The Ben Shapiro Show - The Religion Of Wokeness | Ep. 1024

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00:00:27.000 Okay, so I think what we are watching in increasing numbers is people converting to the religion of wokeness.

00:00:33.000 And the religion of wokeness is really exciting stuff.

00:00:35.000 The religion of wokeness has all the other stuff that religions have. 0.87

00:00:38.000 It has catechisms, things that you're just supposed to listen and repeat.

00:00:41.000 You may not understand them, but if you don't repeat them, this means you're bad and you have sinned.

00:00:45.000 It's got a nearly impenetrable code.

00:00:48.000 The code is constantly changing.

00:00:49.000 It is constantly moving.

00:00:50.000 You have no idea what the standard is from day to day, but that code is brought to you by a priestly caste of really intelligent and woke people who will be able to absolve you of sin so long as you listen to everything they say.

00:01:01.000 There is an intermediary between you and wokeness. 0.68

00:01:04.000 The intermediary is fairly obvious, right?

00:01:07.000 It is all the members of the New York Times editorial board.

00:01:09.000 It is all the people who tweet angrily on Twitter.

00:01:11.000 It is your late night host, but even they have intermediaries.

00:01:14.000 They have to call in some of their black friends that we saw on all of the late night TV shows last night in order to interpret blackness for them so that they can absolve themselves of their own white privilege.

00:01:22.000 It's got sacrificial rights, right? 0.97

00:01:24.000 People who are bad, who do not meld the proper catechism are immediately destroyed.

00:01:31.000 And there's no forgiveness, right?

00:01:32.000 There's no forgiveness.

00:01:33.000 And it's got public atonement rituals, where you're supposed to come out and make apologies for absolutely anodyne things.

00:01:39.000 If you do not repeat things loud enough or long enough, then you're considered bad.

00:01:43.000 The religion of wokeness suggests a bunch of conflicting things, and the only way to avoid the conflict is to just listen and repeat.

00:01:49.000 Listen and believe.

00:01:51.000 That's the basic idea here.

00:01:52.000 So, we have heard over the past 48 hours a few things.

00:01:54.000 Well, past, I would say several years, but really exacerbated in the last 48 hours.

00:01:59.000 We have heard that speech is violence.

00:02:00.000 So if I say something you don't like, I have enacted violence upon you.

00:02:03.000 I used to hear this when I would speak at college campuses.

00:02:05.000 People were literally chanting speech is violence when I spoke at UC Berkeley.

00:02:09.000 Also, silence is violence.

00:02:11.000 So, if you don't speak, that's a form of violence.

00:02:14.000 So, if you do speak, and we don't like it, that's violence.

00:02:17.000 If you don't speak, that is also a form of violence.

00:02:19.000 So, America has now adopted tap dancing, apparently, as its new solution, or mimery.

00:02:24.000 I mean, because if you speak, it's violence.

00:02:26.000 If you don't speak, it's violence.

00:02:27.000 So, We have to find some other form of communication.

00:02:31.000 The religious nature of wokeness is incredible.

00:02:34.000 It is a substitute for religion. 0.91

00:02:36.000 People are filling a God-shaped hole in their hearts with performative virtue signaling.

00:02:41.000 And what the virtue signaling is really designed to do in the end is to separate you off from the non-believers. 1.00

00:02:47.000 It really isn't designed to actually be virtuous.

00:02:50.000 It is not that you're doing anything virtuous when you kneel as a white person in front of a black protester and then suggest that America is endemically racist.

00:02:57.000 That is not you being a virtuous person.

00:02:59.000 That is you actively separating yourself off from people who will not do that.

00:03:02.000 It is you suggesting, because you're not actually taking on the sin.

00:03:05.000 What you're actually doing is saying, I am not responsible for the sins of the past.

00:03:08.000 I am not responsible for any of the bad things going on in society.

00:03:11.000 Please leave me alone.

00:03:12.000 All those other white folks who are not doing this, those are the people who are responsible. 0.90

00:03:16.000 So it's amazing to watch this blossom and become the state religion of the United States.

00:03:23.000 It's obviously the religion in Europe.

00:03:24.000 You've seen tens of thousands of people in Europe marching about police brutality in the United States, which is fairly interesting considering that over in Europe, they have a significant problem with, for example, massive anti-Semitism that has led to the mass exodus of Jews from Europe.

00:03:38.000 I haven't seen a lot of marches about that in Europe.

00:03:41.000 Hong Kong was recently completely taken over by the Chinese government and its millions of citizens subjected to the jackboot of the Chinese government.

00:03:46.000 No protests about that.

00:03:48.000 But when it comes to America being bad, that's something we can all agree on.

00:03:51.000 Because America, as the leader of Western civilization, that really is the new religion.

00:03:55.000 The new religion is that the first article of faith is that America is bad, was bad, will be bad, was rooted in corruption and evil.

00:04:01.000 And therefore, if we can all march together about that, we can separate ourselves off from the stench of evil Western civilization, and we can rip on people.

00:04:09.000 Now, again, none of this is to argue that marching against police brutality is bad.

00:04:14.000 Marching against police brutality is fine.

00:04:16.000 We all agree on that.

00:04:17.000 But that is not the program that is being promulgated by members of the media.

00:04:21.000 It is not the program that is being promulgated by many of the protesters.

00:04:24.000 I would say most of the protesters, they're not out there marching about police brutality purely.

00:04:27.000 They're out there marching with the assumption that America is systemically and endemically racist, and that American law enforcement is systemically and endemically racist.

00:04:34.000 If this were just about police brutality, there wouldn't be any kneeling.

00:04:37.000 If this were just about police brutality, there wouldn't be any talk about how America has deep, unextirpated sin that everyone in America is responsible for unless you do all these things that the woke want you to do.

00:04:50.000 If this were just about police brutality, we'd all agree.

00:04:52.000 As I pointed out yesterday, we all agree on certain fundamental propositions.

00:04:55.000 Proposition number one, police brutality is evil.

00:04:59.000 Number two, we all agree riding and looting is evil.

00:05:01.000 Number three, we all agree individual instances of racism, actual instances of racism, are evil.

00:05:06.000 We're all in agreement on that.

00:05:07.000 But that's not what these marches are about.

00:05:09.000 What these marches have become about is a broader agenda, which is basically suggesting that America at root, root and branch, is very, very, very bad.

00:05:19.000 And the media have taken that to the logical extreme by suggesting that rioting and looting are merely an extension of the protests.

00:05:23.000 Now, again, do I think all the protesters believe this?

00:05:25.000 No.

00:05:26.000 But I think that the messaging that is being put forth, including the kneeling, the obvious attempt to mimic the message that was put forth by Colin Kaepernick, that is clearly the message that is now being put forth by many of the protesters.

00:05:37.000 And that I object to, because if you could split the messages, I'm all for one, I'm not for the other.

00:05:41.000 All against police brutality, all against racism, all against the Use of policing in the wrong ways, all of that agreed.

00:05:51.000 Against rioting, all of that agreed.

00:05:53.000 But if the idea here, and as we'll see, this is the idea.

00:05:56.000 If the idea is that if you don't greenlight rioting and looting, that if you say that rioting and looting should be stopped, if you believe that America is actually an incredible, wonderful place, and the story of America is a story of tremendous founding principles and unchallenged Good philosophy that was failed by Americans for centuries.

00:06:15.000 But the story of America is the perfection of our behavior in accordance with original ideals.

00:06:19.000 So the story of America is America getting better in accordance with founding ideals.

00:06:23.000 If you believe that's the case, then you are to be thrown out.

00:06:25.000 And as we will see, this is actually what is happening to people, right?

00:06:28.000 If you say that America is a good place and the flag is good, you will now be called out as not being sufficiently woke and you will be called racist.

00:06:34.000 So we're going to get to all of that in just one second.

00:06:36.000 First, I have to bring you some updates.

00:06:37.000 on the George Floyd actual criminal case, and it's imperative that people understand the facts of the George Floyd criminal case, because you might need to know what's going to happen next.

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00:08:18.000 Okay, so let's go to the actual fact of the George Floyd prosecution, because it seems to me that the Attorney General of Minnesota is now doing something that is actually legally dangerous.

00:08:30.000 If you would like to see the officer in this case go to jail, then you need to charge him with the crime that he committed, and then you need to convict him of that crime.

00:08:38.000 One of the great dangers that we have seen in other cases is overcharging.

00:08:42.000 People Putting forth a charge that they cannot fulfill.

00:08:46.000 So, for example, if there had been an attempt to charge George Zimmerman with manslaughter as opposed to murder, there's a better case that he's probably in jail right now.

00:08:54.000 If, however, you're talking about charging somebody with second-degree or first-degree murder when they're obviously guilty of manslaughter or assault, then you can easily see somebody acquitted on a higher charge.

00:09:07.000 Now, people don't seem to understand how this works.

00:09:10.000 A charge is not your indicator of how seriously you take a crime.

00:09:14.000 That is not how charging works.

00:09:16.000 If you say second-degree murder as opposed to third-degree murder, that's not because you're taking the crime more seriously.

00:09:21.000 Or if you say third-degree murder as opposed to second-degree murder, that's not because you're taking the crime less seriously.

00:09:25.000 Crimes have definitions.

00:09:27.000 And so what we have seen in the media and from many of the people online is that they think that because Attorney General Keith Ellison upgraded charges against the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck from third degree murder to second degree murder that this is somehow an indicator that Minnesota is taking this thing more seriously.

00:09:47.000 That's really not how criminal law is supposed to work, nor should any of these decisions be driven by people outside the justice system making decisions about how to elevate charges based on public outrage. 0.78

00:09:58.000 That's a fool's errand. 1.00

00:09:59.000 It's stupid for a variety of reasons. 1.00

00:10:00.000 One, it's not equal justice under law. 1.00

00:10:02.000 But two, it is really, really stupid to change your charges to something you can't prove because of public pressure. 0.70

00:10:08.000 So yesterday, Keith Ellison, who, by the way, was an awful congressperson, awful congressperson, I mean, openly To the Floyd family, to our beloved community, and to everyone that is watching, I say, George Floyd mattered. 0.91

00:10:18.000 He was loved.

