Ep. 562 - F-F-Fund The Police!
Summary
When you release a lot of criminals from prison for no reason, they commit more crimes. This is the unbelievable new conclusion that the New York City government has discovered when it comes to dealing with the massive rioting in the streets.
Transcript
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It turns out when you release a lot of criminals from prison for no reason, they commit more crimes.
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This is the unbelievable new conclusion that the geniuses at the New York City government have discovered.
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You remember at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, when everyone told us that the coronavirus was super-duper serious and was going to kill everybody and was so dangerous, we had to let people out of prison for it.
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We had to let them out of prison, presumably so they could show up by the thousands and thousands and riot and loot and protest.
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At that point, of course, coronavirus was no longer dangerous, though it's now dangerous again that the riots are ebbing.
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That's all news for a little bit later in the show.
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Initially, we were told that we had to let those criminals out of prison because it would be cruel not to.
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Well, it turns out of the 2,500 defendants sprung from Rikers, 250 have been arrested again already, and they've been rearrested 450 times just in the last few weeks during the pandemic.
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The left is making the same mistake that they have made for the past 300 years at least.
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They think that politics can be used to fundamentally change human nature.
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Well, we'll find out why that is just completely untrue.
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We've got to get to updates from the peaceful riots, what it means the celebrities have to weigh in.
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Kind of surprising news for the president and for Joe Biden.
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Depends how you've been looking at this all along.
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The liberal protests haven't gotten any better over the past few days.
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We were told, oh, it's fine, it's ending, don't worry about it.
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We're giving these peaceful, wonderful rioters space to breathe and to express themselves.
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And it turns out they're still expressing themselves, and they're expressing themselves by breaking things and stealing things and shaking cop cars.
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Someone throws a giant metal trash can at a cop car.
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There are at least hundreds of people around it.
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No, they're still throwing stuff at the cop car.
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And the cop is caught in this impossible position.
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One, he doesn't have any backup, so they'd probably rip him to shreds if he got out of the car.
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But two, even if he did use force, the woke mob would tear him apart and tell him that it was unjust.
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So the cops just leave and the mobs run the streets.
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We need overwhelming force to put down the riots.
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We need the police departments to use overwhelming force to put down the riots.
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We need the civil government to back up the police departments in using overwhelming force to put down the riots.
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And if the local governments won't do it and the state governments won't do it, the federal government needs to come in.
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The police are a force for good, period, full stop.
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It is insane that that is controversial these days.
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The police are a force for good, and the police, when they're doing their jobs, must use force.
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Now we're being told that the police should not use force.
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A lot of confusion arises from the left getting something totally backwards here.
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The traditional view of law enforcement is that law enforcement exists because crime exists.
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Even when civil disorder kind of falls apart, you still have groups at least acting as the police because you need to enforce the law.
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The leftist view says that crime only exists because law enforcement exists.
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That's what we're hearing from Black Lives Matter.
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We're hearing because our neighborhoods are over-policed, that's why crime exists.
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But if you just took the police out of the neighborhoods, then the crime wouldn't exist.
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This misunderstanding of the left, which thinks that crime exists because there's law enforcement rather than the other way around,
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that's why they burned down a Wendy's on Saturday night in Atlanta.
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There was this fire engulfed a whole Wendy's in the middle of Atlanta on Saturday.
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They did it because the cops used deadly force against a criminal, against a black man.
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That was the racial aspect of it, which is the reason it tied into all of the riots and why the Wendy's burned down.
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Well, what actually happened during that altercation?
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The way it's being portrayed is that cops went up to a man who was simply sleeping in the parking lot,
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and these cops, almost certainly stone-cold racists, killed the man for no reason.
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We have body cam footage, and we have security camera footage.
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I think you've had too much to drink to be dry.
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He's got two cops on him trying to arrest him, and this guy, apparently pretty strong, busts out.
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It's already pretty clear he's drunk or on drugs.
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And the two cops are trying to subdue him, but they're not using a lot of different techniques,
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presumably because if the cops use too much force, they're going to have their lives completely destroyed.
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They're going to be accused of all these things, right?
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So this guy, obviously strong as an ox, is basically tossing these two cops around.
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Turns around, pulls the taser on the cops, possibly looks like he shoots.
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I don't know if he shoots or not, but it does look that way.
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And then the cops discharge their weapons and get them on the ground.
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Did he die because a bunch of racist cops went out hunting him and shooting him down?
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Or did he die because he was committing a crime and threatening the lives of those police officers,
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stealing their weapons, and then, unfortunately, very sadly, had to be put down himself?
