New polling shows how successful disintegrationists have become in American thinking, a prosecutor brings charges against a Missouri couple defending themselves from rioters, and is Coronavirus starting to flatten? Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Protect yourself at ExpressVpn.org/Protect Yourself. Ben Shapiro's new book, "How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps" is now available for purchase. It's the long-awaited book that I've been talking about for months, and it's finally here. You can go over to Amazon, or anywhere else, books are sold and pick it up right now. I could not think of a time when it would be more relevant. The common American philosophy is the key principles that were instrumental in overthrowing the dominance of racism and white supremacy in American life. That is the common American culture. And those principles have brought about the flowering of American freedom, and the insane levels of prosperity that not only Americans enjoy, but the rest of the world enjoys as well. The spirit of adventure and entrepreneurship is what characterizes Americans, as opposed to De Tocqueville's picture of Europeans which was much more sedentary. American culture was built on a series of beliefs about the way the world works and attitudes toward the world, and those attitudes include things like a feeling of entrepreneurship and adventure. Also, there was a culture of tolerance for other people s rights in ways that were much more than just tolerance. That came from a balanced by the values of the Constitution. We have a balanced social institutions that came from the founding of the Declaration of Independence and other people's rights. This is a culture that was based on a balanced conception of the right to speak as you may not agree with you, and that you have a right to be balanced by freedom of association, and a balanced understanding of other people may not all agree with that you may choose to speak too freely. If you don't agree with me, that's not a balanced enough, but you may be too free to associate freely, too may not choose to associate too freely, but that may choose not to associate with you based on their right to associate, but not to choose too too much, but may not be too choose too. by your right to exercise your freedom to do so. What does that mean? -Ben Shapiro's book, How To Destroy America? The long awaited book is out now.
00:00:33.000Why is it that people keep claiming they have the strategy to stop this thing and then they actually don't present a strategy to stop the thing?
00:00:47.000But first, gotta remind you, today is the day.
00:00:50.000Finally, the long-awaited book that I've been talking about for months at this point, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, it's now available.
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00:01:00.000I could not think of a time when it would be more relevant.
00:01:12.000Because what it really says is that Americans don't believe that we share much anymore.
00:01:16.000The only thing that we share, apparently, is a desire to virtue signal the pollsters.
00:01:20.000But when it comes to what we actually share as a country, the answer is not much.
00:01:24.000So the premise of my book, as I've talked about before, That there are essentially two visions of American society.
00:01:29.000One vision of American society is the Unionist vision.
00:01:32.000This is a vision that suggests that in order for a nation to survive, you have to have a common philosophy, culture, and history.
00:01:39.000The common American philosophy is expressed beautifully in the Declaration of Independence, that we are endowed by nature and nature's God with certain inalienable rights, that government is instituted to protect those rights, and that violation of those rights makes the government lose its reason for being.
00:01:53.000That we are all endowed with reason, we are all equal before the law.
00:01:56.000These are the ideas of the Declaration of Independence, and we cherish them, and we hold them dear.
00:02:00.000That our natural rights are what we call negative rights, rights against other people.
00:02:03.000They are not positive rights, meaning entitlements from other people, entitlements from government.
00:02:07.000These were the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
00:02:12.000Those principles have brought about the flowering of American freedom.
00:02:15.000They've brought about the insane levels of prosperity that not only Americans enjoy, but the rest of the world enjoys as well.
00:02:21.000Those principles have brought about the end of Nazism and communism.
00:02:25.000Those principles Those principles were instrumental, were the key principles in overthrowing the dominance of racism and white supremacy in American life.
00:02:34.000That is the common American philosophy.
00:02:36.000Then there's the common American culture.
00:02:37.000American culture was built on a series of beliefs about the way the world works and a series of attitudes toward the world.
00:02:44.000And those attitudes include things like a feeling of entrepreneurship and adventure.
00:02:48.000The spirit of Americanism was the spirit of adventure.
00:02:50.000When you read de Tocqueville, he's constantly talking about Where America can be found, and what he says is America can essentially be found on the frontier.
00:02:56.000That when you look at the nature of Americans, they are constantly striving, they are constantly building, they are constantly moving, and they are constantly seeking.
00:03:03.000The spirit of adventure and entrepreneurship is what characterizes Americans, as opposed to de Tocqueville's picture of Europeans, which was much more sedentary.
00:03:11.000Americans were constantly on the move, constantly on the go, embracing the journey, embracing the adventure, not Asking for anything, but being granted the freedom to do with their lives what they would do.
00:03:23.000Also, there was a culture of tolerance for other people's rights and understanding that rights mean that other people may not use their rights in ways that you like.
