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00:00:49.000Time to fight back against the left and what they have been doing to us and manipulating us, which actually is helping Donald Trump.
00:01:11.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:20.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:06.000In fact, the activist media quite often tries to mislabel us conservatives as gaslighting the country.
00:02:16.000So gaslighting, the term originated from a British play called Gaslight, which was written in 1938 and performed as Angel Street in the United States.
00:02:26.000It's been, it actually got adapted into a film in 1940 and 1944, which are both called Gaslight.
00:02:32.000And it's used quite often in psychological literature.
00:02:35.000And so the play was actually about an abusive husband who was manipulating his wife by turning down the light, which was a gaslight, every so often, every evening, incrementally, where the wife would turn to her husband and say, am I losing my mind or is it getting darker around here?
00:02:57.000And he said, yes, you are losing your mind, manipulating the victim.
00:03:02.000Venture the play ends up in his arrest.
00:03:04.000However, this term gaslighting essentially means manipulating someone or a group of people to believe something that is not true.
00:03:12.000According to psychology today, gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality.
00:03:23.000Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and sometimes cult leaders.
00:03:32.000It is done very slowly, so the victim doesn't realize how much they've been brainwashed.
00:03:37.000So here are some core characteristics of how gaslighters act.
00:03:41.000Number one, they tell total and complete blatant lies.
00:03:46.000They will lie to you with a total straight face.
00:03:49.000They do it to assert their power and their dominance over you.
00:03:53.000They know that they can't keep up with all the lies and they just have to keep double speaking, which is an Orwellian term.
00:04:00.000Now, a lot of this, especially in the political world, is because the media is complicit in the lie.
00:04:06.000They love their agenda more than the truth.
00:04:10.000A lot of members of the media see the world around them and they see it is not their job to tell you what is happening, but to try to change what is happening in the world.
00:04:46.000Their side of the aisle will protect them, even though they have no integrity at all whatsoever.
00:04:50.000Everyone moves on, and we repeat the cycle of lies again and again.
00:04:55.000Gaslighters also deny they ever said anything at all, even though you have proof.
00:05:01.000For example, quote, you know they said they would do something.
00:05:05.000You know that you heard it, but they out and out deny it.
00:05:10.000It makes you start to questioning your reality, end quote.
00:05:14.000This is very dangerous because the longer it goes on, the longer it wears you down.
00:05:20.000Joe Biden and Senator Harris have done this thousands and thousands of times in the last couple months, Joe Biden in particular.
00:05:28.000Joe Biden condemns the violence now because polling showed that he should.
00:05:33.000And we have proof of him failing to do so to condemn violence.
00:05:37.000And I'm going to complete the point altogether of how gaslighting as a tactic actually ended up being one of the major reasons as to why President Trump is in a favorable political position.
00:05:47.000How gaslighting actually is helping Donald Trump.
00:05:53.000In fact, he calls President Trump a racist, a gaslighting tactic, trying to turn down the temperature ever so slightly so you don't even realize the reality around you.
00:06:01.000Even though we know that Joe Biden was best friends with bitter segregationists, he says you cannot go to a 7-Eleven without a slight Indian accent.
00:06:09.000He said, if you are not black, you are not black if you do not vote for me, questioning someone's race if they do not vote for Joe Biden.
00:06:19.000He said on Barack Obama, quote, I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who's articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy.
00:07:59.000You see, the Soviets, they knew that when you try to infiltrate America with awful and bitter, backwards and evil Marxist ideas, they knew that the first steps took years.
00:08:11.000Then the last stretch happened all at once.
00:08:15.000I encourage you to go back to listen to our June 11th episode where we had prophecies from a KGB defector, Yuri Bezdmanov.
00:08:23.000You see, we thought socialism wrongly would never come to America.
00:08:27.000But for years, the ideas were seeded slowly, like planting a harvest in our universities, with those very same ideas Bezdmanov called useful idiots, for example, the professors.
00:08:40.000And then, of course, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Talib, Elon Omar, and the squad came all at once, gradually, then suddenly.
00:08:50.000Attribute number five of a gaslighter, their actions do not match their words.
00:08:56.000According to Psychology Today, again, says what they are saying means nothing.
00:09:06.000This is basically the entire story right now of what is happening to us politically.
00:09:12.000What is happening politically right now is you have an entire party that has decided they do not care at all whatsoever about their actions and their words correlating.
00:09:26.000The Democrat Party does not care that they say one thing and they do another.