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The ultimate reason that this is a sad scene, the ultimate reason that this man died,
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I mean, I guess the win is more people didn't die.
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I guess the win is there is some justice, but it's sad to watch.
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How do we know they didn't want to kill that guy?
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They used every bit of non-lethal force that they could have for minutes beforehand.
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And then he pulls their taser, and they still don't use force.
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Then he turns around and points it at them, and I think pulls the trigger.
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Very sad stuff, and yet, not one thing the cops did was inappropriate.
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If anything, they were timid in their use of force,
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ostensibly because of the environment that we're in right now.
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Then a bunch of rioters burned down the Wendy's.
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I could see them burning down the police station if they felt this was unjust,
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But let's say even the rioters didn't look at that tape,
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so they didn't know that the killing was perfectly appropriate, albeit sad.
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Did the manager of the Wendy's participate in this?
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This burning, this rioting has nothing to do with justice.
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Okay, no one could watch that footage and conclude that that was police brutality.
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And the people who burned down the Wendy's don't care about the truth or justice.
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Great example of this from London over the weekend.
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There is an activist and apparently an advisor to the London police.
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She was asked if a statue of Winston Churchill should come down.
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Because nothing screams Nazi like Winston Churchill, right?
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So she was asked, should this statue come down?
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The question is dependent upon whether or not Churchill was a racist by whatever standards
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And then she said, I don't know if he was a racist or not because, you know, I never met
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Could the statue of Churchill be there or not, do you think?
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But what I would say is that that question of whether he should remain should be put to
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Well, I hope maybe she'll meet Winston Churchill before she decides to tear his statue down.
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Oh, no, she can't meet him because he died 50 years ago.
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And she has no idea who one of the greatest Britons in all of history is.
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And yet she says it should be put to the community.
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I mean, basically everything she said here is crazy because consider that.
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She goes, I have basically I have no idea who Winston Churchill is.
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You know, all of us, people like us to decide whether or not to tear down British history.
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People are surprised she doesn't know who Winston Churchill is.
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Of course she doesn't know who Winston Churchill is.
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None of the people who want to tear down the statues know who they are, know anything about
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The people who want to tear down Robert E. Lee in the United States don't know a thing
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The people who want to tear down Christopher Columbus don't know a thing about Columbus.
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And I have a little insight into this in that I've given speeches about Christopher Columbus.
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I've answered a lot of Q&As about Christopher Columbus.
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And no one who hates this guy has any idea what they're talking about.
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And they think the burden of defense is on the people who don't want to tear apart our
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You know the craziest thing, speaking of the United Kingdom?
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In Scotland, a statue of Robert the Bruce was vandalized with graffiti that talked about
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It said racist king is what the spray paint said on Robert the Bruce.
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For those of you who are not history buffs, Robert the Bruce is a 14th century Scottish
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And the word racism would have had absolutely no meaning in the time of Robert the Bruce.
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The phrase Black Lives Matter, I think Robert the Bruce would say, Robert the Bruce, you're
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Before he would have said it with a thicker bro.
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That's, I think, the evidence that we need that this doesn't have to do with any particular
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incidents of police brutality, real or imagined in the United States or Great Britain.
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If Robert the Bruce is now deemed unacceptable, then we are not talking about what people think
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You know, thousands and thousands of people gathered in Brooklyn over the weekend.
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Coronavirus is not permitted in Brooklyn, so they're all safe, obviously.
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They were there not merely to protest for Black Lives Matter.
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They went one step further down the leftist oppression hierarchy.
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So thousands of people gather in Brooklyn over the weekend, outside the Brooklyn Museum,
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Thousands of people for as far as the eye can see, all crammed in very tightly together,
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not social distancing, talking about the importance, not just of black lives or it's pride month,
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Why are they tying this in with Black Lives Matter?
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Because there were two murders in the past few days of black men who identify as women,
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and this is evidence not just of racism, but transphobia.
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And yet, if you look a little more closely at the cases themselves, they undercut the left-wing
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Rhea Milton was killed, presumably for being a man who identifies as a woman.
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And this is evidence of not just racism, but transphobia, except that the two people who
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have been arrested in connection with the murder are named Kaleb Marshall Tooson and Tyree Jeffrey
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So this actually has nothing to do with the premise of Black Lives Matter, which is that
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so there's this spate of anti-black racism around the country and black men are being hunted down
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The two people who are now being charged with the murder are black men as well.
