say, so apparently the category Black Lives does not include all black lives, it only includes some black lives.

00:42:12.000 And Don Lemon says this out loud, which is very, very wild, right?

00:42:16.000 It's especially wild because he's lying in two ways.

00:42:18.000 One, Black Lives Matter should include all black lives, obviously. 0.54

00:42:22.000 And this is the discussion the media wish to avoid, obviously.

00:42:25.000 If the media were going to discuss the priority of saving black lives, that would require them to talk about something beyond the evil of the cops.

00:42:31.000 In fact, it would require more cops, not fewer cops.

00:42:34.000 But the media don't want to talk about that, right?

00:42:35.000 That undercuts the narrative.

00:42:36.000 And so they would rather overtly say that not all black lives matter, right?

00:42:41.000 They would rather say that than acknowledge the reality, which is that the solution to violence against black people is the same as the solution to violence against all people generally, which is you need more law enforcement, not less law enforcement.

00:42:53.000 So Don Lemon doesn't want to say that.

00:42:54.000 So what you're going to hear in this clip is Don Lemon explicitly say that if you say to somebody Black Lives Matter and they say back to you all Black Lives Matter, they're avoiding the point, which is police brutality.

00:43:02.000 So he's lying in that way.

00:43:04.000 He's also lying because you'll hear him say it in this clip.

00:43:09.000 He will say that Black Lives Matter is only about police brutality.

00:43:13.000 That is clearly not true.

00:43:15.000 It is clearly not true.

00:43:16.000 Okay, if you've been watching what's been going on in the United States, we've been told that if you loot a store, that is part of the Black Lives Matter movement because it is unbridled rage against the system.

00:43:24.000 It's not just about police brutality.

00:43:25.000 Police brutality is one symptom, but the bigger problem is systemic institutional racism.

00:43:31.000 The racism that's out there in the air, aerosolized, just like coronavirus.

00:43:34.000 It's just out there, and you can't avoid it.

00:43:36.000 And it infects you, even if you don't know you have it.

00:43:39.000 So don't give me that Black Lives Matter was just about police brutality.

00:43:41.000 When it was just about police brutality, I was on board.

00:43:44.000 When it was about police brutality, I was talking on the show about how qualified immunity might need to be curbed in certain ways.

00:43:49.000 I was talking about better data sharing, right?

00:43:52.000 We were all on board with that.

00:43:53.000 And then the bill died in the Senate and nobody's mentioned it again ever, which suggests that this is all a scam.

00:43:58.000 It is all a racket on the part of the media members.

00:43:59.000 It doesn't mean everybody who's marching knows that it's a scam on the part of the media members, but it is.

00:44:04.000 Okay, it's a scam.

00:44:06.000 When you hear Don Lemon, again, gaslighting you by saying Black Lives Matter, it was always just about police brutality.

00:44:11.000 Really?

00:44:11.000 Then why are we talking about tearing down statues?

00:44:14.000 Then what exactly does Black Lives Matter have to do with the 1619 Project?

00:44:14.000 Really?

00:44:19.000 If it's just about police brutality, then what is this broader conversation that Don Lemon is promoting each and every night on his show?

00:44:26.000 Why is it that the Black Lives Matter organization does not restrict itself to police brutality?

00:44:31.000 As Terry Crews points out, the Black Lives Matter organization is a neo-Marxist organization that talks about restructuring systems, destroying, it says this on its website, destroying the atomic family and free Palestine. 0.69

00:44:41.000 So they do not actually limit their priorities to Black Lives Matter.

00:44:45.000 So what Don Lemon really means is that there's only one narrative he wants to promote.

00:44:48.000 Any narrative that is consonant with the message that America is to blame for all evils, and that white supremacy is to blame for everything that happens in the United States, that's worth discussing. 0.96

00:44:57.000 If a black person kills another black person in the inner city, then that does not matter to Don Lemon, apparently. 0.97

00:45:02.000 That is not worth discussing. 0.95

00:45:03.000 He says you can form a committee to talk about that, except that black people are dying in real time in major cities around the United States at an extraordinary rate because of exactly the policies that are being pursued by people like Don Lemon on national television.

