The Ben Shapiro Show - July 31, 2020


Honoring The Dead | Ep. 1064

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Second Amendment rights and manufacturing quality voter suppression equality throwing alley-oop to peace cervical cancer screening guidelines
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Barack Obama Donald Trump John Lewis Herman Cain George W. Bush Chris Cuomo Michael Brown Hillary Clinton Derek Chauvin Darren Wilson George Wallace Trader Joe Charles Barkley Trader Jose Premium Carmichael Martin Luther King Jr. Bill Montgomery Shoot Portland Ronald Reagan Jeremy Boring and 48 more
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Barack Obama gets wildly partisan at a memorial for Congressman John Lewis. Media members exploit Herman Cain's death to slam President Trump. And Trump struggles with the consequences of his insane threat to delay the election. Ben Shapiro's take on the events surrounding the memorial service for civil rights hero John Lewis in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. He also points out that when someone dies, you don't use their memorials as launching points for politics. And yet, that's exactly what happened yesterday at the memorial for John Lewis, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Selma, Miss. Lewis was a disciple of Martin Luther King Jr. and a supporter of the civil rights movement. He helped lead the march at Selma and was a hero in his younger days, and then served in Congress. And this is somebody with whom I disagreed on politics. That doesn't make it any better, but it does demonstrate the utter classlessness of a lot of people in our politics who tend to use death as a rationale for jumping into debate over politics, purely speaking. And that's why Donald Trump is president, thanks to the reactions to the John Lewis memorial and George H.W. Bush's speech at the George W. Bush memorial. And it's a great reminder of why we should be looking for a bipartisan messenger for the ages, not only in politics, but in all our public service and public service, and in public service not just in our public services and in our everyday lives. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, your data is your business. Protect it at ExpressVPN. Protect It at ExpressVpnpn.com slash Ben ShapiroShow.org/TheBenShapiroShow . The show is a show about privacy, safety, and good times, good vibes, and a whole lot of good stuff. Ben Shapiro is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The New York Post, and other publications, including The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, and the New Yorker. . His new book is out now, The Dark Side of the Oval Office, The Vagrant. is out on all of it! Subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast, The Weekly Standard. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and subscribe on iTunes, too! Subscribe at The FiveThirtyEight or wherever else you re listening to the podcast is listening? Learn more about your ad choices?

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00:00:00.000 Barack Obama gets wildly partisan at a memorial for Congressman John Lewis.
00:00:04.000 Media members exploit Herman Cain's death to slam President Trump.
00:00:07.000 And Trump struggles with the consequences of his insane threat to delay the election.
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00:00:26.000 Well, there's one general rule when somebody who is prominent dies, and that is you kind of hold your fire at least for, you know, the next 30 seconds.
00:00:32.000 And typically you don't use their memorials, particularly if they are very large figures.
00:00:36.000 You don't use their memorials as sort of launching points for politics.
00:00:40.000 This has been a rule that I would say Republicans have been better at applying than Democrats in the recent past.
00:00:45.000 Whenever a major Democrat dies or whenever there's a bad event that results in death and a Democrat speaks at the memorial, it very often turns into a political rally.
00:00:53.000 So it's nothing new that that's what happened yesterday with regard to the memorial for Congressman John Lewis.
00:00:59.000 There's precedent for this.
00:01:00.000 When Senator Paul Wallstone died in a plane crash back in the 2000s, The Democratic Party held a full-out political rally, stumping for progressive policy.
00:01:08.000 When there was a mass shooting in Arizona, that was the same shooting that injured Gabby Giffords, the Congresswoman, Barack Obama deployed himself to Arizona, where he proceeded to rant and rave about gun control and talk about the evils of his Republican opponents.
00:01:20.000 So it really was nothing new, what happened at the John Lewis Memorial.
00:01:22.000 That doesn't make it any better.
00:01:24.000 And it does demonstrate the utter classlessness of a lot of people in our politics who tend to use death as a rationale for jumping into debate over politics.
00:01:33.000 Purely speaking.
00:01:34.000 Now, listen, I understand the temptation.
00:01:36.000 I'm on Twitter, too.
00:01:36.000 I get it.
00:01:37.000 You know, and I can't say that I've been blameless in this my entire Twitter history.
00:01:40.000 I will say that over the past few years, one of the things I've learned is the day somebody dies, just shut it.
00:01:45.000 It says that the day somebody dies, let it go.
00:01:47.000 The day of a memorial.
00:01:49.000 What you want to talk about is the stuff that unified about the person.
00:01:51.000 You don't want to talk about the stuff that was not unifying about the person.
00:01:54.000 There's plenty of time for that later.
00:01:56.000 Well, you can tell the difference in the class level of our various presidents over the course of history and Kind of why Donald Trump is president, thanks to the reactions yesterday at the John Lewis Memorial.
00:02:05.000 So there were several presidents who spoke at the memorial for Congressman Lewis.
00:02:08.000 Lewis, of course, was a disciple of Martin Luther King Jr.
00:02:11.000 He was one of the leaders of the civil rights movement.
00:02:14.000 He famously was one of the people who attempted to desegregate lunch counters by peacefully protesting at lunch counters.
00:02:20.000 He helped lead the march at Selma.
00:02:22.000 Real hero in his younger days, and then served in Congress, obviously.
00:02:26.000 In many ways, heroically.
00:02:28.000 And this is somebody with whom I disagreed on politics, I would say, a lot, a lot.
00:02:31.000 But you still try to look for the good in people.
00:02:33.000 And not only the good.
00:02:34.000 I mean, this is somebody who really did contribute to making the country a better place over the course of his life.
00:02:37.000 Well, George W. Bush gave a speech yesterday, and it was amusing to watch members of the media suddenly recognize that George W. Bush was a good person.
00:02:43.000 And Jonathan Capehart at the Washington Post is like, well, George W. Bush, what a wonderful man.
00:02:47.000 What an incredible man.
00:02:48.000 What a great speech.
00:02:50.000 Yeah, five minutes ago, you all were saying that George W. Bush was the worst scourge of the earth.
00:02:53.000 And frankly, I look forward to the time four years from now or eight years from now, whenever Trump is no longer in office and another Republican is running, when Democrats turn around and talk about what a bipartisan guy Donald Trump was, because that's how it always works.
00:03:05.000 Ronald Reagan was the worst until George H.W.
00:03:07.000 Bush was running, at which point Reagan became the good Republican.
00:03:10.000 Then, George H.W.
00:03:11.000 Bush was the worst, until Bob Dole was running.
00:03:13.000 At which point, George H.W.
00:03:14.000 Bush became a wonderful, wonderful man.
00:03:16.000 Then Bob Dole was bad, all the way up until George H.W.
00:03:19.000 Bush was running.
00:03:20.000 And the same pattern holds true.
00:03:21.000 So, there will be a great irony to the fact.
00:03:23.000 You watch.
00:03:23.000 Four years from now, eight years from now, there will be a lot of talk about, even Donald Trump didn't do this.
00:03:28.000 Even Donald Trump wasn't as bad.
00:03:30.000 Donald Trump, I mean, that was a bipartisan messenger for the ages.
00:03:34.000 Anyway, George H.W.
00:03:35.000 Bush gives a speech yesterday.
00:03:36.000 Very classy speech at the John Lewis Memorial.
