The Ben Shapiro Show - Trashing The Cops Gets Black Americans Killed | Ep. 1242

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00:01:30.000 Alrighty, so for some odd reason, the Makia Bryant case continues to bubble in the media today.

00:01:36.000 Now, this is a perfectly obvious case where the police did the right thing.

00:01:40.000 I mean, 100% obvious.

00:01:42.000 Not 90% obvious.

00:01:43.000 Not 95% obvious.

00:01:45.000 100% obvious that Makia Bryant was wielding a knife, and she's about to stab a girl, and a police officer shot her.

00:01:51.000 And because the media, and because the Democrats, and because the White House have all decided that the cops are bad, they are making this an issue.

00:01:57.000 They're no longer pretending that this is about bad cops.

00:02:01.000 They're no longer pretending this is about cops doing bad things.

00:02:03.000 They're now pretty much coming out right up front and saying, even when cops do good things, they are bad, because America is racist and the system is terrible.

00:02:12.000 This is the entire case being made by the Democrats. 0.99

00:02:14.000 Now, it will get more black people killed, as we have been talking about. 1.00

00:02:17.000 Since 2014, between 2014, 2019, at least one to 6,000 more people died in major cities where there were Ferguson-style BLM protests. 0.98

00:02:28.000 Most of those people presumably were black.

00:02:30.000 In the last year alone, 34 biggest cities in America, 30% increase in homicide. 0.53

00:02:35.000 In some cities, like Milwaukee, there's like 75% increase in homicide. 0.98

00:02:40.000 When you get rid of the cops, more black people die. 1.00

00:02:43.000 And when you demonize the cops such that they don't want to do their jobs anymore or they simply quit, there is no way to enforce the law. 0.96

00:02:48.000 And it turns out that the greatest preventer of people doing crime is police officers.

00:02:55.000 The people who stand between you and the criminal, those are the cops.

00:02:58.000 And when you rip on the cops all day long, and when you make it impossible for them to do their job, and when they do do their job and they should do something heroic by, you know, stopping somebody from stabbing another person, Using the appropriate level of force, which is what happened in the McKea Bryant shooting. 0.98

00:03:11.000 Then you still demonize them, and you treat them like garbage. 0.53

00:03:14.000 And I'm hearing from cops, all week long I've been hearing from cops, via text message, via email, via phone, telling me that they are quitting.

00:03:22.000 In California, I heard from a friend who I have in one of the major police departments in California, that he knows three officers who came into the office yesterday and just slammed down their badges on the desk and said, we're out.

00:03:32.000 You're going to see this across the country.

00:03:35.000 And the people who pay for that are not people like me.

00:03:38.000 I'm not going to pay for that because I live in an area that has a police force that is well liked by the population.

00:03:43.000 It's not gonna matter for the people on CNN.

00:03:45.000 It's not gonna matter for the people on MSNBC.

00:03:47.000 It's not gonna matter for Ibram Kendi, who has his police protection over at Boston University Center for Anti-Racism.

00:03:53.000 It's not gonna matter at The Green Room, at any of these networks, or at the editorial page over at The New York Times, which has its own private security.

00:04:00.000 Not gonna matter for any of those folks.

00:04:01.000 The people it's gonna matter for are the people who live in these cities, who are being conditioned by the media to believe that the cops are their enemy, and are not gonna have a cop to call when it comes time to call a cop because there's somebody running around the neighborhood with a gun shooting people.

00:04:15.000 Here's how the Washington Post is covering the Makia Bryant killing.

00:04:19.000 The headline, from the Washington Post, this is at the top of their page today.

00:04:23.000 Makia Bryant's family remember her as loving, affectionate.

00:04:26.000 She didn't even have a chance to live her life.

00:04:29.000 Okay, now the headline here is that she was attempting to stab another girl with a butcher knife.

00:04:36.000 It seems like that should be the headline.

00:04:38.000 It turns out that all human beings are shaded.

00:04:41.000 All human beings are nuanced.

00:04:43.000 You can find the worst human being on earth, and they probably have a good relationship with at least a couple of people.

00:04:47.000 I don't know what circumstances led Makia Bryant to pick up a knife and charge at another human being and try to stab that human being. 1.00

00:04:55.000 I don't know those circumstances.

00:04:56.000 What I do know is that the cop doesn't have to know those circumstances to know it is his job to prevent the stabbing. 0.86

00:05:01.000 The entire media apparently now coming out in favor of the idea that if you are black and you stab another black person, that is better than if a cop stops you from stabbing the other black person.

00:05:11.000 That is the way that the media treats all of these cases. 0.84

00:05:14.000 And, or, they engage in the speculative fiction in which they, as police officers, would have magical Jack Bauer-like abilities.

00:05:21.000 They'd be like the Frisco Kid.

00:05:23.000 Or they'd be like Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles, where they can just shoot the trigger fingers of bad guys. 0.92

00:05:28.000 Or they can shoot guns out of people's hands. 0.99

00:05:31.000 All of this is ridiculous on its face. 0.97

00:05:34.000 Now, the way that we know this is ridiculous on its face is because not only do we have the original body cam angle on the Makiya Bryant shooting, in which you can see clearly Makiya Bryant charging at this other girl who's pinned against a car and raising a butcher knife to stab her. 0.87

00:05:47.000 We now have another angle on the Makiya Bryant shooting.

00:05:50.000 This angle shows that Makiya Bryant is lunging at another woman with a knife and people are shouting about it.

00:06:00.000 Here's the video.

00:06:01.000 OK, she's shouting that she's going to stab somebody. 0.98

00:06:21.000 Thank you. 1.00

00:06:23.000 She yells, I'm gonna effing kill you as the cop attempts to de-escalate. 1.00

00:06:28.000 Is there possibly better evidence that the cop did the right thing here? 0.99

00:06:32.000 Okay, but according to the media, remember, the cop can do the right thing and it doesn't matter because every bad thing in America that happens, if it happens to a black person, is an element of systemic racism.

