Screaming Primal Rage
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Summary
Ted Cruz decries the Democratic response to the Antifa rioting in response to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Antifa violence and calls for all Democrats to join him in condemning Antifa. Ted Cruz is joined by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D) to speak at the hearing.
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That's called freedom of speech, and that's what the searing title is.
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So all I can say is, look, we should all join hands in denouncing
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and whatever words you want to use about violent extremism of all stripes.
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So to constantly accuse Democrats of not caring about that is really,
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So I hope this is the end of this hearing, Mr. Chairman,
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and that we don't have to listen to any more of your rhetorical speeches.
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Well, I appreciate the, as always, kind and uplifting words of Senator Hirono.
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And I would also note that throughout her remark,
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she still did not say a negative word about Antifa, nor has any Democrat here.
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They instead engage in a political game where they depend.
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You're welcome to say something negative about Antifa right now.
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I think that I've covered the subject quite well.
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So that is the position of the Democratic Party.
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I would note also that of the seven Democratic senators who spoke,
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not a one of them apologized for or denounced multiple Democrats calling law enforcement officers Nazis,
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I have not heard the word Nazi, but stormtrooper was Nancy Pelosi,
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Senator, you have not yet chased me out of this room,
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but I notice you seem to have chased your Democratic colleague out of the Senate yesterday.
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Well, Michael, I don't like what you're saying,
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so I'm going to need to get up and run away and leave now.
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You're very frightening, and you're causing me to hyperventilate.
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Yes. Well, because I'm posing these very difficult questions to you,
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and I, as you know, chaired the Constitution subcommittee,
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And so the hearing was focused on the right and the First Amendment peaceably to assemble.
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And by the way, if you remember back, do you remember Chris Cuomo on CNN saying,
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where is it written that protesting and gathering has to be peaceable?
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And it's kind of like, well, okay, there's this thing called the First Amendment.
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First Amendment, part of the Bill of Rights, attach the – well, you've got to understand.
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CNN, they don't have copies of the Constitution.
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You wouldn't expect Cuomo to be familiar with it.
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I don't know that it's even allowed in the building, frankly.
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Well, the hearing was on free speech and the right peaceably to assemble
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and how radical anarchists and Marxists are taking over these protests and engaging in rioting and violence.
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And so we had testimony, and in the entire course of it – so we had testimony originally from the Department of Justice
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Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary, testified, did a fabulous job.
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But seven different Democratic senators participated in the hearing.
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Not a single one of them was willing to say even a single word critical about Antifa.
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They wouldn't – and it's – you know, I've got to say, look, I'll give the Dems credit.
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Like when a talking point goes out, I don't know who it is.
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I mean, they basically – they get the talking points, they stick to it.
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They repeat the same words over and over again.
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So, for example, all of them called the DHS law enforcement officers secret police.
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So Maisie Hirona is the ranking Democrat on the committee.
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She plays this video, I think, from the New York Times, where it refers to them as unidentified officers.
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And literally the video playing, they have in giant yellow all-caps letters the words police.
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And so they're talking points on Antifa, on the terrorists.
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It is – they just scream right-wing violence, white supremacists, white supremacists.
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And the difference, by the way, look, white supremacists, Nazis, KKK, those guys are racist idiots.
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If they commit violence, lock them up and throw them in jail.
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This was what was so shocking to me when I was watching this clip of you talking to Senator Hirona.
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When some fringe lunatic guy who maybe he associates with the right, then he comes out and says something bigoted.
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All the right disavows, condemns, takes two seconds.
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Not one – could condemn Antifa or the Marxists or the other – I mean, it seems so simple to me.
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So not only that, but also we've seen their rhetoric.
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So Nancy Pelosi called federal police officers stormtroopers.
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Jim Clyburn, one of the ranking – leading Democrats in the House, called them Gestapo.
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No, like calling cops Nazis and not a single Democrat – I mean, repeatedly that was called out.
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Not one of the Democratic senators would walk away from it.
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And so at the end of the hearing, Maisie got up and stormed out.
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And she's like, well, no, no, I've condemned violence.
