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00:01:55.000Okay, so over the weekend, we saw this horrific event in Compton, which of course is one of the most crime-ridden areas Los Angeles has been for decades at this point, in which a man walked up to a police vehicle and essentially attempted to murder two police officers.
00:02:27.000Protesters reportedly shouting slogans like death to the police showed up to the LA area hospital treating two law enforcement officers who were ambushed and shot on Saturday.
00:02:51.000If in fact you block an ambulance trying to get into a hospital because you are a human piece of debris, the ambulance should just run you over.
00:03:00.000Okay, if you have like a second to get out of the way, if you are purposefully putting yourself in front of an ambulance that is attempting to ship somebody who is injured and requires life-saving medical attention, and you block the ambulance, they should just assume that you don't care about your life because obviously you don't.
00:03:15.000You don't care about the person's life inside of the ambulance.
00:03:20.000A local faith leader who's at the hospital told the KABC reporter the protesters tried to then break into the emergency room.
00:03:26.000Here's one of the local faith leaders explaining to ABC7 and KABC exactly what these quote-unquote protesters were saying as they unloaded the gurneys with the near corpses of two L.A.
00:03:38.000Sheriff's deputies, one of whom was a 31-year-old mother and the other of whom was a 24-year-old rookie.
00:03:44.000They were saying death to the police, kill the police, and they were using all type of curse words and derogatory terms about the police, just provoking our police officers.
00:03:58.000Unacceptable behavior because the hospital should be a sanctuary where, you know, we should leave hospitals alone.
00:04:09.000How about don't be a piece of crap who celebrates the attempted murder of two police officers?
00:04:14.000Again, the video is absolutely insane.
00:04:16.000It was taken by security footage nearby.
00:04:19.000And you can see what appears to be a Young, I mean, I assume this is a, it looks like a person who is minority, but it's kind of far away, but you can see sort of the color.
00:04:29.000A person walks up to the cop car and takes two shots inside the car and shoots the jaw off of the female police officer who then had to call for medical attention.
00:04:40.000The reaction by people nearby is absolutely insane and confirms a simple fact.
00:04:45.000When you spend years promulgating the lie that the police are systemically racist and out to harm black people, And then, the result is that people run around shooting cops, taking potshots at cops, resisting arrest, spray-painting businesses with, all cops are bad, ACAB.
00:05:02.000That is a predictable result of the philosophy that the police are systemically racist.
00:05:05.000There have been times in American history where the police are, in fact, systemically racist.
00:05:09.000And the way that you can tell they are systemically racist is because you can name the actual system of racism.
00:05:13.000You can point out the policy they are implementing.
00:05:15.000You can point out the police practices that are, in fact, racist.
00:05:18.000But when you label something systemically racist without naming the practice, without naming the law, without explaining how the process produces the racism, you just say that they're racist.
00:05:29.000In the air, then anybody who's complicit with that system is part of the racism.
00:05:33.000And if anybody who is part of the system is a racist, well then all cops are bad by nature.
00:05:37.000That is the logical endpoint of a philosophy that suggests that the police are systemically racist without requiring you to present any evidence other than disparity.
00:05:45.000Because not all disparity is discrimination.
00:05:48.000Well, the predictable result of that is people were literally celebrating in the streets after two officers were nearly murdered in Compton.
00:05:56.000Here is a video of one of these pieces of crap celebrating the shooting.
00:06:40.000And there was video of protesters attempting to enter the hospital grounds, we say.
00:06:43.000People attempting to break into the hospital, presumably to prevent medical attention from being performed on the police officers, who literally were just sitting there.
00:06:50.000Okay, this was not even a case where the police were in some sort of confrontation with a criminal suspect.
00:06:54.000The police were literally just sitting there in their car and they were assassinated.
00:07:54.000Your status as a person of color is now called into question.
00:07:57.000Because after all, you have joined the system of oppression.
00:08:01.000Saying over and over and over again that a system is systemically racist, again, without evidence, without naming the policy that needs to be changed, without explaining which officers are bad or which people in charge are the problem.
00:08:13.000Doing that implicates everybody who is involved in that system.
00:08:17.000There is no excuse for this sort of immoral behavior.
00:08:21.000Yet this has become a Democratic talking point.
00:08:31.000That if you say something that is not an explicit call for violence, and then someone goes and performs violence, this is your fault.
00:08:37.000But if we are worried about raising the temperature, if we are worried about the way that words are used by people in order to justify their actions, and if you are worried about a rising tide of crime and anti-police sentiment, and then you forward that sort of thing, Then you are complicit in the broader message, and the broader message is a lie, it is bad, and it does incentivize people to violence.
00:08:58.000So does that mean that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are responsible for what happened in Compton?
00:09:02.000No, it doesn't mean they're responsible for what happened in Compton any more than Bernie Sanders is responsible for what happened at the congressional baseball game, or any more than Donald Trump has been blamed for what happened at the El Paso Walmart.