00:09:32.000And there are so many different examples of this.
00:09:34.000The laws that they write do not actually apply to their actions.
00:09:37.000This is why the Democrats say they hate school choice, but they send their kids to private schools.
00:09:42.000This is why they say they hate guns, yet they walk around with armed guards.
00:09:46.000They say they hate border security, yet they live in gated communities.
00:09:51.000This is exactly why Pelosi got her hair done without a mask on in just the last 24 hours.
00:09:59.000And thank you to the hero that released that footage that shows Nancy Pelosi walking through the hair salon.
00:10:06.000I think we actually have a clip of this that I'm going to play for those of you watching on video.
00:10:11.000And for an audio, I will describe the clip, play tape.
00:10:18.000And as you see here, Nancy Pelosi entering, getting her hair, I guess the quite right term is blown out without a mask on.
00:10:30.000So Nancy Pelosi is very quick to say that everyone should have a national mask mandate, doesn't wear a mask indoors.
00:10:36.000Maybe she's contributing to the spread.
00:10:39.000By the way, the salon was shut down so she can get her hair treatment, but the people of San Francisco cannot.
00:10:47.000And she wasn't even supposed to be there.
00:10:49.000Meanwhile, California is literally on fire and suffering from some of the worst fires in years.
00:10:54.000California's businesses are completely suffering under the tyranny of Democrat control.
00:11:00.000But it's okay as long as her hair looks fine.
00:11:02.000No different than Lori Lightfoot justifying herself getting a haircut during the lockdown because she said her appearance means quite a lot.
00:11:13.000The salon owner, Erica Keos, said, and she shared this video for this reason, I'm sharing this because of what everyone in my industry and my city is going through right now.
00:11:56.000But Nancy Pelosi, gaslighting us, says that we need to stay closed in our country, that we need to stay locked down, that we need to be without any form of return to normalcy.
00:12:11.000But Nancy Pelosi can go back to her $7.5 million home, eat her $13 a pint ice cream, and while she says she cares for the working class of this country.
00:12:21.000It's also exactly why Andrew Cuomo can walk the streets without a mask.
00:12:25.000I think we have a picture of this as well, of Andrew Cuomo today walking the streets of New York City without a mask.
00:12:32.000Kamala Harris owns a gun, but doesn't want you to be able to.
00:12:37.000The Philadelphia mayor recently got caught eating inside, but even though it's illegal for the citizens of Philadelphia to be eating inside.
00:12:46.000Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot vacationed in Maine in the last couple days while her city continues to burn.
00:12:57.000Meanwhile, in just the last week, seven people have been shot and killed, 40 shot and wounded in Chicago and 47 total shot.
00:13:03.000Where in Democrat-controlled Chicago, where the last time there was a Republican elected to the mayor's office in 1931, we have 476 people shot and killed, 2,337 shot and wounded, and 2,813 people total shot with 519 total homicides in my hometown of Chicago.
00:13:24.000But Lori Lightfoot is perfectly okay vacationing in Maine while her city burns, mandating that police do 12 hours on and 12 hours off, cutting their time off, and but she has to go take care of her mental health by going to Maine, while also saying that she supports the right to protesting, but then she arrests people that dare go on her street because she needs her rest.
00:13:50.000Now, this right here is Governor Cuomo walking the streets of New York City with no mask on with his dog, while the other citizens have to wear the masks.
00:14:00.000Rules for you, but not for me, I guess is the best way to say it.
00:14:05.000Boy, is that just picture just a perfect embodiment of that?
00:14:08.000Yet he's the one that says that you must wear a mask at every single facet and square inch of the state of New York.
00:14:17.000Masks for thee, but not for me is the best way to say it.
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00:15:40.000Remember, the Democrats quoted our founding fathers.
00:15:43.000They paid homage to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
00:15:47.000But they say they want to reimagine America and absolutely and fundamentally transform it.
00:15:53.000By the way, I could go through example after example of Democrats saying one thing and living another.
00:15:59.000Whether it be Elizabeth Warren saying she hates school choice and hate private schools, yet she sent her kids to private schools.
00:16:06.000Whether it be Bernie Sanders saying that he wants to basically eradicate private property in our time, or Bernie Sanders saying that he wants to have Medicare for all, or Bernie Sanders saying that he wants to have a socialist takeover of our country while he charges money for his book while he flies around in private jets, or Barack Obama and Michelle Obama saying that diversity is our strength, yet they live in Martha's Vineyard, which is one of the least diverse places on the planet.