00:45:16.000 So now it's a little relevant, is it not?

00:45:18.000 Now would be a good time to discuss it.

00:45:20.000 Not form a separate committee.

00:45:22.000 Hey, here is Don Lemon saying that when you say all black lives matter, you're neglecting that we're only talking about a certain subset of black lives, which should beg the question, or at least raise the question, Why?

00:45:31.000 Why?

00:45:32.000 Here's Don Lemon, just, really, I mean, it's a clarifying and wonderful clip.

00:45:37.000 The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality.

00:45:41.000 If you want an all Black Lives Matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including, you know, black communities, then start that movement with that name. 0.76

00:45:51.000 But that's not what Black Lives Matter is about.

00:45:53.000 It's not an all-encompassing.

00:45:56.000 So if you're talking about, if someone started a movement that said, Cancer matters.

00:46:02.000 And then someone comes in and says, why aren't you talking about HIV?

00:46:05.000 It's not the same thing.

00:46:06.000 We're talking about cancer.

00:46:08.000 Black Lives Matter is about police brutality and about criminal justice. 0.75

00:46:12.000 It's not about what happens in communities when it comes to crime, black-on-black crime. 0.99

00:46:18.000 People who live near each other, black people, kill each other. 1.00

00:46:21.000 Same as whites. 1.00

00:46:22.000 Eighty-some percent of white people are killed by white people. 0.99

00:46:25.000 Because of proximity. 0.99

00:46:26.000 It's the same thing with black people. 1.00

00:46:28.000 That happens in every single neighborhood. 0.81

00:46:31.000 But that doesn't, again, I'm not saying that's not important that those kids die, but it's a different movement.

00:46:36.000 So he says, I'm not saying it's not important those kids die, but it's a different movement.

00:46:36.000 Okay, stop.

00:46:39.000 No, it's not.

00:46:41.000 Okay, so now Black Lives Matter means whatever Don Lemon says Black Lives Matter means.

00:46:44.000 It started off as police brutality, then it moved on to defund the police, then it moved on to tear down all the statues and implicate the entire American system, then it moved on to Independence Day and Mount Rushmore, and now Don Lemon's like, no, no, no, we were just talking about police brutality.

00:46:55.000 Stop mentioning the fact that a disproportionate number of young black people are being killed by other young black people in inner cities, which, by the way, is a much larger threat to black life in the United States.

00:47:04.000 By the way, his analogy completely failed. 0.73

00:47:04.000 Stop talking about that. 0.73

00:47:06.000 If you had, he suggests in that clip, that if you had a group called Cancer Matters, and then somebody else said HIV Matters, that that would be a change of topic.

00:47:14.000 That's true, because what you're talking about, the noun there is cancer.

00:47:18.000 Okay, the noun here is black lives. 0.93

00:47:22.000 That means all black lives. 0.79

00:47:24.000 The equivalent, if you're gonna make an analogy, would be, you start a group called Cancer Matters, and someone says, prostate cancer matters.

00:47:32.000 Correct! 1.00

00:47:32.000 This falls within the subcategory of cancer, you idiot! 1.00

00:47:36.000 I mean, that is clearly... What? 1.00

00:47:39.000 So, I have a lot of suspicion of terms that expand and contract at will in order to promote a certain narrative.

00:47:43.000 And that's what you're watching right here, because for a lot of people in the media, this is not about saving black lives.

00:47:48.000 For a lot of people in the media, this is not about making life in America better.

00:47:51.000 For a lot of people in the media, it's about pushing causes that they like, regardless of the consequences.

00:47:54.000 Consequences be damned.

00:47:55.000 And don't worry, You can always blame somebody else. 0.92

00:47:57.000 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was asked about increased violence in her city, and she's blaming frickin' coronavirus.

00:48:03.000 She's blaming COVID-19.

00:48:04.000 Which, by the way, you should see a decline in violence in your city when you relegate everyone to their homes.

