The Ben Shapiro Show - The Supreme Court Widens The Great Divide| Ep. 1032

00:00:00.000 We explore the Supreme Court's big decision rewriting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to endanger religious liberty, police continue to come under fire for doing their jobs, and Bill de Blasio will let anyone go in public except for the Jews. 0.91

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00:00:26.000 Okay, so I think that we should begin the show by discussing a very broad idea because it's going to have a lot of specific applications.

00:00:33.000 There are two ways to think about how to unify a country and how to keep a country unified or any group of people unified.

00:00:38.000 One way is to set very bare minimum rules and say, okay, well, if you fulfill these rules, then you can do whatever you want.

00:00:44.000 And that's a really nice way of keeping people unified because basically, as long as you check a couple of boxes, you're good to go.

00:00:49.000 Right?

00:00:50.000 I'll take the Jewish community as an example.

00:00:52.000 So I'll take my Orthodox community, get very parochial. 0.98

00:00:54.000 So there are a couple of different ways to view unity inside Orthodoxy.

00:00:58.000 So you could say, if you keep the Sabbath and you keep kosher, Then you should all be able to go over to each other's house, and you should all be able to go to the same shuls, and you should all be able to marry each other's kids, and all of that sort of stuff. 0.81

00:01:07.000 Because as long as you're keeping the bare minimum of rules, you're all part of the same community.

00:01:11.000 Well, in a body politic, you can have the same thing, right?

00:01:13.000 You could have a view of the federal government that says, all the federal government is here to do are very basic things.

00:01:18.000 Protect life, liberty, and property.

00:01:20.000 Fundamental rights.

00:01:21.000 That's it.

00:01:21.000 The federal government is here to protect you, basically, from the government.

00:01:25.000 It's here to protect you from your fellow citizen doing something actively to harm you.

00:01:29.000 And it is here to protect you from your state government doing something actively to harm you.

00:01:33.000 But it is not here to cram down a bunch of rules on you.

00:01:35.000 Basically, so long as you fulfill these basic rules, the federal government isn't going to mess with you.

00:01:41.000 Right.

00:01:41.000 That is way one of achieving unity.

00:01:42.000 Then there is way two of achieving unity.

00:01:44.000 And to go back to my orthodox community, there are a lot of communities like this.

00:01:47.000 And that is there are a lot of onerous rules.

00:01:48.000 Right.

00:01:49.000 And you have to keep every single aspect of them.

00:01:50.000 And there's a lot of signaling as to whether you're part of the in group or whether you're part of the out group.

00:01:55.000 There are a lot of kind of subsets of the orthodox community where you have to wear a certain type of hat.

00:01:59.000 You wear a black hat or you wear a strimal.

00:02:01.000 Or you keep kosher in a certain way, right?

00:02:03.000 You keep a particular brand of kosher meat, but not a different type of brand of kosher meat.

00:02:08.000 You go to a specific type of synagogue, or you send your kids to a specific type of school.

00:02:11.000 And if you don't send your kids to that type of school, then your kids can't marry your friend's kids, right? 0.55

00:02:16.000 That is a way of achieving a very discreet unity within a subset of people.

00:02:21.000 But it is very hard to broaden that out.

00:02:23.000 And the reason it's hard to broaden that out is because most people aren't going to keep those rules.

00:02:26.000 So take that back to the level of American government, right?

00:02:29.000 American government could create unity by having a very, very heavy set of onerous rules that we all have to keep.

00:02:35.000 And the culture could have a set of onerous rules that we all have to keep.

00:02:38.000 And in order for you to be part of the in-group, part of the unified body of the United States, instead of agreeing on a few broad principles and then you're allowed to do whatever you want, instead of that, It is, you must agree to every single checklist item on this list, and you must be hemmed in by this huge thicket of rules.

00:02:55.000 And if you do all of those things, then you can be part of the country.

00:02:57.000 If you do all of those things, then you can be part of the in-group, as opposed to the out-group, the people who won't keep any of those rules.

00:03:04.000 The founders saw the better vision for unity of a country in the first set of rules.

00:03:08.000 And the reason that they felt that way is because they felt like, okay, you can actually have sort of the best of both worlds.

00:03:13.000 You could have discrete communities inside the United States that are locally governed, right?

00:03:18.000 This is the idea of subsidiarity, the idea of federalism.

00:03:22.000 We're going to have local communities where the local community has a lot more homogeneity, a lot more agreement on what exactly the policies should be, right?

00:03:28.000 So, for example, you're going to set up a local public school instead of having the federal government set up your public school for you 3,000 miles away.

00:03:34.000 Instead, you and your friends get together and you decide how much you wish to be taxed and which teachers you decide to hire and how your kids ought to be taught.

00:03:40.000 And that's really not the business of the federal government.

00:03:42.000 And then there's the state government, and that has a little bit less homogeneity, and that means that it has less power to deal with you.

00:03:48.000 And then you get to the federal government, and it has very little power to deal with you unless you are violating a specific subset of rules, right?

00:03:54.000 And those subsets of rules would be you're violating somebody else's negative rights.

00:03:58.000 So to get a little more specific about the philosophy of the federal government versus the state governments or local government in the U.S.

00:04:03.000 Constitution, the founders believed in something called negative liberty.

00:04:07.000 Negative liberty is what philosophers have termed the idea that you are protected from things.

00:04:11.000 You are not given the right to things.

00:04:12.000 You are protected from people violating your rights.

00:04:14.000 So negative liberty would be that you have a right to your property.

00:04:18.000 Why?

00:04:19.000 Because nobody has the right to invade your property and take it.

00:04:21.000 You have a right to your life because nobody has a right to invade your life and take it.

00:04:26.000 Life, liberty, and property, these were the propositions that the federal government was set up to protect.

00:04:30.000 And if any of those things are infringed upon by anybody else, then the federal government has the ability to step in, if we're talking in broad philosophical terms.

00:04:37.000 But the federal government does not have the right to invade any of your rights to life, liberty, or property on behalf of some sort of greater good.

00:04:44.000 The federal government doesn't really have the right to suggest that you ought to use your property in a particular way that the federal government kind of likes.

00:04:51.000 The federal government does not get to set a set of cultural standards upon you In order to achieve so-called positive rights.

00:04:57.000 So an example of a positive right, for purposes of the conversation we're about to have, would be a positive right is you have a right to employment.

00:05:04.000 You don't have a right to employment in negative rights.

00:05:06.000 Negative rights, I have the right to handle my business how I want. 0.97

00:05:09.000 I can hire who I want, I can fire who I want.

00:05:11.000 A positive right would be you have a right to be employed by me.

00:05:15.000 And I don't have the ability to discriminate against you.

00:05:18.000 Now that sounds great in theory, but the problem is that if you're running a business or you're running a property or any of that stuff, Right?

00:05:23.000 Your stuff is your stuff.

00:05:24.000 Now, I may not like how you use your stuff.

00:05:26.000 In fact, I think there are lots of people who run their businesses poorly and make bad decisions morally.

00:05:30.000 But one of the things you have to acknowledge about other people's rights is that they may use those rights in ways you don't like.

00:05:36.000 And you may say, well, unity would be better achieved if we had a rule that you're not allowed to use your rights that way.

00:05:40.000 The problem is once you give the government the power to invade people's rights on behalf of the so-called greater good, more and more often the federal government, and this has been true in the United States broadly speaking, more and more the federal government is going to restrict what everyone can do with their rights in favor of a quote-unquote broader good that is more and more a bare majority proposition.

00:05:59.000 So normally, in terms of the federal government, you have to have widespread acceptance of a proposition in order for federal legislation to pass.

00:06:06.000 This is why the Founding Fathers set up, as Federalist 51 points out, probably written by James Madison, maybe Alexander Hamilton, they say that one of the goals of the government is to restrict itself.

00:06:16.000 You set up checks and balances so that human beings can't seize ultimate power and then 51% can cram down their perspective on 49%.

00:06:23.000 This is why gridlock is built into the system.

00:06:26.000 But more and more these days, we don't like the gridlock.

00:06:28.000 And so instead, what we look for is an ability to take our 50% plus one person and cram down on the other 49.99999% of society exactly what we want.

00:06:38.000 And that actually creates division.

00:06:39.000 It doesn't create unity.

00:06:40.000 It creates division over time.

00:06:42.000 Because again, it's easier to unify people by saying you get to do what you want as long as you do these bare minimum of things.

00:06:48.000 Then it is to say everybody has to keep this onerous checklist of things that we want them to do.

00:06:52.000 That doesn't create unity, it creates division.

00:06:53.000 Because sooner or later, you're going to run up on something that people just are going to refuse to do.

00:06:58.000 You're going to run up on something where people say, okay, you've now infringed on one of my fundamental negative liberties.

00:07:04.000 You've infringed on my negative right.

00:07:05.000 So my right to practice my religion means you do not have a right to invade my religious practice.

00:07:10.000 That's what that means.

00:07:11.000 Okay, but if you say that now I get to come into your religious school and I get to tell you that every person you hire at your religious school Has to retain their hiring, no matter how often they violate the precepts of your religious school, now you've run up against my negative liberty.

00:07:24.000 And so you haven't created unity, you've actually created disunity.

00:07:27.000 Because before, you know, you may not like how I run my school, but you didn't have the right to invade it.

00:07:31.000 And if you want to set up a separate school, you are totally fine to do that.

00:07:33.000 That's called liberty.

00:07:33.000 You don't have to like how I use my rights, and I don't have to like how you use your rights, and we can leave each other alone.