00:09:13.000If you haven't explicitly called for violence, you are not to blame.
00:09:16.000But, if you do not bring down the temperature, and if you promulgate lies that result in police officers being targeted, maybe you ought to examine your own ideology.
00:09:25.000Maybe you ought to examine your own garbage philosophy, because this is garbage, okay?
00:09:29.000It is garbage to suggest that the police, broadly speaking, across the United States are systemically racist.
00:09:36.000There is no evidence that the police are systemically racist.
00:09:39.000Even if you want to make the claim that the police are systemically too brutal, that they use excessive police force too much, that is a problem of police brutality.
00:09:48.000That would not necessarily be a problem of racism.
00:09:51.000In fact, in these major American cities, most major American cities that have a heavy minority population, the police force is plurality or majority minority.
00:10:01.000Again, once you are implicated in the quote-unquote system, then you're a part of the racist system.
00:10:05.000This all is the predictable result of the Imbra Max Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, Stokely Carmichael recasting of racism from, you have to identify a person who judges people on the basis of race, or a policy that segregates people on the basis of race, or separates people or treats people differently on the basis of race.
00:10:23.000Two, a philosophy of racism that suggests that any system that results in a disparity of outcome is itself racist, and anybody complicit in that system is a racist as well by definition.
00:10:33.000The result of that is all cops are bad.
00:10:35.000You cannot philosophically separate the police are systemically racist, when you won't name the racist policy or the racist person, from all cops are bad.
00:10:44.000Because who's the good person working within the racist system?
00:11:24.000To pretend anything else doesn't mean everybody marching with BLM knew that was the slogan.
00:11:28.000But to separate off All Cops Are Bad from the BLM messaging is a lie.
00:11:33.000And the way you can tell it's a lie is because it doesn't matter what the situation is, BLM will provoke protests and riots based on any situation whatsoever involving a police officer and a minority suspect.
00:11:43.000It doesn't matter what the circumstances surrounding it are.
00:11:46.000We'll talk about this more in just one second.
00:11:58.000The way that it works on the West Coast is because of COVID, you're not allowed to go outdoors to another place.
00:12:03.000Like you can't go to a restaurant or museum or anything.
00:12:05.000And then you can't go outside outside because the air quality is terrible.
00:12:08.000So you're in your house all day long staring at those ugly blinds.
00:12:11.000Well, now that you're staring at those ugly blinds, now that I've told you about that, maybe you want to replace those ugly blinds with something much nicer.
00:13:43.000This is according to ABC News, July 22nd, okay?
00:13:48.000So now we're going back approximately two full months.
00:13:53.000For having gotten a taste for public service while in the U.S.
00:13:55.000Coast Guard, said ABC News, Jonathan Shoup joined the police force looking for a career he was passionate about after managing delivery teams for Amazon for nearly five years, his brother said.
00:14:03.000For 405 days, the 32-year-old Shoup, according to his brother, lived what he realized was his calling in life as a member of the Bothell Washington Police Department.
00:14:12.000law enforcement officer shot to death this year on July 13, marking a 28 percent jump in felonious officer deaths over the same period in 2019.
00:14:20.000We have seen a serious jump in the murder of police officers over the course of the year, particularly since the George Floyd protests began.
00:14:29.000As of September 11th, 37 law enforcement officers have been reportedly feloniously killed in 2020.
00:14:36.000That is an increase, a pretty significant increase.
00:14:41.00033 law enforcement Officers were killed total, were non-feloniously killed in 2020, or accidentally killed in 2020.
00:15:14.000More than 700 officers injured in George Floyd protests across the United States, which probably means that thousands of officers have now been injured across the country.
00:15:22.000And you can just see it in the headlines.
00:15:24.000You can see, in Chicago, July 21st, 49 police officers injured.
00:15:50.000The chief of the department had broken fingers.
00:15:52.000August 9th, 2020, Newsbreak reported more than 100 officers were injured in protests.
00:15:57.000So we're talking about thousands of police officers over the last couple of months who have been injured or, and a few dozen killed.
00:16:07.000connected with the rise in crime that we've seen across the country.
00:16:09.000Now, not all those police officers who were killed were killed as a result directly of BLM or the riots.
00:16:15.000But when you lead to an upswing in crime, and when you continue to say over and over and over that the cops are racist, there is a predictable result to that.
00:16:23.000There is, in fact, a predictable result to that.
00:16:26.000So how have Democrats dealt with all of this?
00:16:28.000Well, they've continued to maintain the narrative, of course.
00:16:31.000So Eric Garcetti, the LA mayor, he said these attacks are abhorrent.
00:16:35.000You'll notice something in the Democratic response to this.
00:16:37.000They'll say the attacks are abhorrent.
00:16:38.000At no point will they say our police are not systemically racist.
00:16:40.000At no point will they actually defend the cops.
