The Ben Shapiro Show - The Ribbon Bullies | Ep. 1030

00:00:00.000 Hollywood actors emerge to virtue signal from their mansions, debate renews over statues, and Seattle's New Republic of Wokeness experiences some early growing pains.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:23.000 Alrighty, so it's been an interesting 24 hours and it seems like the narrative is beginning to shift a little bit.

00:00:30.000 And one of the reasons the narrative is beginning to shift is because everything that starts off as a legitimate cause eventually becomes a grift for a certain number of people.

00:00:36.000 And that doesn't mean that the vast majority of people who are involved in protesting police brutality are not sincere.

00:00:41.000 I think that they are sincere.

00:00:43.000 And I think protesting police brutality is worthwhile, just like every other human being, because every good person, including police officers, opposes police brutality.

00:00:51.000 Which is why it is a statistical rarity to uncover a case in which a police officer does something as egregious as what happened with George Floyd.

00:00:58.000 Again, to cite the statistics, which I know everybody doesn't like to cite because we have to instead make the miasmatic argument that police generally across the nation are engaged in brutality and violence.

00:01:07.000 The number of unarmed black men shot by the police, according to the Washington Post last year, was nine.

00:01:13.000 That is a statistical anomaly.

00:01:14.000 That does not mean that every one of those cases was not a tragedy.

00:01:18.000 I don't know the details of all those cases, but I'm sure that most of them were tragedies.

00:01:22.000 It doesn't mean the case of Breonna Taylor isn't a travesty.

00:01:24.000 It is an absolute travesty.

00:01:25.000 The Breonna Taylor case, first of all, I'm not sure why Breonna Taylor isn't the face of this movement, as opposed to George Floyd, other than the Breonna Taylor thing wasn't caught on tape.

00:01:33.000 And the Breonna Taylor thing, to me, and the George Floyd thing is egregious, it's an atrocity.

00:01:37.000 The Breonna Taylor thing is even worse. 0.94

00:01:38.000 I mean, the Breonna Taylor thing, she was sleeping in her own apartment, and the police served a no-knock warrant and then shot her in her bed.

00:01:43.000 I mean, that one is, like, beyond.

00:01:45.000 That one is beyond.

00:01:46.000 And how those officers are still not under arrest is absolutely beyond me.

00:01:51.000 I mean, it's crazy.

00:01:51.000 But, put that aside.

00:01:53.000 What we have now reached is the point In the narrative, where hangers-on have started to take control of the narrative, and you can sense it.

00:02:00.000 You can sense that the hangers-on, the people who were not at the core of the protest, and were also not the radicals who were always using protests in order to push ridiculous agendas that most Americans didn't want, the people who, in other words, had been sitting aside, those people have jumped into the fray in order to virtue signal.

00:02:18.000 And the best indicator that a cause is over is when the Hollywood actors jump in.

00:02:22.000 Because now we've reached the point in Seinfeld where we are in the ribbon bullies episode.

00:02:25.000 I don't know if you remember this episode of Seinfeld.

00:02:28.000 It's a great episode of Seinfeld where Kramer is walking along the street and there's an AIDS march and somebody gives him an AIDS ribbon and he doesn't want to wear the AIDS ribbon.

00:02:36.000 And so everybody starts yelling at him and then they start basically beating him up because he won't wear the AIDS ribbon.

00:02:41.000 That is the point that we have reached in the Black Lives Matters movement.

00:02:46.000 Because right now, the question isn't whether you care about black lives.

00:02:49.000 You do.

00:02:49.000 I mean, Kramer, I assume, cared about AIDS.

00:02:51.000 The question is whether you are willing to virtue signal and how hard you're willing to virtue signal.

00:02:55.000 And then once you virtue signal, what else can we get out of you?

00:02:58.000 OK, and so Hollywood has decided to jump in full scale and make mockeries of themselves.

00:03:02.000 So I'm old enough to remember when two weeks ago, Madonna had her son dancing in the kitchen to Michael Jackson, and we were all mocking this like, oh, racism solved, guys, racism solved.

00:03:10.000 But now all of Hollywood is engaged in the Madonna son dancing to Michael Jackson in the kitchen.

00:03:16.000 That's what we now have.

00:03:17.000 So yesterday, a bunch of very woke and very self-righteous Hollywood celebrities, including people like Aaron Paul and Kristen Bell and Sarah Paulson, did a video for ITakeResponsibility.org in which they announced that they were taking responsibility for all the world's sins.

00:03:34.000 They're like the Jesus of this moment.

00:03:36.000 They're going to take responsibility of all the world's sins on their shoulder, and then they will rectify the imbalances in the universe by doing so.

00:03:43.000 Now, I will say that for a bunch of actors, they don't do very good performances, except for Aaron Paul, who really dials this up to 11.

00:03:49.000 At the end of this video, he goes full Jesse Pinkman.

00:03:51.000 By the end of this video, Aaron Paul is basically screaming at the camera about police brutality and how the police are murdering people, and Julianna Moore suggests that black people are being slaughtered in the streets by police.

00:04:02.000 I mean, it really is some very solid stuff from Hollywood, but you can tell that for a lot of these stars, the thing has become a grift, simply because they're doing what they are doing.

00:04:09.000 And I don't doubt the sincerity of their feeling about black people dying, because every decent person feels that. 1.00

00:04:15.000 I do doubt the sincerity of putting out a video where they take responsibility for all the world's sins and suggest that they will never, ever, ever tell a bad joke ever again.

00:04:23.000 Oh, they won't tell a bad joke ever again.

00:04:25.000 Or, oh, they won't stand by and watch police brutality happen.

00:04:27.000 Were they members of the PD?

00:04:29.000 Were they standing by?

00:04:30.000 Were they like there at the George Floyd killing?

00:04:32.000 Because I don't remember Sarah Paulson there.

00:04:34.000 I feel like that would have been a big news story if Sarah Paulson had been there and just been standing by doing nothing.

00:04:38.000 In any case, here was the video from these Hollywood stars pledging that they take responsibility.

00:04:42.000 Now, be fair about this.

00:04:44.000 When you're a Hollywood star and you say, I take responsibility, what you're actually saying is, I do not take responsibility for any of this stuff.

00:04:50.000 What you're actually saying is, everybody else is the bad guy, I'm the good guy.

00:04:53.000 And the way you can tell I'm the good guy is because of my performative atonement.

00:04:56.000 My performative atonement means I'm not like those other white people. 1.00

00:04:58.000 And this video is like all white people.

00:05:01.000 The entire video is a bunch of white people saying, I take responsibility, which really means I don't take responsibility.

00:05:06.000 I'm one of the good ones, guys.

00:05:07.000 I'm a good one.

00:05:09.000 I'm the kind of person who would plywood up my window and then spray paint Black Lives Matter on it. 0.97

00:05:13.000 That's the kind of person these actors are.

00:05:16.000 Please don't break into my mansion because the fact is that I am with you.

00:05:20.000 I am with you.

00:05:21.000 Up until the point when it actually comes to sacrificing my part for a person of color, then I'm not so into it. 0.99

00:05:21.000 All the way. 0.99

00:05:26.000 But, like right now, in front of this camera, the reason this is important, guys, is because you can see, again, what began as a sincere outpouring of upset over George Floyd and police brutality has become for so many people an opportunity to virtue signal on behalf of their own sort of political cadre and their insidery Hollywood cronies.

00:05:46.000 Here was this video yesterday.

00:05:46.000 It's astonishingly bad.

00:05:49.000 I take responsibility I take responsibility.

00:05:55.000 I take responsibility.

00:05:58.000 I take responsibility for every unchecked moment.