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So I guess this could be a rally for trans rights or something, but the racial element
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And then what about the other man who identifies as a woman?
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They don't know who the killer is yet, but the Philadelphia Police Department is investigating.
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But we've been just told that the police department are the villains.
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So why, how could we can't trust them to investigate?
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And yet they're the only people doing any investigations.
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This, this march or this protest in Brooklyn was probably the biggest event that we've seen
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in a week or two in terms of a protest or even a riot or looting or whatever.
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And yet the, the two central features of it, the racial element and the anti-cop element
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They're completely contradicted by the facts of what they're demonstrating themselves.
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And this raises the question, this question that a lot of conservatives have been asking
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Should we indulge the premises of Black Lives Matter, which the proponents of Black Lives Matter
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are presenting this as just simply meaning that Black Lives Matter.
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And if you're anti-black and you're a bigot, then you oppose it.
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So should we indulge this sort of thing or should we recognize BLM for what it is, which
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is not what it says it is, but actually just a radical leftist Marxist organization that
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was founded by radical leftist Marxists who openly espouse their Marxism, who are funded
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by the most radical left-wing donors on earth, who are highly organized and whose goal is not
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merely to protect Black lives, as it were, but to radically overhaul society.
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I think in my presentation of those two choices, you can figure out which one I'm going for.
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It would seem pretty clear that this is a radical group.
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We'll get back to this question of do you indulge it, do you not indulge it?
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Just consider the different kinds of treatment.
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So thousands and thousands of people gather in Brooklyn, totally fine.
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They're all packed in really tight, no big deal.
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Meanwhile, President Trump decides he's going to reopen his rallies.
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So he says, hey, I'm going to have a new rally, you know, coming up in the next few days.
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Trump rally draws grave concerns from top health officials.
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Now, one hour before NBC News tweeted this out, they tweeted out a generally approving tweet
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Then one hour later, Trump rally draws grave concerns from top health officials.
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It draws grave concerns from leftist politicians and their hacks in the scientific establishment
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They've lost their credibility at this point, the left and the media.
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They turn coronavirus on and off completely at whim, willy nilly.
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They've turned it on and off probably three times in the last week.
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I wish we could believe what they say, but we can't.
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Trump should definitely go ahead with the rally.
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There's something I've got to ding the president for.
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So Trump initially was going to hold this rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Juneteenth.
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For those of you not familiar with Juneteenth, that's June 19th.
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It's the day that slaves were liberated in Texas.
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You can't hold the rally in Juneteenth and you can't hold it in Tulsa where there have
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I was hoping Trump would stand firm saying, no way am I moving the day.
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We had previously scheduled our MAGA rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma for June 19th.
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However, this would fall on the Juneteenth holiday.
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Many of my African-American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest
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that we consider changing the date out of respect for this holiday
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and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents.
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I've therefore decided to move our rally to Saturday, June 20th
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We've already had ticket requests in excess of 200,000 people.
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Juneteenth is the day that the Republican Party freed the slaves in Texas.
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Okay, the party that the president now represents.
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President Trump has made helping out the black community a big part of his presidential administration,
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Actually, he passed criminal justice reform, meaning letting people out of prison,
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in large part to show that he cares about the black community.
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I thought that messaging was misguided, but that was the point at least.
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And now, he's saying, no, I can't possibly hold a rally on Juneteenth.
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He's saying to the left, the left, the left initially says, Trump, you can't hold a rally
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because you're a racist and you hate black people.
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And it's disrespectful for you to hold a rally on a day that celebrates freeing the slaves.
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If anybody should hold a rally on Juneteenth, it should be the Republican president.
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And yet, he gave them, he gave them their argument.
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I can't even imagine the pressure that the president's facing right now.
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You can't give in one little bit on the police.
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You can't give in one little bit on the funding.
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You can't give in one little bit on the ridiculous racial narrative from the left.
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Because when you give them just a little bit, you open the floodgates.
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And you get riots and looting and racial division and discord.
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Now, Trump is being knocked unfairly, I think, for many other things as well.
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So he's being knocked fairly for the Juneteenth issue.
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He's being knocked, and specifically for changing the date.
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He's being knocked unfairly, though, for a bunch of other nonsense.
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And he walked down a ramp, I don't know, like a little bit slowly or something.
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So, fair knock on Trump, total unfair knock on Trump.
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He's being criticized for how he walked down the ramp.
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He seems to be a little bit slower than normally he would walk.
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But obviously, he doesn't want to trip and fall.
