The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 562 - F-F-Fund The Police!

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00:00:37.720 Shocking news out of New York.

00:00:39.500 It turns out when you release a lot of criminals from prison for no reason, they commit more crimes.

00:00:46.900 This is the unbelievable new conclusion that the geniuses at the New York City government have discovered.

00:00:53.560 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.

00:01:04.420 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.

00:01:10.320 At that point, of course, coronavirus was no longer dangerous, though it's now dangerous again that the riots are ebbing.

00:01:15.860 That's all news for a little bit later in the show.

00:01:18.400 Initially, we were told that we had to let those criminals out of prison because it would be cruel not to.

00:01:23.840 We'll let them out.

00:01:24.460 They'll finally be law-abiding citizens.

00:01:26.460 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.

00:01:40.020 The left is making the same mistake that they have made for the past 300 years at least.

00:01:45.580 They think that politics can be used to fundamentally change human nature.

00:01:50.900 Well, we'll find out why that is just completely untrue.

00:01:54.320 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:55.020 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:56.020 All right, a lot to get to today.

00:02:06.760 We've got to get to updates from the peaceful riots, what it means the celebrities have to weigh in.

00:02:11.540 Some pollsters have weighed in as well.

00:02:13.380 Kind of surprising news for the president and for Joe Biden.

00:02:17.220 Maybe, maybe not.

00:02:18.020 Depends how you've been looking at this all along.

00:02:20.080 The liberal protests haven't gotten any better over the past few days.

00:02:25.860 We were told, oh, it's fine, it's ending, don't worry about it.

00:02:29.640 We're giving these peaceful, wonderful rioters space to breathe and to express themselves.

00:02:37.520 And it turns out they're still expressing themselves, and they're expressing themselves by breaking things and stealing things and shaking cop cars.

00:02:45.380 Here's just a little update.

00:02:46.800 Take a listen from the peaceful riots.

00:02:50.940 You can hear people screaming.

00:02:52.700 Someone throws a giant metal trash can at a cop car.

00:02:55.860 Then, okay, the light goes on the cop car.

00:02:59.640 Well, oop, still throwing stuff.

00:03:02.740 There are at least hundreds of people around it.

00:03:05.560 And so what's the cop do?

00:03:06.560 Does the cop arrest them?

00:03:07.520 No, they're still throwing stuff at the cop car.

00:03:09.840 And the cop is caught in this impossible position.

00:03:11.800 One, he doesn't have any backup, so they'd probably rip him to shreds if he got out of the car.

00:03:16.420 But two, even if he did use force, the woke mob would tear him apart and tell him that it was unjust.

00:03:22.700 So the cops just leave and the mobs run the streets.

00:03:27.100 Only one conclusion from this.

00:03:28.600 We need overwhelming force to put down the riots.

00:03:34.380 We need the police departments to use overwhelming force to put down the riots.

00:03:40.260 We need the civil government to back up the police departments in using overwhelming force to put down the riots.

00:03:46.780 And if the local governments won't do it and the state governments won't do it, the federal government needs to come in.

00:03:51.660 We need to fund the police, okay?

00:03:54.660 You've heard other F words about the police?

00:03:56.680 We need to fund the police, okay?

00:03:58.760 And we need to state simple truths as well.

00:04:01.040 Here's one very simple truth.

00:04:02.340 The police are a force for good, period, full stop.

00:04:08.700 That's it.

00:04:09.480 I know that's controversial these days.

00:04:12.340 It is insane that that is controversial these days.

00:04:15.900 The police are a force for good, and the police, when they're doing their jobs, must use force.

00:04:22.300 Now we're being told that the police should not use force.

00:04:26.060 The entire job of the police is to use force.

00:04:28.920 You cannot have law enforcement without force.

00:04:34.120 It's right there in the middle of the word.

00:04:35.840 That's the job.

00:04:37.840 A lot of confusion arises from the left getting something totally backwards here.

00:04:42.600 The traditional view of law enforcement is that law enforcement exists because crime exists.

00:04:49.580 That's why you always need law enforcement.

00:04:51.680 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.

00:04:59.920 You need to enforce order.

00:05:01.600 Okay?

00:05:02.000 That's the traditional view.

00:05:03.000 But the leftist view is backwards.

00:05:04.560 The leftist view says that crime only exists because law enforcement exists.

00:05:11.160 That's what we're hearing from Black Lives Matter. 0.64

00:05:13.040 We're hearing because our neighborhoods are over-policed, that's why crime exists.

00:05:17.520 But if you just took the police out of the neighborhoods, then the crime wouldn't exist.

00:05:21.400 This fundamental misunderstanding explains why rioters torched a Wendy's in Atlanta on Saturday night.

00:05:28.220 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:06:55.640 This misunderstanding of the left, which thinks that crime exists because there's law enforcement rather than the other way around,

00:07:02.040 that's why they burned down a Wendy's on Saturday night in Atlanta.

00:07:05.700 So you probably saw the scenes.

00:07:07.060 There was this fire engulfed a whole Wendy's in the middle of Atlanta on Saturday.

00:07:11.420 Why did they do it?

00:07:12.500 They did it because the cops used deadly force against a criminal, against a black man.

00:07:18.040 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.

00:07:23.900 Well, what actually happened during that altercation?

00:07:26.620 The way it's being portrayed is that cops went up to a man who was simply sleeping in the parking lot,

00:07:31.280 and these cops, almost certainly stone-cold racists, killed the man for no reason.

00:07:36.460 Is that what really happened?

00:07:37.620 No.

00:07:38.060 How do we know that that's not what happened?

00:07:39.640 We have body cam footage, and we have security camera footage.

00:07:42.520 Let's take a look.

00:07:44.620 I think you've had too much to drink to be dry.

00:07:46.740 Put your hands upon your back for me.

00:07:49.280 Put your hands upon your back.

00:07:52.200 Okay, and there's a guy.

00:07:53.320 He breaks out.

00:07:54.260 He's got two cops on him trying to arrest him, and this guy, apparently pretty strong, busts out.

00:08:00.620 It's already pretty clear he's drunk or on drugs.

