Aug. 22, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| Foster racial animus than to take something away from someone based on their skin color. | ||
| Have we done that in this country? | ||
| Well, because it's going to create more division and be self-defeating. | ||
| I think it's actually going to set black Americans back because it will cause... | ||
| I mean, I actually... | ||
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I'll give you one example. | |
| I want to move out of the middle of this. | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| Let me say this. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I'll address your question. | ||
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You're not going to be able to solve this problem under capitalism. | |
| You're always going to be coming up with these little band-aid issues. | ||
| That is why the only way to truly give reparations for the indigenous people, for the black Americans in this country, is a socialist revolution, is by seizing the means of production and letting that community give themselves reparations. | ||
| We don't need to be asking for, oh, please, God, would you maybe give me something? | ||
| No. | ||
| The workers of the world need to take it. | ||
| Look at the fires in Maui. | ||
| Oh, maybe Oprah and Dwayne the Rock Johnson will help out. | ||
| Fuck no. | ||
| Fuck that. | ||
| The working class of Hawaii can rise up and take the reparation. | ||
| That's actually funny. | ||
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And the same way can be true in Chicago. | |
| Mr. Vivek, do you think they could have run on a Palestinian family to speak in contrast? | ||
| Get out of your way. | ||
| So, you know, what I would say is I actually have built businesses. | ||
| In many of the businesses I've built, we've had black women who have been in leadership positions, right? | ||
| One of the things that irritated the heck out of me was that many times you would have people who were not as good at their jobs. | ||
| That would gripe about that person getting the job because of her race or her gender. | ||
| And I think that's insulting to a lot of people who otherwise would have had their position based on merit anyway. | ||
| So when we create more race consciousness, I think it sets all of us back versus asking how do we actually get the equality of opportunity in this country? | ||
| Have we been perfect about that? | ||
| No, we have not. | ||
| But that's a conversation I would rather be having rather than quotas at the end of the process, which is a different view, but the intention is still the same. | ||
| I think the beauty of America is that if you love this country and are willing to make contributions, you should have a legal way of getting in. | ||
| So I'm also dead set against illegal immigration. | ||
| And you want to know one of the things that's sending a lot of black Americans back, including in the south side of Chicago, where I visited, is actually the wave of illegal mass migration that is turning South Shore High School into an encampment for migrants at $7,000 per migrant per month. | ||
| That's not good for black Americans here any more than it's good for white Americans in the middle of Ohio. | ||
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And so I favor equality of opportunity. | |
| I have to say, if you really care about this nation, then what do you do for the people of America. | ||
| Because right now, the people of America are homeless. | ||
| They are struggling. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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High crime rate, Let's grow the economy. | |
| And it's not doing anything for the people. | ||
| So here's what my perspective is. | ||
| Economic growth is unifying. | ||
| Economic growth is unifying. | ||
| Part of what we need to do is actually make energy available. | ||
| Bring down energy costs for people. | ||
| Put money in people's pockets through actually allowing the economy to work. | ||
| And I think that's something that actually could unite us. | ||
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Russia and the United States, will they change or not? | |
| What's that? | ||
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We just want more social welfare programs. | |
| Well, I think a lot of the social welfare programs have hurt the very people they were designed to help. | ||
| And that's something that we need to actually improve. | ||
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Can you tell us why you came to this protest today? | |
| I want to hear alternative views. | ||
| I mean, the reason I ran for U.S. president wasn't to lead a party. | ||
| It's to lead a country. | ||
| And all of these people are part of the same country that I'm a part of. | ||
| So even though we don't agree on everything, I still want to hear their views. | ||
| And I don't believe what the media filters say, right? | ||
| Media, left-wing media. | ||
| I want to see it for myself. | ||
| Curiosity and openness to hearing alternative views. | ||
| I think that we don't do a good enough job of that in our country, and I want to lead by example. | ||
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What do you make of what you've seen of the Democratic Convention thus far? | |
| So I haven't been to the convention yet, in fairness. | ||
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I'm going to go there right after this. | |
| I think if they did as good of a job at building walls to keep illegals out of our country as they do to build walls to keep these people out of their convention. | ||