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I'm like, well, no, not from Antifa, not from the left.
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You insist the only violence that occurs is on the right.
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Do you know what Ken Cuccinelli told us at the hearing?
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He said there have been, in the last six months, 277 officer injuries in Portland.
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So Ken Cuccinelli, Deputy Secretary of Department of Homeland Security.
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And he testified it, and he testified – in fact, he had – so they're throwing rocks at the officers.
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In fact, Ken had a frozen water bottle with him, just to illustrate.
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They hit an officer in the head with a sledgehammer.
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They're throwing gasoline and lighting gasoline on fire.
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They're firing mortars with commercial fireworks.
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Well, and you and I – so we did an interview with the Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, and we did it at DHS, which was pretty cool.
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But while we're doing the interview, you and I are sitting there.
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You know, in the moment, I couldn't quite tell.
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So I said, who is this guy who's kind of walking in?
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If I'd known it was him, I would have said he should come right on the show.
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And if I'd have seen him, he came in behind me, so I didn't see him.
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If I'd have seen him, I said, Cooch, come on over, pull up a chair.
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Because he was coming to testify that afternoon.
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He had – so the commercial laser that they're using, I have to admit, when I read about the sort of lasers to the eyes, that struck me as a little bogus.
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Because we've always had little laser pointers, right?
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Yeah, like, I mean, isn't that all of Twitter is cat videos?
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Like, I think that's the entirety of the internet.
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But what was interesting is these commercial ones.
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So I did, and he points it, and in like one second, it takes about a second, and then you go, oh, crap, and you yank your hand.
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Well, you know, I don't think that you were necessarily foolish when he says put your hand out.
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But then I saw it burned you, and then you tell me, hey, Michael, put your hand out.
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And I, like a fool, I put my hand out, and I get it burned by Cuccinelli's laser.
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You know, you have, like, spoiled milk, and you go, oh, this tastes terrible.
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I mean, you can light a piece of paper on fire with those lasers, and this is the kind of thing that's being shined in the cop's eyes.
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And Cuccinelli testified over 30 officers have had eye damage where they shine it in their eyes, and it's a risk of permanent blindness.
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And, in fact, what they're doing is they have these shields, and they get up right close at them to shine the laser right in their eye and try to blind them.
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Yeah, and, you know, one thing you did very well at the hearing, and for some reason I noticed these clips aren't going around.
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You went through with great specificity who these people are, the organized anarchists, the organized Marxists who are behind these riots all over the country.
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You know, I think the Democrats, they've outright denied that Antifa even exists.
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Jerry Nadler the other day pretended it's not real.
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Well, and you take two different groups that are worth focusing on.
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One, Antifa, and you've got – we heard a lot of testimony.
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They use violence as a way to silence speech they disagree with.
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And these are concerted – you know, Andy Ngo, the journalist, he testified at the hearing about being violently beaten up.
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As he described, he's the son of a Vietnamese immigrant.
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He is the most Vietnamese white supremacist I've ever met.
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So never let facts get in the way of their attacking rhetoric.
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So you had the anarchists of Antifa, and you had Marxists as well, as you explained yesterday.
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Well, and I talked at some length about Black Lives Matter.
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Now, it's important to understand the difference.
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And let me actually take a digression for a minute.
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But I think most Republicans are morons when it comes to talking about Black Lives Matter.
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Because when you have someone say, does Black Lives Matter?
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You get all these Republicans, no, all lives matter.
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Say, right, but what about specifically Antifa?
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Like, absolutely, Black Lives are precious, and they matter immensely, and the reason is
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But you don't – you see Republicans, like, terrified to say that.
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Because we're in such a weird politicized world.
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Well, and also because there's this organization, which is very different.
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Well, and that's – so the statement Black Lives Matter is a truism, overwhelming majority
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Yeah, basically everyone, I think, agrees with that.
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But there's something very separate from the organization that is called Black Lives
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And this – there's an article I entered into the record of the hearing from the Washington
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Examiner that gives some of the history of the organization.
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So it was founded by three radicals who describe themselves in their own words as trained Marxists.