00:16:42.000That's just not a thing they will bother to do.
00:16:44.000They're not going to bother defending the police officers.
00:16:45.000Instead, they'll make vague statements about how violence is bad.
00:16:48.000Now, I'm old enough to remember when this was considered insufficient.
00:16:52.000I'm old enough to remember when it was considered absolutely insufficient to suggest that all violence was bad.
00:16:59.000You had to ideologically condemn the philosophy that lay behind violence.
00:17:04.000This was, in fact, what Joe Biden said was his leading cause in life after Charlottesville.
00:17:09.000But it turns out that if you're Joe Biden, you can simply elide the philosophy of the people who are doing the assassination attempts and the widespread rioting and the looting.
00:17:26.000We're going to get to the Democratic response to this in just one second.
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00:18:46.000mayor, who's in charge of the police department, here's his response.
00:18:50.000There's no place in civilized society for anybody to draw an arm and to shoot our law enforcement officers that put their lives on the line.
00:18:58.000And I won't ever let a couple voices that not only are uncalled for, but it's abhorrent to say something like that when we have two deputies who are sheriff deputies in grave condition.
00:19:08.000This is a country in which that sort of behavior is unacceptable, abhorrent, and we do pray that these folks will recover, and I hope that everybody listening today will unify around that.
00:19:18.000Okay, well, that's at least better than what Joe Biden had to say, right?
00:19:20.000Notice he still won't say anything about BLM.
00:19:23.000But here is the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris statement.
00:19:27.000Jill and I were devastated to learn of the cold-blooded shooting of two L.A.
00:19:30.000County deputies yesterday, as well as the horrific death of Deputy Ryan Hendricks, a Marine veteran and police officer killed in the line of duty in Henderson County, North Carolina.
00:19:37.000These attacks are absolutely unconscionable.
00:19:39.000They bring only greater violence, injustice, and grief to a nation in desperate need of healing.
00:19:48.000Brave officers who pin on the shield carry a sacred responsibility and make an extraordinary sacrifice.
00:19:52.000Just as they owe it to the American people to protect and serve with honor, restraint and accountability, Americans owe it to them to lessen the needless danger of their inherently dangerous jobs.
00:20:02.000Active lawlessness and violence directed against police officers are unacceptable, outrageous, and entirely counterproductive to the pursuit of greater peace and justice in America.
00:20:09.000This is Biden and Harris trying to prop up the systemic police racism narrative at the same time that they mourn the shooting of these police officers.
00:20:17.000It's more difficult for us to affect change when people are shooting police officers.
00:20:20.000You see, it's bad that people shoot people.
00:20:23.000And it's also bad that you're attempting to block our ability to create change within police departments.
00:20:29.000At no point here, does Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, at no point will they say, we need to stop calling our police systemically racist.
00:20:36.000At no point will they say that, because that is their narrative.
00:20:38.000Instead, the big problem here, politically speaking, is not people who keep claiming that the police are a bunch of racists, and that the system is inherently racist, and that anybody who joins up with that system is inherently racist.
00:20:49.000At no point will they stop making that claim.
00:20:50.000Instead, what they will do is they will say, yeah, but if you shoot the cops, it makes it hard for us to really make the argument about how the police need systemic change.
00:20:59.000Jill and I are keeping these deputies and their loved ones in our hearts and are praying for a full recovery for the two L.A.
00:21:03.000deputies now fighting for their lives.
00:21:06.000Now, this sort of language, of course, is nothing new.
00:21:08.000Way back when, during the Obama administration, there were six Dallas police officers who were murdered by a person associated with the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:21:16.000in Dallas and the President of the United States also pooh-poohed the association with Black Lives Matter ideology, of course. Because again, the narrative matters far more than the actual consequences of the narrative. If you keep saying over and over and over for the final time, if you keep saying over and over and over that police departments across the country are systemically racist, and then you can't name a policy that you would change. In fact, you block any attempt at political change. Not only that, but whenever there's an incident involving the police, you chalk it up to police racism, even when it is
00:21:48.000When you do all of that, what you are actively suggesting is that anyone who works with the police is complicit in systemic racism and therefore bears guilt for the systemically racist system.
00:21:57.000That is the claim that you are making.
00:21:59.000And in fact, this is the claim that Joe Biden has repeatedly made.
00:22:02.000Joe Biden has made that claim over and over and over.
00:22:04.000That doesn't mean that he's responsible for cops getting shot.
00:22:06.000It does mean that he is responsible for forwarding a movement That does drive people toward an anti-police perspective, the fringes of which will be violent.
00:22:18.000And by the way, undercuts the policing in areas that actually need policing.
00:22:21.000What we've seen in Minneapolis is that criminals are just not being arrested.
00:22:25.000You're gonna see the same thing in L.A., in D.C., in New York, and the predictable increase in crime is going to fall largely in minority high-crime areas.
