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00:00:34.000You may have noticed that the stock market seems to be sort of disconnected from the realities of economics on the ground.
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00:01:48.000As backdrop to everything that is happening, it is important to recognize that the polls do seem to, in fact, be tightening, at least a little bit nationally, and more significantly, in the battleground state.
00:02:00.000It is pretty obvious at this point that the polls were going to tighten because that always happens.
00:02:05.000The RealClearPolitics national average just a couple of weeks ago had Joe Biden up something like nine points.
00:02:09.000Now Joe Biden is up in the national average somewhere around 6.3 points.
00:02:13.000In the battlegrounds, Joe Biden's lead, the top battlegrounds, his lead is down to 2.6 points.
00:02:18.000And what we are seeing in a variety of states is that things are getting really close, like within margin of error close.
00:02:32.000North Carolina, the latest polls show Trump up.
00:02:35.000And in Wisconsin, Biden is up only 3.5 points.
00:02:39.000Now again, each one of those states, the polling is not necessarily super recent.
00:02:44.000If we look at the latest Wisconsin polls, the latest Wisconsin polls have not been done since August 23rd.
00:02:50.000Some things have happened since August 23rd, namely the RNC happened since August 23rd.
00:02:55.000This vast spate of attention paid to the amount of violence in Kenosha.
00:02:59.000So I would think that right now Trump has got to be favored in Wisconsin.
00:03:02.000If you look at Florida, same sort of deal.
00:03:04.000The polls are very, very narrow in Florida.
00:03:07.000The latest polls, again, had Biden up by just three points, and that was as of August 23rd.
00:03:12.000So the latest polls seem to be all around that period, August 23rd.
00:03:15.000You may have noticed it is not August 23rd, it is September 2nd.
00:03:18.000So that means that it has been a week and a half since there has been a good poll, a good solid poll, from some of these key battleground states, and it was tightening even before all of that.
00:03:27.000In fact, there were polls that were showing that Trump was up in places like Michigan even before the Republican National Convention.
00:03:33.000So if you are Joe Biden's campaign, you have to be feeling very disquieted at this point.
00:03:37.000You have to be feeling a little bit uncomfortable.
00:03:39.000Now, there are some other polls that are showing that Trump has slipped among key groups.
00:03:42.000Particularly, there's a poll from USC Dornsheim Daybreak, which was fairly accurate in 2016, which tracked voter preferences daily four years ago.
00:03:51.000What they basically have is this same group of people they go to every single day and they ask, how are you feeling about the election?
00:03:57.000And then they can tell from sort of who is switching and who is not, where the various candidates stand.
00:04:03.000According to USC Dornsife, Trump has lost support from about 9% of voters who backed him in 2016.
00:04:09.000Their poll shows no major shift in the race during the last few weeks, belying a lot of the speculation that the back-to-back national political conventions and violence in Oregon and Kenosha might have changed what has been an unusually stable contest.
00:04:20.000During the Democratic convention, Biden gained a couple points.
00:04:23.000Then, Trump regained some of that ground during his convention, according to that particular poll.
00:04:28.000The net result in that poll is that Biden leads by something like 11 points.
00:04:33.000But again, these polls are sort of all over the place, and we do not have any state-specific polls from the battlegrounds in the last two weeks.
00:04:41.000So you have to imagine that right now, the momentum is a little bit with Trump.
00:04:45.000There's also the serious possibility that people are now highlighting that there will be tremendous confusion on election night, specifically because there's been so much focus placed on voting not in person.
00:04:54.000The Democrats have basically said that everybody should vote early and vote often.
00:04:57.000Their basic idea is you vote now, and you vote in mass numbers right now, before any news breaks, before anything changes, and you lock in that vote before maybe COVID starts to wane.
00:05:08.000Or maybe before Joe Biden falls down on the job.
00:05:14.000Well, what that could lead to is this vast gap between the election results on election night and the election results a week after election night.
00:05:22.000In fact, there are Democratic groups that are now warning that on election night, Trump will appear to have won, potentially in a landslide.
00:05:29.000But then, as the votes come in, all these mail-in ballots come in, he'll actually have lost.
00:05:33.000Now, that doesn't mean that somebody cheated.
00:05:35.000Martha McSally, in her last Senate run, she, on election night, led by 15,000 votes.
00:05:40.000And then as the mail-in votes came in, Kyrsten Sinema ended up beating her by something like 70,000 votes.
00:05:44.000So there's a huge swing in the mail-in.
00:05:46.000And that's sort of what they are warning of.
00:05:48.000Hawkfish CEO, this is a Democratic voting group, he calls the scenario a red mirage.
00:05:52.000He says, we're sounding an alarm, saying this is a very real possibility that the data is going to show on election night, an incredible victory for Donald Trump.
00:05:59.000Whenever a legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day, which will be someday after election day, it will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that, a mirage.
00:06:07.000Their model suggests that Biden could theoretically win back something like 10 states.
00:06:13.000That could change from red to blue over the course of the evening, ranging from Florida to Michigan to Wisconsin to Pennsylvania.
00:06:20.000It could look on election night as though Trump won all those places because in the in-person balloting, a lot of Republicans show up to vote day of, but a lot of Democrats have voted largely in advance.
00:06:30.000They suggest that once 75% of the mail ballots were counted, perhaps four days later, the lead could then flip to Biden's favor, which of course would lead to tremendous chaos and tremendous confusion.
00:06:38.000It's one of the reasons why vast numbers of mail-in ballots are really, really bad for democracy.