00:16:36.000Why don't Barack Obama and Michelle Obama live in the south of Chicago?
00:17:14.000They don't respect us, the sovereign, the people.
00:17:18.000They are so willing to defy their own publicly stated positions that they know they will never be voted out of office, no matter what they do.
00:17:28.000The same to be said for the activist media that goes around trying to enforce everyone to wear masks, why they themselves, including head of the White House Correspondents Association, was not wearing a mask at the event that I was at this last Thursday on the White House lawn where the president accepted the Republican nomination.
00:17:50.000The Democrats will always advocate for policies and positions that they themselves do not want to live under.
00:17:56.000A conservative, as you can see my shirt here, which will be for sale very soon, you guys can check out tpusa.com/slash store, tpusa.com/slash store to check out these amazing shirts and swag that we have at Turning Point USA.
00:18:10.000But this one's not yet for sale, so this is an exclusive viewing of the new merch that we have at Turning Point USA.
00:18:19.000But we as conservatives will never advocate for a singular position that we ourselves will not live under, ever.
00:18:27.000You will not find one position that I advocate for that I am not comfortable embracing and living out every single day.
00:18:35.000For example, I never want to take your guns away.
00:18:38.000I'm happy living with firearms, and I think you should be happy living with firearms.
00:18:42.000I want to one day send my children to a good school, maybe outside of a public school district, or maybe homeschool my kids.
00:18:48.000I think you should be able to do the same.
00:18:51.000I'm perfectly okay with you living in a gated community if you can afford it and you think that's the best decision for your family.
00:18:58.000And I also think that we should have border security.
00:19:00.000So I like walls in the macro and in the micro.
00:19:04.000There is not one position that conservatives have articulate that they themselves do not live out.
00:19:10.000And if they do, then actually we as conservatives hold ourselves to high enough standards to run those people out of office.
00:19:19.000I want you to imagine for a second if the minority leader Kevin McCarthy was found to be getting some form of a haircut without a mask on, national disgrace.
00:19:30.000I want you to imagine if President Donald Trump had an edict or an order saying you can't eat inside and President Trump was found eating inside of a restaurant that he closed down.
00:19:40.000I want you to imagine If Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida said that every single person needs to wear a mask outside at all times in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, and was walking the streets of those cities without a mask on, how would the media react?
00:19:56.000Because the activist media is an extension of the gaslighting Democrat Party.
00:20:01.000And we're going to get into that even deeper.
00:20:04.000The sixth attribute of the gaslighting tactics that we are seeing in the media and of the Democrats is they throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you.
00:20:14.000This person or entity that is cutting you down, telling you that you don't have value, this is from psychology today, is now praising you for something that you did.
00:20:23.000This adds an additional sense of uneasiness.
00:20:26.000You think, well, maybe they aren't so bad, but yes, they are.
00:20:29.000This is political manipulation at its finest.
00:20:32.000Republicans fall this all the time, at least before Trump came to town.
00:20:39.000It is something that served the gaslighter.
00:20:41.000This is exactly why when Senator Mike Braun said he supported the BLM incorporated movement that wants to destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family, abolish prisons, and abolish the police, I went after Senator Mike Braun harder than almost anyone else in the conservative community, probably second only to Tucker Carlson.
00:21:01.000Because we do not tolerate Republicans pandering to the gaslighters that the Republican Party is over.
00:21:08.000Republicans always seek the approval of the gaslighting left.
00:21:48.000They know that when people cannot get their aim right, they know when people cannot get clarity in their future destination, that confusion is a gateway to tyranny.
00:21:59.000They know that chaos leads to destruction.
00:22:02.000Humans' natural tendency, this is from psychology today, is to look to the person or entity that will help you feel more stable.
00:22:18.000What is happening right now in this country, when Joe Biden comes and says, Do you really think that the violence is going to get better if President Trump gets re-elected?
00:22:32.000Joe Biden and his campaign, when he says that, they are holding us hostage by saying, if you re-elect Donald Trump, we are going to throw my base and my supporters into the streets.
00:22:44.000And what you've seen in Kenosha and Portland and Seattle is just the very beginning.
00:22:49.000Many people may or may not vote for Donald Trump.
00:22:52.000They actually might not if they think that the arson is going to continue.
00:22:56.000That is not a reason not to support Donald Trump.