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So they are – this is not me calling them Marxists.
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They tell you they've studied Marx and Lenin and Mao.
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They – I mean, there's a video of Patrice Colors, who's one of the co-founders.
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She says Alicia and I – or Alicia Garza, another co-founder, are trained Marxists.
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And the third co-founder, Opal Tometi, is seen smiling in photographs with the communist
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So not only that, one of the founders of the organization Black Lives Matter describes as
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Now, Angela Davis – I don't have to call her a communist.
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She was not once but twice the vice presidential nominee of the Communist Party of the United
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And by the way, you know, is rabidly anti-Semitic, rabidly anti-Israel.
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Susan Rosenberg is the vice chair of the board of directors of Thousand Currents.
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Thousand Currents is what is funding the organization Black Lives Matter.
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She is – was part of the revolutionary military group known as the May 19th Communist Organization,
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She was convicted of weapons and explosive charges and sentenced to 58 years in prison.
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By the way, she was pardoned by Bill Clinton on the last day of his presidency.
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It was one of those midnight pardons that he did.
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She and a million other people were pardoned at the end of the –
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So she was – Rosenberg in the 1960s and 70s was on the FBI's most wanted list.
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She was caught in 1984 unloading hundreds of pounds of dynamite and weapons, including a submachine gun.
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So we're not talking like a sort of mild little rebel.
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So Garza, one of the Black Lives Matter founders, talks about how convicted cop killer Asanta Shakur is one of her main inspirations.
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Now, Shakur is right now today on the FBI's most wanted list.
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There's a million-dollar reward for Shakur's information leading to her capture.
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And she was a member of the Black Liberation Army, another terrorist organization.
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And she was in prison serving a life sentence for murdering a police officer.
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And the police officer, an individual named Warner Forster, was shot execution-style point blank.
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This was – and by the way, it's not like these folks are just kind of, okay, we're all like vaguely know each other.
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So Cullors, one of the three founders, wrote a memoir entitled, When They Call You a Terrorist, A Black Lives Matter Memoir.
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And the epigraph is written by Shakur, the cop killer.
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They don't tell you this in the mainstream media.
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And I've actually done some research into the BLM organization.
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So Angela Davis – you want to talk about the anti-Semitism of Angela Davis for a minute.
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She was asked – so she was a big apologist for the Soviet Union.
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So she was traveling to Moscow, and she was asked if she would speak up for the Jewish prisoners of conscience in the gulags in the Soviet Union.
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And her answer was, and this is a quote, that they are all Zionist fascists and opponents of socialism.
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And so therefore, she would be urged – she would urge that they be kept in prison.
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Not only would she not speak up with them, she'd be like, lock them up.
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By the way, Angela Davis just recently endorsed Joe Biden for president.
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It – Black Lives Matter itself refers to Israel as an apartheid state committing genocide.
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Their number one priority is abolishing the police nationwide.
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Which is, by the way, according to Gallup polling, opposed by 81% of black Americans.
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It was either Gallup or it was a YouGov poll, but it just came out.
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And if Black Lives Matter succeeded in their stated objective of abolishing police, the result would be many, many more black lives are lost.
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Because you would have many more murders, many more rapes, many more assaults, which sadly we're seeing in big cities right now as police are being held back.
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But without law enforcement, those living in the most high-crime neighborhoods get – they're victims.
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And many of the – far too many of the victims of crime are African-American.
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And Black Lives Matter is essentially abandoning them to that.
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Not only that, Black Lives Matter, the organization, calls for abolishing the nuclear family.
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Like, they explicit – and this – go read their own website.
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Now, let me tell you – and by the way, they also call for a white boycott.
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They say boycott white corporations, that nobody should buy anything from white corporations.
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Now, one of the things I talked about at the hearing yesterday, we're seeing all these companies, particularly tech companies, that are wanting to virtue signal, who are giving millions and millions of dollars to this organization, Black Lives Matter.
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Those – among those tech companies that are doing it are Microsoft, Amazon.
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Look, Microsoft's largest shareholder is a guy named Bill Gates.
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So, Microsoft is literally donating money to an organization calling for people to boycott Microsoft.