00:22:33.000This is backed by science, by the way.
00:22:34.000Roland Fryer has done studies suggesting that when there's a high-profile police-involved shooting in any city, immediately following that, there's a tremendous rise in murder in those cities, and those murders disproportionately affect minority communities.
00:22:46.000Okay, the Democrats know exactly what they're doing at this point.
00:22:48.000The narrative matters more than human life.
00:22:50.000The narrative matters more than the truth about the police.
00:22:53.000The narrative matters more than anything, because they can make political hay out of it by saying over and over and over that the system is racist.
00:23:00.000Here is Joe Biden, June 10th, saying absolutely there's systemic racism in law enforcement.
00:23:05.000Do you believe there is systemic racism in law enforcement?
00:23:20.000Look, not all law enforcement officers are racist.
00:23:23.000My lord, there's some really good, good cops out there.
00:23:26.000But the way in which it works right now, we've seen too many examples of it.
00:23:31.000Okay, that is the most useless statement in the world.
00:23:34.000Sure, there are some good cops, but the system itself is bad.
00:23:37.000Okay, this is the precise polar opposite of the truth, which is that there are some good cops, there are some bad cops, but the system overall is good.
00:23:46.000If you say the system overall is good and there are some bad cops, that means we can target the bad cops for removal.
00:23:50.000If there are some good cops, but the system overall is bad, that means the minute you pin on that shield, the minute you put on the blue uniform, you are now part of the bad system.
00:23:59.000This is the difference between saying that there is an entire system There's an entire Nazi system out there.
00:24:06.000And there are a few good Germans in that Nazi system.
00:24:10.000And saying, well, you know, today, you know, in Germany, there are probably some neo-Nazis out there, but entirely, the German society is not Nazi.
00:24:26.000Joe Biden has maintained this perspective for a long time.
00:24:28.000He said same weekend, June 10th, he said, for too long, black Americans have lived with a knee on their neck, a knee on their neck.
00:24:36.000And then he talks about systemic racism.
00:24:39.000And then I mentioned last week, he put out an ad that begins by suggesting that black Americans wake up every day believing they are in danger of losing their lives due to their skin color.
00:24:49.000This was a Biden ad put out last week.
00:24:51.000And then you are shocked when the police end up targeted?
00:24:54.000In minority communities, you end up shocked by this?
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00:27:04.000Okay, so does BLM actually care about black lives?
00:27:08.000Overall, the answer is, unfortunately, no.
00:27:10.000Because if they cared about black lives, what they would understand is that you need the cops in high crime areas to rid those areas of crime.
00:27:16.000But BLM doesn't care about black lives.
00:27:31.000And by the way, most rational people should be bewildered by the attempt by BLM to lump in every single police-civilian interaction as an element of systemic racism, no matter the circumstance.
00:27:46.000Like, there are instances of police brutality and apparent racism.
00:27:51.000If you want to look at apparent racism, the Ahmaud Arbery case, in which allegedly one of the suspects said the N-word, that would be a case of apparent racism, right?
00:27:59.000I mean, that's a case with some evidence to it.
00:28:21.000And if the evidence supports a particular charge of racism or brutality, then we should talk about the racism or brutality in that particular charge.
00:28:28.000But instead, you have to understand, the fact must be secondary to the narrative in the case of BLM.
00:28:33.000Every case must be treated the same because every evil, every evil by an individual is a result of the racist system.
00:28:39.000It's an attempt to remove responsibility from minority Americans who are committing crimes by suggesting the system is indubitably and always responsible for those crimes.
00:28:49.000And the police who go to deal with those crimes are indubitably part of a systemically racist system no matter what they do.
00:29:19.000The Lancaster County District Attorney's Office is investigating a police-involved shooting Sunday afternoon that resulted in the death of a man.
00:29:25.000Lancaster City Police responded to a home in the 300 block of Laurel Street about 4.15 p.m.
00:29:32.000On scene, a Lancaster City Police officer fired at a 27-year-old man who was armed with a knife.
00:29:37.000The man, identified as Ricardo Munoz, was killed and pronounced dead at the scene.
00:29:40.000The Lancaster County D.A.' 's office investigates all officer-involved shootings in Lancaster County to determine if force used by police was justified and if a crime occurred.
00:29:48.000The Lancaster County detectives are continuing to investigate, and D.A.
00:29:51.000Heather Adams will make a final determination on the use of force upon completion of the investigation.
00:29:56.000However, we would like to release some information based on a preliminary investigation, which included review of footage from the firing officer's body camera.
00:30:03.000The footage shows that when the officer gets in front of a residence in the 300 block of Laurel Street, Muñoz immediately engages from inside and runs toward the officer, brandishing a knife above his head in clear view in a threatening manner.
00:30:35.000As it turns out, by the way, this particular suspect also happens to have been charged with four counts of aggravated assault just a couple of years ago.