00:06:02.000 For every time it was easier to ignore than to call it out for what it was.

00:06:06.000 Every not-so-funny joke.

00:06:10.000 Every unfair stereotype.

00:06:12.000 Every blatant injustice, no matter how big or small.

00:06:15.000 Every time I remained silent.

00:06:18.000 Every time I explained away police brutality.

00:06:21.000 OK, stop it for a second.

00:06:22.000 I mean, every time you explain who explained why police brutality, who among these actors was like, oh, man, that Rodney King thing, that was great.

00:06:28.000 What are you talking about?

00:06:28.000 Who?

00:06:29.000 What are you talking about?

00:06:30.000 Also, I'm really looking forward to the to the.

00:06:34.000 Professional cut of all the various jokes that these various actors have told in the course of their careers that would that apparently they don't like anymore I recognize that one of the people who's being most sincere is Justin Theroux Justin Theroux wrote Tropic Thunder in Which Robert Downey jr.

00:06:49.000 Plays a black man and tells nothing but racist stereotypical jokes for two hours, okay? 0.79

00:06:53.000 So I'm gonna go with you guys didn't care about any of this stuff until you decided that it was worthwhile virtue signaling about it the sincerity of I I'm here without makeup and I haven't shaved either. 0.92

00:07:03.000 That means that I am totally sincere, guys.

00:07:05.000 Now, I'm not going to stop this video until we get to Aaron Paul.

00:07:08.000 My colleague, Matt Walsh, he had a great line about this yesterday.

00:07:11.000 He called it the I Take Responsibility Challenge.

00:07:13.000 How long can you get through this video before you have to turn it off?

00:07:16.000 But we have to continue this video until we at least get to Aaron Paul's Oscar-worthy performance as a very concerned white person.

00:07:24.000 Every time I explained away police brutality or turned a blind eye, I take responsibility. 0.76

00:07:33.000 Black people are being slaughtered in the streets, killed in their own homes.

00:07:37.000 These are our brothers and sisters, our friends. 0.99

00:07:40.000 Pause it there for a second.

00:07:41.000 I'm sorry.

00:07:41.000 That one, actually, I have to stop just to rebut it.

00:07:43.000 Okay, the notion that black people are being slaughtered in their own homes by the cops is just nonsense. 0.99

00:07:47.000 It's just nonsense. 0.99

00:07:48.000 It is not true.

00:07:49.000 Okay, the fact is that the police shot, last year, according to the Washington Post, 1,004 people.

00:07:54.000 About 250 of them were black.

00:07:57.000 Nearly all of them were armed and resisting the police. 0.99

00:08:00.000 Black people are not being slaughtered en masse by white people in their beds. 0.83

00:08:03.000 And Dave Chappelle put out a comedy special. 0.98

00:08:05.000 And Dave Chappelle's a comedian.

00:08:06.000 He can obviously say what he wants.

00:08:07.000 He's a comedian, right?

00:08:08.000 He can make whatever jokes he wants.

00:08:10.000 I'm not in favor of censorship of comedians or chiding them for the sorts of language they use or something like that.

00:08:14.000 That's comedy.

00:08:15.000 But Dave Chappelle makes a serious point in which he suggests that anyone who survives this nightmare is a hero.

00:08:21.000 And I just think to myself, okay, there are 42 million black Americans.

00:08:24.000 41,992,500 of them were not shot last year.

00:08:30.000 And of the remaining 7,500 who were shot, the vast majority were killed by other black people in the black community because nearly all murder in the United States is intraracial, not interracial.

00:08:42.000 And only 250 were shot by the cops at all, and only nine were shot unarmed.

00:08:46.000 So that does not sound like everyday black people are under existential threat in the United States, because they clearly are not.

00:08:50.000 I mean, Dave Chappelle's a very, very wealthy person.

00:08:52.000 LeBron James, very, very wealthy person.

00:08:54.000 He's done very, very well for himself.

00:08:56.000 This is America.

00:08:56.000 Good for them.

00:08:57.000 Everybody should have the opportunity to do really well for themselves, which is why we all stand against police brutality.

00:09:01.000 But this notion that black people are being slaughtered en masse is so ahistorical.

00:09:05.000 And by the way, degrading to history's actual evils. 0.89

00:09:10.000 I mean, you want to talk about the mistreatment of black people?

00:09:11.000 You don't have to go all that far back in American history to talk about mass mistreatment of black people. 0.99

00:09:16.000 To compare today's black experience to the black experience of 1960 with legalized segregation and Jim Crow and miscegenation laws, or to compare it to slavery, is utterly asinine. 0.99

00:09:27.000 And to take that crap from Julianne Moore, who's whiter than this piece of paper right here, is beyond me. 0.98

00:09:31.000 Anyway, we finally get to Oscar winner Aaron Paul in his finest performance. 0.99

00:09:37.000 And killer cops must be prosecuted. 0.96

00:09:40.000 They are murderers. 0.54

00:09:41.000 We can turn the tide.

00:09:43.000 It is time to take responsibility.

00:09:47.000 Call out hate.

00:09:49.000 Step up and take action.

00:09:52.000 I realize why they cast Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, because he actually is Jesse Pinkman.

00:09:57.000 He's just Jesse Pinkman.

00:09:59.000 Like, there is no other Aaron Paul.

00:10:01.000 It's not like he was putting it on when he was doing— He really dials that spinal tap 11 there for Aaron Paul.

00:10:06.000 Okay, so the point of this is not that this is important.

00:10:08.000 The point is that it is frivolously unimportant.

00:10:10.000 And we have reached the point of frivolous unimportance in this debate.

00:10:14.000 Remember, this thing started off as, how do we enact police reform so as to quash police brutality?

00:10:14.000 We have.

00:10:19.000 How do we do that?

00:10:20.000 Has anybody talked about any of that, like, in the last week?

00:10:24.000 In the last week and a half?

00:10:25.000 Like, Congress was pushing a bill.

00:10:26.000 Does anyone know what was in that bill?

00:10:28.000 Does anyone care?

00:10:29.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:10:30.000 The media are covered with other narratives.

00:10:32.000 With other narratives.

00:10:33.000 And the problem for the press, and the problem for the left, is that once you broaden out the narrative from Americans need to care about kill black people, which we all do, to we're gonna tear down statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and set up autonomous zones in Seattle, Americans are like, you know what?

00:10:47.000 I'm out.

00:10:48.000 Once you move from, we all ought to care about black people being victimized by police brutality, to, every white person is guilty of systemic racism in this country, and you must kneel, and you must atone, and you must put out a corporate statement, or we're going to boycott you.

00:10:59.000 Americans are like, you know what? 0.99

00:11:00.000 Done.

00:11:01.000 We're out.

00:11:02.000 Because you have now moved beyond the point of the rational.

00:11:04.000 We are not going to wear the ribbon just because you say that we're supposed to wear the ribbon.

00:11:07.000 We may agree with the cause, but we are not going to be forced into Hollywood hostage videos.

00:11:11.000 Right?

00:11:11.000 This is not something that we are into.

00:11:13.000 And you can see the narrative turning because the left always goes too far.

00:11:16.000 They can't just say, here's a wrong.

00:11:18.000 How do we work to correct it?

00:11:19.000 Because that might be too unifying.

00:11:21.000 They refuse to be specific.

00:11:22.000 Instead, you're supposed to swallow this entire narrative hook, line, and sinker.

00:11:25.000 And I don't think that most Americans are willing to swallow the narrative that black people are systemically put upon by police in the United States and at threat of violence every single day, or that all white people in the United States are responsible for the subjugation of black people, which is why there is inequality between groups.