00:03:29.000So the right to free speech isn't just your right to speak as you see fit.
00:03:32.000It relies on a cultural underpinning that you understand that other people may not agree with you and they have a right to free speech too.
00:03:39.000Freedom of association means not only that you have a right to associate freely, but that others may choose not to associate with you based on their right to associate freely.
00:03:46.000You have to have tolerance for other people's rights.
00:03:50.000Also, the culture of the United States was built on the value of social institutions, that rights were going to be balanced by duties, that every right came with a consonant duty, that a free country relied, as John Adams suggested, on a moral and religious people, and that you required social institutions to undergird that.
00:04:05.000You required things like churches, you required things like schools, you required social and communal institutions that were designed to inculcate virtues so that when people did exercise their rights, they were not harming one another.
00:04:16.000And finally, the culture of the United States relied on a militant defense of those rights.
00:04:20.000A belief that if others were to threaten those rights, that you would stand up for yourself.
00:04:24.000This is where the right to keep and bear arms comes from.
00:04:26.000This militant belief that your rights are worthy of defense.
00:04:29.000So that was the American philosophy and the American culture.
00:04:31.000And then there was a picture of American history.
00:04:32.000And that picture of American history...
00:04:34.000Was that America struggles to live up to its founding ideals and is gradually moving toward the fulfillment of those founding ideals.
00:04:41.000The story of America is a nation founded not in 1619 because slavery was a human universal.
00:04:48.000And to mention that does not alleviate in any way America's responsibility for the sin of American slavery.
00:04:53.000It is to put that sin into the context of all human sin.
00:04:57.000Okay, which is where all sin belongs, right?
00:04:59.000All sin belongs in the context of all human sin, because to myopically focus on the sin of America at the expense of all of human history and all over the world is to miss the point, which is that human beings are innately sinful and do terrible things to one another, and that the goal of freedom and virtue is to move human beings beyond that.
00:05:17.000And that's the story of America, is the fight against human nature by instituting checks and balances, by fighting for liberty, The story of America on a racial level is the caching of the promissory note that was written in 1776, not the story of the continuation of 1619.
00:05:34.000Any attempt to link American life in 2020 to 1619 is going to be very difficult on a practical level.
00:05:39.000It is much easier To link American life in 2020 to 1776, because frankly, America was not founded in 1619.
00:06:15.000But the system itself, the system that was created by the Declaration of Independence and then preserved by the Constitution of the United States with its amendments over time, That system is not racist.
00:06:31.000But disintegrationists suggest that that system is indeed an attempt to re-establish and re-inculcate hierarchies of power.
00:06:39.000So disintegrationists say about American philosophy that it's just dead wrong.
00:06:42.000There are no rights that pre-exist government.
00:06:43.000Government is the source of your rights.
00:06:45.000Government is the source of your privileges.
00:06:46.000And government is the source of your entitlements.
00:06:48.000Rights themselves are not rights you have against other people.
00:06:51.000Rights instead Are things that you get from the government.
00:06:53.000You have a right to social security, you have a right to housing, you have a right to healthcare.
00:06:56.000Now, the founders would have thought this was bizarre because obviously all of those quote-unquote rights require something from other people.
00:07:03.000As opposed to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or the right to life, liberty, and property, that doesn't require anything of anybody.
00:07:08.000If I have a right to life, that just means you're not allowed to kill me.
00:07:11.000If I have a right to housing, that means you now have an obligation to build me a house.
00:07:15.000Philosophers have termed this difference negative rights versus positive rights.
00:07:18.000So disintegrationists say, they're positive rights, which means, essentially, I can use the government to point a gun at you and steal your stuff.
00:07:27.000The disintegrationists believe that all men are not equal before the law.
00:07:30.000There's no such thing as equal rights before the law, because equal rights are a lie.
00:07:34.000Because if we were to just apply the law evenly between individuals, well, that might end with group injustice.
00:07:41.000Because what if one group commits more crimes than another group?
00:07:44.000Well, then that means the group is being treated unjustly.
00:07:46.000This is why you see the disintegrationists left very often citing criminal justice disparity statistics in order to suggest that America's system is innately broken, without reference to the nature of the crimes that are being committed by individuals.
00:07:58.000And so people on the right will say, you have to name the people who are innocent who are in jail, who shouldn't be in jail, and I'm fine with it.
00:08:04.000People on the left will say it doesn't matter if they're innocent.
00:08:51.000They believe that human beings, this is what John Dewey said, Woodrow Wilson, many of the early 20th century progressives, they said that human beings are innately malleable.
00:08:58.000And the reason that human beings are flawed is because they live in a capitalist system shaped by things like the Declaration of Independence.
