The Ben Shapiro Show - June 01, 2020


Rioters And Looters Are Evil | Ep. 1021

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Rioters, looters, Antifa, and looters have been rioting across the U.S. since the death of a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri on Friday night. Ben Shapiro says that looters should be arrested, and the police should be punished for allowing law-abiding citizens to be roughed up by looters and rioters. He also says that America is racist at every level, and that America must be remade from the bottom to top and top-to-bottom. And he calls for an apology from America for its own racism and racism in its response to the events in Ferguson and the reaction to the deaths of the police officer who responded in selflessly to a black man being shot and killed by a looter and looter's attempt to take down the Lincoln Memorial and the National Statues of the United States and the Washington, D.C. Memorial, as well as the memorial to slain police officer, George "Tipsy" Floyd, deserve to be punished, he says. This episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Don't like the government spying on you? Well, visit ExpressVPN to stay anonymous. To stay anonymous, visit expressvpn.me/StayAlone and use the anonymous to avoid being spied on, and stay anonymous! This show is not a free country, it's not. . It's not a place where you should be allowed to do what they want to do in America, and it's a place you should not be doing it, and you should do it in a safe and secure place where they will be able to do it safely and legally, not in a secure, secure place. If you don't want to be spied upon, then stay anonymous? Stay anonymous, not here, stay anonymous so you won't get snooped on, not like everyone knows who you can do it and you won t have access to access to all sorts of information, and your privacy will be protected you'll be helping the government do their job better than everyone else does it better than they can do their jobs better than you do it better, and they won't have a better chance of doing their job, right here in the most efficient way possible, they'll get a chance to do their best to do the most of their best, not only that, they're not going to know who they're going to get the most effective way.

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00:00:00.000 Cities across America force law-abiding citizens into curfew as rioters and looters burn and smash, protesters watch their cause undermined by violent hangers-on, and Democrats in the media keep feeding the flames.
00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:11.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:00:24.000 So, I leave for three days and burn down the country.
00:00:26.000 That's how this works.
00:00:27.000 I mean, I had a Jewish holiday on Friday and then a Jewish holiday on Saturday.
00:00:31.000 And I come back on Saturday night and half the country is in flames.
00:00:35.000 And let me just make this clear right at the very top. 1.00
00:00:38.000 If you're a rioter, if you're a looter, you're a human scum. 1.00
00:00:41.000 You're doing nothing positive for society. 1.00
00:00:43.000 What you're acting on is not quote-unquote justified anger. 1.00
00:00:46.000 You're a piece of crap. 1.00
00:00:47.000 You're a piece of crap! 1.00
00:00:47.000 And you should be arrested. 1.00
00:00:48.000 You should be prosecuted.
00:00:49.000 Business owners should defend their businesses. 0.93
00:00:51.000 This is sheer, unbelievable garbage and the failure of government to perform its single function, which is to protect the law-abiding. 0.78
00:00:58.000 That failure of government is catastrophic. 0.98
00:01:00.000 I'm talking from local governments to state governments to the federal government.
00:01:03.000 The lack of ability of the government to do the one thing it is supposed to do, right?
00:01:07.000 This government that's supposed to provide you everything that you could possibly need, provide you privileges from the top.
00:01:11.000 Instead, it can't even protect you in your own cities.
00:01:14.000 This government.
00:01:17.000 The government is designed to protect life and liberty.
00:01:19.000 In the case of George Floyd, they did neither.
00:01:21.000 And then they allowed rioters to run roughshod throughout the country.
00:01:25.000 We had most every major American city last night under curfew.
00:01:30.000 L.A.
00:01:30.000 County, which has 10 million people, went into curfew yesterday at 6 o'clock p.m.
00:01:34.000 Santa Monica went into curfew at 4 o'clock p.m.
00:01:37.000 This is not a free country.
00:01:38.000 So I have some good news.
00:01:39.000 Here's the good news.
00:01:40.000 Apparently COVID-19 is over.
00:01:42.000 Apparently it's over because what I saw over the weekend And Saturday night and Sunday, what I saw was tens of thousands of people in the streets and nobody giving a good gosh darn because bottom line is they were doing something that the media agreed with.
00:01:55.000 And so there are three things that we need to talk about today.
00:01:58.000 One is the legitimate cause of fighting police brutality.
00:02:02.000 The second is the illegitimate argument that America is endemically racist, systematically racist, racist at every level, and that America must apologize for its very being, that America must be remade from bottom to top and top to bottom.
00:02:16.000 And then there's the third argument that some are making, which is that people who riot and loot are somehow an outgrowth of justified anger.
00:02:23.000 That somehow going and smashing a store window makes you some sort of hero in this society. 0.97
00:02:28.000 It's bulls**t. It's bulls**t. If you are a rioter, if you are a looter, you ought to be captured, you ought to be arrested, you ought to be prosecuted. 0.97
00:02:38.000 This is not the behavior of a civilized country. 0.99
00:02:41.000 It is not.
00:02:42.000 And don't tell me that the behavior of the police officer in George Floyd's situation was unsymbolized.
00:02:46.000 I agree.
00:02:47.000 We all agree.
00:02:48.000 We're all on the same page.
00:02:49.000 That guy's in jail.
00:02:50.000 He's going to remain in jail.
00:02:52.000 He should be in jail.
00:02:54.000 The only question is, on what charge?
00:02:56.000 What does the evidence support?
00:02:57.000 No one disagrees on this.
00:02:59.000 And if you say people weren't acting in civilized fashion with Ahmaud Arbery, I agree.
00:03:04.000 Those guys are in jail.
00:03:05.000 They belong in jail.
00:03:07.000 Everyone agrees on this.
00:03:09.000 But using this as an excuse to destroy the Lincoln Memorial, to go and tag the World War II Memorial, to beat business owners outside their business?
00:03:20.000 And to do it on the basis of race.
00:03:22.000 Have you seen some of the signs that have been put up in these cities?
00:03:24.000 People attempting to put up Black Lives Matter signs in their windows to dissuade rioters from breaking their windows.
00:03:30.000 I don't think most of this is Black Lives Matter, by the way.
00:03:32.000 I think Black Lives Matter is a cause with which some of its points I disagree.
00:03:36.000 I think that they make an overwrought case as to the nature of America itself, which is the second argument we're going to talk about today.
00:03:43.000 But the people who are mostly smashing windows are folks from Antifa, And people who are vile hangers-on who are attempting to grab a TV.
00:03:52.000 You're not honoring George Floyd's memory or doing anything good for America or fighting police brutality by stealing a TV. 1.00
00:03:58.000 You're just a piece of shit. 1.00
00:04:00.000 If you are stealing a TV, you are on the back of the killing of an innocent black man. 1.00
00:04:05.000 You're a bad person, red, white, or green. 1.00
00:04:09.000 This is insane. 0.97
00:04:10.000 And for all the people in the media who are saying, well, you can't pay attention to this, you're paying attention to this, you're not paying attention to all the other bad stuff that's happening in the country.
00:04:16.000 I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:04:18.000 Not only that, we spent an entire episode on Ahmaud Arbery.
00:04:21.000 We spent entire episodes talking about George Floyd.
00:04:24.000 Everyone, again, agrees on this stuff.
00:04:26.000 The attempt to polarize America around the question of whether rioting and looting is a justified uprising.
00:04:32.000 I'm seeing language of uprising.
00:04:33.000 That's not an uprising.
00:04:35.000 That's not an uprising.
00:04:36.000 What are you rising up against?
00:04:37.000 Target?
00:04:38.000 Is Target the great oppressor?
00:04:40.000 And yes, I'm angry because you've shut millions of Americans in their homes.
00:04:44.000 Tens of millions of Americans you have shut in their homes.
00:04:48.000 Law-abiding Americans.
00:04:49.000 And you're burning down businesses.
00:04:51.000 And you're breaking store windows.
00:04:52.000 And you're hurting people who are disproportionately minority, by the way. 0.97
00:04:55.000 You're really hitting shops in most of these cities that are owned by black people. 0.95
00:05:00.000 Owned by Hispanic people. 0.93
00:05:01.000 Owned by Asian people. 1.00
00:05:03.000 And somehow this is being treated by celebrities as justified?
00:05:07.000 Okay, so we're gonna get to the news in just one second, but I just thought that I'd put that up front.
00:05:10.000 That if you're defending this, if you're defending this behavior, you are part of the problem.
00:05:14.000 And I think there are some Democrats today, thank God, who are coming out and not defending this.
00:05:18.000 I think that there are a lot of black leaders who are coming out today and not defending this, nor should they defend this, because no leader of any race should defend any of this, because this isn't a black-white issue.
00:05:26.000 This is just, this is not a race issue.
00:05:27.000 Looting is not a race issue, and police brutality should not be a race issue.
00:05:31.000 It's just a human decency issue.
00:05:33.000 These are all human decency issues.
00:05:35.000 And it breaks my heart for my country that the human decency that we should all be united around seems to have been thrown out the window completely.
00:05:43.000 To the point where people are defending rioters and looters because America is bad.
00:05:46.000 Or people are suggesting that Americans don't care, by and large, when a white police officer puts his knee on the neck of a black man for eight minutes.
00:05:55.000 Who are the people who don't care about this stuff?
00:05:56.000 Who?
00:05:58.000 And we're going to get to the actual news in just one second.
00:06:01.000 But if you woke up not angry this morning, then it's because you haven't been watching the news.
00:06:06.000 And it is justified anger to ask why in the hell, living in the freest, most prosperous country in the history of mankind, we had 50 million citizens last night who were confined to quarters, not on the basis of a virus for their own protection, but on the basis of people running roughshod through the streets and throwing Molotov cocktails at cop cars.
00:06:27.000 Nuttiness.
00:06:29.000 And by the way, where's President Trump? 0.99
00:06:31.000 President Trump needs to get his ass in gear, okay? 0.99
00:06:34.000 These tweets are not sufficient. 0.99
00:06:36.000 These are not sufficient.
00:06:37.000 He needs to be on TV tonight, and President Trump needs to be telling people that whatever your cause, we value the First Amendment in this country.
00:06:44.000 We do not value violence.
00:06:45.000 Not only do we not value violence, we are going to make the full weight and power of the federal government available to any mayor or governor who calls for its help.
00:06:54.000 All resources will be used to stomp this sort of violence out.
00:06:58.000 None of this is good for the country.
00:06:59.000 None of this is decent for the country.
