The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 526 - A Majority Of Americans Say America Is Racist. They're Wrong.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a new poll finds that a majority of Americans think that our

00:00:04.120 country is systemically racist. They're wrong, of course, but what does it tell us that so many

00:00:08.640 Americans believe that? What are the implications of this? We'll talk about that. Also, five

00:00:13.460 headlines, including the continued bloodbath in Chicago, while the mayor is mainly concerned

00:00:19.180 with tweeting about Donald Trump, and the left's latest discovery that BMI, which is the Body

00:00:25.900 Mass Index, which tells us whether people are fat or not. Turns out that's racist. Yeah, and I'll

00:00:32.220 tell you why. In our daily cancellation, I will be canceling the Trump campaign. May not be the

00:00:37.840 most ideal time to be canceling the Trump campaign, but I have a good reason, and I'll explain that as

00:00:42.340 well. All of that coming up, but starting here, there's a poll from the Wall Street Journal and

00:00:46.580 NBC that's getting a lot of attention. It finds that a majority of Americans, including white

00:00:50.660 Americans, believe that American society is racist, is fundamentally, inherently racist.

00:00:57.220 And this, I believe, is the largest number that we've ever seen in these polls. Here's a look at

00:01:02.480 some of the graphs. So 56% say American society is racist, significantly more women than men,

00:01:10.100 but almost half of men, 51%, or almost half of men, and 51% of whites believe this, 78% of blacks,

00:01:19.220 82% of Democrats, not surprised there, 30% of Republicans, which is actually quite high. Now,

00:01:25.400 I'm not surprised by that either, but that's quite high. 45% of independents, and then if you look at

00:01:32.000 who exactly is supposed to be the target of this racism, the majority, very sizable majority, say

00:01:38.460 that black people are the ones being discriminated against, also Hispanic, fewer would say Asian,

00:01:45.140 and then it looks to be a little less than 15%, I don't know, 12% or 13% say whites are the ones

00:01:51.840 discriminated against. Now, I want to talk about this and talk about what it means, but let me read

00:01:57.620 a little bit from the NBC report on this, because it has more information. And I mean, it goes without

00:02:03.080 saying, of course, that the reporting here is wildly biased, but here's what it says.

00:02:09.260 Amid a moment of national reckoning on racial issues and the mourning of one of country's most

00:02:14.960 revered civil rights leaders, new members from the NBC News slash Wall Street Journal poll

00:02:20.140 show, or numbers I should say, show that American voters have become significantly more aware of

00:02:26.500 racial discrimination and more sympathetic to those protesting to end it, even as the country

00:02:31.660 remains deeply divided over the prevalence of bigotry and its root causes. Okay, notice

00:02:35.440 the bias being worn right on the sleeve here, which is where I prefer for the bias to be worn. I think

00:02:42.180 it's less dangerous when you're just upfront and obvious with it. This is the organization that

00:02:47.500 conducted the poll, but they don't say Americans think our country is racist. Americans believe our

00:02:58.560 country is racist. Now, they say Americans are becoming aware that our country is racist. In other

00:03:03.860 words, America is definitely racist, says NBC, but now those dumb Americans are finally catching on. 1.00

00:03:10.880 That's the way they're framing this. The poll finds that voters in America are now more likely to say 0.99

00:03:15.500 that people of color experience discrimination to describe athletes kneeling in protest of racial

00:03:19.760 inequality as appropriate, to view the Black Lives Matter movement as a positive force, and to support 0.97

00:03:25.700 the removal of Confederate monuments in public spaces. The poll found that a majority of Americans,

00:03:31.740 56 percent, say American society is racist. We already went over that. That share is almost

00:03:36.600 unchanged since the Associated Press found 55 percent of voters saying American society is racist in a

00:03:42.700 July 1988 survey. So we're supposed to believe over 30 years, what, there's been no progress? Not only is

00:03:50.300 America still racist, but there's been no progress in terms of defeating racism, even after having a 0.93

00:03:56.520 black president for eight years. No progress. We're still exactly where we were before. 0.99

00:04:03.560 2008, just 28 percent of voters said the black Americans are discriminated against, while 51 percent

00:04:09.540 said they are treated fairly. But in this latest poll, the share who believe black Americans experience

00:04:16.120 discrimination has jumped to 59 percent. And then for the first time, the poll also asked the same

00:04:23.960 battery of questions about the treatment of white Americans. About 3 in 10 voters overall say that

00:04:28.000 white people receive too many special privileges, while 53 percent say white Americans are treated

00:04:33.300 fairly, and 15 percent say they experience, those being white people, experience discrimination.

00:04:39.060 Now you notice, another thing to notice, how confused the poll respondents are.

00:04:45.100 Nobody has any idea what they're talking about here, or what they think.

00:04:48.700 It's not just they don't have any idea what they're talking about, they don't even know what they think.

00:04:52.060 Because what we take from this is that a large number of people, apparently,

00:04:57.540 who think that American society is racist in favor of white people, also don't think that white people

00:05:05.040 receive any special privileges. The number of people who think that white people receive special

00:05:09.380 privileges is only 30 percent. Only 30 percent say whites are specially privileged, while over 50 percent,

00:05:16.320 56 percent, was it, say America is racist. You see the disconnect here. There's 26 percent missing.