00:07:38.000 But this seems to have been completely abandoned in American life now, or at least on the road to abandonment in American life.

00:07:44.000 That's a very dangerous thing.

00:07:45.000 People instead seem to embrace the idea that true unity lies in cramming down my point of view on everybody else.

00:07:51.000 True unity lies in me grabbing the government gun and pointing it at everybody who disagrees with me.

00:07:56.000 And maybe I'm doing it for the best of reasons.

00:07:58.000 And maybe I'm doing it because I'm kind and generous.

00:08:00.000 But maybe my definition of kindness and generosity and decency is actually not an objective definition of kindness, generosity, and decency.

00:08:06.000 Maybe it's just my perspective.

00:08:08.000 Which is why the Founding Fathers said, well, we don't want anybody to have that kind of power.

00:08:12.000 This brings us to the Supreme Court decision-making apparatus itself.

00:08:15.000 So we're going to get into the institution of the Supreme Court, why the Supreme Court should not have the kind of power in American life that it does, and then we'll get to the actual decision that they laid down yesterday on LGBT hiring and firing. 0.70

00:08:26.000 And again, I'm coming from the perspective that I generally don't think that gays and lesbians should be fired for being gay or lesbian.

00:08:33.000 I would hire a transgender person in my business. 0.99

00:08:35.000 I would. 0.97

00:08:36.000 I don't really care.

00:08:37.000 It doesn't make a difference.

00:08:38.000 You can do the job, you can do the job.

00:08:39.000 But I also recognize that the government does not have the fundamental right to invade other people's property rights on behalf of a principle that I think about and how somebody should run their business.

00:08:48.000 And I've been perfectly consistent on this, right?

00:08:50.000 I think this is true for Jews. 1.00

00:08:51.000 I think this is true on race.

00:08:52.000 I think that freedom of association dictates that you should be able to do with your business what you want, even if you run your business in a fashion that I consider to be wrong and evil.

00:09:01.000 Just as I think that free speech protects a lot of speech that I think is wrong and evil.

00:09:05.000 A right means that people have a right to abuse that right.

00:09:09.000 They have a right to use the right in ways that I don't like, so long as they are not infringing on anybody else's rights, infringing on somebody else's liberty, and you do not have a right to a job, no matter who you are.

00:09:09.000 They do.

00:09:18.000 You don't have a right to my property, no matter who you are.

00:09:20.000 And I don't have a right to your property, no matter who I am.

00:09:23.000 Okay, that libertarian vision was a more true to the founding father's vision.

00:09:27.000 We've abandoned that because it turns out that the American people can't live with the gridlock.

00:09:31.000 It turns out that the American people, they're not comfortable with the idea that we need a broad consensus in America anymore to get things done.

00:09:37.000 Instead, the idea is that we are going to have other bodies.

00:09:40.000 The gridlock in Congress has led the executive branch and the judicial branch to basically seize power and then use their power to cram down 51% propositions on the other 49% of the population.

00:09:50.000 And that's a dangerous thing.

00:09:51.000 Because instead of creating unity, it actually creates disunity.

00:09:54.000 And it runs the risk of actually creating a movement to break apart the country.

00:09:59.000 It turns out that you know what you get when you cram down a set of onerous rules on people?

00:10:03.000 Breakaways.

00:10:04.000 People tend to leave.

00:10:05.000 Right?

00:10:05.000 That orthodox community that says you have to fill all these rules?

00:10:07.000 Guess what happens?

00:10:08.000 A lot of people leave those communities.

00:10:09.000 A lot of people leave.

00:10:10.000 A lot of people stay, but a lot of people leave.

00:10:12.000 And that's what we're talking about here.

00:10:13.000 Okay, we're gonna get to more of this in just one second with an eye toward the Supreme Court decision-making process and toward the cultural war that we are now engaged in.

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00:11:26.000 Okay, so the vision of American Liberty has come down to basically a group of people who think that we ought to use The force of the federal government, full weight and force of the federal government to cram down restrictions on other people's liberty in the name of the greater good.

00:11:40.000 And there are people on the right who say this too, right?

00:11:42.000 And there are people on the left and the right who have basically abandoned the original founding notions of liberty.

00:11:47.000 That as long as I'm not invading your rights, I get to do what I want.

00:11:50.000 Instead, they want to promote the greater good using the power of government.

00:11:54.000 And then when it turns out that the legislature is chock full of people who disagree with each other and they can't get it done through those means, the Supreme Court seizes power.

00:12:00.000 And the Supreme Court says, well, we're going to make up your minds for you.

00:12:03.000 So perfect example of this is the big case from yesterday, which is this case on LGBT hiring and firing. 0.99

00:12:13.000 This is the basic idea here.

00:12:16.000 Everybody knows the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not cover sexual orientation or transgenderism.

00:12:20.000 This is perfectly obvious to everyone.

00:12:21.000 It is perfectly obvious to every single human being, including all of the justices who voted in favor of this proposition, that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should be revised to include all of these provisions.

00:12:31.000 Justice Gorsuch acknowledges them much.

00:12:33.000 He says it is perfectly obvious that nobody in 1964 was thinking about homosexuality when they talked about sex discrimination, and nobody was thinking about transgenderism when they were thinking about sex discrimination.

00:12:43.000 He instead makes the argument that if you discriminate against someone based on their homosexual activity, then you're discriminating against them inherently on the basis of their sex.

00:12:53.000 Because if a woman loves a man, you won't fire her.

00:12:56.000 But if a man loves a man, you will fire her. 1.00

00:12:57.000 That's discrimination on the basis of sex.

00:12:59.000 I mean, you will fire him, right?

00:13:02.000 That is logically fallacious.

00:13:04.000 The reason it is logically fallacious is because That is not discrimination on the basis of sex.

00:13:09.000 It's discrimination on the basis of activity.

00:13:11.000 It's a discrimination on the basis of what the person is doing, not who the person is as a sex, right?

00:13:17.000 It's discrimination based on sexual orientation, how you feel and what you're doing.

00:13:21.000 It is not discrimination based purely on the fact that you are a man or on the fact that you are a woman.

00:13:25.000 It is based on the fact that you are a man or a woman doing a thing. 0.73

00:13:28.000 This is something that Justice Alito points out in his dissent.

00:13:31.000 This is of course logically correct.

00:13:32.000 It is also logically unsupportable that discrimination based on sex covers gender identity.

00:13:38.000 Because gender identity, as the court acknowledges, is distinct from sex.

00:13:41.000 So once you acknowledge that gender identity is distinct from sex in the leftist parlance, then it can't be discrimination based on sex anymore.

00:13:47.000 So a man comes in.

00:13:48.000 And he says, I am a woman.

00:13:50.000 You have to make a decision.

00:13:51.000 Is he a woman?

00:13:52.000 Is he not a woman? 0.91

00:13:53.000 If he is not a woman, you're not discriminating against him as a man, right? 0.99

00:13:58.000 Because he's a woman, right? 0.99

00:13:59.000 I mean, like, how does this work?

00:14:01.000 It doesn't work, actually, right?

00:14:03.000 Justice Gorsuch's opinion actually is self-contradictory, right?

00:14:07.000 Because he actually mentions the plaintiff in one of these cases, who is a transgender female.

00:14:12.000 And he calls this person she, right?

00:14:13.000 A biological male.

00:14:14.000 He calls him a she throughout. 0.99

00:14:16.000 Okay, so if you call a man a she, Assuming this is a woman. 1.00

00:14:20.000 You're not discriminating against the woman on the basis of her sex.

00:14:24.000 You're discriminating against her on the basis of his sex.

00:14:27.000 Right, which is not discrimination on the basis of him being male.

00:14:29.000 It's discrimination against a male for calling himself a female, which is doing a thing. 0.99

00:14:34.000 It's not discrimination on the basis of sex.

00:14:36.000 There are all sorts of inherent contradictions and logical flaws in the opinion by Justice Gorsuch.

00:14:41.000 Now listen, you may like the outcome, but guess what?

00:14:43.000 Democrats were trying to push for that outcome anyway. 0.80

00:14:45.000 Democrats fully acknowledge that the Civil Rights Act did not include this sort of activity.

00:14:49.000 So put aside your preference for the outcome of the case.

00:14:53.000 And recognize that the Democrats were trying to push the Equality Act until five minutes ago, which does exactly what this case does.

00:14:58.000 They recognize the Civil Rights Act did not cover this sort of activity.

00:15:01.000 They were pushing separate legislation.

00:15:02.000 That's how it works in the United States, guys, is the way that it works is that you pass a piece of legislation.

00:15:06.000 The legislation says what it says.

00:15:08.000 Then, if you don't like the legislation, you pass another piece of legislation.

00:15:11.000 You don't go to the Supreme Court and then have the Supreme Court dramatically rewrite the proposition and just say, OK, well, you know what?

00:15:17.000 It turns out that what they meant in 1964, we don't like it, so we've decided to rewrite it in 2020 language.

00:15:22.000 You don't get to do that.

00:15:23.000 And it actually creates a lot of problems inside federal law.

00:15:26.000 So, for example, Title VII, Now apparently Title VII discrimination.

00:15:30.000 Now apparently covers transgenderism, right? 0.98

00:15:34.000 What do you do with Title IX now?

00:15:36.000 Title IX explicitly discriminates on the basis of sex.

00:15:39.000 It says that there ought to be funding for women's sports leagues. 0.86

00:15:42.000 What if a man wants to play in a women's sports league? 1.00

00:15:44.000 Is he a woman?

