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00:01:45.000100% obvious that Makia Bryant was wielding a knife, and she's about to stab a girl, and a police officer shot her.
00:01:51.000And 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.
00:01:57.000They're no longer pretending that this is about bad cops.
00:02:01.000They're no longer pretending this is about cops doing bad things.
00:02:03.000They'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.
00:02:12.000This is the entire case being made by the Democrats.
00:02:14.000Now, it will get more black people killed, as we have been talking about.
00:02:17.000Since 2014, between 2014, 2019, at least one to 6,000 more people died in major cities where there were Ferguson-style BLM protests.
00:02:28.000Most of those people presumably were black.
00:02:30.000In the last year alone, 34 biggest cities in America, 30% increase in homicide.
00:02:35.000In some cities, like Milwaukee, there's like 75% increase in homicide.
00:02:40.000When you get rid of the cops, more black people die.
00:02:43.000And 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.
00:02:48.000And it turns out that the greatest preventer of people doing crime is police officers.
00:02:55.000The people who stand between you and the criminal, those are the cops.
00:02:58.000And 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.
00:03:11.000Then you still demonize them, and you treat them like garbage.
00:03:14.000And 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.
00:03:22.000In 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.
00:03:32.000You're going to see this across the country.
00:03:35.000And the people who pay for that are not people like me.
00:03:38.000I'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.
00:03:43.000It's not gonna matter for the people on CNN.
00:03:45.000It's not gonna matter for the people on MSNBC.
00:03:47.000It's not gonna matter for Ibram Kendi, who has his police protection over at Boston University Center for Anti-Racism.
00:03:53.000It'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.
00:04:00.000Not gonna matter for any of those folks.
00:04:01.000The 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.
00:04:15.000Here's how the Washington Post is covering the Makia Bryant killing.
00:04:19.000The headline, from the Washington Post, this is at the top of their page today.
00:04:23.000Makia Bryant's family remember her as loving, affectionate.
00:04:26.000She didn't even have a chance to live her life.
00:04:29.000Okay, now the headline here is that she was attempting to stab another girl with a butcher knife.
00:04:36.000It seems like that should be the headline.
00:04:38.000It turns out that all human beings are shaded.
00:04:56.000What I do know is that the cop doesn't have to know those circumstances to know it is his job to prevent the stabbing.
00:05:01.000The 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.
00:05:11.000That is the way that the media treats all of these cases.
00:05:14.000And, or, they engage in the speculative fiction in which they, as police officers, would have magical Jack Bauer-like abilities.
00:05:23.000Or they'd be like Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles, where they can just shoot the trigger fingers of bad guys.
00:05:28.000Or they can shoot guns out of people's hands.
00:05:31.000All of this is ridiculous on its face.
00:05:34.000Now, 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.
00:05:47.000We now have another angle on the Makiya Bryant shooting.
00:05:50.000This angle shows that Makiya Bryant is lunging at another woman with a knife and people are shouting about it.
00:06:23.000She yells, I'm gonna effing kill you as the cop attempts to de-escalate.
00:06:28.000Is there possibly better evidence that the cop did the right thing here?
00:06:32.000Okay, 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.
00:06:43.000Everything is attributable to the system because the goal here is not to make life better for people.
00:06:47.000The goal here is to tear down the systems.
00:06:49.000The 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.
00:07:00.000America is an incredible place for black people to live.
00:07:03.000It is better than virtually all other places on planet Earth.
00:07:07.000By polling data, America is one of the least racist countries on Earth.
00:07:10.000Black household income is higher in the United States than it is anywhere else on planet Earth.
00:07:16.000This notion that America is some sort of hellscape for black Americans compared with other countries on Earth is completely evidence-free.
00:07:24.000That 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.
00:07:35.000As I talked about a little bit earlier this week, this is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:07:58.000Makia Bryant beams at her mother in a TikTok clip then throws her arms around her neck.
00:08:01.000As 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.
00:08:10.000It's an intimate moment between mother and daughter, who are working hard to reunite after Bryant was placed in foster care, family members said.
00:08:16.000They had a close bond, said Don Bryant, a cousin of Makia's mother.
00:08:19.000Makia was just an all-around good person.
00:08:22.000On 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.
00:08:28.000Body 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.
00:08:38.000On Thursday, family members struggled to make sense of the killing, at least the third fatal shooting by Columbus police this year.
00:08:43.000Okay, but how many of those were justified?
00:08:44.000Do we have the details on any of those?
00:08:46.000Because this one was a justified shoot.