00:08:02.880 He's on the ground.

00:08:03.620 And the two cops are trying to subdue him, but they're not using a lot of different techniques,

00:08:08.200 presumably because if the cops use too much force, they're going to have their lives completely destroyed.

00:08:13.140 They're going to be accused of racism.

00:08:14.300 They're going to be accused of all these things, right?

00:08:15.720 So this guy, obviously strong as an ox, is basically tossing these two cops around.

00:08:22.940 Finally, he gets up, steals the cop's taser.

00:08:28.040 Now, still running away, no use of force.

00:08:32.280 Turns around, pulls the taser on the cops, possibly looks like he shoots.

00:08:37.300 I don't know if he shoots or not, but it does look that way.

00:08:39.860 And then the cops discharge their weapons and get them on the ground.

00:08:43.040 Very sad scene.

00:08:45.500 Why is it a sad scene?

00:08:46.600 It's a sad scene because a man died.

00:08:48.120 Why did a man die?

00:08:49.180 Did he die because a bunch of racist cops went out hunting him and shooting him down?

00:08:53.800 Or did he die because he was committing a crime and threatening the lives of those police officers,

00:08:59.860 stealing their weapons, and then, unfortunately, very sadly, had to be put down himself?

00:09:05.520 Obviously, it's the latter.

00:09:08.800 The ultimate reason that this is a sad scene, the ultimate reason that this man died,

00:09:14.820 is because crime is a very sad thing.

00:09:17.820 There's no win here, right?

00:09:19.620 What's the win?

00:09:20.220 I mean, I guess the win is more people didn't die.

00:09:24.060 I guess the win is there is some justice, but it's sad to watch.

00:09:29.120 Nobody wants that.

00:09:30.060 Those two cops did not want to kill that guy.

00:09:32.980 How do we know they didn't want to kill that guy?

00:09:34.400 Because they wrestled him.

00:09:35.720 They used every bit of non-lethal force that they could have for minutes beforehand.

00:09:41.440 And then he pulls their taser, and they still don't use force.

00:09:44.160 Then he turns around and points it at them, and I think pulls the trigger.

00:09:46.960 It's kind of hard to see on the camera.

00:09:50.260 Very sad stuff, and yet, not one thing the cops did was inappropriate.

00:09:55.760 If anything, they were timid in their use of force,

00:10:01.940 ostensibly because of the environment that we're in right now.

00:10:04.400 Then a bunch of rioters burned down the Wendy's.

00:10:09.480 Why'd they burn down the Wendy's? 0.59

00:10:12.460 I could see them burning down the police station if they felt this was unjust,

00:10:16.920 even though it manifestly wasn't unjust.

00:10:18.600 You just heard it.

00:10:19.220 You just saw it.

00:10:20.880 But let's say even the rioters didn't look at that tape,

00:10:24.980 so they didn't know that the killing was perfectly appropriate, albeit sad.

00:10:30.420 What did the Wendy's do?

00:10:32.140 Did the manager of the Wendy's participate in this?

00:10:35.100 No, not at all.

00:10:36.160 This burning, this rioting has nothing to do with justice.

00:10:41.100 Okay, no one could watch that footage and conclude that that was police brutality.

00:10:45.180 And the people who burned down the Wendy's don't care about the truth or justice.

00:10:48.320 They just want to burn stuff down.

00:10:50.560 They just want to tear stuff down.

00:10:51.900 Great example of this from London over the weekend.

00:10:54.360 There is an activist and apparently an advisor to the London police.

00:10:58.040 She was asked if a statue of Winston Churchill should come down.

00:11:02.180 Because nothing screams Nazi like Winston Churchill, right?

00:11:04.880 The man who killed Adolf Hitler? 0.70

00:11:06.580 Yeah.

00:11:07.020 So she was asked, should this statue come down?

00:11:10.320 And she said, well, I don't know.

00:11:11.460 The question is dependent upon whether or not Churchill was a racist by whatever standards

00:11:18.000 are implied by that word today.

00:11:20.340 And then she said, I don't know if he was a racist or not because, you know, I never met

00:11:24.240 Winston Churchill.

00:11:25.320 Here she is.

00:11:27.080 Could the statue of Churchill be there or not, do you think?

00:11:31.940 Well, I've heard many arguments on both sides.

00:11:35.060 Some say that he's a racist.

00:11:36.760 Some say that he's a hero.

00:11:38.100 I haven't personally met him.

00:11:40.640 But what I would say is that that question of whether he should remain should be put to

00:11:47.480 the community.

00:11:48.800 She hasn't met him.

00:11:50.460 She hasn't met him yet.

00:11:51.420 Well, I hope maybe she'll meet Winston Churchill before she decides to tear his statue down.

00:11:56.720 Is there any?

00:11:57.500 Oh, no, she can't meet him because he died 50 years ago.

00:12:00.040 And she has no idea who one of the greatest Britons in all of history is.

00:12:03.600 She doesn't know.

00:12:05.720 And yet she says it should be put to the community.

00:12:07.520 I mean, basically everything she said here is crazy because consider that.

00:12:11.460 She goes, I have basically I have no idea who Winston Churchill is.

00:12:13.720 I know nothing about British history.

00:12:16.040 And it should be put to the community.

00:12:18.120 You know, all of us, people like us to decide whether or not to tear down British history.

00:12:26.180 People are surprised she doesn't know who Winston Churchill is.

00:12:28.520 I'm not.

00:12:28.920 Of course she doesn't know who Winston Churchill is.

00:12:30.800 None of the people who want to tear down the statues know who they are, know anything about

00:12:34.880 them.

00:12:35.320 The people who want to tear down Robert E. Lee in the United States don't know a thing

00:12:38.360 about Robert E. Lee.

00:12:39.280 The people who want to tear down Christopher Columbus don't know a thing about Columbus.

00:12:43.200 And I have a little insight into this in that I've given speeches about Christopher Columbus.

00:12:47.040 I've answered a lot of Q&As about Christopher Columbus.

00:12:49.480 And no one who hates this guy has any idea what they're talking about.