00:03:38.000 A couple notes about the John Lewis Memorial generally, first of all...
00:03:42.000 Also, there is a gap between how elites in this country are viewed with regard to attending public events at this time, and people who are quote-unquote the little people. 0.53
00:03:52.000 And if you're a quote-unquote little person in America, meaning a non-politician, a non-prominent person in America, and you look at the large-scale memorial event for John Lewis, and you think to yourself, hold up, my mom died in the hospital alone and we still haven't been able to hold a memorial?
00:04:06.000 Why do we get to do this for John Lewis?
00:04:08.000 That is not an unfair question.
00:04:10.000 It really isn't.
00:04:11.000 When you look at Andrew Cuomo in New York saying that if you go to Georgia and you come back from Georgia, you have to quarantine for 14 days, and then you look at a wide variety of people from D.C.
00:04:20.000 and New York going to John Lewis's memorial, do you think any of them are going to quarantine when they get back to D.C.
00:04:24.000 or New York?
00:04:25.000 Of course not, even though the memorial service was held in Georgia.
00:04:28.000 Anyway, George W. Bush's speech was quite good.
00:04:30.000 Here was George W. Bush talking about John Lewis and how he made the country a better place.
00:04:34.000 We the people, including congressmen and presidents, can have differing views on how to perfect our union while sharing the conviction that our nation, however flawed, is at heart a good and noble one.
00:04:52.000 We live in a better and nobler country today because of John Lewis and his abiding faith in the power of God, in the power of democracy, and in the power of love to lift us all to a higher ground.
00:05:09.000 It's a wonderful thing to say.
00:05:10.000 And that is why you saw so many people paying tribute to Bush.
00:05:12.000 Now, remember, Bush was the villain until five seconds ago.
00:05:15.000 As soon as a Republican is not in power, the Republican becomes just a normal, nice guy that we all hang out with. 0.57
00:05:20.000 When he's in power, he's super duper duper evil.
00:05:23.000 Well, Bill Clinton also spoke at the memorial event, and Bill Clinton was slightly more political than Bush.
00:05:28.000 He talked about sort of the continuing mission of John Lewis.
00:05:30.000 John Lewis had a posthumous obituary that was published in the Washington Post in which he talked about the continuing mission and he name-checked a bunch of people who were supposedly victims of the police, including a couple people like Rayshard Brooks, who was not a victim of the police.
00:05:41.000 In any case, Clinton invoked sort of John Lewis's politics in a vague sense going forward, which, again, if you're vague about it, is not unfair.
00:05:49.000 He also invoked the differences between Stokely Carmichael and John Lewis.
00:05:53.000 Stokely Carmichael, of course, was significantly more an advocate of violence than John Lewis, who's very much into nonviolence.
00:05:59.000 Bill Clinton did this.
00:06:00.000 He got ripped up and down for it.
00:06:03.000 Just three years later, he lost the leadership of SNCC to Stokely Carmichael.
00:06:09.000 He showed as a young man There are some things that you cannot do to hang on to a position, because if you do them, you won't be who you are anymore.
00:06:23.000 There were two or three years there where the movement went a little bit too far towards Stokely, but in the end, John Lewis prevailed.
00:06:35.000 Okay, and that's actually a good point, but people on the left are very angry at Bill Clinton for having said this, because right now we're seeing violence in our streets, and that's Bill Clinton basically slapping at the violence in the streets.
00:06:44.000 That's him saying that John Lewis would not have been in favor of the violence in the streets.
00:06:47.000 They've been seeing the rioting and the looting, which he is right about.
00:06:50.000 He got slapped by a columnist over at The Root for this, saying, why are you invoking Stokely Carmichael here?
00:06:55.000 Again, there's a rationale for it.
00:06:57.000 But the real politicization was reserved for Barack Obama, who got extraordinarily political, and it is a reminder of why Donald Trump is president.
00:07:03.000 Because Barack Obama is a much more elegant speaker.
00:07:06.000 He's a much more subtle person than Donald Trump.
00:07:09.000 Donald Trump is just very loud and he's the checkered suit version of Barack Obama.
00:07:13.000 Barack Obama was a used car salesman in a really nice suit.
00:07:16.000 And Donald Trump is a used car salesman in a checkered plaid suit.
00:07:20.000 That is the main difference between them.
00:07:21.000 Because Barack Obama is purely political. 0.97
00:07:23.000 He is a political animal. 0.78
00:07:25.000 He will say purely, openly political things that are bizarre and over the top and really kind of crazy.
00:07:31.000 And he'll do it at a memorial service.
00:07:32.000 And then the media will praise him as a statesman.
00:07:34.000 And Donald Trump is like, okay, just get rid of the statesman and I'll just say all this stuff out loud.
00:07:38.000 And I'll say the quiet part out loud.
00:07:40.000 The truth is that Barack Obama got all the plaudits for being a master of subtlety.
00:07:44.000 He never was particularly subtle, right?
00:07:47.000 He's more subtle than Trump, but that's because literally all the things are more subtle than Trump.
00:07:51.000 All Trump is, is you strip off the veneer of Barack Obama and the political, the overt politicization of all the things.
00:07:59.000 They're kind of the same.
00:08:00.000 They're kind of the same.
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00:09:09.000 Okay, so, Barack Obama, an overtly political animal.
00:09:12.000 So, Barack Obama.
00:09:14.000 He gets up at John Lewis's memorial, and in the process, he slams federal agents and compares them to George Wallace.
00:09:21.000 And I'm sorry, this is incredibly ugly stuff.
00:09:23.000 The idea that federal agents today are the same as Jim Crow, Bull Connor, racist police officers in 1960 Selma is patently insane. 0.73
00:09:32.000 It's crazy. 0.74
00:09:33.000 And what you're watching in America's major cities where federal agents are defending federal property from mostly white rioters and looters, by the way, who are attempting to set buildings on fire. 0.97
00:09:42.000 That's nuts.
00:09:43.000 But this is what Barack Obama was a demagogue and never never forget the Barack Obama was a demagogue.
00:09:47.000 I know that we're supposed to pretend that Donald Trump is the first demagogue in American history.
00:09:51.000 I know we're supposed to pretend that all of political time space began with the Big Bang that was Donald Trump.
00:09:55.000 It is not true.
00:09:56.000 Donald Trump was a direct response to the to the Malicious manipulation of Barack Obama. 0.81
00:10:03.000 Barack Obama was a terrible president.
00:10:04.000 He was a terrible, divisive president, and the media gaslit you about that. 0.96
00:10:08.000 The media pretended that he was a unifying force.
00:10:10.000 The media would cherry-pick his speeches.
00:10:12.000 The parts where he would talk about, we're not a red America, we're a blue America, we're United States of America. 0.95
00:10:17.000 And then they'd ignore all the crap where he suggested that we absolutely were not united, that racism is in America's DNA. 0.88
00:10:23.000 They would ignore the parts where he basically winked and nodded at rioting in Ferguson in Baltimore. 0.98
00:10:27.000 They just ignore that.
00:10:28.000 I mean, what you're about to hear him say, again, at the memorial for a dead man.
00:10:33.000 A man who united the country around principles that at the time were extraordinarily controversial but became the culture, right?
00:10:38.000 This was the counterculture.
00:10:39.000 It became the culture, thank God, a culture of racial tolerance and racial understanding and a belief in Martin Luther King's dream.