00:10:19.000 His family was important.

00:10:20.000 So Keith Ellison, yesterday he made this announcement.

00:10:22.000 He said that George Floyd mattered, which, of course, everyone agrees about, considering that everyone agrees about it.

00:10:26.000 To the Floyd family, to our beloved community and to everyone that is watching, I say George Floyd mattered.

00:10:35.000 He was loved.

00:10:36.000 His family was important.

00:10:38.000 His life had value.

00:10:40.000 And we will seek justice for him and for you.

00:10:44.000 And we will find it.

00:10:46.000 The very fact that we have filed these charges means that we believe in them.

00:10:50.000 But what I do not believe is that one successful prosecution can rectify the hurt and loss that so many people feel.

00:10:59.000 So now we are going to continue to perpetuate the narrative that even if the justice system works, the justice system is not working.

00:11:05.000 That's what Ellison is saying at the very end, that even if we convict this guy, then that has not alleviated the situation in any real way.

00:11:12.000 Magic Johnson is a good indicator of the sort of reaction that the elevation of the charges earned online.

00:11:17.000 So Magic Johnson, obviously the former NBA star and now part owner of the L.A. Lakers, says I'm so thrilled that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison amended the police officer who killed George Floyd's charge to second degree from third degree and have then announced the other three Minneapolis officers have been charged with aiding and abetting George Floyd's murder.

00:11:33.000 I'm wondering what his legal take is on that, because like he says the work does not stop here.

00:11:38.000 They must be sentenced.

00:11:39.000 We also need to continue to call for change with our policymakers.

00:11:42.000 If you believe that agitation gets charges elevated, that's really not a good thing.

00:11:45.000 You don't want political agitation elevating charges.

00:11:48.000 You want people charged with the crimes they can commit.

00:11:50.000 That is a bad thing.

00:11:51.000 And everyone, left, right, and center, should agree that is a bad thing.

00:11:54.000 If you can just agitate so that someone is charged with a crime with a higher penalty, that's not how the justice system is supposed to work.

00:12:01.000 But The real question is whether they are being charged with the correct crime.

00:12:05.000 And the reason I'm talking about this is because if you're a defense lawyer and you look at the case against Derek Chauvin, it is not impossible that Derek Chauvin gets off on this case.

00:12:15.000 It is not impossible that he's acquitted.

00:12:17.000 In fact, I would say that there's at least a 35% possibility that he's acquitted on these charges.

00:12:22.000 And the reason I say that is because of two specific elements.

00:12:26.000 One is, that the charges themselves might be overcharged.

00:12:30.000 So when you look at what the charges suggest, the differences between second and third degree murder, for example, second degree murder is typically described as you have to have intent to have done it.

00:12:43.000 Intent is a key element of the case.

00:12:46.000 Well, it's really not clear from the video that Chauvin intended to kill him.

00:12:50.000 It looks more like malicious and wanton destruction, right?

00:12:53.000 I mean, it looks more like third degree.

00:12:55.000 Third degree is malicious, is basically reckless disregard, right?

00:12:59.000 That you did something that could kill somebody and you didn't care and you just did it anyway, right?

00:13:03.000 That's what that video looks like.

00:13:04.000 Does it look like Chauvin was actively attempting to kill George Floyd?

00:13:07.000 Second degree sort of requires that.

00:13:10.000 Now, there are various sort of interpretations of these charges.

00:13:13.000 There's a good piece over at Heritage Foundation from a legal expert there saying the second degree actually is the appropriate charge.

00:13:19.000 I'll get to that in a second.

00:13:19.000 But, according to CNN, under Minnesota law, third-degree murder is defined as causing death of a person by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind without regard for life and without intent to kill.

00:13:32.000 Which is what this looks like.

00:13:33.000 But they just elevated it from third degree to second degree.

00:13:36.000 According to CNN legal analyst Laura Coates, a former U.S.

00:13:39.000 District Attorney for the District of Columbia, she is saying that now the other charges would require that a person plans and willingly carries out a killing or has intention to kill in the spur of the moment.

00:13:54.000 Now, the other possibility of second-degree murder is felony murder, is that you're committing a felony, and in the process of the felony, you kill somebody.

00:13:59.000 So you're robbing a store, and your gun accidentally goes off and you kill somebody.

00:14:02.000 That's felony murder.

00:14:04.000 You'd have to claim that Chauvin was committing a felony, which I guess you could call this felony as well, maybe?

00:14:09.000 And that's the theory of the case, perhaps?

00:14:11.000 But it's a risky charge.

00:14:12.000 It depends under which charges they're moving.

00:14:14.000 If they're going to claim that he had intent to kill Chauvin, that Chauvin had intent to kill Floyd, you could certainly see a jury saying, well, it looks more like he accidentally killed him after doing a very, very bad, terrible, brutal thing.

00:14:25.000 And so he's not actually guilty of second degree murder.

00:14:28.000 He might be guilty of manslaughter, for example, voluntary manslaughter.

00:14:31.000 You could see a jury doing that.

00:14:33.000 And this has happened in other cases.

00:14:34.000 Overcharging leads to acquittals.

00:14:36.000 So that is problem number one with the case.

00:14:40.000 Okay, then there is the problem of the other people who are being charged.

00:14:44.000 So they're charging the three other officers with aiding and abetting.

00:14:48.000 The statute that charges aiding and abetting is you are criminally liable for a crime committed by another if a person intentionally aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires with or otherwise procures the other to commit the crime.

00:15:00.000 So usually that means like you hired somebody or you're riding in the same car with somebody and you decided to commit the crime together.

00:15:07.000 You standing by and not doing anything?

00:15:09.000 Not quite as clear under Minnesota law.

00:15:12.000 Right, according to legal expert over at the Daily Signal, the three other officers mere presence at the scene or their inaction alone would not be sufficient for aiding and abetting.

00:15:21.000 Instead, they would have had to play a knowing role in Chauvin's crime.

00:15:24.000 Now, it's possible they get convicted if they quote-unquote did nothing to prevent the offenses committed or the brutal activity.

00:15:30.000 Because if you must have known of the activity and made no effort to stop it, then that makes the crime possible.

00:15:37.000 You could theoretically make that case, but it's going to be hard to argue aiding and abetting when the officers are just standing there.

00:15:44.000 Meaning, were they complicit in the act?

00:15:47.000 That's a hard legal line to draw.

00:15:48.000 So again, that's not making the case that they shouldn't be convicted, but it is making the case that you actually want to look at these facts because if you think things are bad right now, wait until a jury acquits the three other officers on charges of aiding and abetting because the legal definition ain't all that clear, or if Derek Chauvin gets off because Ellison overcharged.

00:16:10.000 That could be a real disaster.

00:16:11.000 That's why you have to be very specific as a prosecutor in exactly what you are doing.

00:16:15.000 Also, if you're the defense lawyer, you have a fairly decent case that this is not second-degree murder, specifically because there are two separate autopsies.

00:16:25.000 Now again, There are certain things you could certainly charge her and you could certainly convict for.

00:16:29.000 Felony assault would be an obvious one.

00:16:31.000 This is obviously an assault.

00:16:33.000 Actually, it's a battery.

00:16:34.000 He's committing battery on George Floyd.

00:16:37.000 There are certain things.

00:16:38.000 He should go to jail.

00:16:39.000 I mean, none of this is to doubt that Chauvin did something brutal and should go to jail.

00:16:42.000 The question is, you need to prepare the American public for the facts of the case, because otherwise what you end up with is this miasmatic sense in the atmosphere that Chauvin is going to go to jail for life, and then Ellison overcharges, or the defense puts on a fairly solid case, and he gets off, and then it's the American justice system is racist again.

00:16:59.000 And that's the way this goes.

00:17:00.000 We saw this with Michael Brown, for example.

00:17:02.000 In a second, I'm going to explain why the various autopsy reports also could be used in defense of the officer.

00:17:08.000 Again, people need to know this.

00:17:10.000 This is not me making a defense of the officer's activity at all.

00:17:14.000 The officer should go to jail.

00:17:15.000 The question is, under what circumstances and for what crime?

00:17:18.000 Because again, if you overcharge, you end up with an acquittal and things are going to be a lot worse a year from now if there's an acquittal in this case.

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00:18:40.000 Okay, so the autopsies that came back in the George Floyd case are conflicting.

00:18:48.000 So there is the official autopsy that was done by the government medical examiner.

00:18:52.000 And it's important here that we note that there are only a few classifications on government documents when it comes to death certificates and autopsies.

00:19:01.000 So there's accident, there's natural death, and there's homicide, right?

00:19:05.000 There are really only a few different categories that you can put down.

00:19:08.000 A homicide does not mean that somebody was murdered or that somebody was killed.

00:19:11.000 All it means is that somebody committed an act that ended in death.

00:19:15.000 Right, so that doesn't mean that it was the proximate cause of the death.

00:19:18.000 It means that it was not natural.

00:19:19.000 You didn't die in bed.

00:19:20.000 It wasn't an accident.

00:19:21.000 You didn't get hit by a car.

00:19:24.000 It wasn't a lightning strike or something.

00:19:29.000 So the mere classification of homicide does not mean that a murder took place.

00:19:33.000 So people, you need to understand how the process works if you understand what exactly these documents are saying.

00:19:37.000 So the original charging document against Chauvin said, no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.

00:19:46.000 Instead, it was a combination of force and health problems contributing to the death.

00:19:51.000 In other words, according to the police report, by the way, George Floyd was saying, I can't breathe, before the knee was put on his neck.

00:19:59.000 If you are the lawyer, you're going to say, Chauvin did something wrong here, he committed an assault, but he didn't kill him.

00:20:04.000 He didn't mean to kill him, he didn't kill him.