00:09:03.000Get rid of that system, put in a more just and equitable economic system, and human beings will change.
00:09:15.000This belief that all disparities in the system can be cured if you just get rid of the system.
00:09:20.000So American philosophy must be dissolved.
00:09:22.000American culture has to be fought according to the disintegrationists.
00:09:25.000A spirit of entrepreneurship is actually a spirit of exploitation.
00:09:28.000Entrepreneurs, adventurers, those who wander forth and sally forth into the wilds of life and try to conquer and build, those people are exploiters.
00:09:37.000The best people are the people who rely on the government to give them things.
00:09:41.000The best people are the people who demand things from others because they create social justice.
00:09:47.000The fact that you want a thing is what grants you heroism because you are trying to establish a more equitable society.
00:09:52.000If you go and you build for yourself, that means that you are reliant on somebody else to build for you, which means you're an exploiter.
00:09:57.000If, however, you demand something from somebody else, you are just demanding that the system be more just, and you are a hero, according to the disintegrationists.
00:10:04.000The spirit of tolerance for others' rights is bad, according to disintegrationists.
00:10:07.000Because according to disintegrationists, if you tolerate other people's rights, well, what if they're bad?
00:10:11.000What about the jerk who's not going to let a black person go to his business?
00:10:44.000That's why Black Lives Matter, the organization, suggests family structure must be torn down because the family is the smallest minority other than the individual.
00:10:52.000Families might teach stuff that the majority doesn't like.
00:10:54.000Families might teach stuff the government doesn't want.
00:11:17.000Disintegrationists say about American history that American history is 1619.
00:11:21.000American history is the story of Columbus brutalizing the Arawaks.
00:11:25.000It is not the story of Western civilization's growth in the Western Hemisphere and how that has bettered the world.
00:11:31.000The story of Western society is a story of exploitation.
00:11:34.000It's the Howard Zinn story about how everything was a Rousseauian, beautiful, natural, savage wilderness out in the Western Hemisphere until the evil West got here with their exploitative ways.
00:11:42.000Human sin did not exist until the West arrived on these shores.
00:11:46.000That Western civilization is a cruel, exploitative place, unlike any other civilization, right?
00:12:02.000Basically, the philosophy of disintegrationists suggests that whoever holds the majority should be able to club the minority over the head.
00:12:08.000The only reason, by the way, that disintegrationists believe this these days is because they believe they're in the ascendancy.
00:12:14.000The thing about disintegrationists when it comes to governmental structures is they have no consistent take on governmental structures.
00:12:20.000Whatever is convenient is what they will push.
00:12:21.000So sometimes that means that they are in favor of states standing up to the federal government.
00:12:26.000So they're in favor of sanctuary cities because they don't want the federal government cramming down its view of immigration on the states.
00:12:31.000And sometimes it means they want the federal government to completely run roughshod over states like the same-sex marriage.
00:12:36.000Disintegrationists have no consistent philosophy of government.
00:12:39.000The philosophy of unionism says that government is supposed to be both federalist, meaning that power devolves to the lowest level, and also there's supposed to be checks and balances at every level to prevent too much accretion of power and to prevent people's rights from being overridden.
00:12:52.000There's no consistent philosophy of government from the disintegrationists.
00:12:55.000The philosophy of government is just whatever gets the job done.
00:12:59.000And that means ultimate government power.
00:13:01.000The goal is ultimate government power.
00:13:04.000So this all has very significant ramifications for the United States and the future of the United States because disintegrationists are basically claiming that their vision of America, in which we share very little.
00:13:15.000History is just a series of clubbings over the head.
00:13:18.000We don't share a culture because we don't believe that you should have rights if you think the wrong things.
00:13:22.000This is where cancel culture comes in.
00:13:23.000That if you think the wrong things, we should go after your livelihood, we should go after your family, we should expose the places where you live, we should dox you, we should make sure that if we can, we'll use the power of government against you.
00:13:33.000Disintegrationists believe that checks and balances should go away and that you don't have any individual rights, that all rights spring from the government and you can be treated differentially based on whether you are part of a historically marginalized group or a chosen historically marginalized group or not.
00:13:46.000That's the disintegrationist philosophy, and it will end with tyranny, because that is the only way this can end.
00:13:52.000When you get rid of all the checks and balances, what you end up is with tyranny of the mob, which is essentially what many people have called for, getting rid of the United States Senate, getting rid of the Electoral College, packing the courts.
00:14:05.000Getting rid of the federalist system, tyranny of the majority, tyranny of the mob, which is something that the founding fathers worried deeply about.
00:14:11.000Or alternatively, just tyranny of a bureaucracy, tyranny of a cultural bureaucracy, of cultural elites who know better than you.