00:08:47.000Don Bryant said he had a hard time recognizing the teen seen in the police video lunging at others.
00:08:51.000He doesn't condone any violence, but called the officer's decision to open fire disproportionate.
00:08:56.000There are other disengagement techniques police could have used here.
00:08:59.000You don't understand what happened here?
00:09:01.000I mean, it seems pretty clear what happened here since it's, you know, on tape from several different angles.
00:09:05.000I understood their moves, their tactics, what they do.
00:09:06.000I just don't understand what happened here.
00:09:09.000You don't understand what happened here?
00:09:11.000I mean, it seems pretty clear what happened here since it's on tape from several different angles.
00:09:15.000The entire media coverage here is angled toward ignoring the actual circumstances of the case.
00:09:25.000Officials identified the officer who fired the shots as Nicholas Reardon and said he had been taken off street duty while the investigation proceeds.
00:09:31.000Reardon, 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.
00:09:41.000When Ted Reardon retired last year, the department posted a tribute video.
00:09:46.000Nicholas Reardon was a high school wrestler at Columbus' Bishop Watterson High School.
00:09:49.000The wrestling team's Twitter feed showed him posing with his dad as a senior in 2016.
00:09:54.000Okay, 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.
00:10:11.000But I'll tell you what it really was emblematic of, more than anything else.
00:10:14.000How many of these cases are parents really deeply involved with the people who end up shot by the police?
00:10:20.000Seriously, are we allowed to ask that question?
00:10:24.000Because we have on tape Ma'Khia Bryant's mother giving tearful interviews.
00:10:28.000But Ma'Khia Bryant was in a foster home when she attacked another girl with a knife.
00:10:32.000Where was Ma'Khia Bryant's mother then?
00:10:33.000Here's Ma'Khia Bryant's mother on CNN.
00:10:36.000My heart is really broken right now because I miss my baby, to be honest.
00:11:37.000You want to talk about alleviating problems?
00:11:38.000Why 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?
00:12:22.000Here he is on CNN with Breonna Keillor talking about how the cops should never have done this.
00:12:30.000When 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?
00:12:47.000Would the police officer have sought to talk her down?
00:12:50.000Would the police officer have used lethal force?
00:12:54.000And 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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00:14:09.000sleep.com slash ben get up to 200 bucks off your mattress order at helix sleep.com slash ben okay so everyone kenny says a few things there one he suggests that if the police officers showed up they would try to talk down a white girl who's doing this to another white girl in an upper income neighborhood okay now notice how he adds in upper income neighborhood this wasn't an upper income neighborhood right this is a pretty obviously lower income neighborhood the income the class gap does matter here a little bit which i'll explain in a second but
00:14:37.000The notion that a police officer even would have had time to talk to Makia Bryant belies the facts.
00:15:17.000Number two, the broader question that Ibram Kendi is asking is wrong.
00:15:22.000The question is not, would a police officer have shot an upper income white person doing this to another upper income white person?
00:15:27.000The 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.
00:15:33.000The real question is, in what neighborhoods are these crimes tending to take place?
00:15:38.000And what sort of cultural decisions have to be made to stop those crimes from taking place in the first place?
00:15:43.000Because 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.
00:15:50.000This 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.
00:16:02.000That doesn't mean that race has anything to do with your criminal level of activity.
00:16:06.000It does mean that crime is not equally distributed per capita among the races.
00:16:12.000White people commit more crimes than Asian people per capita.
00:16:15.000Hispanic people commit more crimes than white people and Asian people per capita.
00:16:19.000And black folks commit more violent crimes per capita than Hispanic folks and white folks and Asian folks.
00:16:27.000That's not racist, and that has nothing to say about race as the causative factor, because race isn't the causative factor.
00:16:32.000But 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?
00:16:49.000This is the case that Thomas Sowell makes.
00:16:50.000He 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.
00:17:03.000Okay, 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.
00:17:12.000That 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.
00:17:24.000Meanwhile, you have Ilhan Omar doing the same routine.
00:17:26.000She was speaking at the funeral of Daunte Wright.
00:17:30.000Again, if you believe that these things aren't political, you gotta wonder.
00:17:32.000I mean, Ilhan Omar is not, as far as I'm aware, was not friends with the Daunte Wright family or with Daunte Wright.
00:17:41.000I'm unaware of any prior relationship.
00:17:43.000She's a congresswoman who showed up to rip on America and suggest that the police department in her city is endemically racist.
00:17:51.000Again, based on no evidence, because the Daunte Wright shooting is not a racist shooting.
00:17:56.000The 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.
