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Nov. 14, 2018 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Leftist Hysteria & How To Fight It

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elijah schaffer
That's what the problem is today, is the fight is not against Donald Trump, it's against you.
People are too sensitive today.
Would you agree?
They're too sensitive.
I mean, I understand that you have the right to have your own individual thoughts.
It's okay to be offended.
There's nothing wrong with not liking something that somebody says.
But to the point where you begin to start to want to change laws to limit people's freedom to speak their mind, where you want to come against people, make them feel alienated, ostracized, even fired because they think differently than you or it's unpopular in your company.
These things are scary, they're dangerous, and they seem to be a lot of where our country is and where it's headed.
But I'd love to start our journey here back in 2016.
You guys remember how fun that was?
Anyone remember how fun 2016 was?
Yes, 2016 was a fun year.
Because not only was it a time where the populace and the people began to understand that we could regain power, that the people in charge and the elites no longer could have the handle to begin to pass laws and ordinances away from what we wanted.
And so we get back to the election.
And this is where the true madness of liberal media arose.
Obviously, for those of you that are familiar, we just had an election, and so it might be a little bit PTSD.
But in 2016, let's take a look back to where we started.
And we're going to look at an article from Washington Post that was famously titled, Don't Compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler because it belittles Hitler.
That's a real article in the Washington Post.
I didn't make that up.
You can look it up.
And end quote, the author said, Hitler was a megal maniacal psychopath who should burn in hell for eternity, who actually believed in something.
But there's a difference here.
Trump instead is a two-bit con man.
He's playing the fools.
The article even goes on to say that at least Hitler wanted to kill the Jews and actually carried it through.
But the things that Trump says that he wants to do, he's not going to carry it through.
So we began the madness, where Trump is now Hitler.
This is a logical fallacy that began where anybody who disagrees with you is now a Nazi, you are a fascist, and you are the KKK.
Famously, one of another YouTuber named Black Mike shot an episode with me where we confronted some of Max Seenwater's supporters.
To his surprise, being that he is an African-American of very dark complexity, pictures arose with him on him saying that this man's a part of the KKK, of which he sat on a couch, told me, you know what, Elijah, growing up as a black man in Los Angeles, I never knew that I would be called the KKK.
But this is the world that we are in.
This is the world that we are living through.
And this is something that we began to see in 2016.
But it didn't stop.
As we got into the presidency, Donald Trump, there was a Pew Research poll that came out and was published by NPR that found out that comparatively Trump had 62% negative news about him and only 5% positive, while Obama had 42% positive and approximately only 20% negative.
So you began to see this shift where the media, which is its own powerhouse, that should be about educating the people and enlightening the people, became another monolith and a means of control over the people.
And there is a grip and a hold that we saw where it becomes the people versus them.
And there's this sort of mentality of elites coming and telling you, the people, that they know better.
That somehow in their high-rises in New York City, in their mansions in Los Angeles, maybe even vacationing in Miami, that they know what you need for your life.
And the news no longer became about being the news.
It became about pushing one agenda, and that is that calling Trump Hitler is an insult to Hitler.
Now where are we today?
Have things gotten better?
Do you feel like people are more accepting as Trump has gotten some of the lowest unemployment rates for blacks living in the country, as he has pushed the economy in a direction that we never thought was possible after the recession?
The fact that our military is now being financed and stronger, that we are having better relations in the world, that we are respected once again.
Of course the media respected this, and that's why it's grown from over 60% negative coverage to 92% negative coverage in 2018.
Because where Trump has accomplished, the media has began to demolish.
And we know that the media has come to a place now where they are not about presenting the truth, they are about trying to redefine it.
And the reason why I bring this up is because there is a war on Donald Trump.
Now, not all of us are Republican.
Some of you might identify more just being conservative.
Some of you might be liberal.
Some of you might be libertarian.
I don't know where you lie, but I know where you live.
And that's in a country where Donald Trump is your president.