00:48:11.000 You shouldn't see an increase in murder in your city when everyone is forced to go to their houses and wait out a pandemic.

00:48:17.000 But here she is blaming COVID-19, not her own crappy policy.

00:48:21.000 What is happening right now?

00:48:22.000 All of these forces are coming together at the same time and making it very difficult.

00:48:28.000 The ecosystem of public safety that isn't just law enforcement but is local, community-based, they too have really been hit hard by COVID and are now just kind of coming back online and getting their footing.

00:48:43.000 Oh, it was COVID.

00:48:44.000 It was COVID.

00:48:45.000 By the way, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, her child was shot over the weekend.

00:48:50.000 An eight-year-old child, we talked about it yesterday on the show, was shot to death because she has allowed the area around the Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks, a criminal, was shot by the police after grabbing a taser off a cop, shooting a cop, trying to shoot another cop with a taser, and then was shot.

00:49:01.000 People have taken over that area near the Wendy's, and they've set up sort of a paramilitary zone, and somebody tried to drive through it with an eight-year-old child in the back, and people shot the kid to death.

00:49:09.000 Now, Keisha Lance Bottoms, who's being vetted for VP in the Democratic Party, as she presides over a city in a state of collapse, she suggests that President Trump is to blame for the increased violence in her city.

00:49:21.000 We talk about systemic racism and the trauma and anxiety and all these things that are happening in our communities.

00:49:30.000 And it is this convergence.

00:49:33.000 And I hate to use the word a perfect storm, but it's where we are in this country right now.

00:49:38.000 And you think about the leadership or the lack thereof.

00:49:42.000 That we have coming from the highest office in the land.

00:49:46.000 You're the mayor!

00:49:47.000 You're the mayor!

00:49:48.000 You're the mayor of the city.

00:49:49.000 It's the national leadership.

00:49:51.000 You're the mayor of the city.

00:49:53.000 Mayor of the city.

00:49:55.000 She's the mayor! 0.54

00:49:56.000 Like, you don't get to do that!

00:49:57.000 Come on! 0.61

00:49:58.000 Come on! 0.61

00:49:59.000 So Trump has now become like systemic racism.

00:50:01.000 He's blameable for everything.

00:50:03.000 He's the god of the gaps at this point. 0.99

00:50:04.000 I can't explain why my own governance is absolute garbage. 0.94

00:50:07.000 My police forces are walking out on me because I keep maligning them. 0.98

00:50:10.000 I can't explain any of it.

00:50:11.000 So, you know, instead, what I'm really gonna talk about is Trump.

00:50:14.000 Trump, Trump, Trump.

00:50:15.000 Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

00:50:16.000 The all-purpose excuse. 0.79

00:50:18.000 Bad orange man.

00:50:19.000 Orange man bad. 0.78

00:50:20.000 Orange.

00:50:20.000 Bad.

00:50:22.000 Bad orange man.

00:50:24.000 Okay, meanwhile, by the way, Keisha Lance Bottoms that comes out has COVID-19. 0.68

00:50:29.000 She says that she is not symptomatic, but she does have COVID-19.

00:50:32.000 And yes, she did attend protests without a mask.

00:50:35.000 That was the thing that happened.

00:50:36.000 She says she has tested positive for coronavirus.

00:50:38.000 Speaking of COVID-19, I'm gonna give you the quick COVID-19 update here, because we haven't talked about it in a couple days.

00:50:43.000 And the media misinformation here is truly astonishing.

00:50:46.000 So NBC is reporting that COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing amidst the celebrations.

00:50:51.000 Okay, I would just like to note, This started directly when the protests started.

00:50:55.000 You can look at the timeline.

00:50:57.000 The cases began to jump right at the beginning of June.

00:50:59.000 What else was happening right at the beginning of June?

00:51:01.000 Not the reopening.

00:51:02.000 The reopening in these states began in early May.

00:51:05.000 When did the spike happen?

00:51:06.000 It happened constant with the protests, which makes sense because the cases that we are seeing are largely mild.