00:05:24.860 If America is racist against black people, then we should see that white people receive benefits 1.00

00:05:30.500 that black people don't. That would seem to be a necessary aspect of systemic racism. That, in fact, 0.97

00:05:37.560 would be, should be one of the ways that you know systemic racism exists. That should be one of the

00:05:42.840 symptoms, one of the indicators. Yet some of the people, it seems like a large number of people

00:05:49.640 who think that America is racist against blacks, don't think that this benefits whites in any way.

00:05:55.880 So it's totally confused. All you have to do is reframe the racism question slightly,

00:06:02.720 and you get a radically different answer. And what that shows you is people, again, it's not just that

00:06:10.900 they don't know what they're talking about, although they don't. They don't even know what they really

00:06:15.460 think about these issues. We also know that from what it said before. You look at that ridiculous jump

00:06:22.500 from 2008. 28 percent of voters said that black Americans are discriminated against in 2008. 0.95

00:06:28.120 12 years later, 59 percent. Okay? The number has doubled in 12 years. What happened in the last

00:06:42.980 12 years? I mean, if you didn't think that black Americans were discriminated against on a systemic

00:06:49.740 level in 2008, why would you think it now? What evidence can you marshal? I mean, another way of

00:06:58.320 putting it, what actual evidence, if you are in that number, the 30 percent of people or so who did

00:07:09.280 think that we were systemically racist in 2008, but now you think we are, what evidence did you stumble

00:07:16.020 upon in the last 12 years that changed your mind? Well, I already know the answer to that question.

00:07:21.660 I'll tell you what the evidence is. A small smattering of high-profile cases of black people

00:07:30.100 being killed by the cops. That's it. I mean, that's your evidence. And also, you know, just the chaos in 0.80

00:07:35.860 the streets. And it's the other, I think maybe even more than that, the evidence that probably has

00:07:41.340 swayed you is just a lot of people screaming in your face, insisting that America is racist. And

00:07:47.260 finally, you got beaten down and said, okay, fine, it is. And that was enough for you. If I'm wrong,

00:07:53.440 and if there's some other evidence that you came across, some real evidence of systemic racism

00:07:57.700 that changed your mind, then tell me what it is. I don't think you can present it because I don't

00:08:02.000 think it exists. Let's see. Back to the article says, despite the increased recognition of

00:08:11.700 discrimination faced by racial minorities, there it is again, increased recognition of

00:08:15.840 discrimination. The country remains deeply divided on the root causes of racism. 46% of voters say that

00:08:22.880 racism is built into the American society, including into the country's policies and institutions,

00:08:30.380 while 44% say racism is perpetrated only by individuals who hold racist views. Okay.

00:08:36.620 A few things to be said here. Before I say those, though, I want to take a step aside for a minute

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00:10:09.760 systemically racist. First of all, America is not systemically racist against black people.

00:10:13.640 That's a myth. I've already explained why it's a myth. I provided the evidence. I'm not going to go

00:10:17.540 into it again. You can go back and watch the shows where I've talked about it. You can read the pieces

00:10:22.100 that I've written or that many other people have written addressing this claim. There is no evidence

00:10:27.480 to support the systemic racism claim. And some anecdotes that you have, that's not evidence.

00:10:33.640 anecdotes to include high profile, very rare cases of black people being killed by the cops,

00:10:41.000 especially when you consider that in many of those cases, like the Rashard Brooks case, for example,

00:10:46.080 the guy at the Wendy's in Atlanta, or you go all the way back to one of the, you know, one of the

00:10:51.540 first in this, at least in the BLM age of Michael Brown, really the one that started it all. In those

00:10:58.220 cases, not only is that anecdotal, but actually the shooting was entirely justified. So of, you know,

00:11:06.220 how many high profile cases of unjustified police shootings have there been in the last five years?

00:11:15.660 A few. There's been a few. That doesn't prove anything about systemic racism. It doesn't even

00:11:21.380 come close to it. I'm afraid to tell you, especially because as has been pointed out many times by now,

00:11:28.220 we could also come up with even more examples of unjustified shootings of white people. Not high

00:11:34.760 profile because nobody cares, but they are happening. Okay. In fact, the only example of

00:11:40.580 explicit, official, systemic, state-sanctioned, or even state-mandated racism that I can think of,

00:11:48.560 and again, if you could think of a different one, let me know. The only one I can think of right now

00:11:52.580 is affirmative action. There you have policies that explicitly discriminate against certain groups.

00:12:01.420 They discriminate against whites and also, especially white men and also Asians.

00:12:07.240 So that is explicit, systemic discrimination. There's an example. Now, if you've got something

00:12:15.880 like that, explicit, state-mandated, or sanctioned, official, systemic discrimination written into a policy,

00:12:27.120 if you have an example like that which targets black Americans, then let me know what it is.

00:12:33.180 But I don't think you do have an example or can provide one.

00:12:37.520 The main thing we should take from this, I think, and keeping in mind that polls can only be trusted

00:12:41.880 so much, and also the groups conducting it are clearly biased, and also polls exist mostly to

00:12:47.380 shape public opinion rather than to gauge it. But even so, all that in mind, I don't doubt the

00:12:53.180 basic thrust here, that an increasing number of Americans think America is racist, and that number,

00:12:58.100 whatever it is, is probably over 50%. I buy that. So what we take from that, first of all,

00:13:05.280 the conservative case cannot win, cannot prevail in a culture that sees itself as racist.