00:20:05.000 He died because he had fentanyl in his system, because he had some sort of pre-existing condition, and even according to the medical examiner, there was no traumatic asphyxia or strangulation, meaning he wasn't crushing his windpipe.

00:20:19.000 He may have exacerbated an underlying health situation like Eric Garner in New York again, but he didn't actually.

00:20:24.000 So that's what the defense is going to say.

00:20:25.000 Now the independent autopsy says that George Floyd's death was homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to lack of blood flow to the brain.

00:20:33.000 So that is a different autopsy report.

00:20:35.000 That's the one that's being done by the family.

00:20:38.000 So that is going to be the area in which the defense focuses.

00:20:41.000 The reason I'm bringing this all up is because it's very important to understand the facts of the case so that you charge correctly and so that we understand what is going to happen once this gets into a courtroom, because people don't pay attention to any of the details.

00:20:53.000 And then they are shocked when things do not go the way they want them to go.

00:20:56.000 We saw this with Michael Brown, the case of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

00:21:00.000 The original case, as reported by the media, was Michael Brown was shot in the back with his hands up.

00:21:05.000 And it turned out that none of the facts supported any element of that story.

00:21:09.000 And then the officer was not, in fact, indicted by a grand jury.

00:21:12.000 And people went nuts because the assumption had been from the original media coverage that this was going to turn into that sort of case.

00:21:18.000 You saw the same thing with Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.

00:21:21.000 The original story told by the media was that Trayvon Martin had been stalked and then shot down in cold blood by George Zimmerman.

00:21:27.000 And as it turns out, the story was different.

00:21:28.000 And so it looked like an overcharge by the prosecutors.

00:21:30.000 And he was acquitted.

00:21:32.000 And that was what happened.

00:21:33.000 So focus it, like the media are being irresponsible if they don't tell you all the facts, so that you can urge the prosecutors to actually charge correctly and put this guy in jail for the thing he did, not for a thing that he cannot be proved to have done.

00:21:48.000 If you want him in jail, you need the prosecutors to do the right thing, not to overcharge on the basis of people being mad on Twitter and thinking that you are more virtuous for overcharging than you would be for actually appropriately charging in this case.

00:22:00.000 Okay, this is a case for putting the person in jail, not a case against putting the person in jail.

00:22:05.000 Okay, so.

00:22:06.000 Meanwhile, that's all the underlying facts, because remember, George Floyd is the victim here.

00:22:10.000 I mean, George Floyd was at the center of this case.

00:22:12.000 I know that's all been forgotten, and I know that everything has become a slogan right now, but it seems to me that if you care about George Floyd and justice for his family, you should want the officer to go to jail, and it seems like the facts of the case are relevant to that particular inquiry. 0.97

00:22:22.000 Okay, in a second, we're going to get to the narrative, because the narrative has now become utterly stupid, utterly religious in nature. 0.96

00:22:27.000 The religion of wokeness has taken over in every way. 0.99

00:22:31.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:23:41.000 Okay, so, the religion of wokeness has now taken over. 0.56

00:23:44.000 As I've said before, and I will say again, Virtually everybody agrees on certain basic propositions.

00:23:49.000 Racism, bad.

00:23:51.000 Police brutality, bad.

00:23:52.000 Rioting and looting, bad.

00:23:55.000 But we have now reached the point where a huge swath of Americans are arguing for something different, about which there should be and is widespread disagreement.

00:24:03.000 One is the proposition that America is endemically racist and evil, that black people are under existential threat in the United States from police and from white Americans, and the proposition that racism can really be blamed for everything.

00:24:14.000 Now, there are a couple of different types of propositions that are all explanatory.

00:24:21.000 One is conspiracy theories.

00:24:23.000 Conspiracy theories are completely explanatory.

00:24:25.000 They are all explanatory.

00:24:28.000 And the second one is religion.

00:24:34.000 When it comes to conspiracy theory, everything can be explained by malevolent people behind the scenes pulling the strings.

00:24:39.000 This is the sort of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. 0.83

00:24:41.000 Or, by the way, the idea of institutional racism, that a bunch of white people are sitting behind the scenes and deliberately attempting to harm black people. 1.00

00:24:49.000 If you're making that argument, you're an idiot. 1.00

00:24:51.000 There is not some cadre of white people out there who are like, how do we keep black people down today? 1.00

00:24:57.000 That does not exist. 0.64

00:24:58.000 That is not a thing.

00:24:59.000 If there are people who think that way, they're living in a bunker somewhere in Idaho, right?

00:25:04.000 I mean, and it's like four of them.

00:25:06.000 So, that's not real.

00:25:08.000 Okay, the other one is religion.

00:25:10.000 Religion suggests that there is an all-encompassing logic to the universe, and it is provided by God, the creator, who stands behind the logic of the universe.

00:25:19.000 The religion of wokeness is a religion.

00:25:21.000 It suggests that there is a creator of America, a creator of Western civilization.

00:25:25.000 That creator is not God.

00:25:27.000 That creator is not human beings with actual agency.

00:25:29.000 That creator is racism.

00:25:31.000 Racism is the malevolent God in the religion of wokeness.

00:25:34.000 And it is up to you to fight that malevolent God.

00:25:37.000 Because everything can be explained by racism.

00:25:38.000 Literally all things.

00:25:40.000 And if you think it can't be explained by racism, it's because you're not going high level enough.

00:25:44.000 So take, for example, there's a tweet yesterday, and it is just a perfect example of this religion from Mark Levine.

00:25:50.000 And Mark Levine writes, this guy is the chair of New York City Council Health Committee.

00:25:56.000 Remember, one second ago, he was saying that you were murdering grandmother if you went outside without a mask.

00:26:01.000 Now he says, let's be clear about something.

00:26:03.000 If there is a spike in coronavirus cases in the next two weeks, don't blame the protesters, blame racism.

00:26:09.000 Ah, racism, the all-purpose god of the gaps for the left.

00:26:13.000 You can't explain differentials, you can't explain inequalities, or you're unwilling to say that behavior might be an actual factor in unequal outcomes.

00:26:22.000 Well, then, that's because racism.

00:26:25.000 Because racism.

00:26:26.000 Racism is the god of the gaps.

00:26:27.000 And let's say that you even say that.

00:26:28.000 Let's say that, for example, you suggest that, hey, wait a second, the protesters, they might have higher levels of COVID-19 because they're out there infecting each other.

00:26:36.000 And that's, I thought that's bad, right?

00:26:38.000 I mean, I thought we opposed that, didn't we?

00:26:39.000 Until like five seconds ago?

00:26:42.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:26:43.000 You can't blame the protesters, because the protesters are protesting racism.

00:26:46.000 So if you just remove one level, then racism is still to blame.

00:26:50.000 And this is like the argument that suggests, oh, by the way, you might notice that police officers are having tons and tons of law enforcement encounters with black people.

00:26:58.000 And maybe that is the reason for elevated numbers of bad incidents involving police and black people. 0.98

00:27:03.000 If you're talking about disproportionate numbers of black people being arrested, maybe it's not that the police officers are just rounding up black folks. 0.98

00:27:09.000 Maybe it's that black people are statistically committing more crimes. 1.00

00:27:12.000 On average, than white people are. 0.97

00:27:14.000 That 13% of the American population is black, but something like 40-50% of all murders in the United States are committed by black men, and therefore the police are having more encounters with black homicide suspects than they are with white homicide suspects as a percentage of the population.

00:27:29.000 Well, then, so that would be an answer to why the police are having these encounters with black people that does not implicate racism.

00:27:36.000 So then, if you are a true religious woke person, what you say is, no, no, no, it's still racism.

00:27:41.000 It's still racism.

00:27:42.000 Because you see, the institution of the police itself was racist and was instituted as a racist institution.

00:27:47.000 And not only that, the difference in human behavior today Between the black man who murders somebody and the white man who murders somebody is attributable to historic racism. 0.59

00:27:57.000 So the reason that you have these differentials in the first place is because of slavery and Jim Crow.

00:28:01.000 So you can always just remove one level and then you get to racism as the bottom line rationale for everything.

00:28:06.000 It's the all-important factor in everything and it's the explanatory factor in everything.

00:28:10.000 That's a religious perspective.

00:28:12.000 Because when you ask people to nail down exactly how that works, It's nearly impossible.

00:28:17.000 But if you refuse to accept that that is the case, then you are a heretic, and you must be outed, and you must be ousted. 0.95

00:28:24.000 And that is how you end up blaming racism for COVID-19 upticks at rallies with thousands of people protesting, when it is perfectly obvious why you're going to see an uptick if you do see an uptick, and it's because you have thousands of people breathing all over each other, and the virus doesn't care why you're out there protesting.

00:28:41.000 So this has become a religion, and you can see the religious aspects of it in the human behavior surrounding it.

00:28:48.000 The virtue signaling is not about actual virtue.

00:28:51.000 It is about the idea that you are fighting against the heretics. 0.93

00:28:53.000 You are fighting against the barbarians at the gates who doubt the story. 0.72

00:28:58.000 So best example ever, this example from Bethesda, Maryland, which is a rich white suburb in Maryland.

00:29:05.000 I don't see any of these people sending their kids, busing their kids into inner cities, into impoverished schools with heavy minority populations out of solidarity.

00:29:13.000 But what they are willing to do is sit on the ground and then listen and repeat.

00:29:16.000 This is just a religious ceremony.

00:29:18.000 It's a religious right.

00:29:19.000 White people are supposed to accept the sins of their forefathers upon them, but that's not really what they're doing. 0.60

00:29:26.000 Let's be real about this.

00:29:27.000 What they're actually doing is they're now able to go around and say to their friends, well, I accept white privilege, but you don't!

00:29:33.000 You don't! 1.00

00:29:33.000 And thus you are damned! 1.00

00:29:35.000 So the reality is that I accepted the sin, but I don't really accept the sin because the sin's not on me, man.

00:29:39.000 I extirpated the sin.

00:29:41.000 I did my atonement.

00:29:42.000 I did my public atonement ritual.