00:12:54.120 And I'll ask them that.

00:12:55.120 And they'll sort of admit they have no idea.

00:12:56.920 And they think the burden of defense is on the people who don't want to tear apart our

00:13:02.580 history.

00:13:03.840 But that's what they want to do.

00:13:05.240 They just want to tear stuff down.

00:13:07.020 You know the craziest thing, speaking of the United Kingdom?

00:13:08.900 In Scotland, a statue of Robert the Bruce was vandalized with graffiti that talked about

00:13:16.080 Black Lives Matter.

00:13:18.060 Robert the Bruce.

00:13:21.180 It said racist king is what the spray paint said on Robert the Bruce.

00:13:25.820 For those of you who are not history buffs, Robert the Bruce is a 14th century Scottish

00:13:30.960 king who won independence from England.

00:13:33.640 And the word racism would have had absolutely no meaning in the time of Robert the Bruce.

00:13:42.360 The phrase Black Lives Matter, I think Robert the Bruce would say, Robert the Bruce, you're 1.00

00:13:46.040 a racist.

00:13:46.620 He'd say, what?

00:13:47.860 Come again?

00:13:49.280 Before he would have said it with a thicker bro.

00:13:51.160 What?

00:13:51.500 Come again?

00:13:51.960 He would have.

00:13:52.260 I don't know.

00:13:52.620 I can't really do a Scottish accent.

00:13:54.860 That's, I think, the evidence that we need that this doesn't have to do with any particular

00:14:01.980 incidents of police brutality, real or imagined in the United States or Great Britain.

00:14:06.140 It has to do with a tearing down of history.

00:14:09.820 If Robert the Bruce is now deemed unacceptable, then we are not talking about what people think

00:14:17.600 that we're talking about.

00:14:18.940 They want to tear stuff down.

00:14:21.000 You know, thousands and thousands of people gathered in Brooklyn over the weekend.

00:14:25.920 Coronavirus is not permitted in Brooklyn, so they're all safe, obviously.

00:14:29.780 They were there not merely to protest for Black Lives Matter.

00:14:35.060 They went one step further down the leftist oppression hierarchy.

00:14:40.400 They went to protest for how Black trans lives matter.

00:14:45.660 And it turns out the object of their protest is sort of the opposite of the narrative that

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00:14:50.400 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:16:04.920 So thousands of people gather in Brooklyn over the weekend, outside the Brooklyn Museum,

00:16:09.600 in support of black trans lives.

00:16:12.580 Take a listen.

00:16:13.020 Thousands of people for as far as the eye can see, all crammed in very tightly together,

00:16:25.760 not social distancing, talking about the importance, not just of black lives or it's pride month,

00:16:32.320 so it could be gay or trans lives or whatever.

00:16:36.120 Black trans lives. 0.93

00:16:37.600 Why did they do this?

00:16:38.820 Why are they tying this in with Black Lives Matter?

00:16:40.320 Because there were two murders in the past few days of black men who identify as women,

00:16:46.040 and this is evidence not just of racism, but transphobia.

00:16:50.000 And yet, if you look a little more closely at the cases themselves, they undercut the left-wing

00:16:54.760 narrative.

00:16:55.120 So there were two people murdered.

00:16:56.360 The first one was Rhea Milton.

00:16:59.180 Rhea Milton was killed, presumably for being a man who identifies as a woman.

00:17:05.380 And this is evidence of not just racism, but transphobia, except that the two people who

00:17:11.120 have been arrested in connection with the murder are named Kaleb Marshall Tooson and Tyree Jeffrey

00:17:19.180 Cross, both of whom are also black men.

00:17:22.760 So this actually has nothing to do with the premise of Black Lives Matter, which is that

00:17:30.540 so there's this spate of anti-black racism around the country and black men are being hunted down

00:17:35.520 because of the color of their skin.

00:17:36.940 The two people who are now being charged with the murder are black men as well.

00:17:42.680 So I guess this could be a rally for trans rights or something, but the racial element

00:17:49.520 just isn't there.

00:17:51.280 And then what about the other man who identifies as a woman?

00:17:54.780 Dominique Remy Fels.

00:17:57.000 This happened in Philly.

00:18:00.140 They don't know who the killer is yet, but the Philadelphia Police Department is investigating.

00:18:05.660 But we've been just told that the police department are the villains.

00:18:08.400 They're the enemy.

00:18:08.900 So why, how could we can't trust them to investigate?

00:18:12.120 And yet they're the only people doing any investigations.

00:18:14.940 This, this march or this protest in Brooklyn was probably the biggest event that we've seen

00:18:21.840 in a week or two in terms of a protest or even a riot or looting or whatever.

00:18:26.540 It was the biggest demonstration.

00:18:28.420 And yet the, the two central features of it, the racial element and the anti-cop element

00:18:36.700 don't make any sense.

00:18:38.900 They're completely contradicted by the facts of what they're demonstrating themselves.

00:18:45.240 And this raises the question, this question that a lot of conservatives have been asking

00:18:48.640 and some moderates and nice people all around.

00:18:51.700 Should we indulge the premises of Black Lives Matter, which the proponents of Black Lives Matter 1.00

00:18:58.340 are presenting this as just simply meaning that Black Lives Matter.

00:19:01.040 And if you're pro-black, then you support it. 0.99

00:19:03.140 And if you're anti-black and you're a bigot, then you oppose it.

00:19:06.300 So should we indulge this sort of thing or should we recognize BLM for what it is, which

00:19:10.500 is not what it says it is, but actually just a radical leftist Marxist organization that

00:19:16.800 was founded by radical leftist Marxists who openly espouse their Marxism, who are funded

00:19:21.500 by the most radical left-wing donors on earth, who are highly organized and whose goal is not

00:19:25.820 merely to protect Black lives, as it were, but to radically overhaul society. 0.72

00:19:30.800 I think in my presentation of those two choices, you can figure out which one I'm going for.

00:19:37.000 It would seem pretty clear that this is a radical group.

00:19:40.340 We'll get back to this question of do you indulge it, do you not indulge it?