It's true.
With over 2 million possible illegals just in Los Angeles alone, when people walk around with signs that say Donald Trump is not my president, there may be a lot more validity in that than you might understand.
But the reality is that Trump is your president.
And to our dismay, Trump won over 300 electoral votes in 2016, smashing the record.
Although, to our understanding, he did lose by 2.86 million popular votes, which some people argue came mostly from California, but there's a debate.
But I want to put this into perspective.
Hillary Clinton, who Elizabeth Warren famously agreed to on an article from ABC that she was rigging the Democratic nomination from Bernie Sanders, from a person who had the record, the highest investment in a campaign possibly in U.S. history, though inflation might account for some adjustments.
The woman who was the first lady who had all odds in her favor, who was the lead by mainstream media outlets to win, I believe one poll by MSNBC said there was only an 8% chance for Donald Trump to win on the night of the elections.
Yet she lost.
And I'll tell you why this is important.
Because what we're seeing today is that there is a fight between the populist, which is us, and the globalists and the elite, which are them.
And I hate to paint a divisive rhetoric as in it's us versus them, but I'm not the one who started the fight.
I'm just here to win it.
And I'm not the one who's pitted myself against anybody.
I've always been myself, and a lot of you have too.
And I'm sure a lot of you have found yourself needing to identify more, maybe in a right-leaning perspective, just because you believe in something like as small as free speech.
You know, at one point, the word progressive actually meant what it meant, that people were looking for progress.
And now it's just the people who don't know how to laugh at jokes.
This is the truth.
And so a lot of us have been pushed further and further right, hypothetically.
And I'll explain this.
The right really hasn't moved far right.
You're going to hear a lot of terms today by the media that are going to paint anybody who supports Donald Trump as being alt-right, right?
Far right, as an extremist, as controversial, as confrontational.
Something that's always meant to make you sound negative.
Now, the reason why I believe this has happened is because increasingly, the left, which is sponsored by many elitists and the mainstream media, has actually moved further left.
But they've claimed to take the center with them.
So when you move further left and you claim to have the center in the same place, everybody who was just right of center is now alt-right.
And we all know that the alt-right is not really as big of a deal as a lot of people would like to claim.
Even during the election, I believe that some studies showed that all of the alt-right claims were broken down on 4chan and Reddit to only like 1,100 profiles.
And in light of the whole population, 1,100 trolls living in their mom's basement, quite frankly, are not that big of a threat.
I myself have been labeled nicely by Washington Post and KTLA and ABC and wonderful stations like those as being alt-right myself, which is so far from the truth.
But at this day and age, if you disagree with the left, you are the enemy.
And this is where the bulk of our conversation is going to lie.
What has happened in our country when the people who make it great have now become the enemy of the nation?
That's what the problem is today is the the fight is not against Donald Trump.
It's against you The fight is against the people who elected him and this is why we find that it's almost 62% of negative slings at Donald Trump have been about his character and not his policy Obviously, there's not much negativity we could say about his policy although he makes mistakes and has done some terrible things I'm sure but the reality is is why would they be attacking his character?
That's because they want you to be a bad person.
They want to paint it that you're voting for him based off of who he is, not what he's getting done.
Because the argument has come down to is that you have one side, the right, who is fighting for policy, fighting for fact, fighting for truth, and you have another side who's fighting for a moral argument and they're fighting to see who's the better person.
And I'd like to take you down a little road here with me about what the left is doing and how we can beat them.
See, the left has said, okay, the right are populists, right?
And they're beginning to elect a president, and they love the energy at the Trump rallies and the fact that we don't care, that we're able to laugh at memes with a frog, you know, Pevi the Frog, that we're not offended by the snow falling.
You know, these are the things that we know and we understand to be true, that it's good to have thick skin.
But the famous left-wing populist, highly intelligent and decorated, Alexandria Cortez, was just caught today saying something incredible.