00:29:43.000 I sacrificed my goat.

00:29:45.000 You didn't sacrifice your goat.

00:29:46.000 Therefore, you're the one who really carries the communal sin upon you because you are the one continuing to perpetuate racism by not doing this random symbolic act today.

00:29:55.000 That's a religious take.

00:29:56.000 Here was the religious take yesterday in Bethesda, Maryland.

00:29:59.000 About racism, anti-blackness, or violence.

00:30:02.000 About racism, anti-blackness, or violence.

00:30:06.000 I will use my voice in the most uplifting way possible and do everything in my power to educate my community.

00:30:20.000 I will love my black neighbors the same as my white ones.

00:30:28.000 I mean, it's a public atonement ritual.

00:30:30.000 That's what it is.

00:30:31.000 And by the way, when they say I will educate everybody, no you won't.

00:30:34.000 What you will do is you will repeat what this person says to you to somebody else.

00:30:37.000 And then you will claim that you have educated somebody.

00:30:39.000 You will proselytize on behalf of people who quote-unquote know better.

00:30:43.000 That's what's going on here.

00:30:43.000 Right?

00:30:46.000 There's a reason why white liberals are the people who are most likely to defend looting.

00:30:50.000 There's a poll out today showing that white college-educated liberals are the people most likely to defend looting. 1.00

00:30:54.000 Because most Americans don't buy into this crap. 0.98

00:30:56.000 But if you are a deep devotee of the religion of intersectionality, if you are a deep devotee of the idea that white privilege decides everything in America, Then you are going to defend looting. 0.99

00:31:05.000 Because you just don't understand the looters, don't you see?

00:31:07.000 You don't understand their lived experience.

00:31:09.000 And until you understand their lived experience, you can't fight back again.

00:31:12.000 Racism is to blame for the looting.

00:31:14.000 Just remove it one level.

00:31:15.000 Remember, it's not the people making the decision to steal that pair of shoes from Foot Locker.

00:31:19.000 Supposedly in memory of George Floyd or some such nonsense that the Floyd family actively, actively says is bad?

00:31:25.000 No, it's that racism at a higher level drove people into poverty, and drove them into despair, and drove them into stealing a pair of shoes from the Nike store.

00:31:34.000 Even if Nike puts out an ad talking about how bad racism is.

00:31:38.000 This is the religion, and the religion must be listened to at all times.

00:31:42.000 I'll get to more examples of this, because it's astonishing.

00:31:43.000 I mean, it has gone to utterly extraordinary lengths.

00:31:47.000 Americans should not buy into this.

00:31:49.000 It destroys the possibility of unity.

00:31:52.000 Because for the 1,200,073rd time, We all have unity on racism is bad.

00:31:59.000 We all have unity on police brutality is bad.

00:32:01.000 But that's not what the religion says.

00:32:03.000 The religion must have outcasts. 1.00

00:32:04.000 The religion must have heretics. 1.00

00:32:05.000 And the religion makes claims that are significantly beyond racism is bad to, you are a racist if you don't do random performative thing I tell you to do today. 0.99

00:32:14.000 If you do not read these chicken entrails the way I tell you today, you are bad. 0.99

00:32:18.000 And you are an enemy of the religion. 0.89

00:32:20.000 And you must be made to repent.

00:32:23.000 We're gonna get to that in just one second.

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00:33:29.000 Alrighty, in a second we're going to get to some pure proof that this has now become basically a religious conflict.

00:33:38.000 A religious conflict in which the woke are not actually proposing anything that remotely resembles reality.

00:33:45.000 It's not about practical proposals.

00:33:47.000 It's not about things that we can either agree or disagree about.

00:33:50.000 It is about generalized propositions.

00:33:52.000 Manifested in bizarre acts.

00:33:54.000 Generalized propositions like America is bad manifested in bizarre acts like kneeling before kneeling before protesters.

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00:36:30.000 All righty, so...

00:36:37.000 The religion of wokeness, it has its priests, and it has its devotees, and it has its proselytizers as well.

00:36:46.000 So, the sort of hierarchy, in terms of the Priestley case, are people like the people over at the New York Times.

00:36:53.000 So the people over at the New York Times, there was a piece written by the sitting senator, Tom Cotton, from Arkansas, who was a member of the military.

00:37:00.000 And he wrote a piece called, Send in the Droogs.

00:37:03.000 And it was about the use of the military to stop rioting and looting.

00:37:05.000 Which, by the way, happened in 1992.

00:37:07.000 It has happened repeatedly in American history.

00:37:09.000 If you require the National Guard, or you require the military, in order to stop rioting and looting, There is plenty of legal precedent for this.

00:37:15.000 The president does have the power under the Insurrection Act to do this.

00:37:17.000 It has been invoked before.

00:37:18.000 The idea it's not been invoked since 1807 is a lie.

00:37:22.000 This thing runs in the New York Times.

00:37:24.000 And New York Times staffers then start using all of the tactics they learned at Wellesley in order to stop this.

00:37:31.000 Tactic number one is this thing.

00:37:32.000 If you've ever been at a college protest, it's amazing.

00:37:34.000 I mean, this is all religious.

00:37:35.000 It's so religious.

00:37:37.000 As a religious person, I can identify the symbols of religion when they are used.

00:37:40.000 If you've ever been on a college campus, there's a thing that people do where if a speaker says something, you're not supposed to clap because it might traumatize somebody.

00:37:47.000 So they do this.

00:37:50.000 Right?

00:37:50.000 That's their thing.

00:37:51.000 They snap to symbolize agreement.

00:37:54.000 And also at their protests, as you saw in that protest from Bethesda, somebody will repeat a slogan or a very, very long sort of encomium, and then you're supposed to repeat it word for word.

00:38:05.000 Say, I pledge to do X, Y, and Z.

00:38:08.000 I pledge to you X, Y, and Z in support of the environment, in support of the environment, and transgender lobsters, and transgender lobsters, right? 0.99

00:38:16.000 That's how it goes on college campuses.

00:38:17.000 So the staffers at the New York Times are doing this now.

00:38:20.000 So Tom Cotton has his op-ed printed.

00:38:23.000 And this results in Taylor Lorenz, a reporter for the New York Times, writing, running this puts black New York Times staff in danger, in danger.

00:38:31.000 Writing and looting is not dangerous.

00:38:34.000 If you put an op-ed about How you might need the police and the military to put down riots and looters.

00:38:40.000 You're putting black New York Times staffers in danger.

00:38:42.000 Are you out looting tonight? 0.96

00:38:42.000 Why? 0.96

00:38:43.000 Seriously, how does that put you in danger?

00:38:46.000 First of all, it's an op-ed.

00:38:47.000 It is not an act of Congress.

00:38:48.000 Second of all, even if it were an act of Congress, are you rioting and looting tonight, Taylor Lorenz?

00:38:52.000 And then there was Katie Weaver, another New York Times staffer.

00:38:55.000 Running this puts black New York Times staff in danger.

00:38:59.000 J.C. 0.56

00:39:00.000 Fortin, another New York Times staffer, running this puts black New York Times staff in danger, right?

00:39:04.000 They're doing the exact Wellesley thing.

00:39:05.000 They're all repeating the same things.

00:39:06.000 They're snapping.

00:39:08.000 All of this to stop the New York Times from running a dissenting op-ed.

00:39:14.000 I mean, this is absurd.

00:39:16.000 And then the New York Times runs a separate piece about resistance at the New York Times to the New York Times editorial board.

00:39:16.000 It's absurd.

00:39:23.000 So the New York Times editorial board is not woke enough because they ran a piece, which by the way, the proposition that if we have to use the military to put down the rioting and looting, that we should, that is a proposition that by polling data is supported by somewhere between 6 and 7 in Americans out of 10.

00:39:36.000 It is a vast majority proposition.

00:39:38.000 Most Americans agree.

00:39:39.000 Whatever you have to do so we can go back to work and so that we can, you know, not be locked in our homes at 9 p.m.

00:39:44.000 or 1 p.m.

00:39:45.000 in Beverly Hills every day, maybe that's worth it.

00:39:49.000 So the New York Times has now run a full piece about the New York Times, the New York Times priesthood, the intersectional priesthood, dictating religious terms to the New York Times editorial board.

00:40:00.000 The most woke Wellesley graduates who have used, see, everybody thought, I didn't think this because I've spent too much time on college campuses to think this.

00:40:08.000 There's a whole group of people, cancel culture doesn't exist.

00:40:10.000 Who cares about safe spaces and microaggressions?

00:40:12.000 Once they get out in the real world, they're going to see this stuff doesn't work.

00:40:15.000 Well, what if they get out in the real world and then they impose that system on everybody else?

00:40:19.000 What if it turns out that what starts on college campuses does not end on college campuses?

00:40:22.000 It just started there.

00:40:24.000 If that's what you're seeing at the New York Times today, according to the New York Times, and this would be Mark Tracy reporting, Senators sending the troops op-ed in the Times draws online ire.

00:40:34.000 Staff members at the newspaper, including a Pulitzer winner, denounced an opinion essay by Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, calling for a military response to protests.

00:40:42.000 The Times has reported on the debate within the administration over whether or not to follow Cotton's suggestion.

00:40:48.000 But now you have a bunch of members of the New York Times who are criticizing the New York Times op-ed board.

00:40:53.000 By the way, you know what I would do if staffers at my... I run publication.

00:40:58.000 If my staffers went online and started ripping me for running an op-ed, and we run a variety of op-eds from the right, many of them disagree with each other.

00:41:05.000 If people went online and they started suggesting that I'm putting lives in danger, number one, you should quit.

00:41:09.000 If you think that your publication is putting lives in danger or doing something so deeply immoral you cannot work there, you should leave.

00:41:17.000 By the way, I did it back in 2016.

00:41:17.000 You should.

00:41:19.000 I actually did.

00:41:21.000 I left a publication over disagreements with the way they were treating their own reporter.

00:41:26.000 So, I'm speaking from experience here.