00:19:43.920 Just consider the different kinds of treatment.

00:19:46.500 So thousands and thousands of people gather in Brooklyn, totally fine.

00:19:52.060 They're all packed in really tight, no big deal.

00:19:54.540 Meanwhile, President Trump decides he's going to reopen his rallies.

00:19:58.080 So he says, hey, I'm going to have a new rally, you know, coming up in the next few days.

00:20:01.780 The media furious.

00:20:02.880 This is the headline from NBC News.

00:20:07.580 Extraordinarily dangerous.

00:20:08.920 Trump rally draws grave concerns from top health officials.

00:20:12.580 Now, one hour before NBC News tweeted this out, they tweeted out a generally approving tweet

00:20:19.040 about the Brooklyn demonstrations.

00:20:21.580 Thousands gather in Brooklyn.

00:20:24.220 Ah, for trans lives, supporting a good cause.

00:20:27.560 Then one hour later, Trump rally draws grave concerns from top health officials.

00:20:33.060 No, it doesn't.

00:20:33.820 It draws grave concerns from leftist politicians and their hacks in the scientific establishment

00:20:40.240 and the media establishment.

00:20:42.880 Trump should absolutely hold his rally.

00:20:46.220 They've lost their credibility at this point, the left and the media.

00:20:49.320 They can't, they can't do it.

00:20:50.360 They turn coronavirus on and off completely at whim, willy nilly.

00:20:53.520 They've turned it on and off probably three times in the last week.

00:20:56.360 No more.

00:20:57.300 I'm sorry.

00:20:57.780 We can't believe what they say.

00:20:59.040 I wish we could believe what they say, but we can't.

00:21:01.000 They've proven themselves to be liars.

00:21:02.620 And so I guess we're on our own.

00:21:04.280 Trump should definitely go ahead with the rally.

00:21:07.000 There is a problem though.

00:21:08.280 There's something I've got to ding the president for.

00:21:10.040 I think he's undercutting his own argument.

00:21:11.800 So Trump initially was going to hold this rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Juneteenth.

00:21:15.980 For those of you not familiar with Juneteenth, that's June 19th.

00:21:19.540 It's the day that slaves were liberated in Texas.

00:21:24.400 Trump is going to hold the rally that day.

00:21:26.340 Then he decides, no, there's an outcry.

00:21:28.460 You can't hold the rally in Juneteenth and you can't hold it in Tulsa where there have

00:21:32.840 been racial tensions before.

00:21:34.420 You got to move the day.

00:21:36.000 I was hoping Trump would stand firm saying, no way am I moving the day.

00:21:39.120 But he moved it.

00:21:40.080 He tweeted out, quote,

00:21:40.680 We had previously scheduled our MAGA rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma for June 19th.

00:21:43.980 A big deal, unfortunately.

00:21:45.520 However, this would fall on the Juneteenth holiday.

00:21:47.700 Many of my African-American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest

00:21:50.500 that we consider changing the date out of respect for this holiday

00:21:53.400 and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents.

00:21:56.720 I've therefore decided to move our rally to Saturday, June 20th

00:21:59.480 in order to honor their requests.

00:22:01.360 We've already had ticket requests in excess of 200,000 people.

00:22:05.300 I look forward to seeing everyone in Oklahoma.

00:22:09.120 It's weak sauce, man.

00:22:09.940 You know, I love the president.

00:22:11.360 You know, I'm a big supporter.

00:22:14.120 This was a very bad decision to move the date.

00:22:17.520 Not just a little bad, very bad.

00:22:19.460 Why?

00:22:21.260 Juneteenth is the day that the Republican Party freed the slaves in Texas.

00:22:26.080 Okay, the party that the president now represents.

00:22:30.340 President Trump has made helping out the black community a big part of his presidential administration,

00:22:36.120 right?

00:22:36.220 Lowest African-American unemployment ever.

00:22:38.480 And he's touted those kinds of statistics.

00:22:42.400 Actually, he passed criminal justice reform, meaning letting people out of prison,

00:22:46.000 in large part to show that he cares about the black community.

00:22:49.400 I thought that messaging was misguided, but that was the point at least.

00:22:53.320 And now, he's saying, no, I can't possibly hold a rally on Juneteenth.

00:22:59.920 He's giving the left the premise.

00:23:02.100 He's saying to the left, the left, the left initially says, Trump, you can't hold a rally

00:23:07.840 because you're a racist and you hate black people. 0.82

00:23:10.100 And it's disrespectful for you to hold a rally on a day that celebrates freeing the slaves.

00:23:15.180 And he said, yeah, I guess you're right.

00:23:19.140 They're not right.

00:23:20.060 Their premise is wrong.

00:23:21.820 If anybody should hold a rally on Juneteenth, it should be the Republican president.

00:23:25.920 There's no evidence that he's a bigot at all.

00:23:28.240 There's a lot of evidence to the contrary.

00:23:30.340 And yet, he gave them, he gave them their argument.

00:23:33.920 I get it.

00:23:34.540 There's a lot of pressure on him.

00:23:36.160 I can't even imagine the pressure that the president's facing right now.

00:23:38.740 But you can't give in.

00:23:39.540 You can't give in one little bit.

00:23:41.160 That's the point.

00:23:41.780 You can't give in one little bit on the police.

00:23:43.560 You can't give in one little bit on the funding.

00:23:45.400 You can't give in one little bit on the ridiculous racial narrative from the left.

00:23:48.860 Because when you give them just a little bit, you open the floodgates.

00:23:52.560 You open the damn brakes.

00:23:54.540 And you get riots and looting and racial division and discord.

00:24:00.000 And we're seeing it all around us.

00:24:01.560 Now, Trump is being knocked unfairly, I think, for many other things as well.

00:24:07.440 So he's being knocked fairly for the Juneteenth issue.

00:24:09.580 He's being knocked, and specifically for changing the date.

00:24:13.140 He's being knocked unfairly, though, for a bunch of other nonsense.

00:24:16.640 And it probably gets to him after a while.

00:24:17.840 President Trump was giving a speech over the weekend.

