July 26, 2019 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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The Threat of Civil War | Guest: Will Witt | Ep 19
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According to One Pew Research, apparently we are headed towards our sequel, The Civil War II, which might be hitting a street near you if we don't solve this polarization problem.
I've invited in the studio with me today William Witt, also known as Squilliam Witt from Prager University, not to be confused with Dennis Prager's actual son, though some people rumor that he is, to talk about this, the squad, Donald Trump's tweets, and so much more.
We hope you enjoy the show.
Welcome back to Slightly Offensive with your favorite gay black woman, me, Elijah Schaefer.
We are live in our studio in Hollywood, California with our guest, Will Witt from Prager You.
Oh, it doesn't help with the ladies, but what it does is that it proves to women and proves to other people that you're a man and that people, they hate it and they constantly are telling me shave it, like everyone, men and women.
And so I think there are like a lot of men out there who do all these like things to like please women, these like beta male types who, you know, pretty much get friends zoned and everything.
And it's like, if you want to get women, be confident and do things that you believe in yourself, like things that you like.
think I'm so when they see me they you know make jokes and memes and stuff because it's like it's very well yeah I think it's because I found this This is my last one before we jump into the topic.
I went there to look at the pictures of people making fun of you and you commented on your own pictures, which means you kind of like the attention a little bit.
I was just talking to someone about this the other day.
Yeah, I mean, look, these are the people who support you, in all seriousness.
Like, you saw that chick, Megan Rapineau, who you saw the soccer ball thing where someone hands her a soccer ball and then she like just doesn't even look at the person, signs it, and then gives it back like a total idiot.
Like, I, yeah, the attention is someone nice, and I like it, you know, because it shows that, like, the things I'm doing, people enjoy.
But it's also, like, I want to show these people that, like, I care about you.
I'm so glad that you support me.
And, like, without you, I wouldn't be anywhere where I am.
I wouldn't be able to do anything I do if it wasn't for you guys.
So, anytime there's someone posts something about me or anything like that or shares something, I always comment and get in there to talk about it.
And speaking of fans, actually, you actually care about your fans, which a lot of people don't.
But today's topic's actually pretty serious.
And the reason why it kind of shocks me is I know you work for PragerU.
You're one of their main personalities.
You guys got a new girl coming on, too, and you guys are constantly expanding.
But I know the goal of your organization is actually to spread the values that matter to, I would say, conservatives, or at least into certain types of free thinking, right?
You guys are a free thinking organization.
And you guys care a lot about the state of the union.
But there's a recent Pew research poll, and I'm not sure if you're familiar with Pew, but everyone should be.
They're pretty unbiased.
They're usually just looking at what's going on in the world.
And I wanted to get into this right now in the current state of affairs.
And the title of this review is that Americans say that the nation's debate has grown more toxic and the heated rhetoric could lead to violence.
So I want to read some of these stats.
I want to go over them with you, and then we're going to jump a little bit and talk about the squad.
You know, the famous squad, the suicide squad.
It's like little villains.
Like, they're out there.
They're just giving the rhetoric.
We're also going to talk about Donald Trump's tweets and the nation's reaction to them.
So it says right here that President Donald Trump's recent attacks on four first-term lawmakers, all women of color, of course, we got to always put that in.
Not that their ideas are bad, but we always got to bring it up to just identify.
It doesn't matter what your ideas are, so you're privileged.
So just let me continue as a gay black woman.
Triggered an impassioned response from House Democrats who overwhelmingly backed a House resolution condemning the president's remarks.
This is just the latest chapter in a long-running debate over what language is appropriate in political debates in the United States.
A recent Pew Research Center survey examined Americans' attitudes about this topic, including Trump's impact on political discourse and the potential risks from incendiary rhetoric from elected officials.
And the first fact is that most Americans say political debate in the U.S. has become less respectful, less full of facts, and less substantive.
That's 85% of those polled say that we've gone in a more negative direction.
I mean, you were at the DC thing with me when we saw the Antifa people.
Like, you're thinking it said it might get violent.
It's already violent.
These Antifa people are crazy.
I mean, they're destroying their own city.
Anyone who has a different point of view than them, they attack, and they don't want to actually debate ideas.
And we see, I think a huge problem is with social media, which, again, is somewhat hypocritical for us to say, because, like, that's our careers are built a lot on social media.
But when you can remain, like, practically anonymous, not a lot of people put their names in it, but a lot of people remain anonymous, or at least in the sense that, like, you're not talking to someone face-to-face, you can say whatever stupid thing you want or be as incendiary as you want.
And it's like you don't have to take responsibility for any of these things.