00:30:46.000In fact, on Monday, March 4th, 2019, apparently, this guy was charged with stabbing people.
00:31:28.000And the police allowing it to happen, by the way.
00:31:31.000The police allowing these pathetic specimens of humanity to break apart, smash windows, break the police car, The media's culpability in this is insane.
00:31:44.000Here is the headline from NBCPhiladelphia.com.
00:32:58.000One of the chief factors, one of the chief people in pushing narrative above facts would be Benjamin Crump, who's been the attorney for nearly every heavily covered race-based crime case of the last seven years in the United States, going all the way back to the Trayvon Martin case, in which he represented the Trayvon Martin family.
00:33:14.000Benjamin Crump has an ugly habit of simply lying about things that are happening.
00:33:19.000Because this is picked up by the media and then treated by people as the true narrative.
00:33:23.000So, on Friday, the family of George Floyd, via Benjamin Crump, pushed back against accusations levied against George Floyd in court on Friday after lawyers claimed he had taken drugs prior to his fatal encounter with Minneapolis police in May.
00:33:37.000Defense attorneys for the four officers charged in Floyd's death claimed he'd swallowed fentanyl before his arrest.
00:33:42.000Okay, now, they don't have to claim it.
00:33:51.000In fact, medically speaking, it is highly probable that George Floyd did not die from the compression to his neck.
00:33:57.000It is highly probable that he died instead from the overdose of fentanyl that caused excited delirium, which is an actual medical condition in which, basically, you kind of go crazy and then your heart stops.
00:34:06.000That is also likely what happened in this case with Daniel Prude up in Rochester, New York.
00:34:10.000Excited delirium is an actual real medical condition.
00:34:13.000When you take very heavy doses of serious drugs, it does happen.
00:34:16.000There have been medical articles about it.
00:35:01.000The video shows him not being compliant with police officers.
00:35:04.000The video shows him, in fact, bucking police officers, asking to be taken out of the car and put on the ground, refusing to get in the car.
00:35:12.000The video shows that there were other people in the car with him who complied with police officers and were not even arrested.
00:35:21.000This is why it's almost a fool's errand to engage in discussions of the facts of the case, because for people on the BLM side, they actively do not care about the facts of the case.
00:35:32.000Facts of cases cut against what they are trying to promote, which would actually be solution-oriented, because BLM is not solution-oriented.
00:35:39.000BLM is problem-oriented, because the only solution they will stand for is tearing down the entire system.
00:35:46.000Okay, again, Benjamin Crump has been doing this for a long time.
00:35:49.000Here's what Benjamin Crump said about Michael Brown.
00:35:50.000Michael Brown, there were two independent state investigations in the state of Missouri with Michael Brown.
00:35:55.000There was a federal investigation by the Obama DOJ.
00:35:57.000All of them found that the shooting of Michael Brown was justified, that he reached into the officer's car, a police officer's car, Darren Wilson, reached into his car, fired a gun, ran away from the cop, turned around, charged the cop before he was shot.
00:36:09.000Here's what Benjamin Crump said about Michael Brown at the time, quote, Hey, here is here is Benjamin Crump on Jacob Blake.
00:36:13.000and shot. And then when he puts up his hands that the police were supposed to protect him, repeatedly shoots him. Hey, here is here is Benjamin Crump on Jacob Blake. Jacob Blake was, quote, breaking up a fight between two women. He was not breaking up a fight between He went to the house of a woman who had a previously alleged digital rape with a child in the room.
00:36:43.000All that matters is the narrative, which is why we have now seen repeated riots over cases that are completely uncontroversial as to the justifiability of the shooting.
00:36:51.000We saw a complete riot in Chicago based on an absolute lie as to something that happened.
00:36:57.000Supposedly an unarmed young black man was shot.
00:37:01.000We've seen this happen over and over because the BLM narrative is that the police, no matter what, no matter what, it doesn't matter what the antecedent is, the conclusion is the same in the sentence.
00:37:09.000Blank happened, thus the police are systemically racist.
00:37:13.000You're going to have to choose a side here.
00:38:19.000We didn't have to choose when we were talking about specific problems with specific solutions.
00:38:22.000But when you name the police as systemically racist, and then the police start getting shot, well, now you're gonna have to make some choices, aren't you?
00:38:29.000You can either side with the Jacob Blakes of the world, the alleged rapists, You can visit their families and talk about how proud you are of them.
00:38:36.000Or you can side with the cops who have to capture these people and prevent them from raping black women.
00:38:41.000By the way, the alleged victim in that case is a black woman.
00:38:50.000In just a second, we're going to see how the media have biased this choice because the media are absolutely irresponsible in disgusting, disgusting ways.
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00:41:12.000All right, so the media, of course, have an interest in lying about this.
00:41:21.000If you look at the headlines, over and over and over, in every single case, they just lie.
