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00:00:14.000Well, I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.
00:00:16.000I hope you took a few moments out yesterday to pay tribute to our fallen troops who have died so that we can be here doing all sorts of fun things and exercising our American liberties.
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00:01:47.000There's a lot of news breaking today, but the big news over the weekend is one that is going oddly unnoticed by the mainstream media.
00:01:52.000That, of course, is the arrest of a far-right activist named Tommy Robinson, who was reportedly jailed after filming outside of a child grooming trial in Britain.
00:02:02.000So, Tommy Robinson's a very controversial figure.
00:02:04.000It's hard to figure out exactly where he stands.
00:02:06.000He's sort of on the fringes of the right.
00:02:08.000He was the ex-founder of the English Defense League.
00:02:11.000He's been arrested in the past for some violent run-ins with the police.
00:02:14.000He's been at rallies that involve anti-Semites, but now he is pro-Israel.
00:02:18.000So he's sort of all over the place a little bit, and he's made some comments that are actually particularly egregious in the past.
00:02:23.000He's blamed all Muslims for terrorist attacks, etc.
00:02:27.000One thing that he's been doing lately, he's backed off of some of those comments, and one thing he's been doing lately is he's been going outside of these grooming trials in Britain.
00:02:34.000So, for people who haven't been following this, there have been a series of scandals in Britain where it turns out that there were Muslim men, radical Muslims, religious Muslims, who were apparently grooming young children
00:02:45.000To be essentially gang-raped in a couple of locations in Britain.
00:02:48.000And these were largely covered up by the local police.
00:02:50.000We've talked about a little bit on the show before.
00:02:52.000They were covered up by local police, or at least they weren't fully investigated by local police.
00:02:55.000The press refused to cover them because they were afraid of the anti-Islamic backlash they were afraid would ensue.
00:03:02.000This guy, Tommy Robinson, who again is a kooky fellow, he's sort of Milo Yiannopoulos-like, he was arrested and reportedly jailed on Friday after he filmed members of an alleged child grooming gang entering a court for trial.
00:03:14.000So he was standing outside and he was filming them.
00:03:16.000Apparently in Britain you are not allowed to do this because they are afraid that it will bias the jurors if you actually film people outside.
00:03:21.000So here is video of him being arrested for literally standing outside of a court and holding a cell phone.
00:03:27.000The content of what I'm streaming, I'm being arrested for breach of the peace.
00:03:55.000So the judges in the past have arrested him before.
00:03:58.000He was arrested, I think, a year ago in a similar case where he was filming outside of a courthouse in Leeds.
00:04:02.000He apparently went into the courthouse.
00:04:03.000In this case, he didn't even go inside the courthouse.
00:04:05.000The judge in that case said that Tommy Robinson could have been responsible for biasing the jurors.
00:04:10.000Now, think about this from an American perspective.
00:04:13.000The press are constantly going to courthouses and filming outside courthouses as defendants walk in.
00:04:18.000There were all sorts of pictures just last week of Harvey Weinstein walking into a police station, being arrested, walking out.
00:04:23.000There was no suggestion that all of the media who were reporting Harvey Weinstein's arrest were somehow contributing to an atmosphere of, say, anti-Semitism.
00:04:32.000It's insane to say that you can't report on trials.
00:04:34.000It's ridiculous to suggest that you can't say things that obviously are of public import in matters concerning, in some cases, what appears to be a guarded culture of the police protecting certain people in order to prevent...
00:04:50.000Well, here is what gets even crazier about the story.
00:04:52.000So Tommy Robinson is arrested and then an order comes down from the court.
00:04:55.000It's now been reversed, but the original order from the court was you were not allowed to report on Tommy Robinson's arrest because if you reported on Tommy Robinson's arrest, then you'd be biasing the jurors in his case.
00:05:05.000OK, well, if this doesn't sound like V for Vendetta kind of stuff, I don't know what does.
00:05:08.000This sort of weirdly dystopian nonsense where you can't report on a trial because it involves radical Muslims who are allegedly raping children.
00:05:17.000And then if you do report and you are arrested, then we can't report on your arrest because then that might bias the jurors in your case.
00:05:23.000So according to a source who talked to Fox News, they say that Tommy Robinson was jailed in Hull Prison.