00:11:40.000 I don't think most Americans believe that because it isn't true.

00:11:42.000 It isn't factually true.

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00:13:08.000 So as I say, the narrative has now been broadened out.

00:13:08.000 Okay.

00:13:11.000 It's been broadened out.

00:13:12.000 And so now, we're gonna battle over confederate statues.

00:13:14.000 We're gonna battle over confederate flags.

00:13:16.000 Now, in the past, this has happened before, too.

00:13:18.000 And I think that there's a good argument to be made as to whether cities ought to leave up confederate statues.

00:13:22.000 The argument against is every time you're a black person, you walk by a confederate statue, you go, oh yeah, that person wanted to enslave grandma. 0.81

00:13:28.000 Like, that's an evil person. 0.86

00:13:29.000 Why is there a statue of an evil person that taxpayers are paying to upkeep?

00:13:33.000 I think that's a fair argument.

00:13:34.000 I do.

00:13:35.000 Okay, then there's the counter-argument.

00:13:36.000 The counter-argument is made by Condoleezza Rice, and I kind of agree with this one more. 0.73

00:13:40.000 And that is, it's important to leave up monuments of bad people, so that specifically we can point to our kids and say, guys, you need to know American history.

00:13:46.000 In American history, there were a group of people who wanted to enslave your great-grandmother.

00:13:51.000 As a Jew, I want Auschwitz to stand.

00:13:53.000 I want monuments to human cruelty to stand.

00:13:55.000 I think it's very important that monuments to human cruelty stand, specifically because it reminds us that human beings are capable of such cruelty.

00:14:03.000 It reminds us of the darkness inherent in the human heart.

00:14:05.000 So I get the arguments and I get the counter-arguments.

00:14:08.000 But the notion that this is linked to quote-unquote ongoing police brutality and systemic racism is a different question.

00:14:14.000 Because now what you're basically suggesting is that the very presence of these statues is the rationale for inequality between black and white outcomes in the United States.

00:14:24.000 And when you broaden this out to, okay, if you agree with the second argument, or if you think that, you know, history is worth preserving just because history is history, then that must be because you are inherently racist.

00:14:35.000 This happened after the mass shooting, that horrible mass shooting in Charleston at the Black Historic Church.

00:14:40.000 There's this attempt to take down Confederate flags.

00:14:42.000 There's an attempt to take down statues.

00:14:44.000 My point was not that these are not worthy causes.

00:14:46.000 They may in fact be worthy causes.

00:14:48.000 I'm not a fan of the confederate flag.

00:14:49.000 I think the confederate flag stood for a rebellion against the United States on behalf of slavery.

00:14:55.000 So I'm not a fan of the confederate flag.

00:14:56.000 I'm also not a fan of suggesting that everybody who has a confederate flag on the back of their truck is somehow in favor of slavery or the confederacy because the flag was not removed for 160 years and for a lot of people it morphed in meaning.

00:15:08.000 Like, to understand that the Confederate flag or the Confederate statues mean something different to different groups of people, you do have to actually talk to those groups of people.

00:15:16.000 And I think that both meanings are perfectly understandable, and both meanings are perfectly legitimate.

00:15:21.000 Meaning that if you're, again, if you're a black person, you see the confederate flag, you say, that is a flag that was flown on behalf of a would-be country to enslave my ancestors and that would want me enslaved today. 0.71

00:15:30.000 100% right.

00:15:31.000 100% right.

00:15:32.000 And then, you're a southern white guy, and your grandfather had that flag when he was fighting at the Battle of the Bulge, which, there were tanks that flew the confederate flag at the Battle of the Bulge because it stood for regional pride.

00:15:42.000 It didn't morph beyond its original meaning.

00:15:44.000 So to suggest tacitly that everybody who's flying the Confederate flag is responsible for the killing of George Floyd or something, or that America writ large is the Confederate flag and not the American flag, or that the American flag is like the Confederate flag, which is why people are kneeling for the American flag, all of that is wrong.

00:15:59.000 And once you broaden out these arguments, once you take this from the realm of what can we do policy-wise in order to rectify problems, to let's do a full-scale Rethinking and revision of American history.

00:16:10.000 Let's do a full scale rethink of the heart of the American people.

00:16:14.000 Let's indict people who have nothing to do with the death of George Floyd because they have a symbol on their car.

00:16:19.000 Then Americans are going to start to buck. 0.59

00:16:21.000 And by the way, there's no limiting principle here because it turns out that for a lot of folks on the left, this does not stop with even statues I don't like, like Confederate statues or like the Confederate flag.

00:16:30.000 It doesn't stop with that for the people on the hard left.

00:16:33.000 It stops with George Washington.

00:16:35.000 It stops with Thomas Jefferson.

00:16:37.000 It stops with Christopher Columbus.

00:16:38.000 It stops with anybody who represents Western civilization or American civilization because it turns out history is filled with flawed people.

00:16:46.000 We build monuments to people who do incredible things.

00:16:50.000 That's typically what you do.

00:16:52.000 Now, a lot of monuments should be taken down because people didn't do incredible things.

00:16:55.000 Alright, fine, fair.

00:16:55.000 Get it.

00:16:57.000 You don't go out and protest and drag them down.

00:16:57.000 You vote to do it.

00:17:00.000 Okay?

00:17:00.000 Because this is still a democratic country.

00:17:01.000 It's still a democratic republic.

00:17:03.000 But I get it.

00:17:03.000 But, to take down every monument to a person who lived in a historical time that you did not live in, who did a bad thing, and then to use that as an excuse to take down the statue?

00:17:14.000 That's beyond.

00:17:15.000 Now you're basically saying that all of history is evil except for this present moment, and if you don't jump on our side of this political issue in this present moment, you stand with the bad thing this person did.

00:17:23.000 So if you like George Washington, what you actually are celebrating is the fact that he held slaves, not the fact that he was the father of the country.

00:17:29.000 But if you like Thomas Jefferson, you're not celebrating the Declaration of Independence or the Louisiana Purchase, you're celebrating what he did to Sally Hemings.

00:17:36.000 You're celebrating what he did to Sally Hemings.

00:17:37.000 And that is a lie.

00:17:39.000 It's a lie.

00:17:40.000 Most Americans don't celebrate that sort of stuff.

00:17:42.000 And when I say most, I mean virtually all.

00:17:44.000 So we're gonna get to the attack on history because there is some irony to this.

00:17:47.000 Like, Nancy Pelosi wants to take down a bunch of statues at the Capitol. 1.00

00:17:51.000 Her dad actually put up a statue to a confederate, to I believe Stonewall Jackson in 1948 in Baltimore.

00:17:59.000 She has refused calls to talk about that.

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00:19:11.000 OK, so there's all of this argument now over these historical statues.

00:19:17.000 And again, it is not restricted to Confederate statues.

00:19:21.000 The Winston Churchill statue in London has now been boarded up.

00:19:25.000 There's a picture today of it in an actual metal case.

00:19:29.000 Like an opaque metal case.

00:19:31.000 It's been boarded up.

00:19:31.000 You can't see it anymore.

00:19:33.000 Statues of Christopher Columbus are being torn down.

00:19:35.000 Now, you don't have to think that Christopher Columbus was a wonderful guy to acknowledge that him crossing several thousand miles of ocean without any clue where he was going and bringing the possibility of Western civilizations to the Western Hemisphere was a good thing overall for the world, even if it was a very bad thing for the natives he encountered.

00:19:53.000 And that doesn't mean that Christopher Columbus is a wonderful guy or that you today would have done the same things that Christopher Columbus did.