00:41:25.000And this goes all the way back, frankly, to Trayvon Martin, when the media decided that George Zimmerman was a white Hispanic, and that he had not been injured in any altercation with Trayvon Martin.
00:41:33.000They suggested he was lying about the physical altercation, then it turned out he was not lying.
00:41:37.000The media, unfortunately, have a stake in lying in nearly every one of these circumstances.
00:41:41.000They don't wait for the facts to come out.
00:41:44.000They just rush forward with whatever narrative is convenient for them.
00:41:48.000Well, part of the narrative is that the police are systemically racist.
00:41:51.000Another part of the narrative is that the riots and the violence that we've been seeing is non-ideological in nature.
00:41:57.000That what we've instead been watching is basically an even split between right-wing and left-wing violence when it comes to this major uptick in violence in American cities, the rioting and the looting that has shut down major American cities.
00:42:09.000So the case that they've been pushing more than any case else is the Kyle Rittenhouse case, right?
00:42:14.000Rittenhouse was a 17-year-old who joined up with a militia to go and quote-unquote defend property in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:42:22.000Hey, now, while he was there, he was apparently charged by people wielding guns.
00:42:27.000He at one point shot a man in a parking lot after somebody fired a gun in the air, and then he was charged by somebody.
00:42:34.000Then he was running away, and he was being charged by two other guys, one of whom jumped on top of him, tried to beat him up with a skateboard, and another guy who approached him with a gun.
00:42:43.000And I can see in this still photo the man approaching him with a gun.
00:43:29.000He's wearing a hat that says paramedic.
00:43:31.000So just to be straight, the good guys, according to the media, in these circumstances are people who attempt to block hospitals while ambulances with deathly wounded officers are inside.
00:43:41.000Those are the people associated with BLM.
00:45:17.000Because you have accomplished your goal, which is to completely obscure who is to blame for what's been happening in America's major cities.
00:45:29.000Also, you know, I was talking yesterday with a friend about exactly how this has happened, how the media has continued to maintain so much power in promulgating false narratives.
00:45:49.000And that is, I remember back to 2004, during the election between George W. Bush and John Kerry, Dan Rather, at the very end of the election, put out this apparently falsified letter suggesting that George W. Bush had gone AWOL, right?
00:46:00.000It was this last-minute surprise and it turned out to backfire completely on the media because the letter was made up.
00:46:04.000That George W. Bush had gone AWOL back when he was in the Air National Guard during Vietnam.
00:46:09.000And I remember at the time, there were right-wing commentators who said that because Dan Rather had been stopped, that the death of the old media was at hand.
00:46:17.000That the dominance, the tsunami wave effect of the old media had been broken.
00:46:22.000And I remember thinking that seems a little bit like triumphalism.
00:46:25.000That the media still have enormous power to push a narrative.
00:46:49.000But the left had held in abeyance a bunch of cultural institutions that they had not fully activated.
00:46:56.000All of those cultural institutions are now fully activated.
00:46:58.000And you will be cudgeled into submission by all of these cultural institutions if you don't buy the message that the news media are promulgating.
00:47:06.000If you don't buy into the narrative that all the violence that's happening has no ideological cause, And that only violence that can be attributable to right-wing supremacists, or white supremacists, or armed right-wing militias, as Joe Biden likes to call them, that only that violence can be pegged to an ideology.
00:47:20.000But violence that has to do with congressional baseball shooting, and people claiming that they are Bernie Sanders acolytes, or Dallas police officers being murdered by people who claim allegiance to BLM, or police officers being shot point-blank in LA, and BLM protesters attempting to block the hospital.
00:47:39.000The non-ideological nature of all of that kind of violence has been pushed by the news media.
00:47:44.000And if you don't believe it, if you don't believe it and you don't repeat it, then our cultural institutions will be brought to bear.
00:47:49.000And that's why it matters what our cultural institutions do.
00:47:53.000Because that does shape how people think.
00:47:57.000It used to be that there was a certain area of American life that was reserved for politics, and that's where we all argued with each other and we got very passionate about politics.
00:48:03.000And then there were areas of American life that were kind of reserved not for politics.
00:48:07.000And that didn't mean people in those areas couldn't speak freely.
00:48:10.000But when you turned on a football game, for example, what you watched typically was football, not social justice messaging that cultured you into a particular belief system.
00:48:18.000Well, the left has now activated every element of its fully armed and operational battle system.
00:48:23.000And that means every element, every cultural element from Hollywood, which now is going to require that Oscar nominees have a certain level of diversity implicit in either their plots or their staffing, To the NFL, which now insists that you mimic the messages they want you to mimic, otherwise you are a racist.
00:48:40.000So over the weekend, the entire NFL decided to virtue signal about Black Lives Matter and to suggest that America is systemically racist.
00:48:48.000The same America that gives a largely minority league incredible amounts of attention, time, respect, and money is apparently systemically racist and needs to be lectured on their systemic racism every time they turn on a football game.