00:05:27.000The prison declined to comment to Fox News on whether Robinson was there.
00:05:30.000Leeds Crown Court also did not return a quest for information.
00:05:33.000According to the Independent, Robinson was already on a suspended sentence for contempt of court over a gang rape case in 2017.
00:05:39.000The judge in the case on Friday slapped a reporting ban on the case.
00:05:42.000Again, this is something that only happens in Britain.
00:05:44.000We don't have this sort of thing in the United States.
00:05:47.000There are bans on having reporters inside courtrooms sometimes.
00:05:50.000Sometimes they won't allow cameras in the courtroom.
00:05:52.000But there is no idea that you can't report on a case.
00:05:55.000In the United States, everyone can report on a case so long as the courtroom isn't closed and you can report what's going on outside the courtroom.
00:06:00.000Well, the judge in the case slapped a reporting ban on the case.
00:06:03.000The order bans reporters from reporting on a case if there is reason to believe the reporting could prejudice a trial.
00:06:07.000Do you understand how vague and insane that standard is?
00:06:10.000That if you believe the reporting could prejudice a trial, you can't report on it?
00:06:18.000Any report about anything going on in the world could theoretically impact a trial.
00:06:22.000It's one of the reasons why in the United States we often have jury sequestration, where in the OJ case, for example, you put up people at a particular hotel and then you cut out the cables.
00:06:30.000Presumably they're not supposed to get any sort of information from the outside.
00:06:33.000I have serious questions as to whether even that is constitutional, but at least in the United States there's no ban on the reporting.
00:06:38.000There are restrictions on the jurors as to what they can see, but it isn't that CNN or MSNBC or Fox News can't report on a given trial.
00:06:46.000A bunch of news outlets in the UK removed their reporting from their websites to comply with the gag order.
00:06:52.000Most remaining reporting in the UK comments on Robinson's arrest, but not on his purported sentencing.
00:06:57.000Sources with knowledge of Robinson's case spoke on condition of anonymity, in part because of fear that they would then be arrested for contempt.
00:07:04.000Remember, this is the country of Magna Carta.
00:07:09.000This is the country where liberty of speech, where liberty of thought was born.
00:07:13.000And now we are being told that you can't even report on cases in Britain if it should bias people, if it should bias the jurors.
00:07:20.000One of these sources told Fox that Tommy Robinson's lawyer warned that considering the presence of Muslim gang members in prison, a 13-month sentence was tantamount to a death sentence.
00:07:27.000Tommy's lawyer said he will likely die in jail given his profile and previous credible threats.
00:07:31.000The judge basically said he doesn't care.
00:07:32.000The source said he sentenced him to 13 months in prison.
00:07:35.000Well, we don't have that confirmed, but there's no way to confirm it because we can't report on it.
00:07:38.000So who knows what's been said at this point.
00:07:40.000It is certainly true that Tommy Robinson has had run-ins with Muslims before.
00:07:44.000He was jailed for a brief period of time a few years back, and he lost all of his front teeth in a brawl apparently, allegedly, with some Muslim prisoners.
00:07:52.000So it's good to know that Britain is really concerned with the values that bore Britain.
00:07:56.000The fascism that Britain fought for decades.
00:08:01.000It hasn't won in any way, it's just that Britain is now voluntarily condemning its own citizens to be jailed for reporting on cases, and if you report on the report, then all of a sudden, you're in even more trouble.
00:08:11.000The good news is that Britain really has its priorities straight, because at the same time they're preventing Tommy Robinson...
00:08:17.000from actually reporting on these cases and then preventing people from reporting on the Tommy Robinson case, at least Ireland has voted to go full ahead with with allowing abortion up to the 20th week.
00:08:27.000So there was a massive there was a massive referendum passed two to one in Ireland to get rid of the country's abortion bans.
00:08:36.000They had a ban on abortion that went all the way back to inception because there is a right to life to conception.
00:08:44.000So I think it was section eight, article eight of the of the Irish constitution that says that there's a right to life that extends to the unborn.
00:08:52.000Well, that was done away with over the weekend in a massive procession.
00:08:56.000The the Irish people came out and they stood in front of they stood in front of the prime minister's office.
00:09:02.000And here's a picture of the prime minister of Ireland celebrating along with these thousands of people out there in the streets.