If you don't know, she won, and she's the left's version of Donald Trump, per se, somebody who the people wanted.
And she was complaining today about Amazon building new headquarters in New York and complaining about how it's an outrage because they're going to cause distress in the city.
She actually said Amazon is a billion-dollar company, she wrote on Twitter.
The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need more investment, not less, is extremely concerning.
So obviously the left knows that pushing up a populist leader isn't really going to work because she's complaining about jobs coming to her area.
I mean, these people are fighting against the truth.
I mean, they're complaining about things that are actually benefiting them.
So since it's not really working to win on a political level, what they're having to do is to demonize us on a social level.
And I want to talk to you a little bit about the truth in the matter of how we can break down their arguments.
Because believe it or not, the Wall Street Journal just announced a few days ago that Hillary Clinton is thinking about running again.
Did you guys know that?
Hillary Clinton 4.0.
This is going to be very good because losing globally, you know, to the entire, in front of the entire world was not enough.
But I'd like to introduce you guys something interesting and a way that you can fight back and that you can win against leftist censorship, against ideological slander, and against defamation of character, which is really what happens when you open up and you share that you're right wing.
I know that in a college, a lot of you are afraid maybe to even speak up in a class, let alone to be seen as somebody who hates other people.
Because at this moment, if you say you support the president, you're also saying you support Hitler.
It's true.
It might not seem like a reality, but it's perpetrated by faculty and staff, by curriculum, and quite frankly, even with new neo-Marxist ideas being pushed on campuses everywhere, we're finding that there are strange systems being pressed upon us, whether we like it or not.
And I want to remind you that just because it's a small amount here doesn't mean that it's a small amount of people at the school overall.
For I'm sure there are many people who thought about coming but didn't want to come, let alone they would be called a Nazi.
But just accept the Nazi, because all a Nazi means is that you disagree with them, and it's good to disagree with these people.
And here's why.
The left has created a new religion in the United States of America as a fight against Christianity, and it's humanism.
It's a good religion in many ways because it promotes ideas that sound good in theory, like tolerance, acceptance, universality, and most importantly, it's hotbed into a culture that is postmodern.
So what's happened in the left is that they have sort of rejected the pillars of what the foundation of our country has always been, which is what they say, a patriarchal, white, heteronormative, cisgendered Christian base.
Now, of course, in the moment, with all these weird words that I don't know where they came up with them from, they just must have been sitting at dinner, a little drunk or a little high, maybe in California, came up with these ideas.
The reality is, is that this new religion comes with its set of the taboo, with the sacred, with the holy.
Right?
I mean, just like a religion might have things that are off limits to talk about, you can't question transgenders.
You can't talk badly about Muslims.
You know, that's off topic.
Everything's off topic.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Did you just assume my gender?
Stay away.
They have the sacred.
They also have their martyrs, the people that are great.
They look back.
Oh, Riz Gator Jinberg.
Oh, oh, oh, man.
Oh, do you know that this one person and they don't even know who they're talking about?
They're like, oh, do you know, you know, you look back in history and it's like Martin Luther King Jr.
And then you talk to them about what he stood for.
They don't care.
They just have these people that are like their martyrs, people that have lived in history.
They also have their priests, which are their professors, who give them their theology.
It's what you need to believe now.
Welcome to College in 2018, where we tell you how you should think and what direction you should go, rather than to open your mind and to think about new possibilities.
We will provide those possibilities for you.
Additionally, they have the mentality of the apostates, the people that deserve death.
If you come against them and you disagree with any of their theology, even the slightest bit, if you go away from the orthodoxy, you are an apostate.
And you deserve to be ostracized.
You should be fired.
You should be kicked out or even thought of as less than of a person because you don't follow their religion.
My sister, who is a strong liberal who voted for Beato in Texas, wow, she says something really amazing on the day that he lost.
Thank God.
She goes, if only you had met him, he was such a nice person.
And I said, yeah, he was a nice person, but his policies sucked.