00:07:00.000 None of this affects change.
00:07:02.000 In fact, it affects precisely the reverse of a lot of the kind of change that some of the protesters are protesting for.
00:07:08.000 This is madness.
00:07:09.000 It's just madness.
00:07:11.000 Okay.
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00:08:57.000 So, what exactly is happening in the here and now?
00:08:59.000 Now, according to the Washington Post, pockets of the United States descended into Chaos Sunday as another day of mass demonstrations over the death of yet another black man in police custody led to another night of fire and fury.
00:09:09.000 Even the way this is phrased by the Washington Post demonstrates their take on what America is.
00:09:13.000 The death of yet another black man in police custody.
00:09:16.000 Yet another. 0.72
00:09:16.000 OK, yes, there have been more than one black people, more than one black person has died in police custody. 0.72
00:09:22.000 But the implication of the Washington Post, of course, is that there is a widespread systematic brutality put upon black Americans across America by nearly every police department.
00:09:33.000 And that is just not true.
00:09:35.000 It is not statistically true.
00:09:36.000 That does not mean there are not racists in police departments.
00:09:38.000 It does not mean that there is not police brutality, which is effectuated against populations in which police officers come into contact with populations.
00:09:46.000 Police brutality can be affected against black people, against Latino people, against white people.
00:09:51.000 I mean, the cases of police brutality are too numerous to mention, and usually it's a problem of training and a problem of who are you recruiting to the police forces.
00:09:58.000 But the Washington Post's implication here is that, of course, all of policing across America is endemically racist because America has not changed from 1960 and onward.
00:10:06.000 Jim Crow lives on today.
00:10:08.000 We'll see this is the argument being made by actual columnists over at the New York Times.
00:10:11.000 Protests that began peacefully exploded into mayhem as windows were smashed, stores were looted, buildings were vandalized, and police vehicles were torched.
00:10:17.000 The unrest spread from Chicago, Atlanta, and Boston to Sacramento, Seattle, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
00:10:22.000 As protesters and police clashed outside the White House for a third consecutive night, President Trump tweeted a call for law and order.
00:10:28.000 And the tweets ain't gonna be sufficient.
00:10:29.000 Mr. President, get on TV.
00:10:32.000 Tell America what you are going to do to stop this violence.
00:10:35.000 Tell America what you are going to do to reestablish some semblance of civilization, because this is madness.
00:10:41.000 In some cities, law enforcement officers were seen marching and kneeling with protesters.
00:10:43.000 Elsewhere, police and riot care continued to increase their use of force, which added to the disorder.
00:10:47.000 Early Monday, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear ordered a state investigation after a man was fatally shot during an overnight confrontation with Louisville police and the National Guard.
00:10:54.000 More than half of the nation's governors have called on the National Guard to help quell the unrest.
00:10:58.000 Meanwhile, at least 45 million Americans were under curfew Sunday night.
00:11:02.000 Many cities have extended their overnight restrictions.
00:11:04.000 By the way, I will point out here that the lockdowns from COVID-19 have absolutely not helped the situation here.
00:11:10.000 When you put 40 million Americans out of work, and most of them are disproportionately young, and they have nothing to do on a Sunday afternoon or a Saturday night or a Friday, they're going to get much larger protests.
00:11:19.000 And that's not to call into question their passion for these issues.
00:11:23.000 That is to suggest that when people have jobs, they sometimes have to go to those jobs as opposed to being out on the streets protesting and violating all of the COVID-19 restrictions in the first place.
00:11:31.000 Weird how everybody who's deeply worried about Anti-lockdown protesters not wearing masks and socially distancing doesn't give two craps about people who are in the streets 20,000 strong as long as they're protesting for a cause the members of the media agree with.
00:11:43.000 A number of major retailers including Walmart, Target, and Apple have temporarily closed their stores in some areas rocked by upheaval.
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00:12:00.000 Fighting back by local government against the rioting and against the looting.
00:12:04.000 You want to want to reason why grocery stores and CVSs are not opening up in low-income areas?
00:12:08.000 In some cases, they're not doing it because they're afraid that it comes with increased costs.
00:12:12.000 This would be a good example of why a Walmart is not going to open in an area where it was looted two years ago.
00:12:19.000 More than 4,000 people were arrested in U.S.
00:12:21.000 cities over the weekend, according to the Associated Press.
00:12:23.000 New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter Chiara was among the hundreds of people arrested in the city after failing to disperse law enforcement sources, told the Washington Post.
00:12:30.000 People have been told for years that America is deeply evil on every level, that every anecdotal incident of bad behavior is both racist and indicative of America's broader racism, and thus any measure you take against the American superstructure is therefore okay.
00:12:48.000 Some conservative commentators are urging the president to address the nation.
00:12:51.000 Yes, that would be me.
00:12:52.000 He's the president of the United States and hiding behind Twitter ain't gonna do it.
00:12:55.000 It isn't.
00:12:56.000 He has a job.
00:12:57.000 This is where being president would actually be a useful thing.
00:13:00.000 Okay, so what did all of this look like?
00:13:02.000 Well, it looked horrible.
00:13:03.000 So there were riots at the White House last night.
00:13:05.000 Apparently 50 Secret Service agents were harmed in these riots at the White House last night.
00:13:09.000 Here's a little bit of what that looked like.
00:13:12.000 You can actually see it.
00:13:13.000 I mean, there were big protests at the White House.
00:13:16.000 People were starting to push.
00:13:18.000 I have a question.
00:13:20.000 The Secret Service officers, people were grabbing the officer's shields.
00:13:23.000 Over the weekend, it got so bad, the president was put in the bunker.
00:13:27.000 People on Twitter are like, oh, what a weak link.
00:13:29.000 The president goes to the bunker.
00:13:29.000 Right, he's the president.
00:13:30.000 It's literally the job of Secret Service to keep him safe.
00:13:32.000 I have a question.
00:13:34.000 What does President Trump have to do with a Minneapolis police officer putting his knee on the neck of a black suspect in a Democratic city that has been ruled by Democrats for 50 years?
00:13:47.000 But again, this is going to be turned into a question of America writ large.
00:13:51.000 As I've said, there are a bunch of issues here.
00:13:53.000 Okay, issue number one, we should all agree on, rioters and looters, as we will see.
00:13:58.000 Evil.
00:13:58.000 Evil, evil, evil.
00:13:59.000 Okay, second, protesters.
00:14:02.000 Many of them are angry for good reason about police brutality.
00:14:05.000 Some are angry for bad reasons, suggesting that all of America is indicated in police brutality or that all police forces across America are racist.
00:14:12.000 But they're exercising the First Amendment rights, not even close to in the same category with the rioters and the looters.
00:14:17.000 And then there is the other question here, which is the George Floyd case.
00:14:22.000 But the George Floyd case has been left far behind.
00:14:25.000 The fact is that most of the protesters are moving far beyond the facts of the George Floyd case, and certainly all the rioters and looters don't give two craps about George Floyd.
00:14:32.000 If you are breaking a store window on behalf of George Floyd, let me just tell you, George Floyd's family doesn't appreciate it.
00:14:36.000 You know who said that?
00:14:37.000 George Floyd's family.
00:14:38.000 We'll get to all this in just one second.
00:14:40.000 First, let's talk about the fact that with the economy reopening, hey guys, COVID-19 is over.
00:14:43.000 We got 20,000 people in the streets.
00:14:45.000 With the economy reopening, people are going to need to be hiring.
00:14:48.000 In fact, we have a great story out of Italy today that perhaps coronavirus, we'll get to this a little bit later in the program, perhaps coronavirus is actually losing a lot of its efficacy.
00:14:56.000 It may have lost its strength, which would be amazing and great news for America and for the world.
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00:15:56.000 Okay, so over the weekend, the Minneapolis government, you want to talk about failures of government?
00:16:04.000 The Minneapolis mayor withdrew the police from a precinct.
00:16:08.000 Withdrew them.
00:16:09.000 And protesters, rioters, okay?
00:16:11.000 I'm going to make a real hard distinction here.
00:16:13.000 Rioters promptly burned the place to the ground.
00:16:15.000 They promptly set it on fire and burned it.
00:16:17.000 Here's a little bit of the news coverage.
00:16:19.000 This is a look from above and on the ground of the police station burning overnight out of control.
00:16:25.000 This was the very police precinct where the four officers involved in the death of 46-year-old George Floyd worked.
00:16:32.000 Look at overnight there.
00:16:33.000 Protesters set off fireworks outside.
00:16:36.000 Rioters even got inside the police station.
00:16:38.000 All staff had been evacuated earlier as the protests began.
00:16:44.000 Meanwhile, police cars were being burned across the country.
00:16:47.000 They were burned in Los Angeles.
00:16:48.000 They were burned in Cleveland.
00:16:49.000 They were burned in Columbia.
00:16:51.000 People just setting police cars on fire as though this is somehow normal.
00:16:55.000 This is not normal.
00:16:56.000 These are images from a third world country.
00:16:58.000 These are not images typically from the United States, at least not since 1968.
00:17:01.000 The last time I saw anything like this, I was eight years old and it was the Los Angeles riots.
00:17:06.000 This is full scale insanity.
00:17:08.000 Here's some of that footage.
00:17:09.000 Now I think one of the cars is burning in the background as they're really becoming aggressive and moving people back.
00:17:17.000 And we do have a vehicle fire here.
00:17:19.000 Yeah, we can see in an area shot.
00:17:21.000 The police have been told that they are supposed to allow people to do this.
00:17:25.000 That is how this happens.
00:17:26.000 The police have been told by the mayor that they are supposed to allow people to do this.
00:17:31.000 In the middle of Los Angeles.
00:17:32.000 I mean, this is downtown LA and you're seeing cars burning on the sidewalk.
00:17:36.000 Police cars being set on fire.
00:17:39.000 Okay, this is a failure of local governance on the highest level.
00:17:43.000 On the highest level. 0.85
00:17:44.000 I know you're not a damned hero if you set a police car on fire. 0.95
00:17:47.000 You know what you're gonna need? 0.95
00:17:49.000 It turns out, most people, they need the police.
00:17:51.000 You know who's calling the police when a crime gets committed?
00:17:53.000 Everyone.
00:17:54.000 Black, white, and green.
00:17:55.000 You're all calling the police.
00:17:56.000 Hey, targets were being burned across the country.
00:17:59.000 Targets were being attacked across the country.
00:18:01.000 People were breaking into Target and breaking open the ATM.