00:24:19.920 And he walked down a ramp.

00:24:21.360 And he walked down a ramp, I don't know, like a little bit slowly or something.

00:24:24.520 And the left is having a field day.

00:24:25.840 I think that one's going to flip back on them.

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00:25:49.260 So, fair knock on Trump, total unfair knock on Trump.

00:25:52.540 He's being criticized for how he walked down the ramp.

00:25:54.660 Take a listen to this.

00:25:58.220 It's okay.

00:25:59.380 Trump is now, he's finished his speech.

00:26:03.320 And he's walking sort of fine.

00:26:06.040 I mean, it's a, you know, it's a ramp.

00:26:08.640 It's not like there are stairs.

00:26:12.080 He seems to be a little bit slower than normally he would walk.

00:26:15.760 But obviously, he doesn't want to trip and fall.

00:26:17.580 The left would have a field day with that. 0.75

00:26:19.180 Then he comes to the bottom, has a little step at the end, and he's looking fine.

00:26:23.980 That's it.

00:26:24.600 And the left is saying he looks like a doddering old idiot or something.

00:26:29.260 If the left is going to try this line of attack against President Trump,

00:26:32.840 when their nominee is Joe Biden, that's not going to work out very well for them.

00:26:38.600 I think that, by comparison, as President Trump told us just a few months ago,

00:26:43.860 Trump looks like a young, vibrant man.

00:26:45.680 Well, I think that I just feel like a young man.

00:26:56.640 I'm so young.

00:26:57.820 I can't believe it.

00:26:58.840 I'm the youngest person.

00:27:00.280 I am a young, vibrant man.

00:27:03.560 I look at Joe.

00:27:05.000 I don't know about him.

00:27:06.440 I don't know.

00:27:07.060 I would never say anyone's too old.

00:27:10.740 But I know they're all making me look very young, both in terms of age and I think in

00:27:16.040 terms of energy.

00:27:17.260 I think you people know that better than anybody.

00:27:19.460 Yeah.

00:27:19.760 A young, vibrant man.

00:27:20.920 And that is how he looks.

00:27:21.900 You know, Joe Biden was just giving a speech.

00:27:24.080 And I guess it was sort of a panel, you know, I don't even know.

00:27:27.360 Maybe it was trying to be a speech.

00:27:28.480 It certainly didn't come off as a particularly rousing speech.

00:27:31.160 And Biden is sitting there with one of the face masks dangling off of his ear.

00:27:37.100 It's not on his, it's not on both ears.

00:27:39.540 It's not covering his mouth.

00:27:40.660 It's not on the table.

00:27:41.940 It's just dangling off of one of his ears while he tries to stammer his way through an

00:27:47.380 English sentence.

00:27:49.760 You know, the rapidly rising in with, with, I don't know.

00:28:00.100 Not looking good.

00:28:02.180 That's just a little 11 second clip.

00:28:04.200 The whole speech is more or less of the same energy level and the same coherence.

00:28:11.020 I'm not even going to look, we know the joke can't form an English sentence.

00:28:13.880 I'm not even going to focus on that.

00:28:15.380 I do want to focus on the mask though, because what, what the mask shows us here is that the

00:28:19.660 mask is not primarily a medical tool for preventing the spread of a virus.

00:28:24.840 It is primarily a political symbol.

00:28:27.740 Obviously dangling from the ear, the mask is not going to do anything to prevent the spread

00:28:32.380 of the virus.

00:28:32.980 His nose is exposed.

00:28:34.020 His mouth is exposed.

00:28:35.960 So why doesn't Joe either put it all the way over his mouth or put it on the table?

00:28:39.980 Because the mask doesn't really seem to do very much.

00:28:44.700 At least the people wearing it like this don't think it does very much medically, but it signals

00:28:49.620 to you that he's a good person.

00:28:51.100 He's on the left.

00:28:52.200 He's taking the virus very seriously, except when it involves racial riots, then the virus

00:28:58.020 doesn't exist anymore.

00:28:59.360 It's, it's merely a signal to people of what side of the political aisle he is on.

00:29:04.760 And, and we've been making that point on this show for weeks now, and the left has been

00:29:08.760 attacking and saying it's outrageous.

00:29:10.060 That's crazy.

00:29:10.580 Well, there's your evidence.

00:29:11.480 There's your evidence right there.

00:29:13.720 It, he is wearing it in such a way that it cannot possibly do the thing that he's saying

00:29:18.460 it does, but he's got to have it there anyway to signal who he is.

00:29:21.980 That wasn't even the craziest part of the Biden speech.

00:29:24.980 Biden then went on to make a comment about the riots and protests that is outrageous on

00:29:34.360 its face.

00:29:35.360 And yet actually practically Joe makes a pretty good point.

00:29:38.360 He says that the effect of George Floyd's death has been greater than the effect of

00:29:43.820 Martin Luther King's death.

00:29:45.920 But even Dr. King's assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd's

00:29:52.940 death did.

00:29:54.580 Sure.

00:29:55.260 Ridiculous on its face.

00:29:56.440 I mean, a lot of people have focused on George Floyd's criminal career.

00:30:00.880 Basically, you know, George Floyd was in and out of prison.

00:30:03.260 He doesn't seem to have turned his life around despite left-wingers trying to protest to the

00:30:08.820 contrary.

00:30:09.840 Obviously, none of that justifies George Floyd being killed unjustly.

00:30:14.300 But people, even some people on the left are pointing out and saying, you know, we shouldn't,

00:30:18.840 we shouldn't turn this man into a secular saint because that's going to, that's going to be 1.00

00:30:24.580 contradicted by some of the facts of his life.

00:30:26.240 Compared to Martin Luther King, you know, these two guys are not on the same plane.

00:30:32.240 And yet, the point that Joe Biden's making about the deaths of these two men actually

00:30:38.820 might be true.

00:30:40.980 The death of Martin Luther King Jr. did not cause weeks and weeks and weeks of riots and

00:30:46.140 looting that were then defended by the people who were running the elite institutions that

00:30:52.260 were then being sort of granted as a premise that people should loot to express their anger.