00:41:28.000 Any of these New York Times reporters can give up their cush job with the cush salary anytime, but they're not going to, right?

00:41:33.000 They're gonna virtue signal.

00:41:34.000 So, instead, you get a variety of members of the newspaper staff criticizing this.

00:41:42.000 So, James Bennett, the editorial page editor, was forced to issue a statement.

00:41:45.000 But this is bad.

00:41:46.000 Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

00:41:47.000 to our readers to show them counter arguments, particularly those made by people in a position to set policy.

00:41:50.000 We understand that many readers find Senator Cotton's argument painful, even dangerous.

00:41:54.000 We believe that is one reason it requires public scrutiny and debate.

00:41:57.000 But this is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

00:42:01.000 Dozens of Times staff members tweeted the same sentence because Nicole Hannah-Jones, correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, who won a Pulitzer Prize for a garbage essay in which she completely botched the history.

00:42:14.000 And she continues to botch the history. 0.98

00:42:15.000 A person who said literally yesterday that rioting and looting is not actually violence.

00:42:19.000 Did you know?

00:42:20.000 Rioting and looting isn't violence.

00:42:21.000 Speech is violence.

00:42:22.000 Quote, I'll probably get in trouble for this, but to not say something would be immoral.

00:42:26.000 As a black woman, as a journalist, as an American, I am deeply ashamed that we ran this.

00:42:31.000 Well, why don't you toss in some crappy history and some overwrought writing? 0.97

00:42:35.000 Then you'll probably be fine with it.

00:42:36.000 I mean, then you want to appeal it to her, maybe.

00:42:39.000 The News Guild of New York, a union that represents many times journalists, said in a statement on Wednesday that the op-ed, quote, promotes hate.

00:42:46.000 Promotes hate.

00:42:48.000 They said this is a particularly vulnerable moment in American history.

00:42:50.000 Cotton's op-ed pours gasoline on the fire.

00:42:53.000 Media organizations have a responsibility to hold power to account, not amplify voices of power without context and caution.

00:43:00.000 This is just insane.

00:43:02.000 Okay, it's fully crazy.

00:43:04.000 And apparently, there are a bunch of people from the New York Times who are saying, my sources aren't even talking to me anymore.

00:43:09.000 My sources won't give me information anymore because of this op-ed.

00:43:13.000 Sure, sure they won't.

00:43:14.000 Sure the sources leaking you information are now going to go silent on you because they didn't like Tom Cotton's op-ed.

00:43:14.000 Sure they won't.

00:43:19.000 By the way, I am amazed.

00:43:20.000 This is where they draw the line, the New York Times.

00:43:22.000 They've run op-eds from Vladimir Putin, from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

00:43:25.000 They've run op-eds in support of communism.

00:43:28.000 They've run op-eds from the Chinese government.

00:43:30.000 But Tom Cotton says, maybe we should use the military to put down rioting and looting if nothing else suffices, and here's the legal authority to do so.

00:43:36.000 And my God, you're endangering everyone.

00:43:39.000 This is religious, religious nonsense. 0.99

00:43:41.000 Religious nonsense. 1.00

00:43:42.000 My favorite religious video, actually, of the week comes courtesy of some account called Digital Forests, I guess.

00:43:49.000 This is a video from New York.

00:43:51.000 So after some of the rioting and looting, there were some people who apparently own a building or work for a building owner, and they were trying to clean graffiti off the side of a building.

00:44:00.000 Which is what you should do because graffiti is illegal and bad and ugly and terrible.

00:44:05.000 Graffiti is defacement of private property.

00:44:08.000 So naturally, a woke white woman rolls up and she starts lecturing these women who are cleaning off the graffiti, saying they are racist for cleaning off the graffiti. 0.94

00:44:18.000 You shall atone! 0.98

00:44:20.000 Here's our new ridiculous standard of the moment. 0.97

00:44:22.000 And I'm going to- Shame! 0.99

00:44:25.000 Shame!

00:44:27.000 It's now Game of Thrones. 0.97

00:44:29.000 They'll force these people to walk naked through a crowd while you toss an excrement at them because they're cleaning graffiti off a wall. 0.72

00:44:33.000 Here's this video. 0.95

00:44:34.000 It's insane.

00:44:36.000 Why are you guys removing Black Lives Matter's graffiti?

00:44:40.000 We're just trying to take care of the thing.

00:44:42.000 We tried over there and it wasn't coming off.

00:44:43.000 It's still the one that's coming off.

00:44:45.000 Well, why do you want that to come off?

00:44:47.000 Because this is a federal building.

00:44:49.000 Yeah, it's just a vandalism. 0.91

00:44:52.000 So you don't care about black lives then? 0.81

00:44:53.000 Not at all.

00:44:54.000 That's not at all what we're saying.

00:44:56.000 That's what this... We certainly do care about black lives.

00:44:59.000 Not enough to leave up a message?

00:45:02.000 We don't disagree with the message, ma'am.

00:45:02.000 No.

00:45:04.000 It's just on the building.

00:45:05.000 We're just trying to clean it.

00:45:07.000 Right. 0.85

00:45:09.000 Not a great way to use your white privilege, ladies. 1.00

00:45:12.000 Not a great... Not a great way to use your white privilege. 1.00

00:45:15.000 Oh, go to hell. 1.00

00:45:17.000 I mean, seriously. 0.99

00:45:18.000 You're in favor of racism if you're cleaning graffiti off a federal building?

00:45:21.000 It's not even a private building, it's a federal building.

00:45:24.000 Insanity.

00:45:25.000 Full-scale insanity.

00:45:26.000 But, this is the way it's gonna work now.

00:45:28.000 You know Lego?

00:45:29.000 Lego, the company, asked stores to stop advertising police and White House sets Legos.

00:45:36.000 They are Legos.

00:45:38.000 The Legos are not racist.

00:45:40.000 Did the Legos kill George Floyd? 0.90

00:45:43.000 Are the Legos brutalizing black people? 0.99

00:45:46.000 What in the actual living hell are you talking about? 1.00

00:45:50.000 What in the world? 0.95

00:45:51.000 I'll tell you what I'm gonna do today.

00:45:53.000 I'm gonna go buy some Legos on discount.

00:45:54.000 Because, like, if I can get them cheaper for my kids, I will absolutely do it.

00:45:59.000 Absolute insanity.

00:46:00.000 But these are the rituals that are required.

00:46:03.000 Now, the person who has gotten hit the hardest over the last 24 hours is, of course, the New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees.

00:46:09.000 He's a future Hall of Famer.

00:46:10.000 He's a Super Bowl winner.

00:46:12.000 He said something super bad.

00:46:14.000 Super duper bad.

00:46:15.000 That requires ATONEMENT.

00:46:17.000 What did he say that was so bad?

00:46:19.000 He said, I don't like when people kneel for the national anthem and the American flag.

00:46:22.000 Which, by the way, is like a 60-40 proposition in the United States.

00:46:24.000 And before Trump, it was like an 80-20 proposition.

00:46:26.000 That people were not really very hot on the idea of kneeling for the American flag or the national anthem because those used to be unifying symbols.

00:46:33.000 What he's about to say is so utterly uncontroversial that it should go without saying.

00:46:37.000 But nothing goes without saying.

00:46:38.000 And in fact, if you do say this, then your speech has now become a form of violence.

00:46:43.000 And also, if you are silent, you are violent.

00:46:45.000 And also, if you do anything we don't like, you are violent.

00:46:48.000 So here is Drew Brees saying an uncontroversial thing and then being forced to walk it back by the most woke among us, LeBron James, who had nothing to say about, you know, the Chinese government cracking down on the NBA over one GM in the NBA saying a bad thing about China and Hong Kong.

00:47:04.000 And by the way, the bad thing was correct.

00:47:05.000 LeBron James comes down on Drew Brees for this.

00:47:08.000 Here's what Drew Brees had to say.

00:47:11.000 I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.

00:47:17.000 Let me just tell you what I see or what I feel when the national anthem is played and when I look at the flag of the United States.

00:47:27.000 I envision my two grandfathers who fought for this country during World War II, one in the Army and one in the Marine Corps.

00:47:35.000 Both risking their lives to protect our country and to try to make our country and this world a better place.

00:47:43.000 So every time I stand with my hand over my heart, looking at that flag and singing the national anthem, that's what I think about.

00:47:52.000 Okay, and this was apparently extremely bad.

00:47:55.000 Very, very terrible and bad.

00:47:57.000 So bad that LeBron James went out there and tweeted about it.

00:48:00.000 It was just awful.

00:48:03.000 LeBron James tweeted, Wow, man.

00:48:05.000 Is it still surprising at this point?

00:48:06.000 Sure isn't.

00:48:07.000 You literally still don't understand why Kap was kneeling on one knee?

00:48:09.000 Okay, so let's be frank about this.

00:48:11.000 This is LeBron James basically saying that Colin Kaepernick was right.

00:48:15.000 So there are some people who are saying, Okay, Breeze is missing the point.

00:48:17.000 The kneeling right now isn't the same as the kneeling that Kaepernick was doing.

00:48:20.000 That is not true, okay?

00:48:22.000 We all know what the kneeling is.

00:48:23.000 It's been a symbol in American public life for a while.

00:48:25.000 So, LeBron James tweets out about this.

00:48:28.000 And he tweets out, you still don't know what Colin Kaepernick was doing?

00:48:34.000 And then he suggests that it is very bad.

00:48:36.000 You have to kneel.

00:48:37.000 He said, he has absolutely nothing to do with disrespect of the flag of the United States and our soldiers who keep our land free.

00:48:43.000 My father-in-law was one of the men who fought as well for this country.

00:48:45.000 I asked him a question about it and thank him all the time for his commitment.

00:48:48.000 He never found CAP peaceful protest offensive because he and I both know what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.

00:48:53.000 God bless you.

00:48:54.000 Richard Sherman also said he's beyond lost about Drew Brees, beyond lost.