00:22:59.000Even though I believe that the riots soon after President Trump wins re-election, which is looking more and more likely, thanks to the gaslighters, and we're going to tell you exactly why and how.
00:23:11.000Even though I think the violence will continue because they have said it will continue and they are threatening more violence, that is not a reason not to support President Trump.
00:23:24.000This is no different than the first diehard movie, where they are holding people hostage and they're asking for demands in return.
00:23:31.000This is no different than the movie Inside Man, where a group of bank robbers are holding people hostage and asking for something in return.
00:23:41.000In some ways, they hope that we will achieve some form of Stockholm syndrome, where we will fall in love with the people that are holding us hostage.
00:23:50.000Because the gaslighting has been so blatant and so brazen in the last couple weeks and months, the gaslighting tactic has now proven to be a very dangerous one for the Democrats.
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00:25:34.000The Democrat Party is the party of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow of opposing the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment, opposing the Civil Rights Act, opposing Martin Luther King Jr.
00:25:47.000The left wants black-only dormitories today, and they wanted black-only schools in the 1960s.
00:25:53.000The left wanted black-only schools in the 1920s, and the left wanted black-only schools in the 1880s.
00:26:17.000That's why I wear the shirt conservative, because that's who we are.
00:26:21.000We care about conserving the natural rights that God gave to us as a gift, not that government gave us those rights.
00:26:30.000The left calls us the racists when they themselves are the most racist people in America.
00:26:36.000The most racist individuals in America are Governor Kate Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Senator Harris, because they judge people based on the color of their skin.
00:26:46.000We judge people on worldview and character, values, and decisions.
00:26:51.000The left says we have no respect for the rule of law when they are the ones that are actually trying to overthrow Western civilization and our most fundamental element, which is that justice is blind.
00:27:03.000If you have a picture of Lady Justice, you see that she's wearing a blindfold.
00:27:07.000The idea of blind justice is it doesn't matter about your socioeconomic level, doesn't matter about the color of your skin or your religion.
00:27:13.000You will get a fair trial, a fair hearing with a jury of your peers.
00:27:17.000This is a Christian idea that if you are innocent, you should be exonerated by a jury of your peers.
00:27:25.000If you are wrongly accused, you should have an opportunity to defend yourself.
00:27:29.000The left prefers critical race theory, which is to change the entire society in favor of BLM Incorporated, which they prefer critical race theory, which is a very, very dangerous way to try to destroy all of Western society to give an advantage to what they believe is a disadvantaged portion of American society.
00:27:57.000This is what they teach in all of our universities, is what many young people across the country are learning.
00:28:02.000And this is why they want the lawless to run free while the left continues to do whatever they want to do across the country.
00:28:20.000And for the questions that I select, you guys get a signed copy of the New York Times bestseller, The MAGA Doctrine.
00:28:27.000And for 15 random emails that email us a question right now, if you can prove you're subscribed to our show, we'll send you some of the new Turning Point USA merch, 15 random emails.
00:28:39.000Attribute number nine of gaslighters, which is what's happening right now in our country.
00:28:43.000Number nine is they try to align people against you.
00:29:13.000We as conservatives, and the great Dennis Prager articulates this phenomenally well, believe in the American Trinity, e pluribus unum in God we trust and liberty.
00:29:22.000E pluribus unum is on the presidential seal.
00:29:25.000When President Donald Trump was giving that phenomenal press conference day in Kenosha, Wisconsin, e pluribus unum was on that seal, front-facing to the world, which means it's a Latin phrase, out of many, one.
00:29:56.000I got my start walking through Zuccotti Park in the fall of 2011, and I learned more about the left in six hours of dealing with Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street Marxists than any university could have taught me about the left.
00:30:09.000Well, actually, the university probably would have taught me a lot about the left, but I learned a lot about the left in six hours when I was still a high schooler, walking Zuccotti Park in Manhattan.
00:30:18.000The second biggest movement that came up recently is the Me Too movement, turning men against women.
00:30:30.000Having men be more skeptical of women and having women hating men.
00:30:33.000The modern-day feminist movement is much more about hating men than ever empowering women.
00:30:39.000And now the most recent movement that we have seen, which is on race, the ultimate tribal identity, because Occupy Wall Street and Me Too did not have the same full-fledged transformational effect that the arsonist gaslighting left was seeking.
00:30:56.000So then they decided to launch a new organization, BLM Incorporated, which of course is a money laundering scheme designed to take white liberals' money in some form of financial atonement and some sort of guilt exercise so that they can go burn down your country.