00:18:03.000 Well, that ATM ain't gonna be involved in systematic racism anymore.
00:18:07.000 Good job, everybody.
00:18:08.000 You solved racism.
00:18:09.000 You broke into an ATM.
00:18:10.000 You looted the bras off the store shelves at Target.
00:18:13.000 Well done, everyone.
00:18:14.000 Wow.
00:18:15.000 Fighting the power.
00:18:16.000 You fought the power.
00:18:17.000 I have a feeling this has nothing to do with George Floyd.
00:18:20.000 Nothing.
00:18:20.000 I have a feeling this has nothing to do with police brutality.
00:18:23.000 And you can tell.
00:18:23.000 You see the anarchist symbol on the window there.
00:18:25.000 Right, that would be the Antifa.
00:18:27.000 That'd be Antifa putting those up.
00:18:28.000 There are people in the media pretending Antifa doesn't exist.
00:18:31.000 They absolutely exist.
00:18:33.000 Just because they're not top-down coordinated does not mean they don't exist.
00:18:36.000 But here are people, well, gotta grab a pair of gym shoes for George Floyd, guys.
00:18:40.000 Really, really important stuff.
00:18:41.000 You want to talk about undermining the cause of fighting police brutality?
00:18:44.000 This would be the one.
00:18:46.000 This would be the one.
00:18:48.000 Target has to be taken down.
00:18:50.000 Meanwhile, you had protesters chanting, eat the rich, as they were trying to loot Rodeo Drive yesterday.
00:18:55.000 Wow.
00:18:56.000 You're making America a better place, one smashed window at a time.
00:19:00.000 Clearly, you've made your voices heard.
00:19:03.000 Good job, guys.
00:19:03.000 You're protesters screaming, eat the rich, on Rodeo Drive.
00:19:08.000 Eat the rich! 0.95
00:19:12.000 By the way, disproportionately white crowd here screaming, eat the rich. 0.92
00:19:17.000 What the hell does Rodeo Drive have to do with George Floyd? 0.77
00:19:22.000 Is there a police station there?
00:19:24.000 What the hell do nice shops have to do with George Floyd?
00:19:28.000 The idea that the police are protectors of the systematic hierarchy is the bottom line here.
00:19:33.000 That is what is actually prevailing.
00:19:34.000 And that gets you from the looting and the rioting to the actual argument that's being made, which is that it's the same system that kills George Floyd that is responsible for Rodeo Drive, right?
00:19:43.000 That's the underlying message that is being put forward.
00:19:45.000 We're going to get to that in just one second.
00:19:47.000 All of this is just the property damage, by the way.
00:19:48.000 And by the way, I don't want to hear from people declaring themselves moral.
00:19:51.000 I saw Sally Cullen do this.
00:19:53.000 Well, all these places have insurance.
00:19:56.000 Okay.
00:19:57.000 Really?
00:19:59.000 Last I checked, stealing people's stuff is evil.
00:20:03.000 Theft is evil.
00:20:04.000 Breaking into someone's store is evil.
00:20:07.000 And the fact that there's an insurance company that they pay money out of their own pocket to insure against this sort of stuff does not alleviate the evil.
00:20:14.000 There was looting over at the Grove last night.
00:20:17.000 The Grove is a very nice sort of public-private project in the middle of Los Angeles in the Fairfax District.
00:20:23.000 People burned down the police.
00:20:25.000 They have like a tiny little police hut there, basically.
00:20:28.000 They broke into the Apple Store.
00:20:29.000 They broke into the Nordstrom over there.
00:20:31.000 All this for George Floyd.
00:20:32.000 Well done, everyone.
00:20:33.000 Just really well done.
00:20:34.000 Again, I keep saying it over and over, but if you're the protesters and you're not pissed at the rioters today, you're doing this wrong.
00:20:40.000 Because guess who's losing sympathy for the protests?
00:20:43.000 Everybody who's watching the rioting and watching the two conflated.
00:20:47.000 The smart protesters know this, by the way.
00:20:49.000 Here was some looting at the Grove yesterday.
00:20:50.000 People just breaking right into that Apple store, grabbing yourself an iPad for George Floyd. - Really important stuff.
00:21:05.000 Stealing an iPhone for George Floyd.
00:21:08.000 Everybody just having themselves a grand old time.
00:21:12.000 Stealing stuff from Nordstrom's.
00:21:14.000 And people just, by the way, law enforcement just sitting there and allowing this to happen, right?
00:21:23.000 You can actually see security there and law enforcement doing nothing because they've been told that they're not supposed to do anything by these feckless mayors.
00:21:29.000 If you're a citizen of these cities and you pay taxes in these cities, what the hell are you paying taxes for when people who are overtly committing crimes are being allowed to run around freely and break windows and do this kind of stuff?
00:21:41.000 Historic buildings.
00:21:42.000 Somebody attempted to burn down St.
00:21:43.000 John's Church at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.
00:21:46.000 last night.
00:21:47.000 That is a church where Abraham Lincoln prayed.
00:21:50.000 These images are not images from the United States.
00:21:52.000 They're not.
00:21:52.000 This is insane.
00:21:54.000 John's church is on fire.
00:21:56.000 The parish office.
00:21:57.000 We went downstairs and it is on fire.
00:21:59.000 I'm going to walk this way.
00:22:04.000 This is awful.
00:22:06.000 We saw graffiti.
00:22:07.000 Once the door was broken, we saw something similar happen earlier.
00:22:11.000 And as you can see, there's definitely a fire here.
00:22:13.000 This is the parish office.
00:22:15.000 Here, come on back. 0.89
00:22:16.000 Come on back.
00:22:17.000 Come on back up.
00:22:18.000 That's good.
00:22:19.000 By the way, it was not just property damage.
00:22:21.000 We're going to get to the actual violent attacks on human beings.
00:22:24.000 Again, I'm all for let's fight instances of police brutality, change police procedures, hire better people.
00:22:29.000 I'm just wondering how it's not a national story when people are being beaten in the streets on a nationwide scale for standing outside their businesses.
00:22:37.000 I'm just wondering.
00:22:38.000 I'm just wondering why it is that if you mention on Twitter that this stuff is happening, it's, oh, well, you don't care about George Floyd.
00:22:42.000 How about I care about George Floyd being killed? 0.99
00:22:44.000 And I also care about the fact that 45 million Americans were confined to quarters last night because pieces of shit were running around beating people up on the streets of the United States. 1.00
00:22:54.000 How can I not care? 1.00
00:22:55.000 Like, what?
00:22:56.000 Again, basic human decency suggests that you should care about all of these things.
00:23:00.000 But apparently basic human decency is too much to ask these days.
00:23:03.000 Because if you point to one issue, this means that you're ignoring the other.
00:23:07.000 Absolute insanity.
00:23:09.000 And we're gonna get to more of this in just one second.
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00:24:26.000 So it wasn't just property damage, obviously.
00:24:28.000 Although, like, I'm very tired of this nonsense that property damage doesn't mean anything.
00:24:32.000 There was a black bartender, black firefighter, who watched his bar that he was just about to get open. 0.97
00:24:38.000 Burn down over the weekend. 0.91
00:24:40.000 You think maybe that matters?
00:24:41.000 I talked to a small restaurant owner here in the area where I live.
00:24:45.000 It's a kosher restaurant.
00:24:47.000 And this lady and her husband put their life savings into this restaurant. 1.00
00:24:50.000 And it was doing real well up until COVID-19.
00:24:52.000 And then COVID-19 happened, and they've maintained their business.
00:24:54.000 They've been able to stay alive through takeout.
00:24:56.000 Yesterday, They're located on Ventura Boulevard.
00:24:59.000 Ventura Boulevard is like the big boulevard in the North Hollywood, Encino, Tarzana area.
00:25:05.000 Yesterday, they were told by the police that rioters might come down their streets and they should go buy some plywood.
00:25:11.000 They should go buy some plywood and plywood up their windows.
00:25:14.000 This is just to pretend that this stuff doesn't matter, that property doesn't matter, private property doesn't matter.
00:25:21.000 If private property doesn't matter to you, again, that's because you don't care about other people.
00:25:26.000 You don't care about other people's rights.
00:25:27.000 Because it turns out we do have a right to life, liberty, and property.
00:25:29.000 We have rights to these things in the United States.
00:25:31.000 And government was instituted to protect these things.
00:25:32.000 And if government can't protect them, then people are going to start defending them themselves.
00:25:35.000 And it's going to get really, really ugly out there. 0.94
00:25:37.000 So government better get its ass on top of these things. 0.94
00:25:40.000 It better do it right now. 0.97
00:25:41.000 And then there was the violence.
00:25:42.000 To pretend that this was just violence against property is not true.
00:25:45.000 I saw the Minneapolis mayor saying, well, brick and mortar is not the same as human life.
00:25:48.000 You know what else is kind of important?
00:25:50.000 Human life.
00:25:51.000 Hey, in Rochester, New York, thugs attacked a business owner in Rochester, New York.
00:25:55.000 And there's no other word for it.
00:25:56.000 That is not a racially tinged term. 0.97
00:25:58.000 If you hit an elderly woman, you're a thug. 0.98
00:26:01.000 I don't care what race you are. 1.00
00:26:03.000 Okay, there's an elderly woman standing outside her business. 1.00
00:26:05.000 People were yelling at her.
00:26:07.000 And then apparently her husband kind of shows up.
00:26:09.000 And one of these rioters, one of these looters who wants to loot the business.
00:26:13.000 First, you can see him taking a piece of wood and breaking it on the storefront.
00:26:17.000 Doing all this for George Floyd, presumably.
00:26:20.000 Okay, they start to walk away, the husband apparently comes out, and you can see, one of these guys, this lady looks, what, maybe 55, 60 years old?
00:26:30.000 I think 60.
00:26:30.000 Okay, and one of these guys is gonna turn around and just clock her directly in the face.
00:26:37.000 Okay? 1.00
00:26:40.000 Disgusting. 1.00
00:26:41.000 Disgusting. 1.00
00:26:41.000 These guys should go to jail for life. 1.00
00:26:43.000 I mean, that's just, like, they should go to jail.
00:26:46.000 This is...
00:26:48.000 I mean, this is so hard to watch.
00:26:51.000 A man was beaten unconscious in Dallas, nearly killed in Dallas.
00:26:54.000 He was in serious condition in the hospital.
00:26:55.000 Apparently, he was defending his store with a sword, and he was overrun by a mob, and they were just curb stomping him.