00:10:47.000 And here's Barack Obama pretending there's no difference between Bull Connor police officers shooting fire hoses at John Lewis in 1960.
00:10:55.000 And federal officers attempting to fight rioting and looting in America's major cities in 2020, 60 years later.
00:11:01.000 And this is demagoguery of the highest order.
00:11:03.000 Here's Barack Obama being a demagogue. 0.90
00:11:05.000 Well, Conor may be gone, but today we witness with our own eyes police officers kneeling on the necks of black Americans.
00:11:14.000 George Wallace may be gone.
00:11:17.000 But we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.
00:11:26.000 OK, this is this is such it truly is demagoguery.
00:11:31.000 It is unrelated to reality.
00:11:34.000 Even the notion that that Bull Connor is gone, but Derek Chauvin still exists.
00:11:38.000 There is no evidence at this point that Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck out of racial animus.
00:11:42.000 There isn't.
00:11:43.000 OK, that evidence may come, but that evidence does not exist.
00:11:47.000 There's not a single person who agrees that what Derek Chauvin did was good, decent, justified, or non-jailable.
00:11:52.000 No one. 0.77
00:11:54.000 To draw a direct line between Bull Connor and Derek Chauvin without any evidence whatsoever, or to pretend it was commonplace, and not only commonplace, but enshrined in Jim Crow law, is similar in any way to what happened with Derek Chauvin, is utterly, patently crazy.
00:12:10.000 Okay, but Obama gets away with this kind of stuff because the media have decided for years that they are simply going to carry around drool cups for the guy.
00:12:17.000 It's amazing.
00:12:18.000 It's amazing.
00:12:20.000 Then Obama called the... He went after the Senate filibuster.
00:12:23.000 Again, this is at a memorial for a man who just died and spent his life attempting to unify the nation around racial issues.
00:12:29.000 Here's Barack Obama saying that the Senate filibuster is a Jim Crow holdover, which is pretty incredible because I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama, Senator Barack Obama, filibustered Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court, tried to filibuster him. 0.99
00:12:41.000 I'm old enough to remember when Democrats, like five seconds ago, filibustered Senator Tim Scott's police reform bill.
00:12:48.000 Was that a Jim Crow vestige?
00:12:51.000 By essentially saying that the filibuster is racist, this does give the lie to the idea that Democrats don't want to tear down the system.
00:12:57.000 Now in a bit, we're going to get to Donald Trump.
00:13:00.000 Saying something about delaying elections that really does tear away at the roots of the democracy.
00:13:04.000 But to pretend that Democrats are not doing the same thing and haven't been doing the same thing for a long time is to cut against all available evidence.
00:13:09.000 Here's Barack Obama suggesting that the Senate filibuster is a tool of Jim Crow, despite the fact that he himself used the filibuster when he was in the Senate.
00:13:16.000 And Democrats have been very fond of the filibuster.
00:13:18.000 They were using it against George W. Bush's judicial nominees.
00:13:22.000 Here's Barack Obama again, demagoguing.
00:13:24.000 Donald Trump is president because everybody decided that Barack Obama speaking this way was completely apolitical.
00:13:30.000 Here he was calling the filibuster Jim Crow.
00:13:33.000 Once we pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, we should keep marching by guaranteeing that every American citizen has equal representation in our government, including the American citizens who live in Washington, D.C.
00:13:48.000 and in Puerto Rico.
00:13:49.000 And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, Another Jim Crow relic in order to secure the God-given rights of every American?
00:14:00.000 Then that's what we should do. 0.96
00:14:01.000 Okay, this is such cynical bulls**t. I'm sorry, it is. 0.98
00:14:04.000 It's incredibly cynical. 0.99
00:14:06.000 It's unbelievably cynical.
00:14:07.000 This is a man who was happy to use the filibuster when it was in his own benefit.
00:14:11.000 And who's anti-filibuster when it's not in his benefit?
00:14:13.000 And this is something I do talk about in my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:14:16.000 One of the goals of the Constitution and many of the Senate procedures is to create checks and balances.
00:14:21.000 Why?
00:14:21.000 Because America's rights are preserved through checks and balances.
00:14:25.000 The idea is that a government that is unable to stomp on those rights at will We'll not be able to stomp on those rights at will.
00:14:31.000 The idea is that when you set up these checks and balances, it prevents a pure majority, the tyranny of the mob, the tyranny of the majority, from stomping on the rights of the minority.
00:14:38.000 And for all the people who are like, well, yeah, but, you know, in the South, a pure majority was able to stomp on the rights of the minority.
00:14:46.000 That's exactly the point.
00:14:47.000 The point is there should have been more checks and balances.
00:14:49.000 The federal government should have stepped in and stopped the trampling of rights in the states.
00:14:54.000 The filibuster is simply a tool to prevent the trampling of minority rights by majorities.
00:14:58.000 That is one of the goals of the filibuster.
00:14:59.000 Now, it doesn't mean there aren't times when the filibuster can't be used for nefarious purposes.
00:15:03.000 The Civil Rights Act was filibustered by Strom Thurmond.
00:15:06.000 But it is also true that there are many procedures that are written into the Constitution with the direct intent of making sure that there has to be a broad spectrum support for particular policy before it goes into law.
00:15:16.000 One of the points of the filibuster is to create exactly the sorts of checks and balances on pure majoritarianism that allow for the For the destruction of individual American rights.
00:15:27.000 And here's the point.
00:15:28.000 When it comes to Democrats, very often when they talk about institutions, they don't care about the institutions.
00:15:32.000 The institutions are either a barrier or a weapon.
00:15:35.000 So the filibuster is sometimes a weapon, that's when it's good.
00:15:37.000 And then when it's not good, then they get rid of it.
00:15:40.000 Barack Obama, within five minutes, will be arguing that the Senate itself should be done away with because the Senate, as it turns out, is actually non-representational.
00:15:46.000 Having two senators for each state, two for Wyoming and two for California, when the population of Wyoming is seven people and the population of California is 40 million people, that's unrepresentative.
00:15:54.000 It's undemocratic.
00:15:55.000 So Democrats will stomp in favor of the Senate when they control it, and they want to add senators from Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., and then they'll stomp against the Senate when they don't control it.
00:16:05.000 They'll stomp in favor of the filibuster when they can use it in their favor, and they will stomp against the filibuster when it is wrong, which suggests that they don't care about the institutions of government one iota.
00:16:15.000 It's not about the institutions of government.
00:16:17.000 It's about what they can use the government to do to you.
00:16:20.000 So this kind of demagoguery Barack Obama was an awful president and he's an awful ex-president.
00:16:28.000 And then Obama continued along these lines.
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00:18:12.000 Okay, so.
00:18:13.000 President Obama didn't just stop at calling for the overthrow of the filibuster and suggesting that today's police and federal agents are in league with George Wallace and Bull Connor.
00:18:21.000 He then suggested that there is a wide variety of attempts to stop the vote.
00:18:26.000 Again, there is no evidence of this.
00:18:27.000 The idea of widespread voter suppression in the United States is nonsense.
00:18:30.000 It is nonsense.
00:18:31.000 It is nonsense when Donald Trump says it. 0.85
00:18:33.000 It is nonsense when Barack Obama says it. 0.91
00:18:34.000 It is nonsense.