00:31:13.000You know, it's really not that difficult.
00:31:16.000BLM raised hundreds of millions of dollars this summer, and people are wondering who's funding the destruction of these cities.
00:31:22.000People are wondering who's funding the buses and the tickets for these people to crisscross America.
00:31:28.000It's Bank of America that gave a billion dollars.
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00:33:32.000Number 10 is they tell you or others that you are crazy.
00:33:37.000The gaslighter knows if they question your sanity, people will not believe you when you tell them the gaslighter is abusive or out of control.
00:33:47.000Look at how they attacked Trump's mental fitness.
00:33:59.000When Trump says that Russia and Ukraine are hoaxes, they want you to distrust him, even though it's totally true.
00:34:05.000They want you to think that Trump is crazy, that he's insane, that he's a pathological liar, even though they are the ones that are gaslighting and lying for a living.
00:34:15.000When President Trump says that mail-in voting is going to result in widespread fraud, they want to say, oh no, you're nuts for believing that, even though you can see in real time how pathological that belief is.
00:34:27.000And they try to say that you're dumb, that you're deplorable.
00:35:02.000This is the work of a master gaslighter, someone who's had 47 years to exploit and gaslight Americans.
00:35:08.000We have a full list of all the mayoral positions of how long it has been since a Republican has become mayor in these cities.
00:35:17.000There's not been a Republican mayor of Atlanta since the 1800s, not a Republican mayor of Chicago since 1931.
00:35:23.000And yet they're trying to say it's Donald Trump's fault that the Democrats have created the hundreds of thousands of black and Hispanic deaths in our cities.
00:35:33.000Last time there was a Republican mayor of Atlanta, 1879, Chicago, 1931, Baltimore, 1967, Detroit, 1962, New Orleans, 1872, Pittsburgh, 1934, Seattle, 1946, Philadelphia, 1952.
00:35:46.000Yet, somehow it's Donald Trump's fault who's only been there for three years when it's nothing but Democrats and Antifa and left-wingers burning down America.
00:35:54.000Attribute number 11 of a gaslighter is they tell you everyone else is a liar.
00:35:59.000By telling you that everyone else, your family and the media is a liar, it again makes you question your reality.
00:36:04.000If you think that a spike in crime is bad, the left says, Well, yeah, can you believe that conservatives are behind all that racism and BLM is peacefully protesting?
00:36:13.000I want to get this Ted Wheeler clip going, who is the mayor of Portland?
00:36:19.000I think he's being held hostage by the radical left in his city.
00:36:25.000President Trump, for four years, we've had to live with you and your racist attacks on black people.
00:36:33.000Do you seriously wonder, Mr. President, why this is the first time in decades that America has seen this level of violence?
00:36:42.000What America needs is for you to be stopped so that we can come back together as one America.
00:36:49.000So I'm going to do the work that I need to do here in my local community with my local officials to take accountability for what's happening on our streets.
00:36:58.000And I'd appreciate that either the president support us or he stayed the hell out of the way.
00:37:03.000So as you saw there and heard there clearly, he says we need to get rid of Trump so we can come back together as a community where he is blaming President Trump on the perpetual violence that's happening in Portland.
00:37:16.000President Trump wins an election, offers federal help, and your left-wing base decides to burn down your city and it's the president's fault.
00:37:24.000Only the left could believe something so gaslightingly untrue.
00:37:30.000So here's how it all comes together, where this actually is now benefiting President Trump.
00:37:37.000So for the entire summer, we were told by the media that these were all peaceful protests.
00:37:45.000For the summer, we were actually trying to call out the riot and the arson and the looting.
00:37:50.000We sent a film crew into Chaz in Seattle.
00:37:53.000We were told that this was mostly peaceful protesting.
00:37:56.000This is all until Don Lemon came out last Thursday and said, this is showing up in the polling.
00:38:02.000We actually don't care about the country burning.
00:38:04.000We just care about this might actually prevent us from getting power.
00:38:18.000And we have a clip of a CNN journalist saying it's a mostly peaceful protest as the entire city is burning behind him.
00:38:26.000This is a great example of the gaslighting that happened before the Democrats realized the polling deficit happening in front of them play tape.
00:38:34.000What you're seeing behind me is one of multiple locations that have been burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the course of the night.
00:38:41.000A second night since Jacob Blake was seen shot in the back seven times by a police officer.