So of course you're just going to try and be as bombastic as possible and try and rile people up and hurt people's feelings in that way.
I mean, I'm sure you know it.
I mean, I get tons of hate on lots of stuff that I get from the left and people.
And I'm sure you know exactly what it's like.
But it's like these people, like, I think it's a huge problem with masculinity too in that way.
Because like men, like, again, they're going on being anonymous.
If they're not going and taking responsibility for those things in their life, like going online, what else are they not going to take responsibility for?
As we're seeing in like these beta male types who can't get dates and like don't have any responsibility, don't have jobs.
They live with their parents still, you know, they get stupid degrees or whatever.
And it's like there's a huge responsibility problem.
I think that responsibility, like a lack of it, is probably the main thing that drives a lot of these choices and a lot of the things that go on when we talk about people being so bad.
And it's not just people on the left, too.
I mean, it's a lot of conservatives too who are who say bad things.
But when it comes to the people starting in the worst people, it's always the left.
And I think that's interesting you brought up because I wasn't even thinking, again, when I read this poll initially, I, of course, thought they were like talking mostly about actual political officials, right?
So talking about the executive or the legislator and talking about these people's rhetoric.
But you bring up a good point that kind of the entire country's rhetoric has become more disrespectful.
I mean, we saw it all the time this last couple years where just students the other day, right?
I mean, students would be sitting at a table and a man would throw a drink at them just for wearing a hat, right?
We're seeing this political divide, this polarization, where individual citizens are going, oh, well, the government is so bad.
And Donald Trump is so racist.
He's so sexist, so xenophobic.
And then, of course, on the right, they say the same thing about the people on the left.
Oh, the squad.
They're hateful rhetoric.
They're anti-American.
But really, when you think about it, average Americans are what make this country, not our politicians.
And our politicians are elected officials that represent us.
And so maybe, like, I guess I'd agree with you.
Their representation and the way they're talking is sort of a reflection of how divided we've actually become.
Well, this whole politician thing has become like idol worship, basically.
In the sense of, like, I got not in trouble the other day, but I got like someone like talk to me about it because I was doing this panel and I was with some congressmen and stuff.
And I didn't refer to the congressman as like representative all the time before I said it.
I was just like, you know, Ken, like, that's his name.
You know, I just call him that.
And then, like, they get like kind of mad at me afterwards and like, oh, like, you didn't say like representative before you said it.
And I'm like, who cares?
No American cares if like you put representative before it.
It's these people who want their ego stroked.
It wasn't nothing wrong with these people who I was talking to.
They didn't say anything.
I'm just saying like, you know, some people with loud mouths come up to me afterwards and say something.
And it's like the average American doesn't care about these things, but we are propping up these politicians as if they're gods, as there are idols to be worshipped.
And it's like, what I remember in, you know, becoming more Christian myself and learning about this stuff, the founding fathers did not want that from public officials because they knew that you don't get your rights, you don't get your ideology, you don't get your morals from the government, you get it from God, you know?
They knew that.
And so for people right now to basically replace God with government is, again, just another thing of why people are so bad.
Yeah, you know, and it's so interesting, though, that when you actually, when you actually look at this, it goes on to say this exact thing.
It says that a large majority of Americans say that the tone and nature of the political debate in the United States have become more negative.
More than eight in 10 U.S. adults, 85%, say that the political debate in the country has become more negative and less respectful.
About three quarters say it's become less fact-based.
And 60% say it has become less focused on issues.
Let's not just talk about the disrespect, but also less fact-based.
You know, we live in a post-modern era, and you're all too familiar with this.
You have a lot of young fans.
You have a lot of young viewers.
I'm sure you're always surprised sometimes how young the people are that actually are engaged, which is freaking awesome.
Because when I was like 14, when I was 13, I was not as engaged as students are today.
And that's why organizations like Turning Point, organizations like PragerU, that are just nonprofits, are trying to engage young people in traditional ideas and ideals of this country are doing a great job, apparently, which is why the left is so threatened by us, because we're nonpartisan.
We're not pushing a party.
We're not loyal to the Republican Party.
If the Republican Party actually did anything that would be against our values, we will speak out against it.
Just the other day, Donald Trump agreed to a budget deal that increased the budget $320 billion.
And I saw the fact that when I criticized that, saying, hey, as a conservative or as somebody who believes in these values, I don't want to increase our budget.
And yet so many of these people that were pro-Trump were blinded by the fact that their love for Trump got in the way of them understanding what they were fighting for initially.
And when Obama was president, people were so angry at Obama.
Oh, he keeps raising the debt.
He keeps raising the debt.