00:49:01.000And in fact, if you don't go far enough, in pledging fealty to this?
00:49:05.000If you try to separate football in any way from the politics, you will be cudgeled.
00:49:09.000Chris Collinsworth pledged fealty to this, and he got canceled.
00:49:14.000Chris Collinsworth is the NBC broadcaster, and he was broadcasting the Kansas City Chiefs Houston Texans kickoff last week.
00:49:22.000And he delivered a message about the NFL's social justice initiatives.
00:49:26.000And he talked about how he was in favor of everything they were doing, but he added an unfortunate line that got him canceled.
00:50:18.000of narratives that are patently untrue, like the police are systemically racist, and America puts black people at existential threat, and America is a discriminatory, horrible place that is rooted in slavery and bigotry.
00:50:28.000These are the messages that will be promulgated by every area of American life.
00:50:32.000So, over the weekend, as I mentioned, the NFL decided to go full SJW.
00:50:49.000Instead, the players all dropped to one knee.
00:50:52.000After years of pleading with the NFL to act against systemic racism, they were willing to wait another 10 seconds to make their point.
00:50:58.000Teams opening this year in empty stadiums knelt, locked arms, raised fists in protest, or stayed off the field entirely for the Star Spangled Banner.
00:51:05.000And the Black Anthem lift every voice and sing on Sunday as the once-reluctant league brought racial injustice to the forefront on the NFL's first full slate of games.
00:51:12.000So first of all, The idea that there needs to be a separate Black National Anthem cuts directly against the idea that we're supposed to be a unified polity.
00:51:24.000If you want to say that this is an important song for black Americans, that's fine.
00:51:26.000To call it a black national anthem suggests that there is a black nation that is separate from the United States of America, which is just not true.
00:51:33.000Nor ought it to be true if you wish for us to be a common polity.
00:51:36.000In Atlanta, the teams wore armbands honoring civil rights leader John Lewis and staged the most striking of the day's gestures.
00:51:41.000They barely flinched as the opening kickoff landed beyond the end line, took a knee, and remained there for about 10 seconds before trotting off the field to resume the game.
00:51:49.000It's a start, Falcons running back Todd Gurley said after the game.
00:52:22.000And their big development, what they got out of the owners was, we will now use our stadiums, we will now use our athletic arenas, in order to host voting.
00:52:29.000So it's just a giant Democratic get-out-the-vote effort, no actual policy change.
00:52:34.000While fans were absent everywhere except Jacksonville because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Minnesota Vikings hosted the family of George Floyd, who died in May in a videotaped killing that sparked national protests over police brutality against black people.
00:52:46.000Vikings players locked arms in the end zone about a half hour before their game against Green Bay for Lift Every Voice, which was played before each game in Week 1, along with the national anthem, as part of the NFL's social awakening.
00:52:59.000During the Star-Spangled Banner, something Coach Mike Zimmer had opposed.
00:53:03.000About 10 of George Floyd's relatives were shown on the stadium video board from their perch in the upper concourse near the Gjallarhorn.
00:53:09.000The symbol from Norse mythology, which gave the Vikings their name, has been sounded before every game since 2007.
00:53:13.000On Sunday, the team said it remained silent to call attention to these silenced voices and collectively work toward a better, more just society.
00:53:19.000Which voices have been silenced exactly?
00:53:22.000I've been noticing 15 to 26 million protesters across the country.
00:53:25.000Which voices have been silenced exactly?
00:53:27.000The Packers remained in their locker room for both songs, following the lead of the Miami Dolphins.
00:53:32.000The Jacksonville Jaguars, Buffalo Bills, New York Jets, and Arizona Cardinals also remain in their locker rooms for both songs.
00:53:39.000Colts coach Frank Reich dropped to one knee.
00:54:16.000And once you bend the knee, the head is the next thing to fall.
00:54:19.000Okay, once you bend the knee as a corporate entity, There will be no end to the demand.
00:54:24.000Case in point, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick blasted the NFL on the league's opening on Sunday, calling the NFL's new social justice-focused propaganda.
00:54:50.000Because Eric Reid, one of the first players to support Kaepernick's anti-racism kneeling protests, remains unsigned after being let go by the Carolina Panthers back in March.
00:54:59.000The NFL announced earlier this year that in the wake of massive anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests that took place in nearly every major city, they would set a weekly social justice priority, embrace BLM slogans, and encourage players to take part in demonstrations, service projects, and social justice-focused initiatives, according to Emily Zanotti writing for Daily Wire.
00:55:16.000None of that matters, said Kaepernick on Sunday, if Reid remains blacklisted.
00:55:19.000While the NFL runs propaganda about how they care about black life, they are still actively blackballing Eric Reid for fighting for the black community.
00:55:25.000Eric set two franchise records last year and is one of the best defensive players in the game.