00:38:48.000And what you are seeing now, these images came and come in stark contrast to what we saw over the course of the daytime hours in Kenosha and into the early evening, which were largely peaceful demonstrations in the face of law enforcement.
00:39:02.000It wasn't until night fell that things began to get a little bit more contentious.
00:39:07.000Police started using some of those crowd dispersal tactics like tear gas, even playing very loud sounds to push them out.
00:39:15.000And then what you were seeing, the common theme that ties all of this together is an expression of anger and frustration over what people feel like has become an all-too-familiar story playing out in places from across the country, not just here in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:40:04.000All these sorts of tactics of the left.
00:40:05.000They project, even though they're the ones doing the rioting.
00:40:08.000As soon as Don Lemon and the merchants of chaos at CNN recognized and realized that the people of America were not buying the gaslighting.
00:40:20.000So here's what ended up happening is that the media, and that clip embodies it perfectly, instead of gaslighting slowly and going down one little interval every evening, as what happened in the play Gaslight, the media turned the lights off altogether.
00:40:36.000And then basically us being in an abusive relationship with the media and the Democrat Party, we said, why is it all so dark all of a sudden?
00:40:45.000No, I actually just saw you turn off the lights.
00:40:47.000So they did gaslighting with very little patience.
00:40:50.000And they also did it while their entire cities are burning around the citizens they claim to represent.
00:40:56.000And so as soon as it actually started to materially show up to interrupt and prevent or threat their political future, they now start to gaslight again.
00:41:10.000So now they are gaslighting to try to fix an issue that gaslighting created.
00:41:15.000You see, if the Democrats and the media would not have gaslit in early July, I could make the argument that President Donald Trump would be in a very significant polling deficit right now.
00:41:26.000You see, the gaslighters gave President Donald Trump an opening because of the Democrats' commitment to tell lies, because of the Democrats' commitment to mislead you and to try to say it's mostly peaceful protesters, because remember, the Democrats will pander to the most extreme voices of their base no matter what, because they're in an unhealthy, abusive relationship with the Bolsheviks in their party.
00:41:49.000Therefore, the media was being held hostage by this entire coalition of activists and journalists, I put in quotes, journalists, that were saying, no, it's just mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful.
00:42:02.000And because of that, decent and reasonable people that had their businesses burnt down, that had their friends' restaurants completely looted, or the watch repair shops in downtown Chicago, like Wabash, watch repair, Muhammad Ashik in this country 42 years, paid his taxes, BLM Incorporated comes and steals all of his stuff.
00:42:20.000You combine all that together, and then the people have real dissension for the party that is gaslighting them.
00:42:29.000They have real anger, and they immediately retreat to the pro-police party instantaneously.
00:42:36.000So now the Democrats are trying to correct what they realize they're regretting something.
00:42:40.000Joe Biden, Senator Harris, and the Democrats are regretting they did not denounce the violence earlier.
00:43:02.000He literally just came off his plane for 12 minutes and said violence is bad and then went on his jet again.
00:43:07.000And so what ends up happening now is the people that are a lot smarter than you might think.
00:43:14.000We did elect Donald Trump, by the way, back in 2016, a lot smarter than you might think, woke up to the pathological propaganda campaign being put forth by the bitter most radical elements of our society, and the polling started to reflect it.
00:43:29.000Since the polling started to reflect it, the Democrats pivoted, and now they're trying to gaslight again.
00:43:35.000So now they're gaslighting again by doing what I mentioned earlier, where they said, does anyone believe that there'll be less violence in America if Donald Trump is re-elected, holding us hostage?
00:43:43.000This is a hostage situation that we're in with the Democrat Party.
00:43:46.000And so then Joe Biden, and this is a better argument for the Democrats.
00:43:50.000This is an argument the Democrats should have made in early August because it sounds good, even though it isn't good.
00:43:56.000I think that it's superficially more difficult for those of us that support President Trump and law and order to debate against.
00:44:03.000And I'm just being a fair observer here.
00:44:05.000If the Democrats would have done this throughout July and August, they very well might have put President Trump in an impossible polling deficit to overcome.
00:44:14.000But because the Democrats were engaged in deceitful, arrogant tactics of gaslighting, of acting as if none of this rioting is happening, they opened a pathway for reelection over President Trump that he ran through for the entire convention, talked about what happened in Kenosha, talked about what happened in Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland.
00:44:35.000All the Democrats had to do in their convention was say that the riots are happening in Donald Trump's America, and it would have made it a much more confusing issue.