00:15:45.000 Apparently so.

00:15:46.000 Apparently you can't have separate sports leagues.

00:15:48.000 How about locker rooms?

00:15:49.000 How about bathrooms?

00:15:50.000 This decision leaves you no guidance.

00:15:50.000 We have no idea.

00:15:52.000 But what happened is that the judiciary stepped in and they decided they were going to set a top-down rule on all of America instead of just sort of allowing the marketplace of ideas to take place.

00:16:01.000 And if you don't like how somebody's running their business, start another business.

00:16:03.000 And if you don't like how somebody's acting, don't interact with them.

00:16:06.000 That's called freedom.

00:16:07.000 Instead, the federal government, the judiciary, has decided to step in.

00:16:11.000 And that's actually dangerous, as we'll talk about in a second, with regard to religious liberty.

00:16:15.000 Because now you're talking about treading on people's fundamental religious liberty rights in order to promote a quote-unquote greater good.

00:16:20.000 And that carries some pretty inherent dangers.

00:16:22.000 We're gonna get to that in just one moment.

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00:17:35.000 Okay, so the Supreme Court steps in and they declare just right off the bat that transgenderism and sexual orientation, despite the fact that they are obviously distinct, I mean, Gorsuch says this, despite the fact that they are distinct from sex, which is obviously true. 0.97

00:17:51.000 You can be a man who is gay, you can be a man who is straight.

00:17:54.000 The fact that you are a man is not indicative of whether you are gay or straight, right?

00:17:58.000 That is a different question.

00:17:59.000 To suggest that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, which again, I oppose on a personal level.

00:18:04.000 Like, we will hire gays and lesbians at my company.

00:18:06.000 We'll hire transgender people at my company. 0.99

00:18:07.000 I don't care. 0.62

00:18:08.000 As long as you can do the job.

00:18:09.000 That does not mean that this is covered by the Civil Rights Act.

00:18:11.000 And there is an inherent danger in the Supreme Court simply declaring itself, as it always does, a super legislature, and then deciding what rules Americans should live by, especially when the rules are unclear.

00:18:21.000 So that's particularly true when you come to religious liberty.

00:18:23.000 So Justice Samuel Alito points this out.

00:18:26.000 He says, briefs filed by a wide range of religious groups, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, express deep concern that the position now adopted by the court will trigger open conflict with faith-based employment practices of numerous churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious institutions.

00:18:39.000 They argue that religious organizations need employees who actually live the faith and that compelling a religious organization to employ individuals whose conduct flouts the tenets of the organization's faith forces the group to communicate an objectionable message, which is obviously true. 1.00

00:18:52.000 If you're running a Catholic day school and you have a secular science teacher and the secular science teacher is Bob, and the next day he comes in and says, I'm Janine, that may conflict with your Catholic faith that you are attempting to promote to your kids.

00:19:05.000 Also, it conflicts with objective reality, but put that aside.

00:19:07.000 It may conflict with your faith that male and female, he created them, right?

00:19:12.000 This is a religious school.

00:19:13.000 This is why people are paying to go there.

00:19:15.000 This problem, says Samuel Alito, is perhaps most acute when it comes to employment of teachers.

00:19:19.000 A school's standards for its faculty communicate a particular way of life to its students, and a violation by the faculty of those precepts may undermine the school's moral teaching.

00:19:26.000 Thus, if a religious school teaches that sex outside marriage and sex reassignment procedures are immoral, the message may be lost if the school employs a teacher who is in a same-sex relationship or has undergone or is undergoing sex reassignment.

00:19:36.000 This is particularly true, by the way, even if you had a rule that said same-sex teachers, same-sex married teachers, just don't talk about it in the classroom.

00:19:42.000 They could then sue and say, listen, I get to be who I am.

00:19:45.000 It's a free country.

00:19:46.000 I get to be who I am.

00:19:47.000 You're not allowed to discriminate against me.

00:19:48.000 That is sexual harassment.

00:19:49.000 And then they can sue the school.

00:19:51.000 Says Samuel Alito.

00:19:52.000 At least some teachers and applicants for teaching positions may be blocked from recovering on such claims by the ministerial exemption.

00:19:58.000 Exception recognized in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School versus EEOC from 2012.

00:20:03.000 Two cases now pending before the court present the question whether teachers who provide religious instruction could be considered to be ministers.

00:20:09.000 But what if you are a secular teacher at a religious institution?

00:20:13.000 Or an administrator at a secular institution.

00:20:16.000 How about healthcare?

00:20:17.000 What if you're a Catholic hospital and you don't want to provide transgender surgeries because you believe that this is cruelty?

00:20:22.000 And you believe, not just on a religious level, but you believe on an objective level that it is cruelty.

00:20:26.000 Well then presumably, this law, this ruling could theoretically overrule it.

00:20:31.000 Justice Gorsuch openly writes that doctrines protecting religious liberty, those are questions for future cases.

00:20:37.000 So we have no idea.

00:20:38.000 It's not that this case inherently changes the rules so radically.

00:20:40.000 It's that this case provides the framework for changing the rules incredibly radically.

00:20:44.000 If Democrats take control of Congress and press forward the Equality Act to get rid of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which is the great protection here, that religious organizations can protect themselves from the predations of the federal government on social issues. 0.52

00:20:56.000 If the Democrats take over and push forward their view of religion, which is that religion is but a cover for bigotry, right?

00:21:01.000 This is something Cory Booker has said and Beto O'Rourke has said.

00:21:04.000 And if you're a religious institution, you oppose same-sex marriage, it's not that you have a good faith objection to same-sex marriage because you believe in traditional marriage, it's that you're a bigot.

00:21:12.000 And therefore, there should be no religious exemptions.

00:21:14.000 We should remove your non-profit status.

00:21:15.000 We should make sure that you can't actually teach kids this stuff.

00:21:18.000 Religious liberty is endangered by decisions like this.

00:21:22.000 Not to mention, it also creates significant problems for free speech.

00:21:25.000 Let's say that you're a political organization.

00:21:26.000 Let's say that you're Daily Wire. 0.87

00:21:28.000 Okay, and let's say that you hire a transgender person, because as I've said, I don't care whether we hire a transgender person. 1.00

00:21:32.000 You can do the job fine with me.

00:21:33.000 But now let's say that I say on the show what I always say on the show, which is biological men are biological men, and biological women are biological women.

00:21:39.000 And let's say that I say that in the offices.

00:21:41.000 I'm talking to a group of people in our editorial meeting.

00:21:43.000 I said it's the editorial viewpoint of our website that biology exists.

00:21:48.000 Does that now constitute a discriminatory work environment under Title VII?

00:21:51.000 Utterly unclear.

00:21:53.000 Not clear at all.

00:21:53.000 In other words, the federal government has stepped in, and on behalf of a good, seen by, I would say, maybe a majority of the population, but a bare majority of the population, in the case of transgenderism, maybe a minority of the population, in terms of people who actually believe that Transgender people are members of the sex to which they claim membership.

00:22:11.000 On behalf of that, you're going to violate fundamental precepts of free speech and freedom of religion and freedom of association?

00:22:18.000 There are serious ramifications to invading people's liberty, even if you agree with the invasion of liberty.

00:22:23.000 Even if you agree with the particular invasion of liberty, there's a great danger to giving government this type of power.

00:22:28.000 It is a real problem and a threat to religious liberty. 0.88

00:22:30.000 And again, we have no idea the ramifications.

00:22:33.000 Title VII could kill Title IX.

00:22:35.000 As I mentioned, as soon as you say transgenderism is now protected under Title VII, what happens to separate men's and women's leagues?

00:22:41.000 What happens to bathrooms? 1.00

00:22:42.000 What happens to locker rooms?

00:22:43.000 We have no idea.

00:22:45.000 What happens to religious organizations?

00:22:47.000 We have no idea.

00:22:47.000 Not clear.

00:22:49.000 The Supreme Court is going to give us the way.

00:22:50.000 So now we are not ruled by the people of the United States in either their individual capacities or in their local capacities.

00:22:56.000 We are ruled by a group of nine at the top of government.

00:22:59.000 And people cheer this because after all, the legislature can't get together.

00:23:01.000 Maybe the reason the legislature can't get together is because there are serious divisions of opinion on these issues.

00:23:06.000 And when there are serious divisions of opinion on an issue, perhaps you should leave it to the local precinct.

00:23:11.000 Perhaps you should leave it to individuals to make their own decisions.

00:23:14.000 Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, by the way, rejected a bevy of cases protecting Second Amendment rights.

00:23:19.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:24:40.000 Okay, so meanwhile, while the Supreme Court was declaring that it can fully invade freedom of association and possibly freedom of religion on behalf of rights that have never existed in the Constitution of the United States, right?

00:24:50.000 The right to be employed by a person, which is not a thing.

00:24:54.000 And to be employed by a person, if you come in dressed as a member of the opposite sex or claiming membership of the opposite sex, or the right to be employed by a religious organization, despite violating the tenets of that religious organization. 0.51

00:25:05.000 All of these rights are now being declared.

00:25:06.000 But there's one right the Supreme Court will not defend, and that is the right to keep and bear arms.

00:25:13.000 In a New Jersey case, there was a New Jersey law that required a person to show a justifiable need before he can bear a handgun outside your home.

00:25:20.000 Okay, and the Supreme Court, which has, remember, six Republican appointees on it, rejected it.