00:13:17.660 There is no such thing as a conservatism that also buys into or even entertains this idea of

00:13:30.140 systemic racism. And I'll tell you why. Because conservatism is supposed to be about conserving.

00:13:38.120 If it means anything, it means conserving, defending, maintaining, right? What are we conserving?

00:13:43.140 Well, that's a good question. We should probably figure that out at some point.

00:13:47.820 I would say that we are conserving the nuclear family, we're conserving the sanctity of life,

00:13:53.560 we're conserving the Constitution, we're conserving rationality, we're conserving objective

00:13:58.200 morality, we're conserving Western civilization. And now we're even fighting to conserve basic

00:14:03.240 scientific truths, like the difference between men and women, which is a very important fight as well.

00:14:08.960 The problem is that the BLM set would tell us, have told us, is currently shouting at us,

00:14:16.480 and you can see it on their website if you want. They tell us that all of those things,

00:14:20.580 to include concepts like objectivity, are channels of white supremacy. These are not just relics of

00:14:29.380 white supremacy, these are current active agents of it. The Constitution, nuclear family, all of that 0.87

00:14:37.620 is part of the systemic racism problem. Which actually makes sense from their point of view,

00:14:45.760 because if America is inherently, these are things that are inherent to America, to the American

00:14:50.840 identity. And if America is inherently racist, then those things must be as well.

00:14:57.320 So we cannot be successful in conserving these things if the left is successful in painting them

00:15:03.960 as racist. Which means that we cannot win as conservatives if the America is racist narrative

00:15:10.980 is winning. It's really one or the other. Right now it's the other. Right now they're the ones

00:15:17.880 winning. Which means we have our work cut out for us. And it also means, people ask me all the time,

00:15:25.400 how do we come back from this? How do we reclaim the culture and all that? Well, there isn't any flip

00:15:32.800 we can switch. There isn't any easy one, two step plan. One, two, three, you know, follow the steps

00:15:38.500 type of thing. Step-by-step plan for reclaiming the culture. It isn't as easy as that. It also

00:15:45.620 isn't as quick as that. And everyone's looking for the quick fix. Immediate, you know, gratification.

00:15:53.660 But that doesn't exist with this. This is a generational fight. This is what I keep saying.

00:15:59.620 It's important for us to realize. It's a generational fight. The left has gotten to us, gotten us to this

00:16:05.860 point by infiltrating all of our, you know, major American institutions, the family, academia, media,

00:16:14.020 corporate America. Um, and that's how they've succeeded. They've done it over generations. If

00:16:21.160 we're going to, uh, fight back, it's going to be a generational struggle that happens over the,

00:16:26.220 over the longterm. You know, we have to sort of buckle up and be ready for that, for a fight

00:16:31.620 that takes that long. And, you know, we have to be willing to fight, um, for our kids and our

00:16:41.060 grandkids. I mean, and our great grandkids for, for, for, for people in our families that we'll never

00:16:45.800 meet. We have to be willing to look at it that way. Cause if you think you're fighting, you know,

00:16:53.260 if you're an adult in America today and you're fighting because for your own sake, cause you

00:16:58.440 don't want to live in a country like this and you want to make it better for you. Well, that's

00:17:03.340 understandable. I get that, but it's probably not going to get much better under your watch.

00:17:08.460 This is going to take longer than that to fix.

00:17:10.460 All right. Um, let's go to five headlines.

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00:17:30.620 at Benham brothers.com slash Walsh. Number one, 15 people were, um, shot while leaving a funeral in

00:17:37.560 Chicago yesterday. Here's the local report on that. Chicago police telling us that there were 14

00:17:44.080 gunshot victims in this one incident that happened near 79th and Carpenter here in the Auburn Gresham

00:17:50.000 neighborhood tonight. The shooting actually happened outside of a funeral home as a group was exiting that

00:17:55.240 funeral home. A car drove by and started firing at that group. We are learning more about the person

00:18:01.440 being remembered. It was a service for Donnie Weathersby. He was 31 years old. He was shot in the

00:18:06.520 head a week ago in Englewood. Again, this happened around 6 30 tonight. Chicago police telling us it

00:18:12.160 was that black car that drove by the funeral home on 79th and passed by that funeral home firing shots

00:18:18.880 into a crowd. Again, 14 people were shot, but Chicago police say they found 60 shell casings on scene,

00:18:25.800 and that was because the crowd actually started firing back at the occupants in that car. Chicago

00:18:31.160 police believe there may have been four occupants in that car. They say that they do believe that

00:18:35.380 they have one person of interest in custody. So just another day in Chicago, really, I guess.

00:18:41.020 That's what it's like in the city, in many cities, Chicago especially. But Chicago's mayor,

00:18:45.520 Lori Lightfoot, she says that the citizens of her city, you know, they're not really worried about

00:18:49.600 this, about armed men gunning them down in mass while they're walking down the street. They're not

00:18:56.080 worried about that. What they're worried about are the federal law enforcement officers that Trump has

00:19:00.220 sent into Portland to take control, and really specifically to defend the federal building

00:19:06.680 there that the angry mob has repeatedly tried to burn down. We're told somehow this is a very

00:19:13.340 unreasonable step by the president to try to prevent the mob from burning down a federal building.

