Aug. 30, 2020 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Reporting In A War Zone | Stu Does America
Stu invites Elijah to Stu Does America to talk about the latest happening in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kenosha has become the latest warzone just like Portland and Seattle all thanks to Black Lives Matter and Antifa. Don't worry Elijah is safe back at home, but he has the story since the corporate media doesn't want to cover the truth. ________________________________________________________________ Slightly Offens*ve Merch: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/elijah-schaffer ________________________________________________________________ Become a subscriber at BlazeTV https://get.blazetv.com/slightly-offensive/ use my code "ELIJAH" to get $10 off a full year ________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOAD AUDIO PODCAST & GIVE A 5 STAR RATING!: APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slightly-offens-ve-uncut/id1450057169 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbVobnHs7q8pSRCtPmC41?si=qnIgUqbySSGdJEngV-P5Bg (also available Google Podcasts & wherever else podcasts are streamed) ______________________________________________________________ ➤BOOKINGS/INQUIRIES: ELIJAH@SLIGHTLYOFFENSIVE.COM _________________________________________________________________ ⇩ SOCIAL MEDIA ⇩ ➤ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/elijahschaffer/ https://www.instagram.com/officialslightlyoffensive/ ➤ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer ➤ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/officialslightlyoffensive
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I don't want him to get hurt or worse in one of these idiotic riots spreading around the country.
On the other hand, of course, I have nothing but respect for the work he's doing and telling the real story behind the violence and destruction that the media won't.
And I mean, his material is amazing, so I'm going to exploit it for ratings all I can.
And then I'm just like, and then I'm sitting there.
I'm going, dude, we've been sitting here for like 35 minutes.
Like, why aren't we taking off?
But then I thought for a second and I looked around and then I looked out the window and I realized that at some point between sitting down and having that thought, I had fallen asleep for 45 minutes.
I literally just sat down and my body shut off and I thought I blinked my eyes.
They did, I think, I don't think you can read the timeline.
We're talking about the Rittenhouse shooting.
I don't think you can read their timeline and come up with any other conclusion other than in those moments he was justified to act the way that he did.
The only thing I really quibbled with on the entire thing was they said he tripped and fell towards the end when he was blatantly hit with something, it looked like, or at least tripped up by someone else.
It wasn't him just tripping before the last couple of shootings.
What was your experience with the Times and did they tell the story the correct way?
Yeah, you know, but they laughed, you know, like it's a funny thing.
But the most important part about this timeline is I'm wondering if the reason why it was fair is because of the reporters they had to work with were us independent, you know, citizen journalists, whatever people call them.
Maybe I'm not a citizen journalist anymore.
I mean, I work for a network, but still, I think because we're the ones reporting and we didn't spin it, it's like it has to be fair.
And it makes you wonder how much different the national discourse would be if the primary reporters that were given precedence were the people who actually witnessed the events.
And I bring this up because, you know, a lot of America gets their news from hearsay, just what they hear someone say.
But where does it originate?
Mostly I would say from Twitter.
Honestly, Twitter's like the number one news curator more than networks.
If you even look at total views and even if it's networks on the Facebook, but I mean social media.
But Twitter, I'd say even it generates from Twitter to Facebook, to Instagram.
We were on the ground.
There was a lot of us.
And what does Twitter do to talk about the shootings?
The only articles they post are from Reuters, Washington Post, and the New York Times originally before they had even called us in the morning.
So they only gave major corporate outlets that weren't there the ability to tell the story.
And that shows you how sharp and how quickly they work to try to shape a narrative to like, you know, because they wanted him to seem like a white supremacist.
They wanted this to seem like he was attacking people of color.
That this was an extremist right-wing shooting.
But it turns out, according to unsealed court records from a traffic violation, if it's the same guy, which he says he's 17 and it's from the same county and it says everything and its exact spelling of name and et cetera, that he's Hispanic.
And if it's not the same guy, well, then that's crazy.
There's two Kyle, whatever, whatever these people are in the same place that are white and Hispanic.
I was like, I'm like pretty dead in the mind, but I'm not going to try to say their names, but I think only one of them seemed like maybe he wasn't white.
I mean, I try to break this down and it looked to me as if in all of these circumstances, and the Times pointed this out, and you may have been part of this, where the first shooting, someone else fires a gun first, which they show the muzzle going off in one of the stills.
And at that point, he turns around and there's someone right behind him, and that's when that first shooting happens.
He's being approached.
He's being pursued and attacked while other gunshots are going off.
It seems at the very least, he was scared and certainly wasn't attacking someone for no reason.
And the other ones, he's blatantly being attacked with a skateboard to the head while he's on the ground.
Yeah, I think, okay, so I think the only area that to be fair, where someone could get him on, I think when he's in the trial, they're going to get him on these two places.
Number one, he's operating a firearm open carry illegally because he's 17.
You can't until you're 18 in Wisconsin.
Also, I don't believe Wisconsin is a standard ground state, meaning I don't think he had the right to be on somebody else's property to defend it.
Like, I mean, legally speaking, I don't think that you have the right to defend someone else's property.
Some of the times our viewers are way smarter than us.
I don't know if you know this, and they correct you, and they're like, Oh, yeah, yeah.
I'd say almost 99% of the time, sure.
There's always that one moron, but most of them are really, really smart.
And so, I might be wrong on this, but most importantly speaking, is besides the fact that he had that, it didn't look like he carried the firearm for his own testimony for the offensive.