But then when Trump does it, people on the right that are blinded by their party turn an eye.
But I think that's where these organizations are different is we care about the facts.
We care about what's actually going on.
So even if Donald Trump, I like him as a president, I voted for him personally, I'm able to criticize him and actually say, hey, this isn't right.
If he started raising money for Planned Parenthood, I'd say that's not right.
If he backed down on immigration, I would say, hey, that's not right.
I care about the truth and facts.
But more and more today, we're seeing that parties are not caring about the actual hardline fact or policies.
They're just backing their candidates no matter what they do, which is leaving politicians to do often what they do best, which is be dishonest and fight for people in special interests that are not their constituents.
Well, I think there's a lot of bad branding going on with people.
Like myself, like personally, like again, like you were just saying, nonpartisan.
Personally, you know, I think I like Trump a lot.
I think he's done a lot of great things.
The majority of things that he does, I agree with and I'm all for it, right?
But I don't want to brand myself that way.
There's so many young people and conservative people coming up kind of latching onto that MAGA movement and stuff like that who are just like, that's all they are.
And then it's like, I feel like it's just going to die off because you're not giving enough substance like after that.
Like I gave a thing, like a talk about this a little while ago about branding yourself and how that you should have like a kind of an evergreen topic, like a topic that always lasts, and then use current events to like defend those topics and like move into it.
Your evergreen topic shouldn't be something that will fade away.
It should be something that will last forever that you can then delve into everything else with.
And I think that's a good point is that that's why I get afraid actually for people on the right because I think if you believe in your ideas, just defending a president, even though, again, I understand defending Donald Trump, he has a lot of baseless attacks on him.
But this idea of just defending a person and not being able to look at the issues is actually the very opposite of what's made the right so strong.
The right has been moving in a direction on policy and ideas and ideologies and saying, hey, let's talk about the facts.
Let's talk about the actual issue.
And the left has constantly been moving into, well, this is how I feel, or this is what I want, or this is what I desire.
This is my own reality, my own truth.
But sadly, according to what this poll is saying, it looks like people on the right and the left are moving in that direction.
And so it's like, well, what do we do then to engage people who are conservative, engage people who are centrists, engage people who are anything right of radical progressive, which is most of the country, right?
We just found out recently that one poll said that only 8% of the country is radically progressive.
So like 92% of the countries should be moderately reasonable.
How do we get those people to continue to not move towards this polarization of just fighting for a man, but continue to work on the issues themselves?
The thing that I've said the most when I'm giving people, like, advice on marketing and how to brand yourself and stuff and, like, get ideas out there, which is something that really helped me, is to make it so that you are more of a face to them than just some political ideologue.
Like, I mean, this is stuff that I – like, before this, like, I just took a – like, an Instagram story with your wife about, you know, Australian chili, right?
And it's, like, that seems kind of arbitrary and dumb, but it's, like, I want to be there as, like, a person who people can, like, relate to and, like, understand.
So it's not like I'm just pushing some ideology, you know, and there are so many people out there who just want to push the policy and push the politics, but not actually try and connect with people.
If we can actually connect with people and they can like understand the people who are like actually talking about these things, I feel like they're way more inclined to like be nice to people and spread those things in a more constructive way if they like actually understand people, you know?
When it's just some social media post just slapped up there that says, you know, you know, Libtard's roasted or something where it's like Donald Trump's racist and just some quick post, it's like that makes people like just bombastic, you know, who just want to just do something.
But when you get it from someone who you feel is more of a trusted source, who you know personally, basically because of their, what they talk to you about, then I feel like they're more willing to listen to other ideas.
And me myself, and you do this too, a lot, when we're going out and doing our interviews, like the way we talk to people is very important as well, you know?
And so then people say that and we want to be like role models for people in the way that they carry their arguments.
So this is why, you know, as much as we both want to get mad at people who we talk to or we're like these.
I mean, so we could say you have a good personality, or we could just say that you're a street smart, and you know that picking a fight against someone who's 7-9 might not be good if you're only 6'9.
But that brings me to the point of this, though, of this research right here.
I want to read you this.
This might actually kind of shock you.
Okay, so you're talking about this need to actually treat people well and be kind.
And I agree with that.
It's like, you know, if we're moving towards a place where people talk about this heated rhetoric that's going to lead to violence, just look at how many Americans are actually thinking about this.
This is really shocking.
It says sizable majority says heated rhetoric by politicians raises risk of violence.
So 78% of people polled thought that their rhetoric is leading to more violence.
And if you thought it's just a general idea, actually of Republicans or lean Republican, 61% thought we were heading towards violence, possibly civil war.