00:51:12.000 They're not leading to death in the same way.

00:51:14.000 They're among young people.

00:51:15.000 Here is NBC suggesting that it really is, you know, random causes.

00:51:18.000 It couldn't be the protests or anything.

00:51:20.000 COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing.

00:51:22.000 There's two lies the media are telling about this.

00:51:23.000 One is that the rates of death are inevitably going to increase here.

00:51:27.000 But again, we're waiting.

00:51:30.000 Maybe it'll happen.

00:51:31.000 But when you make a prediction and then the prediction doesn't come true for like a full month, at a certain point you have to start wondering.

00:51:31.000 Maybe it won't.

00:51:36.000 Like there will come an expiration date.

00:51:37.000 I think it's probably a week and a half away, where if the death rates have not skyrocketed, people are just going to be like, what was supposed to happen here?

00:51:45.000 Because yesterday, reported number of deaths, 378 in the United States.

00:51:49.000 Last month, last Monday, reported number of deaths in the United States, 366.

00:51:55.000 Okay, so in other words, we've basically been flatlined.

00:51:58.000 You can look at the chart.

00:51:59.000 It looks like a bell curve, and it kind of, on the other side of the steep hill, is a sort of slow descent.

00:52:05.000 Okay, but we've been at a plateau for a while here now.

00:52:08.000 The deaths continue to decrease.

00:52:10.000 So the cases increase, the deaths decrease.

00:52:11.000 So line number one is that inevitably, we know, we know that the deaths will follow.

00:52:16.000 We've been hearing this, seriously, from members of the media.

00:52:16.000 It'll be just like New York.

00:52:19.000 It's gonna be 10 New Yorks all over the country.

00:52:22.000 No, it probably is not going to be like that.

00:52:25.000 There are multiple reasons why it's not going to be like that, which I'll get to in just a second.

00:52:28.000 That is why, number one, is that the cases are skyrocketing, therefore the deaths will follow.

00:52:34.000 We don't know that.

00:52:35.000 Number two, the lie is that the vast uptick in cases cannot be attributed in any way to great social justice protests.

00:52:41.000 Instead, they have to be attributed solely to backyard barbecues and reopening and evil Ron DeSantis and evil Doug Ducey in Arizona.

00:52:47.000 Not to Gavin Newsom in California, who's also experiencing a major uptick, because Gavin Newsom's good, because he's a Democrat.

00:52:52.000 But all the Republican governors are very bad.

00:52:54.000 So those are the two lies that you are being told. 0.97

00:52:55.000 Here was NBC News doing some panic porn.

00:52:58.000 Coronavirus concerns not enough to keep everyone home this holiday weekend.

00:53:03.000 Myrtle Beach brimming with visitors.

00:53:05.000 Fire Island in New York lit up with people.

00:53:08.000 And at this Michigan Lake party, attendees packed together and no visible masks.

00:53:14.000 For many Americans, this 4th of July felt a little foreign, with shuttered shores and scaled back fireworks.

00:53:20.000 So it is disappointing, but it is understandable.

00:53:23.000 But even those safety steps couldn't stop a furious COVID surge this weekend.

00:53:28.000 Florida, South Carolina, and Texas among the states notching new daily records.

00:53:34.000 Okay, so obviously we should be worried about the case numbers, the test numbers.

00:53:37.000 There are a few things to note about the test numbers.

00:53:39.000 One, The tests have increased.

00:53:42.000 The positivity rates have increased.

00:53:43.000 In some cases, you're seeing people double tested because those actually are reflected in places like Florida, apparently, is that if you get tested and you test positive, you test again to make sure it's not a false positive, for example, and both those cases get reported.

00:53:53.000 But even with that said, there's obviously an uptick in number of cases.

00:53:56.000 The question is, is it going to overwhelm the hospital system?

00:53:58.000 And are people going into hospitals dying?

00:54:00.000 And those are two separate questions.

00:54:02.000 Is it overwhelming the hospital systems?

00:54:03.000 So far, the answer is no.