00:19:58.000 But to rip him out of history and then say all the bad things he did in history are unique to Christopher Columbus, which is obviously untrue.

00:20:05.000 And then to suggest that the real reason you're taking him down is because all of history is filled with bad people?

00:20:10.000 That's not what people are doing.

00:20:12.000 What they're actually suggesting when they tear down the Christopher Columbus statue is the same thing Howard Zinn did at the beginning of his People's History of the United States, suggesting that the vicious evil of Christopher Columbus was not the treatment of the natives per se, it was the fact that he brought capitalism to the Western Hemisphere.

00:20:25.000 That's really what Howard Zinn says.

00:20:27.000 Because Christopher Columbus was a bad, evil Western civilization guy, he should be torn down.

00:20:32.000 And if Western civilization had never come to the Western hemisphere, it would have been better for the world generally, which is an extraordinarily charitable read of both history as well as all circumstances on the North and South American continents prior to the arrival of Western civilization, the A. which is an extraordinarily charitable read of both history as All circumstances on the North and South American continents prior to the arrival of Western civilization.

00:20:50.000 The sort of ideal of a Rousseauian paradise before Western has ever hit is just not factually true.

00:20:57.000 Steven Pinker has a whole section in his book about the fact that, you know.

00:21:00.000 All societies experience violence.

00:21:02.000 All societies experience tribalism.

00:21:03.000 All societies that we know of experience heavy levels of warfare and conquering.

00:21:07.000 Columbus was not unique in that.

00:21:08.000 What made Western civilization unique is that Western civilization eventually turned against that.

00:21:12.000 That's what makes Western civilization unique.

00:21:14.000 And so Nancy Pelosi is joined in this.

00:21:16.000 She says she wants to take down statues at the Capitol.

00:21:18.000 She wants to take down Confederate statues at the Capitol. 1.00

00:21:20.000 Now the goal of this is really to suggest that anybody who doesn't want to take down Confederate statues stands with the Confederacy.

00:21:27.000 No.

00:21:28.000 Maybe you just like American history and you think it's very, very important to discuss the fact that many of the people who founded the Confederacy actually were high-ranking members.

00:21:36.000 I mean really high-ranking members of the American government until they founded the Confederacy.

00:21:39.000 And so you have to recognize the evil that is present in every human heart and in American history.

00:21:43.000 Like, you want to create a... What's amazing right now is that when it comes to American history, The left has basically suggested not a well-rounded American history, a well-rounded version of American history.

00:21:53.000 Basically, they have suggested the only book you need to read about American history is Howard Zinn.

00:21:57.000 Katie Turr from MSNBC tweeted this yesterday. 0.99

00:21:59.000 She tweeted, you should just go read Howard Zinn, which is a stupid person's idea of a smart history book. 0.98

00:22:05.000 It's a people's history of the United States. 0.97

00:22:08.000 What you should do is you should read A People's History of the United States, and you should also read A Traditional American History.

00:22:14.000 And you should recognize that A People's History is propagandistic nonsense in large sizes.

00:22:18.000 I mean, he literally says that the fascism that America defeated in World War II in his book was then taken into the bones of the United States.

00:22:26.000 This is something that Howard Zinn says in his book. 0.97

00:22:28.000 I mean, Howard Zinn is a garbage historian.

00:22:29.000 There's a great book called Debunking Howard Zinn that is well worth the read. 0.60

00:22:33.000 You should go check that out.

00:22:34.000 But the left loves this thing.

00:22:35.000 So this is about rethinking American history.

00:22:37.000 And this is why I say the narrative is beginning to turn.

00:22:39.000 The left always cannot stop at the point.

00:22:42.000 They have to move into their broader point.

00:22:44.000 And their broader point is something people generally do not agree with.

00:22:47.000 Even Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, is saying like, no, this is not a thing.

00:22:50.000 We're not taking down Christopher Columbus statues.

00:22:52.000 Here is Andrew Cuomo.

00:22:54.000 Man's a Democrat, but he still understands that Christopher Columbus is a meaningful figure in the history of America and in the history of Western civilization.

00:23:01.000 Here is Andrew Cuomo.

00:23:04.000 The Christopher Columbus statue represents, in some ways, the Italian-American legacy in this country.

00:23:15.000 and the Italian-American contribution in this country.

00:23:18.000 I understand the feelings about Christopher Columbus and some of his acts, which nobody would support.

00:23:25.000 But the statue has come to represent and signify appreciation for the Italian-American contribution to New York.

00:23:37.000 So for that reason, I support it.

00:23:41.000 Okay, so he is right, but he's also, you know, missing the point, which is that the real reason it's good that Christopher Columbus came to the Western Hemisphere is because it is good that Western civilization came to the Western Hemisphere, even if Christopher Columbus did very, very bad things.

00:23:53.000 Right?

00:23:53.000 You can acknowledge both of those things at once.

00:23:55.000 That's called an actual well-rounded version of history.

00:23:57.000 Okay, but the left doesn't want that well-rounded version of history.

00:24:00.000 Instead, they want you to buy into the idea that the reason that there is inequality between black and white in the United States is because of the evil inheritance in Christopher Columbus, the evil inheritance in George Washington, the evil inheritance in Thomas Jefferson.

00:24:11.000 And this is why Tom Cotton got up yesterday, the senator from Arkansas in the Senate, and he said, you guys are talking about tearing down the Washington Monument.

00:24:18.000 What are you even talking about now?

00:24:19.000 Now you're talking about the roots of the country being systemically evil.

00:24:22.000 We're not going to do that.

00:24:23.000 That's not a thing.

00:24:24.000 Here's Senator Cotton.

00:24:26.000 Where does this cancel culture take us? 0.95

00:24:28.000 What is the logical conclusion?

00:24:30.000 What is the end of the cancel culture? 0.97

00:24:32.000 I will tell you what it is.

00:24:34.000 It is right here in this city, Washington, the District of Columbia.

00:24:41.000 That's where it will end, if we don't put an end to the madness now.

00:24:46.000 Just up the mall is the Washington Monument.

00:24:49.000 Are we going to tear the Washington Monument down?

00:24:52.000 Are we going to rename it the Obelisk of Wokeness?

00:25:00.000 First of all, great name for a garage band.

00:25:02.000 Obelisk of Wokeness.

00:25:03.000 But with that said, he's not wrong.

00:25:05.000 And this is why the whole movement, which started off as a unity movement, is starting to lose steam.

00:25:10.000 Because the minute that you diversify the message into things like America is, was, always will be historically marred by its own DNA. 0.97

00:25:19.000 All white people are racist inherently in their bones and must atone. 0.93

00:25:22.000 This sort of stuff does not have a shelf life. 1.00

00:25:24.000 It doesn't.

00:25:24.000 It has a radioactive half-life.

00:25:26.000 For most human beings.

00:25:27.000 And that's what you're starting to see happening right now.

00:25:29.000 Because it turns out that when you are stumping for something universally good, people generally are on your side.

00:25:33.000 When you broaden that out to indict people for things they didn't do, not so much.

00:25:36.000 We're gonna get to more of this in just one second.

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00:26:53.000 Okay, so as I say, the worse this gets, the more Ribbon signaling, this becomes. 0.67

00:26:59.000 The more you're bullied into wearing the ribbon, the less people are going to be into it.

00:27:03.000 And this has taken some pretty radical ramifications.

00:27:06.000 So for example, what are Americans expected to buy into, is really the question.

00:27:10.000 What are Americans expected to buy into?

00:27:11.000 Because we're all on board with police brutality is bad.

00:27:14.000 Here are some reforms we might make.

00:27:16.000 We were all pretty much into that.