00:44:44.000I don't think that's a good argument factually.
00:44:48.000It's a bad argument if you dive into actually why the riots are happening, but at least it's addressing that the riots are happening.
00:44:55.000And that's what the Democrats refused to do for two months.
00:44:59.000They basically made, they gave us a gift as Trump supporters, where mind you, it's a difficult political environment for those of us to run in.
00:45:07.000I mean, I'm just going to be very fair and just tell it how it is.
00:45:10.000It's hard to run for reelection when you have a once in a century pandemic, which very well might have been an attack by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:45:18.000You shut down your economy and you have very, you have less than desirable employment numbers.
00:45:22.000This is a hard environment for someone to run re-election in.
00:45:25.000But all of a sudden, you're almost in a statistical tie.
00:45:27.000And the latest real clear politics voting average has President Trump down just 2.3 points in all the battleground states.
00:45:34.000I'm sorry, 2.6 points in the battleground states of moving average, which we know that there's more enthusiasm for Trump that very well would favor President Trump.
00:45:42.000Also, it shows here that the betting odds have President Donald Trump at 49% of winning and Joe Biden at 50.2%.
00:45:52.000It's a statistical tie in the betting odds market right now.
00:45:56.000And this is all because the Democrats were so convinced and they were arrogant.
00:46:02.000Man, did the Democrats not learn anything from 2016?
00:46:06.000If they would have had the humility to actually recognize what was happening in the very country that they were trying to govern, they could have delivered Donald Trump a political death blow.
00:46:15.000And I'm saying this as a friend of the president and as a Donald Trump supporter.
00:46:19.000But because of how ridiculously foolish they were in late July and early August, they completely changed this race.
00:46:26.000I flipped through MSNBC, CNN, Fox News today.
00:46:30.000All three channels were covering violence or the riots in some form or fashion.
00:46:33.000Bill Stepian, who's doing a great job as campaign manager for the Trump campaign, came out and he said it perfectly today.
00:46:39.000He said, you want to be talking about the issues you want to be talking about.
00:46:41.000Do you think Joe Biden really wants a referendum on riots right now?
00:46:45.000But Joe Biden could have put this issue to bed very quickly, where now you have people like Vicki Osterweil coming out with books that's called The Case for Looting.
00:46:54.000We covered that extensively in our episode yesterday, the Charlie Kirk show.
00:47:06.000And it's harder for those of us that are Trump supporters to talk about it because it's just like drive-by bumper sticker type stuff, but it's so easily defeated with like one sentence of facts or cross-examination.
00:47:18.000But it says this, and I'll repeat it: Does anyone believe there'll be less violence in America if Donald Trump is re-elected?
00:47:23.000Okay, so basically, he's holding us hostage.
00:47:25.000But then he says, Donald Trump's keep telling us if he was president, you'd feel safe.
00:47:28.000Well, he is president, whether he knows it or not.
00:47:30.000Well, first of all, President Donald Trump has offered National Guard support to every single one of these cities that is burning.
00:47:34.000And this is why President Donald Trump was brilliant in his visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin today.
00:47:39.000This is why President Donald Trump was brilliant because he treated it like a victory lap, not as a complaining tour.
00:47:45.000He said, I brought in the National Guard, we brought down the riots, we restored law and order.
00:47:50.000Look at this 109-year-old photoshop that was burned down to the ground because of Joe Biden supporters.
00:47:58.000Whereas Joe Biden very well is trying to confuse the American population, he could have done this when he was leading by 12 points in the polls.
00:48:05.000Now that Joe Biden is gaslighting, he has lost so much respect and his party has lost respect on this issue.
00:48:10.000They're trying to make up ground in time that they know their internal polling is blowing up in front of them.
00:48:17.000Because the Democrats are so supportive of the arson of America, because that is their base and they were afraid to offend it.
00:48:53.000That's what happened in the month of August.
00:48:55.000With an awful convention for the Democrats and a phenomenal convention for Trump, we went from a race that seemed unwinnable for Donald Trump to a race that looks like the betting odds are about to go in President Trump's favor in real time.
00:49:08.000And if President Donald Trump continues to dominate daytime television like he did in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and he did last night on cable, primetime television with Laura Ingram, and Joe Biden does his little drive-by 12-minute deal.
00:49:20.000Meanwhile, they have Vice President Pence with Brett Baer, that's a hard campaign to run up against.