00:06:45.000Now, there may be scenarios in which we have to have them, right?
00:06:47.000There are plenty of people who literally cannot make it to the polls.
00:06:50.000That's why they should request an absentee ballot.
00:06:51.000But the idea that we should all be waiting around for weeks after a contentious election, waiting to see how the mail-ins go, Not after the American people have been prepped for literally decades at this point in waiting for the results on election night.
00:07:07.000Because if those results roll in and it looks like Trump won Florida, Trump won Ohio, Trump won Michigan, Trump won Pennsylvania, Trump won Wisconsin, Trump won Arizona, Trump won Colorado, right?
00:07:15.000Which is what it could look like on election night.
00:07:17.000And then over time, it looks like Biden won.
00:07:20.000There's going to be a lot of disquiet.
00:07:21.000There are going to be a lot of serious questions to be asked, obviously.
00:07:24.000So all of this is leading to a bit of heartburn for, I think, everyone across the board.
00:07:30.000And one of the things that the Democrats could do to end that heartburn, of course, would be to separate off from Antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:07:36.000But they will, of course, not do that.
00:07:37.000And President Trump is taking full advantage, as he should, both for the sake of the country and politically.
00:07:42.000The fact is that the Democrats have basically set up a mathematical scenario whereby the only way you get these riots to stop is if you quote-unquote, this is what Biden said, bring these people to the table.
00:07:54.000And the way you bring them to the table is by conceding the false notion that America is systemically racist and evil.
00:08:01.000And I talked a little bit yesterday on the radio show about where this phrase systemically racist comes from.
00:08:05.000It comes from Stokely Carmichael, who was once the head of the Black Panther Party.
00:08:08.000He's the one who shifted the definition of racism from, you have done anything that is racist, or there's a policy that is explicitly geared toward race, to anything that has a disparate impact is therefore racist.
00:08:18.000And so all systems, including capitalism, are racist.
00:08:21.000That shift from actual racism to quote-unquote institutional or systemic racism, not the impact of historic racism having impact today, which of course is true.
00:08:40.000America's institutions are not systemically racist in 2020.
00:08:43.000And if somebody tells you differently, it's because they're trying to sell you something.
00:08:46.000And what they're really trying to sell you is on their own pathway to power.
00:08:50.000But Joe Biden actually promised in his little speech about anti-violence that he would bring the violent to the table by presumably making concessions to them.
00:09:12.000He didn't give a big speech about what was going on in Kenosha.
00:09:16.000Instead, he did what presidents very often do when they're in the middle of disaster scenarios.
00:09:20.000He walked through the disaster scenario.
00:09:21.000We saw this when Barack Obama would visit the sites of hurricanes.
00:09:24.000We saw this after September 11th when President Bush visited Ground Zero.
00:09:30.000As a general rule, I'm not a huge fan of politicians visiting sites of destruction because I don't think they actually are necessarily doing anything.
00:09:36.000But the fact that Trump is doing this is not only not unprecedented, it is very well precedented.
00:10:48.000And the fact that the media are so unbelievably willing to cover for the fact that Joe Biden refuses to mention the source of the violence, it's incredible.
00:10:56.000I'm not sure that I have ever seen a media cycle so obviously in the tank for the Democrats.
00:11:03.000They hate Trump so much that they are willing to completely ignore anything Joe Biden says in favor of what they think he should say.
00:11:10.000And then they just rewrite the script.
00:11:12.000So he will spend an entire speech blaming white supremacists for violence that does not really Get chalked up to white supremacist Biden.
00:11:18.000And then they will just write stories about how he condemned violence, including Antifa and BLM, which he obviously did not do.
00:11:23.000Here is Trump pointing out that Biden was completely nonspecific in all of this.
00:11:27.000And not only was he nonspecific, he completely avoided mentioning any aspect of left-wing violence.
00:11:33.000And this is something the media and Democratic politicians have studiously been doing for the last several months, of course.
00:11:39.000My administration is restoring public safety.
00:11:42.000We're hiring more police, surging tough-on-crime federal prosecutors, increasing penalties for assaulting law enforcement, and for dismantling Antifa.
00:11:54.000They don't want to mention the word Antifa.
00:12:18.000And when Joe Biden says most police officers are good, but the system of policing is systemically racist, you have to understand what he means by that.
00:12:25.000Okay, again, when people talk about systemic racism, what they mean is that even if you are not a racist, the system under which you operate and within which you work, and that you in fact forward with your work, is a racist system.
00:12:47.000It does not matter if you have ever done a racist thing.
00:12:50.000It does not even matter if there's an explicitly racist policy that you're following.
00:12:53.000All that matters is that you are part of an institution that has produced unequal results.
00:12:57.000Therefore, you are, in fact, part of the racist system.
00:13:01.000So when Joe Biden said the other day that most police officers are good, they just work within a systemically racist system, That does not alleviate any of the stigma around police officers.
00:13:19.000It is a dangerous perspective that policing in the United States is systemically racist.
00:13:23.000It is dangerous because it essentially says to everybody that regardless of whether this police officer who is pulling you over is a racist or not, he is operating on the basis of a Gestapo-like racist system that is out to get you.
00:13:35.000You could be victimized by this guy even if he's not a racist.
00:13:38.000In fact, it's even more of a dangerous message.
00:13:40.000The guy doesn't have to be walking up to your car wearing some sort of Iron Cross tattoo in order for you to freak out.