00:19:18.980 How dare you? You tyrant. Here's the tweet that Lori Lightfoot sent out on the same night that over a 0.98

00:19:24.900 dozen people were sprayed with bullets in her city. She says, under no circumstances,

00:19:28.780 why allow Donald Trump's troops to come to Chicago and terrorize our residents?

00:19:33.540 Yes, terrorize our residents. You really think, Lightfoot, you incompetent, ridiculous hack, 1.00

00:19:40.960 you think that's what your residents are terrified by when they're walking down the street? 1.00

00:19:46.760 You think they're worried about a federal agent coming and shooting them? No, they're worried about

00:19:53.740 what happened to those people leaving the funeral. Just got randomly shot. This is happening every day

00:20:00.480 in your godforsaken hellhole of a city. That's what they're terrified of and terrorized by.

00:20:09.020 Number two, Ringo checking in. Ayanna Pressley sent out this tweet, says, cancel rent, cancel mortgage, 0.96

00:20:15.840 cancel student debt. 86,000 likes on that. Doesn't take a lot of effort for the left,

00:20:20.780 for leftist politicians. And yeah, I like it too. I'm going to add, we'll make it 86,001 likes,

00:20:27.280 because I like it. Only I prefer to add to it, you know, let's like, yeah, cancel all those. Let's

00:20:33.660 also cancel while we're at it. Sadness, loneliness, tummy aches, diabetes, death. That's a big one.

00:20:44.480 Asteroids, the law of cause and effect, you know, to me, really harsh is my buzz. I don't know about

00:20:54.280 you. Gravity canceled so we can fly, obviously. And you know, why not cancel war and hunger while

00:21:02.700 we're at it? We might as well. I can't believe no one's thought of that by now. Like that's quite

00:21:08.440 an oversight. So cancel all the bad things. Here, here's the point. And this is, and this is what

00:21:16.420 Ayanna Pressley is trying to say. And it's really quite brilliant. What she's saying is cancel the bad

00:21:23.440 things, right? Now listen to this. Listen to the next part though. Okay. Cancel the bad things. All right.

00:21:28.620 Step one. Step two, have only good things. You see that? Really, I mean, just incredible insight,

00:21:42.780 brilliant strategy. And this is why we need people like Ayanna Pressley in Congress with those kinds 1.00

00:21:47.240 of ideas. Number three, Twitter's cracking down on accounts and groups that are dangerous,

00:21:52.140 which is good because, you know, I can think of some dangerous groups that are right now in the

00:21:57.600 process of ripping American cities to shreds. You know, that would be maybe a group you want to 0.97

00:22:04.360 keep an eye on if you're Twitter or any other social media. I mean, they do use these social

00:22:08.480 media platforms to organize and plan their felonious activities. So I could understand Twitter cracking

00:22:16.360 down on them. But only, of course, Twitter is not worried about those groups. Instead, they're

00:22:20.160 targeting the QAnon people. Here's the announcement from Twitter in a long thread. They said,

00:22:25.720 we've been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has put the

00:22:28.740 potential to lead to offline harm. In line with this approach this week, we are taking further

00:22:33.280 action on so-called QAnon activity across the service. We will permanently suspend accounts tweeting

00:22:40.260 about these topics that we know are engaged in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating

00:22:45.220 abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to evade previous suspensions, something we've seen

00:22:49.960 more of in recent weeks. And then it goes on from there. Let me just say, aside from the obvious

00:22:59.300 absurdity of going after QAnon when you've got Antifa using your platform to plan violent activity,

00:23:07.500 aside from that, if you're trying to tamp down a conspiracy theory, especially a conspiracy theory

00:23:13.680 like QAnon, this is not the way to do it. This is actually the opposite of how you do it.

00:23:20.520 I can think of no better way of, in the minds of QAnon people, confirming everything they think 1.00

00:23:28.820 than by banning them in mass. First of all, acknowledging them by name. So it's not even

00:23:35.380 just that Twitter's saying conspiracy theorists. It's QAnon people, that's what they're saying,

00:23:39.720 acknowledging it by name and say, we are targeting them for suspension. In the mind of a conspiracy

00:23:45.380 theorist, you have just, like if somebody was toying with the QAnon idea, if they were on the verge,

00:23:51.840 if they were on the gateway of being a QAnon conspiracy theorist, you have just shoved them 1.00

00:23:55.740 all the way over the edge with this. Which, if I want to be conspiratorial myself, I almost think

00:24:03.280 that's part of the point for Twitter and other platforms. They want more people on the right

00:24:09.900 to buy into this QAnon idiocy because it makes us look so stupid and it discredits us. So they like 1.00

00:24:17.100 it and they're going to do anything they can to encourage it. If I wanted to be conspiratorial

00:24:20.320 myself, I would say that maybe that's the point here. Number four, okay, let me read this to you.

00:24:25.480 This is good. Always good to be alerted when some new thing becomes racist. You got to keep up on this.

00:24:31.080 And there's a new thing becoming racist every day. So it's really important.

00:24:35.400 What I actually do is I have an alert on my phone and I have it say there's actually an app you can

00:24:42.600 get. And anytime a new thing becomes racist, it'll send you an alert and I can just check,

00:24:47.020 oh, this is racist now. And I can just, you know, I'll pick up my phone. Even a couple of mornings

00:24:52.040 ago, I picked up my phone alert. It says pancakes are racist. And I thought, okay, good. Because I was

00:24:57.240 going to have pancakes for breakfast. They're racist now. I'll go with waffles. All right.