00:06:43.000 Everything is attributable to the system because the goal here is not to make life better for people.

00:06:47.000 The goal here is to tear down the systems.

00:06:49.000 The same systems, by the way, that have provided for more freedom, and more security in the past half century than black people have anywhere else on planet Earth.

00:07:00.000 America is an incredible place for black people to live.

00:07:03.000 It is better than virtually all other places on planet Earth.

00:07:07.000 By polling data, America is one of the least racist countries on Earth.

00:07:10.000 Black household income is higher in the United States than it is anywhere else on planet Earth.

00:07:16.000 This notion that America is some sort of hellscape for black Americans compared with other countries on Earth is completely evidence-free.

00:07:23.000 But that is the proposal. 0.87

00:07:24.000 That all of America's institutions are terrible, and that every bad thing that happens to a black person, or for which a black person is responsible, is attributable generally to the system at large. 0.76

00:07:35.000 As I talked about a little bit earlier this week, this is the soft bigotry of low expectations.

00:07:38.000 It's not.

00:07:39.000 It's just the hard bigotry of no expectations.

00:07:41.000 In a free country, Where the law applies. 0.96

00:07:45.000 Black people apparently have no agency at all and are not to be held responsible for their actions in any way. 1.00

00:07:49.000 Which is why you end up with articles in the Washington Post talking about she didn't even have a chance to live her life. 0.95

00:07:54.000 This is all about the system.

00:07:58.000 Makia Bryant beams at her mother in a TikTok clip then throws her arms around her neck. 1.00

00:08:01.000 As Beyonce's dance for you plays in the background, the team lip syncs the lyrics, I'ma take this time to show you how much you mean to me, cause you are all I need.

00:08:10.000 It's an intimate moment between mother and daughter, who are working hard to reunite after Bryant was placed in foster care, family members said.

00:08:16.000 They had a close bond, said Don Bryant, a cousin of Makia's mother.

00:08:19.000 Makia was just an all-around good person.

00:08:22.000 On Tuesday, 16-year-old Bryant was fatally shot by a Columbus police officer responding to a call for help at her foster home in the city's southeast.

00:08:28.000 Body camera footage released by police shows Bryant swinging what appears to be a knife at two people during an altercation outside the property before an officer arrives and fires four shots at her torso.

00:08:38.000 On Thursday, family members struggled to make sense of the killing, at least the third fatal shooting by Columbus police this year.

00:08:43.000 Okay, but how many of those were justified?

00:08:44.000 Do we have the details on any of those?

00:08:46.000 Because this one was a justified shoot.

00:08:47.000 Don Bryant said he had a hard time recognizing the teen seen in the police video lunging at others.

00:08:51.000 He doesn't condone any violence, but called the officer's decision to open fire disproportionate.

00:08:56.000 There are other disengagement techniques police could have used here.

00:08:59.000 You don't understand what happened here?

00:09:01.000 I mean, it seems pretty clear what happened here since it's, you know, on tape from several different angles.

00:09:05.000 I understood their moves, their tactics, what they do.

00:09:06.000 I just don't understand what happened here.

00:09:09.000 You don't understand what happened here?

00:09:11.000 I mean, it seems pretty clear what happened here since it's on tape from several different angles.

00:09:15.000 The entire media coverage here is angled toward ignoring the actual circumstances of the case.

00:09:25.000 Officials identified the officer who fired the shots as Nicholas Reardon and said he had been taken off street duty while the investigation proceeds.

00:09:31.000 Reardon, 23, appears to be the son of a retired Columbus police sergeant named Ted Reardon, an Air Force veteran and longtime basic training instructor at the department's training academy.

00:09:41.000 When Ted Reardon retired last year, the department posted a tribute video.

00:09:46.000 Nicholas Reardon was a high school wrestler at Columbus' Bishop Watterson High School.

00:09:49.000 The wrestling team's Twitter feed showed him posing with his dad as a senior in 2016.

00:09:54.000 Okay, well, that debate ignited because the Biden administration jumped on this to suggest that the shooting was wrong, and again, emblematic of white systemic racism.

00:10:11.000 But I'll tell you what it really was emblematic of, more than anything else.

00:10:14.000 How many of these cases are parents really deeply involved with the people who end up shot by the police?

00:10:20.000 Seriously, are we allowed to ask that question?

00:10:24.000 Because we have on tape Ma'Khia Bryant's mother giving tearful interviews.

00:10:28.000 But Ma'Khia Bryant was in a foster home when she attacked another girl with a knife. 1.00

00:10:32.000 Where was Ma'Khia Bryant's mother then? 1.00

00:10:33.000 Here's Ma'Khia Bryant's mother on CNN.

00:10:36.000 My heart is really broken right now because I miss my baby, to be honest.

00:10:41.000 I miss already.

00:10:46.000 And it's really hard for me.

00:10:51.000 I haven't eaten.

00:10:54.000 And I can't eat because I miss my baby.

00:10:57.000 I had a beautiful baby.

00:11:05.000 She was taken from me.

00:11:07.000 Okay, your heart goes out for the mother.

00:11:10.000 At the same time, where was mom?

00:11:12.000 Makia Brant was in a foster home.

00:11:13.000 Where was mom?

00:11:15.000 Adam Toledo was shot in Chicago.

00:11:17.000 Again, a justified shooting.

00:11:19.000 It was treated by the media as an unjustified shooting, the Adam Toledo shooting.

00:11:22.000 Where were Adam Toledo's parents?

00:11:25.000 Adam Toledo had been missing for two nights.

00:11:27.000 He's a 13-year-old boy on the streets.

00:11:28.000 He had joined the Latin Kings, which is a gang in Chicago.

00:11:31.000 He'd just gotten a tattoo to that effect, and he was shooting weaponry at cars.

00:11:35.000 Where were his parents?