And 91% of Democrats thought we were headed that way.
Why do you think there's such a split?
That's like a 30% split between Republicans and Democrats.
Why are Democrats almost 100% on board with this move towards violence and Republicans are so far behind?
I mean, and what's really interesting, though, is that when you look at these actual numbers, people keep saying that it's the politicians' rhetoric that's leading to the violence.
But I don't think it really is just the politicians.
Because when I'm on the street, and you're on the streets, too, you notice that people themselves are talking about the justification of violence.
Like with Andy No, the journalist who was assaulted by Antifa, when I think it was the Daily Caller, went out and asked the people to denounce the violence.
Nobody was, except for one person that they put on camera, actually denounced the violence, which means that people are starting to justify, hey, it's okay to attack words with violence because words equal violence.
This is an old idea that is constantly coming up where we have a weak class of people who are not willing to say, hey, I can stand against your ideas with my ideas.
We can debate our ideas in a place of education because our educational systems have completely corroded.
And they're just pushing a one-sided agenda, just propaganda overall.
And they're teaching people that the world is against you.
The world doesn't serve you.
You're in debt.
You're enslaved.
This country is not for you.
And we're raising an entire generation all the way from millennials down who quite frankly don't understand, number one, what it means to be an American.
Number two, what America stands for or even where we came from.
And so sometimes I get into the position where I wonder, maybe these stats are right.
Because, I mean, really, if you think about it, how much really can an organization like PragerU or this show or Blaze Media, what can we really do to actually prevent that next generation from the massive claw of what the liberal establishment is?
You know, people ask me all the time, like, why don't you move to Texas or somewhere conservative?
And it's like, I like to stay on my toes.
I like to be somewhere where there are people who disagree with me that I can actually try and make a difference.
I was just talking with Tommy Laren actually the other day about this because I'm going to work with her on something.
But it's like the exact same of like being in a place that's dominated by people who you disagree with.
Like I talk about like I dropped out of college and stuff and people always ask me like, you know, where should I go to college without becoming a leftist?
And I'm like, you should go to the most leftist institution and like spread your conservative ideas there and try and get a change at your institution.
Like what I did when I was in college, you know, I was doing, that's when I first started becoming conservative.
And like I made a ton of change on that campus and inspired people.
And like we saw Isabel who also works for PragerU at CSU putting on events and doing huge things.
Like she did the same thing.
Like you can, it only takes one person.
You know, two years ago, I was just some college kid who had some conservative values eventually.
And now, you know, the hundreds of millions of views and like reaching tons of people, huge audience, changing people's lives.
Like that's like, that was one person myself who did that and then did this.
So like other people need to realize that, oh, I can be that person.
I can stand up and actually try and make a change in my community.
No, but I did, I did, I did, this is actually kind of funny.
We're going to talk about this on a later video.
But, you know, these are African animals.
So they chose black people to play the voices of African animals.
And I was thinking, like, did they do that on purpose?
Is there like this thing about animals being from Africa, meaning that we have to have African heritage people play the voices?
I thought, no, I must be overthinking this.
And then I saw today some reports that people are getting mad at the movie Cats, that the main character has white fur, and then it's played by a black woman, and that it's like trying to cross-race the person.
And then people are getting mad at Ivanka Trump for giving her daughter a white dog.
And so people are getting mad at white animals now, too.
So I didn't realize there was a connection between animals.
I thought that was actually kind of racist if you would connect animals to human beings and like skin color.
The fact that people actually believe this to be true is like just shows how deep they've gone, how far off they've gone with any sort of sensible, realistic vision of their own world.
No matter how much you shake, no matter how much you dance, the last few drops always fall in your pants.
That's actually a true song, a true statement.
I learned that on Barney when I was a kid.
If Barney taught us real songs, you know how much quicker I would have gone through life not feeling shamed by having that wet mark?
Or do you remember when you're a kid and you wash your hands and then the water you turn on the sink too too fast because you're just a stupid kid and you're like, hmm, you turn on the sink and you don't realize what water pressure is because you're dumb and nine.
And then that water just splashes on your crotch and then you walk out and you wonder if people are going to think you peed your pants.
So we kind of agree overall that the state of American politics is definitely divided.
I've even found just in my lifetime, like just being the last few years, like I remember during the 2016 election, like seeing the polarization get wider and being a little bit shocked.
But there's this nice little graph that neither you or I would have the ability to create because we're not that creative that talks about actually Americans' opinion on the current political climate.
We're using Trump's tweets.
Isn't this weird?
We're using someone's tweets as an example of the political climate.