00:30:58.840 The death of Martin Luther King Jr., which was nationally traumatic, did not cause this

00:31:06.600 intense radicalism that we're seeing from the death of George Floyd.

00:31:14.060 And it's not even a normative observation, right?

00:31:18.800 It's not even saying we should be reacting this way.

00:31:20.620 Like, Joe Biden is just saying that is the effect of the reaction.

00:31:23.500 It's actually probably the best point he's made so far in the campaign.

00:31:26.660 We'll take a little bit of a look at the effects of that and who is pushing the radicalism in

00:31:31.000 a second.

00:31:31.280 There's a new poll out that is, that really opens the curtain, I think, on who's pushing

00:31:36.900 this radicalism.

00:31:37.560 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:32:29.280 Big new poll out on the radicalism we've seen in the past few weeks.

00:32:45.060 This comes from Yahoo and YouGov.

00:32:47.720 Poll asks a few questions, and everyone's looking at it through the lens of race.

00:32:54.400 Lens of race is not, I think, the biggest finding here.

00:32:58.160 So question, what's a bigger problem in America right now?

00:33:01.660 Systemic racism and policing or vandalism and violence during the protests?

00:33:06.940 What's the bigger problem in America?

00:33:08.440 The thing that the rioters are ostensibly protesting or the rioters burning down the cities themselves?

00:33:12.760 When you ask people who make less than $50,000 a year, 49% say the systemic racism and policing, 51% say the riots.

00:33:24.940 So it's a slim majority, but most people say the riots are the bigger problem.

00:33:31.540 If you make over $100,000 a year, many, many more people say it's the systemic policing racism that's the problem.

00:33:41.480 Many, many fewer people say it's the riots, 58 to 42.

00:33:45.180 The big divide here is not necessarily race.

00:33:49.480 The big divide here is on income, and it's the poorer people who say the riots are the problem,

00:33:54.980 and it's the richer people who say it's the systemic violence and racism.

00:34:00.600 Maybe, depending on how much you listen to the mainstream media, that's the opposite of what you might expect.

00:34:07.460 Next one, do you personally have racial biases?

00:34:10.440 Yes or no?

00:34:11.640 Well, if you make less than $50,000 a year, 15% say yes.

00:34:16.860 73% say no.

00:34:18.420 If you make over $100,000 a year, 32% say yes, more than double, and only 45% say no.

00:34:27.880 So fewer than half say.

00:34:28.940 They don't have racial biases.

00:34:30.700 The richer you are, the woker you are.

00:34:35.260 Is it okay for NFL players to kneel during the national anthem?

00:34:39.620 Right?

00:34:40.220 They're protesting the American flag itself.

00:34:42.660 If you make under $50,000 a year, 49% say yes.

00:34:46.140 That's less than half.

00:34:46.940 If you're not a math genius, and 36% say it's not okay.

00:34:52.900 If you make over $100,000 a year, 63% say yes.

00:34:56.160 29% say it's not okay.

00:34:59.240 You're much more likely to support the NFL celebrities protesting our American flag if you're rich than if you're poor.

00:35:06.200 Again, might be the opposite of what the mainstream media are telling you.

00:35:09.600 Do you support or oppose Colin Kaepernick when he protested racial injustice, allegedly?

00:35:14.140 Under $50,000 a year, 38% support, 37% oppose.

00:35:19.880 If you make over $100,000 a year, 55% support, 36% oppose.

00:35:23.800 We see the same thing there.

00:35:25.440 Same thing on questions for the need for police reform, reform or defund the police.

00:35:30.320 This one to me is the most interesting.

00:35:31.660 Only 22% of people who make under $50,000 a year say they support defunding the police.

00:35:37.240 That number rises to 32% if you make over $100,000 per year.

00:35:41.860 Why?

00:35:42.340 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.

00:35:49.020 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.

00:35:58.020 This happens all the time, okay?

00:36:03.280 Rich, largely white liberals espousing their woke social justice to end up hurting poor racial minorities.

00:36:12.560 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.

00:36:20.780 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.

00:36:30.160 He still does better than political moderates like Romney and McCain.

00:36:35.060 Some people might say rhinos or squishes.

00:36:38.220 He still does better.

00:36:39.720 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.

00:36:48.960 No surprise, the loudest voices stoking the unrest and the politically convenient race riots come from rich, white, liberal celebrities.

00:36:58.880 Here is the video that took Twitter by storm.

00:37:03.260 I take responsibility.

00:37:06.980 I take responsibility.

00:37:09.400 I take responsibility.

00:37:12.420 I take responsibility.

00:37:14.540 They all take responsibility.

00:37:15.220 For every unchecked moment, for every time it was easier to ignore than to call it out for what it was.

00:37:21.180 Every not so funny joke.

00:37:24.520 Every unfair stereotype.

00:37:26.840 Every blatant injustice, no matter how big or small.

00:37:28.560 Oh, there she is. I know who she is.

00:37:29.940 Every time I are in silent.

00:37:32.520 Every time I explained away police brutality.

00:37:34.900 Don't know who that is.

00:37:36.700 Or turned a blind eye.

00:37:38.800 I take responsibility.

00:37:40.520 I do know that, Julianne Morrill.

00:37:41.580 Black people are being slaughtered in the streets, killed in their own homes.

00:37:45.700 These are our brothers and sisters, our friends, our family.

00:37:50.600 We are done watching them die.

00:37:53.040 We are no longer bystanders.

00:37:55.440 We will not be idle.

00:37:57.420 Enough is enough.

00:37:58.620 I will no longer allow an unchecked moment.

00:38:00.900 All right, cut it there.

00:38:01.840 Cut it there.

00:38:02.460 You get the idea.

00:38:03.740 This goes on and on.

00:38:05.060 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.

00:38:14.080 Next thing I noticed, Julianne Morrill just completely wrong here. 1.00

00:38:17.160 Black people are not being slaughtered by racist cops or broadly racist whites.

00:38:22.140 It just isn't happening.

00:38:23.040 You can check the statistics.