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Then he comes to the bottom, has a little step at the end, and he's looking fine.
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And the left is saying he looks like a doddering old idiot or something.
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If the left is going to try this line of attack against President Trump,
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when their nominee is Joe Biden, that's not going to work out very well for them.
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I think that, by comparison, as President Trump told us just a few months ago,
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Well, I think that I just feel like a young man.
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But I know they're all making me look very young, both in terms of age and I think in
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I think you people know that better than anybody.
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And I guess it was sort of a panel, you know, I don't even know.
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It certainly didn't come off as a particularly rousing speech.
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And Biden is sitting there with one of the face masks dangling off of his ear.
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It's just dangling off of one of his ears while he tries to stammer his way through an
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You know, the rapidly rising in with, with, I don't know.
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The whole speech is more or less of the same energy level and the same coherence.
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I'm not even going to look, we know the joke can't form an English sentence.
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I do want to focus on the mask though, because what, what the mask shows us here is that the
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mask is not primarily a medical tool for preventing the spread of a virus.
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Obviously dangling from the ear, the mask is not going to do anything to prevent the spread
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So why doesn't Joe either put it all the way over his mouth or put it on the table?
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Because the mask doesn't really seem to do very much.
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At least the people wearing it like this don't think it does very much medically, but it signals
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He's taking the virus very seriously, except when it involves racial riots, then the virus
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It's, it's merely a signal to people of what side of the political aisle he is on.
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And, and we've been making that point on this show for weeks now, and the left has been
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It, he is wearing it in such a way that it cannot possibly do the thing that he's saying
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it does, but he's got to have it there anyway to signal who he is.
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That wasn't even the craziest part of the Biden speech.
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Biden then went on to make a comment about the riots and protests that is outrageous on
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And yet actually practically Joe makes a pretty good point.
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He says that the effect of George Floyd's death has been greater than the effect of
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But even Dr. King's assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd's
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I mean, a lot of people have focused on George Floyd's criminal career.
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Basically, you know, George Floyd was in and out of prison.
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He doesn't seem to have turned his life around despite left-wingers trying to protest to the
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Obviously, none of that justifies George Floyd being killed unjustly.
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But people, even some people on the left are pointing out and saying, you know, we shouldn't,
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we shouldn't turn this man into a secular saint because that's going to, that's going to be
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Compared to Martin Luther King, you know, these two guys are not on the same plane.
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And yet, the point that Joe Biden's making about the deaths of these two men actually
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The death of Martin Luther King Jr. did not cause weeks and weeks and weeks of riots and
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looting that were then defended by the people who were running the elite institutions that
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were then being sort of granted as a premise that people should loot to express their anger.
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The death of Martin Luther King Jr., which was nationally traumatic, did not cause this
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intense radicalism that we're seeing from the death of George Floyd.
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And it's not even a normative observation, right?
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It's not even saying we should be reacting this way.
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Like, Joe Biden is just saying that is the effect of the reaction.
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It's actually probably the best point he's made so far in the campaign.
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We'll take a little bit of a look at the effects of that and who is pushing the radicalism in
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There's a new poll out that is, that really opens the curtain, I think, on who's pushing
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First, I got to thank you for subscribing to the Michael Knowles Show YouTube channel.
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We have officially passed Drew Klavan on YouTube subscribers.
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We put a lot of stuff over there, bonus interviews, segments, breakouts.
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We have my Matt Walsh challenge that just came out there about the woke celebrity cringe
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We've got an interview with Steve Deese of The Blaze.
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Also, right now, you know you're getting a ton of lies from the mainstream media.
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And yet, for you, I'm willing to take two thirds off that.
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You get a whole lot of great stuff, a lot of in-depth analysis.
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Big new poll out on the radicalism we've seen in the past few weeks.
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Poll asks a few questions, and everyone's looking at it through the lens of race.
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Lens of race is not, I think, the biggest finding here.
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So question, what's a bigger problem in America right now?
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Systemic racism and policing or vandalism and violence during the protests?
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The thing that the rioters are ostensibly protesting or the rioters burning down the cities themselves?
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When you ask people who make less than $50,000 a year, 49% say the systemic racism and policing, 51% say the riots.
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So it's a slim majority, but most people say the riots are the bigger problem.
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If you make over $100,000 a year, many, many more people say it's the systemic policing racism that's the problem.
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Many, many fewer people say it's the riots, 58 to 42.
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The big divide here is on income, and it's the poorer people who say the riots are the problem,
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and it's the richer people who say it's the systemic violence and racism.