00:54:05.000 The media keeps saying that Texas is overwhelmed.

00:54:05.000 So far, the answer is no.

00:54:07.000 And then, like a day later, the head of the Texas hospital will be like, no, we got flex capacity.

00:54:13.000 In Texas, I believe they're still doing elective surgeries, which means that those beds are being filled by people who do not have COVID.

00:54:19.000 In fact, in Arizona, as of yesterday, the inpatient's bed and use are basically the same as they were a month ago.

00:54:27.000 Right, so it's not as though the ICUs are being completely overwhelmed in Arizona.

00:54:33.000 We're not to that point yet.

00:54:34.000 We're not being overwhelmed in the state of Texas.

00:54:35.000 Just last week, the heads of all the Texas major hospitals in Houston, they were saying we're not overwhelmed in the same way in the ICUs as New York.

00:54:42.000 Also, worth noting that the hospitalizations today, right, hospitalizations are rising, but the outcome of hospitalizations has dramatically decreased in the United States.

00:54:51.000 Dramatically decreased in the United States.

00:54:54.000 If you look, for example, At the hospital census and the number of people who are dying.

00:54:59.000 Deaths as a percentage of COVID hospitalizations from five to 12 days ago, excluding Florida.

00:55:04.000 There's a good chart that I've seen on this.

00:55:06.000 This chart shows that the deaths as a percentage of COVID hospitalizations from five to 12 days ago, which is usually the period, right?

00:55:11.000 Get hospitalized, and then if you're gonna die, you're dead within five to 12 days in the hospital after you've gone on an ICU bed and on a ventilator or something.

00:55:18.000 The deaths as a percentage of COVID hospitalizations from five to 12 days ago, in early April, Deaths as a percentage were pretty high, like really pretty high, like up to something like 15%, something like 15%.

00:55:36.000 Now, or at least well above, I'm sorry, it's somewhere between 5% and 10%.

00:55:41.000 Was where it was.

00:55:42.000 Now, the percentage is close to zero.

00:55:45.000 It's very, very, like the vast, vast majority of people who are going into hospitals are not dying from this thing.

00:55:51.000 And that is because large number of reduced severity hospitalizations.

00:55:54.000 People are coming in, they have COVID, having a little bit of trouble breathing, but they're probably going to be okay.

00:55:58.000 And we're putting them in the hospital just out of an abundance of caution.

00:56:01.000 Patients are much more willing to seek treatment now because it was a while back that if you were going to get COVID, you just weren't going into the hospital because you were afraid that they were then going to put you in a vent and then you were going to never see your family again.

00:56:12.000 So people were just staying home and then healing up at home.

00:56:14.000 And fewer hospitalizations are becoming deaths than ever.

00:56:18.000 So again, we're waiting.

00:56:19.000 Maybe the wave is going to come.

00:56:19.000 But if you look at the chart from several months ago, as far as tests and hospitalizations and deaths, what you see is that the hospitalizations go like this.

00:56:28.000 About two weeks later, the deaths go like that, right?

00:56:30.000 They really parallel each other very strongly.

00:56:32.000 Right now, what you're seeing in hospitalizations is this, right?

00:56:34.000 It's rising and deaths are going like that.

00:56:36.000 Deaths are tailing off.

00:56:36.000 So the two have completely uncoupled.

00:56:39.000 Maybe they start coupling again, but not clear that that is the case.

00:56:43.000 Miami Dade's mayor says that actually, you know, you guys keep talking about the number of positive cases.

00:56:48.000 He says, listen, the state's COVID counts might be underestimated by a factor of 10.

00:56:53.000 So it is quite possible that we have 10 times the number of people with coronavirus out there in the state, which is both good news and bad news, right?

00:56:59.000 It means the spread is basically uncontrolled.

00:57:01.000 It also means that deaths have not risen.

00:57:02.000 So that should be something that's actually worthy of celebrating.

00:57:07.000 This is, by the way, what's happened in Sweden.

00:57:08.000 There's been an uptick in number of tests and a real downtick in the number of deaths.