00:25:02.880 So this is the latest thing. Actually, that app doesn't exist, but someone needs to make that app.

00:25:07.320 I throw that idea out there. Actually, I don't throw it out. I retract it because I might want

00:25:12.140 to do that myself. Don't do it. You can't legally. I've just copyrighted it. All right. This is how it

00:25:17.960 works. Let's go to, okay, where, where was this? Which, which ridiculous publication? Huffington Post.

00:25:24.240 All right. It says, if a research group today conducted a study on a single gender or ethnic

00:25:30.280 group, critics would be quick to point out that its findings couldn't reasonably be applied to

00:25:34.880 anyone outside of that group or gender. It seems like basic logic, right? Unfortunately,

00:25:38.960 such is the case with the body mass index, a weight to height ratio used by healthcare providers,

00:25:44.140 insurance companies, and the scientific community. There is growing criticism for the use of BMI.

00:25:49.420 For example, it doesn't take body composition, fat versus muscle into account, and a person's weight

00:25:55.420 doesn't correlate directly with their health. However, there's not much mainstream discussion

00:25:59.260 about its racist roots. And then, okay, let me get to the part, because this is what matters.

00:26:05.480 They're saying BMI is, they start by saying BMI is, is not a great way of actually measuring whether

00:26:10.640 or not someone is fat, overweight, or unhealthy. I actually agree with that. I think it's not good.

00:26:16.640 I think it's, I think it is a, not a very effective tool in that way, but they also claim that it's

00:26:23.720 racist. So let's go. This is where they explain the racist roots of the body mass index. The racist

00:26:31.180 roots of the BMI index go back a long way. Created by Belgian mathematician Adolfi Quetelet in 1832 as

00:26:40.600 the Quetelet index, the scale was created, I think we should still call it the Quetelet index. It's

00:26:46.340 more fun to say. The scale was created using data from predominantly European men to measure weight

00:26:51.160 in different populations. Although Quetelet noted that it was a population level tool and not meant

00:26:55.840 to be used on individuals, physiologist Ansel Keyes reintroduced the calculation in 1972 as the

00:27:01.660 body mass index. So that's it. Those are the racist roots. If you were waiting for something else,

00:27:09.820 I was too. That's it. That's their whole, that's why it's racist is because it was used for the data.

00:27:18.500 They originally used a lot of European men that makes it racist. Like it's some sort of conspiracy

00:27:24.220 against black people. But this is, of course, everything has to be right on the left. Now they 0.99

00:27:30.780 can't just merely criticize something. It has to also be racist, which in this case is completely

00:27:37.580 pointless as it often is because you can easily make the case. If you have a problem with the BMI

00:27:42.360 index, you can easily make the case on a scientific level. We don't need to get into

00:27:46.940 it's somehow BMI, somehow a body mass index is racist. That's absurd. We don't need to get into

00:27:53.480 that. There are many solid scientific reasons. There are a lot of health experts who would tell you

00:27:58.520 that this is not a very effective way of measuring whether or not someone is really healthy or not.

00:28:03.160 Uh, and I agree with that. Maybe I'm, you know, and, and maybe it's a little bit selfish on,

00:28:11.440 on my part because, you know, I've looked at BMI indexes and that sort of thing before,

00:28:15.700 and then tried to calculate where I am. Am I overweight? And oftentimes on those things,

00:28:20.780 they'll tell me that I'm overweight. I don't feel like I'm overweight. I don't think I look

00:28:23.440 overweight. Maybe I do. Uh, it's possible, but I don't think that I am. So maybe there's a little

00:28:29.040 bit of, you know, maybe it's a little bit self-serving on my part, but, uh, I don't think

00:28:33.740 it, it always takes into account every, everything that needs to be taken into account. All right.

00:28:37.740 Um, let's go to number five, easy transition here from Huffington Post to Teen Vogue. Um,

00:28:46.860 and you know what? I wasn't going to read from this, but I've done too much reading already and I can't

00:28:51.480 even the title, the headline is black power naps is addressing systemic racism in sleep.

00:29:02.420 I can't even stomach. I I'm sorry. I was going to read some of this. I'm sure it's pretty funny.

00:29:07.960 What they're claiming is that, well, it's just right there. There's systemic racism in sleep. Now

00:29:13.580 sleep itself is systemically racist. And they actually call for the writer of this article,

00:29:19.440 uh, Brittany McNamara at some point, let me see if I can at least find this part. At some point,

00:29:25.280 she talks about sleep reparations that are needed. We need to have on top of regular reparations, 0.78

00:29:34.520 money. There also need to be sleep reparations. I'm not sure exactly how that will work.