Anyways, it says that U.S. adults, of U.S. adults, only 37% think that his tweets about the squad are terrible.
So of the Democrats, 71% think that his tweets are terrible.
Okay, 71%.
16% think they're bad.
9% think they're okay.
3% think they're good.
And 1% think that they're great.
Which means that we're looking at approximately 87% are not approving of his tweets.
I kind of expected that.
Republicans, this is actually almost interesting.
48% think they're great.
Naganacho's good.
They love him resting the squad.
16% think they're good.
24% think they're okay.
8% think they're bad and 5% think they're terrible.
And then amongst independents, it's like 34% think they're terrible, 19 bad, 17 okay, 10% good, 20% great.
Okay, so overall, it actually seems like majority of Americans are definitely not for his tweets.
But it's pretty much split down the line by parties.
How could parties determine what you agree with?
I mean, do you think that his tweets are becoming?
Do you think that they're, I mean, your personal opinion, not even on Prague or Us?
Just do you think that his tweets and the way he said, go back to your country, or go back to where you came from, I guess, fix these crime-ridden places?
Do you feel like that's a good representation that's uniting the country, that it's good?
Well, he's fighting against people who aren't representing this country when he said that.
So he's not saying like, oh, you have brown skin, go back to the country that you came from.
He's saying, you obviously don't appreciate this country.
You hate this country.
You want to radically transform it.
Why would you stay?
You know, go back somewhere else and try and fix it if you love it so much or you want to call America a terrible place.
You know, go do that.
Like, go and try and do some good somewhere else.
Instead of being somebody who's just trying to say how terrible America is, how horrible everyone is, go do some good for some place that you actually like better.
But of course, these people never, it's like a, he's not saying it like seriously.
It's like a rhetorical thing, you know what I mean?
Where he's like, like, go learn and appreciate like how great America actually is.
But you'll never leave.
It's like all the people said they're going to move to Canada after Trump won, but none of them leave because they know America's the best country in the world.
So people want something to complain about and make it seem terrible.
But everybody, most people, if you have, you know, any sort of wit about you, you can look at those tweets and say, okay, this is what he really meant.
And he wasn't trying to be racist or say, you know, go back to your country, you person with brown skin.
He wanted to shed light on people who are anti-American.
But I told Lady, I said, hey, the manager of the building, there's a guy fiddling his diddly on the side, and I've seen his penis twice, and I don't want to see this anymore.
Do you know what she told me?
She said, we want to ask him to leave.
And by the way, I understand homelessness is a problem.
But just because you're on hard times doesn't mean that you should be taking your junk out in front of in the public.
It doesn't give you a right to do that.
And she goes, we actually have to give them like an eviction notice now, like a 30-day eviction notice, like the police do to get them off the couch.
So the district heads are now considering people who live on the streets as like their property.
It's not public property.
And you have to evict people from private property for 30.
You have to give them a 30-day notice to get them out or seven or 30-day notice.
Yeah, that's why they can't get rid of the homeless because they changed the policy.
So you have to evict them like it's like a public space.
We've accepted the degeneracy in our district so much, which I know homelessness is terrible, but we've accepted it so much that it's now just a part of life.
Like it's now a class of people and this is where they live.
If you said go back, go back to where you came from.
He's saying go back to your districts, fix those pieces of crap, fix them.
Actually, do something.
Instead of causing drama and being like Rashida Talib, this is where I want to end and saying, hey, impeach that mother effer.
And people saying she was just on recently, a couple days ago, saying, I'm still here and I'm not going to stop until I impeach him.
These people are so worried about fighting one another that they're not actually focused on doing anything about America's problems.
And so it's like, yeah, go back to the disgusting districts where you came from and actually do something about the problem that you have right where you're supposed to be representing.
But they're not.
They're worried about fighting, polarizing, and instead it's dragging down America.
If you go from being single to talking about being a great smasher, sounds like you're giving a hint to ladies that there's some truth out there.
But I'd like to say I think you're a better boy than that, and you're not thinking like that.
Are you looking to get married anytime soon?
And this is not, I'm not hitting on you.
Like, I'm already married.
I'm not even Mormon, since I'm not polygamous.
Shout out to my Mormon friends who were formed, not into polygamy, talking about my old school out in Salt Lake City compound kind of brothers and sisters.
I know you got internet.
I know you watch.
I'm not polygamous, but you're trying to settle down and trying to get married?
Because we don't, for the sake of fighting the young Turks, we still want to keep Armenia alive, okay?
We know that the genocide happened.
It's real, okay, Chank or whatever, however, Yank, whatever you say his name is, but it's real.
Anyways, keep it alive.
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