00:11:37.000 You want to talk about alleviating problems?

00:11:38.000 Why don't we start with some of the roots of the problems, rather than blaming the people who are charged with basically putting a band-aid on criminality by attempting to stop the criminals?

00:11:47.000 But again, you can't talk about that.

00:11:48.000 Because if you talk about that, then it devolves to personal responsibility.

00:11:51.000 And the left has suggested that black people have no agency in America. 0.52

00:11:54.000 It is the hard bigotry of no expectations. 0.90

00:11:56.000 If there is a bad situation, then we're just supposed to expect that there will be widespread riots. 0.97

00:12:00.000 If there is a black girl who tries to stab another black girl with a knife, she has no responsibility for those actions. 0.98

00:12:08.000 Nor do we care. 0.96

00:12:09.000 Only if the cop shows up to stop it do we care, because that's emblematic of systemic racism.

00:12:13.000 This is what Ibram Kendi says. 0.99

00:12:14.000 It's Ibram Kendi, who is just a grifter and a race baiter and a person with terrible, awful, horrible ideas. 1.00

00:12:20.000 He's a tyrant. 0.99

00:12:22.000 Here he is on CNN with Breonna Keillor talking about how the cops should never have done this. 0.60

00:12:30.000 When I look at that video, I asked myself if that would have been a 16-year-old white girl in a wealthy suburban neighborhood Would the police officer have sought to disarm this girl? 0.94

00:12:47.000 Would the police officer have sought to talk her down?

00:12:50.000 Would the police officer have used lethal force?

00:12:54.000 And it's hard for me to believe Okay, we'll get to the details of what exactly he means by all of that because it is wrong in about seven different ways.

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00:14:37.000 The notion that a police officer even would have had time to talk to Makia Bryant belies the facts.

00:14:41.000 There's a grand total.

00:14:42.000 Between the time the officer arrives, he steps out of his car, he says, what's going on?

00:14:46.000 Between that time and the shoot is nine seconds.

00:14:50.000 Nine seconds.

00:14:51.000 You think of that, what was he supposed to do?

00:14:54.000 Get out of the van and ask Makia Bryant about the troubles she's experiencing in her life? 0.95

00:14:57.000 Or, you know, stop her from stabbing the other girl in the neck? 1.00

00:15:01.000 Under all circumstances, if a cop shows up and somebody is wielding a knife at another person about to stab them, the cop will shoot them.

00:15:06.000 You think the cop went through the cop's head? 1.00

00:15:08.000 Well, I mean, she's black, gotta take her down. 1.00

00:15:10.000 No evidence to that effect at all. 0.99

00:15:11.000 So Abram Kennedy is just a liar, and he is slandering that police officer as a racist. 0.93

00:15:16.000 That is number one. 0.82

00:15:17.000 Number two, the broader question that Ibram Kendi is asking is wrong.

00:15:22.000 The question is not, would a police officer have shot an upper income white person doing this to another upper income white person?

00:15:27.000 The answer is pretty obviously yes, again, because you have a nine second gap in which to make the decision to stop somebody trying to stab the other person.

00:15:33.000 The real question is, in what neighborhoods are these crimes tending to take place?

00:15:38.000 And what sort of cultural decisions have to be made to stop those crimes from taking place in the first place?

00:15:43.000 Because the underlying lie that is being told is that everyone is equally likely to try to stab each other with a knife, and this is untrue. 0.94

00:15:50.000 This is how you come up with the idiocy from the left that if the police officers shoot a disproportionate number of black suspects, this is because the police are racist, as opposed to looking at the underlying levels of criminal activity. 0.93

00:16:02.000 That doesn't mean that race has anything to do with your criminal level of activity. 0.99

00:16:06.000 It does mean that crime is not equally distributed per capita among the races.

00:16:12.000 White people commit more crimes than Asian people per capita. 0.99

00:16:15.000 Hispanic people commit more crimes than white people and Asian people per capita. 0.99

00:16:19.000 And black folks commit more violent crimes per capita than Hispanic folks and white folks and Asian folks. 1.00

00:16:25.000 Those are just basic stats. 0.97

00:16:27.000 That's not racist, and that has nothing to say about race as the causative factor, because race isn't the causative factor.

00:16:32.000 But because Ibram Kendi thinks that race is always the causative factor, he believes that no matter what other explanatory causal factors are there, ranging from single motherhood, to poverty, to ingrained generations, of deep-seated racism going back several generations, right?

00:16:49.000 This is the case that Thomas Sowell makes.

00:16:50.000 He says there are higher levels of violent crime in the black community because there's sort of embedded codes of honor from the American South there, and a systemic lack of policing for decades that led to higher rates of crime in the black community over the course of a century. 0.88

00:17:03.000 Okay, but instead of going there, he just goes to, it must be that the white police officer is a racist, and it's his implicit bias, and if this had been a white person, he wouldn't have shot them. 0.97

00:17:12.000 That is shallow, it's ridiculous, and of course it is racist because it says that all white police officers are implicitly biased and any police officer who shoots a black suspect about to kill somebody is in fact a racist. 0.97

00:17:24.000 Meanwhile, you have Ilhan Omar doing the same routine. 0.98

00:17:26.000 She was speaking at the funeral of Daunte Wright.

00:17:30.000 Again, if you believe that these things aren't political, you gotta wonder.

00:17:32.000 I mean, Ilhan Omar is not, as far as I'm aware, was not friends with the Daunte Wright family or with Daunte Wright.

00:17:41.000 I'm unaware of any prior relationship.

00:17:43.000 She's a congresswoman who showed up to rip on America and suggest that the police department in her city is endemically racist. 1.00

00:17:51.000 Again, based on no evidence, because the Daunte Wright shooting is not a racist shooting.

00:17:55.000 We have it on tape.

00:17:56.000 The police officer, a 26-year veteran of the force, shouts, taser, taser, taser, shoots Daunte Wright with a gun by accident, and then says, oh my God, I shot him.