00:13:46.000You should freak out just by the fact that he's wearing a police uniform because he's now part of the system.
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00:17:07.000If you got a medical issue, just go get it solved.
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00:17:29.000It's amazing how far-reaching this idea has gone.
00:17:32.000Michael McFaul, who used to serve inside the Obama administration, I believe.
00:17:36.000He recently tweeted out, and this is pretty wild, Politico tweeted out this, children must be taught that America is an exceptional free and just nation worth defending, preserving, and protecting, Donald Trump said. Michael McFaul, who used to work in the government, wrote, patriotic education, this sounds exactly like Putin to me. If we have now reached the point in American life where teaching kids that your country is good is considered Putin-like propaganda, like I'm old enough to remember when people talked about how the Russians would undermine confidence in America by talking about how
00:18:05.000America was racist, how America sucked.
00:18:08.000Now, the woke perspective is that it is Putin propaganda if you say that America is good, which is totally insane.
00:18:14.000There are consequences, by the way, to telling children over and over and over again that they live in an evil, racist, brutal, vicious country.
00:18:22.000There's an incredible Twitter thread today from a person who calls himself Publicola, who is, I guess, some sort of academic working in the major university systems.
00:18:32.000And he is apparently in an interracial marriage.
00:18:35.000And here is the thread that he wrote today.
00:18:37.000today. Woke anti-racism is child abuse. My family is living the antithesis of Thomas Chatterson Williams' Self-Portrait in Black and White. That's a book that has recently come out all about what it's like to live as a biracial person in the United States.
00:18:53.000States. I fear it may damage my children irrevocably. Let me explain. I'm white. My wife's black.
00:18:58.000When we met, we saw each other's race, but we didn't think that was the most interesting thing about us. We foolishly thought our children would be part of a post-racial future in which all Americans could just be human beings to one another.
00:19:09.000I decided I should try to learn more about my fellow citizens, who I now realized were completely opaque to me.
00:19:13.000In contrast, my wife decided she was at war with an immutably white supremacist America.
00:19:18.000My wife began to read authors like Nicole Hannah-Jones and Michael Harriot.
00:19:21.000She had a racial awakening, concluding she'd been inauthentically black all her life.
00:19:25.000My wife came to think that her mind, trained in exclusive private schools and in two Ivy League institutions for a BA and a PhD, had been quote-unquote colonized.
00:19:33.000She's come to think she owes her success to being quote, the right kind of black woman, an inauthentic and white acting black woman who is non-threatening to white spaces.
00:19:41.000Most disturbing, she's reinterpreted her five decades of life in which she only ever had one very mild story of microaggression as a history of brutal, grinding racial oppression.
00:19:51.000Deep beneath her inauthentic white acculturation is an oppressed black woman struggling for freedom.
00:19:55.000This is what racial grievance entrepreneurs like Nikole Hannah-Jones have done to my wife's mind.
00:19:59.000What she's doing in turn to the minds of our small children makes my blood run cold.
00:20:03.000My wife is teaching our children that America hates them and wants to kill them because they're black.
00:20:07.000Rather than take the birth of our children, ambiguous, innocent, raceless little creatures, as an opportunity to rethink the oppressive American race ideology and not hand it down to a new generation, my wife got woke after Trump and doubled down on anti-racist racial essentialism.
00:20:23.000She regularly explains to our kids that the police want to kill black people.
00:20:26.000Blacks are people police like to kill and always have been.
00:20:28.000They will keep using the pretext that they got scared when unarmed black people reach into cars like Jacob Blake, or steal police tasers like Rayshard Brooks, as long as that pretext allows them to keep killing black people with impunity.
00:20:38.000That's what she told our children, who by plantation logic, are among the black population that the police go out hoping to kill every day.
00:20:46.000She told our kids that Kyle Rittenhouse, like so many whites, hates black people and wants to kill black people.
00:20:50.000So he went to a BLM protest and opened fire.
00:20:53.000When I asked, in a neutral way, why she thought Rittenhouse had shot those people, she became upset and stormed out of the house, not to return for three hours.
00:20:59.000The obvious answer is that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist.
00:21:02.000I don't think she even knows that he shot only white people.
00:21:04.000Any probing beyond this self-evidence axiom is too triggering to indulge.
00:21:07.000By the way, I have no defense of Rittenhouse, a confused stupid kid whose foolishness and apparent criminal behavior led to his needless killing of two people.
00:21:19.000Wife, that's a black man who was killed.
00:21:21.000My seven-year-old daughter, now trained to think white people hate and want to kill black people like her, went straight to the inference, oh, so they killed him because they hate black people.
00:21:28.000My daughter needed no further information to infer that a black man who had been killed was killed because they, quote, hate black people.
00:21:33.000This is bad enough, but what's worse is that my wife is training her to see herself as one of these universally hated black people whom everyone wants to kill.
00:21:41.000Let the implications of that for my girl soul, for the ease with which she will encounter her world, sink in.
00:21:46.000My wife, again this is an entire Twitter thread written by a man in an interracial marriage, an academic in an interracial marriage.
00:21:53.000My wife wants to inherit the wound, the wound, as I've heard Thomas Chatterson Williams say, when she should inherit nothing but joy, love, and a sense of her own endless potential in a world that will reward her for her beauty and brilliance, not punish her for her hatred of her blackness.
00:22:05.000Why does my wife want our kids to inherit the wound?