00:09:12.000And what he said was that this was just an incredible crowd.
00:09:16.000He tweeted out, So let's be straight about this.
00:09:24.000The great act of democracy is allowing the unborn to be killed in the womb.
00:09:27.000The great act of democracy is not protecting people reporting on trials.
00:09:31.000Okay, this is the end of Western Civilization.
00:09:33.000I mean, this really is the suicide, the slow suicide of Western Civilization.
00:09:37.000Western Civilization, European Civilization, the land on which individual rights were born, those rights are now being killed, piece by piece.
00:09:44.000They're being destroyed, piece by piece.
00:09:46.000They're being carved up and buried, piece by piece.
00:10:25.000The EU has proposed banning plastic products like cotton and cotton buds, straws, stirs, and balloon sticks, when alternatives are easily available in an attempt to reduce litter.
00:11:22.000But to pretend that it is not a reaction to a left that has gone completely overboard in favor of transnational institutions destroying individual rights is to pretend that what is happening is not happening.
00:11:33.000There are a bunch of people out there and their response to this shouldn't be sort of this ethno-nationalist, let's all get together and ban the foreigners kind of stuff.
00:11:40.000What it should be is the only way we can protect individual rights is with a nationalism that suggests that we have something to stand for.
00:11:48.000And unfortunately, that's not what's happened.
00:11:51.000Instead, what you've gotten is the far left that's taken over the EU, which it always was going to, and it's taken over government in Britain, which it apparently was always going to, and then you've seen a nationalist right in response.
00:12:00.000This is what makes American conservatism so different.
00:12:02.000There's no such thing as American conservatism in Europe.
00:12:05.000This is why, whenever you have discussions about the Nazis,
00:12:08.000What people tend to say on the left is they say, well, they're a right-wing group.
00:12:11.000And people on the right will say, well, no, they're a left-wing group.
00:12:13.000And the truth is that by American standards, they're a left-wing group.
00:12:16.000The Nazis were a group of big government fascists who wanted the government controlling every aspect of American life, which sounds a lot more like the American left than like the American right.
00:12:24.000But in Europe, the Nazis were right-wing because they were anti-communist.
00:12:27.000There is no such thing as an individual right state, primarily in Europe.
00:12:36.000America is the best of the rights regime that the Europeans were supposedly the originators of, and now the Europeans have decided to do away with that in the name of tolerance and diversity and multiculturalism.
00:12:46.000A few years back, it looked like the Europeans were finally going to rebel in the proper way against this.
00:12:50.000David Cameron gave a big speech about how multiculturalism was a giant fail.
00:12:53.000I mean, even Angela Merkel came out and said multiculturalism was a giant fail.
00:12:57.000But just because they said it publicly didn't mean they felt it privately or that they were going to implement policies that protected individual rights that only come from a particular civilization.
00:13:06.000One of the great lies that's been told by members of the international left, by a lot of folks in Europe, by a lot of folks on the American left, is that individual rights just inherently crop up, that they are self-evident, that they are not the products of any sort of civilization, and so you can get rid of all of the cultural hallmarks of a civilization.
00:13:22.000You can embrace multiculturalism, but keep the rights.
00:13:26.000If you want to embrace multiculturalism, that means that you are inevitably going to be embracing cultures that do not value particularly the rights that you created.
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00:14:51.000The real question is, what sort of values must
00:14:54.000Once again, crop up in Europe to protect the rights that were born in Europe.
00:14:58.000And the answer is pride in a civilization, not pride in ethnicity, not pride in the borders of a nation, not pride even in a quote unquote common culture.
00:15:08.000The culture of liberty is the culture that should be instilled.
00:15:12.000Western civilization is considered a civilization because of its creed.
00:15:16.000And its creed was individual rights trumped communal rights.
00:15:19.000That didn't hold true in a lot of the European countries like France.
00:15:21.000The French Revolution versus the American Revolution.
00:15:23.000The American Revolution was about the individual over the community.
00:15:26.000If you read the Constitution of the United States, it talks about we the people instituting a government in order to protect our individual rights.
00:15:33.000And then there's a Bill of Rights that specifically applies to individuals.
00:15:36.000And then there's the French Declaration of the Rights of Man, which suggested the opposite.
00:15:39.000It suggested that communal rights trump the individual.