00:18:36.000 The black population of the United States, thank God, votes in heavy numbers, and in the last several election cycles, and certainly when Barack Obama was elected in both 2008 and 2012, outvoted their share of the population. 0.70
00:18:47.000 But Barack Obama is fully on board with the Stacey Abrams lie that black people are systematically being prevented from the vote, which is, it is a lie.
00:18:54.000 There is no evidence that this is the case. 0.93
00:18:56.000 that there are people out there who are like, black people shouldn't vote.
00:18:58.000 Here is Barack Obama suggesting that some people's like, some people's like, but I shouldn't go so political at a memorial.
00:19:05.000 But guess what?
00:19:06.000 Standards don't apply to me.
00:19:07.000 I'm gonna say whatever I please. 0.94
00:19:09.000 I'm just gonna make crap up. 0.98
00:19:10.000 Let's go. 0.89
00:19:11.000 There are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision.
00:19:32.000 Now I know this is a celebration of John's life.
00:19:37.000 There are some who might say we shouldn't dwell on such things.
00:19:46.000 But that's why I'm talking about it.
00:19:48.000 Oh, well, you know, there are some who say that stopping black people from voting ain't a problem, but I'm going to talk about it anyway. 1.00
00:19:54.000 No one's saying you can't talk about it, but you are lying.
00:19:58.000 The notion that black people in America are being systematically deprived of the vote is just not true.
00:20:01.000 It is not true.
00:20:03.000 Show me the evidence and don't give me voter ID.
00:20:06.000 Voter ID is not an attempt to stop people from voting.
00:20:09.000 Voter ID is a fine idea approved by, by the way, in every poll, a majority of nearly every demographic group, including black folks, as far as I'm aware.
00:20:18.000 But Barack Obama, this is how you got Donald Trump.
00:20:22.000 You guys want to know how you got Donald Trump?
00:20:23.000 You gaslit the entire American population.
00:20:25.000 You suggested over and over that this man was the epitome of class, that he was above politics, that he was some sort of godlike figure from on high.
00:20:34.000 He is just a typical Chicago-style machine politician.
00:20:38.000 He always was.
00:20:40.000 And here he was using a memorial service for a man whose politics I disagreed with in many ways, but who did do incredible good for the United States.
00:20:47.000 And instead of just paying tribute to him in a classy way, the way George W. Bush did, Barack Obama got up there and suggested that America is living with the vestiges of Jim Crow and Bull Connor.
00:20:57.000 He suggested that America is dominated by neo-segregationists and people attempting to stop black people from voting.
00:21:03.000 He was a deeply divisive president.
00:21:05.000 The divisions on race in this country did not start with Donald Trump.
00:21:08.000 Look back at the polls.
00:21:09.000 Divisions on race in this country began in 2009 with Barack Obama getting overtly, overtly racially political.
00:21:16.000 You can look at the polls.
00:21:17.000 Hopes for racial reconciliation in this country were never higher than when Barack Obama was elected.
00:21:20.000 And within two years of his election, they'd completely cratered.
00:21:23.000 And they continue to crater today.
00:21:26.000 It was an, honestly, it was an ugly spectacle.
00:21:29.000 It was an ugly spectacle.
00:21:31.000 I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama went out there during the Ferguson rioting and said, people don't make up things like this.
00:21:35.000 He was talking about the Michael Brown shooting.
00:21:37.000 The Michael Brown shooting, by the way, it was a good shoot.
00:21:39.000 In fact, it turns out that after another review of the Michael Brown shooting by officer Darren Wilson, it turns out five years after the, six years after the case, the case has been dismissed again.
00:21:52.000 According to the Daily Wire today, Amanda Presti-Giacomo reporting, St.
00:21:55.000 Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell announced on Thursday he will not be bringing charges against former Ferguson Police Department Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Michael Brown, 18, back in 2014.
00:22:04.000 During a Thursday press conference, Bell announced the news by prefacing it as, quote, one of the most difficult things I've had to do, noting that his heart breaks for the Browns.
00:22:12.000 The question for the office was a simple one.
00:22:14.000 Could we prove beyond a reasonable doubt that when Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown, he committed murder or manslaughter under Missouri law, Bell asked.
00:22:20.000 After an independent and in-depth review of the evidence, we cannot prove that he did.
00:22:25.000 He, by the way, is the county's first black prosecutor.
00:22:27.000 He reopened the case after taking office.
00:22:30.000 One of the reasons he gained office is because of disapproval for no case against Darren Wilson in the first place.
00:22:35.000 And then he looked at the evidence and he said, sorry, we can't actually make a case.
00:22:38.000 Bell said his office conducted a five-month review of witness statements, forensic reports, and other evidence.
00:22:43.000 The AP noted, adding his investigation, does not exonerate Darren Wilson.
00:22:46.000 By the way, it's not the way the criminal justice process works.
00:22:48.000 If you are not convicted, that does not mean that you are exonerated.
00:22:52.000 There is no exonerated standard in criminal law.
00:22:54.000 There's just not prosecuted.
00:22:56.000 So you also don't get to declare not exonerated.
00:22:58.000 That's not the way this works.
00:23:00.000 Bell said, I know this is not the result they were looking for and that their pain will continue forever.
00:23:04.000 Jim Towie, Wilson's attorney, noted Bell's review had the same conclusion as Bell's predecessor, a grand jury, and the U.S.
00:23:09.000 DOJ.
00:23:10.000 That was Obama's DOJ, by the way.
00:23:11.000 There was no crime.
00:23:13.000 The Obama Justice Department at the time pointed out that there was no crime.
00:23:18.000 But it doesn't matter.
00:23:19.000 Democrats have continued to lie about the Michael Brown shooting and use it as the basis for a political campaign to suggest that America and its police officers are deeply racist.
00:23:27.000 Now, as we will see, the exploitation of prominent people's death was not relegated to John Lewis yesterday.
00:23:32.000 It also extended over to Herman Cain, the 74-year-old former Republican candidate for president in 2012, the first black Republican ever to lead presidential polling in 2012.
00:23:40.000 He passed away.
00:23:41.000 He passed away from COVID.
00:23:42.000 And that led the media to jump on his death and use it for their own political purposes.
00:23:46.000 This is about as ugly as it gets, guys.
00:23:48.000 It really is ugly.
00:23:50.000 Between the demagoguery of Barack Obama over John Lewis's death, and the attempts to link George Wallace with today's federal law enforcement protecting federal buildings from rioters and looters, and the media jumping on Herman Cain's death to blame President Trump, this is hideous stuff.
00:24:04.000 It really is.
00:24:05.000 And it really does disintegrate the country.
00:24:08.000 Just rules of basic decency completely out the window.
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00:25:28.000 Okay, so when it comes to public deaths, the insanity is not relegated to the memorial for John Lewis.
00:25:35.000 It extended over to Herman Cain, Chris Cuomo, who is just Terrible.
00:25:40.000 I mean, just a terrible, terrible quote-unquote reporter.
00:25:44.000 Apparently not a particularly good person either.
00:25:46.000 And I say that advisedly.
00:25:48.000 Maybe he's a nice guy.
00:25:49.000 I really don't have an idea.
00:25:51.000 But it seems kind of gross that when Herman Cain dies of COVID, your first move is, let me yell at President Trump about it.