00:27:18.000 But then it turned out that that wasn't the agenda.

00:27:21.000 It turns out the agenda was much broader and deeper than that.

00:27:24.000 And that's a problem.

00:27:25.000 And so people like David Shore, good example.

00:27:27.000 According to Jonathan Chait, writing at New York Magazine, David Shore is a 28-year-old political data analyst and social democrat who worked for President Obama's re-election campaign.

00:27:37.000 On May 28th, Shore tweeted out a short summary of a paper by Princeton professor Omar Wasow.

00:27:41.000 The research compiled by Wasow analyzed public opinion in the 1960s and found that violent and nonviolent protest tactics had contradictory effects.

00:27:49.000 Shor's synopsis was straightforward.

00:27:51.000 So, he's making a simple point.

00:27:52.000 So he's making a simple point.

00:28:08.000 Nonviolent protest, good.

00:28:09.000 Violent protest, bad.

00:28:10.000 He was fired.

00:28:13.000 He was fired.

00:28:15.000 Ari Trujillo-Wesler, the founder of Openfield, a democratic canvassing app, replied, This take is tone deaf, removes responsibility for depressed turnout from the 68 party, and reeks of anti-blackness.

00:28:24.000 David Shores said the mechanism for the paper isn't turnout.

00:28:26.000 It's violence driving news coverage that makes people vote Republican.

00:28:29.000 The author does a great job explaining his research here.

00:28:31.000 Employees and clients on Civis Analytics complained that Shores' tweet threatened their safety.

00:28:39.000 The next day, Shore apologized for even tweeting out this point.

00:28:43.000 Civis Analytics undertook a review of the episode, and then Shore was fired.

00:28:47.000 And then sure is fired.

00:28:49.000 So in other words, if you say that nonviolent protests are better than violent protests, they will fire you now.

00:28:53.000 It doesn't matter that you were a democratic socialist who backed Barack Obama.

00:28:56.000 They will fire you for that.

00:28:58.000 Or let's say, remember, I'm old enough to remember like a week ago, when the message from Democrats that most cops were good, there were just some bad cops.

00:29:04.000 And that that didn't mean there wasn't a systemic problem, but most cops were good.

00:29:07.000 I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama said that.

00:29:09.000 Barack Obama said in his speech that cops were generally doing a good job, that cops were generally good people trying their best.

00:29:16.000 Well now we've reached the point where institutions are being bullied into not allowing the cops to pee and poo on their premises.

00:29:23.000 Berkeley School of Music put out a statement that they were deeply sorry for allowing Boston police officers to use the school's restrooms following the downtown protests on May 31st in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.

00:29:36.000 The school says it will not happen again.

00:29:38.000 Berkeley President Roger Brown, Chief Financial Officer Mack Heise, and Public Safety Chief David Ransom said the college had heard expressions of anger and betrayal from their community after they allowed Boston police officers access to poop to the Back Bay School's restrooms.

00:29:52.000 Boston police, of course, have jurisdictions over roads and other public spaces around our campus, but not inside our buildings, Berkeley officials said.

00:29:59.000 The decision to allow them into our facilities was ours.

00:30:01.000 This was not a formal decision by the institution, but an informal one, made on the spot.

00:30:05.000 We understand that many of our members of our community feel betrayed.

00:30:08.000 We are deeply sorry for the impact this had on our community, and for perpetuating feelings of oppression, silencing, and marginalization.

00:30:16.000 Wear the ribbon.

00:30:17.000 Wear the ribbon or pay the price. 0.96

00:30:19.000 And that ribbon means you are a racist.

00:30:21.000 The ribbon doesn't mean you're anti-racist. 0.98

00:30:23.000 It means acknowledging that you are a racist.

00:30:25.000 Acknowledging that everything you do is racist. 0.96

00:30:27.000 Acknowledging that if you allow a cop to poop in your bathroom, that you are in favor of police brutality.

00:30:32.000 Acknowledge or pay the price.

00:30:34.000 And then you wonder why Steam seems to be running out just a little bit here.

00:30:39.000 Because it turns out that when you go too far, people are not super into it.

00:30:41.000 Now I'm going to bring you some more examples of things going too far.

00:30:44.000 And then you'll see that the Democrats are beginning to change the narrative.

00:30:47.000 So the narrative for the last couple of weeks was America is deeply and systemically racist. 0.97

00:30:50.000 America is evil. 0.93

00:30:52.000 America is filled with police brutality. 0.64

00:30:53.000 And on the first message, there was some fairly good response.

00:30:57.000 I mean, Americans were like, OK, we're also against police brutality.

00:30:59.000 And also, we would like to see black people treated better in the United States because, yeah, that's great.

00:31:03.000 Black people should be treated better in the United States.

00:31:05.000 And everybody was on board.

00:31:06.000 And the Democrats basically got what they wanted, which was to polarize the debate around President Trump and to suggest that all Republicans are racist.

00:31:12.000 They got what they wanted politically, and now they're out.

00:31:15.000 Democrats have moved on.

00:31:16.000 Notice what the media are covering today.

00:31:18.000 The media today are not covering these protests anymore.

00:31:20.000 The media have moved back to COVID-19.

00:31:23.000 The narrative has turned.

00:31:25.000 And now it's, Trump's bad because he's going to kill you with COVID-19 again. 0.98

00:31:28.000 So it was, Trump is bad because he's killing you with COVID-19. 0.97

00:31:31.000 Then it was, it's so important to fight racism that you should go out in the streets and infect each other en masse. 0.93

00:31:35.000 That's how important it is.

00:31:37.000 And now we're back to, Trump is killing you of COVID-19.

00:31:39.000 Why?

00:31:39.000 Because the narrative ran out of steam for the Democrats because they changed the narrative.

00:31:43.000 If they just stuck with the unifying narrative, it wouldn't have been a democratic narrative.

00:31:46.000 See, Democrats had to do two things. 0.98

00:31:48.000 One, find a popular narrative, which they did.

00:31:49.000 Two, try to harness that narrative in pursuit of their own political goals, which they sort of did, and then the narrative ran away from them.

00:31:56.000 And now they're moving back to COVID-19.

00:31:57.000 We're going to explain why in just one second.

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00:33:12.000 Okay, we're going to get into How the narrative got away from the Democrats and how they basically are taking their ball and going home now.

00:33:19.000 That's essentially what's happening.

00:33:20.000 You can see it with the Democrats. 0.95

00:33:21.000 They're shifting the narrative from Trump is bad because he's racist to Trump is bad because he's racist because COVID-19. 0.82

00:33:26.000 Right? 0.51

00:33:27.000 That's the new tactic. 0.99

00:33:28.000 And that's because once you have moved from police brutality is bad to all cops are bad and all white people are bad. 0.85

00:33:35.000 And also, how about we set up an autonomous zone in Seattle? 0.90

00:33:38.000 Most Americans are like, you know what? 0.51

00:33:39.000 I'm out.

00:33:40.000 I'm out.

00:33:40.000 And you can see it happening in real time.

00:33:43.000 Most Americans are only going to be bullied into the woke ribbon-wearing for as long as they sort of agree with the underlying message.

00:33:48.000 But when the underlying message changes, so does American willingness to go along with it.

00:33:51.000 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:35:12.000 Also, I think that the last book I wrote, Rights Out of History, is a very important book.

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00:35:57.000 So people, this movement has gone too far.

00:36:07.000 Because, again, the movement has had ramifications that people are expected to swallow that they originally were not up for.

00:36:12.000 Everybody was up for stop the police brutality.

00:36:15.000 Everybody was up for let's take a look at the statistics and try to figure out how we can mitigate problems in the United States.