00:14:42.000So in a second, I'm gonna get to a poll showing that disintegrationists are winning.
00:14:45.000That their view of America as racist, as bigoted, as cruel, their view of America's systems as innately bigoted, it's taken an extraordinary foothold in American public life.
00:14:56.000And if this continues, there will not be an America left to stand up for.
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00:16:21.000I think that very often, polling follows extraordinary amounts of media coverage.
00:16:25.000So, in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, when pollsters were calling up Americans and saying, what do you think of these protests?
00:16:31.000Do you like them or do you not like them?
00:16:45.000I didn't oppose protests against police brutality.
00:16:47.000What I opposed was the attempt to conflate questions of police brutality with the idea that there's endemic American racism that can only be removed by a top-down government or a bottom-up movement.
00:16:58.000I don't think police officers are endemically racist.
00:17:00.000I don't think the American system is endemically racist.
00:17:02.000I don't think the vast majority of Americans are racist or tolerate racism.
00:17:06.000And most of all, I do not think that in order to be quote-unquote anti-racist, I have to stand for tearing down the system, which is the case being made by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi, which is an ugly, wrong, neo-Marxist, stupid case.
00:17:20.000And not only does it not make sense, it is innately racist in and of itself because it assumes that we have to treat each other as members of groups rather than individuals.
00:17:27.000I mean, Robin DiAngelo herself says that it is racist to treat people as individuals.
00:17:37.000But unfortunately, because of the way the media have treated this entire situation, and because the media have attempted, frankly, to polarize the conversation around President Trump, and they've attempted to make Trump the font head of America.
00:17:49.000The goal here is to make Americans feel bad about America and then say, if you want to feel better about America, all you got to do is get rid of Trump, put Joe Biden in there and you'll feel better about America.
00:17:58.000And I will say that Joe Biden is playing a smart hand here, because what Joe Biden is doing is he's basically playing dead in the basement and he's avoiding the big mistakes.
00:18:04.000When he's asked about statues, for example, he'll say, yeah, we should probably move the Confederate statues, but we should leave up Columbus and Washington and Jefferson.
00:18:12.000His radical left flank is screaming at him.
00:18:14.000No, no, no, you got to get rid of all of those things.
00:18:15.000And frankly, I don't think that Joe Biden would be a bulwark against his radical left flank once in office.
00:18:20.000He himself has said he would be a transitional figure, but he's playing it smart.
00:18:24.000So the implicit promise of the media is we are going to militate against American unity from now until the election.
00:18:30.000If you elect Joe Biden, then we'll shut up for like five seconds.
00:18:34.000Remember, the Ferguson riots happened under Barack Obama, but What this polling data shows is that Americans are more and more warm to a lot of the disintegrationist viewpoints, which is really dangerous because once you have a majority of Americans who don't believe in fundamental American notions of rights, don't believe in that philosophy, don't believe in that culture, don't believe in that history, what exactly is supposed to hold us together other than rage at the system?
00:18:56.000And what happens after the rage at the system is vented?
00:18:58.000Because it turns out that there are pretty wildly differing points of view on what should happen once you tear down the house.
00:19:04.000Once you tear down the house, then it's just a question of who's in charge.
00:19:07.000And revolutionaries very rarely have an idea as to what to do after the revolution is over.
00:19:12.000The French revolutionaries were pretty sure what they wanted to tear down.
00:19:15.000Some of what they wanted to tear down was good.
00:19:17.000Some of what they wanted to tear down was bad.
00:19:21.000And in its place, they established a tyrannical directorate, which was eventually replaced by an actual dictator, which was eventually replaced by a restoration of the monarchy.
00:19:39.000A significantly worse communist tyranny that lasted for nearly all of the 20th century and resulted in the slaughter of literally tens of millions of people, maybe up to 100 million people in the USSR alone.
00:19:51.000And so, revolutionaries very rarely know what they want to do after the revolution.
00:19:54.000This is what makes the American Revolution different.
00:19:55.000Is that after the American Revolution, because it was based on English common law and notions of philosophy and enlightenment ideas from John Locke and such, there was a creedal attempt to build something in the aftermath of breaking away from Great Britain.
00:20:08.000The revolution was really a separation.
00:20:10.000I mean, the Declaration talks about this.
00:20:13.000It was less a revolution than a separation impelled by a gap in thinking.
00:20:18.000I don't think that's what's going to happen in the United States if our unity dissolves in the face of disintegrationism.
00:20:23.000It's not like people know what's coming after.
00:20:25.000It's just perpetual revolution from here on in.