00:22:08.000I suspect it's because, due to her parents' successes, who fought the civil rights battles of the 60s and became a surgeon and a teacher, she never inherited the wound herself and has come to feel inauthentically black.
00:22:17.000After all, Nicole Hannah-Jones and Coates are always telling her how traumatized she should be just because she's black in America.
00:22:23.000So, she has come to believe that only when she viscerally feels the wound that all black people are supposed to feel will she herself be authentic.
00:22:30.000My wife's father told me he's glad his daughter and Obama, too, come from the post-civil rights generation because they did not acquire his black rage.
00:22:36.000This is why Obama could be elected, he said, and why race was never important to his daughter, my wife, until now.
00:22:42.000Newly desiring to feel the wound, but not able to authentically experience it due to a life of untroubled privilege, she's living vicariously through her kids, trying to inflict the wound upon them.
00:22:50.000Maybe if she can't be an authentically wounded black person, they can.
00:22:54.000Like a father who pushes his son into sports in which he could not excel himself, she's pushing her children into a racial grievance that she has read about in books and in the New York Times, but has never had a chance to experience for herself.
00:23:06.000He says that he is committed to mitigating the effects of what I see as this child abuse where I can until our kids are old enough to read for themselves people like Thomas Chatterton Williams and other thoughtful writers who come from a place of love and healing of our anxious and needless racial wounds.
00:23:18.000But that is not the philosophy that is being taught on America's college campuses.
00:23:22.000It is not the philosophy of Joe Biden or the Democratic Party.
00:23:25.000Their philosophy is that America is systemically racist, the police are out to get black people, that black people are living under grinding oppression every day in the United States.
00:23:33.000Is that ever likely to lead to racial unity or is that merely rage the Democrats hope to channel into electoral victory?
00:23:39.000It's a very obvious answer, and I think we all know the answer to that when it comes to the Democrats.
00:23:43.000Okay, in just a second, we'll get to what the actual message of Trump's visit to Kenosha was, and then what the media glommed onto.
00:24:58.000Okay, so, it is pretty obvious what the conflict of visions here is.
00:25:02.000On the one side, you have a belief that America is inherently a good place, and on the other, you have a belief that America is inherently a bad place.
00:25:08.000Now, Trump may not understand the deep roots of American philosophy, history, or culture that I talk about in my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, but he does have a gut-level feeling that America is inherently a pretty good place.
00:25:19.000And the Democrats have a gut-level feeling that America is, in essence, a pretty horrible place.
00:25:22.000And when they pay lip service to the Declaration of Independence, it's not because they believe the Declaration of Independence embodies true American values.
00:25:29.000It's because they believe that the Declaration of Independence is, as Nikole Hannah-Jones has described it, a lie when written.
00:25:36.000They believe that the founders were racist.
00:25:37.000They believe that it's time to get rid of American history because American history is replete with cruelty and violence.
00:25:45.000committee yesterday recommended stripping the names of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key, and others from city government buildings.
00:25:54.000Mayor Muriel Bowser that has recommended renaming dozens of public schools, parks, and government buildings in the nation's capital, including those named for seven U.S.
00:26:01.000presidents, after studying the historical namesake's connection to slavery and oppression.
00:26:06.000In fact, They suggested adding plaques or other context to some of the most famed federal locales in the city, including the Washington Monument.
00:26:15.000Supposedly, they wanted to—they recommended either moving, tearing down, or recontextualizing the Washington Monument.
00:26:22.000So, great, we'll just pick up the entire giant thing and we'll just move it somewhere.
00:26:27.000Then the White House rebuked the Bowser administration and they removed the recommendations dealing with federal monuments on Tuesday evening.
00:26:32.000A White House statement called Muriel Bowser the radically liberal mayor of Washington, D.C., which is true.
00:26:36.000I mean, she literally spent city resources to paint a block with the slogan Black Lives Matter and then renamed it Black Lives Matter Plaza, which is just, I'm sorry, absurd.
00:26:46.000They said she ought to be ashamed for even suggesting revisions to the monuments.
00:26:50.000Listen to how the Washington Post describes this.
00:26:52.000Revisions to the marble monuments dedicated to presidents who were enslavers.
00:26:56.000Okay, if that's what you learned as like the chief important thing about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, you're doing America wrong.
00:27:05.000The White House said, President Trump believes these places should be preserved, not torn down, respected, not hated, and passed on for generations to come.
00:27:12.000So Mayor Bowser pulled down the 24-page report and they shrank it to 23 pages.
00:27:17.000The page listing eight federal sites the committee identified as needing additional context was then missing.
00:27:42.000President Trump has this weird, bizarre kind of fixation on stories that he hears. Somebody will tell him they were on a plane with a bunch of Antifa members and it turns into there's a plane filled with black clad people who are actually running the Biden campaign. Okay, and then Trump did the same thing with soup cans yesterday. This is, it's silly, but is this really the headline from Trump visiting Kenosha?
00:28:04.000This is what trended all day yesterday on Twitter, because the important thing is that Trump said a silly thing about soup cans, not that a city has been viciously burned and looted by a bunch of people who plan on voting for Joe Biden.
00:28:17.000Here was Trump talking about soup cans.
00:28:40.000And you have people coming over with bags of soup, big bags of soup, and they lay it on the ground and the anarchists take it and they start throwing it at our cops, at our police.
00:28:50.000And if it hits you, that's worse than a brick, because it's got force.
00:29:08.000Does that vitiate the point that he's making, which is that there are dangerous people who are throwing rocks, bottles, cans of soup at the cops?