00:18:04.000 It is the clearest case of accident using a taser, using a gun instead of a taser.

00:18:08.000 that it is possible to imagine and yet it is being treated as a racist shooting because again, whether it's Derek Chauvin, or whether it is the Adam Toledo case, or whether it is Daunte Wright, or whether it is Makia Bryant, it does not matter. The charge that is levied against, that is leveled against these officers is not one that they even bothered to substantiate with evidence. It is that they are racist because the system is racist.

00:18:29.000 So here's Ilhan Omar doing that routine.

00:18:31.000 Joyce Beatty was going to be here and speak on our behalf as the chairwoman of our caucus.

00:18:38.000 But just like we've been visited by tragedy here in Minnesota often, she in Columbus, Ohio, was visited by a tragedy of a young woman whose life was taken by Columbus police.

00:18:56.000 Why don't you just miss the entire story there?

00:18:58.000 On purpose, on purpose.

00:19:00.000 Joy Reid, again, when you talk about the bigotry of no expectations, it seems like there should be a fairly widespread expectation that people try not to stab each other.

00:19:09.000 Is that unreasonable?

00:19:10.000 That people should probably try not to stab each other?

00:19:12.000 And that we should actually have, I think, a realistic expectation that people shouldn't try to stab each other.

00:19:16.000 But according to Joy Reid, knife fights happen all the time.

00:19:19.000 All the time!

00:19:20.000 Remember your childhood?

00:19:21.000 Remember how many knife fights you were in?

00:19:23.000 You know, like every other day?

00:19:25.000 In fact, my kids are getting older.

00:19:26.000 It's time for me to get them the children's book, My First Knife Fight, because they have to get ready for their teenage years.

00:19:31.000 Here's Joy Reid on MSNBC, creating the hard bigotry of no expectations. 1.00

00:19:36.000 As you look at the circumstances of this, can you just walk us through how police should act in a case like this?

00:19:45.000 Because, you know, I was saying on my Instagram earlier, I remember fights in even high school, or even younger than that, where a kid brought a penknife or something to school and teachers were able to defuse that and they didn't have guns.

00:19:57.000 So, what do you make of the, what, 10, 20 seconds this officer took before he opened fire on this little girl?

00:20:02.000 Open fire on this little girl. 1.00

00:20:05.000 You know, I remember in my childhood lots of... Yeah, it was great.

00:20:08.000 It was great.

00:20:10.000 Now, I would love to see a statistical analysis of how many people, when they are lunging a foot from somebody with a knife, how the defusing went.

00:20:21.000 Juan Williams has his own take on this.

00:20:21.000 Pretty incredible stuff.

00:20:23.000 He says, you know the cops shoot a shot in the air?

00:20:25.000 Like Joe Biden style.

00:20:26.000 Just taking the shotgun, blowing it in the air.

00:20:27.000 That definitely would have stopped her. 0.87

00:20:29.000 Eschews in the middle of lunging. 0.99

00:20:31.000 Well, I guess I would shoot the gun, not necessarily at somebody, but maybe shoot the gun and maybe, you know, run at the person and try to disarm them. 0.99

00:20:39.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:20:40.000 I mean... So wait, wait, wait.

00:20:41.000 You would shoot the gun in the air, like a warning shot?

00:20:46.000 Well, hopefully to distract or to try to stall or something so I could get, or my partner could get the knife away, I see, is what I would say.

00:20:54.000 I mean, taking someone's life is pretty strong.

00:20:54.000 Well, I don't know.

00:20:58.000 I don't either.

00:20:58.000 I don't either, Jesse.

00:21:00.000 I mean, Jesse, policing is tough work.

00:21:02.000 Juan Williams would have used his super speed, right?

00:21:05.000 He would have used his super speed.

00:21:06.000 Maybe like, like the flash.

00:21:08.000 He would have frozen time and he would have stopped Makia Bryant. 0.83

00:21:11.000 Okay, all of this is not designed to save black lives. 0.89

00:21:15.000 All of this ends with more dead black people because when you remove the cops from high crime areas, which unfortunately in the United States are disproportionately minority, more people die. 0.97

00:21:24.000 Good news is that our politicians don't care at all. 0.97

00:21:26.000 Democratic politicians do not care at all.

00:21:29.000 Okay, so Cory Booker, Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey, who presided over Newark, New Jersey, one of the most violent cities in America, as mayor, he tweeted out something along these lines.

00:21:39.000 He's tweeted out, MaKia Bryant was only 16 years old, killed by police yesterday.

00:21:43.000 She deserves justice and accountability.

00:21:45.000 We must reform this deeply broken system.

00:21:47.000 My heart is with MaKia's loved ones.

00:21:49.000 Yes, definitely let's prosecute the cop who's responsible for saving the other girl's life.

00:21:53.000 By the way, the other girl came out yesterday and thanked the police officer for saving her life.

00:21:57.000 Does not matter.

00:21:58.000 And this is going to generate all sorts of anti-police activity.

00:22:01.000 You can prepare for it.

00:22:02.000 It's happening in cities across the nation, and then the Democrats are pushing stuff federally that basically undercut the ability of police to actually do their jobs.

00:22:08.000 The Biden DOJ, as we discussed yesterday, is going to cram down consent decrees on police departments across the nation, making it more difficult for them to police.

00:22:16.000 The predictable effect of this will be less policing.

00:22:19.000 In Berkeley, the mayor is saying that they're actually ending low-level traffic stops in order to reduce racial disparities.

00:22:25.000 It's a pretty amazing statement.

00:22:27.000 So, we are no longer going to police crime because we might end up nabbing too many black people who are acting criminally. 0.78

00:22:33.000 So, you know what? 0.96

00:22:34.000 Quick solution.

00:22:35.000 We just won't police crime anymore.