00:25:57.000 First of all, Herman Cain had agency.
00:26:00.000 Second of all, Herman Cain's life story was not him dying of COVID.
00:26:03.000 Herman Cain's life story was growing up in segregated Atlanta and becoming president of a Federal Reserve Bank and running Papa John's.
00:26:12.000 And getting a degree while serving in the U.S.
00:26:14.000 Navy?
00:26:15.000 Herman Cain had a long and rich life. 0.79
00:26:17.000 And now his death has been reduced to he died of COVID and it's Trump's fault by the media, which is pretty disgusting.
00:26:22.000 It truly is.
00:26:23.000 Here was Chris Cuomo yesterday saying that it's Trump's fault that Herman Cain is dead, despite the fact there's no evidence that Cain actually obtained the virus at Trump's rally in Tulsa.
00:26:30.000 And Herman Cain happens to be an individual with the agency of his own.
00:26:35.000 Here was Chris Cuomo blaming Trump.
00:26:38.000 Former presidential candidate Herman Cain.
00:26:41.000 Yes, he supported the president.
00:26:42.000 The president says he was a good friend of his.
00:26:46.000 We wish his family well, and we wish that he rest in peace, and I wish that this president have no peace until he thinks about what he's exposing people to.
00:26:56.000 He didn't even mention that Mr. Cain was at his rally among the maskless masses right before he was diagnosed.
00:27:05.000 Now, maybe he didn't get it there.
00:27:08.000 Sure as hell didn't help.
00:27:10.000 Sure as hell didn't help.
00:27:11.000 How the hell do you know anything? 0.89
00:27:12.000 You don't know anything, is the answer.
00:27:14.000 By the way, it wasn't Papa John's, obviously.
00:27:17.000 It was Godfather's Pizza.
00:27:18.000 In any case...
00:27:19.000 First of all, who the hell is Chris Cuomo to talk about this? 0.99
00:27:21.000 Chris Cuomo, who went on air every single night and massaged his brother's ass on air as his brother presided over the largest death toll in America from COVID-19. 0.97
00:27:30.000 Chris Cuomo, who every night was talking about the glories of public rallies in which people were not wearing masks and had not one thing to say about pandemic preparedness or pandemic protection while these massive rallies on social justice warrior messaging took place in the streets. 0.85
00:27:45.000 Chris Cuomo, who spent his evenings Showing up on national TV with giant nasal swabs to make fun of his brother's nose size, Chris Cuomo, who ditched his own quarantine in order to apparently go to his second house while he had COVID.
00:28:02.000 That guy is going to lecture Trump about Herman Cain.
00:28:04.000 Again, without any evidence that Cain picked this thing up at the Trump rally.
00:28:08.000 By the way, I do have a question.
00:28:10.000 Everybody is saying, well, this is because, you know, it's because Herman Cain didn't wear a mask.
00:28:13.000 My understanding is that the masks don't protect you.
00:28:14.000 They protect everybody else.
00:28:15.000 Isn't that the math of the masks?
00:28:17.000 We've been told that routinely.
00:28:18.000 That the only masks that protect you are the N95 respirators that are used in hospitals.
00:28:23.000 And if you're wearing a surgical mask, it protects everybody else.
00:28:24.000 It doesn't protect you.
00:28:25.000 So even if he'd been wearing a mask, that wouldn't have protected him from getting it, presumably.
00:28:29.000 Right?
00:28:29.000 That is what we have been told.
00:28:31.000 Unless I'm getting that very, very wrong.
00:28:33.000 And by the way, that's not a case against mask wearing.
00:28:35.000 But again, the media's attempt to twist this into a story of Trumpian evil and to reduce Herman Cain's life to his death is really disgusting.
00:28:44.000 Reuters did the same thing.
00:28:45.000 So Reuters had a headline about Herman Cain.
00:28:47.000 Here was their headline about, again, a man who at one point led the 2012 Republican presidential race, a man who served on the Federal Reserve Board of Chairs, a man who spends his entire life becoming a success in the United States as a black man in America growing up in a segregated America in Atlanta.
00:29:04.000 Here was how Reuters summed up Herman Cain's life.
00:29:06.000 Quote, Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and supporter of President Trump, who refused to wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic, has died after contracting COVID-19.
00:29:15.000 Yeah, he got a dunk on the guy because he didn't wear a mask.
00:29:18.000 It seems to me that so much of the focus on mask wearing... Listen, again, I think you should wear a mask.
00:29:23.000 I've been saying consistently for months, as soon as the conventional wisdom turned, I've been saying, what's the harm?
00:29:27.000 Wear the mask.
00:29:28.000 It can't hurt.
00:29:29.000 That's what I've been saying for months.
00:29:31.000 They said this is not a diatribe against mask-wearing, what I'm about to say.
00:29:34.000 But it seems to me that many of the people who are focused in on dunking on people who die after quote-unquote not wearing masks, what they're really attempting to do is create in their own minds a protective shield by which they say, OK, well, if I do all of the approved things, then for sure I won't die.
00:29:47.000 For sure I'll be OK.
00:29:48.000 But if I wear the mask, and if I pay attention to what the media tell me, then I won't die.
00:29:54.000 Then I'll be okay.
00:29:55.000 And the answer is, there's no evidence that that's the case.
00:29:58.000 Okay, the answer is, I'm sure there are many people who have died who have been pretty careful about this stuff.
00:30:02.000 In fact, there are stories of people who have been pretty careful about this stuff who are dying.
00:30:05.000 There's a certain amount of dissociation that is going on.
00:30:08.000 Listen, I understand it.
00:30:08.000 I get it.
00:30:09.000 I do the same thing.
00:30:09.000 I'm a human being.
00:30:10.000 Everybody does.
00:30:11.000 Whenever somebody dies, the first question you ask is, how?
00:30:14.000 And then, if they did something of which you don't approve, you go, oh well, at least it won't happen to me.
00:30:18.000 Okay, but Herman Cain's life story is not about how he died.
00:30:20.000 It's about how he lived and the attempt to reduce him to his death method so that you can snack around Donald Trump on mask wearing.
00:30:26.000 By the way, while Donald Trump is going out and now preaching that everybody should wear masks, it's pretty gross.
00:30:32.000 This was the predominant sentiment, by the way, online yesterday.
00:30:34.000 Leftists blaming Herman Cain for his own death and suggesting that Donald Trump is responsible for his own death.
00:30:41.000 Tony Posnadsky tweeted out, there's another one of these blue check-marked lefties, He tweeted out, I feel bad for Herman Cain and his family, but I don't feel bad for his selfishness, his mocking of a deadly disease, nor convincing others it is safe to go maskless.
00:30:54.000 I refuse to have sympathy for those who put my family in danger.
00:30:56.000 Wear an MF-ing mask. 0.64
00:30:58.000 I wonder what he has to say about Denmark or Netherlands, where they have refused to mandate mask wearing because they say that the evidence on it is pretty scanty.
00:31:04.000 Which, by the way, it kind of is.
00:31:05.000 That doesn't mean you shouldn't wear a mask.
00:31:06.000 It doesn't mean you shouldn't be careful.
00:31:08.000 But to pretend that the evidence is absolutely clear neglects the fact that there are plenty of countries where they are not mandating mask wearing because the evidence is not exactly clear at this point.