00:48:58.000 Guarantee you there were black men fighting alongside your grandfather, but this doesn't seem to be about that.

00:49:02.000 That uncomfortable conversation you're trying to avoid by injecting military into a conversation about brutality and equality is part of the problem.

00:49:08.000 But what if the Colin Kaepernick protest was wrong?

00:49:10.000 What if all of these things are true at the same time?

00:49:12.000 Kneeling for the national anthem is wrong.

00:49:13.000 Kneeling for the American flag is wrong.

00:49:15.000 Police brutality is bad and racism is bad.

00:49:17.000 And the American flag does not represent police brutality and racism.

00:49:19.000 Right?

00:49:19.000 That's the conflation that Colin Kaepernick made.

00:49:22.000 And that's what Drew Brees was objecting to.

00:49:24.000 But Drew Brees had to apologize.

00:49:26.000 He was forced into a public humiliation ritual.

00:49:28.000 Yay! 1.00

00:49:28.000 Because this is how our stupid country works now. 1.00

00:49:30.000 So Drew Brees was forced to apologize and he put out a statement. 0.99

00:49:35.000 He said, I would like to apologize to my friends, teammates, the city of New Orleans, the black community, NFL community, and anyone I hurt with my comments yesterday.

00:49:41.000 In speaking with some of you, it breaks my heart to know the pain I have caused.

00:49:44.000 He literally said, don't kneel for the American flag.

00:49:47.000 Apparently, massive pain caused.

00:49:49.000 In an attempt to talk about respect, unity, and solidarity centered around the American flag and the national anthem, I made comments that were insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country.

00:49:58.000 And then he puts out a bunch of statements about standing against the systematic racial injustice and police brutality and creation of real policy change that will make a difference, condemning the years of oppression that have taken place throughout our black communities and still exists today.

00:50:10.000 So now he is repeating the various slogans he's expected to repeat in order so that he can be expiated of his sin.

00:50:17.000 Because that's the way this works.

00:50:18.000 You say the American flag is not bad, and that the national anthem is good, and now you have to repeat all of the slogans that you are sent by the PR department over at the New Orleans Saints.

00:50:26.000 That's the way this is supposed to work.

00:50:28.000 By the way, the Broncos head coach was forced to do the same thing.

00:50:31.000 Broncos head coach said, I think that there's minimal.

00:50:34.000 He said he thinks that the NFL is a league of meritocracy.

00:50:36.000 You earn what you get, you get what you earn.

00:50:38.000 He said, I don't see racism at all in the NFL.

00:50:40.000 I don't see discrimination in the NFL.

00:50:41.000 By the way, huge majority of players in the NFL are black.

00:50:44.000 And so he then had to put out a statement saying, after reflecting on my comments and listening to players this morning, I realized what I said regarding racism and discrimination in the NFL was wrong.

00:50:55.000 While I have never personally experienced those terrible things firsthand, during my 33 years in the NFL, I understand many players, coaches, and staff have different perspectives.

00:51:01.000 I should have been more clear, and I am sorry.

00:51:04.000 I look forward to listening to the players both individually and collectively.

00:51:07.000 There's a lot of work to be done in the areas of diversity and providing opportunities across the board for I mean, it's just unbelievable.

00:51:13.000 We're just gonna force everybody to repeat the same catechism.

00:51:19.000 The religion is quite powerful.

00:51:20.000 It is quite powerful.

00:51:21.000 Okay.

00:51:22.000 In a second, we're going to get to the virtue signaling by the people who are attempting to demonstrate their bona fides and the lack of clarity in what exactly is being demanded.

00:51:33.000 So one of the things I've been saying all along is it seems like there should be some agreement on some of the policy.

00:51:37.000 We should be able to agree that we need to more clearly define, for example, qualified immunity.

00:51:40.000 So yesterday, On the show, as I was informed by people correctly.

00:51:45.000 I misidentified the nature of qualified immunity.

00:51:47.000 It does not mean you can't be prosecuted if you are a police officer for doing a bad thing.

00:51:51.000 It means that you're immune from civil liability so long as you did something that is quote-unquote within the scope of agency.

00:51:56.000 The problem is that the Supreme Court has failed to define scope of agency, so you have a bunch of bad cases where people are doing stuff that's clearly criminal and still cannot be sued for that.

00:52:05.000 And by the way, if the individual can't be sued, then the police department ends up suing and the taxpayer ends up on the hook.

00:52:10.000 I also suggested that police unions are a problem.

00:52:13.000 I still agree with this, right?

00:52:15.000 I'm not going to back off the idea that unions in general in the public sector are bad.

00:52:18.000 It is illegal for them to strike.

00:52:19.000 That does not mean they have not struck in the past, that they have indeed committed strikes in the past.

00:52:25.000 But these are areas where there should be some policy disagreement between left and right and libertarians and conservatives.

00:52:30.000 Clarence Thomas is very much in favor of changing the Qualified Immunity Doctrine, for example.

00:52:35.000 But here's the problem.

00:52:37.000 There's not actual agreement among people on the left, members of the religion, about the actual policies to be pursued.

00:52:43.000 There's not actual agreement on this stuff.

00:52:46.000 Because the radicals don't want any of that stuff.

00:52:48.000 The radicals don't care about that stuff.

00:52:50.000 The radicals are openly suggesting that we defund the police.

00:52:55.000 So the Black Lives Matter movement will develop an armed branch of peace officers to combat police brutality in black communities during a so-called war on police.

00:53:06.000 This is according to an interview with the Daily Mail where BLM New York Chapter Chairman Hawk Newsome describes how the group plans to follow in the footsteps of the Black Panther Party by matching fire with fire when necessary.

00:53:17.000 He says, we're talking about defending our communities.

00:53:19.000 You know what it's like to see a taser pointed at a 7-year-old?

00:53:21.000 You know what it's like to see a 67-year-old black woman pepper sprayed and pushed to the ground? 0.99

00:53:25.000 We're preparing and training to defend our communities.

00:53:28.000 So, he's now talking about arming quote-unquote peace officers, open carrying firearms while patrolling black communities in order to deter police brutality.

00:53:37.000 Now listen, if you are abiding by the law in open carrying, Do what you want to do, right?

00:53:42.000 I mean, that is fully in consonance with the law.

00:53:45.000 If you are suggesting that when a police officer comes to arrest somebody for a crime, that you need people who are going to show up and stop that, that's kind of a problem, is it not?

00:53:53.000 And then there's controversy on the left over defunding the police.

00:53:56.000 So one of the big slogans that is now gaining steam is defund the police.

00:53:59.000 By the way, if you've enjoyed the last week in America, if you've enjoyed your free trial of major cities without police, I urge you to buy the subscription Democrats are offering.

00:54:08.000 Because it seems like a really crappy deal.

00:54:11.000 It seems like the veneer between civilization and widespread rioting and looting was like this thin, and when you remove the police, it's gone.

00:54:19.000 Amazing.

00:54:20.000 Okay, so Brian Fallon, was the former press secretary for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

00:54:25.000 Due to mainstream Democrat.

00:54:27.000 He tweeted out yesterday, defund the police.

00:54:31.000 Defund the police.

00:54:32.000 Yes, get rid of the police.

00:54:34.000 Get rid of it.

00:54:35.000 Genius idea.

00:54:36.000 Genius idea. 1.00

00:54:37.000 But there's disagreement on the left about this proposition because, of course, it's an idiotic idea. 0.99

00:54:41.000 So Eric Garcetti called for cuts to police funding in LA while the LAPD is wildly understaffed. 0.99

00:54:46.000 As in, like, the New York City Police Department is not understaffed in terms of a population-to-police level.

00:54:53.000 Or at least not to the extent of L.A.

00:54:54.000 is probably the most understaffed major city in the country in terms of just number of population to number of police.

00:54:54.000 L.A.

00:54:59.000 Very, very small department.

00:55:00.000 So Garcetti called for serious cuts to police funding, which makes perfect sense in the middle of rioting and looting.

00:55:05.000 In the middle of us having to go into mandatory curfew each night, perfect time to call for cuts to police funding.

00:55:10.000 But the Congressional Black Caucus chair actually opposes defunding the police.

00:55:14.000 So there's disagreements on the left about policy.

00:55:16.000 As we will see, this disagreement on the left about policy ends up resolving itself by avoiding policy discussions entirely.

00:55:23.000 So we won't discuss policies that could fix any of this.

00:55:25.000 Instead, what we will discuss is broad statements about American evil.

00:55:30.000 So here is Karen Bass, Representative Karen Bass from California. 0.55

00:55:33.000 She's chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, saying that defund the police is a silly idea.

00:55:39.000 I am not familiar with that demand of Black Lives Matter.

00:55:43.000 I work closely with them, and so I will consult them.

00:55:46.000 But if you ask me my personal opinion, no, I don't believe that we should defund police departments.

00:55:52.000 I think that we need to come up with very significant legislation now But I also think it's time to have a conversation in our country.

00:56:01.000 What is policing in America?

00:56:03.000 Why is it that we have two completely different standards?

00:56:08.000 Okay, I mean, first of all, we don't have two completely different standards for how the police treat people, which is why this person is going to go to jail if Keith Ellison does his job properly.

00:56:15.000 So what are some of the other policies that are being put forward?

00:56:17.000 Well, Karen Bass also says that we're going to vote for a committee to investigate the possibility of slavery reparations.

00:56:24.000 This is a thing that's never going to happen.

00:56:26.000 It's just not going to happen.

00:56:27.000 If you believe that you can even identify who ought to receive the slavery reparations and who ought to pay the slavery reparations 170 years later, or that, by the way, if you think that cutting like a $30,000 or $40,000 check to everybody who is a descendant of a slave in the United States is going to end the claim that America is responsible for all inequality, you're wrong.

00:56:46.000 It's obviously an underpitch.

00:56:48.000 Antonio Gizzi Coates admitted as much.

00:56:50.000 He wrote a long piece for The Atlantic a couple of years ago, trying to revive the slavery reparations debate, suggesting the case for slavery reparations.