Okay, his plans, his plans, financial and economic plans were terrible.
But the fight is, is to make and to win and to vote for people who they believe are going to be nice people.
It's all about virtue signaling.
Who is the best?
Who's the brightest?
Who looks out for the most marginalized?
Who's the most sensitive?
And then when we ask them questions like, yeah, but what are your economic plans?
They don't have any.
Their plans are not to implement anything that's good for us.
It's to put people in they believe are good.
And then their plans are to resist all the good policies we put in place.
This is the left.
And I'd like to jump into this.
And I wanted to tell you why we feel like a lot of times we're losing.
Anyone ever feel like that?
Sometimes you meet people in California on your college campus and you know the plan, you know what they're doing, but you want to know why do you feel like you are losing.
And I'll tell you why you feel this way.
And I also want to supply you with a good means of educating yourself to not only help yourself escape the clenches of people who are trying to make you feel like a bad person, but also how to help your friends out of left-wing thinking, which is I like to also call insanity.
I'm going to introduce you to the left-wing one-way ticket argument.
And I would like to bring up a couple of examples.
And this is why the youth naturally finds himself inclined towards becoming more progressive or aligning with the left.
And why a lot of people you meet in the left tend to not think very well or not be able to defend their arguments.
Have you ever heard someone use the phrase closeted heterosexual?
No.
Right?
No, you never heard it called heterosexual.
Closeted straight?
Why is that?
Why do you only hear the phrase closeted gay and closeted homosexual?
Hmm, that's a good question.
The reason why is because there are agendas in the world and there are ideas that are beyond you.
And as much as people like to make fun of the idea there is no narrative, there's no agenda, I don't believe everybody that is liberal has an agenda.
I don't think everyone who's progressive has some big plan.
But I know that there are people who take advantage of people in certain categories and in certain sects of culture to try to use them for their advantage to get their vote and to make people who oppose them look bad.
So the LGBTQ population, great.
I have a lot of friends.
You guys probably, everyone probably has some friends that identify as LGBTQ, maybe some of you here.
My argument is not against you.
It's against what people have done with these people.
And here's what they do.
In society, they begin to push ideas, one-way ticket.
I call them one-way ticket arguments because they're one-sided arguments.
They bring lingo into culture.
And Michael Knowles from the Daily Wire famously said that those who control words control the culture.
So what they do is they begin to introduce lingo into universities, into books, into TV, that make you only think one way.
And it's always a downward gradient into their ideology.
So if the LGBTQ community predominantly, in their opinion, votes left and votes blue, and they need to retain these people, what they do is they set up a nice downward gradient to them where only straight people can secretly be gay.
But there's nobody who could be confused and gay and really want to be straight.
You don't even think about that, right?
Is there really gay people that want to be straight?
I thought only straight people want to go gay.
If you even understand basic psychology, nothing's ever one way.
You can always go back and forth.
And so what they do is they set up the argument so that they can trap people.
They can slide them down.
And once they keep them, since you're down, they say, hey, you can't get back up.
You're with us now.
And it's enslavement.
Also, if you think about this, they do it with entire groups of people, like women.
The left says, if you are for women, then you must come to the women's march.
January 19th, see me there in Los Angeles.
It's fantastic.
It's so amazing how many women are not represented there, including women against abortion or Christian women or non-feminist women or traditional women.
Those women are not agreeable because they're not for women.
They're really for the women that agree with them.
But now what they do is they set up the argument that are you for women?
Well, then you must join the Women's March Foundation.
And now if you say I oppose the women's march, you just sound like a bigot misogynist.
They even say that there are women, I've heard recently, women can be misogynists too, which is a fantastic way of saying that we are very confusing people.
Let's talk about race.
This is amazing, okay?
This is amazing.
Black people are Democrats.
You saw recently with even Chance the Rapper saying, not all black people have to vote Democrat.
He was ostracized.
He was completely humiliated and spoken down just because he mentioned that black people didn't have to do something.