00:15:41.000It says that any time an individual right comes into conflict with the community, the community wins.
00:15:45.000Well, Britain used to be very much against the French Revolution.
00:15:48.000Edmund Burke, who's the great expositor of conservatism embraced by so many conservatives today, Russell Kirk, great American author, wrote about the impact of Burke on American conservatism.
00:15:57.000And that's because what Edmund Burke said is that the French Revolution took all of the cultural hallmarks.
00:16:03.000They took religion, they took culture, they took history, and they threw all of them out in favor of this newfangled idea of rights.
00:16:10.000And what Edmund Burke said is that the rights that we currently have are a product of a civilization that goes back thousands of years, and to reject that premise is to reject the rights themselves.
00:16:19.000Well, Europe has now fallen under the... The French revolutionaries won.
00:16:23.000The French revolutionaries chopped off a lot of heads, and it seemed like they'd fallen, but in the end, they won.
00:16:29.000In the end, the French won, and the Burkean, the Burkean conservatism, the Lockean conservatism lost.
00:16:35.000Burke and Locke were both religious Christians, and they were both believers that there had to be a culture
00:16:39.000A civilization of liberty in order for liberty to mean anything.
00:16:43.000They believed you could completely level everything and get rid of the entire culture, and instead, you can build up this system of rights which, in the end, would be protected by a community, and the community, in the end, would also be able to trump the individual.
00:16:56.000It is not a coincidence that as church attendance has declined in Britain, you've seen the rise of a multicultural ethos that ends in the arrest of British citizens for reporting on trials and gives the go-ahead to abortion.
00:17:25.000Maybe you ought to look back to founding values in the United States, which were reliant on the idea of providence, of divine, eternal providence, who provided for individual rights.
00:17:34.000I know that's uncomfortable stuff and people would prefer to go with all of these vague answers about rights existing in some sort of weird sphere without any sort of Judeo-Christian history to them.
00:17:43.000You get rid of the Judeo-Christian history, the rights go along with them.
00:18:05.000And I think that it is something deeply worth mourning.
00:18:08.000OK, meanwhile, I have to comment on something that happened over the weekend with with with the left and immigration, because it's utterly insane.
00:18:16.000So over the weekend, the left decided that Donald Trump was solely responsible for the separation of parents from children at the border.
00:18:23.000So first, I want to set for you the legal standard, because you're hearing a lot of crap today.
00:18:26.000You're hearing a lot of nonsense today that is just not true.
00:18:29.000So what you're hearing today is that Donald Trump, evil President Trump, has decided in his nefarious fashion, because he hates Mexicans, because he thinks they're all rapists, that when people come to the border, that what he's going to do is he's going to take their children and rip them away from their parents, and he's going to send them to the salt mines or some such nonsense.
00:18:46.000OK, the reality is that by law, by law,
00:18:50.000All detainees, all minor detainees in the United States must be remanded out of custody to somebody else within 20 days.
00:18:59.000This has been the law in the United States for approximately the last 20 years, 21 years.
00:19:07.000It happened under the auspices of President Bill Clinton.
00:19:10.000Okay, and in that settlement, it found, that settlement said that unaccompanied minors, it was specifically about unaccompanied minors, and it said unaccompanied minors to the United States, people come to the United States, and they are not accompanied by a parent.
00:19:22.000They cannot be held in detainment facilities.
00:19:24.000Instead, they have to be released to foster care or they have to be released to some sort of relative we can track down.
00:19:31.000That was the Flores Settlement in 1997.
00:19:34.000It did not apply to accompanied minors.
00:19:38.000Then there was no legal obligation under the 1997 Flores Agreement that you have to take the kid out of custody and give the kid to an uncle or an aunt.
00:19:46.000Instead, the kid could stay in custody with the parent.
00:19:50.000Okay, this settlement took place in... Well, actually, until there was a... Yeah, it was a piece of legislation in 2008, and then it was re-enshrined in 2016.
00:19:59.000The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2016, in opinion by Judge Hurwitz, okay, Andrew Hurwitz,
00:20:06.000They ruled that the 1997 settlements agreement did not only apply to unaccompanied minors, you can hold them in custody, it also applied to accompanied minors.