00:25:27.000 The Supreme Court rejected it.

00:25:28.000 They didn't even give it a writ.

00:25:29.000 They decided they weren't even going to look at it.

00:25:31.000 So while they were creating, out of whole cloth, federal rights for transgender people to employment, they were rejecting a writ that would clarify whether, in fact, you have a right to keep and bear arms.

00:25:43.000 This is the group of people who are making decisions for you.

00:25:46.000 Meanwhile, the justices also rejected the federal objection to California's migrant sanctuary law.

00:25:55.000 The justices left intact a federal appeals court decision that upheld the central part of a 2017 California law.

00:26:00.000 The administration argued that the measure undermines deportation efforts, violating federal immigration law and the Constitution.

00:26:06.000 Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have granted review.

00:26:10.000 Instead, the justices didn't even grant review of these local sanctuary laws, which are very, very controversial indeed.

00:26:16.000 So well done, Supreme Court.

00:26:17.000 I'm glad that we have this group of people at the top of our government who are making these sorts of decisions for all of America.

00:26:24.000 It's really great stuff.

00:26:25.000 Now, this does have some broader ramifications for the culture.

00:26:28.000 So this is not just a question of the Supreme Court.

00:26:30.000 The question of how you unify a country and how you tear it apart is preoccupying us right now on a cultural level.

00:26:36.000 Because, again, there's a group of people in the United States, I would say the vast middle, who basically say, whatever floats your boat, do what you want.

00:26:43.000 Do what you want, and we'll all deal with it.

00:26:46.000 As long as you're not invading my rights, do what you want.

00:26:48.000 And then there are a group of people who are in the middle of a cultural purge.

00:26:51.000 And their idea is, it's good when the federal government sets these top, broad, top-down standards because it unifies us.

00:26:58.000 It makes us all into little widgets of the federal government.

00:27:01.000 And our culture should do the same.

00:27:03.000 In fact, what we should be using the culture to do is purge people who don't think like us.

00:27:07.000 And this is what you are seeing full-scale across the United States right now, particularly on the Black Lives Matter issue.

00:27:13.000 Not because, again, everybody doesn't agree about Black Lives Matter.

00:27:17.000 Again, every single person in America agrees that Black Lives Matter.

00:27:20.000 That is not the question.

00:27:21.000 The question is whether you believe that America is inherently and systemically racist, and that needs to be corrected by institutional mechanisms that use group injustice in favor of individual justice, right?

00:27:32.000 That is the big question before us right now.

00:27:34.000 And if you will not bend, if you will not bend the knee, then you will be destroyed, right?

00:27:38.000 That is the idea here.

00:27:40.000 There's a left-wing account called Palmer Report, very popular account on the left.

00:27:45.000 And I thought this person summed this up well.

00:27:48.000 Palmer Report wrote, Which is hysterical because conservatism, of course, is predicated on certain fundamental declaration of independence notions like equality before law.

00:27:57.000 All men are created equal with inalienable rights. 1.00

00:28:00.000 That is the predicate for conservatism.

00:28:03.000 The Palmer Report says, Conservatism means you don't believe in equality.

00:28:06.000 It means you want it all for yourself, and you're willing to destroy other groups of people to take it all for yourself.

00:28:10.000 That's not a crime against the law, but it's a crime against humanity, and we must acknowledge as much.

00:28:14.000 Conservatives cannot be, cannot be teachers, police officers, doctors, lawyers, coaches, or bosses.

00:28:20.000 It's constitutionally unfair to others who are subjected to conservatives' deranged judgment.

00:28:25.000 Conservatives can do menial work.

00:28:26.000 Until they're ready to join the human race.

00:28:28.000 At least he's saying the quiet part out loud.

00:28:30.000 But now, this is sort of the idea in large swaths of our culture.

00:28:33.000 Everything must be destroyed.

00:28:36.000 The individual regime of rights, the individual notion that you have individual rights, that has to be tossed out the window because, of course, individual rights protect bad people.

00:28:44.000 And we can't have that.

00:28:45.000 Instead, everybody must be made good through the power of the federal government and through the power of cultural compulsion.

00:28:52.000 That's how we achieve unity, is through division.

00:28:55.000 We achieve unity by attacking each other, by Maoist struggle sessions.

00:28:58.000 We achieve unity by forcing rules from the government on other people.

00:29:02.000 Or alternatively, by using the culture to destroy everybody who stands in our way. 0.64

00:29:05.000 That is the goal here.

00:29:07.000 It's a perennial revolution, a purifying fire that unifies us all by cleansing the impure elements.

00:29:13.000 And this is what we are seeing right now on the most bizarre scale imaginable.

00:29:18.000 So bizarre that, for example, Boston is now considering removing, talking about impurity, Boston is now considering removing a statue of Abraham Lincoln freeing a slave.

00:29:28.000 We're now going to remove this statue, according to Boston.

00:29:30.000 They're warm to it.

00:29:32.000 Because the idea is that this is the white patriarchy.

00:29:32.000 Why?

00:29:37.000 A petition to remove the statue was spearheaded by an African-American man from Boston named Torrey Bullock, who says he's been seeing the statue since he was a kid.

00:29:43.000 Bullock says his petition has more than 7,000 signatures and the attention of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who Bullock posted is willing to talk about removing it.

00:29:50.000 Bullock says it says it's a statue that's supposed to represent freedom, but to me it represents submissiveness.

00:29:54.000 It represents know your place because that's where you belong. 0.99

00:29:57.000 Okay, then you're incompetent. 0.96

00:29:59.000 Then you don't understand human symbolism.

00:30:01.000 This is about the fact that Abraham Lincoln was the president responsible for the end of slavery in the United States.

00:30:07.000 And we're going to remove that.

00:30:09.000 By the way, this is not what the statue represents.

00:30:12.000 The statue is a replica of an identical statue in Washington, D.C.

00:30:15.000 that freed slaves paid for as a tribute to Lincoln.

00:30:19.000 The statue, which still stands in Lincoln Park, was erected with contributions from hundreds of former slaves who wanted to pay tribute to the man who had proclaimed their freedom in 1863, according to the Washington Post.

00:30:29.000 The Post noted that a broken chain was specifically placed in the slave's hand to make it clear the slave was an eager participant in his own liberation.

00:30:37.000 In 1876, Frederick Douglass spoke at the unveiling of the memorial in Washington, D.C.

00:30:41.000 He said, the sentiment that brings us here today is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

00:30:45.000 It has crowned and made glorious the high places of all civilized nations, but the grandest and most enduring works of art designed to illustrate the characters and perpetuate the memories of great public men.

00:30:54.000 But apparently, bad.

00:30:57.000 We're removing it.

00:30:57.000 Bad.

00:30:58.000 They're talking about removing it now.

00:31:00.000 Meanwhile, the LA Times is in turmoil.

00:31:04.000 Because it turns out that the journalists over at the LA Times want to make sure that they don't cover specific issues.

00:31:09.000 Because it would not be racially fair to cover rioting and looting apparently at the LA Times, right?

00:31:15.000 All impure elements of the woke culture must be purged, including the editorial board over at the LA Times.

00:31:21.000 By the way, the editorial board at the LA Times is so far left and so dishonest, they printed a piece today that suggested that the killing of Raymond Brooks in Atlanta was the killing of an unarmed black man, which is not true.

00:31:32.000 He was literally holding an officer's taser and firing it at him.

00:31:35.000 That LA Times is now being purged.

00:31:37.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:32:44.000 We'll get to it in just a moment.

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00:34:19.000 So when it comes to the cultural left, I feel like the cultural left is basically, at this point, acting like Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

00:34:33.000 Remember, there's a scene in which Hans Gruber executes a hostage, right?

00:34:37.000 And then he says to John McClane, Bruce Willis, he says to him, you know, Keep resisting.

00:34:44.000 Sooner or later, I'm going to get to somebody you do care about.

00:34:46.000 Sooner or later, the left is going to get to something you do care about.

00:34:49.000 Because the left won't stop until you do.

00:34:51.000 Right?

00:34:51.000 They push where there's mush.

00:34:52.000 And until they feel some resistance, they're just going to continue the purge.

00:34:56.000 And so this is why you're seeing them target leftist institutions, right?

00:34:59.000 The easiest thing in the world is to target leftist or weak-kneed institutions because they can get away with it.

00:35:04.000 This is why they're targeting the media.

00:35:05.000 The first places they are going are academia and the media because the left already runs those places and they are deathly afraid of being labeled Mensheviks by the Bolsheviks.

00:35:12.000 They are afraid of being purified in the angered 1793 French Revolution fire.

00:35:18.000 This is what they are afraid of.

00:35:19.000 So over at the New York Times, NPR is now reporting that there is an internal uprising to describe the anger over racial inequity at the paper.

00:35:26.000 Scores have participated in intense internal debates over the LA Times coverage of recent protests and hiring practices, to the point that senior editors have weighed in, promising to listen and learn.

00:35:35.000 So the woke staffers at the L.A.

00:35:37.000 Times are now running the show.

00:35:38.000 Again, this just demonstrates that the real problem here is not the woke staffers.

00:35:41.000 It's the cowardice of the leadership of these institutions.

00:35:44.000 Because if you're the L.A.

00:35:44.000 Times, you're a far-left institution.

00:35:46.000 You have been my entire life.

00:35:48.000 My parents canceled the L.A.

00:35:49.000 Times in, like, the early 90s because of how far left they were.

00:35:51.000 And my parents, at that point, were, like, moderate right.