00:29:40.040 Um, you know, I kind of feel like, you know, if you're a black person, you want to take a nap, 0.99

00:29:44.740 go take a nap. I don't think you need specific reparations here, just like anybody else. 0.97

00:29:49.440 If you want to take a nap, you can probably carve out some time in the day to do it. Uh,

00:29:52.940 not much of a napper myself, but anyway. All right. I'm not even going to, I, I, sorry, I can't,

00:29:58.620 I can't do it. You can go to teen Vogue yourself and read that article if you want to. Let's go to

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00:30:50.540 Okay. Today for our daily cancellation, uh, I'm afraid to tell you that the Trump campaign is

00:30:54.760 canceled. Just canceled. Uh, the campaign as it is currently being run is canceled. They can start

00:31:03.080 a new campaign. I'm not saying they have to shut down the campaign completely, uh, but they're

00:31:07.020 going to have to start a new one because the current one is canceled. Let me give you an example as to

00:31:11.980 why it's canceled. And yes, this is one tweet fine, but it's indicative of a larger pattern.

00:31:22.180 So yesterday, Ivanka Trump, who after nearly four years in the administration has at no point 0.76

00:31:28.080 managed to demonstrate why she deserves to have a job in the administration, aside from the fact that 1.00

00:31:33.180 she's daddy's favorite, I guess. Um, but Ivanka Trump tweeted this, uh, and this is in response

00:31:41.080 to another tweet from a Dem operative from back in the primaries. And that was something attacking

00:31:46.480 Joe Joe Biden for an op-ed that he wrote nearly 40 years ago, where he laments a daycare tax credit,

00:31:53.520 which is, which he said was being given to a lot of higher income families who didn't need it.

00:31:57.920 And he points out that it's, it's not good for our society to encourage people to place their kids

00:32:02.840 in daycare, uh, to go out of our way to do that, uh, where they're going to place the kids in daycare

00:32:08.000 all day while their children are being deprived of that, you know, uh, um, you know, access to their

00:32:13.660 parents and that stable family environment. So this piece that he wrote, I forget what publication it

00:32:19.340 was in is a defense of the nuclear family basically. And, um, an attack against materialism and a lot of

00:32:26.680 new age values. It's maybe the sanest thing Joe Biden has ever said or wrote, but in the primaries

00:32:35.240 in 2020, if you're a Dem being sane or formally sane, at least is embarrassing. So they tried to

00:32:40.260 attack him for it. It didn't work. And obviously he won the primaries. Now, now Ivanka, for some

00:32:47.120 reason, randomly has resurrected this line of attack, which already failed in the Dem primaries. And

00:32:53.940 she's hoping to bring it over to the general. Here's Ivanka's tweet. She says, I couldn't agree

00:32:58.320 more with Senator Gillibrand and Senator Schumer and spokeswoman and advisor Meredith. Uh, uh, Joe

00:33:04.660 Biden should explain to America how a mom working leads to the deterioration of the family. Biden in 0.99

00:33:12.200 his own words below, and then she links to the, to the article. Now this represents an attack on Biden

00:33:19.860 by the Trump team from the left. It's an attack actually from the far left. They're attacking him

00:33:28.320 for once defending the nuclear family and pointing out that it's not a positive thing for society to 0.84

00:33:34.560 shift, uh, so completely to a scenario where, where, you know, all, almost every kid in America

00:33:40.960 is in someone else's care during the day, rather than they're in the care of their mother.

00:33:46.340 That's, that's, that's, that's not a positive societal development. And there are going to be

00:33:50.380 some real ramifications to that. Joe Biden was right about that. Of course, this is a far left

00:33:57.120 attack from Ivanka Trump, a member of the Trump administration. And I know you might say, well,

00:34:03.520 well, yes, but, um, for leftist voters, this could be effective. And so that's why she's bringing it up.

00:34:09.120 No, it wasn't even effective in the Democrat primary. If an attack from the left didn't work

00:34:17.280 in the Democrat primary, it's not going to work in the general. Why would it all of a sudden work

00:34:22.840 now when it didn't work before? Listen, far leftists and regular leftists, if they exist anymore,

00:34:30.680 and moderate leftists, anyone who's even slightly leftist, none of them are voting for Trump. I hate 0.52

00:34:37.560 to tell you, they hate his guts. They want him gone. They want him in jail. They hate him.

00:34:46.400 You, I, I, I, they, they have never hated anyone as much as they hate this man. I'm sure you've

00:34:52.440 noticed that by now. You aren't, um, you know, you're not winning them. If you're Trump, that's not

00:35:01.240 going to happen. Attacking Biden from the left to appeal to them is a fool's errand. What you need 0.99

00:35:07.580 to do is mobilize the right. And there are many people on the right who are completely demoralized

00:35:13.040 right now. And, uh, and you have to earn as many votes from the middle as you can, and from the

00:35:18.620 politically disinterested as you can. And to everybody in those groups, again, the only groups

00:35:24.560 you can post possibly hope to win this op-ed from Biden is perfectly reasonable and correct.

00:35:31.000 And any attack from the left against him will not work with the groups that you need to win.

00:35:36.040 And the only groups you can win. So I said, this is indicative of something that is the Trump's team

00:35:42.120 utter failure to come up with a coherent and consistent anti-Biden message. They have no idea

00:35:48.180 how to label this guy. The messaging is all over the place. It's schizophrenic. One minute,

00:35:53.440 he's sleepy Joe. The next minute he's a radical leftist agent of social destruction. Uh, the next

00:35:59.060 he's actually not leftist enough. See this, this doesn't work. This isn't how you do it. This is

00:36:06.080 terrible branding. It's impotent. It's incompetent. I'm just some idiot with a podcast. And I know this

00:36:13.260 Trump is supposed to be some sort of branding genius. The people around him should be professionals

00:36:18.660 at the top of the game. I mean, they've gotten to the highest level. How could they fail this utterly

00:36:24.540 with one of the most basic jobs in running a campaign? And that is the, is, is the job of

00:36:29.540 defining your opposition. This is supposed to be the thing that Trump is best at.