| Our border crisis would be solved. | ||
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That's the first takeaway. | |
| What are you hoping to get across to people here today at this party? | ||
| That we're all American. | ||
| And even though we disagree with one another on policy, perhaps, I think we do in certain areas here, even if we all disagree on policy, we still agree on certain basic principles like free speech. | ||
| That we all get to peacefully speak our minds openly as long as your neighbor gets to in return. | ||
| I think it's a beautiful thing. | ||
| It doesn't exist in most countries around the world. | ||
| It hasn't existed for most of American history. | ||
| And most of pre-American history. | ||
| So I think that's what makes this country great. | ||
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And that's what we're celebrating. | |
| Look, my view is you don't have to agree with everything I say, but what you deserve is leaders who are at least going to tell you what they believe 100% of the time. | ||
| That's what America's built on. | ||
| Transgender prayer rug. | ||
| I want to take a look at what's going on here. | ||
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I think the DNC should practice what they preach with respect to free speech. | |
| It's been a party that's been long opposed to censorship back 50 years ago. | ||
| That used to be a Democratic principle. | ||
| Today the Democratic Party has become the party of censorship. | ||
| That is what I believe. | ||
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Can you answer the question, should there have been a Palestinian speaker specifically? | |
| I'm not running the Democratic Party, right? | ||
| So what they do in terms of their internal party business, I'm not even part of the Republican Party machine, let alone the Democratic Party machine. | ||
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Hey, how's it going? | |
| Come on. | ||
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Good to see you. | |
| Hey, how are you, man? | ||
| Good to see you, man. | ||
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Do you need a mic or anything? | |
| They're bothered by this current regime. | ||
| They're trying to sigh off all of us in this universe where they weren't in power for 12 of the last 16 years, the last four years, and that all of these problems are not their fault. | ||
| They also hamstrung Donald Trump when he was president. | ||
| The issues that people have in this country and the pain that people feel in this country. | ||
| Are a result of the Democrat Party. | ||
| Period. | ||
| They've been in power. | ||
| You own it. | ||
| Which one is he? | ||
| You don't get a chance to, like, step back and say, no, I'll fix it on day one. | ||
| You are day one. | ||
| How are you? | ||
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I'm not congressman. | |
| here to sort of see what people are thinking and saying on the other side. | ||
| Maybe there's some common ground. | ||
| And if you hate war, if you hate forever war, then you should be curious I am an American who is actually here to listen to the views of people who disagree with me. | ||
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One of the reasons I am supporting a candidate in this election is Israel. | |
| I support the United States, and because of that I support Israel and our relationship with them. | ||
| You support a genocide that has killed 40,000 Palestinians in the last 10 months. | ||
| So look, I think that the truth is there was an attack that precipitated it. | ||
| And we can't ignore that. | ||
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We can't ignore that fact. | |
| I don't play those kinds of games. | ||
| I'm an organizer. | ||
| I'm not one of your... | ||
| I'm also a pragmatist. | ||
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I'm not one of these people. | |
| You're not a partisan hack. | ||
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I'm not an acolyte of yours. | |
| You're not a partisan hack for the Democrats or otherwise. | ||
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And I'm not a hack for you or for the Democrats or for the Republicans or nobody else. | |
| I got you. | ||
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I'm asking you that you have no right to be here if you're not in support of the Palestinian people. | |
| And if you're not going to call for an end to a genocide... | ||
| You have the right to be here. | ||
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If you're not going to call for an end to the genocide and an end to the killing and an end to the support of Israel, then you should take off. | |
| We don't want you here. | ||
| You're not welcome here. | ||
| Well, the good news is we're America, and so we actually get to all express ourselves peacefully. | ||
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Really? | |
| You get to express being a racist? | ||
| You get to express being a racist Zionist pig? | ||
| Is that what you get to express? | ||
| I'm pro-American, but I believe in your right to speak. | ||
| I believe in your right to speak. | ||
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None. | |
| None. | ||
| That's a lie. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| That's a lie. | ||
| You're not welcome here. | ||
| Racists aren't welcome here. | ||
| Racists go home! | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, man. | ||