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Like saying, do not purchase any products from anything Bill Gates.
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Amazon is funding a group saying don't buy anything from Amazon.
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And it's – look, you want to support social justice?
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Go give scholarships for inner city kids to go to excellent schools.
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But the problem is because people are terrified of contradicting the indisputably true statement that Black Lives Matter.
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And they are funding explicit Marxists who want to destroy capitalism, destroy free enterprise.
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Speaking of our friends who are stuck at home, a number of them are writing in questions for the mailbag from Balaam's donkey.
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I don't think it's his – I don't think it's his Christian name.
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So, what can I do personally to stop this madness?
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Because you've got – with social media, every one of us is publisher now.
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And I actually tell, like – I don't know how old Balaam's donkey is, but I talk to a lot of, you know, high school kids, college kids.
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And when it comes to defending freedom, why does freedom matter?
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How many 15-year-olds are going to listen to me?
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I'd much rather have a 15-year-old say, why does it matter to be free?
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Use your voice to explain why freedom matters, why free speech matters.
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Look, the left are intolerant, totalitarian, and oppressive.
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I mean, Balaam's donkey says he knows what he believes, and I believe him.
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But I think some people, you know, they want to get out there and argue their point of view.
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Know what your point of view is so that you can articulate why you support your country, why you like your freedoms, why you like your rights.
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Look, left and right tend to communicate differently.
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Too many people on the right communicate like accountants.
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I mean, their argument is he wants to eat your children.
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And it's why stories are, you know, when you and I did the pod with John Voight.
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And we were talking to him about like storytelling is a natural skill.
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And actually, actually, this may have been afterwards where we were enjoying a cigar together.
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And I think this was after the pod and we were talking with John and I said, look, storytelling is a natural human expression of all of us.
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And John Discreet said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no lad.
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You do a better John Voight impression than I do.
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But his, to be sure, there are better storytellers.
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But it is how our hearts are stitched together.
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I mean, we want, you know, we want the accounting to work out.
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Um, speaking of sometimes we're lemmings, sometimes we fight back.
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He has a question about owning the libs, you know, a politics of opposition.
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He says, is owning the libs a strong enough policy platform to win the House, Senate, and keep the White House?
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If this is a battle between socialism and free enterprise, we win.
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If this is a battle between, um, abolishing the police and protecting people's safety, we win.
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But I suppose this raises the question, because when I hear owning the libs, there is something to this, right?
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A politics of opposition where, because their ideas are so extreme, because they're, you know, they're, like, pulling down statues and burning down the country.
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I wonder if, if what Chase is asking is, is it enough to just point to their craziness?
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So, so, so my point on this, though, is that we have to fight on the field of ideas.
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I think the Democrats want to make this election entirely a personality election.
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And they wanted a referendum on, do you like Donald Trump?
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There's a reason Joe Biden is hiding in his basement.
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And it's actually, I don't think that it's senile, that he's senile and has dementia.
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On a personality popularity contest on Donald Trump.
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And so they just figure, all right, why, you know, if you're winning, don't mess with it.
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And so, and so from their perspective, they would characterize it as sort of owning Trump.
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I know you do too, actually on substance and issues.
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So, so if it's a question of, do you have the guts to actually take them on?
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Do you have a sense of humor and be fun about it?
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You know, do you see the, the Portland rioters are now complaining they want like, like the,
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the government to fund equipment so they could riot.
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And look, I saw that and I tweeted it out and I said, you know, absolutely.
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Every one of you that engages in violence, I'll give you a taxpayer paid orange jumpsuit.
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I mean, it's, you know, but it needs to be on substance.
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When I'm saying that, I'm making a point that these are violent criminals that should be incarcerated.
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But it's got to be grounded in something real if it's going to be effective.
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I mean, that's basically what they say to Trump is they just hate him.
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I mean, that's just, they just scream primal rage.
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Like, but look, how many Republicans are actually engaged in a real battle of ideas right now?
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And what I'm urging the White House, if they let it be a personality contest.
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And I think that's much more dangerous than focusing on ideas that work.
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