00:56:56.000 And he said, well, we could try it, but maybe it won't work.

00:56:59.000 Well, then what are you talking about?

00:57:02.000 Here is Karen Bass suggesting a policy that's never going to get passed, obviously.

00:57:06.000 I've not had a specific conversation with Speaker Pelosi, but I've certainly talked to other members of leadership.

00:57:12.000 And being on Judish, where that bill is, I believe that it will move.

00:57:18.000 I don't know what will be in the package that the House passes at this point in time.

00:57:23.000 I know the broad strokes, and we are looking at that.

00:57:26.000 But I do believe that it will be voted on out of committee, and hopefully out of the House, before the session concludes.

00:57:35.000 Okay, so then there will be a board that investigates slavery reparations, makes a bunch of vague recommendations, and then doesn't do anything, and then America will be accused of being racist for not passing slavery reparations.

00:57:44.000 And if there are slavery reparations, if that ever were to happen, then it will be deemed not enough money to rectify the imbalances of the last 200 years.

00:57:51.000 We all know where this is going.

00:57:52.000 So the broader Black Lives Matter sort of agenda is not any specific policy preference 'cause the BLM agenda, which includes defund the police, is not even popular with many on the left.

00:58:01.000 So instead, you sort of have these people who are reverting to the religious.

00:58:07.000 The religious is the only thing that unifies this at this point.

00:58:09.000 And that religion has certain things that you are supposed to just believe.

00:58:13.000 The core beliefs, the core beliefs.

00:58:15.000 Core beliefs like America is, America's original sin was slavery, but it wasn't just America's original sin. 0.68

00:58:21.000 Every bad thing that happens now is attributable to America's original sin.

00:58:24.000 So here is Barack Obama giving a widely praised speech in the media because everything Barack Obama says is widely praised in the media.

00:58:30.000 Here was Obama yesterday saying that Floyd's death is related to America's original sin of slavery.

00:58:35.000 How he makes that connection is absolutely beyond me.

00:58:36.000 We don't know that Chauvin is a racist.

00:58:38.000 We know that he engaged in an act of police brutality.

00:58:40.000 We don't know the surrounding circumstances of the arrest.

00:58:44.000 We don't know what this has to do with slavery.

00:58:45.000 I mean, like, really, this is a pretty major leap, but it's the leap that is, it's the leap of faith that is required of you to believe that the great malevolent god of racism stands behind all events in the United States.

00:58:56.000 Here's Barack Obama proselytizing.

00:58:58.000 What has happened over the last several weeks is challenges and structural problems here in the United States have been thrown into high relief.

00:59:14.000 They're the result of a long history of slavery and Jim Crow and redlining and institutionalized racism that too often have been the plague, the original sin of our society.

00:59:34.000 That is the article of faith.

00:59:35.000 The article of faith is that everything bad that happens is a racist thing and every racist thing is due to America's inherent nature.

00:59:42.000 And you are expected to repeat this catechism because we can't actually agree on policy.

00:59:47.000 If we actually talk about policy, then maybe we could have an intelligent conversation, but we're not going to do that.

00:59:51.000 Instead, you're just supposed to listen and believe and then repeat.

00:59:54.000 It's listen, believe, repeat.

00:59:56.000 That is the formula here.

00:59:58.000 And so we have some people who have taken it upon themselves to listen and believe and repeat.

01:00:02.000 By the way, the other thing that you're supposed to do is pretend that if you say this catechism that it makes you a victim in some way.

01:00:07.000 So John Boyega, who's one of the stars of the Star Wars films, he plays Finn.

01:00:12.000 Does he play Poe or Finn?

01:00:15.000 I mix them up.

01:00:17.000 He plays Finn, that's right.

01:00:18.000 Yes, Finn, because it's FN, right?

01:00:19.000 Because he's a member of the Stormtrooper Brigade.

01:00:21.000 In any case, he plays Finn, and he's fine.

01:00:23.000 He's a good actor. 0.77

01:00:24.000 He shows up at a Black Lives Matter protest in London, and he declares that he might not have a career after the speech, as though there is a bevy of people in Hollywood who are looking to blacklist him for saying the most popular thing you could say in Hollywood, which is that America is bad and racist.

01:00:38.000 Here is John Boyega yesterday.

01:00:40.000 Imagine it, a nation that is set up with individual families that are thriving, that are healthy, That communicate, that raise their children in love, have a better rate of becoming better human beings.

01:00:53.000 And that's what we need to create.

01:00:55.000 Black men, it starts with you. 0.99

01:00:57.000 And it's done, man. 1.00

01:00:58.000 We can't be trash no more.

01:01:00.000 We have to be better. 0.88

01:01:02.000 You know what I'm saying?

01:01:05.000 I'm speaking to you from my heart.

01:01:07.000 Look, I don't know if I'm going to have a career after this.

01:01:10.000 Okay, first of all, everything that he says there is not only uncontroversial in like normal terms, it's uncontroversial in every term.

01:01:22.000 When he says that if you lead a thriving life, you're likely to have better outcomes, that's not remotely controversial.

01:01:27.000 He's not even saying the controversial part of the Black Lives Matter sloganeering.

01:01:29.000 I mean, that's not even the controversial part.

01:01:31.000 Okay, then you have people like the Duchess of Sussex.

01:01:34.000 So Meghan Markle is now speaking out.

01:01:38.000 I'm excited now that she's speaking out.

01:01:40.000 I needed to hear from her.

01:01:41.000 It was very important that I hear from Meghan Markle.

01:01:42.000 So Meghan Markle is now speaking out because of course silence is violence.

01:01:45.000 Here is the Duchess of Sussex speaking out about this issue.

01:01:48.000 She is deemed to be one of the case to people who are allowed to speak and you're supposed to listen and repeat everything she says.

01:01:55.000 For the past couple of weeks, I've been planning on saying a few words to you for your graduation.

01:02:02.000 And as we've all seen over the last week, what is happening in our country and in our state and in our hometown of LA has been absolutely devastating.

01:02:16.000 And I realized the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing.

01:02:22.000 George Floyd's life mattered, and Breonna Taylor's life mattered, and Philando Castile's life mattered, and Tamir Rice's life mattered.

01:02:32.000 Okay, we agree about all those things.

01:02:34.000 My favorite line there, though, is, the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing.

01:02:37.000 I feel like that's not true.

01:02:38.000 I feel like Drew Brees said a thing, and then that was the wrong thing to say.

01:02:41.000 I feel like it turns out that you guys have a very specific idea of what can be said and what cannot be said under these circumstances.

01:02:46.000 And so, what you actually mean by the wrong thing to say is nothing, is that if you say exactly what I want you to say, then we are very happy with you.

01:02:55.000 Probably my favorite celebrity take of the last couple days is Ashton Kutcher trying to explain Black Lives Matter and completely botching it in the process.

01:03:01.000 It's pretty fun.

01:03:02.000 There's Ashton Kutcher explaining Black Lives Matter to all of you other un-woke white people.

01:03:09.000 Because Ashton is woke.

01:03:10.000 So that means that he can lecture you.

01:03:11.000 He's allowed.

01:03:13.000 When it comes to Black Lives Matter, I think what folks that are writing All Lives Matter need to understand is that for some people, for some people, black lives don't matter at all.

01:03:31.000 So, So for us, black lives matter. 0.87

01:03:39.000 Who?

01:03:40.000 Want to name some names?

01:03:40.000 Who?

01:03:41.000 Like really, who?

01:03:46.000 What he means by that is, I'm not one of those people.

01:03:49.000 I am a member of the initiated.

01:03:51.000 I'm a member of the initiated.

01:03:52.000 For some people.

01:03:53.000 Who are these people?

01:03:54.000 Of whom you speak.

01:03:56.000 Even the person you hate most, President Trump, has made repeated statements about how George Floyd's killer should be brought to justice.

01:04:03.000 Everyone, everyone.

01:04:05.000 But again, that's part of the catechism, because every religion also has to have people who are outside the religion, so that you can say that those people are heretics and wrong, and those are the damned, while we who are the initiates will end up in heaven.

01:04:15.000 Okay, meanwhile, In other news, the major controversy has broken out over General James Mattis.

01:04:23.000 So you remember the Secretary of Defense, he left the Trump administration a couple of years ago in December 2018.

01:04:28.000 He left over President Trump's Syria policy.

01:04:31.000 That's when President Trump randomly just made an announcement that he was going to withdraw troops from Syria and ended up clearing the way for Turkey to sort of invade northern Syria.

01:04:41.000 And Mattis said, I don't like this, and he left.

01:04:42.000 Well, now he's put out a statement just ripping Trump up and down.

01:04:46.000 So a couple of preliminaries here.

01:04:48.000 I'm not going to rip James Mattis as a person.

01:04:51.000 James Mattis is an American hero.

01:04:52.000 He is a service person.

01:04:54.000 He has served in honor.

01:04:55.000 He has done great things for the United States.

01:04:58.000 I think that his characterization of a lot of this stuff is just dead wrong.

01:05:01.000 I think a lot of his characterization here, to be completely fair, I think it's just dead wrong.

01:05:05.000 And this is coming from somebody who's kind of a Mattis fan.

01:05:08.000 So here's what Mattis wrote.

01:05:09.000 He said, I've watched this week's unfolding events, angry and appalled.

01:05:12.000 The words equal justice under law are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court.

01:05:15.000 This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding.

01:05:18.000 It is a wholesome and unifying demand, one that all of us should be able to get behind.

01:05:21.000 So if that's all that the protesters were demanding, I'd be behind it like full score, obviously.

01:05:25.000 That's not all that they are demanding.

01:05:27.000 Even if that's most of what they're demanding, I've said that protesting for that, again, for the two millionth time, I've said, protesting in favor of equal protection of the laws, totally on board.

01:05:38.000 Right, I spent the entire first 20 minutes of this particular episode talking about the necessity for properly charging a person so he goes to jail for equal justice under law.