00:57:12.000 The same thing is happening in Israel, where there's been an uptick in the number of tests and the deaths are basically stagnant.

00:57:17.000 So, in a normal world, the media would be trumpeting this as some cautious optimism, right?

00:57:22.000 They'd be saying, like, you should still be careful out there, wear a mask when you're out and about.

00:57:25.000 But the fact that you're getting this thing means you're not dying.

00:57:28.000 That's a very good piece of news, right?

00:57:30.000 Instead, we are seeing people getting more alarmist about this thing when it seems like the virus is becoming less deadly, at least as a matter of treatment, and at least as a percentage of tests that are coming back positive.

00:57:39.000 Here is the mayor of Miami pointing out that the number of cases might be way higher than we even know at this point.

00:57:46.000 We did a medical study here in Miami-Dade two months ago, and we knew over 200,000 people had already tested positive.

00:57:53.000 If we took the positive rate, if we put that out, 200,000 people would test positive to the antibody.

00:58:02.000 So the official number that you see, especially in Miami-Dade, we have about 40,000.

00:58:05.000 We know it's way undercounted.

00:58:07.000 It's probably by a factor of 10.

00:58:08.000 And I expect the same thing in the state of Florida.

00:58:12.000 So the more testing you do, the more people you're going to find that have it.

00:58:16.000 So again, at this point, I would think that the rule should actually be cautious optimism, not this extraordinary pessimism that's being pushed.

00:58:23.000 It's also being pushed about the schools, right?

00:58:25.000 There's this idea that if you open the schools, everyone's going to die.

00:58:27.000 It's crazy.

00:58:28.000 How can you open the schools?

00:58:30.000 I mean, the American Academy of Pediatrics said you should basically open the schools at this point.

00:58:34.000 My kids are not dying from this thing.

00:58:36.000 The death rate for young children is lower for this than it is for the flu.

00:58:40.000 And yet Florida is being batted about the ears because the Florida Education Commission required all Florida school districts to reopen campuses in August.

00:58:47.000 Hey, Ron DeSantis points this out, and he's being ripped for it, right?

00:58:49.000 He says the death rate for young people is near zero, but this means he doesn't care enough. 0.98

00:58:52.000 So this has, once again, become our stupid, normal American conversation about how much you care, right? 0.98

00:58:57.000 Not about the data, not about the facts, how much you care. 0.99

00:58:59.000 Ron DeSantis points out the death rate is close to zero for young people, and he gets ripped for it, obviously.

00:59:05.000 Clearly, we viewed it as serious from the beginning in January when we were monitoring it.

00:59:10.000 But at the same time, when you hear news about cases, I just think that should be put in the proper context and perspective that the number one age for cases in Florida is 21.

00:59:22.000 And if you're 21 and you don't have significant comorbidities, your fatality rate is pretty much zero with that.

00:59:29.000 Correct.

00:59:30.000 Correct.

00:59:30.000 Which is one of the reasons why they're trying to reopen the schools, but apparently we got to keep the schools closed.

00:59:35.000 If in two weeks there's not a significant uptick in death, then it is perfectly obvious this was not cautioned by the media.

00:59:40.000 This was just an attempt to panic.

00:59:43.000 And I'm willing to wait it out, but I'm not willing to wait it out forever.

00:59:46.000 And I'm going to take exactly the same perspective on this that I took at the very beginning, when I suggested that let's let the lockdowns work.

00:59:53.000 Okay, you want to say that the death is inevitably going to come?

00:59:56.000 Maybe it is, but inevitably better have an end date.

00:59:59.000 Because inevitable doesn't mean ten years from now, and it doesn't mean six months from now.

01:00:02.000 It doesn't even mean a month from now.

01:00:04.000 The spike began at the beginning of June.

01:00:06.000 We are now in early July.

01:00:09.000 So if the death spike doesn't happen soon, you're gonna have to start questioning some of the experts about why it is that the virus seems to either have gotten milder or is killing fewer people overall.

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Capitalism Eats Wokeness | Ep. 1046

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