00:20:16.000In other words, if I came with my four-year-old daughter, and we were Mexican immigrants, illegal immigrants, we crossed the border illegally, and I was arrested,
00:20:24.000Under the old law, we could be held together in custody because she's my four-year-old.
00:20:28.000Under the new law, under the settlement agreement, the idea was that my four-year-old daughter was not best off in custody with me.
00:20:34.000She was best off being remanded to Aunt Martha in Texaco, right?
00:20:38.000And then we're going to send Aunt Martha to wherever with the kid.
00:21:23.000It's been the law since Obama was president.
00:21:26.000And the 1997 Settlements Agreement was put into law 20 years ago.
00:21:30.000So why exactly are people saying that Donald Trump is the guy who's running around internment facilities, ripping children away from parents, and handing them out to the nearest passersby?
00:21:41.000Now, what's more astonishing is all the members of the left who've decided to make an issue of this and decided that it really is all Trump's fault.
00:21:48.000So, to show you this, okay, I just have to give you some of these tweets.
00:21:52.000So, Jon Favreau, hey, one of the Pod Save America bros, Jon Favreau was a member of the Obama administration.
00:21:58.000He served in the Obama administration.
00:22:00.000There's a picture from 2014 that was going around of children in holding facilities.
00:22:05.000These children were unaccompanied minors and they were put in holding facilities in 2014.
00:22:09.000Now, you may recall, 2014, who was president?
00:22:44.000They all tweeted out these pictures and they pretended that they were all from 2018 when they were all from 2014.
00:22:48.000Then they found out they were from 2014.
00:22:50.000A bunch of these people started deleting their tweets.
00:22:52.000So Jon Favreau got rid of his tweet because it turns out that it just wasn't true.
00:22:57.000All of which goes to show you that something weird has happened to members of the media.
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00:24:36.000So, Ivanka Trump, she tweeted out over the weekend, she tweeted out a picture of herself with her child, because it was Memorial Day weekend, and she has really cute kids.
00:24:47.000And she tweeted out a picture of herself, it's a beautiful picture of her holding one of her children, and it says,
00:24:55.000OK, and that's and it's it's my love and I hashtag Sunday morning and it's a picture of her and one of her babies and she's just looking the baby's eyes.
00:25:02.000CNN decides that this is inappropriate.
00:25:05.000Ivanka Trump cannot tweet a picture of herself with her child, not while Donald Trump is ripping immigrant children away from their parents.
00:25:19.000CNN actually for two minutes and 30 seconds covered Ivanka Trump's tweet and suggested she was a bad person for tweeting out a picture unrelated of her and her child.
00:25:29.000What's the timing of this tweet that is really generating so much criticism?
00:25:33.000Because it comes, like you mentioned, amid scrutiny of the administration's policies, letting the government separate children from their parents at the border.
00:25:40.000President Trump himself was tweeting about it over the weekend, describing it as a horrible law.
00:25:46.000And it's not the first time that Ivanka Trump has been accused of insensitivity on social media.
00:25:50.000Recall, for example, in January of last year, right after her father was inaugurated, she posted a picture of her and Jared Kushner in fancy black tie attire, right after her father had signed that controversial travel ban.
00:26:03.000And there was chaos and protests erupting at airports all over the country.
00:26:07.000She weathered similar criticism, and once again, she's being accused of being out of touch.
00:26:14.000It's Memorial Day weekend, she tweets out a picture of her and her baby, and she's evil now?
00:26:19.000This really is... Do you remember in The Wrath of Khan?
00:26:22.000In The Wrath of Khan, one of the famed great political movies of our time, there's a scene very early on where an earworm is put inside, who is it?
00:26:34.000And the idea is that this earworm essentially controls his brain.
00:26:38.000Donald Trump is the earworm for some reason.
00:26:41.000He's the earworm in the brain of the media.
00:26:43.000And no matter what he does, we wiggling around in there, the media just lose it.
00:26:47.000Because what in the world does this picture of Ivanka Trump and her beautiful kid have to do with immigrant kids being separated from their parents?
00:26:54.000A policy that has been in place in the United States since 2016 at the behest of the leftist Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:27:04.000So you have all these fact-checking sites and all these fact-checking sites like factcheck.org and PolitiFact.
00:27:10.000And half of their fact checks are just wrong.
00:27:12.000Half of their fact checks, they legitimately draw a conclusion that no one drew from an original statement.