00:27:02.000 He was on the ground, and they were just kicking him directly in the head.
00:27:04.000 A full crowd of people.
00:27:05.000 Does that have anything to do with the cause? 1.00
00:27:09.000 Or are these just people who are pieces of shit? 1.00
00:27:15.000 There's another guy who's brutalized. 1.00
00:27:16.000 These people are no less pieces of than the officer who puts his knee on the neck of a man and keeps it there for eight minutes.
00:27:23.000 It's the same sort of activity.
00:27:26.000 There was a man yesterday.
00:27:28.000 He was apparently trying to defend an American flag.
00:27:30.000 He was chased down.
00:27:31.000 He was punched in the back of the head, and now he's being kicked. 0.83
00:27:33.000 By the way, these are white guys who are doing this. 0.98
00:27:35.000 Literally kicked in the face. 0.96
00:27:37.000 So there are presumably some Antifa members kicking this guy in the face as he is down.
00:27:41.000 The NYPD over the weekend was being hit with Molotov cocktails.
00:27:46.000 And then when they are having bricks and rocks and bottles filled with, apparently it came out today, that members of Antifa have been stashing bottles filled with gasoline around the cities.
00:27:58.000 That is not something that the protesters are doing.
00:28:00.000 Notice, I'm making a hard distinction between the protesters and the rioters and looters.
00:28:03.000 They are not the same group of people.
00:28:05.000 But the media are fully conflating the two in order to justify the rioting and the looting.
00:28:09.000 They are doing no service to the actual cause that people are marching for, whatever disagreements I may have with some of the implications of that cause.
00:28:17.000 Okay, so the NYPD was hitting Molotov cocktails last night.
00:28:20.000 There was a black federal officer who was killed in Oakland.
00:28:23.000 So how is that useful?
00:28:25.000 There's a man who's wearing a red hat, and this is in South Carolina.
00:28:29.000 Apparently, people thought that he was some sort of Trump supporter, which again, it's not illegal to be a Trump supporter in South Carolina or anywhere else in the United States.
00:28:39.000 And a crowd starts running after him and just beats the living hell out of him.
00:28:45.000 This is just...
00:28:46.000 It's beyond belief.
00:28:47.000 It's beyond belief.
00:28:49.000 And of course this is ending with situations of violence.
00:28:51.000 People attempting to obstruct cars and trying to rob cars and then people in the car scared and doing something.
00:28:56.000 We saw this last night.
00:28:57.000 There was a protester, I assume a looter, who was attempting to assault a FedEx, a guy in a FedEx truck.
00:29:03.000 And the FedEx truck kept driving because he's like, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna be pulled out of my car and beaten nearly to death like Reginald Denny.
00:29:09.000 Guy got dragged underneath the car.
00:29:10.000 I mean, this is just, this stuff cannot happen.
00:29:13.000 It cannot happen in the United States.
00:29:14.000 This is so awful and so tragic and so terrible for the entire country.
00:29:18.000 It truly is.
00:29:19.000 Whatever your race, this is just nothing good is happening here.
00:29:22.000 Nothing good.
00:29:22.000 And the product of this is not going to be anything good either.
00:29:24.000 Anybody who suggests that it is going to be something good is getting it completely wrong.
00:29:28.000 So naturally, our politicians are making excuses for this sort of activity and fueling the flames.
00:29:35.000 And they're doing so in a couple ways.
00:29:36.000 Some of them are actually like directly giving aid and comfort to the rioters and looters.
00:29:42.000 And then there are some people who are fanning the flames of the of the protests, but doing so in an extraordinarily radical way.
00:29:48.000 Again, I think there's for the 1000th time, there's an absolute case to be made that we should change procedures surrounding police brutality.
00:29:56.000 There's an absolute case to be made that contracts with police unions ought not to have things like sovereign immunity, or qualified immunity.
00:30:03.000 There are plenty of policy changes that we can argue about and talk about. 0.95
00:30:08.000 But when you suggest that the entire American infrastructure, writ large, is racist and doesn't care when people get killed in incidents of police brutality, you are a liar and you're wrong. 0.92
00:30:17.000 And, by the way, when you fan the flames by suggesting that what we saw on TV was the execution of a black man, which is not what happened, that isn't what happened. 0.72
00:30:27.000 What you saw in this particular case with George Floyd was an act of assault that ended with a death.
00:30:32.000 That is not the same as a cold-blooded execution.
00:30:35.000 It is an act of evil, but it is not a cold-blooded execution.
00:30:38.000 There's a difference.
00:30:40.000 We're going to get to more of this in just one second because our politicians are ill-serving us. 0.98
00:30:46.000 In a republic, we're supposed to be having conversations.
00:30:48.000 We're not supposed to be winking and nodding at violence in the streets because we think that it's politically beneficial to do so.
00:30:55.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:30:57.000 This is so... Oh, this is devastating.
00:30:59.000 We're going to get to more of this in just one second.
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00:32:10.000 Alrighty, well, we're going to get back into the political response to all of this, which has been, it has ranged from cowardly to disgusting, I would say, is the political response to all this.
00:32:19.000 We've seen a few people who have acted in proper ways, including the Democrat mayor of Atlanta, for example.
00:32:26.000 The Democrat mayor of St.
00:32:27.000 Paul has acted in an appropriate way. 0.99
00:32:29.000 And then we have seen our politicians and our media and our celebrities acting like absolute, absolute garbage. 0.85
00:32:35.000 Because everybody who is decent is, again, on the same side of this. 0.98
00:32:38.000 Officers who put a knee on the neck of a person who's saying he can't breathe and keep it there for eight minutes. 1.00
00:32:42.000 Those people are pieces of s***. 1.00
00:32:44.000 People who break windows and loot in response to that are pieces of s***. 1.00
00:32:47.000 They're not equivalently pieces of s***. 1.00
00:32:49.000 People who go and beat the hell out of business owners are pieces of s***. 0.98
00:32:55.000 I haven't cursed this much on a podcast ever, but my country also has not been on fire in a time when we should all be unified against acts of evil. 0.99
00:33:02.000 It is an act of evil to put your knee on the neck of a man, white, black, or green, as he says, I can't breathe for eight minutes long.
00:33:10.000 It is an act of evil.
00:33:11.000 To go burn down a store that someone put their life savings into.
00:33:14.000 It is an act of evil to beat the hell out of somebody who's attempting to defend their business.
00:33:19.000 It is an act of evil to throw Molotov cocktails at cop cars.
00:33:22.000 These are acts of evil.
00:33:23.000 If we can't all agree on this, we don't have a country.
00:33:26.000 If you disagree on any of these things, then we can't have a country.
00:33:29.000 And yet what we are seeing from our politicians is a willingness to wink and nod at some of this activity in the name of political gain.
00:33:37.000 And that is horrific.
00:33:38.000 Horrific.
00:33:39.000 And particularly in the name of a political narrative that is supposed to suggest that all of America can't agree on these things.
00:33:44.000 Because here's the thing.
00:33:45.000 If you agree with me on all of these things, if you agree with me that there are many people out there who are doing very bad things, if you agree with me, then that means that you're fundamentally decent.
00:33:54.000 And I'm fundamentally decent.
00:33:55.000 And even if we disagree on the implications of policy, we are fundamentally decent and can have a fundamentally decent conversation.
00:34:02.000 But, if you can generate some sort of political polarization off the issue, because you believe that America is inherently evil, and that Americans are inherently evil, the natural result is going to be chaos in the streets, and that is what we are watching right here and right now.
00:34:15.000 That is what we are watching. 0.99
00:34:17.000 In some ways, this is the outgrowth of a mentality that suggests that America as a giant country is a lie, America, its history, its philosophy, its culture are garbage, and that it deserves to be torn out by the roots. 0.97
00:34:29.000 In some ways, this is the outgrowth of justification of a campaign against America as it stands. 0.98
00:34:35.000 And again, I'm not talking about protesters who protest police brutality.
00:34:38.000 I'm talking about people who justify rioting and looting.
00:34:40.000 I'm talking about people who suggest that America is inherently racist, evil to today.
00:34:47.000 That argument is inherently divisive and it's going to lead to the breakdown of all conversation.
00:34:52.000 And once the conversation breaks down, you do end up with situations where people defend violence.
00:34:56.000 And that's exactly what you don't want.
00:34:58.000 We're going to get to more of this in just one second.
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00:36:13.000 Our celebrities are, of course, the morons, right? 0.99
00:36:15.000 If you're in the media or if you're a politician, you at least have the sort of wherewithal to understand what you are doing and then couch your terms. 1.00
00:36:21.000 If you're a celebrity, apparently you're just a complete damned moron. 1.00
00:36:24.000 So celebrities were donating bail for protesters over the weekend. 1.00
00:36:27.000 They were donating bail for, and by the way, not protesters, rioters, over the weekend.
00:36:32.000 So Chrissy Teigen, Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, were donating money to bailout people arrested in the nationwide protests.
00:36:38.000 By the way, there were hundreds of thousands of people protesting over the weekend.
00:36:41.000 The people who were arrested were, by and large, committing crimes.
00:36:45.000 That's why they were there.
00:36:47.000 Teigen said she decided to make a $100,000 donation after President Trump declared Saturday night was MAGA night at the White House.
00:36:54.000 She said, in celebration of whatever the eff MAGA night is, I'm committed to donating $100,000 to the bailout of protesters across the country.
00:37:01.000 And then that was matched by a bunch of other liberal celebrities.
00:37:06.000 People like Jameela Jamil.
00:37:08.000 She put in $1,000, of course, not $100,000.
00:37:10.000 And then we saw Seth Rogen saying he had matched a contribution.
00:37:15.000 And James Blake and Janelle Monáe and Yara Shahida.
00:37:20.000 Rapper No Name said she had donated $1,000 to this.
00:37:24.000 Patton Oswalt donated to it.
00:37:26.000 Padma Lakshmi did this.
00:37:28.000 So we're now bailing out people who committed crimes.
00:37:31.000 Really well done, everybody.
00:37:32.000 Just well done stuff.
00:37:34.000 Genius, genius stuff.
00:37:36.000 Unbelievable.
00:37:37.000 Okay, meanwhile, you had Cardi B, who's tweeting out that looting was okay, because after all, what other outlet do people have but to steal shoes from a shoe locker?
00:37:44.000 She tweeted out, they looting in Minnesota, and as much as I don't like this type of violence, it is what it is.