00:18:04.000It is the clearest case of accident using a taser, using a gun instead of a taser.
00:18:08.000that 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.
00:18:29.000So here's Ilhan Omar doing that routine.
00:18:31.000Joyce Beatty was going to be here and speak on our behalf as the chairwoman of our caucus.
00:18:38.000But 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.
00:18:56.000Why don't you just miss the entire story there?
00:19:00.000Joy 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.
00:19:26.000It'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.
00:19:31.000Here's Joy Reid on MSNBC, creating the hard bigotry of no expectations.
00:19:36.000As you look at the circumstances of this, can you just walk us through how police should act in a case like this?
00:19:45.000Because, 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.
00:19:57.000So, what do you make of the, what, 10, 20 seconds this officer took before he opened fire on this little girl?
00:20:10.000Now, 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.
00:20:21.000Juan Williams has his own take on this.
00:20:31.000Well, 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.
00:20:41.000You would shoot the gun in the air, like a warning shot?
00:20:46.000Well, 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.
00:20:54.000I mean, taking someone's life is pretty strong.
00:21:08.000He would have frozen time and he would have stopped Makia Bryant.
00:21:11.000Okay, all of this is not designed to save black lives.
00:21:15.000All 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.
00:21:24.000Good news is that our politicians don't care at all.
00:21:26.000Democratic politicians do not care at all.
00:21:29.000Okay, 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.
00:21:39.000He's tweeted out, MaKia Bryant was only 16 years old, killed by police yesterday.
00:21:43.000She deserves justice and accountability.
00:21:45.000We must reform this deeply broken system.
00:22:02.000It'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.
00:22:08.000The 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.
00:22:16.000The predictable effect of this will be less policing.
00:22:19.000In Berkeley, the mayor is saying that they're actually ending low-level traffic stops in order to reduce racial disparities.
00:22:37.000Berkeley'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.
00:22:49.000So 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.
00:23:06.000I think this is smart policing and also will reduce racial disparities.
00:23:10.000So 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.
00:23:17.000Really, man, it would reduce the racial disparities in the crime statistics.
00:23:22.000Because, unfortunately, a disproportionate number of murders in the United States are committed by young black men.
00:23:25.000So, 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.
00:23:32.000That seems like the best way to handle all of this.
00:23:35.000That is just a genius way of handling crime there, from Jesse Aragorn.
00:23:39.000We're going to look to the statistical outcome of arrests, not who commits the crimes.
00:23:45.000We'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.
00:23:52.000By the way, this is what's been happening all over California already.
00:23:55.000And the police have already stopped enforcing the law at a low level, and you've seen cities just collapse.
00:24:00.000I mean, San Francisco is a trash heap.
00:24:02.000is a trash heap, and it's gonna get a whole hell of a lot worse.
00:24:09.000You're about to see an outflow from big cities like you've never seen.
00:24:12.000And 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.
00:24:24.000Well, I can think of two things that are very systemically racist, that are being pushed by the media and the Democrats.
00:24:28.000One 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.
00:24:36.000And two is, why don't we remove the cops from black neighborhoods, make it impossible for them to police?
00:24:42.000That is a policy specifically designed at allowing black people to die.
00:24:46.000But the media don't care and the Democrats don't care.
00:24:48.000Because, of course, the idea is all the institutions of America are just like the police.
00:25:17.000What, she thinks there were no police before the Civil War?
00:25:20.000She thinks that policing now is the same as slav- See, here's the thing about slave patrols.
00:25:25.000Note to the de facto editor of the New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones.
00:25:28.000The thing about slave patrols is that was a group of evil people rounding up innocent black people who are wrongfully enslaved.
00:25:35.000The police today are rounding up people who are committing acts of criminal activity.
00:25:38.000If 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.
00:25:50.000But we already know that Nikole Hannah-Jones is a moral idiot, so that's not a big shock.
00:25:53.000Now, 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.
00:26:00.000The beauty of the term systemically racist, it's like the term social justice.
00:26:03.000When you say some of these terms, people only hear one of the operative words.
00:26:08.000So when you say systemic justice, people just hear justice.
00:26:55.000Once you add systemic, you have now transformed the entire argument.
00:26:58.000Because now the argument is not that somebody is discriminating against somebody else based on the color of their skin.
00:27:05.000Now you're arguing you don't have to show any evidence of that.
00:27:08.000Any 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.
00:27:18.000The system itself is racist, which means it must be torn down.
00:27:20.000You're just using the word racist To modify what is the actual operative word.
00:27:25.000For the left, the actual operative word is always the first word.