00:35:54.000 Okay, so that is—the L.A.

00:35:55.000 Times has always been a wild left institution.

00:35:57.000 But now, they're being accused of racism.

00:35:59.000 They're bending over backwards.

00:36:01.000 Executive editor Norman Perlstein said, I would say in the cases of black journalists, we do not have enough journalists in positions where they are able to help us tell stories that really need to be told.

00:36:08.000 I've asked myself in hindsight what got us to where we are now.

00:36:11.000 Maybe it was thinking about whether to hire the best journalist and not how to hire on the basis of race alone.

00:36:15.000 In L.A., the inequities sparking today's rancor have existed for years, long before the current owner or editors were involved.

00:36:22.000 But they were brought to a head, journalists say, by Floyd's killing, by the killing of George Floyd, and the protests demanding societal change.

00:36:28.000 They are saying that the L.A.

00:36:30.000 Times has been pandering to white readers, which is just insane.

00:36:34.000 Again, read the L.A.

00:36:35.000 There's no way it could possibly come to this conclusion.

00:36:35.000 Times.

00:36:37.000 But apparently, because the L.A.

00:36:39.000 Times covered the fact that there was rioting and looting, which was kind of noteworthy in L.A., which was shut down for a full week because of rioting and looting, and Beverly Hills was closed at 1 p.m., the protests weren't the big story in L.A.

00:36:50.000 Forcing everybody into their house at 6 p.m.

00:36:52.000 was actually the big story in L.A.

00:36:54.000 Times is racist for this.

00:36:54.000 The L.A.

00:36:56.000 In an internal Slack exchange, LA Times film reporter, Saniya Kelly, who is black, said the newspaper had focused too squarely and too often on the question of looting.

00:37:04.000 Well, clearly she has, you know, deep perspective on this as the film reporter, as the film, but she's black.

00:37:09.000 So black Trump's film reporter in terms of qualifications to talk about what is worthy of news coverage in this area. 0.97

00:37:15.000 She says we can't constantly pander to our primarily white audience with stories like this or affirm their biases.

00:37:20.000 One of the responsibilities of the job is to stake the facts and tell it true.

00:37:23.000 There's so much implicit bias in those few sentences alone, and it's alienating the viewers we're trying to attract, as well as the people of color, journalists like me, who contribute so much to this paper and then have to read stories like this that oversimplify our struggles and realities.

00:37:37.000 So, good times over at the LA Times.

00:37:39.000 Meanwhile, over at the Chicago Sun-Times, they've decided on an editorial decision.

00:37:43.000 Okay, you ready for this editorial decision?

00:37:45.000 Talk about pandering to the woke base. 0.69

00:37:47.000 This is insane.

00:37:48.000 The Chicago Sun-Times has made an editorial decision.

00:37:51.000 From now on, when they refer to Black Americans, or Black people, they're going to capitalize the B in Black. 0.94

00:37:58.000 They will capitalize the B in black when referring to people who are part of the African diaspora, according to Nader Issa, who is a reporter over there.

00:38:04.000 Newsroom management just announced.

00:38:06.000 The same will be done for B in brown.

00:38:08.000 So Suntime Style will now read capital black and capital brown communities. 0.96

00:38:12.000 Capital black, capital brown. 0.53

00:38:13.000 How about white?

00:38:15.000 I mean, as long as we're just labeling people by skin color, because black and brown are not actual races.

00:38:19.000 Those are skin colors, right?

00:38:21.000 I mean, a race would be presumably connected to an ethnicity or a place of origin.

00:38:25.000 So if you're going to talk about skin colors, because brown certainly is, you might say that black is a race. 0.96

00:38:31.000 Brown is not a race.

00:38:32.000 Brown encompasses a wide variety of people from a wide variety of different races.

00:38:36.000 Brown people presumably includes people who are Latino or Hispanic, and it also includes presumably Native Americans.

00:38:44.000 Brown covers a lot of ground.

00:38:46.000 But they will continue to lowercase the W in white.

00:38:50.000 So white will be lowercase.

00:38:52.000 Why?

00:38:53.000 Because it's a wider descriptor of people of numerous origins.

00:38:56.000 So first of all, how racist is this?

00:38:58.000 Right, the idea is that Africa is a singular origin, but white people are from numerous origins.

00:39:04.000 Okay, Africa is not a singular origin.

00:39:06.000 That's an entire continent, guys.

00:39:08.000 There are lots of different tribes, lots of different ethnicities inside of Africa.

00:39:13.000 Like, to pretend that that is like a unified body politic, and that you can just say, everybody from Africa, that's part of one group, that's black.

00:39:19.000 And everybody from, what, Latin America and South America, all those people are part of one body politic, and that's Brown, capital B. And all the white people, that's from a bunch of different, that's like France, that's Italy, and that's England, and that's... 0.82

00:39:32.000 Okay, so what are they really saying?

00:39:34.000 What is the tacit message underlying the decision to capitalize black and brown versus white?

00:39:38.000 The idea is that white people are only unified, not by any sort of racial identity, but they are unified instead in opposition to black and brown people, right? 0.94

00:39:46.000 That's the actual narrative, is that black and brown people are cohesive identities.

00:39:49.000 White is not a cohesive identity, except in opposition to black and brown people. 1.00

00:39:53.000 Now, all of this is crap. 0.99

00:39:54.000 Black and brown are not cohesive identities, because again, you could be a West Indian immigrant to the United States, and be black and that is not the same thing as you grew up in the in the american south you could be from jamaica and be black that is not the same thing as you grew up in louisiana obviously there's wide diversity in human relations but the decision here to label people as part of a unified group because they are black or because they are brown 0.98

00:40:19.000 but if you're white then you're not really part of a unified group like i'm not complaining that they're not saying white is unified group i'm complaining that they're saying that all black and brown people are alike that all black people are like and all brown people are like but white people are diverse so the only reason to use white is in opposition to black and brown so much of this is about stoking racial division not fostering inclusiveness or seeing people as individuals meanwhile it's not just the media that are being bullied here - Yeah.

00:40:44.000 It is also, I mean, it is also the Boy Scouts.

00:40:48.000 So the Boy Scouts are now apparently considering a Black Lives Matter badge.

00:40:53.000 The Boy Scouts of America says they are committed to introducing a specific diversity and inclusion merit badge, which is perfect.

00:40:59.000 I mean, you're out in the forest and you need to build a fire because these are usually the skills that you're taught in the Boy Scouts.

00:41:04.000 You need to put together a fire.

00:41:05.000 You need to be able to survive out there in the wilderness.

00:41:07.000 You can't do it without a diversity officer, guys.

00:41:09.000 You just can't.

00:41:10.000 You can't do it without the diversity merit badge.

00:41:12.000 If you're out in the wilderness, gotta survive on your own, survivor situation, first thing you need, you take a look at the diversity and inclusion merit badge, you're like, ah, I know what I'll do.

00:41:20.000 I will find a racial quota system! 1.00

00:41:22.000 And then we'll put together a stick-gathering group in order to build a fire based on my diversity officer. 0.63

00:41:28.000 Diversity Officer Bob, please put together a racially diverse Boy Scout group.

00:41:32.000 Like, what in the world?

00:41:34.000 What does this have to do with Boy Scouting?

00:41:36.000 Look, the Boy Scouts basically surrendered because they didn't want their non-profit status revoked in the state of California.

00:41:41.000 And they surrendered by suggesting that they were going to change the rules about Christian conduct and about traditionally moral conduct.

00:41:49.000 They decided they were going to allow girls in the Boy Scouts, for example.

00:41:52.000 Like, all of this stuff is silly, but the Boy Scouts going full on, you need a merit badge for Black Lives Matter? 0.99

00:41:57.000 I was not under the impression that the Boy Scouts were in favor of black people being killed. 0.98

00:42:02.000 In fact, there are a lot of black Boy Scouts and Eagle Scouts, last I checked. 0.96

00:42:05.000 But apparently the Boy Scouts have a merit badge.

00:42:08.000 I look forward to, by the way, all of these.

00:42:10.000 I want the anti-Semitism merit badge. 1.00

00:42:12.000 I like the anti-Latino. 0.99

00:42:14.000 The anti-anti-Latino merit badge.

00:42:16.000 The anti-bigotry merit badge.

00:42:18.000 We need the pro-trans merit badge.

00:42:20.000 We need all of these merit badges.

00:42:22.000 Very important stuff.

00:42:24.000 According to the Boy Scouts, they say the 12 points of the scout law that define a scout are all important.

00:42:28.000 But at this moment, we are called on to be brave.

00:42:30.000 Brave means taking action because it is the right thing to do.

00:42:32.000 We realize we have not been as brave as we should have been as scouts.

00:42:36.000 We always stand for what is right and take action when the situation demands it.

00:42:39.000 There's no place for racism, not in scouting and not in our communities.

00:42:42.000 Racism will not be tolerated.

00:42:43.000 I was not aware that until now the Boy Scouts were like full on good with the racism.

00:42:46.000 But apparently they've changed now.

00:42:47.000 The Boy Scouts of America stands with black families and black community because we believe that black lives matter.

00:42:52.000 This is not a political issue.

00:42:53.000 It is a human rights issue and one we all have a duty to address.

00:42:56.000 So they're including a specific diversity and inclusion merit badge that will be required for the rank of Eagle Scout.

00:43:03.000 It will build on components within existing merit badges, including the American cultures and citizenship in the community merit badges, which require scouts to learn about and engage with other groups and cultures to increase understanding and spur positive action.