00:37:44.000 From a footlocker?
00:37:49.000 Too much peaceful marches, too much trending hashtags, no solutions, the people are left with no choice.
00:37:53.000 Well, it seems like there were a lot of people who were protesting who did not decide that they were going to steal a pair of shoes in order to protest the death of George Floyd.
00:37:59.000 Seems like there were hundreds of thousands of them in the streets, actually, Cardi B. 0.98
00:38:03.000 But Cardi B may not know the difference between criminality and non-criminality, considering she used to brag about the fact that she lured men back to her hotel room and then drugged them and stole their crap. 1.00
00:38:11.000 So, this is, this is insane. 0.91
00:38:15.000 I will say, some of the celebrities are just hilarious. 1.00
00:38:17.000 I mean, like, hilariously stupid. 1.00
00:38:19.000 Madonna put out a video of her son David, her adopted son David, who is black. 1.00
00:38:25.000 Dancing to Michael Jackson movie.
00:38:27.000 Racism solved, Madonna.
00:38:29.000 Problem solved.
00:38:30.000 There was this video.
00:38:31.000 Even the left was owning Madonna over this one.
00:38:33.000 Even they were like, Really?
00:38:35.000 Ah, Madonna. 0.99
00:38:35.000 Lady? 0.99
00:38:35.000 What? 0.99
00:38:42.000 I Our celebrity class.
00:38:44.000 We need a better class of celebrity.
00:38:46.000 We really do.
00:38:47.000 Are you going to bail out all these people?
00:38:48.000 Jane Fonda was on CNN last night.
00:38:50.000 Why the hell is Jane Fonda on CNN? 1.00
00:38:51.000 I have a question.
00:38:52.000 Seriously.
00:38:53.000 What insight does Jane Fonda have? 0.98
00:38:55.000 I don't even know.
00:38:57.000 She's either dressed up as Pablo Picasso circa 1937, or she's dressed up as a Black Panther. 0.58
00:39:02.000 I have no idea which.
00:39:04.000 She was on last night on CNN.
00:39:07.000 Talking about this.
00:39:08.000 Why?
00:39:09.000 Why?
00:39:09.000 CNN, the trusted name in news, bringing on Jane Fonda to talk about this stuff.
00:39:13.000 There have been several articles talking about how in Los Angeles this is taking people back to 92, 1992 or 3 when there were, there was rioting after film of police beating Rodney King became public and then the officers were never held accountable and This is different.
00:39:38.000 And I think it's important for us to recognize that.
00:39:42.000 Okay, why Jane Fonda on national TV? 1.00
00:39:45.000 Okay, so the celebrities are of course the morons. 1.00
00:39:47.000 The celebrities are the people who say the quiet part out loud. 1.00
00:39:50.000 It ended with some fairly ironic stuff last night because there was one sports writer, I think it was an NBA writer, who had written that looting and rioting, that's just the natural consequence of a racist country.
00:40:00.000 And then the looters and rioters came to his neighborhood and started trying to break in to the gated neighborhood where he lives.
00:40:04.000 And he's like, where are the police?
00:40:06.000 Okay, you can't have it both ways.
00:40:08.000 Members of the media, though, we're doing the yeoman's work of trying to connect the rioting and the looting to the protests.
00:40:15.000 And this is complicity in violence.
00:40:19.000 Trying to connect people who are committing heinous acts of violence and evil with people who are protesting is not helping the protesters, and it is making excuses for people who are doing evil things.
00:40:32.000 It's truly incredible.
00:40:33.000 Lester Holt did this, and honestly, I expected more of Lester Holt.
00:40:36.000 He did a whole bit last night in which he suggested that people looting and rioting were involved in a primal scream of pain.
00:40:44.000 The expressions I saw on some of the faces when people were stealing TVs was not primal scream of pain.
00:40:48.000 There were people who were expressing pain in these protests, but the conflation between that and burning cop cars is not clear to me.
00:40:56.000 Here's Lester Holt last night.
00:40:58.000 Pick your emotion.
00:41:00.000 Chances are it was represented in these jumbled images from America's streets.
00:41:06.000 Rage.
00:41:07.000 Hate.
00:41:08.000 Disappointment.
00:41:09.000 Emptiness.
00:41:10.000 Hopelessness.
00:41:11.000 And so much fear.
00:41:14.000 It's hard to comprehend that this was about a singular event.
00:41:19.000 No matter how horrific, this explosion of raw passion seeming to come from a place far deeper, a primal scream from a country that may just be fed up.
00:41:31.000 Okay, so again, the attempt to conflate all of these activities is really a disservice to the protesters, but it's a disservice to America, too, because the underlying argument that Lester Holt is making here is the same as the rest of the media today, which is that the riots and the looting and the protests, they're all coming from the same place, and that is people are fed up with America as it stands.
00:41:48.000 America is innately evil.
00:41:49.000 And America, if people get mad and people tear things down, well, that's just the way things go.
00:41:52.000 Spike Lee basically made this explicit in an interview with Don Lemon last night.
00:41:55.000 Again, I don't know why Spike Lee is on TV talking about stuff.
00:41:58.000 He's a film director.
00:41:59.000 I'm not sure what his level of expertise in any of this is.
00:42:01.000 So here is Spike Lee with Don Lemon last night basically excusing rioting and looting.
00:42:05.000 Can I just read something from someone who I highly respect and watching our conversation about condoning violence?
00:42:17.000 And they said the answer to aren't you condoning violence is no, but I don't know what is a proportional response to mass murder.
00:42:27.000 Spike Lee.
00:42:31.000 400 years.
00:42:32.000 We've been killed 400 years. 0.96
00:42:35.000 OK, to equate what is happening in the United States to black people right now with 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow is just disgusting. 0.99
00:42:44.000 It's disgusting. 0.99
00:42:45.000 It's morally disgusting. 1.00
00:42:45.000 It's historically ignorant. 1.00
00:42:46.000 It's ridiculous on every level. 1.00
00:42:48.000 And that's the sort of crap that's being promoted. 0.99
00:42:50.000 And by the way, when you say no but, as everybody knows, what matters in that sentence is everything after the but. 0.99
00:42:56.000 And when you're excusing rioting and looting, well, you know, it's bad.
00:42:58.000 But, but, what's the proportional response to slavery?
00:43:02.000 Slavery formally ended in the United States in 1865.
00:43:04.000 The Civil Rights Act was passed in the United States in 1965.
00:43:07.000 The, the, the 64-65. 0.99
00:43:11.000 The basic notion that Americans in 2020, black Americans in 2020, are in any way similarly situated to slaves or black Americans living under Jim Crow is absolute sheer crap. 0.89
00:43:22.000 But it is the media's attempt to basically suggest that nothing has changed, that this is 1968. 0.95
00:43:28.000 Cornel West, who's been saying this all along, he suggested that America is a failed social experiment.
00:43:32.000 This does lay bare a lot of the talk that is put forward by the media.
00:43:37.000 People who are, you wanna forward riots, you wanna forward violence?
00:43:40.000 Suggest that America is a failed social experiment, that America is nothing more than an agglomeration of random interests who are attempting to gain leverage and power over each other.
00:43:47.000 And so however people attempt to gain leverage and power, Well, it's a dog-eat-dog world, man.
00:43:50.000 Here's what Cornel West had to say about America as a failed social experiment.
00:43:53.000 If it is, by the way, if America is a failed social experiment, there's nothing more to talk about.
00:43:57.000 There's no more republic.
00:43:58.000 There's no more voting.
00:43:59.000 As we'll see, by the way, there are some Democrats who are not saying this kind of stuff. 0.94
00:43:59.000 It's useless. 0.94
00:44:04.000 People like, for example, Barack Obama, who actually put out a Medium post today condemning the violence and making a stark distinction between the violence and what people are protesting for.
00:44:14.000 I may disagree with him on what people are protesting for, but at least he's condemning the violence.
00:44:18.000 You're not getting any of that from some members of the media. 0.96
00:44:21.000 And also, the notion that rioting and looting, yeah, we condemn those, but all white Americans are racist and America is a racist system. 0.62
00:44:28.000 When you tell people for years, for decades, that they are living under the boot of a racist, jackbooted system, then violence does become predictable. 0.96
00:44:38.000 It does become predictable.
00:44:41.000 Which is why maybe you should stop telling the lie that America is a racist, jackbooted system in 2020.
00:44:45.000 Not in 1860.
00:44:45.000 Not in 1960.
00:44:45.000 In 2020.
00:44:46.000 Here is Cornel West suggesting America is a failed experiment.
00:44:52.000 I think we are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.
00:45:00.000 And what I mean by that is that the history of black people for over 200 and some years in America has been looking at America's failure.
00:45:09.000 It's capitalist economy could not generate and deliver in such a way that people could live lives of decency.
00:45:16.000 The nation state, it's criminal justice system, it's legal system could not generate protection of rights and liberties.
00:45:25.000 So here we are, America's evil terror town.
00:45:27.000 Van Jones goes even further. 0.95
00:45:28.000 He says all white people, even the most well-intentioned white people, have a virus in their brain where they don't recognize racism, which suggests it's going to be kind of difficult to live in a republic, is it not? 0.81
00:45:36.000 This kind of suggests the end of the country, does it not? 0.91
00:45:37.000 Here's Van Jones suggesting just that.
00:45:39.000 It's not the racist white person who's in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about.
00:45:46.000 It's the white, liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in Central Park Who would tell you right now, you know, people like that, oh, I don't see race. 0.85
00:45:57.000 Race is no guilt to me.
00:45:58.000 I see us all as the same.
00:46:00.000 I give to charities. 0.71
00:46:01.000 Even the most liberal, well-intentioned white person has a virus in his or her brain that can be activated at an instant.
00:46:13.000 And so what you're seeing now is a curtain falling away.
00:46:17.000 You can't have a country this way.
00:46:19.000 This is the end of the country.
00:46:20.000 It is.
00:46:20.000 What Van Jones is talking about, what Cornel West is talking about, what Spike Lee and Don Lemon are talking about, that's the end of the country.
00:46:26.000 What Charles Blow is talking about in the New York Times.
00:46:28.000 He has an article today, again, using the riots and the looting as self-justificatory, that they justify themselves.
00:46:35.000 He has a piece, Charles Blow, awful columnist, he says, destructive power of despair.
00:46:39.000 The protests are not necessarily about Floyd's killing in particular, but about the savagery and carnage that his death represents.