00:20:27.000Because that's essentially what progressives have wanted forever, is this perpetual revolution, which is why you see the woke eating their own, right?
00:20:33.000You see the woke going after the more woke, or the less woke.
00:20:36.000Okay, so what does this poll actually show?
00:21:44.000Not only electing a black president, electing him with an extraordinary margin over a historic war hero the first time, and over a popular Republican Massachusetts governor the second time.
00:22:06.000So if you believe, if a majority of Americans believe the society is racist, how much of that is really believing the society is racist?
00:22:11.000And how much of that is just wishing to dissociate from the society so you can claim moral superiority in the modeling of Shelby Steele?
00:22:20.000I think a lot is the latter, but it doesn't really matter because that number is devastating.
00:22:24.000If a majority of Americans believe American society is racist, the question becomes, okay, what's the corrective?
00:22:29.000Because when people like me say, okay, show me the racist incident or the person who's doing a racist thing and I'll fight it with you, then people say, well, no, you can't ask me for specifics because the society is racist.
00:22:38.000The very vagary of the statement tears at the system, which of course is the goal.
00:22:42.000And as we'll see, when polled about whether the American system is endemically racist, large numbers of Americans think yes, which is disastrous.
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00:24:05.000The poll finds that Americans of all races and age groups share significant concerns about discrimination nearly two months after George Floyd, a black man, was killed in police custody in Minneapolis.
00:24:14.000This is the Wall Street Journal reporting.
00:24:15.000Nearly three-quarters of Americans, 71%, believe that race relations are either very or fairly bad, a 16-point increase since February.
00:24:22.000That's not a great shot considering we've had actual race riots across the United States egged on by the white, woke left.
00:24:28.000I mean, when you see entire major American cities shut down for a week while people riot in the streets, you might think, oh yeah, race relations are getting worse.
00:24:35.000By the way, one of the things that is important to note, race relations in every poll have been getting consistently worse since Barack Obama was elected.
00:24:42.000Well, because there was an optimism when Obama was elected that we were going to move into the post-racial era that MLK had once dreamed of, when people would judge each other on the basis of their individuality rather than the color of their skin.
00:24:53.000Then we were told that we can't do that.
00:24:55.000That if you say that I judge you as an individual and not based on the color of your skin, that is in and of itself racist because you are failing to recognize the most important factor about someone, which is their race.
00:25:05.000Race relations have been getting steadily worse.
00:25:11.000The question of positivity or negativity about race relations, it's been getting worse every year since Barack Obama was elected.
00:25:17.000The height of optimism was literally the week Obama was elected.
00:25:20.000And then, it's been going down ever since.
00:25:23.000In other signs of substantial shifts in views on race, more voters see racial bias as a feature of American society and support protests aimed at addressing it.
00:25:31.000Nearly 60% in the survey said that black people face discrimination.
00:25:34.000Just over half said so of Hispanics, about double the shares from 2008.
00:25:38.000Now, the thing about poll questions is you have to kind of determine what exactly are people perceiving when the question is asked.
00:26:15.000Support has also grown for two of the public responses to concerns about inequality, the Black Lives Matter movement, and professional athletes' practice of kneeling during the national anthem.
00:26:23.000So, in terms of views on racism, percentage who agree that American society is racist, according to this poll, 46% of men agree.
00:26:33.000And these are the women who have been cudgeled into thinking so by the Washington Post so they can write puff pieces about how you're confronting your own racism.
00:26:40.00051% of white Americans say that American society is racist.
00:26:43.000Which, by the way, is pretty incredible, right?
00:26:44.000Half of white Americans say American society is racist.
00:26:46.000So who are the other, like, so who are the racists?
00:26:48.000The people who don't say that American society is racist?
00:26:52.00078% of black Americans say American society is racist.
00:26:55.00060% of Hispanics say American society is racist.
00:26:57.000Now here is the really interesting stat.
00:28:21.000The conflation of those two things is incredibly dangerous.
00:28:24.000Because what do you mean when you say American society is racist?
00:28:26.000You mean its structures and its institutions.
00:28:28.000Namely, you mean its philosophy and its culture and its history.
00:28:31.000All the things that tie the nation together, if you call those racist, you're disintegrating them.
00:28:35.000In its steepest look at race in America in two decades, the journal NBC News Poll shows members of the two parties hold sharply different opinions about the extent of racial discrimination.
00:28:43.000An overwhelming majority of Democrats, 90%, say Black people are discriminated against, whereas 26% of Americans agreed.
00:28:49.000Again, these questions are vaguely worded, and they allow a lot of wiggle room.
00:28:53.000If you say, do Americans' legal systems discriminate against Black Americans?
00:28:58.000That'd be a much more specific question.