00:31:17.000 Over and over and over again, members of the media were using Herman Cain's death to dunk on the man, which is just really kind of disgusting.
00:31:24.000 Anna Navarro, who's become just a bleep show, she tweeted out, Herman Cain thought COVID was a hoax, scoffed at wearing a mask, died of COVID.
00:31:31.000 That is not true.
00:31:32.000 There's a post on Herman Cain's website today from his staff pointing out that he has started every podcast recently with the note that everybody should wash your hands a lot.
00:31:38.000 And yes, that when you're in public, you should wear a mask.
00:31:40.000 Bill Montgomery, she says, Bill Montgomery, co-founder of Pro Trump Turning Point USA, scoffed at virus, died of COVID, representative Gohmert refused to wear a mask, has COVID, see a pattern? COVID doesn't care about partisanship. Okay, I don't remember Anna Navarro tweeting the same thing about mass rallies in the streets where people were not wearing their masks. But, you know, so long as you can dunk on people, then you can feel So really well done all around.
00:32:01.000 Well done.
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00:35:15.000 Well, at least if we're going to live in the most garbage timeline, we have distractions like the NBA, right? 0.99
00:35:25.000 I mean, at least we can enjoy sports together until they decide to politicize everything about sports and make them stupid. 0.99
00:35:31.000 So I'm not saying you can't enjoy basketball. 0.94
00:35:32.000 You can, but it does take a little bit of overlooking when they decide that social justice warrior messaging is going to be just poured into I mean, up to the brim, into the NBA, into the MLB, into the NFL.
00:35:46.000 Apparently the end zones in the NFL are going to have things like equality and stand for justice like on the end zones now.
00:35:53.000 It's great.
00:35:53.000 I mean, honestly, what they really should just do is they should just label.
00:35:58.000 These are all in-kind contributions to the Democratic Party, because let's be frank about this.
00:36:01.000 All of the sloganeering here is designed to back up a particular narrative about America is systemically racist that the Democratic Party preaches.
00:36:09.000 We are engaged right now in, again, what linguists call semantic overload.
00:36:13.000 There's nothing wrong with the principle of equality before the law, right?
00:36:16.000 That is a very good principle.
00:36:17.000 There's nothing wrong with the principle of peace, right?
00:36:20.000 All of these things are good.
00:36:21.000 But let's be real about this.
00:36:22.000 When people say black lives matter and they put it on the side of a basketball court, what they do not mean is that black lives matter the same as white lives and all lives matter.
00:36:29.000 That's not what they mean.
00:36:31.000 Because that's eminently obvious.
00:36:32.000 What they mean is that America is systemically racist, right?
00:36:34.000 That is the semantic overload point.
00:36:36.000 Because if you say to them, I agree, black lives matter, and also America is not systemically racist, then they will respond and say, then you don't agree, black lives matter.
00:36:43.000 Which means that you are just using a semantically overloaded term so that you can avoid saying what you actually mean, because what you actually mean is a lot more unpopular than what you're saying.
00:36:51.000 That is what is happening right now.
00:36:53.000 Every single person agrees in America that black lives matter because you'd be an awful human being not to agree that black lives matter. 0.99
00:36:59.000 But that is not what black lives matter advocates mean when they say black lives matter. 0.68
00:37:02.000 What they actually mean is that police are evil and that America is systemically racist and that all inequality is a result of systematic inequity.
00:37:09.000 Right?
00:37:09.000 That's what they actually mean.
00:37:10.000 So the NBA has decided to go full bore on this.
00:37:12.000 So last night they had the relaunched NBA inside the bubble and all the players knelt for the national anthem.
00:37:17.000 So now everybody's Kaepernicking.
00:37:19.000 Because obviously America's a terrible, horrible place where you get to earn millions of dollars for playing a child's game in front of adoring audiences. 0.68
00:37:26.000 And Americans care so little about black lives that they are more than happy to watch basketball players paid millions of dollars to dunk a basketball. 0.98
00:37:34.000 Very, very cruel country this is.
00:37:36.000 Deeply cruel, terrible country in which Americans obviously don't agree that black lives matter, which is why we spend tens of millions of dollars watching games and patronizing products that are advertised by these spokespeople.
00:37:48.000 And the American flag is responsible. 1.00
00:37:49.000 The American flag is bad.
00:37:50.000 For the revisionist historians who suggest that kneeling for the national anthem, by the way, is a sign of respect for the flag, it was never meant as a sign of respect for the flag.
00:37:59.000 It was meant as a sign of disrespect for the flag.
00:38:02.000 It was meant that way.
00:38:03.000 It was meant originally as a signifier that America is systemically racist and the flag represents that systemic racism.
00:38:10.000 Again, at least the MLB knelt before the National Anthem, but kneeling before the National Anthem is saying that the National Anthem is not true, and that the flag is not true.
00:38:20.000 So the NBA let off with this, which of course makes it harder to watch the game because, again, no one is watching basketball to hear the Social Justice Warrior messaging, but they decided to get even more obvious about it.
00:38:29.000 They did this routine where they basically went full XFL.
00:38:32.000 If you remember the XFL, people were putting names on their jerseys like, He Hate Me.
00:38:36.000 There's nicknames on their jerseys.
00:38:37.000 He Hate Me was the most famous one.
00:38:38.000 Well, yesterday, the NBA had players wearing words on their jerseys, like slogans on their jerseys.
00:38:44.000 And it seems to me they should just put Biden 2020 on their jerseys if this is what they really think, or America Sucks on their jerseys if that's what they really think.
00:38:50.000 Instead, you had the bizarre picture of players throwing up alley-oops while, like, if you don't know the players, you literally have no idea who is playing right now.
00:38:59.000 Like, the purpose of the name on the back of the jersey used to be to identify the players.
00:39:04.000 So instead, you had equality throwing an alley-oop for peace.
00:39:07.000 I'm not kidding.
00:39:08.000 Metta World Peace was really ahead of his time.
00:39:10.000 A man ahead of... World Be Free.
00:39:12.000 A man ahead of his time.
00:39:13.000 Here is actually, like, that's actually what happened.
00:39:15.000 I mean, I don't even know how the announcers announced this.
00:39:17.000 And they know the names of the players, but if you didn't, right, if you're just watching this thing, it's like, and coming up the court is equality.
00:39:23.000 Here comes equality, running up the court, throws up an alley-oop to peace.
00:39:26.000 And there's peace slamming it home over say their names.
00:39:32.000 That's literally how it looked yesterday.
00:39:34.000 That would be the sound that you'd hear down under.
00:39:38.000 Strong finish, Zion Williamson on a special delivery.
00:39:43.000 Equality throwing it up to Peace.
00:39:44.000 He's also, ironically, dunking over Peace.
00:39:47.000 So Peace got posterized right here.
00:39:48.000 Peace got dunked on.
00:39:51.000 Exciting, exciting stuff.
00:39:52.000 So Equality throws it up for Peace.
00:39:53.000 Peace dunks over Peace.
00:39:56.000 Good stuff, everybody.
00:39:58.000 Um, yeah.
00:40:00.000 I noticed Free Hong Kong was benched.
00:40:01.000 So was Stop the NBA's Chinese Talent Sweatshop.
00:40:04.000 That person never made it to the court, so that's too bad.