00:46:44.000 He says, So now he's just openly justifying looting and rioting.
00:46:46.000 He says, The people involved in the Ahmaud Arbery case are in jail right now.
00:47:11.000 That Central Park lady was fired from her job.
00:47:14.000 What the hell are you talking about?
00:47:17.000 He says this all breeds despair, simmering below the surface, a building up in need of release, to be let out, to lash out, to explode. 0.55
00:47:21.000 So now he's just openly justifying riots.
00:47:23.000 As protests and rioting have swept across the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis, it's evident that America has failed to learn that lesson yet again.
00:47:31.000 The protests are not necessarily about Floyd's killing in particular, says Charles Blow, but about the savagery and carnage that his death represents.
00:47:37.000 The nearly unchecked ability of the state to act with impunity in the oppression of black bodies and the taking of black life.
00:47:43.000 Now, from this rhetoric, you would think that literally the 30 million black Americans are living in everyday danger from the police, and that thousands of black people are being mowed down by the police indiscriminately every day in the United States.
00:47:53.000 All of that is not true.
00:47:54.000 It has not been true for a very long time.
00:47:56.000 The notion that every black person in America is under dire threat by law enforcement is a lie.
00:48:03.000 It is a statistical lie.
00:48:05.000 It is not true.
00:48:05.000 And people feel things.
00:48:09.000 That doesn't mean the feelings are necessarily justified.
00:48:11.000 And it certainly doesn't mean that the feelings that lead to rioting and looting are the same as the feelings that lead to protesting.
00:48:15.000 So there's a two-step that's being done here.
00:48:18.000 One is that America, that any instance of brutality is an instance of racism.
00:48:23.000 It's actually a three-step process.
00:48:25.000 One is, any brutality is racism.
00:48:27.000 Two is, any racism can be attributed to the entire system.
00:48:30.000 And three is, if you attribute racism to the entire system, we cannot expect you to go out and vote.
00:48:36.000 We can't expect you to confine your activities to the legal.
00:48:40.000 Sooner or later, it's going to burst out and you're going to start burning cop cars and breaking into Target.
00:48:44.000 So Charles Blow says it's an anger over feeling powerless, stalked and hunted, degraded and dehumanized.
00:48:48.000 It's an anger that the scenes keep repeating themselves until one feels exhausted and wrung out.
00:48:52.000 It's an anger over people feeling, over feeling that people in power on every level are utterly unresponsible to people's calls for fundamental change and equal justice under law and equal treatment by it.
00:49:00.000 What is the call for change?
00:49:01.000 Don't just say institutional racism.
00:49:03.000 Give me a policy I can back.
00:49:04.000 I've said, you want to talk about changing qualified immunity for police officers?
00:49:07.000 We can have a talk about that.
00:49:09.000 We'd have to change the police union contracts.
00:49:10.000 You know who's been against public sector unions longer than any of these liberals?
00:49:13.000 People on the right. 0.98
00:49:14.000 But you want to talk about how America is endemically racist and everybody has a white virus in the brain like Van Jones? 0.99
00:49:19.000 Forget it. 0.99
00:49:20.000 There's no republic to be had there.
00:49:21.000 And you know what else is not a solution?
00:49:23.000 What's not a solution is the notion that every white person is guilty for the sins of America's past.
00:49:28.000 That's not a solution either.
00:49:29.000 That's a recipe for destroying the country.
00:49:31.000 So we saw this.
00:49:33.000 There was a rally last night.
00:49:34.000 It was put out.
00:49:36.000 I'm not sure exactly where this was.
00:49:39.000 But it was put out by a filmmaker and photographer named Shaggy, and it is a video of white Americans kneeling down in front of black Americans.
00:49:51.000 Kneeling down in front of them.
00:49:53.000 And this person tweeted, a powerful show of unity and support.
00:49:55.000 The white community kneeling down in front of the black community to ask for forgiveness after years of racism.
00:50:00.000 Really?
00:50:00.000 Is this Bill Conner and George Wallace kneeling down?
00:50:03.000 Or are these a bunch of people who are not racist, kneeling in front of black people because they're white?
00:50:07.000 I am not in favor of anybody of any race kneeling down in favor of anybody of any other race on the basis of racial identity.
00:50:14.000 America is built on the notion that individuals are individuals.
00:50:17.000 The greatest sins in America's history have come from treating people as members of groups, as opposed to treating them as individuals.
00:50:23.000 And yet what is being stumped for here is the notion that America is indeed a country in which groups vie for power, and that the only way that any sort of change can be achieved is if one group gives up power to another group, as opposed to equal justice under law, individuals treated with that justice, and fundamental human decency being the basis of all of it.
00:50:43.000 Now, here's the amazing thing.
00:50:45.000 Here's the amazing thing.
00:50:46.000 There's actual unity about the things that I'm saying, but it's being obscured by politicians who are afraid to say all of these things.
00:50:53.000 There's unanimity about most of this.
00:50:56.000 And then we'll get to the politicians.
00:50:58.000 The truth is that Floyd's girlfriend, for example, Floyd's girlfriend came out yesterday and his family pleading for peace, asking for peace, asking for the rioting and the looting to stop, even while Charles Bull is excusing it, even while Don Lemon is excusing it, even while Lester Holt is conflating the violence and the protests.
00:51:16.000 Floyd's family is saying, please stop looting, please stop rioting.
00:51:19.000 This is not what George Floyd was about.
00:51:21.000 Please stop it.
00:51:22.000 You can't fight fire with fire, you know?
00:51:25.000 Everything just burns.
00:51:26.000 And I've seen it all day today.
00:51:29.000 People hate.
00:51:30.000 They're hating.
00:51:31.000 They're hating, they're hating, they're mad.
00:51:34.000 And he would not want that.
00:51:36.000 He wouldn't.
00:51:37.000 He wouldn't.
00:51:38.000 He would give grace.
00:51:39.000 He would.
00:51:40.000 I stand on that, that today he would still give grace to those people.
00:51:45.000 Okay, and you've seen this from police officers, too, who are going out of their way.
00:51:48.000 Police officers in areas across the country are going out of their way to demonstrate.
00:51:52.000 You know who got hurt by police brutality?
00:51:55.000 You know who gets hurt by police brutality?
00:51:57.000 Among various other targets, aside from people who are actually hurt directly by police brutality.
00:52:02.000 The good cops who are lumped in with bad cops are hurt by police brutality, too.
00:52:06.000 I've talked to enough cops across the country to know.
00:52:08.000 I can't find a single cop who will defend anything that happened in that video with George Floyd.
00:52:13.000 Really, those police officers are fired and one's in jail.
00:52:16.000 Bellevue PD, right, over in Seattle, sat and talked with the protesters.
00:52:21.000 Police want to work with communities.
00:52:22.000 This is what they do every single day.
00:52:24.000 To treat them all in lump, like the media is, as just the arms keepers for a racist society is disgusting and unjustified.
00:52:33.000 There's a Bellevue PD over in Seattle talking with protesters yesterday.
00:52:39.000 The officers that were involved need to go to prison for justice for George Floyd and the entire African-American community.
00:52:48.000 We're with you.
00:52:51.000 We are with you.
00:52:53.000 We are not against you.
00:52:54.000 I'm telling you, the vast majority of law enforcement, and I can tell you 100% here in Bellevue, when we saw it, we condemned the behavior.
00:53:05.000 We make sure that that is never going to happen here.
00:53:08.000 We embrace all of you.
00:53:10.000 God bless you.
00:53:11.000 How are we doing it?
00:53:14.000 Let me tell you.
00:53:15.000 Let him talk.
00:53:17.000 OK, like police, and this was, by the way, these were the scenes that they were not showing on the national news.
00:53:22.000 That's only on local news.
00:53:23.000 Right.
00:53:23.000 In New Jersey, police started marching with the protesters because guess who doesn't like police brutality?
00:53:28.000 Police officers who do the right thing.
00:53:32.000 Like, this is where the hope of the country is.
00:53:35.000 The hope of the country is in the idea that yes, we are all at root decent, but there's a whole cast of people out there who want to portray America as divided between the indecent and the decent.
00:53:45.000 And the indecent are nearly everybody in America, and the decent are the victims of that unjust, terrible America.
00:53:51.000 This is over in New Jersey, the police marching with the protesters.
00:53:55.000 There was an officer in Fargo, North Dakota, holding a sign with the protesters.
00:53:59.000 Over in Santa Cruz, the police were taking a knee.
00:54:02.000 Now listen, I don't like the taking a knee routine, because again, I objected to it when it was Kaepernick, I object to it when it's these protesters, I object to it when it's cops.
00:54:09.000 Taking a knee suggests that all of America is indicated in this situation.
00:54:13.000 I do not think that is true.
00:54:14.000 And I think that if you took a poll of Americans, 99.999% of them want this officer in prison, including 99.999% of cops.
00:54:23.000 By the way, people in the black community are not in favor of the rioting and the looting.
00:54:28.000 Only people in the media who get to sit in their cushy mansions are in favor of the rioting and the looting.
00:54:32.000 Most members of the black community are not in favor of this rioting and looting. 1.00
00:54:37.000 The Atlanta mayor, right, who is black, said yesterday to the rioters, go home. 0.99
00:54:42.000 You're not doing any good for the country. 0.98
00:54:43.000 You're not doing any good for any cause here.
00:54:45.000 You're not doing any good for anything.
00:54:47.000 This city that has had a legacy of black mayors and black police chiefs And people who care about this city where more than 50% of the business owners in Metro Atlanta are minority business owners.
00:55:04.000 If you care about this city, then go home and pray that somebody like Reverend Beasley will come and talk to you and give you some instructions on what a protest should look like and how you effectuate change in America.
00:55:23.000 Good for her.
00:55:24.000 That's Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Atlanta mayor.
00:55:25.000 The St.
00:55:26.000 Paul mayor, who also is black, he said people who burn businesses are not driven by love of community.
00:55:30.000 These are local leaders who understand that this is not the right thing to do. 0.98
00:55:34.000 Now, we're going to contrast some of this leadership with the leadership that you've seen from white mayors of major cities like Los Angeles and New York, which is absolutely cowardly and pusillanimous. 0.96
00:55:42.000 Here's the St. 0.90
00:55:42.000 Paul mayor saying people who burn businesses aren't driven by love of community or by any cause. 0.90
00:55:46.000 They're doing this because they are bad people.