00:29:00.00082% of Democrats believe American society is racist.
00:29:06.00057% of voters said they support the protests sparked by Floyd's killing.
00:29:10.00058% said they are more concerned with racial inequality as a result of the demonstrations.
00:29:13.000Because everybody understands that you are sort of supposed to say this.
00:29:16.000I don't understand why you weren't concerned with racial problems before this.
00:29:21.000But apparently people got more concerned in just a few short weeks.
00:29:28.000On specific questions, like kneeling, In August of 2018, 54% of Americans thought that kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial inequality was inappropriate.
00:29:39.000Only 43% of Americans thought it was appropriate.
00:29:41.000By the way, the numbers were even more on behalf of not appropriate before Trump was elected.
00:29:46.000A lot of people took the other side just because they don't like Trump.
00:29:49.000So it used to be like a 60-40 proposition, maybe a 65-35% proposition.
00:29:52.000People didn't like kneeling for the national anthem because they felt like, okay, police brutality does not represent the flag and the flag doesn't represent police brutality.
00:30:25.000There are only two groups of people who actually believe the American flag, in its essence, represents police brutality or defends police brutality.
00:30:33.000Everybody else recognizes that police brutality is acting outside the scope of agency.
00:30:39.000And scope of agency is a legal concept.
00:30:40.000If I deploy you to go get me a pizza as my agent, and then you veer off the road and decide to strike a child with your car, you have acted outside the scope of agency.
00:30:49.000When a policeman acts brutally, that is outside the scope of agency.
00:30:52.000Nobody said to the policeman, go act brutally.
00:30:56.000So the kneeling question has shifted pretty dramatically.
00:31:00.000Furthermore, a majority of black voters in the survey, 65%, this is the key question, said that people of color experience racial discrimination because it is built into American society, including U.S.
00:31:12.000So two in three black Americans believe that racial discrimination is not endemic to human nature, and it's not just a matter of individual sin.
00:31:22.000It is built into the systems, which inherently means you gotta tear down the entire system in order to fight racial discrimination.
00:31:29.000And that is being promulgated by our media.
00:31:31.000It's being promulgated by folks who are attempting to foster racial conflict.
00:31:38.000It is a perspective on American society that is generally oriented at destroying anything that could possibly bind us.
00:31:44.000A plurality of white voters, 48%, attribute racial discrimination to individuals who hold racist views as opposed to institutions and society as a whole.
00:31:52.000Which, by the way, is much more accurate because if you're going to point to it, I've been saying this for years, if you're going to say institutional racism, you have to point to the institution and you have to explain how it is racist.
00:32:00.000And it is not enough to say, well, you know, policing when it first started was about slave catching.
00:32:03.000Fast forward 200 years and it's exactly the same.
00:32:50.000If what we mean is the Black Lives Matter organization is good, no.
00:32:54.000The Black Lives Matter organization is horrible neo-Marxist garbage.
00:32:58.000The Black Lives Matter organization, again, not the protesters, not the phrase, the actual organization, Black Lives Matter, which you can find on the web, I think it's blacklivesmatter.org or something, it's a neo-Marxist garbage organization.
00:33:14.000So the problem with poll questions like this is it's unclear What exactly people are asked to side behind to get an unclear result.
00:33:22.000Three-quarters of voters said they were encouraged the country is addressing long-standing issues of racism in society.
00:33:26.000So, I think this is the hopeful stat here, right, that suggests that maybe the disintegrationists are not going to win, is that it really suggests this stat might be the most telling one of all.
00:33:35.000That three-quarters of voters say they are encouraged the country is addressing these issues, meaning just by us responding to this poll, we're hoping that we can tie the country back together again.
00:33:43.000We've shown we don't like racism, so can we please go back to normal?
00:33:46.000I think that's really what that poll stat is saying.
00:33:49.000At the same time, half said they were concerned that the protests over racial issues are creating social unrest and bringing too much change to the country, including erasing America's history and significant figures in it.
00:33:58.000Which, of course, that should, again, be a 75% proposition, not a 50% proposition.
00:34:03.000What these stats show is that we're living on knife's edge when it comes to the preservation of the factors that allow a society to continue forward in positive fashion.
00:35:11.000Right now you're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:35:22.000So all of this plays out in real life as violence takes place in the streets.
00:35:26.000It is very obvious to see how the disintegrationists really damage the country when you see what is happening in Portland right now.
00:35:33.000So in Portland, you basically have rolling riots that have been occurring for nigh on two months at this point.
00:35:38.000And the local authorities have basically said that because the system, a system of which they are part by the way, because the system is endemically racist and cruel and brutal, they're gonna stand aside and just let this stuff happen.