00:29:58.000You're already rebuilding your stores.
00:29:59.000You'll be rebuilding your stores soon, your camera shop.
00:30:03.000So we don't want to do that, but at some point we're going to have to do it.
00:30:10.000So he puts that offer out and of course it is completely and utterly rejected by the mayor of Portland who continues to be just awful at his job.
00:30:18.000How bad is the mayor of Portland at his job?
00:30:38.000So you're going to get a greater stratification, greater inequality in American society.
00:30:43.000According to the New York Post, the Democratic mayor of Portland, Oregon is now moving from his $840,000 condo to avoid rioters who have repeatedly targeted the building, according to a report.
00:30:52.000The Oregonian reports that Wheeler wrote to his neighbors in his building to say, it would be best for me and for everyone else's safety and peace for me to move from the building that rioters tried to torch on his 58th birthday on Monday.
00:31:02.000He said, I want to express my sincere apologies for the damage to our home and the fear that you are experiencing due to my position.
00:31:08.000They're not experiencing fear due to your position.
00:31:10.000They wouldn't be if you would just stop the rioting and the looting.
00:31:38.000And then somebody got shot in Portland.
00:31:39.000Well now, the acting Homeland Security Secretary, he wrote, you state in your letter, there is no place for looting, arson or vandalism in our city.
00:31:46.000Unfortunately, you failed to back up that sentiment with any action.
00:31:49.000In fact, your inaction has fostered an environment that has fueled senseless violence and destruction night after night.
00:31:54.000For more than three months, Portland has become the epicenter of crime and chaos, with rioters attacking government buildings with the intention of burning them to the ground.
00:32:01.000As of today, since July 31st, there have been 255 arrests made by local law enforcement and 23 riots and unlawful assemblies declared.
00:32:08.000Despite this, you have stood passively, arguing that the nightly violence will ultimately burn itself out.
00:32:15.000So Portland continues to be a wonderful place.
00:32:16.000Meanwhile, Seattle continues also to be a wonderful place.
00:32:19.000Video from last night shows Seattle Antifa trying to, again, use quick-drying cement to lock police into particular precincts and then burn them.
00:32:26.000Also, our friend Jason Ranz from KTTH, he reports that criminal Antifa activists hid deadly weapons inside tents at a park they were occupying across the street from the East Precinct.
00:32:37.000They were occupying Cal Anderson Park, supposedly to help the homeless.
00:32:40.000But, during a sweep on Monday morning, Seattle police found scores of weapons, including a machete, hatchet, homemade spike strips, an unexploded mortar, and well over a dozen makeshift shields.
00:32:50.000So things are going great in Seattle as well.
00:32:52.000In Chicago, things are going wonderfully.
00:32:55.000According to The Blaze, the FBI has reportedly told Chicago-area law enforcement to be on the lookout for dangerous gang members looking for a reason to kill cops.
00:33:03.000According to a report Monday night from WLS, about 36 street gangs have vowed to shoot on sight any cop that has a weapon drawn on any subject in public.
00:33:14.000The report, obtained by WLS, is titled, quote, Pact made by People Nation gang factions to shoot on sight, they spelled sight wrong, any police officer with a weapon drawn.
00:33:23.000The report allegedly originated from Chicago FBI officials, August 26th, and states that, quote, members of these gang factions have been actively searching for and filming police officers in performance of their official duties.
00:33:34.000The purpose is to catch on film an officer drawing his or her weapon on any subject and the subsequent shoot on site of said officer in order to garner national media attention.
00:33:43.000Some gangs purportedly involved in the activity include the Black Pea Stones, El Rukans, Latin Kangs, and Vice Lords.
00:33:50.000So it is pretty obvious that what they are attempting to do is if a cop is holding somebody at gunpoint because they're a criminal, they are now going to drive up on the cop and shoot them.
00:33:58.000According to David Brown, the Chicago police superintendent, who by the way is black, he says, I think it's bigger than a suggestion.
00:34:03.000I think 51 officers being shot at or shot in one year, I think that quadruples any previous year in Chicago's history.
00:34:09.000So I think it's more than a suggestion that people are seeking to do harm to cops.
00:34:13.000So things are going well in Chicago as well.
00:34:15.000Now we're gonna get to the media coverage of all this in just one second.
00:34:19.000And the continuing fostering of the narrative that America is evil and on the verge of another crackdown on black Americans.
00:34:24.000Joe Biden, remember the great unifier?
00:34:26.000Joe Biden literally suggested that we're about to re-enter Jim Crow.
00:34:30.000This is Captain Unity and Light over here.
00:34:32.000We'll get to Joe Biden's pathetic words in just one second.
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00:35:44.000So as the country continues to remain in a state of chaos, as America's major cities remain under threat of violence from left wing agitators, Joe Biden is soaking the flames.
00:36:00.000He's the one who says that Trump is stoking the flames.
00:36:02.000It seems to me that if you want to stoke the flames of violence, what you should probably do is continue to suggest over and over and over again that America is systemically evil, racist, and targeting black people.
00:36:10.000So Joe Biden was talking with Kamala Harris, who five seconds ago was calling Joe Biden a racist.
00:36:14.000I'm not going to let this go because it does demonstrate in full living color how cynical the Democratic manipulation of the racism charge is.
00:36:22.000I mean, Kamala Harris called this man not only a racist, but a person who would have kept a little girl like her from going to an integrated public school.