00:43:15.000 I feel like the Boy Scouts may have lost the thread here a little bit.

00:43:19.000 Again, I was under the impression that the Boy Scouts were pretty anti-racism in the first place, that actually their original 12 points about human decency sort of covered this, but apparently not.

00:43:30.000 Meanwhile, how bad has this become, the purge?

00:43:32.000 The purge has become so bad that a black high school principal is now under fire in Chicago.

00:43:37.000 Why?

00:43:38.000 Because she recommended that her students not riot and loot.

00:43:41.000 Not kidding, this is the Chicago Tribune.

00:43:42.000 There's a person named Joyce Kenner, When she was 11, she witnessed people taking to the streets in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio for the same things we are marching for today.

00:43:50.000 She said she recalls her fight of her father writing black-owned business across the window of his record store so protesters would spare it from damage.

00:43:57.000 And she says she stands with the Black Lives Matter protesters.

00:44:00.000 But she did something bad.

00:44:02.000 What did she do? 0.80

00:44:03.000 She said that people should be pushing for a seat at the table rather than rioting and looting.

00:44:09.000 Very, very bad.

00:44:10.000 She asked students that if they protest, they not participate in violence or looting.

00:44:15.000 And so now she's on the chopping block for saying no violence and no looting.

00:44:19.000 Everything must be purged.

00:44:20.000 The things must be purged.

00:44:22.000 The purge is ongoing.

00:44:23.000 And this is how you create unity.

00:44:24.000 Again, this all ties into the broader vision of unity.

00:44:27.000 Unity is created when you purge all the non-believers. 1.00

00:44:30.000 That's how unity is created.

00:44:31.000 When you have top-down rules set by the guy with the gun, the government, and when you purge all non-believers.

00:44:36.000 Now, it seems to me this is actually gonna create more division than unity, because it turns out there are a lot of people in this country who don't agree with a lot of the causes that are being propelled forward here.

00:44:44.000 Not the cause of, you have to be mean to trans people. 0.86

00:44:48.000 Or not the cause of, you have to not hire gays and lesbians. 1.00

00:44:50.000 And not the cause of, you don't care about black lives. 0.98

00:44:52.000 No, the cause of, you care about all those things and you don't like any of those things.

00:44:56.000 And also, we believe in individual rights to do things, including things you disagree with.

00:45:01.000 Right?

00:45:01.000 If you believe in that, you now must be purged.

00:45:04.000 So, this is likely to have some rather deleterious effects on unity.

00:45:08.000 It turns out that when you achieve unity by purging people, all the people you purged are not unified with you.

00:45:12.000 They're outside the unified group.

00:45:15.000 And now, you have created a division, where there was no division before.

00:45:19.000 If you agree on broad propositions and then allow people to go about their business, a lot more people can be included in the us.

00:45:24.000 When you create a very specific set of rules that everyone must abide by, and that are going to be crammed down, it's very easy to create a them out of an us.

00:45:33.000 And that's exactly what's going on right now.

00:45:34.000 The divisions have been exacerbated, they've not been bridged.

00:45:38.000 And every time the left tries to bridge a division, they're not trying to bridge a division, they're just trying to crush dissent.

00:45:42.000 And that is really, really ugly stuff.

00:45:44.000 Okay, meanwhile, you can tell who is the in-group and who is the out-group.

00:45:51.000 It's perfectly obvious in terms of COVID policy, for example.

00:45:53.000 Who's the in-group and who's the out-group, right?

00:45:55.000 If you're part of the in-group, then the special privileges attach.

00:45:57.000 Like apparently, COVID doesn't apply to you if you're part of the in-group.

00:46:00.000 If you're part of the in-group, then COVID is fine.

00:46:02.000 Everything is fine.

00:46:03.000 So, a couple notes about COVID.

00:46:05.000 Number one, there's been a lot of talk about the uptick in COVID across the nation.

00:46:10.000 And supposedly, there are spikes everywhere.

00:46:11.000 This dumped the stock market last week.

00:46:13.000 Not a lot of information to support that.

00:46:14.000 We are seeing increased numbers of cases because of the increased amount of testing.

00:46:17.000 That does not mean that the tests create the cases.

00:46:20.000 It means more cases are being identified.

00:46:21.000 But the overall positivity rate is about the same as it was.

00:46:25.000 Scott Gottlieb, former head of the FDA, he tweeted out the overall national positivity rate.

00:46:30.000 And he showed that it has basically been stagnant since mid-May.

00:46:34.000 In fact, it's a little bit down since mid-May, despite the fact that the daily number of tests run is up dramatically.

00:46:40.000 We're running half a million tests at this point a day, basically.

00:46:43.000 That's what it looks like, the seven-day rolling average of COVID testing progress.

00:46:47.000 Daily tests run.

00:46:48.000 So we are now running a lot of tests on a daily basis.

00:46:51.000 Yeah, we're now up to nearly half a million tests run on a daily basis in the United States.

00:46:56.000 And we are about 5% positivity rate.

00:46:58.000 So the positivity rates aren't rising.

00:46:59.000 Also, hospitalizations are falling in a lot of places like Florida.

00:47:02.000 So that suggests that perhaps these tests are picking up a lot of asymptomatic individuals.

00:47:07.000 that people who don't have severe problems are being picked up by the test.

00:47:11.000 But the media are trumpeting COVID-19 as a continuing danger, except if you are in the right category.

00:47:19.000 So if you're a protester, then there's no problem at all.

00:47:22.000 As I mentioned yesterday, Bill de Blasio has told his contact tracers in New York City, do not ask people with COVID if they've been to a protest.

00:47:29.000 Don't ask them.

00:47:30.000 I mean, wouldn't that be like the number one job?

00:47:32.000 Were you in a large group of people shouting without a mask on?

00:47:35.000 That seems to me like that might be the number one job, but no.

00:47:38.000 In New York, they're going to ignore that.

00:47:39.000 Meanwhile, Bill de Blasio is welding shut playgrounds in Jewish areas.

00:47:43.000 Because the great danger, obviously, is little kids playing with each other in Jewish areas. 1.00

00:47:47.000 Now listen, I think there's a good case to be made that people continue to socially distance and wear masks and do all of the things that are responsible.

00:47:55.000 But I'm also not going to pretend that it is not wild hypocrisy to suggest that you can have tens of thousands of people rallying in Brooklyn without masks and in direct contact with each other, but also that young kids cannot play at a playground.

00:48:06.000 By the way, young kids are not getting this thing.

00:48:08.000 The death rate for very young people in the United States for COVID-19 is lower than the death rate from the flu.

00:48:13.000 For very young people.

00:48:14.000 It accelerates as you get older.

00:48:16.000 So, a lot of Jews in Williamsburg have basically been like, you know what, forget this.

00:48:19.000 You're going to weld the playground shut?

00:48:21.000 Well, we're going to go get a lock cutter and we're just going to cut into the playground.

00:48:25.000 There are a bunch of local assembly members who have joined in this, breaking open the playground so that kids can play at the playground, because kids are not giving this to each other.

00:48:34.000 And by the way, there's a fairly good case that if they are prosecuted, they will file a lawsuit and they will say that this is discriminatory, that Bill de Blasio is basically cracking down on the Jews, but he's not cracking down on anybody who is shattering shop windows, which is absolutely correct. 0.98

00:48:48.000 Bill de Blasio himself, by the way, massive hypocrite. 0.98

00:48:50.000 Bill de Blasio is apparently out sick. 1.00

00:48:52.000 He said he would not be COVID tested.

00:48:54.000 He said he would not be COVID tested, Bill de Blasio, which is fully crazy.

00:48:59.000 But no worries.

00:49:00.000 The media know.

00:49:01.000 Again, if you're part of the in-group, you can do whatever you want.

00:49:03.000 If you're part of the out-group, then you can't do anything, right?

00:49:05.000 Then you are barred.

00:49:06.000 The Jews here are part of the out-group. 1.00

00:49:08.000 You know who's part of the in-group?

00:49:09.000 All the people who are protesting.

00:49:10.000 You know who's part of the out-group?

00:49:11.000 Anybody who wants to go to a Trump rally.

00:49:13.000 So Sanjay Gupta on CNN, he was like, yeah, Trump's indoor rally is the problem.

00:49:16.000 You guys didn't care five seconds ago when hundreds of thousands of people were protesting in the streets, but now Trump is the problem.

00:49:22.000 You know we can all see you.

00:49:24.000 We don't have the memory of Dory from Finding Nemo.

00:49:27.000 And we're not like small fish that have the memory of a five-second span.

00:49:31.000 We remember when a week ago you guys were all championing people out in the streets.

00:49:34.000 I mean, it's incredible how brazen the media are about this sort of stuff.

00:49:38.000 Here's Sanjay Gupta on CNN.

00:49:40.000 The gathering that we're talking about here is the highest risk, right?

00:49:45.000 20,000 capacity, I believe, in this particular arena.

00:49:48.000 That's the number of people they want in there. 0.97

00:49:49.000 There'll be no physical distancing.

00:49:51.000 It's indoors, obviously.

00:49:53.000 People coming from all over the place, many of them elderly.

00:49:55.000 They're then going back to their communities.

00:49:58.000 You're putting people shoulder-to-shoulder, masks optional.

00:50:01.000 The virus is the virus, Chris.

00:50:03.000 I mean, we've been talking about this for five and a half months.

00:50:06.000 The virus hasn't changed in all this.