00:27:49.000Now, 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.
00:27:53.000its 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?
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00:31:35.000Alrighty, 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.
00:31:52.000So, constitutionally speaking, there has to be a federal district.
00:31:55.000That federal district has historically been Washington, D.C.
00:31:57.000And there are lots of people who live within Washington, D.C.
00:31:59.000So 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.
00:32:07.000And 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.
00:32:50.000Okay, that's exactly what they're doing.
00:32:52.000They'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.
00:33:08.000district was designed specifically to be a federal district.
00:33:11.000If 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.
00:33:19.000But that's not what Democrats are doing.
00:33:21.000And they have a rationale for why you must not oppose them.
00:33:39.000was established when black people weren't even allowed to vote anywhere in the United States, essentially.
00:33:44.000So racism obviously was not the deciding factor in creating Washington, D.C.
00:33:50.000Because that terrible rule about black people not voting applied everywhere.
00:33:52.000So 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.
00:33:58.000So it wasn't about making a racist district where black people couldn't have senators.
00:34:03.000And now you're trying to retcon the entire story in order to make it an outgrowth of racial animus, but it wasn't.
00:34:29.000Here's the lady who says that she's grateful that George Floyd died and thank you for your sacrifice, George.
00:34:33.000Here's Nancy Pelosi, a completely addled human being, talking about how D.C.
00:34:36.000statehood is in her DNA along with a bunch of other weird crap.
00:34:40.000District of Columbia statehood is in my DNA.
00:34:43.000This is a picture of my father and the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.
00:34:48.000It was the first time he had a hearing as the chair of the District of Columbia Appropriations Subcommittee.
00:34:56.000As 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.
00:35:36.000The whole thing was that Joe Biden was going to be a moderate, stabilizing force in America.
00:35:41.000Well, in the last week or so, we've had Joe Biden endorse a verdict in a criminal case.
00:35:45.000We'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.
00:35:51.000We've had the Biden administration try to cram down particular settlements on police departments.
00:35:58.000We've had the Biden administration trying to force religious doctors into performing transgender surgeries.
00:36:04.000Remember all the moderation that was going to happen?
00:36:29.000His view is that we areâthe 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 principlesâno 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.
00:36:56.000And 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.
00:37:05.000I 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.
00:37:15.000Probably they deserve their own state.
00:37:16.000Probably they're being deprived of their constitutional rights by the same exact argument.
00:37:31.000You don't want that because all that would mean is the same exact number of Democratic senators.
00:37:35.000Mondaire Jones, Democrat of New York, here's what he had to say about this.
00:37:37.000He says, I have had enough of my colleagues' racist insinuations that somehow the people of Washington, D.C.
00:37:43.000are incapable or even unworthy of our democracy.
00:37:45.000One Senate Republican said that the D.C.
00:37:47.000would not be a well-rounded working class state.
00:37:49.000I have no idea there were so many syllables in the word One of my House Republican colleagues said D.C.
00:37:55.000shouldn't be a state because the district doesn't have a landfill.
00:37:57.000My 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.
00:38:02.000The truth is there's no good faith argument for disenfranchising over 700,000 people, most of whom are people of color.
00:39:25.000And 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.
00:39:35.000So he gets to just float on the tsunami of economic growth that's going to happen naturally as a result of COVID ending.
00:39:42.000So 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.
00:40:09.000I 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.
00:40:19.000According 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.
00:40:30.000Seriously, 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?
00:40:41.000It ain't gonna be stocks and real estate.
00:40:42.000And by the way, you know who gets hurt by that?
00:40:44.000All the people who are not in the top tax brackets, who have invested in their 401k.
00:40:50.000If you tax people at twice their normal rate, do you think they will put their money there?
00:40:53.000It means they have to outpace their gains by 50% just to make the same amount of money.
00:40:57.000Bloomberg News reported that the new top capital gains tax rate would increase from 20% to 39.6% on income over a million bucks.
00:41:06.000That, coupled with an existing surtax on investment income, means federal rates for investors could be as high as 43.4%.
00:41:13.000For 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%.
00:41:21.000For New Yorkers, the capital gains tax rate could be as high as 52.2%.
00:42:02.000It 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%?
00:42:14.000Conservative 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.
00:42:25.000Donald Trump said he didn't want to do that because it would disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
00:43:27.000Experts 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.
00:43:36.000In 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%.
00:43:46.000More than half of new cars and SUVs sold to dealerships would need to be powered by electricity.
00:43:49.000Nearly all coal-fired power plants would need to be shut down.