00:36:29.000A year later, she is running with him for the White House, and she is proclaiming that he's a great racial unifier.
00:36:36.000So is she lying then or is she lying now?
00:36:38.000The answer is that she was lying then.
00:36:39.000Because the fact is, I don't think that Joe Biden is a racist.
00:36:43.000I think he's a career bureaucratic idiot who was drafted into a position of high power by Barack Obama to make moderates feel more comfortable with Obama's radical agenda.
00:36:54.000But I think Kamala Harris is a liar, and I think that her lying is indicative of a greater truth, which is that the Democrats are consistently using the race issue in order to divide Americans, in order so they can channel that rage, that outrage, into votes.
00:37:08.000It's what Obama did in 2012, by the way.
00:37:10.000And so here was not Kamala Harris, but Joe Biden suggesting that we are on the verge of a new effort at Jim Crow in the United States, at Jim Crow.
00:37:17.000And now let's just be straight about what Jim Crow was.
00:37:19.000It was a legal regime that mandated segregation between black and white and the subjugation of black people at the hands of white people.
00:37:31.000It was a legally mandated regime from the local and state governments of states across the South in this country.
00:37:38.000And Joe Biden is suggesting we're on the verge of a new Jim Crow, which is insane.
00:37:42.000If you're a black American living in 2020, the idea that you are living on the verge of being put back into segregated restaurants and segregated schools and forced to drink at separate water fountains and forced to sit in the back of the bus.
00:37:55.000And it's horrible for the country that Joe Biden is consistently suggesting that we are on the verge of, boom, with one snap of the fingers, Donald Trump is gonna put you in the back of the, but this is the same schmuck who suggested Mitt Romney was gonna do it.
00:38:10.000Joe Biden suggested that Mitt Romney was gonna put black Americans back in chains in 2012.
00:38:14.000So here he was with Kamala Harris sitting 1,000 feet from each other so they don't COVID each other.
00:38:19.000And Joe Biden suggests that we're on the verge of a new effort at Jim Crow.
00:38:24.000One of the things that I'm worried about is there is a whole new effort at Jim Crow out there.
00:38:31.000You have over, I think it's over, I think it's 33 states roughly that have passed laws, some like 80 some laws, that make it harder to vote.
00:38:41.000In North Carolina, the Court of Appeal said that law was designed with surgical precision.
00:38:47.000Those were the words of the court to prevent black voters from voting.
00:38:53.000There's still a significant effort in this administration to make it more difficult for Americans to vote.
00:39:10.000Okay, and for him to continue to foster this notion that black people are living under the grinding boot of white America, that states like Georgia and Florida and all of the southern states, that those states are trying to re-institute voting procedures designed to subjugate black Americans.
00:39:26.000The decision they're talking about, the Supreme Court decision, suggests that there used to be something called preclearance.
00:39:30.000Any voting law that went in the South had to be precleared by the federal government.
00:39:33.000The Voting Rights Act of 1965 suggests this.
00:39:36.000And the Supreme Court found that after 60 years of change, that the same preclearance was not required.
00:39:41.000Democrats have been claiming ever since that this was an effect An attempt by Republicans on the court to somehow allow the South to resegregate, which is nutty.
00:40:06.000So the New York Times had a headline that is so nuts yesterday that it just demonstrates they're just a press agency for the Democratic Party.
00:40:13.000Here is how they are portraying violence in American cities.
00:40:18.000in US cities. Demonstrators are assessing how to keep themselves safe. So you see, all the cities were fine. These were just peaceful protesters.
00:40:27.000And now the demonstrators are scared. So all of what's been happening over the past several months, figments of your imagination.
00:40:32.000Joining in the figment of your imagination crew were a bunch of very special journalists yesterday.
00:40:37.000So Molly Jongfast, who's very bulwarking, like she's a very bulwark person.
00:40:41.000So the bulwark is a kind of, the only way to describe it is kind of a Never Trump publication.
00:40:46.000I know a lot of people over there, I like a lot of the people over at the bulwark, but Molly Jongfast being employed by the bulwark is a disgrace to them.
00:40:52.000She tweeted out a picture I believe this is Washington, D.C.
00:40:57.000And it's just a picture of like a normal street where it says, please enjoy this photo of my burning city.
00:41:54.000New York Magazine ran a piece that showed pictures of people riding bikes and said, just look at these nightmarish scenes from the hellscape that is New York City.
00:42:01.000Then their headline was, obviously New York is a fiery hellscape of crime and misery.
00:42:05.000Bicycling, meeting friends in the park, late summer produce, nightmarish.
00:42:09.000All right, so the murder rate is just up like 100%.
00:42:11.000And in Washington, DC, the murder rate is up.
00:42:14.000And every night there are protests that very often will devolve into rioting and looting over the past several months.
00:42:20.000But you guys took a picture outside your apartment, outside your Tony apartments, where you get a salary for sitting there and writing bull crap like this.
00:43:28.000The idea of empathy in politics is a bad one because if you identify with solely, you put yourself in the shoes of one other person, you're ignoring the public policy consequences for everyone else.
00:43:53.000Molly John Fass took a picture outside her window in her Tony Rizzi area of Washington, D.C.
00:43:57.000Guess there's no problem in Washington, D.C.
00:43:59.000Now, speaking of the elites versus the rest of America, it's a Nancy Pelosi, right, who's been, people aren't taking, they're not taking COVID seriously enough.
00:44:28.000And so we have, I can tell you, because I've seen it, all over LA, basically bootleg businesses.