00:38:24.900 Deborah Messing here clearly just reading from a sheet of paper.

00:38:27.960 She did not even memorize her sappy bit about I'm taking responsibility.

00:38:33.240 Aaron Paul is a worse actor than we thought he was from Breaking Bad.

00:38:36.960 I thought that guy was a very good actor, but his performance here, not so great.

00:38:39.920 But the key, the key to this whole video is that last guy who looks familiar, but I don't recognize him.

00:38:45.440 Like, I don't know his name.

00:38:47.500 We will not allow an unchecked moment.

00:38:50.520 You heard it at the top.

00:38:51.380 That was the original thesis of the video.

00:38:52.940 We will not allow an unchecked moment.

00:38:54.220 What that means is telling people to shut up if they disagree with the left.

00:38:57.480 The checking, that's the checking, is shut up.

00:39:01.140 Don't say that thing you think.

00:39:02.920 Don't voice that opinion that contradicts the leftist narrative.

00:39:05.700 And that's what they want.

00:39:06.560 They want you to shut up.

00:39:09.240 We want them to shut up, but they want us to shut up.

00:39:11.560 And it's not, they are just mouthpieces for this left-wing establishment.

00:39:16.520 They are insufferable.

00:39:17.720 But even Dave Chappelle, who is a very good comedian, came in and he got on this bandwagon supporting the peaceful riots.

00:39:26.540 He did so for a sort of interesting reason.

00:39:29.520 So he opens up his new, his new comedy set talking about George Floyd, not in a comedic way.

00:39:34.940 He's just talking about it very seriously.

00:39:36.800 Then he criticized our friend Candace Owens, which also wasn't funny.

00:39:40.860 It was just a vulgar kind of line.

00:39:42.480 It wasn't even a joke.

00:39:43.480 Then he defended these idiot celebrities that we just saw giving their opinions.

00:39:49.420 And it was kind of interesting how he defended them because he said people trust celebrities.

00:39:54.000 That's why they keep going back and watching them.

00:39:56.080 They do have an influence and a platform, and so it makes sense for them to talk.

00:40:00.040 And I guess that's true.

00:40:01.660 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.

00:40:09.120 You know, if we only know them for being good at reading lines that other people have written for them.

00:40:12.540 But we do, and that's a reality, and Dave Chappelle's acknowledging that.

00:40:16.240 But then the most interesting part is how Dave Chappelle defends the riots.

00:40:22.340 When they figured out what this n*** was, no less than 400 police officers showed up and answered the call. 0.88

00:40:31.320 And boy, let me tell you something.

00:40:33.620 They Swiss cheese this n***.

00:40:35.400 He is dead as dead could be.

00:40:38.440 He is done.

00:40:39.860 And you know why 400 cops showed up?

00:40:42.220 Because one of their own was murdered.

00:40:45.220 So how the f*** can't they understand what's going on in these streets?

00:40:51.400 We saw ourselves like you see yourself.

00:41:00.200 Dave is actually making about half a good point here.

00:41:03.660 And the thing that's funny is because he attacked Candace Owens in his set,

00:41:07.700 he then later goes on, apparently obliviously, to make the same point Candace Owens did on identity.

00:41:15.780 What Candace Owens said in her video was, I don't identify with George Floyd.

00:41:20.120 I know that people are trying to say that I need to have racial solidarity with George Floyd,

00:41:23.940 but I don't identify with George Floyd.

00:41:26.240 And I disagree with the decision to elevate people who commit a lot of crimes as representatives of the community.

00:41:33.160 That's her point.

00:41:33.700 Whether you agree with it or disagree with it, that's the point she was making.

00:41:36.160 And so she's saying, I don't identify with him simply on the basis of his race.

00:41:40.560 And what Chappelle is saying is we must identify with these people simply on the basis of their race.

00:41:46.080 The reason why when cops get killed, why the cops show up overwhelmingly to take down the criminal,

00:41:51.860 which is the first part of the story he's telling, is because they killed one of their own.

00:41:56.400 And now when someone kills one of our own, we show out in the streets.

00:42:00.380 What is your identity?

00:42:04.240 Where do you find your identity?

00:42:06.520 The left is trying to stoke all sorts of identity.

00:42:10.700 Racial identity, not white identity, but for every other race, they're trying to stoke racial identity politics.

00:42:17.160 Sexual identity, if you're attracted to men and you're a man,

00:42:20.900 or if you're a man who identifies as a woman, they're trying to stoke that sort of thing.

00:42:24.100 Socio-economic class identity, do you not make a lot of money?

00:42:29.360 Do you, yes, make a lot of money?

00:42:30.780 They're trying to stoke all of these kinds of identity, and they're all pretty shallow.

00:42:34.260 The one identity that they're trying to destroy is American identity.

00:42:37.240 That's why they're trying to tear down the statues.

00:42:39.240 They're trying to tear down not just Robert E. Lee.

00:42:40.840 They're trying to tear down Christopher Columbus, and they are going to tear down George Washington.

00:42:44.100 Where it hasn't happened already, it will happen soon.

00:42:46.200 That's the only identity that in any way can make this nation work is if you have a strong, perhaps even primary,

00:42:54.940 or at least up at the top, identity as an American, regardless of your race, regardless of your sexual preferences, whatever.

00:43:03.360 That is ebbing away.

00:43:04.420 I mean, they are now openly protesting the American flag, which is the symbol of that very identity,

00:43:08.520 and they're stoking all of the other kinds.

00:43:09.780 And even guys who are usually fairly insightful or funny like Dave Chappelle are agreeing with that take on it.

00:43:17.080 Where is your identity going to be?

00:43:18.800 That's the question.

00:43:20.380 Okay.

00:43:21.600 Is this really a radical thing?

00:43:23.380 Yes, it is.

00:43:24.440 Okay.

00:43:24.680 They're talking about serious, destructive things.

00:43:27.940 You hear defund the police, and a lot of people are trying to make sense of that.

00:43:30.980 The Hill says, what does defund the police actually mean?

00:43:35.160 Okay.

00:43:35.480 That's their headline.

00:43:36.780 What exactly does it mean to defund the police?