00:36:20.000 Everybody was up for that.

00:36:21.000 You know what people were not up for?

00:36:23.000 Autonomous zones in the middle of Seattle.

00:36:25.000 So the media have been trying to cram this narrative down our throats.

00:36:28.000 I mean, the media have really been trying to suggest that all that looting and rioting, that was a figment of your imagination.

00:36:33.000 Poof, it no longer existed.

00:36:34.000 This was the narrative, seriously, from the media for a week.

00:36:37.000 Why is Fox News still covering bad things happening in the United States?

00:36:40.000 Everything is great.

00:36:41.000 Everything is great.

00:36:42.000 You remember that time they were breaking into the footlocker down the street?

00:36:44.000 That was not a thing.

00:36:45.000 It didn't happen.

00:36:46.000 Poof, it was gone.

00:36:47.000 Figment of your imagination.

00:36:49.000 You don't need the cops.

00:36:50.000 In the words of the first lady of New York City, the wife of Bill de Blasio, she said that New York City would be a nirvana without the police.

00:37:01.000 And so the media duly tried to make America into a nirvana without the police.

00:37:04.000 There's only one problem.

00:37:05.000 It is not a nirvana.

00:37:06.000 It is a hellscape.

00:37:07.000 So, over in Seattle, they've set up Chaz.

00:37:10.000 Chaz, the worst name for a republic ever.

00:37:12.000 The Republic of Chaz.

00:37:13.000 The State of Chaz, man. 0.61

00:37:14.000 which sounds like a smooth jazz show on 92.7, The Wave, at 2 a.m. Welcome to the Republic of Chad.

00:37:24.000 We're going to play some Winston Marsalis now on the Republic of Chaz.

00:37:27.000 In any case, the Republic of Chaz is not nearly that mellow or that cool.

00:37:31.000 The Republic of Chaz is actually a terrible, terrible place.

00:37:33.000 The Seattle police chief, who happens to be a person of color, said leaving was not our decision.

00:37:38.000 Like, we were forced to abandon this part of the city by the mayor, Jenny Durkan, and we were not into it because actually it has some pretty bad ramifications.

00:37:44.000 She says, not our choice.

00:37:46.000 We weren't up for it.

00:37:49.000 You should know, leaving the precinct was not my decision.

00:37:53.000 You fought for days to protect it.

00:37:55.000 I asked you to stand on that line, day in and day out, to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened, and in some cases hurt.

00:38:05.000 Then to have a change of course nearly two weeks in?

00:38:09.000 It seems like an insult to you and our community.

00:38:12.000 Ultimately, the city had other plans for the building and relented to severe public pressure.

00:38:20.000 I mean, when the Seattle PD chief, who is a black woman, is out there ripping into Mayor Jenny Durkan and saying, like, you are just terrible at your job, you may think things have gone wrong.

00:38:29.000 The media are trying to cover for this.

00:38:30.000 Seattle police chief also said, by the way, there's crimes going on in there.

00:38:33.000 Like, it's tripled on 9-1-1 time.

00:38:34.000 You call 9-1-1 from inside that zone, we cannot get in.

00:38:37.000 It is making it impossible for us to do our job.

00:38:37.000 Right?

00:38:39.000 Here she was yesterday explaining.

00:38:41.000 Our 911 response times have tripled in the area.

00:38:45.000 They've gone from just over five minutes to about 18 minutes.

00:38:48.000 Rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts have been occurring in the area that we're not able to get to.

00:38:55.000 So it is not right for us not to be able to deploy our officers here.

00:39:01.000 Okay, that is Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best saying, like, there's crime going on in there and we can't do anything about it.

00:39:06.000 Meanwhile, Mayor Jenny Durkan, like, because Trump attacked this and Trump said, like, this has to stop, the Democrats are reflexively defending the full takeover of six city blocks in the middle of Seattle where lawlessness is running rampant.

00:39:18.000 As a block party. 0.99

00:39:19.000 Here's idiot Mayor Jenny Durkan. 1.00

00:39:21.000 She compared the Republic of Chazz to a block party. 1.00

00:39:23.000 Chazz is a block party. 0.85

00:39:24.000 It's just like the Summer of Love out there.

00:39:26.000 Except for, you know, the armed bands who are roaming and threatening people with baseball bats, a thing that is actually happening, as we'll see.

00:39:31.000 Here is the mayor comparing Chazz to a block party.

00:39:35.000 I think it has been described by the President and others as what it is not.

00:39:39.000 It is not an armed Antifa militia no-go zone.

00:39:44.000 We've had blocks of Seattle and Capitol Hill shut down every summer for everything from block party to pride.

00:39:54.000 This is really not that much of an operational challenge, but we want to make sure that the businesses and residents feel safe, and we'll continue to move that forward.

00:40:06.000 I love that.

00:40:07.000 The police chief is like, yeah, it's an operational challenge, we can't get in.

00:40:10.000 And the mayor's like, it's not an operational challenge, it's fine.

00:40:12.000 It's fine.

00:40:13.000 Meanwhile, Governor Inslee, yesterday he said he knew nothing about the Republic of Chaz.

00:40:17.000 It was a figment of his magic.

00:40:18.000 By the way, again, why couldn't you name it something cool?

00:40:20.000 The Republic of Chaz is just such a bad name.

00:40:22.000 You could choose anything and you'd come up with the Republic of Chaz, the People's Republic of Chaz.

00:40:25.000 Anyway, Governor Inslee tweeted out, What we will not allow are threats of military violence against Washingtonians coming from the White House.

00:40:32.000 military serves to protect Americans, not the fragility of an insecure president.

00:40:32.000 The U.S.

00:40:35.000 So you're defending a paramilitary takeover of six city blocks with barricades set up and people's IDs being checked.

00:40:43.000 And the big threat is Trump saying that he's going to restore the rights of people who live inside that zone?

00:40:48.000 I mean, they'll defend anything.

00:40:49.000 When I say that the narrative has gotten away from folks on the left, this is what I mean.

00:40:52.000 If you're now asking most Americans to swallow whole the notion that they themselves are implicitly racist, that you have to allow city blocks to be taken over in the name of wokeness, that we're going to tear down the Washington Monument, that we're going to shut off the pee-pee rooms to all the cops, That we're going to throw out of a job anybody who mentions a fact. 0.71

00:41:06.000 That we're going to boycott anybody who says a true thing.

00:41:09.000 Most Americans are going to be like, you know what?

00:41:11.000 No.

00:41:11.000 This is not livable.

00:41:12.000 The answer is no.

00:41:13.000 The narrative has gotten away from the Democrats because they emboldened the most radical point of view in their party and decided instead of centralizing around a unity message that most Americans could get behind, they would instead go for the most radical message and just continue to follow that path.

00:41:25.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:41:26.000 Now the media, they haven't given up on this.

00:41:29.000 The media are still trying to pretend that the Republic of Chaz is going really well.

00:41:32.000 Number one, I have some evidence that the Republic of Chaz is not really going all that well.

00:41:36.000 It is sheer hilarity to watch the developments in the developing nation of Chaz.

00:41:40.000 It's pretty spectacular.

00:41:41.000 They set up a farming co-op.

00:41:44.000 I think that they may need some Republicans to set up this farm for them.

00:41:48.000 Because I think that their garden is a fail.

00:41:50.000 It looks like they just bought some topsoil.

00:41:52.000 And then they literally just poured it on grass.

00:41:54.000 And then they didn't even dig holes for the plants.

00:41:56.000 It looks like they just stuck the plants directly on top of the sod.

00:41:59.000 And also they planted like five things.

00:42:01.000 So that will be enough to feed one person a vegan salad one month from now.