00:55:30.000So now they're going to have to appoint Colin Kaepernick the GM of every team.
00:55:34.000Remember, EA Sports already made him a starting quarterback with franchise potential in their video game, Madden 21.
00:55:40.000Now, every team should just make Colin Kaepernick the actual GM, right?
00:56:08.000And I'd make him my starting quarterback.
00:56:09.000And I would say something very simple, which is, the entire world of media sports has told us that Colin Kaepernick is the most talented player ever to play the game.
00:56:18.000So, I'm making him my starting quarterback.
00:56:20.000I don't care who else I have on the team.
00:56:21.000I'm making him my starting quarterback.
00:56:23.000And I assume he will justify those expectations.
00:56:26.000And if he gets sacked every down, I'm leaving him in.
00:56:29.000First of all, you want to restore the ratings of the NFL, do it.
00:56:32.000Second of all, we all know that Colin Kaepernick is not playing because Colin Kaepernick doesn't actually want to play.
00:56:38.000But, if I were an NFL owner, I am full scale in favor of Colin Kaepernick being able to speak on whatever topic he wants to speak out about, and then get sacked because he can't make a secondary read.
00:56:46.000And as an owner, I'd put my money where my mouth is, plus my ratings would actually spike pretty dramatically.
00:56:52.000The underlying logic to all of this, in the end, whether it is cultural intimidation via your sporting events, or whether it is...
00:57:00.000These protests in the streets, or whether it is media that wishes to call you a racist if you disagree with their failure to even bother to report facts.
00:57:08.000The underlying element here, the underlying idea, and it's employers too.
00:57:12.000I mean, I can't tell you how many notes I get on a daily basis from people who feel intimidated in their workplace and are deeply afraid to speak out because they're afraid that they will be fired by their employer for having the temerity to question whether America is systemically racist and whether police are systemically evil.
00:57:25.000The underlying idea here is very obvious, and that is that the That is that unless you give Democrats power, all of this continues.
00:57:39.000Some people are being pretty clear about this.
00:57:41.000Shadi Hamid has a piece over at The Atlantic today called, The Democrats May Not Be Able To Concede.
00:57:46.000If Trump wins, especially after losing the popular vote, the left may draw the wrong conclusions.
00:57:51.000According to Shadi Hamid, he says a loss by Joe Biden under these circumstances is the worst case, not because Trump will destroy America, he can't, but because it is the social outcome most likely to undermine faith in democracy, resulting in more of the unrest and street battles that cities including Portland, Oregon and Seattle have seen in recent months.
00:58:07.000For this reason, strictly law and order Republicans who have responded in dismay to scenes of rioting and looting have an interest in Biden winning, even if they could never bring themselves to vote for him.
00:58:17.000In presidential elections, once is a fluke, twice is a pattern.
00:58:19.000I struggle to imagine how, beyond utter shock, millions of Democrats will process a Trump victory.
00:58:24.000A loss for Biden at a time when disillusion is already dangerously high means that things will get really ugly if Democrats can't beat a candidate as unpopular as Trump during a devastating pandemic and a massive national economic contraction.
00:58:36.000Are they even capable of winning presidential elections anymore?
00:58:38.000Democracy, after all, is supposed to self-correct after mistakes, particularly mistakes as egregious as electing Donald Trump.
00:58:46.000This time it would be worse than in 2016.
00:58:50.000Because Biden's poll numbers this year have been mostly higher than Clinton's were in 2016, a Trump victory will be even harder for the left to absorb.
00:58:56.000Until Democrats started panicking recently, overconfidence had set in.
00:59:00.000The polls offered good reason to think a Trump victory was drifting out of reach.
00:59:03.000If Trump manages to win, he will likely do so despite losing the popular vote.
00:59:09.000Liberals have convinced themselves that Republicans are, in one way or another, cheating.
00:59:14.000Democrats have a right to be nervous, says Shadi Hamid over at The Atlantic.
00:59:19.000He says that we may not be, that we may be on the border of a revolution.
00:59:23.000He says, a certain kind of cognitive dissonance, the gap between what is and what should be, can fuel revolutionary sentiments, and not in just a fluffy, radical, chic kind of way.
00:59:32.000In such situations, acting outside the political process, including through non-peaceful means, becomes more attractive, not necessarily out of hope, but out of despair.
00:59:41.000So in other words, the right should cave to Democrats and elect Democrats so that leftists don't riot.
00:59:47.000Blackmail is not an electoral strategy, nor should it be.
00:59:49.000It is not an electoral strategy, nor should it be.
00:59:54.000And the fact that a writer for The Atlantic is now openly acknowledging what we all know to be the case, which is that the Democrats have basically made their case that they are going to allow riots to continue in America's major cities and justify Every bad thing that happens on the basis that America is systemically racist, unless you elect them.
01:00:13.000I mean, that is Joe Biden's proposal, is it not?