00:43:39.660 That's from New York Magazine.

00:43:40.980 Well, the New York Times comes out and actually admits it.

00:43:42.980 This is from the Organizer Against Criminalization, Mariyame Kava.

00:43:48.340 What does that mean?

00:43:49.060 I have no idea.

00:43:50.520 Organizer Against Criminalization.

00:43:52.120 That's a good job.

00:43:52.740 I wonder how much that pays.

00:43:53.740 Mr. Soros, how much does that pay?

00:43:55.480 The headline.

00:43:57.240 Yes, we must literally abolish the police.

00:44:00.000 That's what they're talking about.

00:44:00.940 And when they do that, we're going to be very far gone.

00:44:08.620 It's going to be very hard to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

00:44:11.560 When you totally destroy law and order, when you defund the police, when you destroy your

00:44:19.800 identity as an American, and you smash it up into little pieces, and you've got the black 0.86

00:44:24.040 piece, and the black trans piece, and the gay piece, and the Hispanic piece, and all of

00:44:29.500 them, all the different little pieces, you're not going to be able to put Humpty Dumpty back

00:44:33.060 together again.

00:44:33.500 So we've got to be very clear about what we're doing before we smash it.

00:44:39.040 When we smash law enforcement, we are smashing the order of the country.

00:44:43.180 And then I think that's the point of the radicals.

00:44:45.880 They're pretty open about this.

00:44:47.080 They want to destroy the order of the country and then put it back together again in their 0.97

00:44:50.480 own way.

00:44:51.040 They want to smash a lot of eggs and then make a new omelet. 0.92

00:44:54.320 All right.

00:44:54.440 This is the rhetoric that we've heard all the way going back to Stalin and Lenin, and

00:44:57.960 even before that.

00:45:00.800 In the face of all of this, you have some very well-meaning people, conservatives, moderates,

00:45:07.380 independents, a lot of Christians, a lot of Midwestern Christians I've noticed, asking,

00:45:12.140 is it a good idea to just give in a little bit, to kneel?

00:45:17.460 I had this discussion with a friend of mine last night.

00:45:19.720 Because some churches resumed over the weekend and a lot of them are buying the BLM radical

00:45:24.680 line.

00:45:25.160 And they're saying, look, it's actually an example of Christ-like humility to get down

00:45:29.820 and kneel to this political ideology.

00:45:33.160 You saw those videos of the secular liturgy of, you know, random white liberals just kneeling,

00:45:37.780 kneeling down on the street and begging forgiveness of random black people.

00:45:41.780 They never, the random white person didn't do anything to the random black person, but

00:45:45.200 they're still kneeling down in this liturgy.

00:45:46.800 Is there, is there an evidence of Christ-like humility here, right?

00:45:49.440 Christ turns the other cheek, right?

00:45:52.280 Christ washes people's feet. 0.99

00:45:54.900 Christ says, love your persecutors, right?

00:45:57.040 Christ says all these sorts of things.

00:45:59.020 Take the worst seat at the table.

00:46:01.900 I think that's why a lot of nice, well-meaning conservative Christians in the Midwest are buying

00:46:07.280 into this stuff.

00:46:08.700 On the other hand, it's very un-Christ-like to acquiesce to evil.

00:46:14.700 And Marxism is evil.

00:46:17.280 And Black Lives Matter, or forget Black Lives Matter, whatever the next Marxist front group

00:46:23.340 is going to be, is evil too, okay?

00:46:25.940 They're pushing very evil things.

00:46:27.400 We went through the About Us section the other day on the show.

00:46:30.360 Is Black Lives Matter about Black Lives mattering? 1.00

00:46:32.220 No.

00:46:32.840 According to their own website, it's about destroying the, quote, Western-prescribed nuclear family.

00:46:37.980 It's about creating a bunch of comrades.

00:46:42.000 It's about pushing the same explicitly Marxist revolutionary values that we've seen for hundreds

00:46:49.740 of years.

00:46:50.740 And the point of those values is not to reform things a little bit.

00:46:54.840 It's to utterly destroy them.

00:46:57.640 It's not to, you know, change a little something about our understanding of a statue.

00:47:02.060 It's to rip down the statue.

00:47:03.400 It's not to reform the police just a little bit.

00:47:05.280 It's to abolish the police.

00:47:07.360 Believe them when they tell you that.

00:47:08.640 Believe Black Lives Matter when the website tells you that. 0.99

00:47:10.600 Believe the New York Times when they tell you that, okay?

00:47:13.540 There is nothing humble or Christ-like or wonderful about acquiescing to evil, about

00:47:19.080 acquiescing to anarchists and looters and rioters and violent people taking over the country

00:47:24.540 and ripping apart the greatest civilization in the history of the world.

00:47:28.340 Ironically, the only civilization in the history of the world that ever came to oppose racism,

00:47:32.360 right?

00:47:32.860 But that's not the point.

00:47:33.720 The race issue isn't the point.

00:47:35.680 It's about totally undermining the society.

00:47:38.600 Are you going to acquiesce to that or not?

00:47:40.660 There's no middle ground.

00:47:42.380 There's no, but you're not going to get halfway down to Neil.

00:47:44.560 You're not going to give them a little bit of their premises.

00:47:46.840 Like, unfortunately, I think even some people at the highest levels of the federal government

00:47:50.320 are doing.

00:47:51.160 You're not going to get, there's no, it's yes or no.

00:47:55.400 F the police, f-f-fund the police, okay?

00:47:58.100 Like, abolish our order or maintain our order with great strength.

00:48:02.800 Those are the two choices.

00:48:04.160 If you stand in the middle of the road, you are going to get hit by a truck.

00:48:07.260 It is going to be the truck of radical leftist revolution.

00:48:10.380 Pick a side.

00:48:11.320 This is not the time to go squishy.

00:48:14.320 Order will be maintained.

00:48:15.620 Either radicals are going to force it on us or we're going to maintain it ourselves.

00:48:19.480 Your choice.

00:48:20.400 I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 15, 2020

Ep. 562 - F-F-Fund The Police!

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