01:05:38.000 Do it.

01:05:46.000 Okay, but Mattis is misreading the room here.

01:05:48.000 He says, we must not be distracted by the small number of lawbreakers.

01:05:51.000 Distracted by the small number of lawbreakers.

01:05:53.000 Um, dude.

01:05:55.000 Dude.

01:05:56.000 Dude.

01:05:57.000 45 million Americans were confined to quarters at 6 o'clock p.m.

01:06:01.000 across the United States a couple of nights ago.

01:06:04.000 We have seen, at this point we're approaching double-digit deaths from these riots.

01:06:08.000 We've seen billions of dollars in property damage.

01:06:11.000 We have seen people lose their life savings.

01:06:13.000 We have seen the complete destruction of American freedoms on America's streets.

01:06:17.000 That's not a small number of looters.

01:06:20.000 You don't shut down a county in L.A.

01:06:21.000 of 10 million people at 6 p.m.

01:06:24.000 every night for a week for a small number of looters.

01:06:26.000 That ain't this.

01:06:27.000 Okay, then he says, the protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting we live up to our values, our values as people and our values as a nation.

01:06:35.000 We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.

01:06:38.000 Okay, who are these evil, evil, horrible people?

01:06:41.000 Then he goes straight to Trump.

01:06:42.000 He says, Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people, does not even pretend to try.

01:06:48.000 Instead, he tries to divide us.

01:06:49.000 You can find Donald Trump divisive.

01:06:50.000 You can. 1.00

01:06:51.000 But to pretend that divisiveness in American politics started with Donald Trump is just to be absolutely myopic and politically ignorant. 0.99

01:06:58.000 Barack Obama was an incredibly divisive president. 0.98

01:07:00.000 Go back and look at the polling data.

01:07:02.000 When Barack Obama took office, most Americans were quite hopeful about race relations.

01:07:05.000 By the time he left office, most Americans were not hopeful about race relations. 0.89

01:07:09.000 Barack Obama spent years saying the Cambridge police acted stupidly when they did not.

01:07:13.000 Suggesting that you don't bring a knife to a gunfight with regards to his political enemies. 0.99

01:07:17.000 Suggesting the Tea Partiers were terrorists.

01:07:19.000 Suggesting that Fox News was a propaganda outlet.

01:07:21.000 The President of the United States, Barack Obama, spent years suggesting that every black person is in the same sort of danger as Trayvon Martin, suggesting that the rioters in Ferguson and looters in Ferguson had justification for their rioting and looting because people don't make things up, even though the case regarding Michael Brown was indeed made up.

01:07:39.000 The President of the United States deployed his vice president to say that Mitt Romney wanted to put y'all back in chains.

01:07:45.000 He suggested that he had a typical white grandmother. 0.91

01:07:46.000 The grandmother who raised him, by the way, was a typical white person who was subtly racist. 0.99

01:07:52.000 Barack Obama was a very, very divisive president.

01:07:54.000 I know that we're all supposed to pretend that the world started revolving the moment Donald Trump became president, but it's not true.

01:07:59.000 It's just not, it's not accurate.

01:08:02.000 Okay, I have a question.

01:08:04.000 What was Ferguson in Baltimore about?

01:08:06.000 That happened under Obama.

01:08:07.000 Was that also because of Trump?

01:08:08.000 He says, we are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.

01:08:11.000 We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society.

01:08:14.000 Well, we didn't when Obama was president, so I'm looking for it.

01:08:17.000 He says, this will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens, to past generations that bled to defend our promise, to our children.

01:08:24.000 And then he says, instructions given by military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that the Nazi slogan for destroying us was divide and conquer.

01:08:32.000 Our American answer is, in union there is strength.

01:08:34.000 We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis, confident that we are better than our politics.

01:08:39.000 Okay, so I'm wondering who is destroying the Constitution when you literally have complete lawlessness overrunning America's cities and the president invoking a Constitutional Insurrection Act and not even using it, right?

01:08:48.000 Saying he might use it.

01:08:50.000 As far as the idea that divide and conquer was the Nazi slogan while America was in union, there is strength, I'm wondering who exactly feels more unified these days?

01:09:01.000 Do you feel a lot more unified?

01:09:02.000 Is that because of Trump?

01:09:03.000 Or is it possible these rifts have been emerging for decades and that the academic mentality of critical theory and critical race studies that suggest that we are all but members of our race, this racial reductionism where Joe Biden tells you you're not actually black if you don't vote for Joe Biden.

01:09:19.000 Maybe this divisiveness predates Donald Trump.

01:09:22.000 So while I have a lot of respect for General Mattis as a person, I think that this statement is wildly off-base.

01:09:27.000 Unfortunately, it's really not good for Trump, right?

01:09:28.000 It's very, very bad for President Trump to have his former Secretary of Defense ripping him.

01:09:32.000 Trump then comes back at him.

01:09:33.000 And then this follows hard on a couple other major defense officials who are coming after Trump as well.

01:09:39.000 So Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that he was aware on Monday night of his plan to visit the Washington church.

01:09:44.000 Again, I thought it was a dumb plan, this plan to go into a photo op in front of the church.

01:09:48.000 At least if you're going to do it, wait until curfew to clear the crowd.

01:09:51.000 They didn't wait till curfew to clear the crowd.

01:09:53.000 There was a peaceful protest in Lafayette Park by most available metrics.

01:09:56.000 There were some people who were suggesting that bottles were being thrown at the cops.

01:09:59.000 If that's true, that's a different story.

01:10:01.000 We haven't seen the tape of that.

01:10:02.000 From the tape, it looks mostly like people are standing there, and then the cops just start clearing them, or the Secret Service starts clearing them, and then they clear the area so Trump can walk out, hold up a Bible, and go back in. 0.97

01:10:10.000 Very dumb photo op. 0.62

01:10:12.000 But the defense secretary says he got roped into it, which is always a great look. 0.99

01:10:17.000 He says he wasn't aware of the photo op.

01:10:18.000 Here is the defense secretary creating some daylight between himself and Trump on this.

01:10:23.000 I did know that we were going to the church.

01:10:24.000 I was not aware of a photo op was happening.

01:10:26.000 Of course, the president drags a large press pool along with him.

01:10:30.000 And look, I do everything I can to try to stay apolitical and to try and stay out of situations that may appear political.

01:10:37.000 And sometimes I'm successful at doing that, and sometimes I'm not as successful.

01:10:41.000 But my aim is to keep the department out of politics, to stay apolitical.

01:10:46.000 And that's what I continue to try and do, as well as my leaders here in the department.

01:10:50.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Army General Mark Milley, who's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was also dragged along for that particular photo op.

01:10:55.000 It turns out that this is one of the more major political own goals of modern politics.

01:11:01.000 He sent an open letter, an unclassified open letter, to the Chief of Staff of the Army, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Chief of Naval Operations, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Chief of the National Guard, Commandant of the Coast Guard, Chief of Space Operations, and Commanders of the Combatant Commands.

01:11:16.000 And his message was, follow the Constitution.

01:11:19.000 Right, which should be fairly obvious, but the implication is fairly obvious as well.

01:11:24.000 Mark Milley sent out this letter saying, Every member of the U.S. military swears an oath to support and defend the Constitution and the values embedded within it.

01:11:30.000 This document is founded on the essential principle that all men and women are born free and equal and should be treated with respect and dignity.

01:11:36.000 It also gives Americans the right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.

01:11:38.000 We in uniform remain committed to our national values and principles embedded in the Constitution.

01:11:43.000 During the current crisis, the National Guard is operating under the authority of state governors to protect lives and property, preserve peace, and ensure public safety and justice.

01:11:50.000 As members of the joint force comprised of all races, colors, and creeds, you embody the ideals of our Constitution.

01:11:55.000 Please remind all of our troops and leaders we will uphold the values of our nation.

01:11:58.000 And then he hand wrote on this piece of paper, we all committed our lives to the idea that is America.

01:12:04.000 We will stay true to that oath and the American people.

01:12:08.000 So the implication is pretty hard not to read into that.

01:12:10.000 He's only sending a letter that restates the obvious because he's attempting to chide Trump pretty clearly.

01:12:17.000 So none of that is particularly good for President Trump.

01:12:20.000 Trump being at war with his own Chief of Staff of the Joint Chiefs.

01:12:24.000 Him being at war with his own Defense Secretary.

01:12:25.000 Him being at war with his former Defense Secretary.

01:12:27.000 Like his whole goal here was to look tough.

01:12:30.000 His whole goal here was to look like he was a law and order guy.

01:12:32.000 And having your defense establishment kind of going at you is not a good look.

01:12:36.000 Forget about the fact that I think that Mattis is wrong in his particular take on politics.

01:12:44.000 An own goal is an own goal, and you have to acknowledge an own goal when it happens.

01:12:47.000 There's a reason right now that the polls are not looking good for President Trump.

01:12:50.000 President Trump needs to rein it in.

01:12:52.000 He needs to rein in his behavior.

01:12:54.000 He needs to ensure that he runs a much more disciplined campaign, because right now, things are quite ugly for the President in the polling data.

01:13:01.000 And before you discount all the polls, recognize that the polls at this point in time did not even have Barack Obama up 8 on Mitt Romney in 2012.

01:13:08.000 Right now, the average polling data, at no point was Hillary up eight on Donald Trump, at no point.

01:13:14.000 Right now, Joe Biden is in the RealClearPolitics polling average up eight points, and Trump is trailing in virtually every battleground state, according to Fox News polling.

01:13:25.000 According to the Fox News polling, Trump is now trailing in Arizona.

01:13:31.000 He's trailing in Ohio.

01:13:32.000 He's trailing in Wisconsin.

01:13:34.000 Polls are deadlocked in Texas.

01:13:36.000 These are disastrous numbers for the president.

01:13:38.000 He's got to turn this around some way and he must do it quickly.

01:13:42.000 It's a bad situation for him, politically at the very least.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 04, 2020

The Religion Of Wokeness | Ep. 1024

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