00:40:07.000 Charles Barkley got a lot of flack yesterday, because Charles Barkley, who may be the only sane person left dealing with the NBA, he said, by the way, if you don't kneel, you're not a bad person.
00:40:13.000 And everybody's like, yes you are!
00:40:14.000 You're a bad person if you don't kneel!
00:40:16.000 We've reached the point where that which is not barred is mandatory.
00:40:20.000 Where, it's not that, remember we started off with like, should Colin Kaepernick be allowed to kneel?
00:40:26.000 And most people are like, I think it's a bad idea, but I don't think you should be banned from kneeling.
00:40:30.000 I think it's kind of a garbage-y thing to do, but I don't think you should be banned.
00:40:33.000 And now it's mandatory. 0.99
00:40:35.000 You're a bad person who doesn't care about black people if you don't kneel for the national anthem. 0.98
00:40:39.000 A national anthem that represents a country that has seen more racial progress than any other country in human history, and in which the richest black people on planet Earth live, by average income. 0.98
00:40:49.000 Okay, but apparently Charles Barkley's a bad guy for saying that if you don't kneel, you're not a bad person.
00:40:53.000 This is how far we have come.
00:40:56.000 My thing is, listen, the National Anthem mean different things to different people.
00:41:01.000 I'm glad these guys are all unified, but if people don't kneel, they're not a bad person.
00:41:07.000 I want to make that perfectly clear.
00:41:09.000 I'm glad they had unity, but if we have a guy who doesn't want to kneel because the anthem means something to him, he should not.
00:41:16.000 Okay, and everybody came down on Barclay.
00:41:18.000 How dare he say that?
00:41:19.000 He's not woke enough, Charles Barclay.
00:41:22.000 Yeah, all right.
00:41:23.000 Well, this is the way the culture is moving.
00:41:26.000 By the way, speaking of the way the culture is moving, I have to read you the best headline of the day.
00:41:29.000 It is from CNN on a slightly different topic.
00:41:31.000 You ready for this headline from CNN?
00:41:32.000 This is spectacular.
00:41:33.000 They brought it out this morning.
00:41:34.000 Quote, individuals of the cervix are now recommended to start cervical cancer screenings at 25 and continue through age 65 with HPV testing every five years as the preferred method of testing according to a new guideline released by the American Cancer Society.
00:41:47.000 You notice something wrong with that particular headline?
00:41:50.000 Individuals with a cervix are recommended to start cervical cancer screenings.
00:41:54.000 You know what we call individuals with a cervix in the real world?
00:41:56.000 We call them women. 0.99
00:41:57.000 Remember that time when CNN said an apple is not a banana, a banana is not an apple?
00:42:01.000 Now apparently a banana can have an apple, which is really exciting stuff.
00:42:05.000 Individuals with a cervix.
00:42:08.000 Do you, sir, take this individual with a cervix to be your lawfully wedded wife? 0.92
00:42:12.000 How romantic.
00:42:13.000 Wokeness has proceeded so far that women have been completely erased. 0.95
00:42:16.000 They don't even exist anymore.
00:42:18.000 Individuals with a cervix.
00:42:20.000 Individuals with a cervix.
00:42:21.000 It's fantastic, fantastic stuff.
00:42:23.000 Now, here's the thing.
00:42:24.000 There will be a backlash to this, and the backlash, I think, will come in the form of reasonable people just saying, you know what, no.
00:42:28.000 I'm not kneeling for the national anthem, nor do I frankly feel like patronizing basketball games where I'm lectured about how America is systemically racist by people who are earning millions and millions of dollars to call America systemically racist.
00:42:40.000 Honestly, the best thing that happened yesterday, is maybe the only good thing that happened yesterday, was Trader Joe's said, you know what?
00:42:45.000 We're not changing our labels.
00:42:47.000 Remember a few days ago, there was a big story about people petitioning saying that Trader Jose's, like guacamole, was racist.
00:42:52.000 Well, Trader Joe's put out a statement.
00:42:54.000 They're like, nope, nope.
00:42:55.000 They said, a few weeks ago, an online petition was launched calling on us to, quote, remove racist packaging from our products.
00:43:01.000 Following were inaccurate reports that the petition prompted us to take action.
00:43:04.000 We want to be clear.
00:43:05.000 We disagree that any of these labels are racist.
00:43:07.000 We do not make decisions based on petitions.
00:43:10.000 Thank you.
00:43:11.000 Thank you. 0.97
00:43:12.000 It's about damn time somebody said this. 0.90
00:43:14.000 They said we make decisions based on what customers purchased, as well as the feedback we receive from our customers and crew members. 0.97
00:43:19.000 If we feel there is need for change, we do not hesitate to take action.
00:43:23.000 Decades ago, our buying team started using product names like Trader Giato's, Trader Jose's, Trader Ming's, etc.
00:43:28.000 We thought then, and still do, that this naming of products could be fun and show appreciation for other cultures.
00:43:33.000 For example, we named our Mexican beer Trader Jose Premium.
00:43:36.000 Good for Trader Joe's.
00:43:37.000 There's not going to be an end to this.
00:43:37.000 Guess what?
00:43:39.000 a kitschy reference to a mathematical theory.
00:43:41.000 These products have been really popular with our customers, including some budding mathematicians.
00:43:45.000 Recently, we have heard from many customers reaffirming these name variations are largely viewed in exactly the way they were intended, as an attempt to have fun with our product marketing.
00:43:52.000 We will continue our ongoing evaluation, and those products that resonate with our customers and sell well will remain on our shelves.
00:43:57.000 Good for Trader Joe's.
00:43:58.000 Guess what?
00:43:59.000 There's not gonna be an end to this.
00:44:01.000 There really is not.
00:44:02.000 Because the social justice warrior insanity, it doesn't end at any point.
00:44:09.000 There's no limiting principle to it.
00:44:10.000 Which is why you're seeing, this one I love, you're seeing Beyonce come under fire.
00:44:13.000 There's a new documentary, it's not really a documentary, it's sort of like a movie that is called Black is King for Disney+, that is produced by Beyonce.
00:44:21.000 Now, first of all, let me just point out that if Disney Plus launched a program called White is King, it would be the end of the world.
00:44:27.000 Right?
00:44:28.000 It would be the end of the world.
00:44:29.000 They launched a program called Black is King and everybody's like, okay, totally fine.
00:44:32.000 In any case, Black is King is based on The Lion King, which is... I mean, first of all, isn't that cultural appropriation?
00:44:37.000 Like, it's based on Lion King.
00:44:39.000 The music for Lion King was originally written by two white guys, Elton John and Tim Rice.
00:44:42.000 And the story of Lion King is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet, who happened to be a white guy, so...
00:44:46.000 Seems like a little cultural appropriation.
00:44:48.000 Now Beyonce's under a little bit of fire because it turns out that Beyonce is not in fact African, and for her to culturally appropriate African culture is sort of a problem for some people on the left.
00:44:57.000 Not kidding, there are articles on this today.
00:44:59.000 People defending Beyonce saying she's allowed to do it because she's disconnected from her history, but her disconnection from her own history is because of White intervention over slavery and all this.
00:45:08.000 The fact that it's even a controversy is bizarre.
00:45:10.000 She's paying tribute to Africa.