| Good to see you guys. | ||
| Good to see you guys. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Hey, how are you? | |
| Good to see you, man. | ||
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Why are you here today? | |
| I'm actually very curious to see what's going on here. | ||
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Daddy hates me! | |
| It's very interesting. | ||
| What did you find? | ||
| You just got called in. | ||
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Was it a signage? | |
| I don't know where they would derive that label, but the truth is people here are upset. | ||
| People here are upset. | ||
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They don't want to go to war. | |
| Was it an act of provocation to come here though? | ||
| No, I don't think so. | ||
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I'm very curious about exactly how this works. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Did you learn anything? | ||
| What's that? | ||
| Did you learn anything? | ||
| I am. | ||
| I think a lot of people here are very angry. | ||
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What does it matter? | |
| Fuck agency news. | ||
| Fuck agency news. | ||
| My takeaway is that people are angry. | ||
| People are angry. | ||
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The idea of free speech and open debate in the United States. | |
| And if there's a peaceful protest, as long as it's peaceful, as long as it's peaceful, that's actually what it is. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I think it's rock and roll. | ||
| It's rock and roll. | ||
| I think we're good. | ||
| Yeah, we just got here. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Go this way. | ||
| Go this way. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Stay with them. | ||
| Good to see you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I think it's interesting. | ||
| A lot of people are angry here. | ||
| It's a wild scene. | ||
| But I wanted to see it for myself. | ||
| I've been in a liberal protest. | ||
| I usually invite him into speech. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I think that I believe in free speech even for those who don't believe in the same right in return. | ||
| Moving back in. | ||
| This is fun. | ||
| This is more fun than the Iowa State Fair, right? | ||
| It's kind of fascinating. | ||
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I mean, this is part of America. | |
| This is part of America. | ||
| I think there's a small subset of people who are actually interested in having an honest conversation. | ||
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When you got out of the car, did they recognize you right away? | |
| Yes. | ||
| When they just completely swarmed you right away? | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| That's what we're seeing. | ||
| I mean, just turn around and show people the scene. | ||
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Yeah, it's kind of interesting. | |
| Well, I'm going to go there at the request of doing some media interviews as a surrogate for the campaign, as I've agreed to be. | ||
| But the truth is... | ||
| I actually think Kamala Harris has not offered her own policies. | ||
| And the irony is that a lot of these people, if they want to stay out of war, there is a president who kept us out of war for four years. | ||
| There wasn't war in the Middle East. | ||
| There wasn't war in Russia or Ukraine. | ||
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I didn't see that one. | |
| It was pretty wild. | ||
| I wouldn't be shocked, though. | ||
| I would not be shocked. | ||
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I did see some people who were completely unclothed and expressing opinions that were hard to discern. | |
| I think there's probably a couple of thoughtful people here surrounded by, I think, what is a broader just anger that is, you know, taken, I think, a direction that's been a part of that doesn't strike me as super productive, to be honest with you. | ||
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Why do you think more people can show up? | |
| At this protest? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's the reason why. | ||
| 'Cause I think that there are actually a lot of people who may wanna engage in thoughtful dissent, but the majority of what it's become ends up devolving into a A sort of a thoughtless, quasi-physical exercise. | ||
| So I want to come see it for myself because I didn't trust any media distillation of it. | ||
| But it is interesting to me that there is a Democratic National Convention. | ||
| You've got a lot of people who are only pissed off about the direction of the Democratic Party. | ||
| But the irony is, if you really want peace, even if you don't agree with everything that a Republican candidate says, there's actually a better option. | ||
| And I think that that's something that, for a lot of these people, may not be something they're even open to. | ||
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But for some people, I think, you know, look, I talked to these guys. | |
| This is pretty interesting. | ||
| I got some literature here. | ||
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I paid $5. | |
| They accept Venmo from the communist capitalists. | ||
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They actually hand it out. | |
| Hand it out. | ||
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Hand it out. | |
| It's a donation. | ||