00:35:48.000So according to CNN, it's classic entrenchment with no end in sight.
00:35:52.000Neither side is backing down as protesters and federal agents continue to periodically clash in downtown Portland, following an infusion of federal resources in the area.
00:35:59.000And the Trump administration persists in seeking political gain from ongoing tensions.
00:36:03.000Very objective journalism-ing happening right there.
00:36:06.000The Trump administration persists in seeking political gain from ongoing tensions.
00:36:09.000How about, Portland has completely refused to enact any semblance of law and order for years at this point, and the federal government is saying, no mas, we are done here, no more.
00:36:19.000According to Aaron, a Portland resident who withheld his full name, we want to get them the F out of our city.
00:36:25.000According to acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, he said, I offered DHS support to help locally address the situation going on in Portland.
00:36:31.000Their only response was, please pack up and go home.
00:36:33.000That's not going to happen on my watch.
00:36:36.000What constitutes the situation Wolf describes is not one mutually accepted by those on different sides of the issue.
00:36:41.000The Trump administration says they are fighting anarchists.
00:36:43.000But protesters here on the ground in Portland tell CNN the president and his team are broad-brushing an entire movement overwhelmingly peaceful despite some periods of violence for purely political reasons.
00:36:51.000I love that when you shut down, rioting and looting, that's political.
00:36:54.000When you riot and loot, that's not political.
00:37:37.000OK, so President Trump is now threatening a crackdown on violent anarchists, as he should, because it turns out that when a city refuses to protect its law abiding citizenry, they fail in their duty to protect the life, liberty and property of their citizenry.
00:37:48.000Here was President Trump yesterday correctly stating that he was not going to allow law and order to completely collapse in a major American city.
00:37:55.000I'm going to do something, that I can tell you, because we're not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore and all of these... Oakland is a mess.
00:38:07.000We're not going to let this happen in our country.
00:39:09.000So in Portland, there was a naked crazy lady who showed up and started doing yoga poses in front of the cops.
00:39:14.000Richard Reed apparently took out the Vaseline and had himself an old time while writing this piece.
00:39:20.000She emerged as an apparition from clouds of tear gas as federal agents fired pepper balls at angry protesters in the early Saturday darkness.
00:39:27.000A woman wearing nothing but a black face mask and a stocking cap strode toward a dozen heavily armed agents, attired in camouflage fatigues, lined up across a downtown Portland street.
00:39:37.000The agents, dispatched by the Trump administration over vociferous objections of state and city officials, are part of a force that has fired projectiles at and detained activists protesting nightly since the killing of George Floyd.
00:39:48.000Numerous photos and videos posted on Twitter show the unidentified woman as she halted in the middle of the street at about 1.45 a.m.
00:39:55.000She stood calmly, a surreal image of human vulnerability in the face of an overwhelming force that has been criticized nationally by civil rights advocates.
00:40:04.000The agents in gas masks and helmets continued firing pepper balls in a staccato.
00:40:08.000Heard on video, aiming low at the asphalt, where puffs of smoke mingled with clouds of gas.
00:40:13.000At one point, a fellow protester, clothed, carried a homemade shield, darted in front of the woman, angling to protect her, but the woman sidestepped him.
00:40:21.000He jumped out of the way, perhaps realizing he made them both a target.
00:40:23.000Before it was over, she struck ballet poses and reclined on the street.
00:40:27.000She also sat on the asphalt in a yoga-like position, facing officers before they left.
00:40:32.000The woman making her statement Saturday was altogether uninhibited, at one point standing on one leg, raising her arms in an archetype motion.
00:40:40.000As she struck ballet poses, a patrol car arrived, and a dozen officers in blue uniforms replaced the line of agents, whom officials described as having been targeted by protesters, throwing rocks, bottles, and pieces of metal.
00:40:49.000Oh, well, that's kind of why they're there, not the naked lady.
00:40:52.000She sat in the street facing them, legs spread, and the headlights glare.
00:40:57.000Calm down, Richard Reid of the LA Times.
00:41:00.000Later, she rolled on her back in a graceful pose, then stood again.
00:41:04.000Images of her on social media harked back to a previous iconic, but clothed images juxtaposing force and vulnerability.
00:41:10.000Nudity has served as a form of protest since at least the 11th century, when legend holds that Lady Godiva rode naked, veiled only by her long hair, on a horse through Coventry, England, to protest oppressive taxation.
00:41:21.000On Twitter, sympathetic commentators were quick to conclude that naked Athena, as they dubbed the Portland protester, caused the officer to turn tail.
00:41:29.000Others on Twitter said the performance by a white woman distracted from protests of injustices faced by black people, which is hilarious.