00:22:37.000 Berkeley's ending police stops for minor traffic violations, and this is to reduce racial disparities and policing outcomes, and to focus on public safety by making sure our police officers focus on genuine threats to public safety.

00:22:49.000 So we're not going to pull people over for having an air freshener on your rearview mirror, or having expired license tags, or not signaling property, and focus those stops on Traffic violations that pose the greatest risk to public safety.

00:23:06.000 I think this is smart policing and also will reduce racial disparities.

00:23:10.000 So if they're going to ban traffic stops to reduce racial disparities, but they really, really want to reduce racial disparities in crime statistics, they just should stop arresting people for murder.

00:23:17.000 Really, man, it would reduce the racial disparities in the crime statistics.

00:23:22.000 Because, unfortunately, a disproportionate number of murders in the United States are committed by young black men.

00:23:25.000 So, if you really want to reduce the disparities, then, really, any crime that is not equally committed by a percentage of the population should not be policed.

00:23:32.000 That seems like the best way to handle all of this.

00:23:35.000 That is just a genius way of handling crime there, from Jesse Aragorn.

00:23:39.000 We're going to look to the statistical outcome of arrests, not who commits the crimes.

00:23:45.000 We're just going to say any crime that is disproportionately committed by a percentage of the population and the police react to it, we're just going to stop policing that crime.

00:23:52.000 By the way, this is what's been happening all over California already.

00:23:55.000 And the police have already stopped enforcing the law at a low level, and you've seen cities just collapse. 0.96

00:24:00.000 I mean, San Francisco is a trash heap. 0.98

00:24:02.000 is a trash heap, and it's gonna get a whole hell of a lot worse. 1.00

00:24:02.000 L.A. 1.00

00:24:06.000 So prepare yourself.

00:24:07.000 If you're in a big city, prepare.

00:24:09.000 You're about to see an outflow from big cities like you've never seen. 1.00

00:24:12.000 And honest to God, if Republicans are stupid enough to go along with the Democratic agenda, their anti-police agenda that will end with more dead black people particularly, I can't think of anything more systemically racist. 0.99

00:24:24.000 Well, I can think of two things that are very systemically racist, that are being pushed by the media and the Democrats. 1.00

00:24:28.000 One is the bigotry of no expectations, which is that black people can't be expected not to commit crimes, therefore we will stop policing for crimes and blame the cops. 0.72

00:24:36.000 And two is, why don't we remove the cops from black neighborhoods, make it impossible for them to police? 1.00

00:24:42.000 That is a policy specifically designed at allowing black people to die. 1.00

00:24:46.000 But the media don't care and the Democrats don't care. 0.97

00:24:48.000 Because, of course, the idea is all the institutions of America are just like the police.

00:24:51.000 It's not just the cops.

00:24:52.000 The cops are just the most obvious and the most inflammatory edge of America's racist systems.

00:24:57.000 That's why you have Nikole Hannah-Jones saying that America's police are like the racist slave patrols.

00:25:02.000 She said that America's policing got its start in slave patrols.

00:25:04.000 That is just a lie.

00:25:05.000 It is a historical lie.

00:25:07.000 Policing began in Great Britain in like the 17th century with Robert Peel.

00:25:13.000 Okay, that's why policemen were called bobbies, right? 0.96

00:25:15.000 Because policing is centuries old.

00:25:17.000 What, she thinks there were no police before the Civil War?

00:25:20.000 She thinks that policing now is the same as slav- See, here's the thing about slave patrols.

00:25:25.000 Note to the de facto editor of the New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones.

00:25:28.000 The thing about slave patrols is that was a group of evil people rounding up innocent black people who are wrongfully enslaved.

00:25:35.000 The police today are rounding up people who are committing acts of criminal activity. 1.00

00:25:38.000 If you're equating innocent slaves who are held in bondage by dint of their skin color with criminals who are committing crimes largely against other members of their same race, you're a moral idiot. 1.00

00:25:50.000 But we already know that Nikole Hannah-Jones is a moral idiot, so that's not a big shock. 0.99

00:25:53.000 Now, when I say that the left has decided that all elements of American life are systemically racist, they can use this argument to apply to anything. 0.98

00:26:00.000 The beauty of the term systemically racist, it's like the term social justice.

00:26:03.000 When you say some of these terms, people only hear one of the operative words.

00:26:08.000 So when you say systemic justice, people just hear justice.

00:26:12.000 They don't hear social justice.

00:26:13.000 They don't hear racial justice.

00:26:14.000 They just hear justice.

00:26:15.000 Oh, justice means justice, right?

00:26:17.000 That means that people get what they deserve.

00:26:19.000 When you say racial justice, that means that individuals should not get what they deserve. 0.97

00:26:24.000 Instead, they should get what their race deserves. 1.00

00:26:26.000 That's what racial justice is.

00:26:28.000 Social justice means that you should not get individual justice.

00:26:31.000 You should get what your social class requires you to get.

00:26:35.000 That's what social justice is.

00:26:38.000 Environmental justice.

00:26:39.000 Justice is a word that should not require a modifier.

00:26:40.000 As soon as you put a modifier, it changes the entire meaning of the term.

00:26:43.000 The same thing is true of racism.

00:26:45.000 Racism means believing that someone is inferior or that you're superior based on race.

00:26:50.000 That is racism.

00:26:52.000 Textbook racism.

00:26:53.000 You don't need a modifier.

00:26:55.000 Once you add systemic, you have now transformed the entire argument.

00:26:58.000 Because now the argument is not that somebody is discriminating against somebody else based on the color of their skin.

00:27:05.000 Now you're arguing you don't have to show any evidence of that.

00:27:08.000 Any system at all that ends with the disparity must in fact be racist without intent, without any argument as to superiority or inferiority of particular races.

00:27:18.000 The system itself is racist, which means it must be torn down.

00:27:20.000 You're just using the word racist To modify what is the actual operative word.

00:27:25.000 For the left, the actual operative word is always the first word.