00:36:34.080 Now, let me tell you, sleepy Joe is a lane. That's not taking, it's not working. Nobody cares. It's

00:36:45.040 not resonating. I know if you're on the right, you might like it. You might say, no, sleepy Joe is

00:36:49.980 great. Okay, fine. But it doesn't, that doesn't, it doesn't matter if you like it. Forget sleepy Joe.

00:36:59.620 Okay. Um, nobody is going to be swayed on election day by the thought of Joe Biden being sleepy.

00:37:06.840 I just don't think that's not the kind of thing that mobilizes people that they get that excites

00:37:13.600 real passion. Uh, I got to vote for Trump because the other guy is sleepy. No, now crooked Hillary. 0.99

00:37:22.060 I got to vote for Trump because the other, the, the, the other candidate is crooked is corrupt is a, 1.00

00:37:26.480 is a criminal. Yes. Okay. That works. That will drive people to the polls. 1.00

00:37:33.440 No one's going to show up to the polls and, and, and, you know, there it's a, someone,

00:37:37.040 a pollster asked him, you know, why, why, why are you voting the way that you are? Well,

00:37:41.240 I'm just worried about how sleepy Joe Biden is. You know, I just don't want a sleepy guy in there.

00:37:45.220 In fact, if anything, the idea of having a sleepy few years after the unrelenting chaos and madness

00:37:51.080 we're currently experiencing seems kind of viscerally appealing. I think a lot of people will hear

00:37:55.500 that and say, that sounds great. You kidding me? I wouldn't mind having a little bit of sleepiness

00:37:59.160 right now. Um, a similar problem with the attacks related to Biden's son Hunter, the Hunter Biden

00:38:07.180 stuff is red meat for conservatives on social media, but nobody else cares, you know, and,

00:38:12.220 and in general, trying to take down a politician by attacking his family rarely, if ever works,

00:38:16.920 I can't even think of an example when it ever has worked, you know, some of the anti bill stuff

00:38:21.600 against Hillary was effective, but in the end she lost because she's Hillary. She lost on her own

00:38:25.680 accord and she was very, very easy to brand. Like I said, Trump didn't have to do very much.

00:38:30.500 Everybody already thought of Hillary as corrupt. And that was the message about her. It was an 1.00

00:38:35.420 effective message. It was consistent. It was easy. It worked fine. The other problem with the Hunter

00:38:40.680 Biden stuff is that it gives Biden a platform to talk about his family. And actually in talking about

00:38:46.240 his family, that's when he's the most compelling and relatable and heartfelt. Those are, those are

00:38:52.040 actually great moments for him when he starts talking about his family. There was that one

00:38:56.780 moment on the campaign when he was, uh, I think it was a pastor got up at a, at a town hall and asked

00:39:03.220 him about, you know, overcoming loss. And he started talking about his family. This was, this was a real

00:39:08.140 authentic, heartfelt, actually powerful moment. And I, I'm saying that, okay, as one of the most cynical

00:39:14.700 bastards and one of the most anti-democrat bastards you ever meet, even I'm saying that 0.99

00:39:19.980 seemed like an authentic and powerful moment, it's just to open the door for that. When you're 1.00

00:39:24.980 the opposition is politically suicidal. Um, what else trying to make Biden into a far leftist?

00:39:32.300 That's no good either. It's not convincing. Nobody believes it. Nobody sees Biden that way

00:39:37.220 or will see him that way. It just doesn't work. He's too much of a known entity at this point.

00:39:41.080 And he's been in politics for 700 years. Uh, everybody sees him as a moderate and, uh, and

00:39:47.000 you know, I don't think he really is a moderate, at least not anymore, but that doesn't matter.

00:39:50.780 What matters is how he's seen and whether you as the opponent can plausibly make people see him

00:39:57.660 another way. Trying to make people see Biden as a far left Marxist probably isn't plausible at this

00:40:04.760 point, especially when the Trump team has attacked Biden from the left repeatedly and is still doing it.

00:40:11.080 So what's left? The other option obviously is to define Biden as a senile old man, which he is,

00:40:19.280 who will be used by the far left. Um, you know, he might not be himself, but he'll be used by the

00:40:24.760 far left to enact their agenda, which he will be. So this has the advantage of being a, you know,

00:40:31.920 a branding option and a line of attack. That's, that's true. That's real. Um, but you know,

00:40:39.780 it's also a little bit tricky to pull off and it's risky. Um, it's probably the best tact.