00:50:07.000 It's a contagious virus.

00:50:09.000 And that scenario there is the worst case.

00:50:13.000 Unless you're part of the in-group.

00:50:13.000 If you're part of the in-group, well then, you know, things have changed.

00:50:16.000 Again, it's all about... We have now reached the point where if you're part of the good group, then none of the rules apply to you.

00:50:16.000 Then things have changed.

00:50:21.000 Even viruses.

00:50:22.000 You're immune to them.

00:50:23.000 If you're part of the out-group, then that comes with no dispensation whatsoever.

00:50:27.000 Right?

00:50:27.000 You get ripped away from your job.

00:50:29.000 You are declared unfit for human society.

00:50:31.000 And also, maybe the law will come for you.

00:50:34.000 So very exciting stuff.

00:50:35.000 This is creating a new unity.

00:50:36.000 I feel like the left has really pushed us to a new unity in America.

00:50:39.000 This is all working out great, guys.

00:50:40.000 It's working out fantastically well.

00:50:42.000 All righty.

00:50:43.000 Time for a thing that I hate, and then we'll do a thing that I like.

00:50:51.000 So yesterday, there's a big story that went around, and it's worth debunking because it went viral, and that is that some NYPD officers say they were poisoned at a Shake Shack.

00:50:58.000 Basically, what they said is that there were three officers who were handed drinks full of bleach.

00:51:03.000 It turns out that people just hadn't cleaned the machine properly.

00:51:05.000 They did an investigation, the people hadn't cleaned the machine properly.

00:51:08.000 It is good to knock down those narratives.

00:51:09.000 So now, the entire media have decided that the NYPD as a whole is bad.

00:51:14.000 The NYPD as a whole is mean, and they tell false stories because of all this.

00:51:18.000 So in other words, these guys were given cups with bleach in them, and then they drank it, and they said this tastes like bleach, and they had to go to the hospital, and they suspected that it may have been purposeful given all the anti-cop stuff, and it turns out not to have been purposeful.

00:51:29.000 Now the NYPD is very bad, but all the people who attack the NYPD are good.

00:51:33.000 Okay, so the NYPD is now going to disband its plainclothes anti-crime units.

00:51:39.000 So, by the way, the crime rates in these big cities are just going to spike.

00:51:42.000 They're going to spike dramatically and obviously.

00:51:44.000 That is the next thing to happen here.

00:51:45.000 The New York Post reports the NYPD is disbanding its undercover anti-crime unit after being involved in a quote-unquote disproportionate number of shootings.

00:51:53.000 The roughly 600 cops spread out at precincts and PSAs across the city will be reassigned into other posts, including the detective bureau and neighborhood police, the city's top cop said.

00:52:01.000 Now, one of the reasons you have plainclothespolice is because you actually don't want people knowing all the time that the cops are there.

00:52:07.000 It's the same reason the cops hide behind hedges when they're policing traffic.

00:52:10.000 Because if you see the cop, then you stop committing the crime preemptively, or you just go to another area and commit the crime.

00:52:17.000 And plainclothes cops mean you don't know who the cops are, so presumably, if you suspect that there are lots of cops around, you're not going to do what you want to do in terms of criminal activity.

00:52:24.000 But apparently this is very bad.

00:52:25.000 So they're getting rid of the plainclothes cops unit, which of course is definitely going to not result in higher crime or anything.

00:52:30.000 NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said, This is 21st century policing, intelligence data, shot spotter, video DNA, and building up prosecutable cases.

00:52:37.000 It continues to be building these cases, cases on a small number of people that unfortunately still terrorize a part of the city.

00:52:42.000 I would consider this in the realm of closing on one of the last chapters on stop, question, and frisk.

00:52:46.000 Shea said, When you look at the number of anti-crime officers that operate within New York City, and you look at a disproportionate, quite frankly, percentage of complaints and shootings, and they are doing exactly what was asked of them, it will be felt immediately throughout the five districts' attorney's office, It will be felt immediately in the communities that we protect.

00:53:01.000 There's a policy shift coming from me personally, and men and women in the police department were doing what I asked before me asked.

00:53:06.000 They've done an exceptional job.

00:53:07.000 I think it's time to move forward and change how we police in this city.

00:53:10.000 Well, good luck with that.

00:53:11.000 We will see how changes in the policing of New York result in more crime.

00:53:16.000 We talked yesterday about a study from Harvard by Roland Fryer talking about the fact that five police departments were investigated after a case of a homicide saw a dramatic increase in the amount of murder in those cities in the direct aftermath of those investigations because cops knew the story and they were like, you know what?

00:53:31.000 Not gonna go out of my way here.

00:53:32.000 I'm not going to go out of my way.

00:53:33.000 I'll respond to a 911 call.

00:53:34.000 I'm not going to preemptively walk the streets looking for crime.

00:53:37.000 So NYPD is now doing all of that.

00:53:39.000 Meanwhile, Seattle has decided a great idea would be to ban crowd control weapons.

00:53:44.000 So you can't use tear gas anymore.

00:53:46.000 By the way, I think it is worth distinguishing here between chokeholds and suppression holds, right?

00:53:50.000 There's a difference.

00:53:51.000 So people are saying that chokeholds should be banned.

00:53:53.000 Chokeholds have been banned in most major police departments. 0.99

00:53:55.000 A chokehold is where you go for the trachea.

00:53:57.000 Chokehold is where you actually try to cut off somebody's supply of air.

00:54:00.000 A suppression hold, as I was taught by Steven Crowder when he actually used one on me, cuts off the supply of oxygen to the brain by basically cutting off your blood supply.

00:54:08.000 Essentially, what you're doing is you're not cutting off someone's supply of air, which is incredibly dangerous and they will die.

00:54:12.000 A suppression hold is you cut off oxygen to the brain and it knocks them out for a specific period of time.

00:54:17.000 You start to lose consciousness.

00:54:19.000 Well now, the Seattle city cap— I'm wondering how they expect people to suppress criminals.

00:54:23.000 I really don't know.

00:54:24.000 They're making policing— Like, don't call it— If you want to ban chokeholds, go for it.

00:54:29.000 But, like, let's be specific about what it is you're banning.

00:54:30.000 Are you also banning the ability of cops to use jujitsu moves that suppress suspects if they're being violent?

00:54:36.000 So now, you can't suppress the guy.

00:54:36.000 Right?

00:54:37.000 You can't knock the guy out.

00:54:38.000 Instead, what do you do?

00:54:40.000 I mean, you can't wail on him, because that's assault.

00:54:43.000 Right?

00:54:43.000 You also can't suppress the guy.

00:54:45.000 You can put a knee on his back, I suppose, but if he's conscious, then he could knock you off.

00:54:51.000 This is all making policing incredibly unworkable.

00:54:53.000 Somebody should talk to a cop before they change the cop policies. 0.99

00:54:56.000 Wouldn't it behoove Joe Biden to talk to a cop before he says things like, you know, just shoot the guy in the leg? 0.98

00:55:00.000 What the hell does Joe Biden know about policing? 0.92

00:55:02.000 In fact, what do most U.S.

00:55:04.000 senators know about policing?

00:55:05.000 The answer is virtually nothing.

00:55:07.000 Seattle City Council is going even further.

00:55:09.000 They are now pushing To get rid of the ability for the police to use tear gas and pepper spray and other crowd control devices, which makes perfect sense because you literally have a six block area of Seattle that is now called CHOP, because they changed it from CHAZ to CHOP, that has been taken over by protesters.

00:55:28.000 And by the way, people who are spray painting every business surface in the area.

00:55:32.000 You have that, but you can't disperse the crowd.

00:55:34.000 In a 9-0 vote Monday, they voted to get rid of both chokeholds as well as tear gas and pepper spray.

00:55:41.000 One week ago, Seattle Police Officer Guild President Mike Solon said criminal agitators had taken over recent peaceful demonstrations, throwing bottles, rocks, cinder blocks, metal objects, and incendiary devices at police officers.

00:55:51.000 He added that officers had been injured as a result.

00:55:54.000 In regards to tear gas deployed in the early morning hours of June 8th in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, Solon said that is a less lethal tool that is effective in restoring public order.

00:56:01.000 You get rid of things like tear gas, what do you think is going to happen when the police have to disperse somebody?

00:56:01.000 See, this is the thing.

00:56:05.000 They can no longer use the tear gas, which is, you fire tear gas in an area, it makes people cry and choke up, and then they have to leave.

00:56:12.000 As opposed to, now you can't use that.

00:56:14.000 So what, you got police officers waiting in there with a baton?

00:56:16.000 Like, how does this make things better?

00:56:17.000 Unless you're just abandoning the area of the city completely.

00:56:20.000 As they have.

00:56:22.000 I mean, as Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, who, by the way, is a woman of color, said, That said, it has been very clear that people don't want us to use CS.

00:56:28.000 That said, it has been very clear that people don't want us to use CS.

00:56:40.000 Well, people just don't want you to police.

00:56:41.000 So they're not just going to disband the police.

00:56:43.000 They're just going to make it impossible for people to police.

00:56:45.000 Meanwhile, how much media coverage has there been of the police officers who've been injured over the past several weeks?

00:56:50.000 And we're talking about dozens of police officers injured, including some who are dead.

00:56:55.000 Have you heard the story of Shea Michelonis?

00:56:57.000 I hadn't.

00:56:58.000 A Las Vegas police officer shot in the head during an anti-racism protest that turned violent.

00:57:02.000 He's now paralyzed from the neck down.