| They charge me five bucks. | ||
| Except Venmo. | ||
| But the interesting thing is he actually, my point was he actually had some thoughtful points to make. | ||
| He had some thoughtful points to make, which was not points that I agree with, but at least he was a guy who was interested in dialogue. | ||
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Good on you. | |
| A lot of the other people. | ||
| Good to see you, buddy. | ||
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Good to see you. | |
| I hope not. | ||
| I hope that... | ||
| You know, I think we did have a couple of honest conversations early on. | ||
| But my honest goal is, look, we're in this to lead a country, not just part of the country that agrees with us. | ||
| And we're not going to have one country unless we respect the basic principles we were founded on, which is peaceful, free speech, and open debate. | ||
| That's a tradition that made America great the first time around. | ||
| I stand for the right of these people. | ||
| Even many of them disagree with me, may not like me. | ||
| I still stand for their right to be able to express themselves. | ||
| I think a lot of people are naturally angry. | ||
| That's their right. | ||
| I think it would be much more productive if we were willing to actually engage in an open conversation. | ||
| Rather than engaging in physical shouting matters. | ||
| But, step by step. | ||
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Step by step. | |
| Well, look, I support peace, broadly, but I don't think that a mandated ignoring the existence of the attack on Israel is a reasonable thing to do. | ||
| But what I do think is you need America to take a role that advances American interests in a strong way without apologizing for it, which is what Donald Trump did for the first four years, and take a pragmatic approach. | ||
| To ending not only the war in Ukraine, but delivering peace in the Middle East as well. | ||
| Now, part of the reason that I think we have a strong relationship with Israel is that that's in the best interests of America, and it's been the best interest of stability around the world. | ||
| The other thing is, you know, the thing people don't talk about much is, most Muslims in the world don't even live in the Middle East. | ||
| They live in other parts of Central Asia and South Asia. | ||
| And, you know, I don't think that this conflict is necessarily representative of how many other, even American Muslims, look at this issue. | ||
| These people, I think, are not representative of necessarily a lot of the way people look at this. | ||
| I think they want us to cross the street quickly. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| We're going to cross the street? | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| These guys know. | ||
| Where's the car? | ||
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The car's right here. | |
| Thank you, man. | ||
| It's pretty interesting. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay, thank you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I'm sorry to hear that, man. | ||
| The Democratic Party. | ||
| I'm sorry to hear that. | ||
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Is that right? | |
| It's unbelievable, man. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| Are you staying for this rally? | ||
| Where are you going now? | ||
| This is a rally coming here? | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| There's a rally coming here in about a half hour. | ||
| Oh, I wasn't aware. | ||
| I'm actually headed to the convention. | ||
| I have a limited time here. | ||
| So I'm going to be a couple interviews at the convention, and then we're out. | ||
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All right. | |
| Take care. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Good to see you, man. | ||
| How are you, buddy? | ||
| Good to see you, man. | ||
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Good to see you. | |
| Say hi to my black ass. | ||
| I didn't know that. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| Okay. | ||
| The reality is that, you know, we believe in free speech, right? | ||
| That's what we get. | ||
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Good to see you, man. | |
| It's going pretty well. | ||
| I think actually the fact that you got people speaking their mind freely is a celebration of America. | ||
| I don't agree with a lot of it, but as long as it's peaceful. | ||
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I can't hear more than shout out. | |
| They put it first for Reese. | ||
| Oh, all right. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| Made him have a great first. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| I think we should celebrate that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I didn't know it caused such a stir. | ||
| Daddy, dick. | ||
| Jeez. | ||
| Holy smokes. | ||
| Stop saying something white daddy dick. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We're heading out. | ||
| We're heading out. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| What's that? | ||
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That's a good question. | |
| I think the modern left is in search of a cause. | ||
| Is badly in search of a cause. | ||
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Right here. | |
| She can come with us. | ||
| Cassie can come with us. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. |
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