00:55:48.000 What we know is there's some people in our community, there's some people in our streets who are driven there by a passion for our community, by a love for our community, and by a deep desire to never see the painful loss of life, like the killing, like the video of the killing of George Floyd that we all saw this week.
00:56:06.000 And then there's folks in our streets who are there to burn down our black-owned barbershops, To burn down our family-owned businesses, our immigrant-owned restaurants, and it is very clear to me that those people are not driven by a love for our community, and there's no way you can argue that those actions are designed to produce a better future for our community.
00:56:27.000 Quite the opposite.
00:56:28.000 This is exactly right.
00:56:29.000 Why were Democrats— By the way, virtually all of this is happening in Democrat-run major cities.
00:56:34.000 Virtually all of it is happening in Democrat-run major cities.
00:56:36.000 And if you're a decent mayor, you understand that law-abiding citizens in your city—black, white, green, brown, Democrat, Republican— need to be protected from people who are committing acts of violence.
00:56:45.000 And you are doing no favors to anybody By allowing this to go on.
00:56:48.000 But that's not what you have seen from Democratic politicians who are so interested in the intersectional gain to be made by basically kowtowing to all of this, that they're not willing to say anything remotely true.
00:56:59.000 It's pretty amazing.
00:56:59.000 Joe Biden took 48 hours, 48 hours, to condemn the violence.
00:57:05.000 He put out a statement early on Sunday morning, very, very carefully worded statement, saying, these last few days have laid bare that we are a nation furious at injustice.
00:57:13.000 Every person of conscience can understand the rawness of the trauma people of color experience in this country, from the daily indignities to the extreme violence, like the horrific killing of George Floyd.
00:57:20.000 Now, once again, this is underscoring the sort of CNN, Charles Blow dynamic. 0.82
00:57:25.000 America is a deeply racist, evil country. 0.76
00:57:27.000 Okay, and at the same time we all condemn it. 0.98
00:57:30.000 So like, which is it?
00:57:31.000 Are Americans angry at racism or are Americans complicit in racism?
00:57:35.000 Joe Biden can't make up his mind.
00:57:36.000 He says, protesting such brutality is right and necessary.
00:57:39.000 It's an utterly American response.
00:57:40.000 Burning down communities and needless destruction is not.
00:57:42.000 Violence that endangers lives is not.
00:57:44.000 Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not.
00:57:47.000 The act of protesting should never be allowed to overshadow the reason we protest.
00:57:50.000 It should not drive people away from the just cause that protest is meant to advance.
00:57:54.000 And then he just goes on in this vein.
00:57:55.000 It took him 48 hours to do that.
00:57:57.000 48 hours to give that sort of mild condemnation.
00:58:02.000 And then, by the way, you want to benefit Trump.
00:58:06.000 This will benefit Trump pretty strongly.
00:58:07.000 Campaign staffers for Biden were donating to a group in Minnesota bailing out people who are violating the law.
00:58:13.000 Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign spokesperson, told the news service that Biden opposes the institution of cash bail as a modern-day debtor's prison.
00:58:21.000 They're bailing out all of these people who had committed crimes.
00:58:27.000 This is what you're seeing from Democratic politicians.
00:58:29.000 You're seeing it from some Democratic administrators in various cities.
00:58:33.000 The Raleigh, North Carolina Police Department head said, we're not even going to defend property.
00:58:37.000 We're just going to allow people to go and burn the property.
00:58:39.000 This is very reminiscent of the riots in Baltimore back in 2014, when the mayor said that they were going to give the protesters and rioters and looters space to burn. 0.92
00:58:47.000 Okay, so meanwhile, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, again, he doesn't have the balls to say what the mayor of Atlanta or the mayor of St. 0.89
00:58:53.000 Paul said, so instead, he says, I'm the problem. 0.95
00:58:56.000 Bill de Blasio's the problem.
00:58:57.000 I acknowledge my white privilege.
00:58:58.000 Okay, as opposed to, this is a major American city and we will not allow lawlessness to prevail and we are working hard every day to stop police brutality and make sure that the law is enforced.
00:59:08.000 Instead, we get Bill de Blasio saying, I am white privilege and I understand my own privilege.
00:59:13.000 How is this helpful in any way?
00:59:14.000 The answer is it's not.
00:59:14.000 It's just part of the program to delegitimize the country as a whole.
00:59:18.000 We can't go on like this, and I'm talking to everyone, but I'm particularly talking to white New Yorkers to say we can't go on like this.
00:59:27.000 The entire nation watches George Floyd killed in broad daylight by someone who's supposed to protect us with no concern at all.
00:59:37.000 His killer seemed to have no emotion about the fact that he was killing a black man as if there was no value in that man.
00:59:45.000 And unfortunately, that's what the history of this country has taught too many people.
00:59:53.000 Okay, like, why are white New Yorkers... Question. 0.51
00:59:53.000 And we have to stop. 0.51
00:59:55.000 Why should white New Yorkers have to learn that lesson? 1.00
00:59:57.000 Are white New Yorkers going out and killing black people in the streets? 1.00
00:59:59.000 Did I miss that part, Bill de Blasio? 1.00
01:00:00.000 Or are you just a terrible person?
01:00:02.000 Also, if you're going to talk about the case, you might as well, you know, stick to the evidence of the case.
01:00:06.000 It is a case of police brutality.
01:00:08.000 There has yet to be brought any evidence that this was an element of racism.
01:00:11.000 You could try to impute racism.
01:00:12.000 Maybe it was racism.
01:00:13.000 We don't know yet.
01:00:15.000 But the idea that the history of America is white people not caring about black people and therefore George Floyd is dead.
01:00:21.000 He said, by the way, that if George Floyd were white, he'd be alive today. 0.94
01:00:23.000 I have no idea where he is coming up with that evidence.
01:00:26.000 Really, a shred of evidence there would be a nice thing. 0.99
01:00:29.000 But Bill de Blasio is a garbage mayor. 0.99
01:00:30.000 He should resign. 1.00
01:00:31.000 He's horrible at his job. 0.99
01:00:32.000 Speaking of garbage mayors, my mayor, Eric Garcetti, he tweeted out over the weekend that he wasn't going to call for the National Guard because that would just be escalating things. 0.98
01:00:41.000 And then, of course, he immediately came out and called for the National Guard because it turns out he's not in control of his own city because he was too busy cowering before protesters and then really cowering before rioters and looters. 0.96
01:00:51.000 I spoke with the governor earlier today.
01:00:53.000 This is not a city.
01:00:54.000 This is not 1992.
01:00:55.000 We're not going to evoke what happened then and call in the National Guard.
01:01:00.000 But that's also on all of us.
01:01:02.000 Let's just all de-escalate.
01:01:04.000 We've trained police officers to learn more and more about de-escalation, and we still have more to do.
01:01:09.000 But all of us as human beings can de-escalate.
01:01:12.000 You can escalate without a weapon.
01:01:14.000 You can provoke without a baton.
01:01:16.000 So let us all de-escalate and know.
01:01:20.000 I do not anticipate in any way needing to call in a National Guard.
01:01:23.000 We got this, Los Angeles.
01:01:25.000 Let's show our better angels.
01:01:27.000 Yeah, and then five hours later he was calling in the National Guard.
01:01:30.000 He literally said, like, hours later, the California National Guard is being deployed to Los Angeles overnight to support our local response to maintain peace and safety on the streets of our city.
01:01:37.000 Yeah, it turns out that basically preparing to take it from rioters and looters and begging them to show the better angels of their nature is not a particularly productive move.
01:01:50.000 It's just, it's amazing.
01:01:51.000 It's amazing, amazing stuff. 0.98
01:01:53.000 Our politicians are so cowardly. 0.99
01:01:54.000 And speaking of cowardly, our corporations are similarly cowardly. 0.98
01:01:58.000 So corporations have been putting out statements to try and demonstrate that they are on board with the social justice arguments that America is deeply racist and terrible.
01:02:06.000 The idea being, of course, that if they virtue signal that America is deeply racist and terrible, then maybe they'll be left alone.
01:02:12.000 That's the way this works in corporate America too often these days, is that it's not enough to simply, like, I don't know why you need to hear from corporate leaders about the killing of George Floyd.
01:02:22.000 I wasn't aware that corporate leaders were making police policy.
01:02:25.000 Like, if you want to on your individual capacity, that's fine.
01:02:28.000 But seriously, I don't really care about Target's policy on anything.
01:02:32.000 Target is a store where I buy things.
01:02:34.000 When did it become the idea that Target is supposed to issue a corporate statement on every element of politics?
01:02:40.000 Like, they're allowed to?
01:02:43.000 I'm just pointing out the fact that it is a very odd thing that so many members of these various institutions now feel the need to virtue signal so that they will, what, not be targeted, not be boycotted?
01:02:55.000 That's the idea here.
01:02:57.000 So you had, for example, Peloton put out a letter suggesting that they are standing with Black Lives Matter The whitest company on earth, standing with Black Lives Matter. 0.68
01:03:10.000 And they talked about donating $500,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
01:03:15.000 So basically, don't yell at us.
01:03:17.000 We're a corporation.
01:03:17.000 Don't break our windows over this thing.
01:03:20.000 Now, what does Peloton have to do with any of this?
01:03:22.000 The answer is nothing.
01:03:24.000 Was George Floyd killed with a Peloton?
01:03:25.000 He was not.
01:03:26.000 Did Peloton have anything to do with this?
01:03:27.000 The answer is no.
01:03:29.000 If the CEO wants to march, he should go march.
01:03:31.000 If the individuals want to go march, they should go march.
01:03:34.000 But the fact that every corporation now feels the need to write emails to the entire public at large, signaling their politics on questions as to whether America is endemically racist.
01:03:47.000 The pressure tactics that are being brought to bear on corporations and the willingness of corporations to go along with it, it's pretty incredible.
01:03:55.000 It's pretty incredible.
01:03:58.000 Meanwhile, President Trump is involved here, but he's only involved apparently, like, kind of tangentially.
01:04:04.000 The President of the United States does not seem to be supremely involved in all this.
01:04:08.000 Politicians want to blame him for all of this, obviously.
01:04:10.000 This is what you've seen from politicians.
01:04:13.000 So, the Attorney General pointed out that there were some Antifa-like tactics here, that Antifa is involved here.
01:04:22.000 Media immediately came out to defend Antifa and pretend that Antifa is not a group that exists here, as the Department of Justice had explaining, that we are seeing some organized terror-like activities here.