00:42:07.000 So I have a feeling they may have some severe food shortages in the Republic of Chaz.

00:42:10.000 I like that they've called it the autonomous zone because they put up a sign yesterday of all the things that they need in the Republic of Chaz.

00:42:17.000 And it is a very, very large list.

00:42:19.000 They said supplies needed.

00:42:21.000 I'm looking at this sign.

00:42:22.000 Clothes, more pants, male t-shirts, belts, ice, the good kind, cigarettes and lighters.

00:42:28.000 Ice, the good kind.

00:42:29.000 Like, not Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

00:42:29.000 I get it.

00:42:31.000 Cigarettes and lighters.

00:42:32.000 Wow, I didn't know that was a thing.

00:42:33.000 Lanterns, flashlights, headlamps, portable solar chargers, Gatorade, backpacks, tents, body... track phone minutes cards, because you gotta have the disposable phones, guys.

00:42:41.000 Body lotion.

00:42:42.000 Wow, don't know what's going on in the Republican chow house. 0.96

00:42:44.000 Shoes.

00:42:45.000 Bedding and comforters, zip ties, folding chairs, laundry bags, personal fans, body wash, disinfectant, and sunglasses.

00:42:51.000 It doesn't sound like they're very autonomous.

00:42:53.000 It doesn't sound super autonomous to me, gotta be honest with you.

00:42:56.000 Also, we've been hearing that it's very peaceful, right?

00:42:58.000 It's a block party, according to the mayor.

00:43:00.000 Well, the occupiers forced out a journalist, so a person went in there with a camera, and one of the marks of a fully free zone is that you should be able to go in there and film things, but apparently the people who run the place are not so hot on that, so here's some video of a person basically being put upon By the new police force in the Republic of Chaz.

00:43:19.000 Remember, this was done to abolish the police.

00:43:21.000 So meet the new police, much worse than the old police.

00:43:24.000 Here they are going after a person filming them.

00:43:28.000 Who don't matter? 1.00

00:43:29.000 This mother****er! 0.99

00:43:30.000 Who don't matter? 1.00

00:43:33.000 This mother****er! 0.99

00:43:35.000 Okay, this guy's walking around with a camera, and there is a very large man following him, shouting and chanting, who don't matter, this MF-er. 0.99

00:43:45.000 So remember that time that people said black lives matter and all lives matter are not actually mutually exclusive, right?

00:43:50.000 Black lives matter just means that people don't pay attention to black lives, that's why we say black lives matter.

00:43:54.000 Well now you have a person overtly saying that some lives actually don't matter as long as we disagree with them.

00:43:58.000 There's nobody who's saying black lives don't matter, but you got this guy in a crowd chanting whose life doesn't matter.

00:44:03.000 This guy's life doesn't matter because he's filming in the Republic of Chaz.

00:44:06.000 Things are going great in the developing nation of Chaz.

00:44:08.000 Meanwhile, governance in the Republic of Chaz has fallen on hard times.

00:44:12.000 Yesterday, hilarious tape broke of them having a struggle session.

00:44:15.000 They were trying to figure out what's coming next in the internecine squabble between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks over in the Republic of Chaz.

00:44:21.000 Julio Rosas got this tape.

00:44:23.000 He's a reporter for townhall.com.

00:44:25.000 He was on our radio show yesterday.

00:44:27.000 Here are some of the leadership of the Republic of Chaz trying to figure out what they do next.

00:44:30.000 Apparently, there's an argument whether they're supposed to disband, whether they try to take over the neighboring regions of Chaz, or whether they just move the Republic of Chaz to a different area, because apparently they have picked all of the shelves clean.

00:44:42.000 Here are the speakers trying to figure out what exactly they're supposed to be doing now.

00:44:48.000 What kind of change do you get from bickering back and forth?

00:44:50.000 We can all check this out!

00:44:52.000 I'm not done talking, boy!

00:44:55.000 I'm not done!

00:44:57.000 You won't let me talk!

00:44:59.000 You won't let me talk!

00:45:01.000 I got the money!

00:45:02.000 Hush! 0.62

00:45:04.000 Peaceful protest?

00:45:05.000 Then you know what?

00:45:07.000 Use your words and your pen.

00:45:11.000 Then go ahead and write in.

00:45:13.000 Write a review.

00:45:14.000 Write a complaint.

00:45:15.000 Do what you gotta do.

00:45:16.000 But taking a bunch of folk up there to riot and do all that?

00:45:19.000 What does that solve?

00:45:22.000 Okay, well done.

00:45:25.000 Everything going very, very well over here.

00:45:27.000 So here's the problem for Democrats.

00:45:29.000 Because they've gone so far with this thing, because they're now to the point of defending all of this as just a normal sort of block party.

00:45:33.000 And by the way, the media are fully defending it.

00:45:35.000 The best clip of the day was yesterday.

00:45:37.000 A CNN reporter was in the area and started talking about how peaceful this was.

00:45:39.000 And then in the middle of the clip, acknowledges, oh yeah, there are people who are armed walking around over here and threatening people.

00:45:44.000 And there are people who are trying to break up a segment on Anderson Cooper.

00:45:47.000 The media are just, they are an extension.

00:45:49.000 CNN, MSNBC, they are just the, The media wing of the Democratic Party at this point.

00:45:54.000 So they are willing to repeat any narrative put forth by the Democratic infrastructure.

00:45:59.000 Here's a CNN reporter things go wrong from in this segment.

00:46:03.000 If in fact there is going to be federal officers or federal law enforcement come to this area, it is not going to be a pretty situation.

00:46:11.000 These people have made it clear that unless there's some kind of major reform, and remember, they want to see this police department defunded or even abolished, short of some type of major concession, they're not going to leave voluntarily.

00:46:24.000 And we should point out that Washington is an open carry state.

00:46:28.000 And no doubt, some of these protesters are armed, Anderson.

00:46:32.000 So you have to worry about the potential for bloodshed, the potential for violence, if in fact they're going to try to remove these people by force.

00:46:39.000 But it's a peaceful, it's a peaceful block party, everybody.

00:46:41.000 It's a peaceful block party.

00:46:42.000 Whoops!

00:46:43.000 Whoops!

00:46:43.000 CNN lets the cat out of the bag.

00:46:45.000 OK, so here's the problem for the Democrats.

00:46:46.000 This gives Trump a pretty good talking point.

00:46:48.000 Do you like when large swaths of your city are turned over to roving bands of communists?

00:46:53.000 Is this like your favorite thing?

00:46:54.000 Are you into it?

00:46:56.000 Are you into the idea that statues, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument, these things ought to be torn down?

00:47:02.000 Are you warm to that idea?

00:47:03.000 Are you warm to the idea that even if you don't like Confederate statues, what we really need are roaming bands of 19-year-olds tearing down statues and apparently killing each other in the process?

00:47:11.000 The person whose skull was basically crushed by a falling statue the other day.

00:47:15.000 And we do have a voting republic here in the United States.

00:47:17.000 Like, that's a thing that we do.

00:47:20.000 So Democrats are having to turn away from this narrative and turn toward COVID-19.

00:47:24.000 They're going to consolidate their gains and they're going to try and make the racial argument and then they're going to move on.

00:47:30.000 And that's what's happening.

00:47:30.000 The media have moved back toward COVID-19.

00:47:34.000 So the thing is that the entire, here's the thing, for the Democrats, the entire campaign has to be run by narrative because it can't be run on its candidate.

00:47:41.000 Joe Biden is not an alive person anymore.

00:47:43.000 I'm sad to report the demise of Joe Biden.

00:47:46.000 RIP.