I don't know any point in history where black people were made to do something and then we're ostracized, hurt, or humiliated, or even worse for going against the flow, but I believe that there might have been something in our recent history where we should stop trying to control people who are of darker skin color.
But it's still happening today.
And the very party that enslaved black people that continued to have them on their plantations that fought for them to remain slaved do the same today, but intellectually.
Also, with religion, they ask you, well, aren't you for religious tolerance?
And you might say, but you know, Islam also promotes Sharia law, which, you know, if you look at statistics, even over in predominantly Muslim countries, the amount of people in those countries that sympathize with martyrs, that sympathize with what we call terrorist organizations, that sympathize and want to enact Sharia law, it's alarming.
And we don't believe that Sharia law is compatible with our Constitution, and we don't want it to align itself.
There needs to be a reformation in Islam.
Just like the Christians had a reformation a few hundred years ago.
They need to have a reformation and denounce these things.
All of a sudden now, you hate Muslims.
You hate Arabs.
You are a racist.
You hate these people.
No, I'm just suggesting an idea.
But if you disagree with them on any single piece of their platform, you are a Muslim hater.
And by means, you are a bigot.
And you deserve to die.
I'm not even joking.
Some people even suggest recently at one turning point event that we should jail people who are against or misinterpret or come against anybody who thinks differently.
Now, I'd like to bring this one-way ticket.
So here's what happens.
As we take this one-way ticket into thinking, they want to trap you.
So how do you get someone out of this?
You supply them with facts and you supply them with the truth.
You remind people that just because someone said something doesn't make it true.
Just because a lot of people say something doesn't make it true.
Remember, it was actually Hitler himself who said something similar to, if you say a lie long enough and loud enough, eventually people will believe it.
But we know often where the masses are saying is usually where we find untruth.
And very often we say, well, but if everybody's supporting these ideas, maybe this is the future of America.
And I say this is not the future of America.
We are the future of America.
Those of us that are patriots, that stand for the truth, that aren't buying into the gradient, the ones that have stood up against the flow of gravity, which it feels like, right?
They're just trying to pull you in.
And we have said, no, that we're not afraid of being called offenders.
We're not afraid of being called offensive.
We're not afraid of doing anything, being called a bigot or racist, because right now, racist is just a synonym for somebody who disagrees with you.
That's just the truth.
Anybody who disagrees with you, you're racist.
If you question anything, you're a racist.
And also, if you're a white, straight male, shut up, because no one wants to listen to you.
We've had enough of your words these times, right?
Patriarchal son of a no, okay, but truthfully.
And so the way you do this is you remind them that they have the power to think, that the group think, that this hold on them to try to get them in one direction, that that loud thing might just very well be a lie.
And I want to remind you, our goal as conservatives is not to get people to become conservatives, which is unpopular for me to say.
Our goal is to get people to think.
And even if in the process of thinking they come to different conclusions than you and remain liberal, those are your friends.
You want to be around people who are thinking, who are challenging you, who are coming alongside of you.
And you never want to try to force people into a way of thinking like you because then you're no different than the left.
You want to be a person who champions individuality and freedom.
And just like Hillary will run again, that's what they're saying.
Hopefully not.
Learn how to accept defeat.
Accept when you're wrong.
Don't be afraid to say when your party got it wrong.
Don't be afraid to say when President Trump did something wrong.
Don't be afraid to concede when there was something, a mishap, or if you said something that could have been mistaken.
Be humble.
Be knowledgeable.
Be equipped.
But most importantly, be willing to be called anything, seen as anything, even ridiculed before anyone in the name of fighting for truth and for the unity of the United States of America.
Because it is our Constitution, it is our Bill of Rights.
It are these very founding documents.
And today, the people who uphold them and believe in them that are going to continue to fight for the greatness of this country.
People say, make America great.
I say, keep it great.
Continue to make it great.
And God bless the United States of America.
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