00:44:33.000People are driving to businesses that purportedly are closed.
00:44:35.000They are papering up the windows, and then they're just doing business inside because they still have to feed their families, unlike Nancy Pelosi, who is worth literally hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:44:43.000But the rules don't apply to Nancy Pelosi, you see, because Nancy Pelosi is one of the important people.
00:44:47.000Just like Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, the mayor.
00:44:49.000She's one of the important people, so she got her hair did.
00:44:53.000Everybody got their hair did, if you are one of the elites.
00:44:56.000So everybody who owns the hair salons has to shut down their business.
00:44:59.000But Nancy Pelosi, she can get her hair did today, because Nancy Pelosi Nancy Pelosi is a very important person, unlike you, and unlike me, and unlike anybody else.
00:45:09.000The rules don't apply to Nancy Pelosi.
00:45:10.000There's video that emerged yesterday of Nancy Pelosi, without a mask, walking around a hair salon.
00:45:35.000A trip to a San Francisco salon has turned into controversy for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose office tells KTVU she didn't think she did anything wrong by getting her hair done indoors on Monday.
00:45:45.000Security footage reported on Fox News showed Pelosi with wet hair and without a mask inside of E!
00:45:49.000Salon in apparent defiance of COVID-19 rules.
00:45:51.000In San Francisco, face coverings are mandatory in most public settings.
00:45:54.000Salons may only cut hair outdoors under new rules that took effect on Tuesday.
00:45:59.000The speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements.
00:46:02.000This business offered for the speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business.
00:46:08.000The speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by the establishment.
00:46:11.000But on Tuesday afternoon, eSalon was closed.
00:46:14.000The salon owner has not yet been reached.
00:46:17.000But according to Fox News, owner Erica Kius said that Pelosi had an appointment with a stylist who rents space in the Union Street salon.
00:46:24.000She said it was a slap in the face when she went in, you know, that she feels she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in and I can't work.
00:46:31.000So Pelosi got her hair done and they gave her a blow dry.
00:46:34.000And then she appeared that evening on MSNBC looking positively radiant.
00:46:40.000So saying, by the way, she didn't understand the rules.
00:46:42.000Everyone in California knows the rules.
00:46:44.000Everyone in California knows the rules.
00:47:00.000If you are one of these special libs, who takes COVID so seriously that you get to lecture everybody else about how unseriously they're taking COVID, then the rules just don't apply to you anymore.
00:47:09.000Just like all these leftists send their kids to private school, but then decry anybody who sends their kids to private school.
00:47:17.000Now, normally, I don't call out hypocrisy because hypocrisy suggests that the standard is bad.
00:47:22.000The point here is that the standard is bad.
00:47:24.000People should be able to open their businesses right now.
00:47:27.000And as we'll see in a second, people are, in fact, opening their businesses.
00:47:31.000In fact, Maryland has now announced they're opening their businesses.
00:47:33.000Places all over the country are announcing this, but Democrats are opposing this.
00:47:36.000They're opposing this, and the same people who are announcing that it's bad if you open up your business are going and getting their hair did because they are important people.
00:47:43.000This is just a complete disconnect between the Nancy Pelosi's, Marie Antoinette.
00:48:09.000If she tells you she didn't understand the rules, it's because she's a damned liar, because she is.
00:48:13.000Mike Pence points out that, you know, forget about her getting her hair done, Nancy Pelosi was condemning the White House for having an outdoor event where some people were not wearing masks and had nothing to say the next day about a march that was happening that weekend with 50,000 people marching without masks in close proximity to one another.
00:48:30.000Because, of course, this is all hypocrisy.
00:48:32.000If you hold the right political point of view, then COVID doesn't apply to you anymore.
00:48:39.000What's remarkable to me is that Nancy Pelosi had, to my knowledge, not a word to say about the gathering that took place outside the Lincoln Memorial the next day.
00:48:50.000I mean, literally thousands and thousands of Americans all gathered.
00:48:54.000But I would say in both cases, the American people were exercising those God-given rights enshrined in our Constitution to peaceably assemble.
00:49:03.000We did it on the South Lawn on Thursday night.
00:49:06.000We did it, they did it outside the Lincoln Now, here is the reality.
00:49:11.000COVID in the United States is on the way, except for hotspots where it has not hit before.
00:49:16.000That is the way that COVID always works.
00:49:17.000Anybody who tells you that what we are experiencing in the United States is a second wave is ignorant.
00:49:22.000Places that got hit hard, as I've been saying for literally months, maybe since the outset, places that got hit hard have not been hit again.
00:49:28.000I've been advocating for a position of what they call controlled avalanche for a very long time, suggesting that if younger people get this and pass it along to other younger people, that's not a bad thing, that's a good thing.
00:50:32.000And so people are moving toward reopening.
00:50:34.000But the problem is that everybody in the political world wants to claim that the reason that all of this happened is because they took significant lockdown measures.
00:52:16.000We're just gonna continue to lock down until the end of time?
00:52:20.000Then there are the states that don't actually have investment in lockdowns.
00:52:23.000And here I'm talking about a couple states.
00:52:25.000One that never locked down and one that did lock down, but then has a governor that is smart enough to recognize that lockdowns are not particularly good policy.
00:52:31.000So the state that never locked down is Florida.
00:52:33.000Florida instead allowed local authorities to shut restaurants or limit attendance in restaurants.
00:52:39.000They allowed local authorities to pursue mask mandates, but they treated different areas of Florida differently.