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Maybe, depending on how much you listen to the mainstream media, that's the opposite of what you might expect.
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Next one, do you personally have racial biases?
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Well, if you make less than $50,000 a year, 15% say yes.
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If you make over $100,000 a year, 32% say yes, more than double, and only 45% say no.
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Is it okay for NFL players to kneel during the national anthem?
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If you're not a math genius, and 36% say it's not okay.
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You're much more likely to support the NFL celebrities protesting our American flag if you're rich than if you're poor.
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Again, might be the opposite of what the mainstream media are telling you.
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Do you support or oppose Colin Kaepernick when he protested racial injustice, allegedly?
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If you make over $100,000 a year, 55% support, 36% oppose.
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Same thing on questions for the need for police reform, reform or defund the police.
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Only 22% of people who make under $50,000 a year say they support defunding the police.
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That number rises to 32% if you make over $100,000 per year.
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Because if you make a lot of money, you don't rely on the police as much because you're more likely to live in a nice neighborhood where crime is not as much of a problem.
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And so what you say is you want to defund the police, which is disproportionately going to hurt minority people who disproportionately live in lower income neighborhoods.
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Rich, largely white liberals espousing their woke social justice to end up hurting poor racial minorities.
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Another interesting bit from this poll, just to tuck away in your mind, Trump's Hispanic support right now is at 35% according to it, which is, that's obviously going up against Biden.
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That's higher than the numbers enjoyed by John McCain or Mitt Romney, even though Trump is allegedly anti-Hispanic because he says he wants to build a wall and cut illegal immigration.
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He still does better than political moderates like Romney and McCain.
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Turns out Hispanic voters, especially when it's up against Biden, prefer someone to be a little tougher, a little more conservative and state what they think.
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No surprise, the loudest voices stoking the unrest and the politically convenient race riots come from rich, white, liberal celebrities.
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For every unchecked moment, for every time it was easier to ignore than to call it out for what it was.
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Every blatant injustice, no matter how big or small.
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Black people are being slaughtered in the streets, killed in their own homes.
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These are our brothers and sisters, our friends, our family.
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First thing that shocked me is I don't know who most of these people are, which I guess is a good thing because it means that Hollywood's stranglehold over the culture is loosening up a little bit.
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Next thing I noticed, Julianne Morrill just completely wrong here.
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Black people are not being slaughtered by racist cops or broadly racist whites.
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Deborah Messing here clearly just reading from a sheet of paper.
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She did not even memorize her sappy bit about I'm taking responsibility.
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Aaron Paul is a worse actor than we thought he was from Breaking Bad.
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I thought that guy was a very good actor, but his performance here, not so great.
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But the key, the key to this whole video is that last guy who looks familiar, but I don't recognize him.
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What that means is telling people to shut up if they disagree with the left.
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Don't voice that opinion that contradicts the leftist narrative.
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We want them to shut up, but they want us to shut up.
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And it's not, they are just mouthpieces for this left-wing establishment.
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But even Dave Chappelle, who is a very good comedian, came in and he got on this bandwagon supporting the peaceful riots.
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So he opens up his new, his new comedy set talking about George Floyd, not in a comedic way.
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Then he criticized our friend Candace Owens, which also wasn't funny.
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Then he defended these idiot celebrities that we just saw giving their opinions.
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And it was kind of interesting how he defended them because he said people trust celebrities.
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That's why they keep going back and watching them.
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They do have an influence and a platform, and so it makes sense for them to talk.
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We shouldn't trust them for much of what they have to say about politics if we only know them for being good at performing on camera.
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You know, if we only know them for being good at reading lines that other people have written for them.
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But we do, and that's a reality, and Dave Chappelle's acknowledging that.
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But then the most interesting part is how Dave Chappelle defends the riots.
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When they figured out what this n*** was, no less than 400 police officers showed up and answered the call.
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So how the f*** can't they understand what's going on in these streets?
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Dave is actually making about half a good point here.
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And the thing that's funny is because he attacked Candace Owens in his set,
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he then later goes on, apparently obliviously, to make the same point Candace Owens did on identity.
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What Candace Owens said in her video was, I don't identify with George Floyd.
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I know that people are trying to say that I need to have racial solidarity with George Floyd,
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And I disagree with the decision to elevate people who commit a lot of crimes as representatives of the community.
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Whether you agree with it or disagree with it, that's the point she was making.
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And so she's saying, I don't identify with him simply on the basis of his race.