00:27:17.000And then they say that it's half true or not half true based on whether it's a Democrat or Republican.
00:27:21.000Remember, most famously, PolitiFact said that Barack Obama was not lying when they said it was half-true and he said, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
00:27:28.000And then three years later, they labeled that same exact statement their lie of the year.
00:27:35.000Well, factcheck.org is going after President Trump because President Trump suggests that, hey, it's not my fault that these kids are being separated from their parents.
00:28:11.000What they are saying is that Donald Trump doesn't have to separate the parents and the children.
00:28:15.000Now, you might ask, Shapiro, you told us a few minutes ago that under the law, if you want to retain the parents, you do have to discharge the children somewhere else.
00:28:34.000This is like complaining that children in the United States are being separated from felon parents because we arrest the felon parents.
00:28:40.000And then you say, well, do you want the kids to go with?
00:28:41.000And they're like, no, but you could release the felon parents.
00:28:45.000The whole point is that Trump is enforcing the border now.
00:28:48.000The only thing that Trump is doing differently than Obama is he is remanding more cases to custody than President Obama did.
00:28:53.000Obama was fine with letting illegal immigrants roam into the country, be briefly arrested, and then be released into the general population.
00:29:09.000And they could change the law to say that when illegal immigrants come into the country with the children, that there is an exception to this court ruling.
00:29:16.000They could overrule the judicial branch because the judicial branch is interpreting a settlement agreement.
00:29:21.000They're not interpreting a constitution.
00:29:23.000OK, just legally speaking, when they say that the settlement says X, all the government has to do is pass a law saying that is not what the settlement says.
00:29:29.000The government, the settlement never said that.
00:29:31.000In fact, the government right now, the legislature could overrule the judiciary simply by taking away their capacity to review the situation.
00:29:38.000That is an ability of Congress under Article One of the Constitution is to limit federal jurisdiction.
00:30:49.000So if you don't like it, just send it back.
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00:31:23.000How crazy are the media over all of this?
00:31:25.000It's not just that they're going after Ivanka Trump.
00:31:27.000April Ryan, you know, she's on CNN all the time because she's a political analyst over there, and she's always complaining about how she's being victimized by the Trump administration.
00:31:35.000She's also a reporter for American Urban Radio Networks, I believe.
00:31:38.000Well, she shared an article on her Twitter account on Sunday, floating the idea that President Trump could be running a child sex trafficking ring.
00:31:48.000The article was titled, April Ryan, CNN contributor, tweets this out, quote, is the Trump administration running a child trafficking ring or not?
00:32:01.000Well, it's shared with 330,000 of her followers.
00:32:04.000And Melania Trump's spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham, responded, she said, if you're a journalist with many followers at CNN Politics Contributor, is it OK to retreat any headline you want, regardless of whether it's true?
00:32:14.000A lot of other people were similarly upset about April Ryan's tweet.
00:32:19.000Now, I just want to point something out here.
00:32:47.000She tweets out a piece suggesting that perhaps Donald Trump is running a child sex trafficking ring, the president of the United States, and nothing.
00:34:41.000There are two black guys who went into a Starbucks in Philadelphia, and I had several of my listeners go to that Starbucks.
00:34:48.000The person behind the counter, the manager, was a social justice warrior lady who corrects people's pronouns.
00:34:53.000But it turns out she is secretly a racist.
00:34:55.000How do we know she's secretly a racist?
00:34:57.000We know she's secretly a racist because they asked to use the restroom.
00:35:00.000And she said, just like I have been asked before, everyone, I know a lot of people have been asked, if you want to use the restroom, you got to buy something.
00:37:02.000Even the people who designed this, the implicit assessment test, the implicit bias assessment test, even those people say that these are not usable in real world situations.
00:37:11.000Starbucks decides they're going to mandate that nobody can get coffee for three hours so we can pretend that we're doing something about deep abiding racism at Starbucks.
00:37:18.000So what is this really designed to do?
00:37:20.000Okay, so what it's really designed to do is prevent litigation against these major corporations.
00:37:24.000That's really what it's designed to do.
00:37:25.000So major corporations all over the country, places like Walmart and Target, have undertaken this useless diversity training to relieve such unconscious bias.
00:37:32.000So let me describe to you what these Starbucks baristas had to go through.