00:45:11.000 There's nothing wrong with that. 1.00
00:45:12.000 But the fact that it's a controversy shows how stupid everything is. 1.00
00:45:15.000 In fact, things are so stupid that now Portland's Wall of Moms is falling apart. 1.00
00:45:20.000 Portland's Wall of Moms. 1.00
00:45:21.000 Remember, these are the woke white ladies who are supposedly protecting Peaceful protesters who are actually vicious rioters and looters from the predations of federal police officers attempting to stop violations of law. 1.00
00:45:32.000 Now the Wall of Moms is falling apart.
00:45:33.000 Why?
00:45:33.000 Because they were too white.
00:45:35.000 Not kidding. 0.77
00:45:36.000 According to Oregon Live, Portland's Wall of Moms, a group formed in recent weeks and quickly recognized as a staple of nightly downtown protests, was accused publicly Wednesday of anti-blackness by leaders of an existing black-led community group.
00:45:48.000 Wall of Moms, whose members said they aimed to support and protect other Black Lives Matter protesters near the fence in front of the federal courthouse, announced Friday that its white leadership had rescinded their positions to allow women of color to be in charge.
00:46:00.000 So the Wall of Moms fell apart because they weren't black enough. 1.00
00:46:03.000 New leaders announced Friday include Theresa Rayford, executive director of Don't Shoot Portland, Demetria Hester, and Danielle James.
00:46:10.000 Less than a week later, Don't Shoot Portland took to Instagram to urge people against supporting the Wall of Moms, saying it was no longer working with the moms group.
00:46:18.000 Because after leaving vulnerable black women downtown after marching, failing to support those on the ground that put trust in them, Wall of Moms leadership also found time to make three registrations through Oregon's Secretary of State.
00:46:28.000 This was done without the knowledge of the black leadership that Wall of Moms was claiming to implement. 1.00
00:46:32.000 The lies are finally clear. 0.94
00:46:33.000 We are sad, but ultimately not surprised that anti-blackness showed its ugly face with Wall of Moms.
00:46:39.000 Good times.
00:46:40.000 They weren't woke enough.
00:46:41.000 Because guess what?
00:46:42.000 You're never woke enough.
00:46:43.000 Ever, ever, ever.
00:46:44.000 There is no, the wokeness never ends.
00:46:46.000 It just, there's no limitations to the wokeness.
00:46:49.000 Now, if you're thinking to yourself, you know, all of this seems like pretty solid ground for President Trump to campaign.
00:46:54.000 And so you got the Democrats seeking to undermine fundamental institutions of American republicanism and checks and balances, like filibusters.
00:47:00.000 You have Democrats seeking to prop up rioting and looting.
00:47:03.000 You have a system so woke that the wall of moms is not woke enough. 1.00
00:47:07.000 You have every major cultural institution Pushing social justice warrior messaging about how America is systemically evil.
00:47:12.000 Wouldn't that be some pretty fertile ground for Trump to campaign? 1.00
00:47:15.000 Well, lest you forget, Donald Trump is busy distracting us all with absolute, utter, insane stupidity. 1.00
00:47:21.000 So I remember that yesterday, President Trump floated the idea of postponing the election, which is fundamentally unconstitutional. 1.00
00:47:26.000 You cannot do that.
00:47:28.000 The election is set as the first As the first weekend in November, it has been set that way by the Constitution of the United States for well over 150 years.
00:47:37.000 The president doesn't have that kind of power. 0.99
00:47:39.000 Now, yesterday, I kind of shrugged it off a little bit because Trump says a lot of crap. 1.00
00:47:42.000 And it's true, he does say a lot of crap. 1.00
00:47:43.000 And I'm not going to pretend I take Trump particularly seriously as a person. 0.99
00:47:47.000 I don't.
00:47:47.000 I've never taken Trump particularly seriously as a person because I think if you do, then you're doing it wrong, frankly.
00:47:53.000 That does not justify his activity in undermining fundamental faith in American democracy by saying that the vote is going to be so corrupted that we should postpone the election.
00:48:03.000 That is a tactic the Democrats have been using.
00:48:04.000 Stacey Abrams has been using it.
00:48:06.000 I mean, frankly, Barack Obama did it when he suggested that there's been widespread voter suppression against black Americans.
00:48:11.000 It doesn't make it better.
00:48:12.000 When Trump does it, and Trump really opened the door to everybody clocking him. 0.84
00:48:16.000 It's political malpractice, and it's unconstitutional, unreasonable, foolish, and wrong for the President of the United States to threaten delaying the election.
00:48:25.000 It really justifies a lot of the complaints about Trump that have... I'm old enough to remember when I was defending Trump against charges, he was going to say stuff like this, and then he went ahead and said stuff like this.
00:48:34.000 And that left running room for the left, so Chuck Schumer said, nah, the election's gonna be November 3rd, and of course he is correct about this.
00:48:40.000 Once again, all he wants to do is divert from his abject failure in the coronavirus crisis.
00:48:49.000 He says, oh, well, maybe we won't have an election.
00:48:52.000 That's up to the Senate and the House.
00:48:54.000 Mr. President, President Trump, the election will be in November, on November 3rd, and you will not change it.
00:49:03.000 Stop diverting attention.
00:49:06.000 President Trump, that's what you've done for three months.
00:49:08.000 Okay, well in any case, the rest of it is irrelevant, but he's not wrong that the election will take place at this point.
00:49:13.000 Now the question is whether you take Trump with a grain of salt because he's fundamentally an unserious human being, which is what I've thought for a very long time, that has not wavered for years, or whether you take it super-duper seriously.
00:49:23.000 If you take it seriously, it's a fascist threat. 0.94
00:49:24.000 If Barack Obama said, I'm delaying the election, everybody on the right would completely go nuts.
00:49:29.000 The reason I don't take Trump as seriously as Obama is because I don't think that Trump is as serious a person as Obama.
00:49:33.000 I think he mouths off. 1.00
00:49:34.000 My proof for the fact that he just mouths off and says crap is that he mouths off and says crap. 1.00
00:49:38.000 He himself said this. 0.99
00:49:39.000 Yesterday he came out and said, glad I was able to get the very dishonest, lamestream media to finally start talking about the risks to our democracy from dangerous, universal mail-in voting, not absentee voting, which I totally support.
00:49:50.000 So he came out and he said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, by the way, when I was saying delay the election, it was really just a misdirect tactic so people would talk about mail-in voting, which God, God.
00:49:58.000 Okay, so why not just say mail-in voting is bad?
00:50:01.000 It is bad.
00:50:02.000 There are reports about how bad it is.
00:50:03.000 You don't have to do that.
00:50:04.000 You don't have to make a fascistic threat to delay the election.
00:50:07.000 It's like he deliberately wants to blow the election. 1.00
00:50:09.000 I don't know what else to take away from this kind of idiocy. 1.00
00:50:12.000 I really do not. 1.00
00:50:13.000 The Democrats, all they had to do was not be nuts. 0.99
00:50:15.000 They are nuts and Trump could still lose the election because he's acting like this. 0.99
00:50:19.000 And you know what, if he acts like this, frankly, it's on him. 0.94
00:50:22.000 Alrighty, well, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:50:25.000 Otherwise, we'll be here on Monday.
00:50:27.000 In the meantime, go pick up a copy of my brand new book, How to Destroy America, in three easy steps that describes everything that is going on, including the campaign against the filibuster now being pursued by Democrats.
00:50:36.000 So go check that out.
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