00:41:36.000OK, I do love that the woke are even like, this naked lady needs to go because she's white.
00:42:47.000There's an entire column by the idiot Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times, suggesting, quote, Trump's occupation of American cities has begun.
00:42:54.000You know, as opposed to the occupation by unlawful forces that have completely shut down major American cities for weeks on end, sending in the federal law enforcement to arrest people.
00:43:15.000Felony arrests in public places do not require a warrant according to Supreme Court law.
00:43:21.000They do not... Felony arrests in places not open to the public require a warrant.
00:43:25.000But if you're walking around the park and you're committing a felony, or there's suspicion you're committing a felony, you can be arrested.
00:43:29.000They don't need a warrant to arrest you on site.
00:43:31.000Yeah, but apparently this is very bad.
00:43:32.000Anyway, here's James Clyburn suggesting that Americans, American soldiers, right?
00:43:36.000Federal law enforcement, members of the DHS are the Gestapo.
00:43:41.000I find this rather insulting to people who actually survived the Gestapo.
00:43:46.000For all of a sudden, these people that go in there, nothing from the governor, nothing from local law enforcement, just show up with their faces covered in unmarked cars.
00:43:59.000That is the beginning of the ending of this democracy.
00:44:04.000That kind of activity is the activity of a police state.
00:44:09.000And this president and this attorney general seem to be doing everything they possibly can to impose Gestapo activities in local communities.
00:44:21.000James Clyburn should know better than anybody alive what actual Gestapo tactics look like.
00:44:25.000This is a man old enough to have lived through Jim Crow and experienced it.
00:44:42.000If you stand up against the burning of federal buildings, if you stand up against the lawlessness running rampant through America's cities, you're just defending the system.
00:44:49.000And if people have to pay, innocent people have to pay because the system collapses, them's the brakes.
00:45:00.000Which is why, of course, the media will go after, they'll be very, very upset about the vandalism committed by an anti-Black Lives Matter protesters, a black woman who went to the giant painting mural Black Lives Matter in front of Fifth Avenue a couple days ago.
00:45:14.000And she started pouring black paint on there and shouting that black lives do matter, which is why we need to refund the police.
00:45:25.000We leave that alone if we're disintegrationists.
00:45:27.000This lady is obviously doing something deeply wrong by defacing the holy yellow painting outside of the 5th Avenue Trump Tower, even though it has done nothing to save black lives.
00:46:09.000They lived in a private gated community.
00:46:11.000Protesters, who become rioters the moment you break the law, they ripped doors off the hinges of the private gated community because they wanted to yell at the mayor.
00:46:18.000And they walked through and apparently were threatening this guy and his wife and their property.
00:46:22.000The guy and his wife walked out carrying guns.
00:46:24.000Now they are being charged with fourth degree misdemeanor assault.
00:46:28.000As well as felony unlawful use of a weapon, according to the St.
00:46:33.000Mark and Patricia McCloskey each are now facing a single felony count of unlawful use of a weapon, exhibiting.
00:46:39.000Charging documents say that Mark pointed an AR-15 rifle at protesters and she wielded a semi-automatic handgun, placing those protesters in fear of injury.
00:46:47.000There is a Castle Doctrine in Missouri.
00:46:49.000Okay, there's a Castle Doctrine in Missouri, and that Castle Doctrine in Missouri means you get to defend your private property.
00:46:57.000Mark McCloskey appeared on Tucker Carlson's show last night and here's what he had to say for himself.
00:47:03.000The people that broke into my neighborhood, they're all trespassing.
00:47:06.000The guy that recruited it, that planned this event, said the next day that he intended to break the law, that he needed to break laws in order to send his message.
00:47:20.000The prosecutor, the circuit attorney, has apparently decided that her job as a prosecutor isn't to keep us safe from criminals, but to keep the criminals safe from us.
00:47:36.000I mean, this has gotten to be outrageous.
00:47:39.000McCloskey pointed out that one person pulled out loaded pistol magazines, clicked them together and said, you're next.
00:47:44.000He said, we were threatened with our lives, threatened with the house being burned down, my office building being burned down, our dog's life being threatened.
00:48:19.000Because if we believe the opposite, then the system will indeed collapse, and what replaces it is going to be something not quite as nice as the most powerful, free, and prosperous nation in the history of the world.
00:48:29.000Well, we'll be back here later today with a couple of additional hours of content.
00:48:32.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
00:48:34.000In the meantime, go pick up a copy of my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, and go over to dailywire.com, slash Ben, pick up a signed copy and watch our live stream today when I do a live book signing.
00:48:43.000Maybe you will have your questions answered.
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