It was simply because he saw that it was a dangerous place.
Which I think when you take those parts out and you look at each of the shootings individually, those shootings themselves appear to be justified.
I'm not the jury, I'm not the jury, I'm not the judge.
And if I'm wrong, and things come out that I don't know, okay, fine, I'll accept it.
But it seems like this, and I want to encourage people: I'm not an activist, but if you believe he's in the right, he seems to not have a lot of money because he's a public defender.
And so, you know, somebody needs to start a GoFundMe or something, hopefully, to get this guy the proper defense because they're going to throw the book at this guy.
I mean, they're going to try to make him try to prosecute him into something that I don't think he deserves.
Yeah, and it seems right off the bat that what they charge him with was intentional homicide seems completely ridiculous.
That doesn't mean that he's he's in the right completely, as you point out.
The open carry situation, um, the standard ground situation, he may be you know, he may have problems here.
And this goes to something that I'm a little bit conflicted on: in that, like, I watch these videos, I watch the ones you did in Dallas when you were down there.
Um, we've watched them from around the country, and occasionally there are people who I think with really good intentions who go down to these places and they stand out in front.
They're kind of being, you know, like the rooftop Koreans, right?
Um, and so there's there's something I really like about that.
I mean, I love that story of the rooftop Koreans, and and you when you watch this, and I love the idea that people are saying, you know what, these guys are not gonna, the police they're not allowing them allowing them to even come into these areas a lot of times.
We need someone to protect this property, we can't just let the entire city get burned down.
And I like that instinct.
On the other hand, like, especially with a 17-year-old, I don't want my 17-year-old, if I, if you know, and whenever God that is eight years from now, if I it would drive me crazy to think that he might go down and try to do something like this, what do you how do you judge the people who are going down with good intentions, but maybe you know, are they getting in the middle of this and increasing the possibility for bad outcomes like this?
You know, because this isn't my show, I'll make your show open to attack by saying this.
Um, you know, I'll ruin your credibility.
Um, is that this is a totally my opinion, reporter aside, yeah, just me as a human being, as an American citizen looking at this.
Um, I am really happy to see young men in this country standing up for what's right and being in front of these buildings.
They were all young men, early 20s, late teens.
Um, that's who was out there defending the buildings.
And that shows you something about the young men, and also it shows you something the fact that we're, while I'm not saying that you know, this whole comparison between property and human life, this is not what the argument I'm making.
It's about time that we show people you can't just burn down our cities and break our stuff.
Like, I mean, I'm not happy people died, so that's where I'm trying to make the point.
I'm not happy.
I wish none of this would have happened in the first place, but I hope this sends a message to criminals who, by the way, these people who were shot and killed had extensive criminal backgrounds.
One was a child sex offender, the other one was a domestic abuser, and the other one had criminal weapons charges.
These were not great people.
Does it justify should they have died because they're criminals?
But what I'm saying is, these are bad ombres out there that are looking to commit crimes.
They have a history of crime and they're out there.
And they think that they can just, they can just get away with it.
Yeah.
And it makes me not happy they died or happy this young guy has to go through this, but I'm happy now that we have a message.
This is why I'm trying to say this carefully, that people realize, look, you've been playing games for too long.
Eventually, you've got to cut this SHIT out because people are going to fight back.
And if you continue this, Americans are really at a breaking point where it's like, you know, it's at a certain point where it's just if they hit the wrong city and the wrong community, there will be many more Kyle situations.
And we're already running late, but it strikes me as this thing where what they want to say is, well, this wouldn't have happened if Kyle Rittenhouse didn't show up.
Well, you know what?
It also wouldn't have happened if you weren't out there burning down buildings.
And, you know, I always feel like the easiest delineation here is that there is a curfew, right?
Peaceful protesters can peacefully protest all they want, and then there's a curfew, and everyone who's out there past that curfew is criminal, is doing something against the law.
And that is, or at least against the rules of that very moment.
And if we could get to a point where we could all agree, hey, there are a lot of people who are out there.
I might disagree with them, but they're protesting, and that's totally fine.
You're going to get all of these elements coming together and creating all sorts of chaos if we are not careful here.
This feels more out of control than I can ever remember it.
I know you said we're going over, is that the fact that we are so shocked that somebody finally had a consequence for destroying property, I'm shocked that there hasn't been many more of these killings.
I mean, I'm really shocked that more business owners haven't shot people.
And I know people say, well, that's because a life isn't worth property.
I happen to kind of hold a different standard.
I think that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it used to be one time the right to own property.
I think that property ownership, if you come in and you're going to felony destroy my livelihood and my life, that if I have to shoot you in order to protect my whole life from falling apart because you're criminally trying to do this in a way that if you're starting a fire and stuff and you're hitting hammers, you could hit someone.
You could hurt someone.
I'm preventing this.
Hopefully shooting not to kill, shooting in defense to take down.
I think some of the laws in this country have got to change.
I'll take that stance in saying some of these states, you cannot just come burn down my place.
There's a new armor company that is going to be donating thousands of dollars of equipment.
Really good spot.
Imagine that.
How good is that?
Now, all I got to, like, this is a new thing.
Now they're sponsoring reporting.
But meaning, I can't say the company yet, but what a smart move for an armor company to literally get in multi, on a regular basis, multi-million view things and always being like, who's buying, who's the armor?