00:27:28.000 Racial justice.

00:27:30.000 Social justice.

00:27:31.000 Justice doesn't matter in that term.

00:27:33.000 When they say systemic racism, the racism part is the part that really doesn't matter in that phrase for the left.

00:27:39.000 It's just systemic, meaning they want to tear down the systems.

00:27:42.000 Perfectly obvious example of this today is the Democrats are moving To make Washington, D.C.

00:27:48.000 its own state.

00:27:49.000 Now, in a second, I'll explain how they're legally doing this, because normally, you would think, okay, well, if you want to make Washington, D.C.

00:27:53.000 its own state, you actually have to alter the Constitution of the United States, since it is an actual express provision in the Constitution of the United States that there be an independent district for the federal government to be seated, so that states cannot control the federal government, right?

00:28:05.000 We've talked about this.

00:28:06.000 It's in the Federalist Papers.

00:28:07.000 It's in the Constitution.

00:28:07.000 Normally, that would require a constitutional amendment.

00:28:10.000 Democrats feel they have found a way around this, and they're gonna shout that you are racist if you oppose them. 0.88

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00:31:35.000 Alrighty, so the Democrats are trying to use the term systemic racism to force through a change that would basically add to Democratic senators for perpetuity.

00:31:48.000 That's the goal.

00:31:49.000 It is perfectly obvious this is what they are attempting to do.

00:31:51.000 So, how are they doing this?

00:31:52.000 So, constitutionally speaking, there has to be a federal district.

00:31:55.000 That federal district has historically been Washington, D.C.

00:31:57.000 And there are lots of people who live within Washington, D.C.

00:31:59.000 So what Democrats are trying to do now is they've passed a bill, it passed 216 to 210, with all the Democrats voting in favor and all the Republicans voting against.

00:32:07.000 And that bill basically would take the area that is directly outside of the federal buildings, and then it would carve it off and call it its own state.

00:32:14.000 Now, that's perfectly ridiculous.

00:32:16.000 It's perfectly ridiculous because if you wanted that area to be incorporated into a state, you could totally do that. 0.93

00:32:22.000 I have a counter-proposal.

00:32:23.000 Why don't we just take those areas and we will then encompass them in either Virginia or Maryland?

00:32:29.000 Simple.

00:32:29.000 Done.

00:32:29.000 Now you have senators.

00:32:31.000 Congratulations.

00:32:33.000 But no, Democrats want the people of Washington D.C.

00:32:36.000 to have their own senator.

00:32:37.000 In fact, why don't they do this everywhere?

00:32:39.000 They should probably just say, Chicago, it really isn't like the rest of Illinois.

00:32:41.000 So Chicago is going to be its own state with its own senators now.

00:32:45.000 California has so many different areas.

00:32:46.000 Why don't we just make L.A. 0.99

00:32:47.000 its own actual state?

00:32:50.000 Okay, that's exactly what they're doing.

00:32:52.000 They're basically saying, okay, we don't have to change the Constitution so long as we leave these federal buildings in their own federal district, but all the people who are living in that surrounding area, who've been living there for, you know, generations, all of those people are now gonna have their own state as opposed to being encompassed in Maryland or Virginia.

00:33:07.000 Again, the Washington, D.C.

00:33:08.000 district was designed specifically to be a federal district.

00:33:11.000 If you don't wanna live in a place that doesn't have senators, fairly well, Virginia is just across that river and Maryland is just a little bit the other way.

00:33:19.000 But that's not what Democrats are doing.

00:33:21.000 And they have a rationale for why you must not oppose them. 0.94

00:33:24.000 It's because you're a racist. 0.91

00:33:24.000 Wait for it, wait for it. 0.91

00:33:26.000 You see that one coming?

00:33:27.000 You didn't see it coming, did you?

00:33:28.000 The whole reason they say that Washington, D.C.

00:33:32.000 exists as a place with no senators is because of racism.

00:33:35.000 Now that's absurd on its face. 0.99

00:33:36.000 It's ridiculous. 0.94

00:33:38.000 Washington, D.C. 0.99

00:33:39.000 was established when black people weren't even allowed to vote anywhere in the United States, essentially.

00:33:44.000 So racism obviously was not the deciding factor in creating Washington, D.C.

00:33:50.000 Because that terrible rule about black people not voting applied everywhere.

00:33:52.000 So obviously if you're creating a federal district, it's not about whether black people are going to have senators, because black people at the time couldn't have senators anywhere. 0.71

00:33:58.000 So it wasn't about making a racist district where black people couldn't have senators.

00:34:03.000 And now you're trying to retcon the entire story in order to make it an outgrowth of racial animus, but it wasn't.

00:34:09.000 So Nancy Pelosi says that D.C.

00:34:11.000 statehood is in her DNA. 0.99

00:34:12.000 She's got a lot of weird crap in her DNA if D.C. 1.00

00:34:14.000 statehood is there. 0.99

00:34:15.000 A lot of weird things happening in Nancy Pelosi's DNA.

00:34:19.000 Here was the addled speaker of the house.

00:34:22.000 Can we have like a leadership class that isn't addled?

00:34:24.000 That'd be nice.

00:34:25.000 Seriously, so many addled people at the top of our leadership structures.

00:34:28.000 It's pretty impressive.

00:34:29.000 Here's the lady who says that she's grateful that George Floyd died and thank you for your sacrifice, George.

00:34:33.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi, a completely addled human being, talking about how D.C. 0.98

00:34:36.000 statehood is in her DNA along with a bunch of other weird crap. 0.99

00:34:40.000 District of Columbia statehood is in my DNA. 0.94

00:34:43.000 This is a picture of my father and the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.

00:34:48.000 It was the first time he had a hearing as the chair of the District of Columbia Appropriations Subcommittee.

00:34:56.000 As chair of that committee, he was known as the unofficial mayor of Washington because, sadly, the Congress had so much say over the What happened in the District of Columbia.