00:57:04.000 He's 29.

00:57:04.000 He was shot during an altercation that broke out following a mostly peaceful protest down the Las Vegas strip on June 1st.

00:57:10.000 By the way, I do love how the media, I mean, that's Daily Wire taking that media coverage from other places like CBS News.

00:57:17.000 Can you imagine a Tea Party protest that erupts into violence and a cop gets shot in the head and is now paralyzed being described as a mostly peaceful protest?

00:57:23.000 Can you imagine that?

00:57:24.000 Of course you cannot.

00:57:25.000 Can you imagine an anti-lockdown protest where a single person gets shot and them saying, oh, well, you know, it's a mostly peaceful protest.

00:57:31.000 Mostly peaceful.

00:57:32.000 Mostly peaceful.

00:57:33.000 It's like being a little bit pregnant.

00:57:35.000 Las Vegas police, who have a suspect in custody related to the shooter, appear to believe that he was targeted because he was an in-uniform officer.

00:57:41.000 A 20-year-old man deliberately shot Michelonis during the protest, one of hundreds being held across the nation.

00:57:47.000 The guy who did the shooting took out a gun and fired at officers.

00:57:51.000 He's charged with attempted murder, battery, and firearms charges, being held in lieu of $1 million.

00:57:56.000 According to Michelonis' family, Shea's on a ventilator and will remain so.

00:57:59.000 He's paralyzed from the neck down, unable to speak.

00:58:02.000 He's awake, seems to recognize his family members.

00:58:05.000 So, well done everybody, because the only shootings in America that matter are the ones that people in the media say matter.

00:58:11.000 Not the shootings of a perfectly innocent police officer who's now paralyzed from the head down, from the neck down.

00:58:17.000 Instead, the focus must all be on this shooting in Atlanta, where a man knocked over two cops, stole a taser, and tried to fire a taser at an officer before being shot.

00:58:27.000 This man is now apparently a brutal racist, according to the entirety of the mainstream media.

00:58:32.000 CNN's Bakari Sellers, commentator, he says that Rashard Brooks was murdered point-blank.

00:58:37.000 Murdered.

00:58:38.000 Point-blank.

00:58:39.000 This is a perfectly justified shoot.

00:58:41.000 I talked to a bunch of cops.

00:58:43.000 You cannot tell cops that if someone steals your taser and tries to tase you, that you're supposed to stand there and take it.

00:58:47.000 Because after all, it's a non-deadly weapon.

00:58:48.000 I mean, eh.

00:58:50.000 Yeah, except that after they shoot you with the taser, what do you think they are going to do?

00:58:54.000 What do you think they are going to do?

00:58:55.000 They've already demonstrated they're fine with taking a weapon off a cop.

00:58:58.000 You're now a cop who's prone.

00:59:00.000 Does this sound like a good plan to you?

00:59:01.000 According to CNN, it does.

00:59:03.000 I love all these people who are real experts on policing, noting what is and is not good police procedure.

00:59:08.000 It really is a wonderland of newfound police expertise.

00:59:12.000 Here's Bakari Sellers saying that Rayshard Brooks was murdered point blank.

00:59:16.000 Murdered point blank.

00:59:17.000 Again, we showed you the tape yesterday.

00:59:19.000 He was in an open conversation with two cops for 25 minutes while they attempted to get him to submit to arrest.

00:59:25.000 And attempted to work out a solution with him.

00:59:27.000 They did all the right things.

00:59:27.000 They called backup.

00:59:29.000 He was still quote-unquote murdered.

00:59:30.000 This means you just don't want cops to exist, basically.

00:59:31.000 Here's Bakari Sellers on CNN.

00:59:34.000 This is as clear as you can get.

00:59:36.000 I mean, he was murdered, period.

00:59:38.000 Point blank, period.

00:59:39.000 I think the autopsy called it homicide.

00:59:42.000 And I watch people bend over backwards, and they're gonna bend over backwards after this segment on social media, et cetera, and say, well, you know, he shouldn't have struggled with the police.

00:59:50.000 He shouldn't have been drinking while driving.

00:59:52.000 He shouldn't have run.

00:59:53.000 He even fired the taser back at the police.

00:59:58.000 Well, you know, Wolf, none of those are death penalty crimes.

01:00:01.000 And so here we are again, Well, I mean, attempted murder isn't a death penalty crime either.

01:00:07.000 Murder is a death penalty crime.

01:00:09.000 It turns out that the standards for what a cop is supposed to take do not include being tased in the face.

01:00:14.000 That is not something that a cop is supposed to stand there and take.

01:00:16.000 Not a single cop is trained for this sort of stuff.

01:00:18.000 And by the way, if you try to train cops to say, oh yeah, if somebody takes out your taser and tries to tase you, you basically are supposed to just, you know... The guy's taser was gone, by the way.

01:00:25.000 Like, what exactly is the cop supposed to do at that point?

01:00:28.000 The guy's got his taser.

01:00:28.000 He's firing the taser at him.

01:00:30.000 So presumably what?

01:00:30.000 Is he supposed to just try and tackle him when the other guy has the taser?

01:00:33.000 That's the way this works now?

01:00:35.000 You're making policing utterly... It's just not practical.

01:00:38.000 I mean, there's no way to have a police force this way.

01:00:40.000 There's no wonder police... I'm getting calls from police officers all over the country saying, I'm out.

01:00:44.000 I'm out.

01:00:44.000 The crime wave that's going to come in the aftermath of this is going to be extraordinary.

01:00:47.000 It's going to be an extraordinary crime wave in the aftermath of this in major cities.

01:00:50.000 CNN's Chris Cuomo, who obviously knows every... He knows about as much about policing as Chris Cuomo knows about the Constitution, which is to say nothing.

01:00:58.000 And about as much about this as he knows about Practical policies for preventing COVID, which apparently includes bathing in bleach, according to his wife.

01:01:06.000 Here was Chris Cuomo yesterday suggesting the arresting officers had poor technique.

01:01:10.000 I'm definitely going to listen to this block of wood about arresting technique because I think that he's probably an expert on police procedure.

01:01:17.000 I see poor technique, and that matters in this analysis.

01:01:22.000 If you can't do your job using minimal force, you wind up using more and more force.

01:01:30.000 Hence, two officers not being able to control in a struggle that anybody who's had any measure of fight training sees, they don't know what they're doing.

01:01:39.000 on the ground with this man.

01:01:41.000 I'm sorry.

01:01:41.000 They don't.

01:01:42.000 No disrespect to police.

01:01:43.000 I have high regard for how many of you do the job, men and women.

01:01:47.000 This is not good technique.

01:01:49.000 Oh, it's not good techniques.

01:01:50.000 Chris Cuomo is now the arbiter of good technique.

01:01:53.000 He's grappling.

01:01:54.000 He's grappling.

01:01:55.000 I mean, can we also point out here that if the officers had used a suppression hold and something bad had happened to them, you would have called a murder?

01:02:03.000 This would have been a good scenario to use a suppression hold, right?

01:02:07.000 The guy's rolling around with cops trying to steal their weapon.

01:02:09.000 This would have been a good opportunity to maybe knock him out using a suppression hold, but you would then call it a choke hold and call it murder if something bad happened from a secondary health condition.

01:02:17.000 So cops, it's a no-win scenario for cops.

01:02:19.000 And you're going to completely botch the coverage of the situation because you have to come up with some reason that the cop is wrong here.

01:02:26.000 Trevor Noah, again another police expert, he says the sober one should have de-escalated.

01:02:30.000 They tried to de-escalate with this guy for 25 minutes.

01:02:34.000 25 minutes!

01:02:35.000 The tape is like 40 minutes long total.

01:02:37.000 Trevor Noah blaming the cops, of course, because the cops are always to blame.

01:02:40.000 Man, the aftermath of this is going to be so ugly because it turns out that when you tell police officers they can't do their job, guess what they do?

01:02:45.000 They don't do their job.

01:02:46.000 They leave the jobs.

01:02:46.000 They leave them.

01:02:47.000 Here's Trevor Noah.

01:02:49.000 People say he shouldn't have risen.

01:02:51.000 Yeah, he's drunk.

01:02:52.000 I'm not excusing his, but he's drunk.

01:02:55.000 In a situation like that, the sober person, in my opinion, the sober person, the onus is upon them to make sure the situation doesn't get out of hand.

01:03:04.000 You're sober, he's drunk.

01:03:06.000 How are two sober men wrestling with a drunk person on the ground?

01:03:09.000 How does it get that far?

01:03:12.000 How does it end with him losing his life?

01:03:16.000 It ends with him losing his life because he stole a taser off a cop and tried to shoot the cop with the taser.

01:03:19.000 This is not difficult.

01:03:21.000 This is not difficult.

01:03:21.000 But again, the goal here is there's an in-group and an out-group.

01:03:24.000 If you're part of the out-group, and that now includes cops, then you are simply deemed not woke enough no matter what you do.

01:03:30.000 And so anything is justified against you, including maybe murder charges.

01:03:33.000 They're not talking about murder charges for this cop. 0.98

01:03:36.000 I swear, you'd have to be a dullard to go into policing at this point in time.

01:03:40.000 Seriously, I have nothing but admiration for people who go into policing, but I don't know how a sane and rational person could look at this climate and think to themselves, you know what? 0.96

01:03:47.000 I want to be a cop right now.

01:03:49.000 And in fact, I don't know many cops who are thinking that they want to stay cops right now, given the climate in America's major cities.

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