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And what Chappelle is saying is we must identify with these people simply on the basis of their race.
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The reason why when cops get killed, why the cops show up overwhelmingly to take down the criminal,
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which is the first part of the story he's telling, is because they killed one of their own.
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And now when someone kills one of our own, we show out in the streets.
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The left is trying to stoke all sorts of identity.
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Racial identity, not white identity, but for every other race, they're trying to stoke racial identity politics.
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Sexual identity, if you're attracted to men and you're a man,
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or if you're a man who identifies as a woman, they're trying to stoke that sort of thing.
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Socio-economic class identity, do you not make a lot of money?
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They're trying to stoke all of these kinds of identity, and they're all pretty shallow.
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The one identity that they're trying to destroy is American identity.
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That's why they're trying to tear down the statues.
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They're trying to tear down not just Robert E. Lee.
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They're trying to tear down Christopher Columbus, and they are going to tear down George Washington.
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Where it hasn't happened already, it will happen soon.
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That's the only identity that in any way can make this nation work is if you have a strong, perhaps even primary,
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or at least up at the top, identity as an American, regardless of your race, regardless of your sexual preferences, whatever.
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I mean, they are now openly protesting the American flag, which is the symbol of that very identity,
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And even guys who are usually fairly insightful or funny like Dave Chappelle are agreeing with that take on it.
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They're talking about serious, destructive things.
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You hear defund the police, and a lot of people are trying to make sense of that.
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The Hill says, what does defund the police actually mean?
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What exactly does it mean to defund the police?
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Well, the New York Times comes out and actually admits it.
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This is from the Organizer Against Criminalization, Mariyame Kava.
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And when they do that, we're going to be very far gone.
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It's going to be very hard to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
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When you totally destroy law and order, when you defund the police, when you destroy your
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identity as an American, and you smash it up into little pieces, and you've got the black
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piece, and the black trans piece, and the gay piece, and the Hispanic piece, and all of
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them, all the different little pieces, you're not going to be able to put Humpty Dumpty back
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So we've got to be very clear about what we're doing before we smash it.
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When we smash law enforcement, we are smashing the order of the country.
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And then I think that's the point of the radicals.
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They want to destroy the order of the country and then put it back together again in their
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They want to smash a lot of eggs and then make a new omelet.
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This is the rhetoric that we've heard all the way going back to Stalin and Lenin, and
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In the face of all of this, you have some very well-meaning people, conservatives, moderates,
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independents, a lot of Christians, a lot of Midwestern Christians I've noticed, asking,
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is it a good idea to just give in a little bit, to kneel?
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I had this discussion with a friend of mine last night.
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Because some churches resumed over the weekend and a lot of them are buying the BLM radical
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And they're saying, look, it's actually an example of Christ-like humility to get down
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You saw those videos of the secular liturgy of, you know, random white liberals just kneeling,
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kneeling down on the street and begging forgiveness of random black people.
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They never, the random white person didn't do anything to the random black person, but
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Is there, is there an evidence of Christ-like humility here, right?
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I think that's why a lot of nice, well-meaning conservative Christians in the Midwest are buying
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On the other hand, it's very un-Christ-like to acquiesce to evil.
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And Black Lives Matter, or forget Black Lives Matter, whatever the next Marxist front group
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We went through the About Us section the other day on the show.
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Is Black Lives Matter about Black Lives mattering?
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According to their own website, it's about destroying the, quote, Western-prescribed nuclear family.
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It's about pushing the same explicitly Marxist revolutionary values that we've seen for hundreds
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And the point of those values is not to reform things a little bit.
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It's not to, you know, change a little something about our understanding of a statue.
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It's not to reform the police just a little bit.
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Believe Black Lives Matter when the website tells you that.
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Believe the New York Times when they tell you that, okay?
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There is nothing humble or Christ-like or wonderful about acquiescing to evil, about
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acquiescing to anarchists and looters and rioters and violent people taking over the country
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and ripping apart the greatest civilization in the history of the world.
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Ironically, the only civilization in the history of the world that ever came to oppose racism,
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There's no, but you're not going to get halfway down to Neil.
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You're not going to give them a little bit of their premises.
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Like, unfortunately, I think even some people at the highest levels of the federal government
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You're not going to get, there's no, it's yes or no.
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Like, abolish our order or maintain our order with great strength.
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If you stand in the middle of the road, you are going to get hit by a truck.
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It is going to be the truck of radical leftist revolution.
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Either radicals are going to force it on us or we're going to maintain it ourselves.
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