00:37:55.000But we got to do the training, guys, because they say we have to.
00:37:58.000According to a video previewing the Starbucks training, there will be recorded remarks from Starbucks executives and rapper and activist Common.
00:38:10.000From there, employees will move into a real and honest exploration of bias, where in small groups, they can share how the issue comes up in their daily work life.
00:38:16.000Then they get out finger paints, and they all paint with each other.
00:38:20.000And then at the end of that, racism has been abolished in the United States.
00:38:24.000Now, there's no data any of this works.
00:38:26.000Hey, Andrew Ferguson writes at the Weekly Standard, quote, Most recently, the Harvard psychologist Frank Dobbin had counted his way through more than 800 midsize and large U.S.
00:38:34.000companies that had made diversity training mandatory, as Starbucks is doing.
00:38:37.000Over a five-year period, he found no increase in the percentage of managers who are women or minorities.
00:38:42.000In fact, the number of black female managers declined more than 9 percent.
00:38:49.000But that data doesn't actually mean anything because data doesn't mean anything in these conversations.
00:38:53.000You can't even ask for the freaking tape of these actual events.
00:38:56.000You just have to assume that racism is widespread, unconscious, deeply embedded in our DNA, as President Obama used to say, and then we're going to train it out of you.
00:39:05.000We're going to train it out of you by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to people with no degree in anything who call themselves diversity trainers.
00:39:12.000Now, why do all these corporations do this?
00:39:14.000Because when there are class action lawsuits, it can cost them a billion dollars if they lose.
00:39:17.000So instead, they create a settlement with all of these race baiters and they say, okay, we will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on diversity training.
00:39:25.000And next time there's some sort of litigation against us, we go in front of the judge and we say, listen, if we were really racist, would we have done diversity training?
00:39:57.000And that means that no one here is racist.
00:40:00.000If you think that Starbucks became one iota less racist, if you thought they're racist in the first place, which I do not, but if you think they become one iota less racist because they took three hours out from making coffee to talk with each other about racism,
00:40:17.000They're barely even hiding the ball on this one.
00:40:19.000Okay, meanwhile, going through some of the other news of the day, I want to make a quick point here.
00:40:24.000So there's been a lot of talk in the last few days about Louis Farrakhan.
00:40:28.000So Louis Farrakhan, who is legitimately one of the worst human beings in the United States, just an awful, awful human being, leader of the Nation of Islam, rabid anti-Semite, rabid racist, just a piece of human dreck.
00:40:40.000He was on a radio show and he was talking about President Trump.
00:40:42.000And Candace Owens tweeted out that something is happening because Louis Farrakhan obviously is more warm toward President Trump.
00:40:50.000Now, this is not me getting on Candace Owens.
00:40:52.000Candace can have her own opinion on this stuff, but I do not think that Louis Farrakhan is saying he's going to vote for President Trump.
00:40:58.000And if he did, I don't think it would behoove President Trump to take his support since, as I say, Louis Farrakhan is a piece of human dreck.
00:41:03.000Here is Louis Farrakhan supposedly supporting President Trump.
00:41:07.000Trump is destroying every enemy that was an enemy of our rise.
00:41:16.000Is it the Department of Justice, where we get none?
00:41:21.000Is it Congress, where you make a law that favors us and then you turn around and destroy it?
00:41:27.000Okay, so here's what I would say about this.
00:41:31.000If Louis Farrakhan is siding with Donald Trump, it should make you think about some of Trump's policies, if Louis Farrakhan were honest.
00:41:36.000Now, I don't think Louis Farrakhan is honest.
00:41:38.000I think, as I say, he's a horrible human.
00:41:40.000But what he's really saying here is that he likes that Trump is going after the DOJ and the FBI, and he likes that because Louis Farrakhan is sort of in favor of many criminals.
00:41:49.000I'm not really sure why exactly people would be celebrating that in any serious way.
00:41:54.000Well, in other news, Tesla founder Elon Musk has now been accused of being mean to the media, which is a crime in the United States, as we all know.
00:42:00.000So last week, Elon Musk, who founded Tesla and SpaceX, and he does some pretty cool stuff, although I will acknowledge I'm not a big fan of the giant, giant, giant government subsidies he receives, he tweeted out that the holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie is why the public no longer respects them.