00:52:45.000And Florida weathered this thing significantly better, like much, much, much better than a comparable population in New York.
00:52:52.000If you look at the number of deaths per million in New York versus the number of deaths per million in Florida, for example, there's an extraordinary disparity.
00:53:01.000Let's just look at the deaths per million population right now.
00:53:05.000So here are the top 10 states in terms of deaths per million population.
00:53:09.000It goes New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Louisiana, Rhode Island, District of Columbia, Mississippi, Arizona clocks in at ninth, then Michigan, Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Florida.
00:53:23.000Okay, but Florida did it wrong, except for how Florida didn't do it wrong.
00:53:27.000Florida protected the nursing homes, Florida had people tested before they went into the nursing homes, and it turns out that once a population has experienced a significant uptick, then it wanes, As it runs through the population.
00:53:38.000Ron DeSantis yesterday, he said, you know what?
00:53:43.000DeSantis happens to be somebody who actually is data-driven, unlike, I don't understand how you can say you're following the science in places like New York, when you are literally suggesting that you never reopened when you had nine deaths from COVID.
00:53:54.000Again, a lagging indicator in a state of 20 million people.
00:53:57.000By what metric, by what metric can you ever reopen under those circumstances?
00:54:02.000I'm not sure there is a cause of death in New York that takes less than nine people a day.
00:54:37.000They have the highest per capita mortality in the world from COVID.
00:54:42.000And at best, what a lockdown will do is delay.
00:54:45.000It does not reduce the ultimate mortality.
00:54:48.000But I think Dr. Alice would agree, it creates a lot of other problems with mortality that a lot of people don't necessarily focus on.
00:54:56.000Okay, first of all, I just want to point out, that is a dude who's driven by data, and Ron DeSantis is a great governor.
00:55:02.000Okay, Ron DeSantis took enormous slings and arrows from the media, and he was exactly right, and Andrew Cuomo has gotten nothing but slobbering love, slobbering, full-on pornographic love from the media, and he has been garbage.
00:55:25.000According to Empire Center dot org, early last month, the Empire Center filed a freedom of information law request seeking accounts of all nursing home residents who have died from COVID-19.
00:55:33.000It specifically sought the number who had died after being transferred to hospitals in their last days, which the department has been leaving out of its official tally. In a letter on Monday, the department said it could not fulfill the request because, quote, a diligent search for relevant documents is still being conducted. They said that the information would be provided no sooner than November 5th.
00:56:11.000And that means that they never have to deal with the consequences of their own decision.
00:56:15.000They can just pretend that this is not actually just political malpractice.
00:56:19.000By the way, again, you don't have to be a hardcore right-winger in order to pursue data-driven policy.
00:56:23.000Governor Larry Hogan is about as moderate a Republican as there is in America.
00:56:27.000He pursued pretty strict lockdown measures in Maryland.
00:56:30.000Well, now, at a state house news conference on Tuesday, he has announced relaxing coronavirus restrictions across Maryland.
00:56:37.000He announced that all businesses, including entertainment venues like theaters, can reopen starting Friday.
00:56:42.000All businesses that were not previously reopened may now do so in the state of Maryland.
00:56:46.000Establishments can reopen at 50% capacity, including movie theaters and live entertainment, or up to 100 people at indoor venues and 250 at outdoor venues.
00:56:56.000He says all the states around us have already done this already.
00:56:59.000Places of worship can also increase their capacity from 50% to 75%.
00:57:02.000There's still some lengthy requirements, including mandatory face masks and employee training and signage.
00:57:10.000And also they're going to use advanced registration and payment and staggered performances to reduce touch points and all the rest.
00:57:15.000But places are opening up that are smart and places are staying closed that are stupid.
00:57:19.000New York and New Jersey are places that are deeply stupid.
00:57:21.000What's amazing is that Democratic politicians are still claiming that schools are closed because of Trump.
00:57:27.000It is Republican governors all over the United States who have been data driven here.
00:57:30.000It is Democratic governors who remain non-data driven.
00:57:32.000It was Joe Biden suggesting five seconds ago that if the science adjusted, he'll shut down the entire country.
00:57:37.000Here was Joe Biden yesterday, however, suggesting on schools and COVID, we got to get kids back to school.
00:58:23.000Now, the reality, of course, is that empathy ain't gonna do it.
00:58:26.000You actually have to change the policy.
00:58:27.000Scott Atlas, who correctly was brought in by the White House in order to provide a counterbalance to the single-factor analysis put out by Drs.
00:58:35.000Fauci and Birx, who are concerned with one thing and one thing only, Lowering the spread, as opposed to balancing all of the competing interests, and have undertaken a policy unprecedented in human history, which is you lock down entire populations of healthy individuals in order to protect the vulnerable, which has never been done before.
00:58:50.000It's always been shield the vulnerable and allow everybody else to work.
00:58:53.000Here was Scott Atlas yesterday saying, listen, we have to educate our kids.
00:58:57.000It is Republicans who are pushing this.
00:58:59.000Scott Atlas was appearing with Ron DeSantis in Florida, who again has handled this correctly.
00:59:34.000It's just incredible to me that the Democrats continue to maintain that it is Trump who is shutting down the economy, that it's Trump's fault.
00:59:40.000It's Democrats who want to keep it closed.
00:59:42.000And it is now obvious just how political this is when New Jersey and New York, which have no cases, in states of millions and millions and millions of people.
01:00:55.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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