00:49:49.000As long as President Trump is the party of normalcy, stability, people actually kind of want their lives back right now.
00:49:56.000And President Donald Trump can make the argument that it's because of the Joe Biden voters, these are the Biden riots, that this is all happening.
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00:50:52.000That is probably better suited for a psychologist.
00:50:54.000But since we went through psychology today and we went through all the steps that lead to gaslighting in our country and in relationships, I'm going to talk more about the country.
00:51:03.000I'm not going to talk so much about the relational side of it, but I could tell you at least for people that I have dealt with that are gaslighters, you confront them directly, you get your words right, you look at them in the eyes, and you communicate clearly about how they're manipulating you, about how they're deceiving you, and you get the facts straight.
00:51:19.000Bullies and people that lie do not like to be confronted.
00:51:22.000That's why the Democrat Party and the activist media hates Donald Trump so much, because he actually confronts them for the first time.
00:51:28.000He actually looks at them clearly and honestly and says, you guys have been deceiving tens of millions of people professionally for the last couple decades.
00:52:30.000But I actually think that people can see in that one instance what happens when lawlessness allows to reign on the streets.
00:52:41.000Kyle Rittenhouse, I'm not going to say he did nothing wrong.
00:52:43.000I think that's a wrong way to put it, but he did not commit first-degree murder and he should not go to jail for the rest of his life.
00:52:49.000He should get a misdemeanor felony for illegally owning a firearm under the age of 18, which, by the way, basically every single gangbanger in Chicago owns a firearm illegally under the age of 18, okay?
00:52:59.000So that's not exactly a newfound criminal violation.
00:53:05.000And then he also, I think there was an unlawful discharge of a weapon.
00:53:08.000I don't think he should be charged for that.
00:53:09.000I think he should be charged for a misdemeanor felony, if that, which, by the way, would just be community service, slap on the wrist, and maybe a month in prison, not an indictment for first-degree murder.
00:53:19.000First-degree murder, it means premeditation, cause, means, and how you pull it up.
00:53:26.000His attorney's doing the right thing by defending this young man.
00:53:31.000And so while I don't agree when people say, oh, Kyle Rittenhouse did nothing wrong, look, again, I can't say that.
00:53:37.000Maybe he owned the firearm incorrectly and all that.
00:53:39.000And I'm not a huge fan, if you're 17 or 18, going and taking the R-15 and going walking the streets at night.
00:53:45.000But he should not go to jail for the rest of his life.
00:53:47.000In fact, I don't even think I support him going to jail at all, considering the misapplication of justice in this country for defending himself, for being hunted down in the streets.
00:55:25.000And then the person who filmed the video laughing and chuckling as he does it with a brick.
00:55:29.000I think that was a brick in his hand, right?
00:55:31.000Walking around with a brick in his hand or some sort of blunt force object that gave him the ability to do that.
00:55:35.000If you haven't seen the video, it's absolutely horrific.
00:55:37.000And this type of random black-on-white attack is seemingly becoming more common.
00:55:41.000The Daily Wire just reported this from August 31st: quote: A 51-year-old white male was the victim of an unprovoked stabbing at AutoZone on August 25th.
00:55:49.000The victim was in critical condition following the attack, but is now expected to recover.
00:55:52.000The suspect in the case, 19-year-old Jayvon Hachette, a black male, told police he targeted the suspect, a store employee, because of his white skin.
00:56:02.000Another example, three days before the last one, 30-year-old Steve Sinclair, according to an arrest affidavit out of Aurora, Colorado, quote, used a knife to stab 29-year-old Michael Connor, who was transported to the hospital for his injuries and a collapsed lung.
00:56:16.000Local news reported that Connor, the victim, told police that his attacker, a black man, shouted, Black Lives Matter prior to stabbing him.
00:56:24.000The Daily Wire reported, quote, Sinclair continued saying Black Lives Matter to police when they arrived, according to the first officer on the Steam scene.
00:56:31.000The officer wrote that Sinclair had his hands up and said, I stabbed him.
00:56:35.000I refused to sit down and insisted that officers should shoot him.
00:56:38.000Could you imagine if white people were hunting black people down in the streets like this?
00:56:43.000We would hear it at front page network news.
00:56:47.000And this is not to blame, you can't blame Donald Trump for this at all.
00:56:51.000Donald Trump is trying to heal America and bring America together from this.
00:56:54.000It is the left that wants a race war in this country, bitterly, totally, and categorically.
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