00:40:48.200 It's the reality, but it requires some wit and some prudence to pull off successfully and wit and

00:40:54.060 prudence aren't exactly the hallmarks of the Trump campaign. I'm afraid to say, um, an example of the

00:41:00.080 pitfalls here. Okay. The senile stuff. Remember that old people vote. They vote more than any 1.00

00:41:07.360 other demo. You can't win without the old people. There's a reason why we still have the social 1.00

00:41:12.200 security system intact the way it is, even though it's a total disaster. It's not going to be around

00:41:16.420 for my generation. Everybody knows it. Uh, it's bankrupting the country. It's still around because

00:41:20.700 you just, you couldn't possibly as a candidate actually propose getting rid of it. Uh, the old

00:41:26.760 people won't vote for you and you're finished. So they're going to get what they want. If you come

00:41:31.560 off like you're attacking the elderly or you're suggesting that older folks are incompetent or that

00:41:38.520 they have no business leading and should just go sit in the rocking chairs until death. If you do that,

00:41:43.820 you risk making Biden sympathetic and, uh, and making older voters angry at you and having them go to

00:41:51.480 Biden out of sympathy and spite sympathy to him and spite to you. That's a very real risk here.

00:41:58.340 I don't, I don't hear enough people on the right and in the Trump campaign, you know, like acknowledging

00:42:01.800 this, you got to be careful with that. I'm not saying you don't, you don't attack on this level.

00:42:08.040 I think you do. And again, it's true anyway. And it really matters. The fact that we might have a guy

00:42:12.040 who's going senile in office, he'd be 79 years old. Um, by the, if he makes it through his first term,

00:42:20.480 which is a, which is a big, if as it is, he'll be, he'll be 83 years old at the end of his first

00:42:24.800 term. This, this is, I've said before, it's your chances of, of at over the age of 80, your chance

00:42:30.660 of go of, of developing dementia is like 20% already. And that's if you go, go into your 80s

00:42:36.480 without it. So that, you know, that is a, uh, a very real thing. And I think it could be effective,

00:42:45.680 but you have to be smart and consistent in your approach. And the Trump camp has been neither of

00:42:50.420 those things at all. As for being a Trojan horse for the far left. Yes, again, effective and true.

00:42:56.760 But if you're going to go the Trojan horse route, once more consistency is key. Let me show you how

00:43:02.180 inconsistent again, the Trump camp has been. Laura Trump, another Trump kid who works for the campaign

00:43:08.460 because Donald Trump is basically trying to corner the market on nepotism. Um, Laura Trump was

00:43:14.020 interviewed by Breitbart yesterday. And let me just read, uh, let me just read one thing. She's

00:43:23.020 talking about, okay, how, you know, what, what, um, is on a Breitbart podcast and she was talking

00:43:27.820 about, or their Sirium, Sirius XM radio show. She was talking about the need to, what I'm saying right

00:43:33.340 now, we got to, you know, is it the Trump campaign has to define Biden. This is what you have to do on a

00:43:37.860 campaign. Uh, and here's what she says, defining our opponent and talking about who Joe Biden is

00:43:44.340 includes talking about his cozy past with communist China talking about, and talking about the fact

00:43:49.480 that he supported the Clinton crime bill, which disproportionately incarcerated young black men in

00:43:54.140 this country. Um, now here's the problem. This, this article begins by saying that Laura Trump was

00:44:03.700 saying we have to define former vice president Joe Biden as in league with the far left socialist

00:44:08.320 Marxist Democrats. Okay. So she wants to define him as in league with the far left, but also define

00:44:15.720 him as someone who supported a, a, a crime bill that was a little bit, that was too harsh. And that was

00:44:21.160 even racist. You see the problem here? She's trying to paint him as far left, but then also tries to

00:44:28.380 make him a racist who locks up black men and is too harsh on crime. No, no, choose a lane. You can't 0.96

00:44:36.060 do both. You can't straddle both lanes here. Moderate Americans and right-leaning Americans aren't going 0.98

00:44:41.420 to be mad at Joe for supporting a crime bill. That's the last thing they're going to be mad about right

00:44:47.940 now. If you're trying to beat him by painting him as in league with the far left, then do that.

00:44:55.200 But don't throw in little asides undermining your own damned point, you idiots. 1.00

00:45:03.820 And no, this is not a kind of thing where you just throw it again. You know, you might as well 1.00

00:45:06.480 just say everything and people get like a grab bag of attacks and, uh, whatever people like,

00:45:11.300 they can grab out and, and, you know, whatever, whatever attack resonates with an individual,

00:45:15.400 they can just go with that. It doesn't work that way. That's not how branding works.

00:45:20.280 We look at, look at products that are, you know, commercials for products. They don't,

00:45:23.820 they don't, they don't, no, no one tries to, no competent marketing department tries to sell a

00:45:27.560 product by giving you 50 different things that you could think about this product. Some of them

00:45:33.420 contradictory and then saying, whatever, you know, whatever, whatever works for you. Just think of

00:45:36.880 the product that way. No, you give like one thing. Here's your message about this product, buy it.

00:45:43.500 Well, with Donald, with Joe Biden, if you're Donald Trump, it's, it's anti-marketing. It's,

00:45:47.480 here's the message about this product. Don't buy it.

00:45:53.260 So that's why the Trump campaign is canceled. Um, until they figure out how to actually,

00:45:58.140 you know, campaign. And I'm also canceling all of the sycophants and yes men, uh, including just

00:46:08.580 random people on social media who are going to, you know, just, just will not tell Trump he's wrong

00:46:13.840 about anything. And we'll just cheer as, as the campaign goes over a cliff. I'm canceling you

00:46:19.860 guys too. And, uh, all right, we'll leave it there on that note. Very positive note to end on.

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Ep. 526 - A Majority Of Americans Say America Is Racist. They're Wrong.

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