00:35:10.000 He did not support that.

00:35:13.000 He was all for home rule and what would come after that.

00:35:17.000 Okay, so, in other words, actually, D.C.

00:35:20.000 statehood is not in her DNA because her dad basically was in charge of the appropriations for D.C.

00:35:23.000 from the position in Congress.

00:35:25.000 So, no.

00:35:26.000 But, you know, D.C.

00:35:27.000 statehood is really all about racism.

00:35:29.000 Joe Biden is going to be fighting for D.C.

00:35:30.000 statehood.

00:35:31.000 Remember when that guy was a moderate?

00:35:32.000 Remember that lie that they told you all last year so that you wouldn't vote for Trump?

00:35:36.000 Remember that?

00:35:36.000 The whole thing was that Joe Biden was going to be a moderate, stabilizing force in America.

00:35:41.000 Well, in the last week or so, we've had Joe Biden endorse a verdict in a criminal case.

00:35:45.000 We've had Joe Biden suggest that that criminal case, which had nothing to do with racism, was deeply indicative of systemic racism across the United States.

00:35:51.000 We've had the Biden administration try to cram down particular settlements on police departments.

00:35:58.000 We've had the Biden administration trying to force religious doctors into performing transgender surgeries.

00:36:04.000 Remember all the moderation that was going to happen?

00:36:05.000 Yeah, it was a lie.

00:36:07.000 And if you believed it, you made a large-scale error.

00:36:11.000 Here's Jen Psaki saying that Joe Biden is going to fight for D.C.

00:36:13.000 statehood.

00:36:15.000 President Biden strongly supports D.C.

00:36:17.000 statehood, and he and his—and we will all—our administration will work with Congress to get it passed.

00:36:23.000 We put out a statement of administration policy in strong support of H.R.

00:36:27.000 51 just this morning.

00:36:29.000 His view is that we are—the denial of voting representation in Congress and local self-government to the 712,000 residents of our nation's capital violates two of our nation's founding principles—no taxation without representation Frankly, I think the fact that Northern California hasn't been given its own state, along with Southern Oregon, probably violates those two provisions.

00:36:56.000 And to say that that violates those two provisions is to say that anybody anywhere who feels non-represented by the government under which they live is somehow being deprived of that right.

00:37:05.000 I promise you, all the Republicans who live in California, which, by the way, has the most Republicans living anywhere in America, live in California, those people feel pretty non-represented over there.

00:37:15.000 Probably they deserve their own state. 0.87

00:37:16.000 Probably they're being deprived of their constitutional rights by the same exact argument. 1.00

00:37:20.000 So idiotic. 1.00

00:37:21.000 Because if it's really just about, they don't get to vote for senator on their ballot, good news! 1.00

00:37:25.000 We can just encompass the entire area you're talking about in Maryland or Virginia, then they get to vote for their senator.

00:37:30.000 But you don't want that.

00:37:31.000 You don't want that because all that would mean is the same exact number of Democratic senators.

00:37:35.000 Mondaire Jones, Democrat of New York, here's what he had to say about this.

00:37:37.000 He says, I have had enough of my colleagues' racist insinuations that somehow the people of Washington, D.C.

00:37:43.000 are incapable or even unworthy of our democracy.

00:37:45.000 One Senate Republican said that the D.C.

00:37:47.000 would not be a well-rounded working class state.

00:37:49.000 I have no idea there were so many syllables in the word One of my House Republican colleagues said D.C.

00:37:55.000 shouldn't be a state because the district doesn't have a landfill. 0.99

00:37:57.000 My goodness, with all the racist trash my colleagues have brought to this debate, I can see why they're worried about having a place to put it in. 0.85

00:38:02.000 The truth is there's no good faith argument for disenfranchising over 700,000 people, most of whom are people of color. 0.98

00:38:08.000 Okay, here's the deal.

00:38:09.000 Again, you want to enfranchise all those people?

00:38:11.000 They can vote in Maryland, they can vote in Virginia.

00:38:12.000 I'm perfectly happy with taking the exact territory you're talking about and just handing it to Virginia or Maryland.

00:38:17.000 But you guys don't want to do that because there's an obvious game being played here.

00:38:20.000 You want two Democratic senators. 0.91

00:38:22.000 Systemic racism is just another way for Democrats to say, I want what I want and I'll call you racist if I don't get it.

00:38:27.000 Meanwhile, moderate Joe Biden, so moderate Joe Biden, he's pushing forward a massive bevy of new taxes.

00:38:36.000 He is now looking for an incredible increase on the capital gains tax.

00:38:41.000 The capital gains tax that he's now pushing drove the market really far down and open today.

00:38:47.000 The market took a look at what Joe Biden was proposing and dropped precipitously.

00:38:52.000 The market yesterday, before he announced this, was at like $34,000, the Dow Jones.

00:38:57.000 It immediately dropped all the way down to $33,700.

00:39:01.000 Okay, so he dropped about 500 points immediately upon all of that happening.

00:39:07.000 Because it turns out that Joe Biden... Joe Biden is the luckiest son of a gun.

00:39:07.000 Why?

00:39:11.000 He is so lucky.

00:39:12.000 Because he takes office after a relatively unpopular president.

00:39:16.000 He takes office amid a vaccination campaign that he did not initiate and really had nothing to do with promulgating.

00:39:23.000 And he gets to claim credit for it.

00:39:25.000 And he takes office amid a natural upswing in the economy that's going to happen because the downswing in the economy was completely artificially caused by COVID and government policy surrounding COVID.

00:39:35.000 So he gets to just float on the tsunami of economic growth that's going to happen naturally as a result of COVID ending.

00:39:42.000 So his plan is, I'm going to ride that tsunami of economic, I'm going to surf on that tsunami of economic growth, but what I'm gradually going to do is I'm just going to keep piling on depressors to the economy.

00:39:53.000 I'm going to inflate the currency.