01:04:31.000 In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and driven by anarchic and left Okay, meanwhile, the president was tweeting out about all of this and he's basically been on Twitter.
01:04:57.000 He had a speech on Saturday in which he said he stands against violence and mayhem, but mostly he's been on Twitter.
01:05:03.000 So he tweeted out, here was a little bit of his speech talking about violence and mayhem.
01:05:07.000 Every citizen in every community has the right to be safe in their workplace, safe in their homes, and safe in our city streets.
01:05:18.000 This is the sacred right of all Americans that I am totally determined to defend and will defend.
01:05:27.000 My administration will always stand against violence, mayhem, and disorder.
01:05:35.000 Okay, now, that's good. 0.96
01:05:38.000 He should be saying then, he should be assuring Americans that they're not going to be confined to their homes for the foreseeable future because of ridiculous and cowardly local leadership. 0.81
01:05:48.000 But President Trump has basically mostly been on Twitter fulminating about Antifa. 0.76
01:05:51.000 And I'm sorry, Twitter is not a substitute for being president.
01:05:54.000 So President Trump tweeted out, Something along the lines of he wants to.
01:05:59.000 He said the United States of America will be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization.
01:06:02.000 People cheer.
01:06:03.000 Okay, effectually under American law, you can't do that.
01:06:05.000 There are terror laws.
01:06:07.000 They generally apply to foreign-based terror organizations because you run into serious problems with prosecuting people on First Amendment bases for a quote-unquote domestic terrorism other than laws that already exist, like attempt to do damage, attempt to do harm across state lines.
01:06:20.000 He's been tweeting out things like law and order in all capital letters.
01:06:23.000 He's been tweeting out About how crossing state lines to incite violence is a federal crime.
01:06:29.000 Liberal governors and mayors must get much tougher on federal government, or the federal government will step in and do what has to be done.
01:06:34.000 That includes using the unlimited power of our military in many arrests.
01:06:37.000 Thank you.
01:06:37.000 Like, all of this is, like, I don't have a problem with anything Trump is tweeting.
01:06:40.000 I'm just wondering, like, he's the president.
01:06:42.000 It would be good for him to do something about this.
01:06:44.000 Like, what actual activity is happening?
01:06:47.000 Again, he's right, but this is ineffective.
01:06:58.000 This is ineffective.
01:07:00.000 Now, what's hilarious about this is that the ineffective response from Trump, which has been mainly just tweeting stuff, is blamed by the media for all of this.
01:07:08.000 So it's always Trump's fault.
01:07:09.000 It's America's fault.
01:07:10.000 It's Trump's fault.
01:07:10.000 It's never the fault of rioters and looters who want to steal the TV.
01:07:13.000 It's never the fault of people who just want to burn stuff down.
01:07:15.000 It's not Antifa's fault.
01:07:16.000 In fact, Joy Reid on MSNBC was out full-on defending Antifa over the weekend.
01:07:22.000 She tweeted out, What's weird is that if you spelled out what the acronym for this loose movement called Antifa stands for and rewrite Trump's tweet accordingly, it would read, The United States of America will be designating anti-fascists as a terrorist organization. 1.00
01:07:33.000 Okay, if you're stupid enough that you believe Antifa is anti-fascist in actual practice as opposed to just name, it's because you are a complete moron and you were dropped on your head as a baby. 1.00
01:07:42.000 That's like believing that the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is an actual Democratic People's Republic. 1.00
01:07:48.000 Just because you call yourself anti-fascist doesn't mean that you are not a fascist.
01:07:52.000 Antifa shuts down free speech, they beat people for wearing the wrong hat, they attempt to shut down... I mean, I've been... When I spoke in Berkeley, they showed up and they attempted to shut down the speech.
01:08:02.000 Like, this is what Antifa does. 1.00
01:08:03.000 Antifa is garbage. 0.97
01:08:05.000 And the fact that members of the media are willing to defend them, it just demonstrates where the media's sympathies lie. 0.99
01:08:09.000 One MSNBC contributor said, we are now on the verge of Trump designating his enemies, enemies of the state!
01:08:15.000 He's gonna crack down, he's gonna violate their rights.
01:08:19.000 Like right now, I saw last night that the World War II memorial, the week after Memorial Day was defaced by Antifa.
01:08:25.000 I mean with the actual anarchist symbols and everything.
01:08:28.000 And yet we have MSNBC contributors suggesting the problem here is that Trump is being mean to Antifa.
01:08:33.000 ...are so loosely based and so diverse in their beliefs, from global anarchy to simple anti-Trump to supporting Black Lives Matter, that you cannot isolate a single body of political or ideological beliefs here.
01:08:50.000 So, I'm concerned that if we're not careful, this is one small step away from the President of the United States designating his political opponents as enemies of the state, as terrorists, Oh, yes, I'm sure that's what's happening here, is that he's just going to lock up everyone he disagrees with, as opposed to, you know, the people who are actually beating heads in and breaking into Target and burning police stations.
01:09:15.000 Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is, of course, blaming Trump.
01:09:18.000 What I love is that it's Trump.
01:09:19.000 So Trump's responsible for the rioting and the looting.
01:09:21.000 He's fanning the flames.
01:09:22.000 But if you claim that America is a deeply racist place in which one group of Americans, namely white Americans, have been systemically oppressing black Americans at the same level for 400 years, That Americans were, like, from 1619 to now, have basically acted the same way toward black Americans?
01:09:37.000 That police officers across the nation are randomly executing black men for no reason at all?
01:09:42.000 That's not fanning the flames, but if Trump says Antifa, that's fanning the flames. 0.99
01:09:45.000 Or if Trump tweets something dumb, that's what's really fanning the flames here. 0.94
01:09:48.000 It's not the generations long indoctrination in the idea that America is gravely evil, that America's constitution is rooted in racism and slavery and evil, that America's Declaration of Independence is a lie. 0.97
01:09:59.000 It's not that stuff that's fanning the flames.
01:10:01.000 What's really fanning the flames is that Trump is president, which is weird because I remember race riots in the United States in 2014 when Donald Trump was not president.
01:10:07.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi.
01:10:08.000 President of the United States should be a unifying force in our country.
01:10:16.000 We have seen that with Democratic and Republican presidents all along.
01:10:21.000 They have seen their responsibility to be the president of the United States, to unify our country and not to fuel the flame.
01:10:31.000 Okay, same Nancy Pelosi said that the case in Minnesota was a case of an execution. 0.99
01:10:38.000 Was an actual execution.
01:10:39.000 It wasn't a case of manslaughter.
01:10:41.000 It wasn't a case of assault.
01:10:42.000 It was a case of an execution.
01:10:43.000 Same Nancy Pelosi.
01:10:44.000 But Trump is fanning the flames.
01:10:47.000 And then the D.C.
01:10:47.000 mayor came out and said Trump is hearkening back to segregation.
01:10:50.000 Why?
01:10:50.000 Because he tweeted when people were trying to break into the White House that we have vicious dogs in here.
01:10:54.000 As though Trump is actually looking up the language of Bull Connor. 0.99
01:10:57.000 He's like, I'm gonna unleash the vicious dogs against black Americans. 1.00
01:10:59.000 How about, guys, if you climb that fence, we got some stuff in here. 1.00
01:11:03.000 This is the White House.
01:11:04.000 Bad idea.
01:11:04.000 Like, do you really think... Here's the thing about Trump.
01:11:07.000 Do you think that Trump is a master of subtlety and making historical references?
01:11:10.000 Is that really what you think? 1.00
01:11:12.000 This is so stupid. 1.00
01:11:13.000 On every level it's stupid. 1.00
01:11:15.000 It's not fanning the flames for CNN to be out there basically suggesting that rioting and looting are a natural outgrowth of the evils of American racism. 1.00
01:11:21.000 But it is fanning the flames for President Trump to mention that there are dogs at the White House.
01:11:26.000 Can he play a helpful role still?
01:11:28.000 Or is it too late?
01:11:32.000 Well, I think that the president has a responsibility to help calm the nation.
01:11:37.000 And he can start by not sending divisive tweets that are meant to hearken to the segregationist past of our country.
01:11:50.000 And he can start by doing that right now.
01:11:53.000 Yes, I'm sure it was a reference to segregation when he talked about dogs.
01:11:56.000 Meanwhile, the same media are also trying to blame President Trump for COVID, right?
01:12:02.000 They're blaming him for COVID.
01:12:03.000 But if you mention that, by the way, you guys all stopped talking about COVID the minute that the protesters agreed with your generalized perception that America is evil, then you're bad.
01:12:11.000 So Susan Hennessey, who is a reporter, she tweeted out that, I can't believe that President Trump is going to blame this for an uptick in COVID.
01:12:16.000 Well, if there's an uptick in COVID, it seems like maybe tens of thousands of people gathering and shouting In close quarters with one another, without wearing masks, that might be a problem.
01:12:27.000 Susan Hennessey is the Brookings senior fellow and CNN national security and legal analyst.
01:12:30.000 She tweeted out, as coronavirus numbers climb from here, I think it is a safe assumption that Trump will now attempt to blame these protests for the spread rather than his own inadequate and incompetent response.
01:12:39.000 I mean, if there is a spread from the protest, it seems like that might be a good thing to point out that maybe the protest, like, amazing how COVID-19 was only ended as soon as the media found a shinier object.
01:12:49.000 As soon as the media found a shinier object, namely, we like these protests because they say America's bad, then I guess COVID-19 is not a worry anymore.
01:12:54.000 And if you point out that COVID-19 is still a worry, gathering in major numbers and screaming at the top of your lungs, with your spittle flying everywhere, which is what happens when you scream, whether you're singing in a church or screaming at a protest, then you're very, very, very bad.
01:13:05.000 Then you're very terrible.
01:13:07.000 our media and our politicians, this class, and then they say, let us protect you.
01:13:13.000 Why would anybody need to protect themselves in the United States of America?
01:13:16.000 Yeah, you've been doing a bang-up job.
01:13:17.000 Really, really well done.
01:13:19.000 All righty, well, we'll be back here a little bit later today with a lot of additional content.
01:13:24.000 This stuff is unfolding in real time.
01:13:27.000 Stay safe out there and demand more of your politicians and your government.
01:13:31.000 Demand more of your politicians and your government and demand more of people who suggest that America is endemically evil.
01:13:37.000 Decent people agree on all of these things.
01:13:40.000 And if you suggest that other people don't agree with you because you don't like the color of their skin, And that is likely because you are the indecent person in this particular situation.
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