00:42:40.000The most obvious and stupid piece came courtesy of a woman named Erin Biba at the Daily Beast.
00:42:45.000She attacked Musk because she tweeted at him, a billionaire with massive power lashed out at two of the most under attack industries in the country, journalism and science.
00:43:55.000And then she proves that she's full of it.
00:43:57.000That's basically how that little colloquy just went.
00:44:00.000And then she took out a bunch of people from Twitter who have like 10 followers and blamed them on Elon Musk, which is the new tactic of a lot of folks on the left.
00:44:08.000This tactic where they suggest that if you have millions of followers as Musk has, or if I have, or as many other people have, and one of those followers, several of those followers do something terrible, that's somehow our fault.
00:44:19.000If you don't like what Musk says, attack what Musk says.
00:44:21.000Don't attack Musk for what his followers say when he obviously didn't attempt to push them to do any of this sort of stuff.
00:44:27.000But the media are no longer for the truth.
00:44:29.000There are too many members of the media who are no longer for the truth.
00:44:31.000They're more interested in propping up their own perception of self-worth.
00:44:35.000And a lot of that has to do with this feeling that we are firefighters and we cannot be attacked.
00:44:39.000If they accused President Trump of having a thin skin or conservatives of having a thin skin, nobody has thinner skin than some of the members of the mainstream media.
00:45:17.000It's the most expensive series ever made in Germany.
00:45:20.000And it takes place during the latter days of the Weimar Republic.
00:45:24.000And it doesn't really make any, like it makes a very oblique reference to Hitler, but it makes very few references to the Nazis or Hitler.
00:45:29.000It is just sort of, here's the milieu.
00:45:31.000So it gives you the communist uprising that's happening.
00:45:34.000And it gives you the roots of Nazi rage in Germany.
00:45:37.000And it gives you all of this against the backdrop of basically a crime show, an investigation of a crime that ties together all of these disparate strands.
00:45:46.000Here's a little bit of the preview from Netflix.
00:46:45.000So today there were a bunch of rockets, mortars that were fired into Israel.
00:46:51.000Apparently 50 odd mortars fired into southern Israel.
00:46:54.000There were two terrorists who attempted to cut the border from the Gaza Strip into Israel with bolt cutters to get into Israel and murder children in their beds because this is what Hamas terrorists do.
00:47:04.000And Israel has been bombing the Gaza Strip.
00:47:06.000So naturally all of the media coverage has been Israel bombs Gaza Strip.
00:47:09.000Very little of the media coverage has been about the fact that Hamas precipitated it.
00:47:12.000By literally putting hundreds of thousands of people into bunkers, right?
00:47:15.000They forced hundreds of thousands of people into bunkers in southern Israel, and then they hit a kindergarten with mortars.
00:47:20.000One of the mortars directly hit a kindergarten.
00:48:00.000Yesterday, Chelsea Manning tweeted out pictures of himself on top of a building.
00:48:05.000So Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning,
00:48:07.000He tweeted out a picture from the top of a building and tweeted,
00:48:27.000Chelsea Manning, I hope, really, really does get some help.
00:48:31.000Chelsea Manning is still, as much as I despise what Chelsea Manning did as far as being a traitor, and as much as I disagree with Chelsea Manning about politics, if you need help, get help.
00:49:21.000Then he also put up this tweet, which was not so great.
00:49:23.000So he tweeted out, Happy Memorial Day!
00:49:25.000Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today.
00:49:29.000Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for blacks and Hispanics ever, and women in 18 years, rebuilding our military, and so much more.
00:49:46.000His bad habit was, no matter what was happening in the world, it was Memorial Day, he would then tweet out a picture of himself, like at a Memorial Day ceremony.
00:49:52.000He wouldn't tweet out pictures of soldiers or something.
00:49:54.000He would tweet out pictures of him, because Barack Obama was the most important person in the universe.
00:49:59.000Well, Donald Trump seems to be following in those footsteps, except worse in this particular tweet.
00:50:15.000And I think that he realized that later and then tweeted out some more appropriate feelings.
00:50:18.000But this is why when some people like me say he might want to cut back on the Twitter, this is an example of why the president might want to cut back on the Twitter, because let's be real about this.
00:50:25.000If this had been Hillary Clinton tweeting this out, I would be all over that.