00:39:55.000 I'm going to raise taxes tremendously.

00:39:57.000 I'm going to put in place tremendous new regulations.

00:39:59.000 And I know that the tsunami is going to raise the tides.

00:40:03.000 And so I won't get blamed for any of this because it'll take three, four years for it to materialize.

00:40:08.000 So it's great.

00:40:09.000 I can just pile as much crap on top of the economy as I want, and the economy is going to surge back so strong because it was so artificially depressed that I won't get blamed for it ever. 0.51

00:40:16.000 But that's exactly what he's doing.

00:40:19.000 According to the New York Post, Joe Biden will propose doubling the top capital gains tax rate on investments like stocks and real estate, according to a new report that sent stocks reeling on Thursday.

00:40:28.000 Get ready for Bitcoin to boom, gang.

00:40:30.000 Seriously, as a person who invests a lot in stocks and real estate, I guarantee you, if you double the capital gains tax on that, but there ain't no capital gains on Bitcoin, guess what I'm gonna buy a crapload of?

00:40:41.000 It ain't gonna be stocks and real estate.

00:40:42.000 And by the way, you know who gets hurt by that?

00:40:44.000 All the people who are not in the top tax brackets, who have invested in their 401k.

00:40:48.000 The stock market will decline.

00:40:50.000 If you tax people at twice their normal rate, do you think they will put their money there?

00:40:53.000 It means they have to outpace their gains by 50% just to make the same amount of money.

00:40:57.000 Bloomberg News reported that the new top capital gains tax rate would increase from 20% to 39.6% on income over a million bucks.

00:41:06.000 That, coupled with an existing surtax on investment income, means federal rates for investors could be as high as 43.4%.

00:41:13.000 For million-dollar earners in high-tax states who are heavily and well overrepresented in the stock market, rates on capital gains tax could wind up higher than 50%.

00:41:21.000 For New Yorkers, the capital gains tax rate could be as high as 52.2%.

00:41:25.000 For Californians, it could be 57%.

00:41:29.000 The leak of the plan prompted investors to unload stocks on Thursday.

00:41:33.000 The DJIA lost nearly 1% of its value.

00:41:37.000 The idea may be included in Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill because wrecking the stock market is infrastructure.

00:41:43.000 Everything's infrastructure.

00:41:44.000 That piece of wood I bought from Home Depot yesterday, that's infrastructure.

00:41:47.000 The infrastructure plan was expected to include capital gains, tax hikes, so they roughly match tax rates for ordinary income.

00:41:53.000 The details were not included in initial White House blueprints for this sprawling package.

00:41:56.000 Because if they had been, all of the financial gurus who've been backing Biden's plan, maybe they wouldn't have been quite so sanguine.

00:41:56.000 I wonder why.

00:42:02.000 It turns out all the corporate idiots who've been backing Joe Biden's moronic economic plans They would have been like, oh, you mean our stock's going to decline by 35%? 1.00

00:42:09.000 Yeah, we—yeah, not super into it. 0.99

00:42:14.000 Conservative advocates previously argued for capital gains taxes to be lowered by pegging gains to value into inflation, saying doing so could unleash a real estate boom by lessening the cost of large financial transactions.

00:42:25.000 Donald Trump said he didn't want to do that because it would disproportionately benefit the wealthy.

00:42:30.000 So, great.

00:42:31.000 Joe Biden is going to wreck the S&P 500.

00:42:34.000 He's going to wreck the stock market.

00:42:35.000 And this notion, by the way, that only rich people are invested in the stock market is a lie.

00:42:39.000 Disproportionately, rich people are invested in the stock market.

00:42:42.000 But a huge, more than 50% of Americans hold stocks.

00:42:46.000 And if you have a 401k, you're in the stock market too.

00:42:49.000 And guess, your 401k's gains are largely dependent on people who are in that top tax bracket investing in the stock market.

00:42:57.000 Those are the market makers.

00:42:59.000 Large institutions, hedge funds, and large investors.

00:43:03.000 Those are the market makers.

00:43:04.000 Not the guy who's on his phone with his broker investing 10 grand.

00:43:07.000 That guy's not the market maker.

00:43:10.000 And so these are ruinous taxes.

00:43:11.000 Joe Biden is pushing those.

00:43:14.000 Not only that, Joe Biden is going to pile on huge environmental regulations.

00:43:20.000 According to the New York Times, Joe Biden wants to slash emissions.

00:43:23.000 The New York Times says, success would mean a very different America.

00:43:26.000 Yeah, no kidding.

00:43:27.000 Experts say the success would require rapid sweeping changes to virtually every corner of the nation's economy, transforming the way Americans drive to work, heat their homes, and operate their factories.

00:43:36.000 In several recent studies, researchers have explored what a future America might look like if it wants to achieve Biden's new climate goal, cutting the nation's planet-warming emissions at at least 50%.

00:43:46.000 More than half of new cars and SUVs sold to dealerships would need to be powered by electricity.

00:43:49.000 Nearly all coal-fired power plants would need to be shut down.

00:43:52.000 Forests would need to expand.

00:43:53.000 The number of wind turbines and solar panels could quadruple.

00:43:56.000 It's an enormous challenge, say these experts.

00:44:00.000 And by the way, it would, of course, trigger massive blowback because it turns out that you want to radically increase the cost of living.

00:44:05.000 So this is Joe Biden's plan.

00:44:07.000 He's going to completely rejigger American life, and he will call you systemically racist if you don't go along with him.

00:44:12.000 Life gets worse, but the Democrats approach their utopian goals.

00:44:15.000 That pretty much sums up their entire program at this point.

00:44:18.000 Man, if Republicans can't push back on this, I don't know what the hell they're doing in life.

00:44:21.000 All righty.

00:44:22.000 We'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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00:44:28.000 He's got an exciting evening planned for you.

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Trashing The Cops Gets Black Americans Killed | Ep. 1242

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