00:47:46.000 I mean, like, if you watch him, he is not sentient anymore.

00:47:50.000 Okay, this is not a rip on people as they get older.

00:47:53.000 He is not what he once was.

00:47:55.000 And anybody who pretends that he is what he once was is lying to you.

00:47:58.000 I mean, here's a clip of Joe Biden yesterday.

00:48:00.000 Basically getting, he says, I'm bored with my own talk here.

00:48:03.000 He says, I'm talking and I just get bored with myself.

00:48:05.000 Yeah, join the club, man.

00:48:06.000 I'm beginning to get bored by my own talk here.

00:48:12.000 But, you know, the rapidly rising in with, I don't know. - What? - That, it's, It's over.

00:48:26.000 It's over for Joe Biden.

00:48:28.000 So they're left with just the narrative. 0.98

00:48:29.000 And the narrative is that Donald Trump is a racist.

00:48:31.000 And so we reached the actual end point for many of these Democrats.

00:48:35.000 The point was never to solve police brutality.

00:48:37.000 The point for many Democrats, not the protesters, many of the protesters are sincere.

00:48:41.000 The point for top level Democrats was to channel the anger into anger at Trump.

00:48:45.000 For a lot of Democrats, that's what this is about.

00:48:47.000 That's why they broaden the narrative and then kneel, not because they are trying to solve the problem of police brutality, but because they want to drive the broader narrative that America is a systemically racist place and that systemic racism is represented by Donald Trump.

00:48:58.000 So here is Joe Biden doing this routine about Trump on Raise.

00:49:03.000 This president, from the very beginning, from the moment he came down that escalator in his golden building, what did he start off saying? 0.99

00:49:14.000 I'm going to see to it that we get rid of all those Mexican rapists. 1.00

00:49:19.000 Do you think you can defeat hate? 1.00

00:49:22.000 You can only make it hide.

00:49:24.000 And when you give it oxygen, when a president speaks, no matter how good or bad he is, people listen.

00:49:31.000 And when he speaks and gives credibility to these racists, watch my language.

00:49:38.000 Okay, so again, this is the narrative that Democrats have tried to drive.

00:49:40.000 The problem is that they've gotten what they want out of their narrative.

00:49:44.000 They'll continue to push it.

00:49:45.000 Kamala Harris is very likely going to be Biden's VP pick, even after she called him a racist for opposing forced busing.

00:49:50.000 Kamala Harris yesterday, she suggested that Donald Trump throwing a rally in Tulsa, which is happening June 19th, which is known as Juneteenth, which was the day, historically speaking, when the Emancipation Proclamation was finally read in Texas, which was the final state to receive news of the Emancipation Proclamation.

00:50:05.000 By the way, Juneteenth should, in fact, be a national holiday.

00:50:07.000 I mean, if we're gonna talk about, like, symbolic changes, that'd be great.

00:50:10.000 Juneteenth should be a national holiday.

00:50:11.000 Frederick Douglass should be on our nation's currency, right?

00:50:13.000 These are things that I've been saying for years.

00:50:14.000 I mean, this is nothing new.

00:50:15.000 But Kamala Harris suggests that because Trump is speaking in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is a place in the United States, on June 19th, this means to wink and nod at white supremacists because, of course, one of the great race riots in American history was a white-on-black race riot in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

00:50:31.000 I'm sure that's exactly what was going through Trump's head.

00:50:32.000 He probably was going, Trump, known for his for his granular, granular attention to American history, probably thought to himself, what could I do to signal to white supremacists?

00:50:42.000 I know I'm going to go to Tulsa for a an understudied, like really, most Americans don't know about the Tulsa race riots unless they just watch Watchmen right on HBO.

00:50:51.000 That's the first many Americans knew about that, which is a travesty.

00:50:53.000 Most Americans should know about that.

00:50:54.000 But you think Trump was like that little known historical or are under known historical Situation.

00:51:01.000 I'm going to go there.

00:51:01.000 I'm going to signal to white supremacist and do it on Juneteenth, another under known historical circumstance.

00:51:06.000 Or do you think maybe somebody just scheduled him an event and he's going there?

00:51:09.000 So but this is the narrative, right?

00:51:11.000 The problem is that at this point, because the narrative has moved away from the Democrats because they have because they've gotten what they want out of it.

00:51:17.000 They've gotten the poll numbers out of it.

00:51:18.000 They've gotten to dump Trump.

00:51:20.000 On numbers because of his response to this whole thing.

00:51:23.000 And now because things are getting worse, not better.

00:51:25.000 Now because there are no policy platforms on the page that are actually going to result in any political benefit to them.

00:51:31.000 So here's the thing.

00:51:32.000 If they get a wide bipartisan bill to ban chokeholds, it doesn't benefit Democrats at all.

00:51:35.000 And they're not going to do anything like racial reparations because it's too divisive and most Americans don't like them.

00:51:40.000 So instead, they go to the narrative.

00:51:41.000 The narrative is Trump is bad.

00:51:43.000 They got what they wanted.

00:51:43.000 So now they're just moving on to COVID-19 again.

00:51:46.000 Which is going to be a hard press because, again, they're the ones who said to everybody, go out and protest in the streets without masks.

00:51:52.000 So Tom Perez is doing this.

00:51:53.000 We're back to covering COVID-19 as a crisis.

00:51:56.000 Which, by the way, is spooking the stock market.

00:51:58.000 And it is the media coverage spooking the stock market.

00:52:00.000 Because the reality is, we are not actually seeing spikes in these states.

00:52:02.000 What we are seeing is a slow and gradual rise in states where this thing never went away.

00:52:07.000 Right?

00:52:07.000 This isn't a second wave.

00:52:08.000 This is a first wave.

00:52:09.000 Because it turns out that when you lock down, all you do is prevent the first wave, which is something I've been talking about for a long time.

00:52:14.000 When you relieve lockdown, then people are going to get infected. 0.97

00:52:17.000 But Tom Perez is now back to suggesting that Trump is killing black people with his COVID-19 response. 0.93

00:52:21.000 Here's Tom Perez, the DNC chair. 0.80

00:52:24.000 Donald Trump, rather than battling bigotry, wants to battle Twitter.

00:52:29.000 Rather than bringing us together, he wants to continue to drive us apart.

00:52:33.000 What has he done to black people in America? 0.99

00:52:35.000 He has Killed them in some places because of his failed response to coronavirus. 0.99

00:52:42.000 The unemployment rate, joblessness, hopelessness that he is trying to stoke.

00:52:48.000 The differences between Joe Biden and Donald Trump couldn't be clearer.

00:52:52.000 So this is back to the COVID-19 narrative.

00:52:53.000 So I hope that everybody enjoyed two weeks of the George Floyd narrative.

00:52:59.000 I hope they enjoyed it because it turned out that the Democrats weren't sincere about actually wanting change.

00:53:03.000 All they wanted to do was benefit from unrest.

00:53:06.000 Again, not the protesters, Democratic politicians.

00:53:09.000 But now we're back to COVID-19, guys, and the narrative is over.

00:53:11.000 Everybody back to their regular day jobs of suggesting that Donald Trump is killing people because of ending lockdowns, even while Democratic governors are ending lockdowns.

00:53:19.000 All righty, well, we have reached the end of today's show, but we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

00:53:24.000 Otherwise, as I've been saying every weekend, try not to burn down the country, please.

00:53:26.000 Like, one of these weekends, could we do this?

00:53:28.000 Just one.

00:53:29.000 Otherwise, enjoy your life, stay away from other people, wear a mask.

00:53:31.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 12, 2020

The Ribbon Bullies | Ep. 1030

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